Does Genshin Impact Need More Weapon Types? 

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Ever since Heizou was introduced, I just thought of Catalyst as the "Anything goes" category

A bit off-topic, but it surprises me that traveler doesn't get different weapons for each element, considering that you still have to level it up from talent level 1.

catalyst unironically has the most potential in my opinion as a weapon. it started with heizou then baizhu's release showing that not all catalyst users have to go bang bang bang from far away and instead can go bang bang bang up close. it'll be unique if we get a character who conjures some kind of elemental weapon but is a catalyst user.

Agreeing with everyone so far. Hoyo showed us that they can make the characters attack differently than their weapon types. My favourite example of this is actually not Heizou, but Candace. She has a spear throw and shield bash in her basic attack animations and they actually do what their supposed to do. The spear throw has range, and the shield bash deals blunt damage. If only they didn't mess up the rest of her kit she would've been my favourite 4 star unit.

As a fun middleground, I think they could diversify the current weapons visually. - Bow weapons could get crossbows / canons - Sword weapons could get daggers - Polearm weapons could get scythes - Catylist weapons could get (magic) gauntlets - Claymore weapons could get battle axes They virtually work the same, but some new eye candy to the repetitive current weapons. The only downside is, depending on how different the weapon is from the current equipable weapon, they might need to add new animations.

i noticed genshin has gotten more and more comfortable ditching the weapons in attack animations for more style and character recently

I also think that a lot of people don't realise that if Hoyoverse adds more weapon types they will also get more ways to screw us over with the gacha. More weapon types means more weapons you potentially do not want, the people who still don't have a Sac Sword will just suffer even more.

I was kinda surprised genshin went with claymores instead of axes. Axes seem to be the obvious third choice for a melee weapon category. Kinda wished they went with axes though. Opens up design choices to include hammers and maces. Giant double headed battle axes would be so cool.

I personally love Catalysts cause they focus more on effects and have unique attack animations like with heizou and scumidouch so it’s very likely that “gun” characters from Fontaine and other nations will fall under this category, right now they should cover elements for each weapon then weapon with each main stat, for example Furina is expected to be the first Hydro Claymore as well second HP% mained claymore it may not be very good weapon for many but that could change with time.

I’d love to see a dual daggers weapon style that focused more on rapid succession attacks. The sword attacks are fast, but they feel like a balanced act. I’d want them to REALLY lean into it, sort of like how greatsword users have higher dmg multipliers and greatsword themselves have the highest attack dmg but lowest attack speed. Do the opposite for daggers

I had presumed this video was made partly in response to the Fontaine teaser featuring Clorinde brandishing a gun, but that could just be an extra weapon she whips out alongside her main weapon similar to Mika with his compact crossbow that he uses in tandem with his polearm.

Having more weapon types also means more things to gacha for (ALL rarities included). With the ever expanding pool of characters & weapons, getting the one specific thing that you wanted will just be harder & harder. Goodluck getting Kaeya, Lisa & Amber's Constellations, or just ONE copy of Sacrificial/Favonius series.

Gun. Give me Gunshin Impact. We know Fontaine has firearms, and the Fatui to an extent, so give us proper early firearms. It would also balance out the melee-ranged imbalance we have right now (which is not exactly a bad thing to have but I personally would prefer this and I have no other backing) And heavy ranged, making them the claymore of ranged, would be neat. Long range, perhaps a reload to it that you have to manage, but very good single shot damage. Skills used to enhance the shot, mitigate the reload, set a trap, use as a "get off me" tool, something to group up enemies in ways that Anemo doesn't already, making Anemo less mandatory for horde situations... The list goes on.

Scythes that can do damage through shields and elemental shields would be great. I feel like a hillychurl shouldn't be able to block attacks with a little wooden buckler that would literally 1 shot them if they connected, and then there'd actually be a point to attacking abyss mages when their shield is up.

I want more weapon types just so there can be more variety in character design. Lately there have been some characters breaking the mold like Candace also using a shield and Kirara not even using her sword. More unique animations like these would satisfy.

