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Posted by: Test.8734

Test.8734

Q:

I think specializations will be unlocked for a given character by using an item called a Specialization Contract.

The Specialization Contract will be an item made in the Mystic Forge, by combining the following:

  • 250 Globs of Ectoplasm
  • 250 Bolts of Silk
  • 250 Obsidian Gemstones
  • A Gift of Change

The Gift of Change, also crafted on the Mystic Forge, is account bound and is made through:

  • 250 Mystic Clovers
  • One Chaos of Lyssa
  • 15 Vision Crystals
  • 100 Globs of Chaos

Globs of Chaos are a new crafting material that results from salvaging precursors, but with a low drop rate (using a Mystic Salvage Kit, it averages on one Glob per 10 salvaged exotics). They’re also account bound.

With the Specialization Contract, one character unlocks one specialization. Unlocking specializations for other characters, or unlocking more specializations for the same character (once they are available) would require more Specialization Contracts.

Doesn’t that sound like a lot of fun?

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Posted by: Turamarth.3248

Turamarth.3248

How do you people think we will unlock specializations?

Reach level 80 and speak with a class trainer.

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Posted by: Myrden.2456

Myrden.2456

^ This ^

I think they’ll make it fairly simple. No need to grind for a bunch of stuff just to get a spec.

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Posted by: Atherakhia.4086

Atherakhia.4086

How do you people think we will unlock specializations?

Reach level 80 and speak with a class trainer.

I think it will be this AND some kind of side quest/story mode. Similar to how players can unlock traits, but more single player oriented.

That way players can play through it if they like, or they can just buy it if they’ve already done it once or are lazy.

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Posted by: LastShot.4762

LastShot.4762

Anet is going to overhaul the current trait system in HOT due to its unpopularity(no detail on how), highly doubt they will do something similar again.

I am with the “Reach level 80 and speak with a class trainer” guy. :P

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Posted by: Atherakhia.4086

Atherakhia.4086

Anet is going to overhaul the current trait system in HOT due to its unpopularity(no detail on how), highly doubt they will do something similar again.

I am with the “Reach level 80 and speak with a class trainer” guy. :P

Finding the traits is the least of the current systems problems. But specific to finding the traits, if they were all open world easter egg hunts as opposed to doing dungeons or killing the end boss at the end of some zone wide chain that requires 20+ people, a free hour, etc. the current system would have been somewhat tolerable.

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Posted by: Kronos.2560

Kronos.2560

You forgot to add Gift of fortune !! I mean its no fun unless you get 250 of all the t6 mats too!!!

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Posted by: KngGilgamesh.3481

KngGilgamesh.3481

mastery points.

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Posted by: Diovid.9506

Diovid.9506

The question one has to ask is: How will PvP or WvW players get access to specializations?

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Posted by: Shiki.7148

Shiki.7148

The question one has to ask is: How will PvP or WvW players get access to specializations?

If it is “Go talk to class trainer”, well, there are Class Trainers standing around in the PvP-Lobby, and I’d imagine they could put one Spec-Trainer into the new Borderland.

“Revenant is actual proof that devs read the necromancer forum” – Pelopidas.2140

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Posted by: Algreg.3629

Algreg.3629

even though you put a bit more wit into it than usual, your unfocused lashing out is tiresome as always.

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Posted by: ITheNormalPerson.9275

ITheNormalPerson.9275

my bet is for it to be part of the mastery track. e.g. work on the “druid mastery” and once you do that, you unlock the druid specialization for your account

Druid main, 80 on all, Legendary ranked, Eternal and all that jazz (I go by Feyris in game)

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Posted by: Ralanost.8913

Ralanost.8913

OP, you are insane and sadistic. And if I had to do that for every character? I wouldn’t buy the expansion and I would probably quit playing.

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Posted by: Nike.2631

Nike.2631

I expect to talk to my class trainer.

“You keep saying ‘its unfair.’
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.

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Posted by: Arkanthor.2307

Arkanthor.2307

It would be amazing if we could run a quest (like the stor misions) but class-related in order to get the specializations.
For example a mesmer would have something to do with the Mesmer Society (it is known that Countness Anise and Kasmeer Meade are part of it) or something like that.

Thanks to my illusions this combat is nothing but a stage scene.
You should prepare for your great finale.

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Posted by: TheRandomGuy.7246

TheRandomGuy.7246

How do you people think we will unlock specializations?

Reach level 80 and speak with a class trainer.

This.

Or we will see some another horrible timegated and grind heavy way of getting it.
Or they will be available in gemstore.
Or we will have to drop some special scroll from a mobs with a chance of 0.01%.
Or everything combined.

I am ready for anything.

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Posted by: CynicalFred.9135

CynicalFred.9135

Christ i hope not….
I hate to be that guy but if i’ve got grind all that crap just to have my necro use a GS i may actually have to quit.

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Posted by: rapthorne.7345

rapthorne.7345

pretty sure it was already touched on that specialisations are a part of the mastery system

Resident smug Englishman on the NA servers, just because.

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Posted by: Diovid.9506

Diovid.9506

pretty sure it was already touched on that specialisations are a part of the mastery system

Interesting that you are sure but yet this is the first time I see it being mentioned. I seriously doubt it.

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Posted by: UnknownRH.4592

UnknownRH.4592

Ohhh the ideas here. All this speculation.
The OP post is kittened since this is one of the things that is gated behind the expansion I would expect it to be readily available for me to use when I log in to whatever amount of $$$ expansion I get.

I dotn think you will have to go to the trainer either. You will be able to swap specialization out of combat anywhere and anytime. But yeah maybe the first time will be something you will have to pay for with in game currency. That gemstore speculation cracked me up completely. Anet maybe horrible in some things but they really know how to conduct business. I love this game and I trust Anet to make the right decisions.

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Warrior and Elementalist
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Posted by: Valento.9852

Valento.9852

1 Chaos of Lyssa? BwAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Attempts at ele specs:
Shaman
Conjurer