Guild Wars 2

I was admiring the looks of my Elxir gun and Flamethrower the other day and thought to myself – wouldn’t it be awesome if I could wield both of these at once!?

Image if we could summon some sort of exosekelton that replaces all of our mainhand/offhand and utlity skills with kits! Unfortunately there’s 6 kits, so we’d have to maybe sacrifice the medkit or leave out one of the existing kits in order for this to work. In addition, we’d have to make all the utility skills act like a regular skill bar for the duration of the elite which could get really awkward depending on your keyboard setups – and you would also need to add some additional buttons in order to exit our of the exoskeleton and the currently selected kit on the utility bar side, and maybe even an additional toolbelt.

It would probably be a ton of work in order to setup and even more so to actually use, but just imagine being able to lob 6 grenades at once, or spam dual-elixir gun auto attacks on thieves. I think the unweildy nature of it would help to balance it so it isn’t too terribly OP, and give it maybe 10-15 seconds of max uptime and a really long cooldown (200+ seconds?). It would give engies some pretty amazing burst capabilities and it would take tons of practice in order to use effectively. I just had the idea pop into my head and thought I’d share it. Personally, I don’t think it would be any more OP than a Turret engie being able to pop a toolkit.

Anybody else have any cool ideas for elite skills?

Double Bombkit with that exoskeleton… 10k auto-attack and 16k instantly with BoB.
People say that my ideas are ridiculously OP, but this is the crux of being overpowered^^

But I like the exoskeleton idea in general, so lets act it as actual weaponkit that replaces all our weapon-skills for 60 sec and disables our utilities.
the elite should have a 240sec cd, to be comparable with the asura golem.

skills would be:

auto-attack: Powerfist
high physical dmg chain on a single target
chain hit 1: left fist strike (single target, medium physical dmg, 0.25sec cd)
chain hit 2: right fist uppercut (single target, high physical dmg, 0.5 sec cd)
chain hit 3: doublefist smash on the ground (3 targets, 240 range, high physical dmg, interrupts, 0.75 sec cd)

#2: Flamewhirl
short spin animation with 2 flamethrowers
8 sec cd (0.5 sec channeled attack)
2 hits on 360 range
medium physical dmg
applies 3sec burn per hit
whirl finisher

#3: Rocketjump
player uses his inbuild rockets to propel him to the target
15 sec cd
900 range, placeable aoe
deals high physical dmg to 5 targets
rockets apply burn for 3 sec to 5 targets at the starting point of the jump and their exhaust applies 5 sec blind to 5 targets on the impact point.
blast finisher

#4: Super-Elixier dispenser
Releases a big load of a healing potion
20sec cd
480 aoe range
mayor instant heal to the player / small heal over time to allies inside the field
applies 6 sec of regeneration to 5 allies within the range
waterfield for 3 sec
cleans 1 condition per second for 3 seconds from up to 5 allies inside the field

#5: deployable perimeter shield
30sec cd
240 range
player-centered movable / reflecting shield bubble for 10 sec (same animation as fortified turrets)
deals medium physical dmg to all targets passing the perimeter shield and applies 3 sec of aegis every 3 sec to up to 5 allies inside the bubble.

I guess this elite would be quite awesome for supporting people around you.
bonus points for running experimental / fortified turrets and having them out before you use the elite.

Imo idea using utility instead elite is great for example can utility skill/kit be 33% stronger (higher dmg, lower cd) in elite slot. It will bring another layer to build making and it will be more like gw1 where you made build around your elite skill.