Guild Wars 2

Either we got the answer and I just missed it… or we haven’t been told yet. I’m not perfect. Far from it.

I was in the Beta Weekend Event and when I made a Guardian to test out Dragonhunter, it was just available. But might have just been for testing purposes.

I’ve seen people say that there might be a quest to do to unlock it. But once that quest is done once, Elite Specs will unlock account wide.

As an Altoholic, I hope they aren’t too hard/cumbersome to unlock. So do we know how yet? Or this this a “To Be Continued!” moment?

Sonickeyblade.8415:

Either we got the answer and I just missed it… or we haven’t been told yet. I’m not perfect. Far from it.

I was in the Beta Weekend Event and when I made a Guardian to test out Dragonhunter, it was just available. But might have just been for testing purposes.

I’ve seen people say that there might be a quest to do to unlock it. But once that quest is done once, Elite Specs will unlock account wide.

As an Altoholic, I hope they aren’t too hard/cumbersome to unlock. So do we know how yet? Or this this a “To Be Continued!” moment?

If i recall correctly, they are similar to how you get the traits while leveling, the only difference is that they are available as soon as you hit 80 and have HoT.

Emtiarbi.3281:

Sonickeyblade.8415:

Either we got the answer and I just missed it… or we haven’t been told yet. I’m not perfect. Far from it.

I was in the Beta Weekend Event and when I made a Guardian to test out Dragonhunter, it was just available. But might have just been for testing purposes.

I’ve seen people say that there might be a quest to do to unlock it. But once that quest is done once, Elite Specs will unlock account wide.

As an Altoholic, I hope they aren’t too hard/cumbersome to unlock. So do we know how yet? Or this this a “To Be Continued!” moment?

If i recall correctly, they are similar to how you get the traits while leveling, the only difference is that they are available as soon as you hit 80 and have HoT.

Oh that would be wonderful.

I’m guessing they’ll just cost a hunk of Hero Points. So altoholics may have the joy of repeated Hero Point gathering around the world.

They haven’t stated exactly how Elite Specs will be unlocked. About the only thing they have said about it is that they will need to be trained using Hero Points the same way that you needed to unlock all your other trait lines / utilities after the core specialization patch a few months back, and the hero points needed to train them are going to be beyond what you get just for pinging level 80 (unless you don’t train all of your core specs and save points for the elite, anyway).

Of course, even that was said quite a while ago and was met with a fair amount of backlash from some players (mainly PvP / WvW players who don’t want to play in open world to do hero challenges just to unlock elite specs, as well as some people with tons of alts who don’t want to gather points with multiple characters). So its possible that’ll change, though it seems unlikely since if they gave you enough hero points to get your elite spec just from leveling then the whole purpose of having hero point challenges in the world would become null and void aside from just getting things early while leveling.

Personally, I’m hoping for some lore-related quests to unlock the elite spec initially. I want the elite specs to feel like part of the world that you have to learn, not stuff that just pops up out of nowhere. So, like, Druid would be learned by doing a questline with a Druid NPC, throughout the questline you learn bits and pieces about the Druid combat style until finally at the end you fully unlock it, and then you can spend your hero points to level it up (or maybe you’d even be able to level up small parts of it throughout the questline, and by the end you can complete it). But that’s just me.

Halan.7931:

I really hope for a quest, maybe with NPC that has this specialization that introduces it to you.

Me too! I hope they make a big intro and a big deal about the spec. Go on a mission or two that could utilize your new strengths. \o/

So do I need to go collect hero points on all my alts? This is just awful! That’s a boring grind!

I expect it’s the same as a normal specialization. It becomes available at level 80 and you start putting HP into it. First minor activates it.