Guild Wars 2

This is just my opinion of elite skills in gw2, don’t spit hate if you disagree.

I’ve been playing gw2 for almost 1500 hours, mainly, well, 99% of the time with my warrior, and I have never, ever used shape shift skills for anything, ever!

I tried them, seen what they do, tried to use them once or twice in open world events, and i have to say they are pretty bad.

They last for only 30seconds, have 4minute ( 240s cooldown ), and disable your entire utility skill bar including heal. Now I seriously don’t understand the logic behind those skills. They have really poor dmg, no extra defense or anything like that at all.

Atm I only use 2 elite skills, either banner, purely to put people back on their feet, or signet of might because, well it gives might. Signet is ok, relatively short cd, 30s speed boost when mining is decent, but banner on the other hand is simply, not that great.
Again, 240s cd, with bugged utility that grants speed boost instead of stability renders banner useless, not to mention that I’m forced to save it for emergency situations because it is only real utility skill that warrior has and it is on 4 minute cd.

I would like to compare things with gw1, since there was also elite skill involved. In gw1 whole build was revolving around almighty elite that could give you quite a boost, to you or your team, and actually had a full right to be called elite.
On the other hand, elite skills in gw2 are rather weak, nothing really revolves around them, and you just pop them up when you need tiny little boost to get some small amount of bonus dmg or whatever.

Now I know gw2 is a completely different game, but put that whole gw1 thing aside, elite skills in this game shouldn’t be called elite skills at all. They don’t boost your team to give that almighty edge against boss/foes, most of them are never, ever used because they gimp character down, and lastly they have too long cooldowns to have that “once per fight” feeling of giving you the upper hand in a fight.

This is just how I feel about elite warrior skills. I would like to hear your thoughts about other professions elite skills and what you think about them.

Personally, I think Banner is MUCH stronger than Signet if you’re playing with a group. Mass rez. Mass stability. Mass attack buffs. All in one skill. You can literally turn a dungeon wipe on it’s head by just popping endure pain into battle standard.

I find that about 90% of elite skills in the game are pretty bad.

Either their effects are just “Meh” at best (Norn Racials or Engineer elites for example) or their cooldowns are so long that it really doesn’t feel like it has much impact at all.

That said, there are some elites that are pretty strong such as Time Warp or Dagger Storm which are quite powerful.

It’d be nice if there was an actual choice between elite skills rather than 1 that sucks slightly less than the others and 1 that happens to be the only one usable underwater…

Some elite skills work better in sPvP or WvW than PvE.

Rampage is kind of gimmicky. Rampage can be great if you’re doing point defense (sPvP), trying to prevent a stomp on an ally (PvP), or trolling a ledge while looking for people to punt (WvW), and can even be useful for running a hammer or wisp in fractals (PvE)… but I almost never use it because I’d rather have an Elite that is more useful more often in its place.

Elite skills are pretty laughable. What really bugs me about them are the cooldowns. I could stand some of them remaining as they are if their ridiculous cooldowns were either reduced or reworked--preferably the latter. If they’re supposed to be once-per-battle, then maybe they should be once-per-battle and recharge after exiting combat.

(Note that the above does not take PvP into consideration whatsoever.)

Just a slight note, I did this for only Pve side of the game, PvP is whole other game if you ask me.

And banner gives stability only for the first time you apply it, then it gives swiftness instead of stability, which is a bug and renders whole aoe stability thing useless.

I miss the Battle Of The Immortals / War Of The Immortals XP Attack… And Bounty Hunter. Anyone played it?

Honestly I’d put Signet of Rage as one of the best elites, simply because you’re actually getting something from it all the time, unlike nearly every other elite where 99% of the time it’s sitting on your bar being a complete waste of space.
Most elites I would without a second thought replace with a utility skill, because most of them are pretty mediocre, and all of them have too long of a cooldown. At least utility skills can be used.

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I miss the Battle Of The Immortals / War Of The Immortals XP Attack… And Bounty Hunter. Anyone played it?

Horrible game, hands down aweful. You know there was a guy who spent $600,000+ on that game’s item mall? Atleast thats what it was before I quit, could be more now :/

Elite’s are fine. Tornado, rampage as one, dagger storm, time warp, entagle, moa bird, etc etc etc

Elites need to be polished and added too.

Ether polish them up for better behavior or reduce the timers IMO.

Maybe elites need an elite exclusive attribute or thing to it.