Guild Wars 2

After yet another thread of some1 with an idea to dumb down and ruin the in combat flexibility of our profession. Go read it here: Re-imagining-Kits
I think it’s time to discuss a possibly simple fix to the under-usage of certain skill types/utility skills.

Since we don’t have a weapon swap and 3 of 5 skills we get on our toolbelt are determined by what we put in our utility slots, the 3 utility slots have quite a large impact (more so then on many other classes) on the build diversity of our profession. People tend to fill most of the utility slots with kits because they bring so much more utilities (with separate cooldowns) compared to most other utility skills.

Due to kits being such a strong contender for the utility slots players who do not like the reliance on kits/the kit swapping playstyle often call for kit nerfs and profession overhauls (which would ruin the profession for people like me in the unlikely event that their ideas would ever be implemented).

Why not allow utility skills to be sloted in the elite skill slot? that way you can put something in it that synergizes beter with your build then the limited choses we have now. (blocks, stunbreakers, good condi cleanses, certain skill type, something with a toolbelt skill that works with static discharge, …) which would lessen the influence of the 3 utility slots on our build diversity.

Would it simply increase build diversity or would it make certain playstyles unfixably overpowered? Should all utility skills qualify or just the ones that anet decides which wouldn’t be gamebreaking? Or should general rules be upheld like no (extra) stunbreakers in the elite slot? What do you think? (I made this post thinking only about the engineer but if you have ideas that benefit other professions as well id be happy to read them)

Best suggestion I’ve read in a while now..

it is not something new, i really would like it but i don’t know if after that someone would use an elite skill ,perhaps only thieves . The reason is that the cd of utility skills are quite huge