It's like a swirleh ball that ****s the mind of anyone who stares at it.

When a monster gets within detection range the monster receives over 9 X 10 to the third power worth of normal damage.

IT EXPLODES HEADS

In real life soldiers use firearms, explosives, and combat knives, and soldiers of the past used swords. Even if OOO implemented new weapons they would still fit into swords, guns, or bombs.

Like what you said, a bow would just be categorized as a gun.

How else would you want to kill your enemies in active combat? Bringing a mobile death trap is a little too impractical.

Is it possible to make a fourth weapon type? Yes. Are you creative enough to figure it out? Apparently, no. Have I thought about it? Yes. Will these thoughts be formed soon for others to read? Imagine a tortoise crossing Europe by walking.

Hammers: We already have some and they are swords.
Wands: This isnt Harry Potter, or a Medieval European game either
Bow: Thoses would be guns.

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Wrench_Wand

Yes, a toilet wand is a real wand. When I wave it at people I am casting a repellant spell.

"After studying many of the Owlite books, Spiral HQ has finally unlocked their secrets. Floating around Cradle is heavenly energy and dreadful dark energy. Both of these types of energy can be concentrated into a devastating attack, and imprisoned in books to be used whenever nessasary, but take heed knights. Using too much of either type can cause you to become corrupted and turn on your own kind, or disenagrate into a heavenly aura"

Easy: Summoning things. Both small and large, though I think a "Drone" like thing would work best.

Control: When using the attack button once, you control the "summoned" thing, and make whatever command has if it has one with the shield button, pressing attack again would return control to your knight. Some of the "summoned" weapons could even have passive functions when not controlled, or even some of them would only work when at passive state.

Turrets to defend, remote mechaknights to explore, small tanks for AoE damage... think of the possibilities!

And for armor choices, some sort of "Engineer" line.

Potential! In fact, I think I am going to the Spanish forum to make the topic : P

@Luguiru i agree with you

id say another class could be something that would help the party like healing or a buff of some sort like a medic class

My suggestion was completely different from what Aumir said (although it's a cool idea). These new "weapons" would be books that the knight could hold in his hand and when attack is clicked, would do what ever it is they do (for example summoning a rain of lightning bolts that hurt and shock enemies).

Maybe this could introduce a Mana system :o It would be a small purple/blue bar glowing under your health and heat. The armor could be similar to that of the Magic set and would give something like "Mana Replenish Speed Increase" or MRSI for short

Magic does not exist.

Biotech Hahn TOLD me so!

HOWEVER, your idea could be incorporated with a technological twist.

Make NOT-Magic gloves that do what ya ask.

Giant, volcanic-colored roboty glove that shoots fire? Better than FIRE MAGIC.

Obviously Biotech Hahn hasn't read any of the Owlite Books >.>

Spears.
With really big spinny attacks.

Or a Gauntlet, complete with technological close-combat.

It's not really as much "Sword, Gun, Bomb" as it is "Melee, Ranged, and Set-up"

I'm certain there's plenty of things you can put down that do things that aren't exploding like a bomb. (Think Traps).
There's plenty of weapons you can hit with face-to-face up close combat that's not a sword (Hammer, Lance, Halberd, Spear, Gauntlets).
There's plenty of ranged items you can use that aren't guns (Bows, Crossbows, Flamethrowers, Throwing Javelins, Throwing Knives, Throwing Grenades).

Just because the icon shows a sword doesn't mean it have to be a sword. Shovels and Hammers aren't swords, but their icons is one.

I'd love to see a Twack hammer, Wrench wand, Slime slasher and Beast basher upgrade.

@Quotefanboy if those get higher star versions, at most they'd go to 3* to prevent it from being horribly, horribly broken.

Thanks for the +'s

To expand on you Spear idea, Spears would be massively long and reach forward up to 8 blocks and go through enemies. The downside is that the attacks are directional and not very wide!

Yes you're technically correct, but ingame all the things you listed would be classified as either a sword, a gun, or a bomb.

Also, a wand would be considered either a sword or a gun, depending on whether it's used to hit enemies in close range or fire energy bolts.

I like the idea of new weapons, but a new weapon class isn't going to happen…not only because we already have melee, ranged, and aoe weapons but also because OOO would have to design a whole new set of armor and trinkets focusing on that class.

In terms of weaponry there are several opportunities to use in terms of variety, but the primary issue is bringing new mechanics. Only a few users are competent in how to design a balanced mechanic without being ridiculously overpowered or completely useless; though almost always overpowered.

Guns can vary as they may, but keep balance in mind concerning weapons such as rocket launchers or sniper rifles.

Bombs absolutely require imagination to be a primary factor in mechanics and design, seeing as grenades are out of the question; imagine if Polaris bullets did not have to travel a distance before exploding and are released in a charge attack rather than waiting for the slow bullet path. Sticky bombs are questionable due to manual control over detonation potentially detonating the entire map and crashing the game. Unlike swords and guns, bombs are limited to existing overpowered explosives (hand grenades, nuclear warheads, etc.) or completely original content. There is no "it has the power to blast it all" in the same room with balance and community content.

No pets. At all. Get rid of them. Out the window and into the dumpster. The closest to pets we will ever get is the accessories, which are technically just accessories with miniature enemy models placed in a pocket.

Before creating a thread for a concept use the search function. Use it. Do not skip it to start the thread, search if it already exists first. No one wants derpzillion threads for the same thing every few days.

I would rather have new content with new mechanics and gameplay than having a reskinned weapon. No, pets will never exist with an active role; the most they will be is cosmetic for balancing reasons. No, my opinion does not influence whether I bash or support an idea; my criticism is based entirely on the content under my rubric and is not affected by personal biases or issues with the user or the concept. I have withheld using my rubric for a while because very few new threads with original content have appeared recently which have not already received it, are in progress, or are a continuing thread.

Kill yourself.

Elevator pass. 'nough said.