Guild Wars 2

New F4 skill for the Dragonhunter – unlocked with Virtuous Action minor adept trait.

2 Stances:

Zealot’s Stance
You have access to Dragonhunter Virtues
You move 25% faster while wielding a Longbow

Protector’s Stance
You have access to Guardian Virtues
The duration of incoming movement-impairing conditions is reduced by 25%

Stance switching would be instant and have a 1 second cooldown.
You could activate Renewed Focus and stance switch to Protector’s to burst all regular Virtues while channeling.

The 3 Virtues would share cooldowns with their Dragonhunter counterparts so as not to be utterly overpowered when fully traited.

This would allow the Guardian to pick when they wanted the wider range of the instant group condition cleanse for example, or the leap and larger heal of Wings of Resolve.
Or access the instant Aegis and Stability with Virtue of Courage for stomping.

It would also help to add mobility to the Guardian’s ranged elite specialization but in a very limited form when using our new weapon only.

I think the option to switch between virtue packages is a great idea. If it were up to me to implement, though, I wouldn’t tie speed while equipping longbow (which would be lovely) to a stance.

I really hope they implement something like this. It could be a F4 just to swap the Virtues from Guard and DH and doesn’t really need additional effects in my opinion. It could be applied to Necro as well, like F1 → DS and F2 → RS. I agree they should share cooldowns.

Right now Guardian and Necro are the only classes that could get a downside from the Elite specialization I believe, considering that all other classes get new options (without losing the base).

This idea goes against the whole concept of the elite specializations. They aren’t just more skills for your profession to get access to; they change the way you play your characters. Giving some ability to swap between skills on vanilla and elite spec destroys that.

The ideas themselves are already out of scope; at some point I think Anet would do themselves a world of good to make a stickied post explaining why we aren’t getting speed buff.