phandaria.4891 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Or you can wait till the beta before answering. 😉 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Ooops, too late! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andur.9275 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 I chose Ranger (specifically Soulbeast), but the beta will show, if I stick with sword/axe + hammer or if the latter will be replaced by spear. It will be really tough for spear though, because hammer has lots of AOE, CC and a buffremove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fueki.4753 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 (edited) So far my favourites are Engineer's and Revenant's spears. But if the melee gimmick ends up being just a small portion of the damage, Warrior's spear may end up being my favourite. Edited June 21 by Fueki.4753 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karaha.3290 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Ranger is my main so I will definitely check out spear on them extensively. However, with spear becoming a ranged power option for Ele, I will take a look into Weaver and Catalyst again. I played Weaver with sword for a while, but the fast rotation plus everything melee was never that fun to play on squishy Ele. I tried Catalyst a bit with hammer and didn't really like it. Mainly because of hammer (and melee again) I think. With spear being ranged (even if it's only 900) I hope for more gameplay options I like. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinurak.5307 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Probably warrior or ranger. but it kinda depends on whether the animations look good on charr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arianth Moonlight.6453 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 after watching the stream, I noticed that the Necro Spear is incredibly underwhelming compared to all the others. As a result, I now have zero reasons to buy the X-Pac. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zera.9435 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 None, because I haven't tried any of them out yet. Delete this post and bring it back on the day before release. You'll get real responses then. 1 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameirus.8407 Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 wvw lootstick returns. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trejgon.9367 Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 I am definitelly trying spear/staff ranger, I am definitelly trying spear/staff warrior, I am considering spear/staff guardian, I am considering trying spear on my virt. Other classes spear either does not fit the vibes of my character of said class, or flat out I do not own character of that class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraightPath.3972 Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 If i get the xpac (really in a financial pinch atm) Necro spear is the one I'm putting to the big test. I see big build craft potential there. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gehenna.3625 Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 On 6/21/2024 at 6:35 AM, phandaria.4891 said: Or you can wait till the beta before answering. 😉 Well, my main has always been Guardian and that won't change regardless of whether I like the spear or not. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheron.9062 Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 I have like 3k hours in Rev, it's almost all I play. Spear looks awful. Every single skill is abysmally slow, the range is too limiting, the costs of skills meant to be spammed is too high (5 Raze casts on a boss to stack it would be 50 energy), having no cover condis for pvp/wvw make cleansing your dmg trivial. Spear is dead on arrival for Rev if, at the very very least, the Speed and Costs aren't addressed. The range really should be as well, but I could live with spear being basically just a melee weapon if it wasn't so slow. The hybrid power/condi nature makes the lack of cover condi slightly less bad, too, but also probs needs to be looked at 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genjonah.1253 Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 Rev is my main currently, but ele looks fun. I had loved ele back in gw1, but didn’t really get the hang of the switching in this game. Maybe I’ll try it again with this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 I am zero excited for spears untill I have tried them out myself, so my current guess would be Guardian, because I will play through the story with him. Ele spear does look like it has potential to somewhat make me want to play Elementalist again, and Necro and Thief looked interesting, too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phandaria.4891 Posted June 25 Author Share Posted June 25 (edited) On 6/22/2024 at 4:44 AM, Zera.9435 said: None, because I haven't tried any of them out yet. Delete this post and bring it back on the day before release. You'll get real responses then. Well, at least we will have a dataset to show the expectation from the preview. The poll after beta test can be another dataset to see whether those expectations are met or not. At the moment, seems like Elementalist spear is in the lead. Edited June 25 by phandaria.4891 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assic.2746 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 (edited) I main Guardian even though we didn't get as much of an exciting spear concept as Thief, Elemntalist or Ranger, I will still mainly use it on my Guard. But I will for sure go for a 100% map completion and WvW roaming on my Thief as I consider Thieve's spear as the best design concept. Edited June 25 by Assic.2746 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Only play Warrior and alac heal Druid in pve. Won't use spear on both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fueki.4753 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 After the live stream, only the spears for Mesmer and Engineer remained somewhat interesting to me. But I don't like the Clarity mechanic on Mesmer's spear, so if that has too much impact on the overall tuning of the spear, that one falls through for me, too. Â 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liewec.2896 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 (edited) ele, its good that after 12 years, 4 new melee/close weapons and 3 new melee/close elite specs Anet have realized that people picking the mage class might have picked it because they want to stand back and sling ranged spells... WHO KNEW RIGHT?! still disappointed that we need to play the mage class hurling spears instead of getting a staff rework, but hey, we'll work with what we have. now if they can just make overloads 1200 range ground target skills we might actually have a functional ranged ele. Edited June 25 by Liewec.2896 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLadyOfTheRings.9148 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Ranger because it's my main 🙂 For my alt professions, Thief and Guardian sound exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donari.5237 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Visually I love Mesmer the most, and it looks to have some fun play. I won't know until the beta what new alt I'm making to center around spear use, though. But probably it'll be Warrior, Necro, or Mesmer, based on the preview plus my nixing medium ones since I've not made that legendary armor set yet. If I had the armor, Ranger would be in the running too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazazel.7501 Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 I'm still kinda undecided. I will be playing a new character through JW, but I haven't decided between Mesmer, Guardian, or Elementalist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuickFox.3826 Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 I only play Tempest. So, if I will use the spear it will be on Elementalist. But my scepter and my warhorn still works fine so I've not decided yet if I will switch to the spear as my main weapon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calen.8945 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Holosmith go brrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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