Am I the ONLY one...

While I'll be the first to say WoW's weapons designs are decidedly silly, I will agree with you completely that a lot of them could at least serve as inspiration for City of Heroes weapons. Unlike most MMOs, WoW doesn't go for a photo-realistic look, but it still keeps the overly-elaborate, complicated design of the genre, so we get things like rifles with skills and tusks and chains hanging off them, or a staff with a gargoyle sitting on it and so forth. I never actually played the game, myself, but my friend has a Hunter he likes to show me, and I've seen a good deal of the game's rifles, bows and crossbows, and a lot of them, while cool, would be FAR too ornate for the style of City of Heroes. I picked this rifle specifically because it's one of the cooler ones that's still pretty simple.

And I still want to see at least one or two brand new flintlock pistols. Playing Torchlight and running dual pistols for a while there has given me a brand new degree of preference for these things

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I disagree that so many WoW weapons are as overly ornate as you describe. I mean, yes, there's squids-on-sticks, but there's a lot of stuff like Betrayer of Humanity and Nesingwary 4000 that would be fine.

Compare to:

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/w/images//e/e9/Retrorifle.jpg
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/w/images//c...Mace_Final.jpg
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/w/images//c...esisRifle2.JPG
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/w/images//6..._Axe_Final.jpg
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/w/images//f...Bane_Final.jpg
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/w/images//e...word_Final.jpg
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/w/images//3...Fang_Final.jpg

It's not like I was suggesting a firearm made out of someone's spine.

Point taken

As long as we can avoid "squid on a stick" designs for the most part, I see no problem with borrowing a few of WoW's weapon designs. Battle Axe could certainly use a few more options, and as I said, a few flintlock rifles and pistols would be very welcome.

By the way, it's funny you should mention "squid on a stick," because I recall the Tech War Mace being described as "microwave on a stick"

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

haha.

If you've never seen Terestrian's Stranglestaff, the top writhes around like a literal squid on a stick.

I wanted to link some of the Icecrown weapons, but omg, those were overly ornate with skulls and random colors all over the place.

There's a weapon in one of the expansions to the original Half-Life which is basically a big alien fish. You hold it under your right arm with its head resting on your hand and reload it by feeding it little balls of... something... which it then "fires" at the enemy when you squeeze it with your arm. Every now and then, in one of the idle animations, your left hand will come across and pet it on the head.

So there's the next new skin for Assault Rifle.

Ah, the Fish in Opposing Force. Never in the history of gaming has there been a deadly weapon that has been so cute If I weren't a heavy weapons fanatic, this would have been my favourite, but the raw power of things like the heavy machinegun, the shotgun and the magnum won out in the end. Still, it was actually not that freaky a weapon, all things considered. Not even remotely on the same level as the detached barnacle creature.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

That weapon is in the Opposing Forces expansion! It was always one of my favorites weapons.

Hmmm....I never finished that expansion actually.

On something of a tangent, are there any NPC's who use flintlock pistols (not rifles)? They seem like the kind of thing a Nemesis officer might use. Perhaps the as-yet-unseen calvarymen who ride the Nemesis Flying Pony Thingy.

Banished Pantheon minions. Nemesis don't use flintlock. They use "steam powered."

True, but their rifle design fits the "flintlock" look nevertheless. I actually wish we had a few rifles like theirs, but made specifically for the players. The Nemesis variants are kind of low-res.

And, yeah, the Banished Pantheon use the one flintlock pistol we have, and again, it suffers from the same problem - it's a low-res NPC borrow. I'd like to see a few new pistols like that, say a one of those with the funnel barrel and a steam punk gatling pistol like in Damnation

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Haven't even looked at the video, because guns don't do anything for me, but even I think that would look cool.

Though if they implement GG's suggestion about getting the enemies to line up and fuss about their place in line, I'd use the powerset.

I didn't realize there were all these dual pistol games out there. I thought this was a Punisher thing.

The problem is that what you quoted only really works with autofire machine pistols, not with single-action semi-automatic pistols which have neither the magazine capacity nor the rate of fire to make such wide, sweeping arc of fire viable or believable. Look at the video and note what the "nuke" actually does - a mere handful of shots in all directions, presumably aimed, not fired in unguided bursts. If I recall correctly, the whole "nuke" doesn't fire more than a dozen, maybe a couple dozen rounds.

Remember - the set is not Dual Uzis, it's Dual Handguns, which are assumed to be only semi-automatic and, from the looks of things, fairly high-calibre.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I remember getting really annoyed when Better Off Dead came out, and they had that little animated cheeseburger playing the Van Halen song, and they'd put the tremolo bar on the guitar in the wrong place. Would have been physically impossible for it to actually change the string tension from that spot. I don't know what they were thinking.

Let me put it this way - Dual Handguns seem like they're designed to shoot slowly and fire really big bullets. An arc of fire requires that the shoot really fast, which doesn't seem to be in the design of the set. Instead of an aimless, wide-area burst, they've chosen aimed single shots fired in all directions. I use the word "aimed" here pretty loosely. I'm not saying the character literally aims the shots so much as that each shot fired is intended to hit, whereas a burst of fire relies on volume and expects only a few to hit.

Slow fire vs. fast fire is what it comes down to, and Dual Handguns are slow.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Agreed! I want Flashy sets! I want Dual Pistols to be a flashy set for sure!

I've been waiting for a Dual Pistol set for almost 5 years, I hate to see it be a "stand there and shoot" boring and simple set. I want those acrobatic moves put in.

Which as someone who couldn't get the DP set as a scrapper, I'd hope they'd make it look like a scrapper using it...