Elite specs are equal?
Anet’s official stance is that they’re SUPPOSED to just be options. Never meant to be a pure upgrade to normal specs, but rather just side-grades. A choice you can make, but shouldn’t feel underpowered if you don’t.
Whether they actually will be balanced properly to the point where that is actually the case, is hard to say. There are a few (Herald, Berserker, to an extent Chronomancer) which many players are considering to be pure upgrades, based on beta stuff. Not the type of upgrade that’s strictly required, but one that’s going to be very hard to give up at the very least.
I find the word Elite kinda confusing in this context about specs and builds.
You and me both. Elite implies superior, but AFAIK Elite specs aren’t supposed to be superior at all. They’re only intended to offer up a different way to play your current profession.
They could’ve picked any number of words instead of Elite, but it’s already in the GW2 vernacular albeit with a different meaning so why not use it despite it not meaning what you think it means right?
There are a few other words (that would otherwise be synonymous) shared between various uses in GW2 that are unfortunately currently escaping me. This is the most unfortunate example of that behavior, however.
I believe their use of “Elite” was meant to point towards the special aspects of the Elite Specs, not the raw power of them.
They’re elite because they’re the only ones that give you special weapons, new utilities, and change your profession mechanics. Not because they’re meant to be superior power-wise.
Not because they’re meant to be superior power-wise.
That’s pretty much the definition of Elite.
You want to define it differently Anet be my guest, but don’t double dip on labels then. Our Elite skill is supposed to be an “especially powerful skills designed to be used infrequently and have a dramatic effect on the tide of a battle.” while Elite specializations merely allow use of new weapons, skill types and traits. All the while not being more powerful than core specializations.
And to answer the OP’s question, in HoT there will be one Elite spec per profession (with potentially more to come in the future). You can chose any 3 specializations with ONE being Elite.
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And to answer the OP’s question, in HoT there will be one Elite spec per profession (with potentially more to come in the future). You can chose any 3 specializations with ONE being Elite.
Just for clarification.
You can choose 3 specializations and one of them can be Elite.
One of them does not have to be Elite right? They can all 3 be not Elite.
And to answer the OP’s question, in HoT there will be one Elite spec per profession (with potentially more to come in the future). You can chose any 3 specializations with ONE being Elite.
Just for clarification.
You can choose 3 specializations and one of them can be Elite.
One of them does not have to be Elite right? They can all 3 be not Elite.
Yes, you can choose 3 “core” specializations and ignore the Elite Spec.
That is the main point of not making the elite specs better, actually. To ensure that taking an elite spec isn’t required to be competitive, and that taking 3 core specs is still a valid option.
Elite was a poor choice to describe what they wanted to do here. They wanted to start to offer specialization lines that you can only choose one of that will make the profession play a little bit differently.
They needed a descriptor for these “unique” specialization lines and they settled on “Elite”. Honestly “Unique” is already defined in game can only have one of equipped but “Unique” implies the limitation but not the scope of changes that using one grants.
But equally true that “Elite” doesn’t mean superior which is how most everyone will read that as. And they already used up the word specialization when it replaced Trait Line.
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Elite was a poor choice to describe what they wanted to do here. They wanted to start to offer specialization lines that you can only choose one of that will make the profession play a little bit differently.
They needed a descriptor for these “unique” specialization lines and they settled on “Elite”. Honestly “Unique” is already defined in game can only have one of equipped but “Unique” implies the limitation but not the scope of changes that using one grants.
But equally true that “Elite” doesn’t mean superior which is how most everyone will read that as. And they already used up the word specialization when it replaced Trait Line.
Agreed Elite was a poor choice.
Elite is already defined in game as well as Unique. However, the pre-existing in game definition of Elite fits more or less with its actual definition.
It’s quite misleading.
Thanks for the answers.