Guild Wars 2

Considering classes getting additional class mechanic skill, is ele supposed to get F5 skill, which will be a new attunment? I’cant see any other option than this.

with engi and chronomancer both getting f5 skills, looks like a trend, and warrior (and probably necro) getting an f2 skill as seen in the very first PoI stream i assume that most likely every class will get an additional F-skill.

Arcane attunement? All attacks crit.

If we do get and F5 skill there is no way it will be a new attunment. Then the Devs will have to add new skills for each existing weapon type along with the new weapon. I don’t think they devoted that many resources to this update. So I do not think we will get an F5 skill like Mesmer and Engineer.

Ancient Ranger.3276:

If we do get and F5 skill there is no way it will be a new attunment. Then the Devs will have to add new skills for each existing weapon type along with the new weapon. I don’t think they devoted that many resources to this update. So I do not think we will get an F5 skill like Mesmer and Engineer.

Well since we already have 2x skills than the other classes, the class itself requires more resource by design. If they add a new F skill, i highly believe it ll be new attunment.

I bet its going to be an super version of an atument but it will lock you out of swapping for a time. I guess the class is storm base so i guess it would be named on though lines fire → fire storm, earth → stand storm, air → lighting or wind storm, water → ice or water storm.

rhodoc.2381:

Well since we already have 2x skills than the other classes, the class itself requires more resource by design. If they add a new F skill, i highly believe it ll be new attunment.

The fact that eles require more resources is probably the best reason for why it won’t happen. I’ll be highly surprised if Anet is crazy enough to expand every single skill set just for the sake of this elite spec, and further expand every single skill set for every single elite spec to come in the future.

Eles will probably get something much simpler.

I don’t want a 5th attunement, would be kinda boring. I mean we would get new skills and stuff for every weapon but that would most likely make Tempest a must have because they would just have 5 more skills for every weapon set. I hope for something like a transformation or an attack

Or maybe they’ll just add in the ability to weapon swap for ele’s.

I don’t see the point in giving us ANOTHER button (or group of buttons) to use. That’s just more they have to balance and more for us to learn.

Really, they need to just tighten up our current mechanics and balance them better (as in, split PvE and PvP). Our profession mechanic is a pretty solid and interesting one as it is.

Jekkt.6045:

with engi and chronomancer both getting f5 skills, looks like a trend, and warrior (and probably necro) getting an f2 skill as seen in the very first PoI stream i assume that most likely every class will get an additional F-skill.

If I’m not mistaken engineers were just getting f5 on their base class mechanic. We don’t know what they are getting for their specialization mechanic.

rhodoc.2381:

Considering classes getting additional class mechanic skill, is ele supposed to get F5 skill, which will be a new attunment? I’cant see any other option than this.

Yes, it will be a new attument called “Heart.”

And the elite will combine all attunements to summon Captain Planet.

Gabriell.4856:

rhodoc.2381:

Considering classes getting additional class mechanic skill, is ele supposed to get F5 skill, which will be a new attunment? I’cant see any other option than this.

Yes, it will be a new attument called “Heart.”

And the elite will combine all attunements to summon Captain Planet.

So we become tree hugger that wont fight back and just die for the noble cause?
But what happens if to Ele’s fighting each other both hit F5? Do the become allies? Do the get automatic free transfer to the last server in T8?
All these question need answers!

Ancient Ranger.3276:

Gabriell.4856:

rhodoc.2381:

Considering classes getting additional class mechanic skill, is ele supposed to get F5 skill, which will be a new attunment? I’cant see any other option than this.

Yes, it will be a new attument called “Heart.”

And the elite will combine all attunements to summon Captain Planet.

So we become tree hugger that wont fight back and just die for the noble cause?
But what happens if to Ele’s fighting each other both hit F5? Do the become allies? Do the get automatic free transfer to the last server in T8?
All these question need answers!

actually the avengers appear

I hope not, ele is already quite spammy class and overwhelming for newbies, so I don’t want another F skill, I would rather see some change than addition… some alteratation than a must have choice…

Mhmmm what if ele gets an arcane weapon bar by sacrificing another?

I would love if ele’s f5 will be something like ‘Storm Form’, similar to Death Shroud of necro.
This won’t mess with swapping between five different elements.

The key fundamental mechanics for eles are the attunements, I sort of agree with the above comment. F5 could unleash attunement-specific effects (like glyphs) on a very synergic fashion, and tempest would have a brand-new resource.

Maybe casting fire (or staying in fire) would build up Heated Winds which resets upon swapping elements, tempest would unleash a powerful effect when activating its F5 skill based on such built resource (burst skills inspired). Maybe they could add even more complexity and allow for multiple resources to be stored and unleash an effect based on a mix of stored elements, creating creative, effective, and cool environmental effects.

it would be quite interesting to see how two opposite mechanics compete for a meta…

attunement dancing with arcane traits and other traits which benefit from it
versus
charging of power for F5 skill by staying in one attunement

it would be even more fun if this F5 skill had no cooldown, it would be just a zero base effect, so without charging it would be useless people would need to find a balance of how long to stay in an element to unleash a solid F5 effect but not too long so they don’t suffer from it…

at least this way it wouldn’t be a must have choice like mesmer elite spec is… I still kind of believe what they say about horizontal progression, but I already have some doubts that elite specs will be mandatory and almost pure upgrade and not a choice in fact…