Guild Wars 2

Elite Spec Name: Shaman
Weapon: Hammer
New Skill Type: Totems
Mechanics: F5= Avatar Form

Elementalist Elite Spec becomes Shaman.

Shaman wield the powers and fury of the elements through their Hammer and slams it into the face of their enemies.
Totems similar to Glyphs, will change effect based on the Element the Shaman is attuned to. Totems have their own Health Poor separate from the Shaman and will hover in the place that they were summoned to until consumed.
Avatar Form (F5) changes the form of the Shaman for temporary time period. Graphically Avatar Form changes you into a creature based on your race, but function the same across all races. Example: Charr Avatar form is an Effigy, and Asura Avatar form looks like a Golem, Sylvari avatar form looks like a Oakheart. But they are just visual effects to fit their fantasy. The Avatar color changes based on what Attunement they were transformed during its use.

Avatar Form locks you into a unique set of skills from 1-7 skill 6 and 7 being unique to the attunement the Shaman was in when they transformed.
Hammer is a melee/defensive oriented weapon with some ranged options depending on the Attunement you use.
whats your thoughts on this idea?

well not a new concept ;-) but i would like it. The tranform should make you an elemental of the current attuenement changing skills 1-5.

I’d love to see more developed with the arcane. I feel like arcane has always been kind of that random 4 spell traitline that doesn’t have any attunement or real part of the class.

I’m not a big fan of condi builds but ele is kind of lacking a specific condi build that actually does comparable damage to others. Perhaps a longbow or something?

I’d personally rather have and am leaning towards greatsword as their next weapon, but I hope they give them a lot more survivability for that.

I would love a melee focused defensive support focused elite spec.

Sounds pretty cool actually, though changing skills 6 and 7 doesn’t sound right as thats the heal and 1st utility slot. Other than that it sounds cool. Reminds me of enhance shaman from wow, but that’s not really a bad thing.