While I am all for encouraging diverse team building genshin's nature poses 2 major problems: -You kinda need to invest in a unit to use it. A lv1 and a lv90 claymore unit may brake geo shields at the same speed but bringing a lv1 unit out at world level 5 is generaly considered a bad idea. Witch woudn't be much of a problem if all ressources needed to do so weren't limited or time-gated. - You can't enforce to much diversity outside of the 8 starter characters. Because they are the only one that you can garentee everyone has or can get without getting Rng or 3 month's worth of savings involved.

If there'd ever be a gauntlet weapon, I'd love a boxer character with the new large male model. Purely melee (and no kicks) or with an ayato skill (but with punches). A brass knuckle weapon would be fine too

I can understand Heizou being catalyst, but with Kirara, she attacks more with melee than her sword. Maybe they'll graft new combat styles into current weapon types rather than make a brand new one altogether.

I'd honestly like a Scythe weapon type, as they're probably my favourite FICTIONAL weapon (in irl, it's not even a good weapon, but there's the war scythe, which is just a stick with a curved blade at the tip), which focuses moreso on sweeping (having high area coverage) and pulling (grouping cc). It will also have mid range, with average atk spd. Another weapon is a Lance, which focuses on piercing and charging. It's basically the claymore ver of Polearms (even though that should be the hammer, but the hammer is already too similar to the claymores), which specialises in strong piercing attacks and a charged atk that makes them charge forward continuously consuming stamina, which can be controlled by the movement wheel, but has worse turn speed, but faster movement speed.

One slight issue with enforcing (which I agree should be done much more) that we use a larger variety of characters is that most players have 5 high level characters and 20 low level characters, and it would take a while (with the current system) to farm enough to catch up, basically making your theorethical Dehya boss unbeatable for most.

To be honest i love the idea of making an incentive to play certain units but i do think there would be a problem. At this point in time any attempts hoyo has made to incentivize playing a certain element/weapon made the community furious (look at the golden wolflord who *can* be defeated without using geo, but it is faster if you do. Or the flying enemies where you would want a bow user to stun them and bring them down.) So i think that while i love the idea of making enemies one shot unless you use a gauntlet character to do 100 hits, i think the community would mass hate it so much. Saying you are forced to pull (Look at the lynette situation with pneuma/ousia if you know what im talkin an ab) for certain units altough technically you could go by with just the free unit of that type handed to you.

Dual pistols. Could be a combination of elemental and physical damage, although it could end up pushing bow users to the wayside 😅

Early. Also I'm ok with the current method of integrating weapons into specific character kits as it makes them easier to build and can make characters more unique. One problem I see with new weapons is how annoying it would be getting characters and weapons of a particular type as hoyo is unlikely to make it easy to get good weapons of a new type easily, especially if you're a newer player

No... Mika, Heizou, Baizhu, Klee, Childe, and probably the upcoming gun lady (and more I've forgotten) all showed us you can do a lot beyond using your standard official weapon.

We have a recent trend of characters having a gun in their animations and using a random other weapon for their main attack sequence. And then there are the melee catalysts...

Something I think worth noting is delusions like childes stance swapping (and even his super saiyan mode) and signoras element switching. The untapped potential of delusions could lead to a lot of interesting ways to play and I hope they can explore this come scheznaya

Looking at honkai impact the same question popped up a few times, especially with gun users using great swords and fist users using 4 weapons (none of which are fists) but even so hoyoverse added a couple new weapon types back in April last year such as chacrams and bows when fischl was added, idk how necessary it was but its defiantly possible considering the track record, maybe if genshin does a Collab with honkai on genshins side they will add guns for kiana or something.

What I love to have is that weapon doesnt effect the appearance Like lightcones in HSR, you can equip anything, the weapon still look the same Characters can hold their signature weapon, but only the appearance

After the brilliant success of “Domains should require one team comp”, Var’s next idea for Genshin is to add a weapon type which allows characters to apply pyro as well as their own element, and content which requires you to use a certain weapon. May his game design professor break his arm with a book

I think the existing categories are broad enough that all weapons are pretty much covered. Any new additions would either be too similar to an already existing type to be a separate type, have mechanics that make them worse than the already existing options, or have mechanics that power creep already existing options. For example, a lot of people want to see Scythes in Genshin… but that is basically a Polearm with a little extra area coverage. I personally think shields would be a cool addition, but I fully recognize that no one would like it because blocking would be a DPS loss and therefore unusable in abyss.

