Guild Wars 2

Just asking out of curiosity; why do the class icons remain the same after equipping elite specs in PvP? They change in PvE and WvW, so is there a specific reason for it that I just don’t know about?

The only somewhat logical reason I could think of is that in the start of a match, you won’t be able to tell which specs your opponents are running, thus preventing you from changing your build/character to counter that. But that seems kind of far-fetched, considering we’ve only had one set of elites so far, and you can always be 95% sure that everyone is running their elite anyway. It would actually make more sense now that the PoF elites are coming; you can’t tell which elite a certain profession is running so you can’t effectively prepare against it.

Anyway, I doubt it would make any big difference, and if this was the reason, why would the profession icons be standard in the PvP lobby as well?

I’ve been wondering about this for a while, so if anyone knows whether or not there is an actual reason for it, I’d like to know.

Because when HoT launched people were Afking if someone was running Core and people were just being kittens. So Anet got rid of the ES icons Fromm pvp