Two handed axes and new weapons in general

[Lazereye.9856]

So this is an old ass question that has been asked ever since the game came out, but will 2 handed axes and new weapons in general ever going to be added to the game?

I took a break from the game the past 3 or so years, but i sometimes dive back in to check out what has been going on. Since this has been requested for a long time i thought they would have added it in the newest expansion. So after finding out that such an requested item still hasn't been added in anything but a costume kinda puzzles me.

The animations are already there and the game already have several in-game models so i cant imagine it can be that difficult to implement it into the game.

[Davion Roth.6709]

Agree, there should've been new weapon sets introduced into the game by now, the two big ones I can think of are 2h Axe as before mentioned and Spears/Pole Arms useable somewhere other than underwater.

[Inexor.7804]

They would need to:

• add/create new weapon skills
• rework traits to include the new weapons
• balance theses additional skills/traits (more flat workload for every future iteration)
• add skins (maybe even for all the existing weapon sets of the last years)
• one class gets a new shiny weapon, the others want some too -> see all the above

I can see why ANet would not want to do this, even if I would appreciate it. I would already be happy, if the weapons from the elite specializations would be available for the core classes/other elite -> not exclusive to one elite. Oc this would also affect the balance workload -> core Guardian with a viable ranged weapon (longbow), Holo with Hammer, core Rev and Mirage with shield and so on.

[Aoi.8570]

I'd really like to see crossbows in game.

[Exsul.5803]

Fighting fans and whips please

[sokeenoppa.5384]

I think they will add new weapons at some point, pretty sure More than one weapon. Maybe in next expansion we will get those land Spears and 2h axes. Or we get underwater expansion with underwater Masteries and 4th trait line that can Be used only underwater. Time Will tell