I think an interesting addition would be something like a chakram that you throw at enemies and it bounces between them. A ranged weapon that is good in AOE but bad in single target, kind of the opposite to bow. It would bounce from one enemy to another but it can't bounce back to an enemy that already got hit. The more enemies there are, the more total damage you will deal to them.

It’s rumored that we are getting a cryo catalyst user in Fontaine, so there’s that possibility. The chance of a new weapon might be possible, for a cannon or gun, as one of the new characters was shown wielding a flint lock looking handgun. Though it could just be part of her skill or ult. And perhaps we’ll get a gauntlet weapon type in Natlan? Though this one I’m not too sure on as of right now. It certainly would be cool to get a pyro gauntlet character yelling Falcon Punch.

One idea for a weapon I thought of is a mixed ranged weapon, like their basic attack is melee but their charge is a ranged attack, something like knifes/daggers or chakram.

I wouldn’t mind seeing a new gun type weapon in Genshin. Aimed shots would do single target damage, while hip firing could do aoe damage? Just some food for thought.

I would like to see claws as a weapon type. It would be more focused on rapid strikes and quick movements as like vars said it would be amazing to use while doing something like break shields or cause freeze,taser,spread and aggrivate as massive amounts of elemental application can cause multiple reactions over time

Guns definitly, they fill the ranged weapons middle ground of damage and reach (the "sword" of ranged weapons with catalyst/claymore and bow/spear) and maybe a chain weapon that works like a bridge between ranged & melee weapons. every thing else feels a little redundant for gameplay (fists are just catalyst since heizou and axes, daggers & hammers are too close to sword & claymore in moveset & utility) but maybe as skins for the already existing weapon types would be great!

Honestly a gun weapon type would be cool where the attack speed is higher than the bow but maybe not hitting enemy weak point accurate enough unless in aim shot and have to undergo reload animation to balance out with the bow

I like the idea of a cannon being a weird mix between a catalyst, a bow, and a claymore in that it packs a punch, has some AoE, and does elemental damage but has a longer charge time than bows. I like the idea of whips being included as well

Honestly, I think functionally the "weapon types" are something like melee (sword, claymore, polearm), ranged (bow, catalyst), and aimed shot (Ganyu etc). Like sure there are differences between each one - claymores can hack geo shields, catalysts are always infused - but they're niche and well within the differences in the actual weapon types (catalysts vary wildly in range for example), and normal attacking is such a negligible part of so many teams and characters that at the end of the day, Beidou could be a polearm and Xingqiu could use a claymore it nothing would really change. This leads me to conclude that the five weapon types are a gacha tactic just as much as they are intended for gameplay variety. And I think the complexity level of these weapon types in the game as is is fine. I don't wanna have to collect a new set of weapons if they introduce pistols or gauntlets or whatever, especially if they're just gonna be completely irrelevant for most characters whose core gameplay come from a Skill and Burst that don't care what weapon type they have. I think it's perfectly fine for the different weapon types to be more cosmetic, and in that vein instead of introducing new weapon types, they should just keep introducing new creative animations like they've been doing, like with Dehya and Heizou's punching, Kaveh's briefcase, Kirara's claws, and Mika's three different weapons (for crying out loud it's a polearm user with a crossbow, that's cool).

There is another way to aproach new weapons, In another gacha game I play called guardian tales you have what we call "alternative weapon", each character have their signature weapon just like in genshin but then they added to some characters another weapon which changes their class, for example Oghma is a dark tank that gives defense to his team and is basically the tankiest tank in the game (he is a mecha by the way) and then they gave him a second form to his mecha saber which is a mecha rifle which turns him into one of the highest dps in the whole game vs bosses (where you would never use him as a tank because you want damage for this content). A cool feature if you ask me and you don't need a new unit, just give him his second weapon and he turns into dps, or give him his old weapon and he is tank, both have the stats you left him with so if he is maxed then both forms are maxed. Pretty cool stuff if you ask me!

