Guild Wars 2

Let the skills be fun and let’s not get into balance debates please

Elementalist: Arcane Surge: arcane skills grant 1 stack of might and become blast finishers. Reduce the recharge of arcane skills by 90%. 8 second duration.

Engineer: Turret Signet: passive – your turrets have wheels and can travel with you. Turrets deal 50% less dmg. Active – plant your turrets in place, removing the damage reduction and granting turrets quickness. 10 second duration.

Guardian: Spirit Ward: Passive – grant protection, regeneration, and improved toughness to allies. Active – grant allies 4 seconds of invulnerability. When this ends, allies gain aegis.

Mesmer: Puppeteer: disorient your foe, causing movement to be reversed (moving forward=moving backwards, left=right, etc) 5 second duration

Necromancer: Ritualist: recharge death shroud. gain 50% life force, vigor, and stability.

Ranger: Beast Lord: summons secondary pet. Pets gain 10% additional damage and quickness. 5 second duration.

Thief: Shadow Swap: switch places with and immobilize target foe. Grants stealth and fury.

Warrior: Paragon: reduce the recharge of weapon swap by 100%. 8 second duration.

Mesmer, Ranger – useless
Thief – OP

Mesmer: Puppeteer: for the next 5 seconds, enemy movements copy your movements.

Here are my elites

Ranger: Stampeding Rhino

240s CD: Stow your current pet and summon a Stampeding Rhino for 30 seconds. The Rhino has the following skills and permanent stability.
Stampeding Charge (2): Tramples forward towards the target, knocking down all enemies and performing an AoE launch with +50% the launch distance when it ends.
Gore: Physical damage + bleeding
Quake: AoE knockdown + weakness around the Rhino
Protect the Herd: AoE Aegis to allies

Elementalist: Light Attunement

For 20 Seconds you attune to the Element of Light, blinding enemies and losing all conditions. Your weapons are replaced by a lightsword and focus. Allies around you gain aegis if you have elemental attunement traited.
Arcing Light: Swing your lightblade, double the range of a normal slash, hits 3 targets and causes vulnerability.
Light Spear: Fires a spear of light in a line, dealing damage and causing burning. Allies around the target lose 1 condition.
Faster than Light: Teleport to the target enemy, blinding them. You heal yourself and all allies around you on arrival.
Wall of Radiance: Creates a wall, allies that pass through it lose a condition. The next 10 projectiles to pass through the wall become beams.
Wormhole: Pulls all enemies to the targeted location.

Engineer: Chaingun Kit

Swap to a Chaingun weapon kit (same CD as other kits). Gains the following abilities:
Mow ‘Em Down: Move 33% slower but fire rapid fire bullets that deal consistent damage to an enemy at 900m and cause bleeding stacks rapidly. Asura laugh maniacally if firing for extended time.
Spray and Pray: Mow down the area in front of you in an arc, causing vulnerability and hitting up to 5 targets with consistent bursts of damage.
Explosive Shell: Fire a lobbing bomb at the enemy that causes knockdown and burning.
Barrel Smash: Melee attack that dazes an enemy. Gain Run and Gun and move at normal speed while firing Mow’ Em Down for 8 seconds if this skill hits.
Hook Shot: Fires a chain anchor to the enemy that pulls you to them.

Necromancer: Viral Strain

For 12 seconds you can only be affected by one single condition at a time. When you gain a new condition the old one is replaced. Your 1 skill on any weapon will apply the condition you are afflicted by to enemies.

Warrior: Choke

For 8 seconds melee your attacks interrupt skills. 30s CD.

Mesmer: Paranoia

For 12 seconds, confusion applied by you deals physical aoe damage other enemies near the target when triggered. 60 CD. Has custom quotes for affected races like “Ah! get it off me! GET IT OFF ME!” or “The Nightmare will never take me alive!”

