Guild Wars 2

I really like all the new ideas for the new elite specializations but i was already wondering why only the elite got to use the new weapon when that was announced.

Now why are all those new skills only available to to you if you use the elite spec? I remember Anet saying that they want to increase build diversity. Now aren’t you missing a huge opportunity here by limiting this?

I mean, the elite specs even have new icons. So Anet is pretty much making them up to be new classes. But what are the exisiting classes actually getting with HoT? Nothing. They get all the new stuff only if they use the elite spec. I read that they did this for balance reasons, but i don’t see how making the skills available to the whole class (if you use the elite spec there aren’t any skills or weapons you can’t use, right?) has such a big impact on balance. Why not give the guardian the traps? Why only the longbow version? Why not give the engi his gyros? I see that this doesn’t work with the ranger since all the skills really are designed to be used with that new avatar form, but cmon. You can still use the other trait lines so you don’t want to tell me they would be impossible to balance if you can use three instead of two?

Why are the “old” classes not getting any new skills?

I just answered this in a similar thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/new-skills-weps-needing-elite-specialization/first#post5575203