Weapon Options?

[Swati]

What kind of weapons would you like to see in Aion? I love small knives, and staves.

[Monarch]

I'm a huge fan of elegant weapons, rather than ginormously over-sized ones. Small knives/daggers, thin-bladed long swords, etc.

I find beauty in simplicity most of the time.

[Midgarsormr]

I like the classic category of weaponry, nothing fancy like Two-handed mace, etc. I mean come on >_>. I like Sword, Greatsword, Polearm, knife, bow (I'd prefer not to see guns or crossbows in this game), hand-to-hand, etc.

[Night_Stalker]

I like dual wielding swords most of the time. And while i do like my weapons to have a sort of extravagant flair, I don't like them completely over the top like WoW did. Every piece of good equipment in that game was huge and glowing/flashing with skulls all over it.

[Swati]

Guns would look sweet!!

[Lantesh]

I've always been a sucker for scythes,polearms, and greatswords. I do like to dual wield swords sometimes. However, I'll be happy with any two handed weapon.

[Marchosias]

Everything...

Polearms - Spears, Naginatas, Yaris (I think there are a couple different kinds...), Poleaxes, Guandaos, etc.
One and two hand axes... There's a nice variety here, too... single blade, two blades, two blades and the spike, one full blade all the way around... lots of artistic possibilities.
One and two hand swords (of course). Can't escape a good sword. Long swords, short swords, fat FF-style two-hand swords, skinny katana/claymore two-hand swords... tons of variety. (As a side note, my favorite weapon in any game ever was the samurai longsword in L2)
Knives and Daggers, and not just simple western or weird fantasy ones, either... I wanna see arabian, japanese, chinese... everything.
Maces - one and two-hand. Nothing screams raw power like a two-hand mace.
And then the randoms... fist weapons, staves, spellbooks (seen them in the combat trailer.... very cool) shields... shields can be weapons. The more creative the better here, imo. Aion is a fantasy game, so I want to see fantasy weapons. For inspiration on exotic weapons I like to turn to the Dynasty Warriors series... almost 50 characters and no two weapons are identical (technically not identical, although there are a number of spears and swords that are similar to each other, but just ignore those).

Bows are necessary, crossbows I'd like for variety so you're not stuck with just bows, but guns I'm deadset against. They worked in WoW, but I really can't see guns in Aion, so I'd prefer not having them.

So, the key word here, for me, is variety. If Aion is supposed to be all for customization, weapon and armor variety is the place to start. From every-day to exotic, I want to see everything.

edit: ooooh! thank you Lantesh, scythes, too... and with them kamas and sickles (I wanna see a burly russian-looking guy in red and gold armor wielding a hammer and sickle ftw!)

[Swati]

I could go for a what is it called police use it night stick? lol

[Marchosias]

oooh good call... you could get tonfas, too. The Dynasty/Samurai Warriors series are great for random weapons... although I don't think I'd be a huge fan of seeing fans as weapons in Aion... but if people wanted them I'm not going to rain on their parade, so I say throw 'em in.

[Swati]

So on a realistic note, how do we get these weapon ideah to the devlopment team?

[LethalEmbrace]

Give me a sword and shield, or two swords or even one very big sword. Im ready for war.

[deathscythe343]

I would like to see a vast amount of graphics for weapons. I realize that some weapons will need to be elegant. Weapons that drop from high level instances, off upper level bosses, need to have that flair. I certainly wouldn't want some upper level weapon to have the same graphic as a low level weapon. That kind of thing turns me off to a game.

[Shinsei]

Like Marchosias said i would like to see sheilds also used as weapons. In previous games theres been sheild throws bashes and whatnot it would really increase a tanks dps for pvp even tho ncsoft has stated they intend to make the tank different from other mmo tanks.

[Marchosias]

I want to see a game where a single sword with no off-hand is practical... have it jack up your dodge and accuracy and decrease parry/block chance. I mean, you'd probably have to have very light armor so you've got the maneuverability and agility still... I dunno, I just think it would be something different. I always liked how chinese straight swords (not sure the technical term... I've heard Gim and a few others... probably all the same basic design/use with minor differences, but I really couldn't say) are very elegant and graceful in their movements, but still deadly... You never see anything like that in games... always sword/shield or dual wielding

[Shinsei]

Think the priest class only uses one sword tho that so far ive only seen um with 1 they might carry a trinket in the other hand tho.