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I like the forums. I am writing this suggestion about a new weapon skill line that involves a two handed melee staff. The bō staff skill line. It's a combat skill line that involves using a staff to fight enemies without it being a ranged dps attack. In guild wars 2 there are several weapon skills that involve melee staff fighting. It's basically whacking enemies with sticks.
(Image from 2022)
Ability 1: This is the basic attack when a character swings the staff very fast around hitting enemies with either end of the staff
Ability 2: The knockdown sweep, when a character swings the staff aiming for the legs and knees of the enemy. Sweeps the staff around knocking down the enemy. The enemy gets knocked back as well
Ability 3: Another attack that hits multiple enemies. This attack will be based off of several bo staff kata
Lots of these abilities will involve some acrobatic tricks too.
Idea number 3: Add in a double jump. When hitting the space-bar twice on a computer keyboard a character will double jump. This means a character will jump twice as high, far, and/or do a random flip in the air. When moving backwards a character will do a back flip. When sprinting a character will do multiple flips and then cartwheels while about to land. These animations can be used in combat and when dodging too. Or maybe cartwheels should be a new emote.
These are still developing ideas. I will add on more to this later.