In one of the event, an NPC said that Natlan is famous for their boxing art. People travels to Natlan to study martial arts. So I'm pretty sure we'll get a gauntlet type weapon in Natlan.

After Mika got released, I have a slight hope for more weapon variation. It may not be a completely different type but perhaps just a modification to the existing weapon type. I'm thinking something like how books belong to the catalyst. It's a variation/modification with the same properties. So, there could be a crossbow (bow), lance (claymore), scythe (polearm), double pointed dagger (sword) characters in the future. That's the possibility that could happen and what I hope to see

I’d still definitely go with a scythe, wider mid-range area coverage than the spear but dealing more damage at the blade rather than the pole. The charged attack can send smaller enemies up vertically to follow up with basic combos & send them flying.

Vars, you said Whip/Chain and you took the words out of my mouth, always been one of my favorite weapon types. I would think it would have good range and aoe coverage but not hit as hard as swords, polearms, and claymores, but would hit harder than bows. But, I don't see them adding a new weapon type, just making those who don't fit into the categories we have already just go with catalyst. Because after Heizou I just considered that weapon to be the "we can make it work" weapon.

As a f2p+ (I’ve bought a couple Welkins) who doesn’t give a shit about sexy characters I genuinely only have like four five stars I like and I pull almost exclusively for weapons and the occasional character just for coverage I think we are far too late into the game to start adding new stuff that they didn’t already give us time to prepare for (Like Dendro) At this point we just need more variety of classes and more content that tries to render certain classes unusable (Like disabling healing or shielding or reactions and the like) We don’t need new requirements to make something work we just need content that pushes us to use things we already have Edit: It would also allow them to make more Yelan Xingqiu type characters where the only difference is weapon

I think a lasso type weapon would be cool - maybe less damage but has the ability to scoop up enemies and pull them towards you. It would be great for a support in Spiral Abyss. Use the support skill / burst, then charged attack to pull all the enemies towards you to in time to swap to your main dps.

Here's a video topic for you: "does leveling characters take to long " As the roster increases this could be a issue. As everything that levels characters requires resin: talents, weapons, bookmarks, and boss materials.

About incentive to use certain characters. This could be done for everything, but open world already is really easy and you can do whatever you want. Events make an effort and that's fine. But the main constant content we have in Genshin that requires you to use good teams and builds is the Abyss. For this you could go about it in a few ways but I thought that it'd be nice if every abyss cycle they'd buff certain characters or teams. This could be damage, certain stats, maybe even constellations? The worst characters could just get full on C6 if they feel crazy about it. Maybe they give you extra rewards for beating floors with a certain character/team. Maybe characters that are extremely good at dealing with certain floors can even be nerfed a little? Controversial takes but I think it'd be best to stick to one specific way of implementing this. I'm leaning more towards a buff to a certain character each cycle. This could even provide time for others to grind out a character they never used before just because they'd help with the current abyss, then they could also use that character for future abyss or just whatever. Nerfing characters in the abyss is the most controversial thing I listed, but it might just be the healthiest option for the game long term. Certainly something to not just ignore because "I got the character, I should not be punished for using them" and maybe it's time to use your Barbara that's been with you through the hardest of battles and now been benched ever since Kokomi got released with her artifact set.

Imagine with Fontain, hoyo added guns that can change their element based on what types of ammo elements you add to them. For example a gunslinger character could have 2 types of elemental damage, one from their abilities and the other from their gun which they can choose what type of elemental damage they do based on what type of bullets they load in. A gunslinger would be able to do any elemental reaction by themselves. Also would be cool if gunslingers could move while shooting without attack animation

My weapons idea - gun Normal attack : hit nearby enemy with bullet that needs to be reloaded using charged attack. Special property : pierces enemies and ignore 20% of their defense - charge attack : reload bullet to full - plunge attack : perform and bullet rain that consume the remaining bullets and deals damage based on bullet consumed

About the only archetype I can see having value is adding Firearms to function as a ranged, physical, aim-shot option that does blunt damage. A ranged blunt option currently only exists in Klee and Ningguang, so a physical version would work. Similarly, different guns would operate off the individual characters' NA animations, either letting them do fast light attacks, or a string of light attacks followed by a blunt attack, or AOE scattershot attacks, etc. The weapons themselves would still function as a stat stick like everything else, but the individual characters with the weapon type could add a ton of variety

They should reclassify the weapons so they'll get more liberty with designs. Something like Swords > Light Claymore > Heavy Polearm > Long? Extended? idk No need to change catalysts and bows.

