Real Weapon Customization

/agreed.

This was part of my ideas to streamline GWs.
I think weapons should handle just like armor, in that - you get it soley at a crafter.
At a weapons crafter, you would craft any weapon with mods of your choosing at its max potental, instantly customized.
Also, various 15k versions of this weapons would exsist too, just like armor.

Weapons may be taken off of the market, but only to be replaced by the materals it takes to craft them.

I think the only hunt for PvE should be to have nice looking stuff and combat of any kind is simple a matter of playing how you feel when you feel like it.

Am I missing something? You can already customize the hilt, pommel, bow string, etc..

edit: ah, woops. You meant just the skins. In that case, there's quite a bit of variety out there already in weapon appearances.

edit2: jimmy, lol. Ok /signed

i love it!! /sword name jimmy. o the possibilities

I'd love it. Perhaps do it so you simply 'reforge' an existing weapon. I.e. I have my Zealous Longsword of Fortitude. I take it to be customised (along with some materials and money). I can make it look like a dragon sword and can rename it to be "Pevil's Sword of Awesomeness"

my idea really came from the fact that i have a perfectly good fiery dragon sword right now, but the fellblade looks cooler. a clean max fellblade is only 2k, but i cant find one anywhere. so, i was thinking, you bring dyes, materials, and cash to customizer, then select each component to change, and when finished, the window shows you what you owe in materials and gold. the change itself would be nothing more than a new skin for your weapons, but hey, people are willing to pay for appearance at this time, so lets just make it easier for them. like the stats on your flamberge, but cant find a brute sword with the same stats? skin it to look like a brute sword. the flames provided by the firey dragon sword i suppose you couldn't skin, unless you bring a fiery sword hilt as well. skinning it into a fellblade would probably require an advanced material, but it'd be worth it in my opinion.

If anyone remebers Neverwinter Nights... now that weapon custimization system was awsome. You could change anything about your weapon, you could make it glow different colors, etc. It could have all these different effects, like frost coming off it, fire, cursed, holy, electiricity, poison, etc.

But guildwars makes up for its lack of real weapon custimization in so many ways.

this is such a good idea that i would like sign something to make it happen

I felt exactly the same way, so you are not alone in that

Neverwinter nights was one of the highest-quality rpgs I have ever played, and the fact that you could do so much to your weapon was one of the reasons I say so.

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I would love to see it. I do not think we will. But I would very much like it just the same.

/signed i like a uber sword with the new uber skin

/signed Alsome IDEA

Like how? I don't see any ways to compensate for lack of aethestics on weaponry. I mean; various types of weapons..but thats it. Vanity is a large part of this game. I want a wonderful looking weapon with a mindblowing name <even if it doesn't do more or less then your PEFECT whatever>

I still would like to name my Flamberge something like, "A White-hilted Black Runeblade called, "The Stormbringer" or some such. Make it with an RP-ish tone.

PLEASE God, for my wishlist for xmas, make this come true. I would love to make different weapon skins with names. I mean a large axe with a name "Limbmangler" or some such.

///Signed <--TRIPLE Signed!

--The Shim

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I think this is a good idea but just like armor i think you should be able to do more at certain places. Like 15k skins could be customized but dont look totally godly because not all of the people playing guild wars are rich. Then also have the best options availabe in FoW or UW or place that only experienced people can get to. To help show they are elite.

Wow... nice.
This idea is just... ftw lol.
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I love the idea of true weapon compostion. Would really help weapon differsity. Just you can get different skins as you progress through the game and in order to make certain skins you need certain materials. great idea.

/signed x100000

i so love this idea i can picture it now a purple glowing wingblade can't really think of a good name though

lesse.. you could call it (Characters name)'s death stick.
That'd be mine, but im crazy.

How about a sword named, "Balthazar's Middle Finger," and it has an on-hit death effect? :P

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I think we could keep the original weapons value though by limiting the modifications you can make to keep the basic theme of the weapon - after all you are changing a weapon, not re-forging it. So if it is a fellblade it will retain fellblade properties and you can't change it to a fiery dragon sword. Short bows remain short bows, not changable to an ascalon bow. Battle picks not changable to double-bladed axes. Get the idea?

This way the original weapon is still desireable to obtain and then customize it as desired. There should be a ton of customization options available within each type of weapon though so you can still have a unique look.

Shields and other off-hand artifacts should be included in this as well with the same type of restrictions: your plain ol' buckler does not all of a sudden become an aegis.

Naming the weapon concerns me a bit. Right now people get banned for poor name choices for their characters, now we're going to throw item names into the mix? And who wants to be slain in PvP by "Ogre The Leet's Wet Noodle" uber sword? Perhaps there are a lot of prefixes and suffixes to choose from, I don't know? And not just the names of the mods, like fiery and fortitude: smiting, striking, hacking, harpooning, of death, of bashing, of noob-slaying...

I also like the idea of increasingly cool customizations available as you progress through the game in each major town. I would not put these crafters in only out of the way places like FoW or deep in Sorrows - the point is to make personal expression available to people. You get a new axe type, you want to go make it unique, not have to venture into some dungeon or 3 zones deep into the wilderness before doing so.

And when an item is customized it is still set to be solely used by the one doing the customizing, just like now. That keeps the market values on the "raw goods" not the customized products.

Good ideas!

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i would love to rename my hammer to "elsie" instead of always seeing "furious giant slayer's hammer of enchanting."

taking DeanBB idea of keep the same basic weapon and adding on to it you can't make a weapon biger but you can make it smaller like you can turn a long sword into a short sword