Is that a gun in your Pocket? PISTOLS

As a "gentleman explorer" of the high seas, Captain Fairgraves must surely have had a trusty flintlock pistol.

Im in favor of Pistols. Sure pistols seem illogical and might make people think we need Cannons, Rifles, Machineguns Ect. but this game is filled to the brim with illogical things anyways! do i have remind you guys about the templar not wearing pants for most of his journey, or creating Zombie corpse from ghost bodies, or even being able to shoot a bow 3.5+ times a second.

Pistols would add some new interesting gameplay and skills. Pistols could easily be explained as Energy Weapons much like wands, but for Dexterity users. New Gun Gems could add some things that we couldn't do with bows, or at least better. Shotgun effects (like short ranged AoE style), added Bleeding Damage, Faster projectiles with longer cooldowns, ect.

add last, but most importantly, Guns in RPG's are freaking awesome. who wouldn't want to feel like a duel gun wielding badass. These gun users could be called GunCasters who have perfected the art of mixing guns and magic.

lets be honest, the Rule of Cool wins this argument and in a video game, isn't having fun one of the more important things?

In a world where your thoughts can manifest streams of fire cold or lightning why would you need a gun?

Give us flails first then talk guns.

Flails can be used with heavy strike, sweep, molten strike, leap slam, glacial hammer, elemental hit.
Base speed 1.50-2.00, yes they are fast.
Base mod *causes target to bleed x % dmg done*.

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Quantume wrote:

Give us flails first then talk guns.

Flails can be used with heavy strike, sweep, molten strike, leap slam, glacial hammer, elemental hit.
Base speed 1.50-2.00, yes they are fast.
Base mod *causes target to bleed x % dmg done*.

Trying to work a flail quickly would rip your arm form its socket. That's a lot of physics to overcome. So no, flails aren't fast. They're about a strong sweeping motion, and maybe as fast as a broadsword used correctly. Of course teh concept of weapon speed in game is really an abstract representation of how the weapon does damage, and in that case a flail would be looking at 1.2 APS, definitely not 1.5 or greater. It's all about punching a lot of force all at once much like a mace. Just better.

"When an exile with a gun meet an exile with spells, the exile with the gun is a dead exile"

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jeonitsoc wrote:

"When an exile with a gun meet an exile with spells, the exile with the gun is a dead exile"

By that logic, no one would use a bow or worse, a sword. After all why would someone use a sword if you could cast ranged spells?

If swords and bow and clubs have a place in wraeclast along with spells, then surely pistols would not be underpowered in comparison.

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mouhanad wrote:

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jeonitsoc wrote:

"When an exile with a gun meet an exile with spells, the exile with the gun is a dead exile"

By that logic, no one would use a bow or worse, a sword. After all why would someone use a sword if you could cast ranged spells?

If swords and bow and clubs have a place in wraeclast along with spells, then surely pistols would not be underpowered in comparison.

A flintlock pistol takes an excessive amount of time to reload. A sword takes no time and a bow takes as long as it takes the user to draw and nock a new arrow.

Wands are Wraeclast's pistols.

NO GUNS PLEASE, that would make PoE more similar to Grim Dawn and Van Helsing and other titles. Diablo had no guns, nor should PoE if it want to remain true to it's origins.

There are a ridicolous amount of spells and bows and item effects/micro transactions to choose from. The variety here is awesome.

Plus any bow can have cool effects.
The only thing I miss is crossbows or those heavy bows from Dungeon siege 2. They're awesome.
We also could have 1 hand crossbows like in D3.

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jeonitsoc wrote:

"When an exile with a gun meet an exile with spells, the exile with the gun is a dead exile"

The evil witch from "Army of darkness" is sooo not convinced by these words...

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Autocthon wrote:

A flintlock pistol takes an excessive amount of time to reload

Sure. That is exactly why we need Gauss miniguns.