Sharp Lessons: Spear Beta Feedback Update - GW2 News August 7th 2024

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[ashleyanne]

Elementalist= 1:01
Necromancer= 3:02
Mesmer= 4:25
Thief= 7:00
Ranger= 8:19
Engineer= 10:56
Revenant= 11:56
Guardian= 13:08
Warrior= 14:07
Closing comments= 15:41

[vvhitevvabbit]

Mesmer spear was indeed a blast to play, but the dependence on clarity and outer ring hit requirement to get it was a buzz kill in WvW. I'm glad to see the fix which doesn't punish players for missing but still rewards an outer ring strike.

[CorwynGC]

Given that the are rarely used for thrusting, and most of the designs have an edge rather than a point, let's call them "Polearms".

[thomasmartin]

I love these videos because of how in depth you go. I take breaks from gw2 A LOT. Those legendary craftings are amazing grinds!

Wether I’m on break or grinding materials your news is the best.

[kleptoroththeimmortal]

I literally thought the kitty cam was a static image until around 15:40 xD

[leftrom]

Oh man, they'll fix the etchings of eles? The fun eles would have.. 'You thought _I_ was the downstate class? I'm not locked in here with you.. you're locked in here with ME!'

[windingtwilight]

I really like how they called Factions the original Guild Wars ‘2’ which makes me wonder if it was referred to as GW2 internally at some point

[Jukebks]

I saw the article was up, I thought I'd wait for the video. But I got bored and read it myself. Just as I finish I see this video go up xD

[JDub-TV]

As a Guard main who's not the best at theorycrafting, I tried spear as a damage weapon in PvE. Maybe I didn't find the secret sauce, but the damage is subpar. I can pull those damage numbers with other weapons in hybrid builds, while providing a lot of boon support. Maybe these changes will help healing spear be more competitive with other options, but there's nothing in these changes to help with damage.

The Illuminated buff also doesn't feel very impactful to concern yourself with whether it's up or not, and no changes have been made to that either.

[EyesOfGehenna]

For me the biggest letdown was and is that the Guardian spear isn't much of a ranged weapon after all. Only Solar Storm has 900 range and the rest is built around melee. I would've loved to've seen an alternative ranged power weapon to the longbow for Guardian that is more DPS oriented than CC oriented but oh well

[cynhanrahan]

Early in the video Muk reaches over and scratches Chipp, with his arm apparently becoming elastic and coming back out the other side of the graphic.

[windingtwilight]

Please please please

A. 2hand ranger attribute uses land spear instead of only giving more power to water spear
B. Make certain staff ‘spears’ to be actual spears
B1. Make the literal Sunspear ‘Sun Spear’ a spear

[cattoo]

Remember, the spear is a hybrid weapon on engi. It does good power and condi damage!

[apollonian]

i watched the cat the whole time while listening like a subway surfer clip

[Forevrzero]

If there was ever a time for them to name an article "Get to the Point", it's now

[jaosobno]

Fingers crossed to buff power dmg on Thief spear, but from this post sadly they just saw condi Deadeye on golem so am worried that only that condi version will be nerfed and that's it

[tyburkulosis]

Engi spear had a couple bugs that weren't addressed in this statement. 1. The "Mech Fighter" trait was not being triggered on spear 3 resulting in less damage and cc. 2. The distance on the spear 2 skill was not consistent and would sometimes send you past your target.

Hopefully those have been fixed and just weren't mentioned. But I think it still needs more work. It being a melee condi, means it competes with pistols and it doesn't offer any defensives to make up for it being in melee. So I think they should at the very least slap some self-boons or barrier to one of the skills and maybe increase the melee range on the auto to 150 since it's a spear and not a dagger.

[RobbinnDaHood]

Guard spear was very good with shattered aegis builds in WvW. Also gave FB some nice mobility

[TalosOne]

"wooden teapot" "mighty potato" lmao

[Draontail]

I always appreciate you reading updates so I don't have to read them myself, plus your added experiences as a player makes it all easier to understand :)