I really want them to add a nice big blunt weapon ala Itto's club for me to pound the enemies' skulls in with good old brute force.

the fact of how many gun type enemys exist is kinda amazing there isnt really a player rep for them somehow, with i guess one of the up coming fontaine chars having a electro one. the only thing that come to mind on why to make a new weapon type is to incorperate new type of weapon ability somehow. the main issue is characters have such a wide whatever move set that has already covered into so many overlaping things

At the end of the day they could realistically create any kind of attack animation with catalysts. My largest issue with adding in an entirely new weapon type is that it would further dilute the gacha pool.

Adding a new weapon type means they have to create characters specifically for that weapon and that defeats the purpose of having new ones because they can use their skill and burst to simulate that particular weapon type or just simply have them as an animation during their attacks, also, they can just use a catalyst instead and pull a heizou again... I'd rather have more weapon options, it has been 3 years with the exact same pool of weapons and if they add a new one it's limited to a banner, sure we get new ones from the blacksmith with any new region, but that's not enough.

None. I don’t think new weapon types are necessary when HoYoverse has proven they can make creative animations for already existing weapons such as Heizou with fisticuffs, Mika with crossbow, Kirara using her claws, and Kaveh with Mehrak. They simply need to double down on this. If you want more examples, Honkai Impact literally doesn’t give a shit about weapon types. Kiana Kaslana has multiple different battlesuits but they all use one weapon type: Pistol. Despite Herrscher of the Void using spikes and black holes. Despite Herrscher of Flamscion literally using a great sword, they are still considered a Pistol user. Another example is the Herrscher of Sentience who is a Gauntlet user but uses 4 different weapon types.

When they release Bronya in GI her weapon should be gun/range type weapons.

I think if Genshin was going to diversify the weapons, they'd still fall under the respective weapon categories they could already fit into. Follow with me here... Let's say a new character is added who's signature weapon is a Big Battle Axe. By default, that Battle Axe would fall under the heaviest weapon category, Claymore. Perhaps, the characters animations fit /well/ with the new signature weapon, but they can use the Sword/Club weapons just fine and vice versa (ie Diluc uses his normal animations using the signature Battle Axe for the hypothetical character). It'd be a simple change and also emphasize character collection, as players would definitely want a character with awesome new animations. You could also retroactively add new designs/weapons for the 4 star category fitting the Battle Axe idea, yet still fall under "Claymore" That being the case, here's a layout of some weapons that may fit wherever on our chart... Sword - Small Clubs, Maces, Small Hand Sickles Polearm - Halberd Sickles/Scythes, Halberds, Bo Staves (Monk Character) Claymore - Battle Axes, More Large Clubs Catalyst - Guns (Think Honkai 3rd's protag first Battle suit), Gauntlets, Cannons, literally anything Bows - (can't think of any sadge)

I like the idea of team restriction. Thats why I really like Nilou's kit. it would be nice to see an event where as you have to build a team for the domain floor but are restricted on that floor by not being able to use 1 type of weapon class and 1 elemental class. Assume dendro and polearm are locked for that challenge, that takes out all dendro teams but also prevents you from using Hu Tao, Zhongli, Raiden and Xiangling. This is content I personally want to see, yes it will be easier for spenders and long time players who have more characters, but it makes team building more fun. At least for me.

"I had to carefully plan ahead which characters to bring" I did that too, and failed, and ended up resorting to Xiangling. Abysses that force you to use Xiangling qre not refreshing.