Guardian: Armor of Justice

80sec CD. Encase yourself in a large suit of holy armor for 12 seconds. Burn all nearby enemies that get in proximity of you while the armor is active. Gain stability (every 3s refresh, retaliation (every 3 refreshs), and 2500 max hp while the armor is active. Conditions applied to you while you are wearing the armor have their effects reduced by 50%. Also looks incredibly cool.

Thief: Untouchable

Gain full stamina. For 8 seconds you can dodge without using any stamina. 80s CD.

All of yours are really cool lordhelmos, I especially like the Necro ability.

Gnat.9405:

All of yours are really cool lordhelmos, I especially like the Necro ability.

Thanks, I was trying to keep the unique mechanics for each class in mind when I created the ideas. For instance:

Ranger: Powerful pet-based ability. And catapulting people with Rhino charge, yes! Would be epic in zergs.

Elementalist: New attunement. And light sword! Yay!

Engineer: Because every engineer should have a minigun.

Necro: Masters of condition control, they should have an elite to match.

Warrior: For added pressure and disruption “in your face” style.

Mesmer: Mass panic, people killing each other with their own skills, much laughter in vent. Very mesmer fitting.

Guardian: Burning, judgement, and heavy armor. All Guardian here.

Thief: Skill based sustain that doesn’t rely on stealth but fits the “you’ll never hit me” MO of the thief.

The Mesmer immediately made me think of Spiteful Spirit from GW1.

Gnat.9405:

The Mesmer immediately made me think of Spiteful Spirit from GW1.

Right where it hurts :’(

Sleep well my sweet prince

I love these kind of threads.

Mesmer:
Illusion of Power – 0.75s cast – 120s recharge
Manipulation. Grant quickness to your foe while heavily confusing them.
5x Confusion(10s): 650 / 325 base damage
Quickness(5s)
Unblockable
Range: 900

Guardian:
Staff of the Zealot – 1.5s cast – 120s recharge
Spirit Weapon. Summon an arcane staff to support you.
Duration: 20s

• Uses one of the following skills every 3 seconds:
• Zealous Defense – 6s recharge: Grant protection to nearby allies.
  Protection(5s)
  Number of Targets: 10
• Zealous Offense – 6s recharge: Grant might to nearby allies.
  3x Might(12s)
  Number of Targets: 10

Command – 0.25s cast – 20s recharge
Command the Staff of the Zealot to summon a blinding firestorm onto the target area.
Damage: x
Burning(1s): 328 base damage
Blind(2s)
Pulse: 1 second
Duration: 5 seconds
Number of Targets: 5
Radius: 240
Range: 900

Necromancer:
Horrific Curse – 1s cast – 120s recharge
Summon two jagged horrors for each nearby foe. The jagged horrors will exclusively target the foe they were summoned on.
Minion Damage: 318
Minion-Inflicted Bleeding(5s): 213 base damage
Minion Duration: 20s
Number of Targets: 5
Unblockable
Radius: 600

Necromancer: Grenth’s Balance

Nuff said, fellow GW1 players, nuff said.

And make it AoE.

Necro had so many good skills and synergies in GW1, it’s disappointing what we’ve got here.

warrior one ;-3
Primal Rage:
(elite stance)
90s CD
for 5 seconds you attack twice as fast and move 50% faster.

as to Rym with grenths balance i used to love using troll specs with that skill XD
they should reincarnate EoE XD

Gnat.9405:

The Mesmer immediately made me think of Spiteful Spirit from GW1.

though mesmers did have that nasty backfire/empathy/VoR build XD

Yeah Mesmers were nasty in GW1 if you didn’t have some good interrupts. Concussion Shot ftw

Warrior: Stance. Battle Rage, 8 seconds, attack 50% faster, and do 15% more damage. When this stance ends, for 10 seconds you don’t lose adrenaline outside of combat. 35 second cool down.

