Guild Wars 2

Can we please get an option in PvP to use Elite Specializations for PvP only? For those of us not interested in PvE whatsoever, it would be really nice to still have access to the Elite Specializations. If I were a PvP only player I would really have no interest in purchasing HoT at full price to get access to these Elite Specializations. I am assuming we are already getting the new WvW Borderlands for free(In the map rotation, what are you going to do, lock players out of WvW based on whether or not they purchased HoT?) as well as Stronghold since the queues are combined at this point, but we have to pay for what might be the most powerful specs even though we aren’t interested in PvE?

At the very least this will create an uneven playing field. In solo queue it will be a nightmare because there won’t be a “HoT only Queue”.

For example: 1 person that owns HoT could get stuck with 4 players that do not HoT, playing a match against a premade that owns HoT using Elite Specs that the other players don’t have access to, playing a format they may not enjoy(Stronghold).

The above scenario shouldn’t be the case. PvP should always be a level playing field and you should be able to queue against like players(a pick between solo and team queues and a pick between Stronghold and Conquest and Ranked or Unranked).

No chance they go for this lol

Why shouldn’t the developers of these new skills/animations/etc. be paid for it?

Look at it this way, buying HoT is like buying a pack of 9 heroes in LoL (plus all the pve/wvw content for free!). You can still play and I am sure quite a few classes will have preferred builds that DON’T use specializations.

BlackBeard.2873:

Why shouldn’t the developers of these new skills/animations/etc. be paid for it?

Look at it this way, buying HoT is like buying a pack of 9 heroes in LoL (plus all the pve/wvw content for free!). You can still play and I am sure quite a few classes will have preferred builds that DON’T use specializations.

I really wanted to avoid saying we should get a way to pay for this for use in PvP only, but I guess that is what it takes. There should be a PvP Unlock pack in the gem shop for those people that like PvP but don’t care about PvE.

Iason Evan.3806:

BlackBeard.2873:

Why shouldn’t the developers of these new skills/animations/etc. be paid for it?

Look at it this way, buying HoT is like buying a pack of 9 heroes in LoL (plus all the pve/wvw content for free!). You can still play and I am sure quite a few classes will have preferred builds that DON’T use specializations.

I really wanted to avoid saying we should get a way to pay for this for use in PvP only, but I guess that is what it takes. There should be a PvP Unlock pack in the gem shop for those people that like PvP but don’t care about PvE.

Guild wars 1 did it because gold could not be traded for cash shop currency. Guild wars 2 will never do it because they will have to make two boxes 1 for the full content and 1 for the unlock pack then convince stores to carry both of them, which is extremely expensive to do (shelve space is expensive).

Arenanet has already gone on record saying that this expansion is a CASH expansion, it will not be in the cash shop for gems. (Arenanet from a business standpoint it would be extremely stupid to do it).

Also why bother? The amount of players that wont buy the expansion and continue to play would be very small.