1) one of the obvious option is Shield(as in actual shield) and Sword(or axe because there’s already sword), with default parry/block skill maybe 2)Staff, a longer range version of Polearm(longer range, slower attack, blunt) 3)Bludgeons or Maces(sword range, slower attack, blunt) 4)Wands, like catalyst but can be channeled like bow, slower attack

If I'm honest I kinda feel like it's too take to add new weapons. The best example I can give for my thought process is that when a new character comes out you usually have a bunch of generalist weapons to choose from if you don't have the best in slot but if we get a new weapon that new character will be underpowered for a while since you don't have those generalist weapons to use, that's also ignoring that their might not even be the stable generalist weapons like favonius or sacrificial since game lore does come into play as seen with no sacrificial polearm so they could be weaker overall

If I were to add any weapon types it would be Gauntlets, Scythes/sickles and Guns (specifically sniper/muskets and pistols) Gauntlets would perform similarly to Heizou but the characters themselves would be more combo focused, as if they were in a fighting game Scythes/Sickles would have 360 degree cleave/AOE but have lower singular dmg. Guns would function similar to bows, but they could have special reload mechanics that give certain effects if you reload at a certain time or smth like that.

An interesting thing they could try is something like the modules from arknights, some characters have modules that can specialize how u play a character, for example skadi, a big damage character with a skill that doubles her damage in the first 30 seconds she is in combat, so u have to take her back with a coldown of 60 seconds to be able to deploy ger again and another skill that increases her attack even further and doubles her hp too, but it take 40 seconds to charge, what the modules do is reducing her coldown time by 30 seconds in favor of her first skill, and other that allow her to resurrect with extra attack speed, in favor of her second skill. Modules being essentialy an extra upgrade u can make after ur character is at "max ascention" level.

Tbh i think they should do what dragalia lost did when the added a new weapon and have each character be a "type" of use of that weapon. They added guns for example and had rapid fire, long shot and shotgun gun users they all had the same weapon but very different playstyles. It could be very intresting to see what they do in Natlan cause going to the land of "war" could be the perfect way to diversify weapon users and enemy difficulty

Man, I've had this vison got dagger users for awhile now, and basically it would be a combination of swords, bows and catalysts, because my vision is that daggers would come in 3 types: Type 1: (The sword type)- you're doing physical damage until you use an elemental skill / burst damage. Type 2: (the bow/ catalyst hybrid)- where the character is throwing daggers that does damage similar to razor's burst. (Physical and elemental dmg) Type 3: (the sword/ catalyst hybrid.) The character's attack is purely elemental for quick application of elements. (Like ignis from final fantasy 15, if anyone knows who I'm talking about.)

If I were to suggest a new weapon class. It be a Sword attach to a Dagger through a Chain. There so much you can experiment with that. For weapon design it doesn't have to be a chain connecting the sword/dagger. The chain could be a string of energy beam, or a rope, or small springs. The chain maybe attached to a dagger, hook, maybe a weighted bell or sickle, small anchor. Even a grappling hook. Players can enter 3rd person ADS like Bows to launch the dagger side to slightly drag lightweight monsters forward the players or propel themselves towards heavier monsters. As for exploration purposes in a new region. Players can aim the hook shot of the weapon as a grappling hook to transverse to new areas and solve puzzles... but that'll never happen.

I woul add shields. They would have a special buttom that makes them go into a defensive stance reducing dmg taken but also reducing their movement. So yeah, shield characters would be defensive by nature, but that wouldn't stop one from being a possible dps.

I don’t think a new weapon type should be added, but I would love to see more unique types of attacks across the types we have now, just like how Heizou redefined how we think of catalysts. There are actually a lot of examples of this: Shinobu, Mika, Kaveh even. Maybe we get a catalyst user who uses a cannon, or a bow user who uses just a straight up gun. There’s so many possibilities if we expand what we think of each weapon type as.

It's just an interesting thought, but... Honkai Impact 3rd, had originally quite a few weapon types, fists, swords, guns, greatswords, etc. But a month or so ago, they added a new weapon type when they released Hare / Mistlein, and she wields javelin, the newest weapon type that only she uses at the time being

I’m not a game design doctor or anything but I think alot more ppl would play traveler if they could use any weapon and have skills for each element with each weapon. Not sure how intensive doing that would be or what that would do for game balance.

I wouldn't want to see more weapon types added. Adding more would make the gacha feel even worse and make it harder for f2p players to build their characters.

