Q:
ArenaNet, please give us more skills!
Will we be getting new skills?
You get a new set of utilities (plus healing/elite) and one weapons-worth of weapon-skills if you take an elite spec, but that’s it.
Gone for good after Halloween 2Ø12.
A shame fun things could not simply be fun.
A shame fun things could not simply be fun.
You get a new set of utilities (plus healing/elite) and one weapons-worth of weapon-skills if you take an elite spec, but that’s it.
Well, better than nothing I suppose…
ArenaNet, please give us more skills!
Indeed, the one GW1 expansion give us a couple of new skills.
The vast majority that were never used and a game that was basically impossible to balance due to the vast amount of skills that had to be taken into consideration.
Krall Bloodsword – Mesmer
Krall Peterson – Warrior
Piken Square
Krall Peterson – Warrior
Piken Square
You can’t expect GW2 to be like GW1, for better or for worse they’re completely different games.
No new skills
If you log into your Mesmer for instance you will have zero new skills at your disposal the same is true for the other classes aside revenant since it’s well a new class.
That said we have specializations so you have to change into an elite specialization which isn’t the same as the core class. All class will drop a trait bar which is baseline also your special abilities that are tied to the F-keys are also swapped out or changed. With the exception of Mesmer. As while every class will swap a trait line the others go much further in there changes. Instead of changing and swapping the Mesmer adds on too with the addition of the F5 key. The other class with no changes the Ele doesn’t add onto but made it’s changes with the overload mechanic so it’s still similar to that of the Virtue and Shroud.
That said three years of playing a base class to have no changes to it in an expac will see the majority of players switch to elite. Those who don’t like the elite will no doubt complain and flood the forums since while they dislike the dragonhunter there guardian remains completely unchanged and even 1 skill short with the removal of Anti-Toxin Spray. Complaints like this have already started to pop up as well if you don’t like the changes you have zip to look forward too class wise.
No new skills
If you log into your Mesmer for instance you will have zero new skills at your disposal the same is true for the other classes aside revenant since it’s well a new class.
That said we have specializations so you have to change into an elite specialization which isn’t the same as the core class. All class will drop a trait bar which is baseline also your special abilities that are tied to the F-keys are also swapped out or changed. With the exception of Mesmer. As while every class will swap a trait line the others go much further in there changes. Instead of changing and swapping the Mesmer adds on too with the addition of the F5 key. The other class with no changes the Ele doesn’t add onto but made it’s changes with the overload mechanic so it’s still similar to that of the Virtue and Shroud.
That said three years of playing a base class to have no changes to it in an expac will see the majority of players switch to elite. Those who don’t like the elite will no doubt complain and flood the forums since while they dislike the dragonhunter there guardian remains completely unchanged and even 1 skill short with the removal of Anti-Toxin Spray. Complaints like this have already started to pop up as well if you don’t like the changes you have zip to look forward too class wise.
This will likely get even worse in the future as some players may get attached to their elite specs and won’t be able to slot in the newer specs in their existing builds. While Anet is afraid of balancing new skills with all of the existing builds, new skills that can be used by core professions need to be implemented alongside the elite specs when new expansions are released.
These new abilities would add variety to both core and elite spec builds and would ensure that all players get something new to play with. The addition of the missing types of healing and elite skills as well as new pets for rangers would be a good start. The current choice of elite skills is especially lacking, so I would focus there first.
The addition of the missing types of healing and elite skills as well as new pets for rangers would be a good start.
This I heartily agree with. The only skills I really want them to add to the core professions are those missing healing and elite skills.
Otherwise I am fine with new skills being confined to elite specializations.