slip1419: Weaver still can't catch a break
Wyrdnairon: Big issue 1, is sword/axe have traits for those specific weapons, and spear's Beastmastery trait was preemptively nerfed. Big issue 2, after years of supporting multi-strike, CC, boons/control condi, and non-stealth gameplay, dropping a single-strike, no-CC, no boons, no condi, stealth-dependent weapon in our lap wasn't going to fly, not without reworking a ton of traits, adding substantially more source of stealth, and giving Druid pDPS traits or spear conditional cDPS or cDPS traits. GW2 is about having to specialize for purpose, and currently, there's no meaningful way to specialize for spear use.
emewyn: I don't think ranger spear will be a raid weapon anytime soon, but I can totally see it being useful for new players who want an open world build. Before mounts came out, I would have loved some more stealth while doing map completion.
antzza9372: How to copy&paste mukluk's character Quide

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beneteus3833: power dmg ranger weapon is just a niche that is super full

Greatsword (Moblity Block)
Axes (Range cleave)
Sword (Mobility)
Longbow (Range)
Maces (CC Sustain)

For any weapon to get a place there is hard

spear is the same just with mobility stealth some range

so a semi mix out of GS and LB - which for non group PvE is good, but not for Endgame PvE
rgfang3359: If its good for sPvP/WvW, I guess that's fine.
When you think about it, there's not a lot of niches left for ranger weapons to cover outside of maybe a pure high powered ranged weapon, which is nice since most Ranger weapons are solid alternatives when they're not BiS
dfg12382: Enabling any Spec to use any weapon leads to weapons sinking into oblivion as the main deciding factor will be numbers. This is either more or less DPS than Axe, one of them won't be used.
IPFreelly: With the longbow buffs spear might be the worst dps of all ranger weapons
mr.e1179: For PvE its underwhelming.
kevinwestermann1001: I wish that the second skill would become ranged while stealthed. As you said; numbers can easily be changed but what threw me off the most is how little you can do at range - basically only AA and the pool noodle. That's it.
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Jul 04 2024

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