Guild Wars 2

I am kind of tired of HoT. It ruined SPVP and WvW, and the new maps were only fun short term, with not a lot of cool boss fights mechanics without map hopping.
Some Elite Specialization are not as interesting.

I am ready for a new Xpac with new elite specs and new zones and new pvp system to play. Hopefully we get a player housing system for spending down time in, similar to the current drought in HoT. Also more bag space tools for toys and environmental weapons.

i am really for the next move.

Last one just has been released. So technically you will have to wait another 3 years. IF this game survives that time window. WvW wise in its current state wont even make it another year i’m afraid.

How long do you think they can milk HoT for all it’s worth? Probably have a LS 3 and 4 before the next one. Took three whole years for this expansion and there were big content droughts.

As for elite specs balance the ones we have first and do extensive in house PvP testing even paying top players to play against each other to find the most optimal builds and comps then rebalancing according to the data. The best players being the best know why classes are good and bad so they’d be the best judges of balance if they test and play with different classes.

My idea for elite specs are as follows:

Jouster: ranger, new weapon spear. Can ride pets and obtain 1/3rd of their stats, if knocked down suffer three seconds of knockdown (2 seconds in PvP since players have less health and can potentially do more damage than vet mobs) and pets cannot be used for 10 seconds so it balances out.

Ninja: warrior, new weapon offhand dagger enabling stealth. Is like daredevil with an extra dodge but has the warrior as a base class and no staff.

Monk: thief. Having nothing equipped in a weapon spot counts as weapon now and you can switch between barehands and dagger/dagger for example. Your fists are like ascended zealot weapons and can use sigils. It’s like druid but the autoattack doesn’t heal while fists 4 is like solar beam but costs initiative and has bigger heals, damage, and radius to balance it out. The skill is called chi-wave while skill 2 is a karate chop that causes daze but does little damage since it’s a modest investment and a grandmaster trait can make karate chop cause immobile every 10 seconds. Obviously it’s geared towards group healing and burst damage. Will only have two dodge bars to keep it balanced. Want three? Go with daredevil or log on your warrior and earn the hero points to be a ninja! :D

Bladetcher: Engineer. In World of Warcraft rogues can buff their daggers for some pretty cool effects. The bladetecher has the same concept. His new weaponset is a pair of swords that can cause confuse, poison, chill, and other effects using the right alchemical mixtures via profession skills. Each buff lasts 30 minutes or until death, then it must be re-applied.

Sniper: revenant. Will have shortbow and a new legend based around ranged condition damage and healing.

Magitech gunner: mesmer gets a rifle.

That’s all I got so far.

I wouldn’t expect 3 years like some posts here. The first 2 years of this game they were trying to do frequent but temporary content updates to the Living Story instead of having a yearly expansion. When that didn’t work out they switched to a regular MMO expansion system. iirc they said this expansion took a year to do so my guess is another year.

So, if you’re bored with the old expansion, welcome to the world of once a year or two new content by expansion, rather than frequent Living Story updates. It’s what we (generic, forum we) asked for and what they have given us.

I’m hopeful for less content drought. That’s all really. I’d love yearly expansions kind of like how WoW promised but has miserably failed on many levels to deliver. Sooooo… Probably a while.

Enw engie elite spec:
-Flamberge: Engineer with an Greatsword and shouts or wells. So I can delete my Guardian.