I would like to see "class" abilities stay within the realm of playstyle and weapons choices and not some choice you make when you start the game. More items like the Wrench wand with (better) ranged charge attacks, ranged elemental charge attacks functioning as "spells" maybe.
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weapon types: lances, axes, bow/crossbow perhaps imagined as a kind of heavy launcher/support weapon type with aoe/status attacks.
armor types: maybe a heavy and light armors that offer more/less protection at the cost of movespeed and maybe an improved or worsened shield.

I'd also like to see a type of bomb placeable without charging like a bomberman style cross shaped explosion with a normal spherical blast(with greated AoE and damage) when charged, or a heavy bomb that takes longer to charge/detonate after placed with huge aoe.

oh and more stages/monster types etc.

Those rumors stem from the unused icons in the Resource folder. The Devs have not made any comment on it.

The game's install folder. If you used the web installer then the game appears in C:\Users\*User Name*\AppData\LocalLow\spiral. If you used the installer, where ever you told the game to install. For Windows that is.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Yea, but a sci-fi MMO is significantly distinct from yet another Elf/Dwarf/Goblin/Wizard MMO.

Are Star Trek "phasers" the same as a Lightning bolt spell? No, they're zap science. Nor do you need to be "special wizardborn" to shoot a gun. If you're also significantly advanced, then you know it's not magic, you don't have to be in awe of it, etc... it's a different attitude, where the tool isn't some inborn/secret power.

I think Spiral Knights is light-hearted enough that it can have some elements without spoiling the overall atmosphere, but it needs to avoid being overwhelmed. It's currently one of the few sci-fi mmos I've seen that don't just reskin "sword/axe" as "laser sword/axe", "healing magic" to "healing nanobots", "space wizards" and still stick to the melee-centric game-design (just hitting each other 'til one falls over), but actually accounts for guns, bombs, etc.

Well we can buy wrench wands just like those menders and do a psuedo magic missile XP Though it's absolutely crap, that's what we have guns and winmillions for... Oh and it doesn't heal. (Healing would be OP unless it required charging by attacking enemies or some kind of restriction) Magic would be cool since I'm all for mages but what kind of use would it have? Bombs kind of does a lot of the supporting in the game (status effect clouds, area effect, knockback, even a gravity bomb) and it can't be for damage dealing, that's kind of what guns and crystal bombs do. (And hopefully normal bombs, they're so crap =_=;)

I was thinking some sort passive spells that you caste on yourself, like a fire ball that revolves around you or a spell that creates a temporary "freeze trail" when you walk.

@SLthePyro

Lol, yeah. Guess where I got that freeze trail idea from?

Healing abilities are completely out of the question. A dev already said the game has been designed specifically without healing. Adding healing in would essentially ruin everything.

Any melee weapon (even a staff that shoots, as one already exists and is considered a sword) could be classified under swords. There's no reason to believe that the lance icon isn't simply for a type of sword that hasn't yet been implemented. There also isn't really anything a fireball spell can do that, say, a Firotech Alchemer cannot.

@Shroom

My idea isn't for them to be used as a direct weapon, they'll act like a support of sort.

Magic really would spoil the sci-fi theme of the game, which is something that makes Spiral Knights so charming. We already have Alchemers for creating energy bolts, we also have bombs and vaporizers for AoE-type effects. It's basically the same. The only downside to the 'machine magic' theme they're doing right now is that we're somewhat limited. We can only have 4 weapons at maximum, each one does something very specific, and most people opt for a single sword and a single gun, making it all feel 'the same'. Currently the max of 4 weapons is achievable through the use of 500 CE per month, though there is arguably not quite enough equipment variety to take advantage of it. As for alchemers, it might be interesting to see 'mixed' alchemers that shoot half as many shots before needing a reload, and trade the charge attack for the ability to switch between 2 different types of ammunition. (Or possibly it could have both the ability to change ammunition types, and fire a 'mixed' charge bolt that splits into two different bolt types after the first impact. I dunno, just brainstorming here.)

Honestly, I could see this game going into a sort of Ratchet and Clank direction, where every character is 'the same' but the weapons are so wildly different that you'd be pretty well-defined by your choices. I might suggest new weapons that are less dependent on being statistically different, and more emphasis on them being functionally different. Spears, for example, would actually have more of their own fighting style instead of just being swords which deal Pierce damage, and we'd have more variety with secondary weapons like maybe bomb launchers, or machines you set up (similarly to bombs) that project fields influencing allies and/or enemies inside it. The guy fixing up the robot in Haven Bazaar seems to imply that we may even eventually get to see some manner of minions (aside from the mecha knight item) make it into the game as well.

Of course, the difference between this game and Ratchet and Clank is that Ratchet and Clank utilizes an ammunition system, (and it's single player) so it can afford items with very powerful effects due to them being so limited. (and it being single player) I would like to see some more varied and/or less spam-friendly weaponry, though.

"I am against classes for Spiral Knights. One of the reasons this game is so cool is because it's different from anything else out there. Adding classes that restrict what you can/can't equip, etc would just dumb the game down imo. More weapons types? for sure. I would love to see Spears, Axes/great hammers, shotguns, snipers, etc."

What I would like to see, though, is some way to specialize. Be it specifically with equipment or with something else, however I agree with the concept of not locking anything off. That's one of the things I liked about Eve-Online was that you could train anything, but it took additional effort to specialize in terms of time (skills in that game was based off of time, not XP, but time included when you were logged off) and equipment and someone who was specialized could wipe the floor with someone who wasn't, but used the same ships and equipment.

Now, granted, skill systems means grinding, which is something that Three Rings is against as a company, but there are other ways, especially if equipment started to add penalties along side their bonuses.

Honestly, I forgot all about the healer gremlins and fairies, but that makes a degree of sense considering they're alien to us. Most of the other enemies stay pretty true to the theme though-- The bomb gremlins look like they're straight out of a battlefield and the fire gremlins carry huge fuel tanks on their backs. It makes sense that some of the 'natural' life would wield 'natural' forces like magic, however the Spiral Knights need to use specialized suits of armor and wouldn't even be able to function with a constant energy source. It wouldn't make a degree of sense if we were able to run around in cloth armor conjuring up fireballs.

...it's alliterative!

For conjuring, though, you're prolly gonna want to talk to the kitty in Moorcroft.

Wands, rods, or even charges/enchantments through the alchemy, that would throw shots, would satisfy my mage's heart.

The Wrench Wand (2*, craftable, not upgradable) is a wand with a shot for a charge attack. Pity it's not really a viable weapon beyond the first half of T2. The Spur (upgradable up to 4* Winmillion) has a charge attack that throws an energy bolt/disc. There are other swords that have projectile charge attacks, Divine Avenger for instance. There isn't a lot of magic in this game indeed, especially in the hands of knights it's all just energy.

Unfortunately I don't know of any guns that look remotely magicky.

As for alchemy enchantments, perhaps you could view Unique Variants as such...

Hope this helps a bit. :)