Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

I’d like to open a discussion about how we would like Anet to handle future elite options/progression. At present we have many classes that have sub par elites compared to others, in many cases some players would prefer just another utility ability. I believe having a “elite” ability (on normally a larger cooldown) that is weaker than utility skill must be a design flaw and would be happy to see some sort of progression opened up for elite skills.

So, the question is.. do you feel the same way? and how do you envisage it working?

Some of the possibilites:

GW1 Style Elite collection from rare bosses, using some sort of signet capture system (signets capture skill could be bought with skill points)

living story participation rewards, perhaps these would not be class specific but factional elites?

WvW rank Elites, perhaps these could be WvW specific that bring certain tools to that playstyle (its not necessary that the elites be usable pve and pvp)

Dailies… ergh

Personally, I love this game I’ve put way more hours into the game than I consider healthy, however I do feel it’s missing something, just another layer of depth to become what it really should be, something like elite collecting should be a long term goal.

I understand balance issues would need to be considered, but at present elites are already imbalanced to a degree.

So would you like to see something similar?

I really miss the capture signet function from GW1, its not so much because of the imbalance in elite skills as such, but actually having to go out and find the elite skills was something I really enjoyed to do in GW1, and certainly also something that can keep people busy with other things.

Issues here would be that there’s a low amount of skills as it is, and I unfortunately doubt that we’ll see any new skills anytime soon :/

Nah I really don’t want the pokemon system back, but I would like to see elite skills get some attention. And frankly I think for each class to have an elite that works for each of the three game modes, there needs to be at least five for each class. Though this might potentially be fixed in the upcoming skill divisions.

I would like the Capture system back, its a main flaw imo in GW2, and a serious part of the game that helped keep me playing GW1 for so long..