Many utility skills (defensive or offensive) can actually compliment a particular build (combination of wep skills + utility skills) considerably more than available elite skills (race or class).
Allowing players to equip a utility skill into an elite skill slot enables more game variety + tactics (either PvE or PvP or WvW).
Most elite skills have such long cool downs that they’re use is effectively situational & in either pvp or wvw rarely “tide turning” (although I precieve elite was probably intended to be used as a “tide turner”).
It would also allow the elite skill slot to benefit from traits. Most (not all) elite skills are not tied to any traits.
If the replacement of 1 elite skill with a utility skill creates imbalance in PvP, those utility skills that create the imbalance can be excluded from the elite slot option.
Some game mechanics would have to be exlcuded from utility skill in an elite slot (ie: Engr equipping 4th kit and no tool belt function key available)
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