Specializations
Specializations are just the “Trait lines reorganized” into groups, in which you pick 3. The biggest change from the update was shifting attributes we used to get from trait lines and putting them on gear instead.
Specializations are just traits. They simply renamed them in order to better allow them to add new trait lines (or new ‘specializations’ which they call ‘elite specializations’) for end-game progression for each profession.
Basically this games version of secondary professions from GW2.
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