Guardian: Shield Guardian, for 10 seconds, you and nearby allies are healed for 1500ish when you lose aegis. End effect applies Aegis. 60 second cool down

Ranger: Strike as one, 15 seconds, when your pet hits with an attack, you do 60% of that damage. 90 second cool down

Thief: Shadow Shroud, 6 seconds. Going into stealth grants 3 initiative. Reveal only lasts 1 second. 120 second cool down

Engineer: Gadget. Energy Shield, create an Energy around you that absorbs projectiles and pulses AoE damage each second (600 radius). When it ends it explodes in a powerful blast (900 radius, 2X the damage). 4 seconds. Cool down 60 seconds

Elementalist. (This spell changes based on your attunement). 90 second cool down
Fire: Inferno, ground targetted spell. Lasts 8 seconds pulsing each second. Cause 3 seconds of Burning and does AoE damage.
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Water: Aura of Restoration, you and nearby allies gain the Restoration Aura. Heal 300 health each second and cure 1 condition, and 500 health health when hit. 4 seconds
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Air: Invoke Lightning. Target is under the effects of Invoke Lightning. Air Magic skills (and Lightning Hammer) do 20% additional damage while the foe is under this effect. 8 seconds
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Earth: Grasping Earth. Create Grasping Earth around you (600 radius) for 5 seconds. Foes are knocked down when activated, and are Immobilized for 1.5 seconds each second. Also take damage

Mesmer: Echo, for 10 seconds, your next Phantasm Spell creates 3 of that Phantasm and Phantasms make their attacks 1 second faster. 60 second cool down

Necromancer: Awaken the Blood: 15 seconds. When you siphon health, steal 50% more health, and do 50% more damage. 75 second cool down

Mesmer.
Mantra of Regret. Cast : 2.75. 90 sec recharge.
Mantra. Meditate, charging a spell that will interrupt your foe.
Number of casts : 2.

→ Power Leak. Instant cast, recharge 10 sec.
If your foe is using a skill, damage, stun for 1 seconds, and apply 10 stacks of bleeding for 2 seconds on him and his allies.
Damage : 600 (x1.8) (roughly twice as mantra of pain)
Number of targets : 5
Radius : 240

Potentially broken, since a mesmer could stun + shatter, killing pretty much every glass cannon with ease, with AoE effect, which means not useless in teamfight… but i still want it. Obviously, it also works very well with condition builds (krait runes ftw). And it does nothing if the timing is wrong

Ranger.
Edge of Extinction.
Spirit. Summon a spirit that deals damage to every creature in range everytime a creature dies or goes into downed state. Doesn’t affect creatures with more than 90% of their health.
Damage : 1000.
Duration : 30 sec.
Radius : 1000.
→ Active : Extinction.
Downed creatures in range die instantly. The spirit of extinction dies.
Range 600.
Number of targets : 5

How to turn a zerg vs zerg in wvw into a giant graveyard. The radius is still pretty small, though, and the spirit can die easily, but use it at the right moment, and it becomes a nuclear weapon.

Racial elites

Asura
Summon series ??? golem
Climb aboard the mystery golem and inflict 5 confusion continuously on 5 enemies in a 600 radius for 20 seconds. 3 min cd

Charr
Mine field
Lay a field of 30 hidden mines within a 1200 radius. Mines are activated within a 50 radius and inflict one of the following in addition to direct damage: 5 seconds of burning, 3 seconds of knock down and stun, or 5 stacks of bleeding. Cast time is 1 second. Field lasts 15 seconds before all mines activate. 3 min cd.

Human
Enforced reverence
A glowing statue with icons of all six gods is summoned over the caster stun-locking caster and 5 enemy humans in a a 900 radius and knocking 5 additional NH players without active stability to the nearest edge of the AoE or a break in terrain while also receiving 20% damage to health. 1.8 second cast time. 5 second stun. 3 min cd

Norn
Curse of the Meade
Induce 30 sec drunkenness and inflict 10 sec each of blind and weakness on 5 enemies within 600 radius. 0.5 sec cast time. 2 min cd.

