Guild Wars 2

With the teaser on Sunday, its no longer in question what weapon the ele will get. However, there is still much speculation as to what role it will play. As seen in recent reveals, Anet is willing to take weapons and mix up their role, such as melee staff, and slow moving GS. Love it or hate it, what do you think the WH’s role will be?

I personally think it could be many things, but I feel there is a strong chance it could be a pbAOE weapon, almost like a melee damage/aoe weapon. Because there are 4 attunements, Anet could also have it perform multiple roles.

What do you guys think?

Dagger offhand already has some pbAOE spells (both earth spells come to mind, and ring of fire could count, too). It will probably be group might, group cleanses, etc. Based on the recent reveals, it looks like reflect is the new dodge, so I’m sure there will be a reflect as well. Probably very party support oriented.

The Great Al.2546:

Dagger offhand already has some pbAOE spells (both earth spells come to mind, and ring of fire could count, too). It will probably be group might, group cleanses, etc. Based on the recent reveals, it looks like reflect is the new dodge, so I’m sure there will be a reflect as well. Probably very party support oriented.

Could be, I could see a party themed warhorn. Though I’m not sure where that would see much use.

ShadowStep.3640:

Could be, I could see a party themed warhorn. Though I’m not sure where that would see much use.

I think your starting to figure out why no one wants it.

Right now ele lacks utilities that provide team support. I don’t expect warhorn to be a dps weapon since the other 3 classes that use them are support, giving boons cleansing conditions dazing. I expect probably 2 new blast finishers. I’d love to have a field on every attunement. Ice field, fire field, static field. Hopefully its 900 range and not 600 otherwise it would be a struggle to find its use in wvw. For the utilties I predict group support. The heal with probably suck knowing anet.

FrownyClown.8402:

Right now ele lacks utilities that provide team support. I don’t expect warhorn to be a dps weapon since the other 3 classes that use them are support, giving boons cleansing conditions dazing. I expect probably 2 new blast finishers. I’d love to have a field on every attunement. Ice field, fire field, static field. Hopefully its 900 range and not 600 otherwise it would be a struggle to find its use in wvw. For the utilties I predict group support. The heal with probably suck knowing anet.

Um?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hunter%27s_Call support?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wail_of_Doom support?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Locust_Swarm

Who on earth am I supporting with that?

I posted this in another thread but I’ll summarize here. I’d really want to see Warhorn in a personal dps boosting role. What I mean by that the 4 and 5 abilities in certain attunements would be geared toward boosting your damage from your mainhand weapon. Such as placing a storm in an area and any targets in that storm take additional damage from you (and maybe to an extent, allies). Perhaps it will still have at least 1 FF and blast finisher so it doesn’t lag too far behind the existing OH

@Daniel Handler Well the daze can be used to interrupt pressure on your allies/stomp denial and the locust cripple makes for a good peel but being an Elementalist I hope we’ll see something more in the way of Aura/Boon support

vox.9027:

@Daniel Handler Well the daze can be used to interrupt pressure on your allies/stomp denial and the locust cripple makes for a good peel but being an Elementalist I hope we’ll see something more in the way of Aura/Boon support

Uhhhhhhhh……

So you just want Poweful Aura, Elemental Attunement, field generation and blasting, group healing and group cleansing of condition?

Wait, isn’t that pretty much a description of what we have today?

And here I thought we were meant to get new play styles with elite specializations and not just more of the same.

What kinds of off-hands can there be:
- Mobility + melee (pbaoe) dps: dagger-OH has this one covered
- Defense + ranged control: Focus
- Ranged single-target dps
- Condition (ranged or melee)
- Team support only

Ranged dps is useless b/c you still get pooped on by stealth, instant-burst classes. Condition will be useless b/c eles are locked out of access to condis by attunements. Team support without selfish survival gets into the age-old problem for ele: what good do you do your team if you are dead?

I have a really hard finding a niche that works with current traits and MH weapons.

FrownyClown.8402:

Right now ele lacks utilities that provide team support. I don’t expect warhorn to be a dps weapon since the other 3 classes that use them are support, giving boons cleansing conditions dazing. I expect probably 2 new blast finishers. I’d love to have a field on every attunement. Ice field, fire field, static field. Hopefully its 900 range and not 600 otherwise it would be a struggle to find its use in wvw. For the utilties I predict group support. The heal with probably suck knowing anet.

Necro also lacked team support utilities…

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Maelstrom

I expect a water skill that works like this!

I can only hope for a stealth skill. If not dagger and focus offhand cant be replaced… In pvp at least.