I hope Daggers would be added where they attack very fast with the lowest range of all the melees, but their charged attacks throw a dagger like a bow's normal, but pressing R/aim button throws it like a bow charged shot. Both CAs would have the same scalers and be the same attack but you have the variety. And I hope more types of Catalysts are added. Catalysts are what the name suggests... allows elemental attacks to happen through another modus operandi, ones that aren't the traditional other four weapon types, like magic fireballs, wind-based punches and kicks, or 'dendro acupuncture'. Chlorinde has a flintlock, she should have a bow-like normal attack that's instant like a hitscan in an FPS, and an "ADS" bow CA. That's just one example.

The hunga munga or “mambele” originating from South and central Africa which is a hybrid between a throwing dagger and a throwing axe. Auto attacks work as a melee with tight range, fast attack speed and high mobility while attacking. Charged attack works like a bow aim shot that only deals physical blunt damage with faster charge time, but unable to strafe while aiming. The game needs another ranged weapon in my opinion at least to make exploration more accessible. They keep making bow users like Sara, Gorou and Faruzan that make for poor exploration companions when you want multiple elements readily available on your team.

I hope one of the harbingers has a catalyst thats property is to make elemental manifestations of weapons. I really wanted Scara to use anemo swords, the windblades are cool but I hope someone like Columbina can have a catalyst that summons elemental weapons. It makes catalysts more viable in general by stopping the travel time and chance of missing, it feels smoother and looks cooler too. Plus it'd be a nice unique way for a catalyst user to fight.

Honkai Impact 3rd have quite a few characters who equip one type of weapon and use entirely different and unrelated weapons in the actual gameplay. Genshin could just do that which I think is a better way to go about it

if it were up to me I’d make some kind of “heavy polearm” weapon (consists of scythes, cartoonishly large hammers, battle-axes and perhaps the odd stuff like shovels too). Their charged attacks would create a large area of damage and use up a lot of stamina to cast, if they currently have an elemental infusion then the area covered by the charged attack will be increased and will also do more damage, and increased even further if the infused type matches the character’s element. However this will take away the ability to do elementally infused normal, charged and plunging attacks for a few seconds, this downtime could be decreased with elemental mastery (or something similar). The same effects apply to plunging attacks too.

i'm more into unconventional weapons such as *shields - can be used to defend similar to bow charge attack but for defence giving like 75% dmg reduction with stamina drain *bikes/mounts - it really depends on how fluid it feels but there is a certain level of automation here kinda like a summoner *chakram - the animation of the weapon can dictate the style of the character's combat specifically chakram's style is lots of spinning be it like a chainsaw or a ballerina *revolver gauntlets (my favourite) - grappling with mid-range shots the devastation from grapple and point-blank shot to an enemy should make an impact on the user *tentacles/hovering drones/birds - should feel organic and supplementary kinda how xinque/yelan's attack feels but with occasionally special CD-based utility or bigger damaging attack

It would be cool to see more weapons but I don’t think adding more weapon types alone would help add anything to the combat system because most of what a character does is tied to their skill or burst.

I think that another solution could be to make a character have their own personal weapon, then lightly connect it to 1 of the existing weapons. For example if you use a gun then the weapon type would be bow. This allows for more creative freedom in creating characters who aren’t restricted to the weapon type. You can then give their basic attack special properties conducive of the characters personal weapon while not showing the character using or summoning the existing weapon. For example a character uses a gun but are categorized as a bow unit, their basic attack uses the gun and has faster projectile speed on account to it being a gun. You can then create a banner weapon that when equipped changers the look of the personal weapon so that it is distinguished from the original weapon. This comes with the down side that other characters equipping this weapon would need to have the look of the basic weapon. Or we could eliminate that by have a cosmetic system like being able to equip a BIS weapon but changing the look to another weapon.

They could go the HI3 route of having some characters' weapon type just serve as stat sticks. Like how Flamescion Kiana is technically a dual-pistols user but in gameplay she wields a greatsword, or how Herrscher of Sentience is technically a gauntlets user but in gameplay wields...just about everything except the kitchen sink, really

They can make different weapons in the same five categories in the game, they started this with the catalyst as it no longer has to be a book, it can be a bell or a lamp. They can also make clubs, daggers from the sword billets, big shields or long chains with iron balls from claymore billets, poleaxe or wands from the spear billets, sniper or dart from bow billets.. and so on these are just examples. and these changes should not be only for premium weapons, it can be provided through four star weapons too, it will add different experience without breaking the game 3 years system.

