Guild Wars 2

Do you know if old skills and traits from vanilla (and HoT ?) will be updated for PoF, like vanilla traits were highly reshaped just before HoT ? The new elite traits will change the balance paradigm and an xpac is the right time to take care about never used and underperforming trait lines.

well i hope so :\, at least hoping guardian gets some changes on core some for better some for worse, cause firebrand is 2012 core guard on steroids :\ that makes every utilities on core guard extremelly weak,with the exception of meditations wich is what always and mostley what only worked on core guard….

swapping shield to virtues and hammer to the meditation traitline where shield is, IMO would be a good start.. traited shield and virtues on one go really feel very guardian(ish) *and players that use hammer usually use meditation for Ji+hammer ring combo… so it would be better defined build to swap these two, shield provide more close support wich fits nicelly with consecrations and has a dome as well.
(guardian core traits need a bit of a checkup some dont feel right where they are, and some core traits need a slightly bit stronger effect)

That would make shield good to use with whatever elite traitline and main hand weapons…. player uses….

Yes core spec will get an update before the expac is launched. Woodenpotatos was talking about barrier being put into some of the elementalist earth traits. The elite spec will still have en advantage by having a new set of ability. Hopefully the core spec will be some what viable without having an elite.

IF Anet swaps just the shield trait with the hammer trait i would buy instantly the expantion ;|

Guardians new Spec:

Literally old Guardians Elite skills

Revenants new Spec:

Literally old Warriors Longbow skills

So i guess yes?