New weapon classes, for funzies

[Hurricane Jose]

What weapon classes would you like to see in the game?

[Hurricane Jose]

Personally, I'd like to see more firearms, daggers, axes, and to distinguish polearms from spears.

(1 handed) Axes and daggers would be neat as something that fighters and bandits can take advantage of, also allowing throwing light bladed melee weapons (daggers, axes, but not swords) would be neat as something that shadows and berserkers could do with strength weapons.

I think spears should also be dexterity weapons that can be used with shields. The two have been used together for a long time throughout history, even dating back to ancient history. Distinguishing them from polearms would also be cool as fighters can still get awesome halberds to split skulls with.

As for firearms, pistols (derringers, revolvers, and repeaters in the same class) would be great, along with rifles in higher levels (distinct from shotguns in firing a small, single, fast projectile and having a bit more rate of fire, also we have Galius with a whole gatling gun).

Also, looking at Path of Exile they had distinguished between wands, scepters, and staves, with the three having different "weights" to them.

[Lesserred]

Whips. I need more Dex weapons.

[The ℕ𝕌𝕋 (ᴴᴰ)]

For more Mind weapons, I'm definitely in the grimoire and crystal ball camps myself, if more the former than the latter.

For Dexterity weapons, I don't have any strong wants, though both more variety in guns would be fun, and possibly introducing crossbows as a slower-firing, harder-hitting bow alternative would also be neat.

For Strength weapons? Even less ideas on my part; axes are already a two-handed sort of thing (axe-shaped greatblades, namely) and one-handed axes feel like they'd handle similarly to regular swords; same for one-handed maces contrasting hammers. Possibly shields as weapons, shield bash style?

[Hurricane Jose]

Originally posted by Lesserred:

Whips. I need more Dex weapons.

I think whips are better as mind weapons but I agree!

Originally posted by The ℕ𝕌𝕋 (ᴴᴰ):

For more Mind weapons, I'm definitely in the grimoire and crystal ball camps myself, if more the former than the latter.

For Dexterity weapons, I don't have any strong wants, though both more variety in guns would be fun, and possibly introducing crossbows as a slower-firing, harder-hitting bow alternative would also be neat.

For Strength weapons? Even less ideas on my part; axes are already a two-handed sort of thing (axe-shaped greatblades, namely) and one-handed axes feel like they'd handle similarly to regular swords; same for one-handed maces contrasting hammers. Possibly shields as weapons, shield bash style?

Personally I think grimoires would work better as offhand equipment, boosting damage but offering little in terms of defense. Crystal balls though would be harder to work as an offhand equip.

Crossbows would be nice.

One-handed axes I think would be neat but mainly because I'd like to throw some bladed melee weapons. We already have one-handed maces. I think that one-handed axes could be differentiated by their charge attack striking downwards while swords always strike horizontally.

Also, this post makes me wish a bit that shield bash was a novice ability rather than a fighter ability. It could make scepters more useful due to their functionality with shields, and I frankly think that scepters are the weakest class of weapons right now aside from katars.

[Robert Moonlight]

firearm focused class maybe? I mean follycannon is fun and all but I would love a firearm master

[Blueboo1278]

For Strength I think a Flail would be pretty cool, It'd probably be a mid-ranged melee weapon of sorts which would give Fighters who only use melee weapons a means of keeping some distance, It'd be one handed too so you can have a shield equipped alongside It.

For Dexterity I have two options, throwing knives & glaives, the throwing knifes could be cool but they might be too similar to the Bow now that I think about It, but the glaives would be pretty Interesting as they could work similarly to the ones In Warframe letting you use them In close range or long range, Imagine using the charged attack to throw It at enemies and rapidly dealing damage like a miniature but weaker bandit equivalent of Cyclone and also using It In close range while doing occasional throwing maneuvers

[Faust]

Rapier. Like Svord except it's frighteningly fast and you thrust instead of swinging. Oh, and you can move while using it.

[anhilliator1]

Wands, maybe, for Mind scaling? Someone else in this thread already mentioned orbs and grimoires.

"Summon"-type weapons might also be an interesting thing to tackle, though that's probably going to be tricky.

[Faust]

Originally posted by anhilliator1:

Wands, maybe, for Mind scaling? Someone else in this thread already mentioned orbs and grimoires.

"Summon"-type weapons might also be an interesting thing to tackle, though that's probably going to be tricky.

Aren't scepters basically already wands?

[Robert Moonlight]

Originally posted by Faust:

Originally posted by anhilliator1:

Wands, maybe, for Mind scaling? Someone else in this thread already mentioned orbs and grimoires.

"Summon"-type weapons might also be an interesting thing to tackle, though that's probably going to be tricky.

Aren't scepters basically already wands?

they are basically an 1 handed magic rod but yeah, wand lol

[Hurricane Jose]

Considering we have magic staves that shoot projectiles, I think that darts would be a great addition for magic/dex builds. The weapon class can include things like shuriken and dedicated throwing axes too.

[gienekman]

Instead of more weapons i'd rather see other weapon types having weapons with different charge attacks.

Call me spoiled but after playing with bells and wands other weapons feel so boring.
Mystic weapons are sooo good they deserve chieffs kiss. Sooooo good.

[Hurricane Jose]

I think if (2h) staves, scepters, and wands were added and split up it would work quite well with skills requiring magic weapons to channel, such as channeling lightning through the sky or spraying a continuous stream of fire out of one of the wand's ends.

[anhilliator1]

Originally posted by Hurricane Jose:

Considering we have magic staves that shoot projectiles, I think that darts would be a great addition for magic/dex builds. The weapon class can include things like shuriken and dedicated throwing axes too.

Throwing weapons in general would be great for Dex too

[Emarcee]

I've said this before but 1h spears with a thrusting attack would be great.