Sylvari
Reclaim nature
Summon 5 random pods to grow within a 300 radius of the caster. The pods wither in 20 seconds. Instant cast. 3 min cd

Mesmer :
Schizophrenic Break- Clone Elite (Cooldown reduced by Illusion minor traits) – All Mesmer Clones and Phantasms Merge into a single phantasm with increased damage.

3 phantasms merging will do much more damage than 3 clones merging. 3 clones merged would just make a single new super clone that AAs with the same damage as the mesmer

If you blended 2 Izerkers with an I-duelist, you could get a phantasm that whirls and shoots projectiles along the whirl

blend 2 duelists with a mage, and you get an Iduelist with 50% chance for the bullets to ricochet to another target

and so on.

I am only going to suggest ones for Guardian as I have never liked the books.

Holy Ground – for 7 seconds the area is cleaned of all ill effects. The area is basically purged of all AOE effects for 7 sec and AOE effects can not be cast on the spot. 120 sec CD.

Permeating Chill – For the next 10 seconds all symbols cast by the Guardian will Chill their targets for 8 sec. 120 sec CD.

Holy Revenge – for the next 10 sec any time the Guardian is hit he converts one boon on the attacker into a condition. 120 sec CD.

Mesmer[won’t happen, but for fun]:

-Warp: This skill creates something akin to a portal entrance and exit, with a different animation/skin where maybe it shoots lightning/light from the ground so it can be seen above. This would essentially force the opponent to teleport when they pass through, being put on a 4 second debuff timer that stops them from moving back through until it wears off.

Guardian
Spirit Call
Summon 2 ghosts to fight alongside you.
Caster + Warrior
Duration: 30 sec
Cool down: 120

Enchant Weapon
Spirits empower your weapon, granting 5s quickness, might, fury, stability and speed.
Duration: 20sec
Cool down: 90

Mesmer
Shatter Reality
2sec cast
Radius: 900
Deal XXXX damage, inflict x5 confusion for 10 sec, daze goes for 1 second and grant distortion to allies for 1 sec.
Cool down: 90

Illusionary weapon
For 10sec, you deal no damage but all your attacks cause conditions and grant boons to yourself.
Cool down: 90

Necromancer

Minion Army : Summon 10 bone minions. Once you detonate them they cause damage and chill to nearby enemies. Detonate one at a time.

Warrior
Steel Wall – Stance. You and Allies in a cone behind you become Invulnerable for a short time. You cannot move or take action while Steel Wall is active.

• Duration: 3s
• Activation time: 1/2s
• Radius: 180
• Cooldown: 60s

Guardian
Fearless Signet – Signet.

• Passive Effect: Increases your Damage for each nearby enemy.
• Magnitude: 2% per enemy, 10% max (5 enemies)
• Radius: 180
• Active Effect: Grant Stability to nearby allies and extend the duration of already applied Boons.
• Stability applied: 8s
• Boon Extension: 8s
• Activation time: 1/4s
• Targets: 5
• Radius: 600
• Cooldown: 50s

Ranger
Master Scout – For a short duration, you grant Continuous Swiftness to nearby allies and Reveal (1s) nearby enemies.

• Duration: 10s.
• Pulses: 6 (Once on Activation, then every 2 seconds)
• Radius: 450
• Swiftness Duration: 5s
• Activation Time: 1/2s
• Cooldown: 50s

Thief
Feign Death – Second Wind – Trick. Feign a Downed state. Enemies attacking you will be Stunned and Blinded, while you Shadowstep away and gain Stealth. Activate again to cancel.

• Feign Death Duration: 15s
• Shadowstep distance: 600
• Stealth Duration: 6s
• Stun Duration: 2s
• Blind: 10s
• Unblockable
• Breaks Stun
• Activation time: Instant
• Cooldown: 75s

Engineer
Anti-Magic Drive – Gadget. Create an Anti-Magic drive at your location that transforms incoming Conditions on Allies into Boons, and incoming Boons on enemies into Conditions.

