Guild Wars 2

Simple questions…

What is the planned release pace for future elites? Always tied to each expansion?

Assuming, as said, the plans are to give all professions access to all weapons, so how will this be handled since there is unequal access to weapons currently? Always tied elites?

Are elites a limited in quantity thing?

Will weapons be “just given” to professions outside of elites?

We don’t need specific dates, just curious how all this will be handled.

Why ask here? You’re unlikely to get a developer response, and your fellow posters can only speculate. Speculating…

• Tied to XPac’s sounds like a good bet. This makes the new spec a paid-for thing.
• I don’t remember seeing a quote about giving all prof’s access to all weapons. Assuming that is the intent, and assuming the new weapons come with elites (again, a good bet), they could add more than one weapon to the less-endowed professions with a single spec.
• I’d also bet on elite specs being limited in quantity. If the intent is to provide some new way to play the profession, eventually they’ll run out of ideas.
• I wouldn’t bet on new weapons for professions outside of elite specs. The nature of elite specs limits players developing unexpected combinations, and this is one of their design goals.

I swear I remember a dev saying at some point that elite specs would not be restricted purely to expansions. But I could be mistaken.