Guild Wars 2

Hey, I’m not in the beta but, thanks to PvP, I’ve been able to fight beside and against the various elite specs.

In doing so, I noticed that the elite specs get unique profession icons when you target a player. This seems a little unbalanced.

I’ll admit to not being a high level player where this would matter but if you give the specs an icon, wouldn’t that be giving the opponent an advantage? Suddenly you can target a player and, without even engaging, have a pretty good idea what roughly 1/3 of their build looks like.
Seeing a profession wielding a spec specific weapon has a similar effect but falls under ‘playing the game instead of playing the interface’ that Anet loves.

It would also be a shame if we started seeing people being kicked from parties based on their completely visible spec.

It’s also worth noting that adding elite spec icons gives us another 9 things to recognize. Now we can get used to them but I can see that getting unwieldy when you add the next 9 (or 10) and the next 9 (or 10).

An extremely small thing, but I thought it would be worth mentioning.