Guild Wars 2

Yes or no, will vanilla classes get new skills without specialization?

Completely new skills, probably not. Specializations are already adding a fair few new skills per class which adds up to quite a bit overall, and I have a feeling they really want to focus on the specialization aspect at this point, which means I’m guessing they won’t add more skills to the base classes so that people are more excited about specs. At least not unless there are really bad skills that they feel they need to completely remove and replace, but that’s never happened before so I doubt it would happen now.

The Angry Joe interview confirms they are going to be going through the old professions and sprucing up skills and traits, though. So who knows, maybe some of them will feel like new.

Not new skills but as Electro said, some of their existing skills will be reworked and rebalanced.

I would love if they removed the Guardian Shield skills (and replace them with something useful in PvE)

Also,I wish Warrior sword wasnt a condition damage weapon,such a waste of stats on a Warrior. (imo)

I kind of wanted Sword to be more of a brutal weapon,but I think I played too much Shadow of Mordor,so…

Sorean.5379:

I would love if they removed the Guardian Shield skills (and replace them with something useful in PvE)

Also,I wish Warrior sword wasnt a condition damage weapon,such a waste of stats on a Warrior. (imo)

This. I found sword more useful on guardians and shields more useful on warriors. I hope i can consider putting shields back on my guardian again soon. :/ (although i found a pretty good sword build for warrior.)

Mar.4839:

Not new skills but as Electro said, some of their existing skills will be reworked and rebalanced.

Now that is great news! Here’s to hoping that Explosives out side of the use of grenades is reworked! I would love for mines and bombs to be useful again in PVE (without being in a healy spec that is)!

tigirius.9014:

Mar.4839:

Not new skills but as Electro said, some of their existing skills will be reworked and rebalanced.

Now that is great news! Here’s to hoping that Explosives out side of the use of grenades is reworked! I would love for mines and bombs to be useful again in PVE (without being in a healy spec that is)!

oddly enough i found the bomb kit is a killer underwater melee weapon. since skills work faster underwater, i can just go up to – say rhendak – and spam auto with a hit every half second, like a constant hundred blades. it becomes insane when i have quickness on.