New Weapon coming ?

As most of you know the IDS (Icy dragon sword) was released about 1 year ago as a suprise.. and after that people started asking about new secret releases of weaponry. A short while after that Gaile said it was supposed to be a "new weapon for a new year" .. and I was wondering if anyone has seen or heard of a new weapon this Christmas ?

Other than candy cane weapons for the two new classes, I have neither heard nor read of any new weapons.



The new year hasn't arrived yet.

The IDS came 20th December

U have Fiery Blade Axes and Icy Blade Axes in addition to the Dragon Swords. New weapon would be nice, but let it be a staff, wand or focus this time.

A scythe I bet... Something that no1 wants. That would fit nicely.

Icy Gladius? Or maybe just the green candy cane stuff.

I was very excited about the new "secret" weapon that would be introduced this New Year but am now greatly disappointed that Anet didn't implement a sequel to the IDS this event I'm sure however, that there is a good reason for the absence of such a weapon this event such as to prevent it being too pricey since players without the camplaign it is found in would be forced to buy it making the prices higher. I'm just guessing though IMO its far too late for a new weapon this event so I guess i can forget about my Ebon Dragon Sword or Shoking Blade Axe

I haven't heard of anything new yet, but i hope anet is smart enough to put it somewhere where no people can solofarm


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yea like the far side of DoA or something... That would be a good place for it. Then maybe some people would stay after the first chest or gem drop for a change...

Doesn't look like one is coming. It would have been here by now. My guess is they are replaced by the wintergreen weapons. They gave us many up improvements and updates in its place anyway.

Couple of thoughts

First off you never know maybe they have released a new weapon but no one, as of yet, has found it. If you think about the ids, it drops in only one specific area off of one specific creature. If Anet has released another new weapon following this same method of release (one remote area one particular creature type) the weapon may not yet have been discovered. At this time last year their was only prophesies. Now we have 3 seperate continents each with many out of the way locations. So it would be easy for a new weapon to be introduced and not yet be found.

Also if I remeber correctly the ids was never anounced by Anet. In fact, if memory serves Gaile was was surprised by its appearance and only after the fact (after they had already appeared on the scene) confirmed its existence.

Or of course maybe they just have not created a new weapon. I would put my money on this option but...

I don't really care about new weapons with new skin, I am more interested in new stats on the weapons.

the weapon is already out there, you just have to look hard for it just like last year

Could be. But i think they added the free chests instead of the ids. Still hoping for a new skin though

how about this Scythe?
http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scythebh8.jpg

Would be nice. So far the dervish armors and scythe skins have been really dissapointing imo, so it would be nice to see a scythe skin like that. I highly doubt we'll ever see that one though.

Chance on hit: kill your non-boss target instantly 1%. (cannot be used in PvP)

Bring it!

If it were out, someone out of 3 million players would have found it by now. That's a fact.

I mentioned in another thread that I scored an IDS 30 minutes after the 12/20/05 update. I just happened to decide to try clearing the ice cave with henches. I did it successfully and got an IDS. I had never seen one before obviously and being that it was blue, I damn near sold it to a merchant before I asked about it at granite citadel when I got back. Ended up getting 80k for it the following day.

I thought the 3 million was total sold, across all three campaigns, over the last couple of years-ish.. If so, I sincerely doubt all 3 million people are still playing. I'd bet a huge chunk of them are prophecies players that left quite some time ago. I'm not saying it was right or wrong for some people to quit.. but it's entirely obvious to anyone who's been in any kind of large guild that SCORES of people have quit to play other games, or over changes in the game, over the last year +

EDIT: what I mean by "being in a big guild is", having seen guild members who tell people they are quitting the game to go play WoW, or other games, and then have never returned (I had a few on my friends list that left and I never saw them log in again for months and months before I deleted them from the list). Plus there are plenty of anecodtal stories on these and other forums of people who have left the game long ago, and continue to leave it.

I kinda think of the new Fissure quality weapons from the collectors in DoA as the new uber weapons that will go for uber cash. But thankfully its not a easy thing to over farm, or to farm solo... DoA is a true Elite mission area with quality skins for those that desire them.

Vabbi has some really good things too , Like the various Gem weapons and shields that are alternative versions of some of the torment weapons. Like the diamond aegis, and the tormented tactics shield looking similar but slightly different...

Figure it this way. you get to farm your way to uber fissure armor if you want it but its not necessary by any means... And after that you can farm for fissure quality weapons which are basically the same thing... Completely optional... and after that you can equip all your heroes with uber goodies if it came to that... So there is plenty to do... 9 character slots 15 heroes each, 144 characters to equip... yep thats enough to keep anyone busy for a long time to come... (9 characters assuming Chapters 1-3 with preorders owned)

As to people leaving the game... well I left WoW when GW came out. and all the better for it. I also have seen people coming back to GW recently because WoW fell short of the Expansion offering and has reneged on some promises with it, so back several have come to GW... Huge difference here though. they left say 4 months ago and guess what, everything is right where they left it... Nice and safe. Try that in WoW. If you let it slack off even 1 month your character is purged from the systems. Soo.. Whatever. I think of it this way, if they are not playing atm and want to play later, well thats the beauty of this game. its there for them. If they do not come back well thats their loss. Not ours... They paid for it, so its up to them to play or not to play. Its no skin off our teeth either way. Even when you go to a town that is basically empty, you got Henchies and Heroes to play with at the barest of minimum... that will never change as long as the game servers exist. And even when they are gone there will be fan servers pop up afterward just like in EQ1. Its not a hard stretch to see somewhere down the road Anet giving world builder tools out if they have to shut down their business model for some reason. Its just Gmax, so its not that big a deal.

Why do I say that? Well anyone that has worked on the alpha server knows that the client software has a way to redirect to other servers if they are allowed too. Its not too difficult to accomplish, and if the world builder tools are out there it would be perfectly legitimate to have custom world servers If they chose to go that way. But Anet is far far from having to do that. Were talking like decades down the road now I would imagine. I think the Anet model has well proven itself now. So I'm sure their official servers will be up for a long time to come. And as long as they are, there will always be new blood in the game to play with. Even if the older players get tired of it for a while.