Guild Wars 2

Aside from new elite specs, I’m curious if we are finally going to get some major profession improvements in the next xpac?

Since you didn’t define what “major profession improvements” would be, the question is unanswerable.

If you do define what you mean, I’d venture to guess the answer will be “no”, because it sounds like you imagine some sort of radical departure from the current state of things … and that’s not real likely to happen.

We don’t know anything about the next expansion except that there is one. Anything else is pure speculation or “leaks” which may be fake, altered or old ideas that won’t make it into the final release.

Danikat.8537:

We don’t know anything about the next expansion except that there is one. Anything else is pure speculation or “leaks” which may be fake, altered or old ideas that won’t make it into the final release.

Since the leaks have been confirmed by Anet, that statement is kinda vague…

Well there have been a few leaks that have mentioned a major profession overhaul will hit before the next expansion. That leak correctly predicted seaweed salad getting nerfed, but it also got all of its predictions about LWS3E5 wrong, so who’s to say if there is any legitimacy to it at all?

OriOri.8724:

Well there have been a few leaks that have mentioned a major profession overhaul will hit before the next expansion. That leak correctly predicted seaweed salad getting nerfed, but it also got all of its predictions about LWS3E5 wrong, so who’s to say if there is any legitimacy to it at all?

Didn’t it cover the new (second) elite specs, rather than a profession overhaul? Anyway, if it is guesswork, guessing that seaweed salad — which is a terrible mechanic for actual gameplay — isn’t that hard a guess…

There was a different leak that came before that one, one that didn’t include any pictures at all.

It made a lot of speculations about E5, all of which were wrong, made some guesses about E6 and how the current events will play out, and then made some guesses about the next expac.

But it did correctly state that seaweed salad would be nerfed, and it got a few other things correct as well, so I don’t know if it was lucky guesses or what.

Also about your comment, while I agree with you it doesn’t mean much. There are plenty of other bad mechanics that haven’t been removed from the game, and condi food wasn’t touched despite being stronger than seaweed salad was (and for less effort on the player’s part)