• Duration: 6s
• Pulses: 6 (Once every second)
• Conversions per Pulse: 2
• Targets: 10
• Radius: 240
• Activation time: 1 1/4s
• Cooldown: 75s

Elementalist
Elemental Harmony – Cantrip. Reset all Attunment Cooldowns and gain All Attunement Bonuses for a short time.

• Duration: 6s
• Activation time: Instant
• Cooldown: 40s

Necromancer
Nexus of Pain – Fatal Reverberations – Corruption. Heal nearby Allies, stacking Torment for each affected ally. Activate again to remove Torment from yourself and damage nearby enemies depending on stacks of Torment removed.

• Base Healing: 1.915 * (0.8)
• Torment Gained: 2 stacks (6s) per affected Ally
• Targets: 5
• Radius: 900
• Activation time: 1/4s
• Fatal Reverberations Damage at 2 Stacks: 1.298
• 4 stacks: 1.576
• 6 stacks: 1.845
• 8 stacks: 2.129
• 10 stacks: 2.556
• Fatal Reverberations – Combo Finisher: Blast
• Targets: 5
• Radius: 600
• Activation time: 1/2s
• Cooldown: 50s

Mesmer
Time Lock – Manipulation. Enemies in the Target area has their Cooldowns stopped, meaning their powers won’t recharge while Time Lock is active.

• Range: 900
• Time Lock Duration (Enemies): 4s.
• Radius: 300
• Activation time: 3/4s
• Cooldown: 60s

Elemenatlist
Signet of Arcana: Instant-cast, 25 s CD
Skill Type: Signet
Passive: Increases Attunement recharge rate by 15%
Active: Reset all attunement CDs
Goal: Improve access to attunements (steadily, or in-need) and reduce the reliance on arcana.

Thief
Skill Type: Signet
Signet of Greed, 0.25s cast, 40s CD
Passive: Increases boon duration 20%
Active(20 s): Your next 3 attacks steal 2 boons from an enemy
Goal: Improve the utility that thief can provide to a team without increasing its damage output directly.

Engineer
Universal mutli-tool
Skill Type: Kit
Skill 1: Cure 3 condition, 0.75s cast, 120s CD.
Skill 2: Block all attacks for 3 s, 120s CD.
Skill 3: Gain fury for 10s. Instant, 120s CD.
Skill 4: Provides 8s of vigor to allies in 300 range, 1/2s cast time, 120 CD.
Skill 5: Fire out a net to immobilize an enemy for 1.5s. 1/2s cast time, 120 CD.
Goal: Provide engineer some extra versatility without making them extra OP.

Mesmer
Flip-flop, Instant-cast, 90s CD
Skill Type: Manipulation
The next 3 incoming attacks do no damage to you, and instead damage the attacker.
Goal: Provide mesmers a powerful defensive tool against their kryptonite without being too strong in other matchups. This skill would have to be balanced for PvE like bosses.

Cool thread !

Engineer: a kit with long CD on the 5 skills (no AA), but can be switched like every other kits. Someone suggested machine gun, I’d like that !

Mesmer: Master of puppets. Every foe within 600 range is interrupted and /dance for 2(3?) seconds. 90s CD. Considered a stun.

Alternatively,

Mesmer: Master of puppets. The mesmer is rooted, but for 3s the player controls one foe (meaning, he can see like he’s in observatory mode, but actually can move/use skills!). 120s CD at least.

Necromancer:

“Signet of Signet of Vampirism that doesn’t suck”

For 120s this signet-skill gives you a version of the skill signet of vampirism that is at least moderately useful in some situations.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Necromancer:

“Signet of Signet of Vampirism that doesn’t suck”

For 120s this signet-skill gives you a version of the skill signet of vampirism that is at least moderately useful in some situations.

Signet of Vampirism:
You gain X health. For 8 seconds you and all allies within a 360 circle have lifesteal effects tripled and steal health on each attack.