Guild Wars 2

The reason I’m bring this up is if you don’t pick the trait line of the Elite nothing of the Elite is available, there are Pro’s and Con’s to going either way with this.
It could argued that it shows as a class choice or some other lore style interpretation, but I’d point out that there many trait lines that strongly support or influence a particular weapon or utility line in no way do you lose or are blocked from using them if you don’t take the trait line.

Now obviously you would not receive the perks that change a mechanic that are literally built into the trait line as shown in the Dragonhunter or the Chronomancer but this option would allow for greater flexibility in build styles.

One draw back to going this route is that at some point assuming that there more specializations it would be possible that you would have build that is just using the Elite trait lines and none of the original professions unless the game places some sort of restriction on multiple Elites at the same time.

Just throwing this out there for discussion and comment, I’m not certain if this is a good option myself, but I’m interested in what other people think on it as an idea.

One draw back to going this route is that at some point assuming that there more specializations it would be possible that you would have build that is just using the Elite trait lines and none of the original professions unless the game places some sort of restriction on multiple Elites at the same time.

There are restrictions with the elite specs. You cannot use two elite specs at the same time. You must either use 3 of the 5 base specs or 1 elite spec and 2 of the 5 base specs.

This is the basis for the system in the first place and allows these weird weapon, utility, and trait line restrictions for each individual elite spec.

Just to be clear on how the restrictions work with regard to the Elite trait lines giving you access to the new weapons and new utilities and that as it stands it is required for you to have as one of your three active trait lines the Elite trait line. Yes I am well aware of this the only thing I am bring up for discussion is that in comparison to the existing trait lines there isn’t any example of this. After all this is a beta testing and it is in everybody’s best interest to look how the game can be made better.
And as I said earlier I’m not arguing that the Elite trait not be required as one of the three all I bring up is question be asked should it be, and that both the fans and Dev’s consider the Pro’s and the Con’s .

An elite spec can only be slotted on the bottom spec slot. You can check this with any character, just click on the spec selection for that slot, it reads “Core and Elite Specializations”, while other slots simply read “Specializations”.