Guild Wars 2

I have one idea.
What if weapon kits were actualy elite skills. So you could only choose 1 and would be also easyer to balance, so our main weapons would not loose dmg/utility for that.
Beside this, kits would not change weapon spells but instead utility (3) spells + specific passive depending what kit equiped (maybe if flame kit – every hit from weapon 1 does 1 sec burning or something; or more like passive stats/regeneation…).

So engineer would have, instead of weapon swaping, utility swaping. Tho guns are engi main weapons. Crowbars, bombs, grenades … are just utility that he can use.
Wouldnt be better if flamethrower 1 (visual) would be one of utility spell from flame kit that wouldnt change his weapon into flamethrower but acted more like modification to main gun (just like grenade launcher that is attached to some modern guns)?

Whats your opinion ppl?

Definitely not. That’d be a huge nerf to the class. The power of Engineers is kit swapping. This would make engineers completely uninteresting.

The Gates Assassin.9827:

Definitely not. That’d be a huge nerf to the class. The power of Engineers is kit swapping. This would make engineers completely uninteresting.

Nerf? It all depends how you buff/design those utility spells/pasive and/or main weapons …. Tho swaping still remains, just max 1 kit at the time.

If this was implemented, our elite slot would basicly become a glorified second weapon slot – that’s pretty underwhelming since every other class except the elementalist has those for free.

Light.6095:

If this was implemented, our elite slot would basicly become a glorified second weapon slot – that’s pretty underwhelming since every other class except the elementalist has those for free.

Uhm, it doesnt swap weapon spells. It is swaping utility spells. So you pick 3 random utility spells normaly + elite that, if swaped, give you anther 3 fixed utility spells.