I think Hoyo needs to simplify their weapon system a bit but maybe allow different animation and skin types depending on the cahracters in use. So like rather than swords allow the category to be one handed. So a future character could be a one handed axe user and just change the favanious sword into an axe with the same aesthetic? •One Handed •Two Handed Heavy Melee •Ranged Physical •Magical/catalyst(Ranged or melee) •Marshal Two Handed melee(polearm, bo-staff/quarterstaff, halberds)

Did you see the gun weapon type they previewed in the Fontaine teaser?? It’s long overdue. I believe guns will eventually be added as the world development progresses in genshin. Who knows perhaps Dainsleif power is nuclear

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Catalysts are just kind of their everything goes category and on one hand I'm excited to see what they do with that, but on the other hand I'm worried that might lead to them oversaturating the character pool with catalysts in the future as it gets harder to differentiate characters of the same weapon type. I think it'd be interesting to have characters use like daggers and to have them be officially sword characters but they use like a slightly different model, like an adjusted model for the sword they use or like a bow character that uses a gun and the gun changes to resemble the bow they used, a polearm user with a scythe that does that. Because you can't just add a scythe polearm or dagger sword or gun bow because then they'd have to make special animations for every character of that weapon type if they were to wield it, and while yes this way is also a lot of work, I think in the long run it could potentially be less work

to be honest, I don't think they need to add new weapons to the game to get these new weapon types, it would probably be far more complex than I think, but making it so that a character simply has a sword scaled down as a dagger, or using a bow as the limbs of a crossbow, or even adding a blade to a spear to make a sythe. Of course things like making textures and position adjustments for each weapon as well as making it so that asymetrical bows wouldn't look rediculus would be difficult, but it would be a possibility

I'll never understand why so many people hated Minecraft's 1.9, feel like the old combat was pretty lackluster compared to the new system

Well, adding new weapon types would be interesting, however I don't think this is possible at this point. Although, as displayed by Heizou, Mihoyo pretty much can do anything with the existing weapons, reducing catalyst stamina consumption included. Moreover, I think both bows and catalysts are actually two types each: 1) Catalysts who target enemies by launching homing projectiles like Ning Guang or Yan Fei; 2) Catalysts who hot instantly at certain range like Barbara or Sucrose. Same with the bows: 1) Bow users who primarily use regular attacks (infused or not), like Fischl or Yoimiya; 2) Bow users who use charged attacks, like Gun Yuu or Tighnari.

The best way to implement new weapon types is adding similar mechanics to Childe "E" (He uses two daggers). An example of a new would be when a character press "E" the character would start using a gun, scythe or something. Gauntlets are already in the game if you count Heizou and the upcoming Jojo character.

They could probably make old characters able to use new weapon types as alternative: e.g.: Miko can wield Catalysts or "Wands" Heizou can wield Catalyst or Gauntlets Kuki can use swords or daggers Rosaria can use Polearms or Scythes and so on

*New character comes out with unique aesthetic* Mihoyo: Slaps bow on them

I'd like a weapon that you charge at enemies with. It can be skinned as a tower shield (Mitachurl) or oversized lance (Fire main character in Honkai Star Rail or Durandal from Honkai Impact 3rd). The tap attack would be a quick poke/bash, while charged attack is well... charging forward dealing damage to whatever you crash into. Basically it would be like Kirara's or Sayu's hold skills but slower move speed, counts as blunt damage, consumes stamina, and uses the normal attack or sprint instead of elemental skill.

Yes, we do need new weapons. Preferably a scythe, a warhammer, a bigass axe, maybe some kunai and it would be fun if we got to beat hilichurls up with nunchucks too. The spiky variant.

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I heard indirect and unofficial news about dehya's dmg will increase in the coming versions

i think genshin should add more weapon types, i think they should add more to the claymore weapon type.