Utility skill instead of an elite skill?
Only if I could have an “elite” version of my utility such as an epidemic that can hit 10 targets. Otherwise nope, I got plague and am happy with it.
If I had to choose from one of the sylvari cultural elites or utilities though then I would not be using any.
Hell yeah, that would/could open up for a whole slew of tempting builds. Crazy how much could change with one extra utility.
I would like better elites. some Elites are worst than weapon skills and utility skills.
It would be interesting to see what builds people could come up with. That being said Mesmer already has two solid elite skills (Time Warp and Mass invisibility).
In my case (elementalist), yes I would. I might switch in an actual elite skill now and then, but I think a fourth utility skill would be very useful to me.
Yes, the more short CDs I can get the better, they make a play style more interesting than having a long CD “powerful” ability – granted not that many elites are even very powerful.
Yes. Elite skills in this game are mostly far from Elite.
The only Elite skills which I would consider Elite are TW and Warbanner.
On my mesmer? Probably no.
On my necro? Hell yes!
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There’s only 1 useful elite for my guardian, pretty sad.
Yeah, I would like it too.
As elementalist, i would definetely, certainly take a utility instead of elite.
On about 85% of my characters, yes. So many elites are anything but and seem to be just filler skills.
I find the “elite” skills mostly quite disappointing in all the classes I’ve tried so far, and the reason is the insanely high cooldowns. There are just not many situations in which I care about something I can use for 15 seconds or whatnot every 3 minutes.
In general, the cooldowns of most skills in this game are way too long given how few of them you can use at any given time.
For those new to the Guild Wars franchise, in GW1 the use of an Elite skill was an option, it wasn’t required, it simply took up a skill slot.
And yes, for many classes the Elite slot is subpar for various builds/reasons. Take Thief, underwater you have Basilisk Venom and…well..Basilisk Venom.
smack..Wut?…smack…smack…
Of course I will. Elites are bad in most classes/races.
I proposed this around 10 months ago… maybe we have more adepts now.
Hell, yes! The only elite skill I (practically) use is flesh golum for my Necro, for my guardian and ranger they hardly ever get used.
It’s been suggested before. However, i do believe it would give more build variety then we currently have. I’d even run it on my mesmer as that 4th slot would always be the " you never know what they gonna use" slot.
would i like to? yes. will it happen? probably not .
This has been proposed for a long time.
I don’t see any harm in giving players more choice (at least in PvE it could be a no-brainer).
And yes, I would pick a utility skill instead of an elite any time.
Will it happen? Probably not, for whatever dumb reason Anet can think of related to game ‘philosophy’.
But let’s not forget, in GW1 the community asked for 7 heroes and Anet most vehemently said it will never happen because it goes against the game ‘philosophy’. Guess what, it eventually happened. Too late.
There’s only 1 useful elite for my guardian, pretty sad.
Yeah, I would like it too.
Agreed and then you add in underwater combat and the only elite you have is one with a 2 second cast time for 3 seconds of invulnerability……..well that’s elite right….
Yes, please. Especially on my Norn Guardian. I just can’t get excited about either the Guardian elites or the Norn elites. Nearly all of them swap out the skill bar with other skills. I’d maybe be okay with that if it was like an Engineer’s kit where only the weapon skills got swapped out. But with the Guardian Tomes and the Norn shapeshifts, you lose access to skills 6-9 also.
Anyway, yes to the OP – I’d like the freedom to use a utility skill in slot 0.