Guild Wars 2

I just joined the forums so I’m not sure if this has been spoken about yet.

I would love to see stronger racial elite skills in the game.

In my opinion the most fun elite skill to use is the Asuran Power Suit. Unfortunately the damage is so incredibly low that it’s pretty much useless to ever use it. It gives more health, sure. But better survivability doesn’t really help when most of your damage output is gone.

I havn’t ever seen a Norn bother using any of the totem elites either (though that might just be me, havn’t tested Norn either), Nor a Charr using the bazooka.

It just feels like a waste, as they’re all incredibly fun skills to use.

Sylvari have Take Root which is pretty bloody powerful if used correctly. Lets me easily stack 25 bleeds by myself, each turret does more damage then me and I’m spec’d into crit/power and their range/shot arch makes them able to hit things a fair decent ways away. Other then that though I have yet to see a powerful racial elite ability.

I’m not so worried about strong as I am about interesting, some of the races clearly had a lot of though and effort put into their racials, and some clearly did not.

THe thing is, and yes this post has come up b4, is that racial elites are intended to be weaker than profession elites. The reason is so that no one picks a race based on skills being super powerful since it would just lead to an over population of that race. However playing norn, I do agree that some elites need attention to be more attractive just still at the same level of being under profession elites. As a thief I usually use dagger storm since its a short CD and AoE or Thieves guild if its a single target like a boss. I would like to use Shapeshifting more but its a 4 minute cooldown, offers hardly any survivability, and does horrible dmg. I also don’t see many use charrzooka or the Asura power suit leading me to believe none of the race elites are worth the costs…