Guild Wars 2

http://www.shacknews.com/article/87848/guild-wars-2-director-discusses-heart-of-thorns-revenants-guild-halls-and-more

Honestly there’s nothing in there not covered by the HoT presentation stream, but for those of you not in to watching streams, it could prove useful.

I just hope we can progress our Characters if we decide NOT to specialize into the new sub-class. I main Ranger and main reason for that is the archer archetype. I really don’t want to be a Druid throwing nature-magic around.

Galphar.3901:

I just hope we can progress our Characters if we decide NOT to specialize into the new sub-class. I main Ranger and main reason for that is the archer archetype. I really don’t want to be a Druid throwing nature-magic around.

I think you are expecting waaaay to much from specializations.

Terrahero.9358:

Galphar.3901:

I just hope we can progress our Characters if we decide NOT to specialize into the new sub-class. I main Ranger and main reason for that is the archer archetype. I really don’t want to be a Druid throwing nature-magic around.

I think you are expecting waaaay to much from specializations.

Well it doesn’t take that much expectation.

We just want something else to be viable. We just want to know that we’re not going to pressing the same skills in the same order in the same situations for the rest of our GW2 careers.

For Ranger, the word “Druid” screams “Healing Power.” And we all know what that means.

So it’s a legitimate concern. Not that we have any solid info on it yet.

DarkWasp.7291:

Terrahero.9358:

Galphar.3901:

I just hope we can progress our Characters if we decide NOT to specialize into the new sub-class. I main Ranger and main reason for that is the archer archetype. I really don’t want to be a Druid throwing nature-magic around.

I think you are expecting waaaay to much from specializations.

Well it doesn’t take that much expectation.

We just want something else to be viable. We just want to know that we’re not going to pressing the same skills in the same order in the same situations for the rest of our GW2 careers.

For Ranger, the word “Druid” screams “Healing Power.” And we all know what that means.

So it’s a legitimate concern. Not that we have any solid info on it yet.

Healing Power and Condition Damage!!

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/9340/page/1

Some more ‘juicy’ info.

DarkWasp.7291:

Terrahero.9358:

Galphar.3901:

I just hope we can progress our Characters if we decide NOT to specialize into the new sub-class. I main Ranger and main reason for that is the archer archetype. I really don’t want to be a Druid throwing nature-magic around.

I think you are expecting waaaay to much from specializations.

Well it doesn’t take that much expectation.

We just want something else to be viable. We just want to know that we’re not going to pressing the same skills in the same order in the same situations for the rest of our GW2 careers.

For Ranger, the word “Druid” screams “Healing Power.” And we all know what that means.

So it’s a legitimate concern. Not that we have any solid info on it yet.

MMORPG: That’s a one-time thing, correct? I’m a ranger, I do my stuff and bam, I’m a druid, I can use druid powers?
CJ: Correct, and then you can swap back and forth, you can say “My character’s a druid, but I’m going to play as a ranger today.” It’s very similar to changing out your skills and traits, you can go in and change whenever you want, as long as you’re out of combat.

from the link above

You know, in these interviews, and the announcements, they always reference ‘building’.
It’s always mentioned with combat, lore, exploration, crafting….

I wonder what, exactly, ‘building’ refers to. Perhaps, it means ‘building’ your Guild Hall.

I am looking forward to the ‘Deep Dives’ upcoming. =)

Druid is top class/spec in nearly all games and fiction they are In. this is all good news

I’m just hoping specializations can be changed at will, like your secondary class in GW1. I want to play a staff-wielding Druid Ranger for a bit? Okay! I want to change to bow-wielding archer type? Sure! The ability to respec your secondary class in GW1 was really nice. I don’t want to feel pigeonholed if I end up going down a specialization route I end up not liking.

^ It is confirmed you can.

The also said that specialisations might change class mechanics and that (in OPs article) they’d release more specialisations in time (heavily implied " this also is a framework that we’ll use to grow the professions in the future. This will be the way we add more skills, traits, and abilities to the game moving forward. That’s how we’re growing our existing professions.") so an archer specialisation with no active pets isn’t off the tables at all.