Guild Wars 2

New Elite Skills:
Elementalist
• Signet of Arcana
• Signet Passive: Gain quickness when you swap attunement.
• Signet Active: Recharge all your attunements.

Engineer
• Exceptional Kit—Weapon Kit: Equip a kit filled with a variety of powerful gadgets.

Guardian
• Staff of the Zealot—Spirit weapon: Summon an arcane staff to defend you.
• Command: Command the Staff of the Zealot to send out a barrage of zealous flames around itself, burning foes hit. This destroys the staff.

Mesmer
• Phantasmal Mastermind—Illusion: Transform yourself into a large phantasm version of yourself that smacks enemies with illusionary hands. Your current illusions are destroyed upon transforming.

Necromancer
• Summon Blood Shark—Minion: Summon a blood shark to attack foes with crippling crunches.
• Charge: Command your blood shark to charge a foe.
• Underwater replacement for Summon Flesh Golem.

• Empowered Suffering—Corruption: Torment yourself for every boon on your foe. Bleed and torment your foe for every boon they have.

Ranger
• Signet of the Beastmaster
• Signet Passive: Active effects of other signets also affect you.
• Signet Active: The next time you are downed, your pet will attempt to revive you while fully healing itself and gaining quickness.

Thief
• Repel Trap—Trap: Set a trap that launches foes away when triggered.

Warrior
• “Embrace the Pain!”—Shout: Enrage target foe, granting them quickness and applying confusion and weakness.

http://pastebin.com/e9276EXr

oh god, please no…so much fail…

Wow. if this is true, maybe they are finally doing something to fix spirit weapons…

I’m not gonna get my hopes up though.

Someone in my guild shared this with us a few days ago. Though the history of leaked changes and skills has been decently accurate, I am hoping with all my hear that theses are fake. I do not see a change to spirit weapons that would ever make an elite worth it. Also, alot of the other skills just do not really make sense.

The staff is going to be soooo epic …

I wouldn’t even doubt it. So far all leaks that came out for GW2 has all been accurate. If this is true… LOL!!! at thief

It’s fake, none of those Elites will come to pass.

necros get sharknado

Ask your selves, through out the history of leaks in GW2 how many has been fake so far?……

According to reddit, they are fake:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1xii24/preliminary_new_elite_skills_march_18th_2014/

I was told by a guildmate about this a week ago or something. When I heard it, I knew it was fake and did not even bother go to the source. I was like “Huh.. Anet can’t be that dumb.”

It was posted in December. I really doubt it is current.

If it sounds too good to be true, ArenaNet never made it.

These even sound fake. Especially the Necromancer one – as if they would make an underwater-only version of an existing elite while giving all other professions a new elite.

Making more spirit weapons doesn’t make spirit weapons good. I hope this load of trash doesn’t make it ingame. It’s a cruel joke … Take 1 part junk (spirit weapons) and add another part crap (burning) to make something terrible.

If warriors get more conditions as this suggests, I’m going to …….

Everyone saying fake has obviously never been through a leaked update cycle before.

Obtena.7952:

Take 1 part junk (spirit weapons) and add another part crap (burning) to make something terrible.

So it’s perfect ANet logic. Therefore, I guess those notes are true :P

Are any of you really surprised?

I really hope it’s fake, but’s it Anet so you never know. Also they need to fix spirit weapons before adding more. However I really don’t care, I hate AI builds. They’ll just create another mm necro and spirit ranger. These builds are beyond easy to play and too effective.

If that is our new elite I would be annoyed beyond belief and probably go on hiatus for 6 months.

Anet had best read this thread and redo that elite. Other than some black sheep determined to go against the popular opinion. I am pretty sure that no guardian player likes this idea.

If it’s fake, then let it be.
But an Elite spirit Weapon might be funny for soloing.
Imagine a Guardian with 4 spirit weapons around him? That opens new possibilities with it’s own little army. Nothing I enjoy, but it could be worth trying out.
It’s also interesting how you apply boons to 5 targets with your virtues/spells/shouts(well not like you would have any shouts with 4 spirit weapons), that’s Guardian and 4 allies around him… you get my point.
But then again, I was under impression Tomes of Courage/Judgment represented an Elite Spirit Weapon that you actually hold, and they also buff your own spirit army, too… sooo… fake much?

Hey, you know what this means? More staff autos!
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

After thinking a bit more about it, I now really welcome the new spirit staff. It will lift the glorious spiritual searing druid to a new level

YOU MEAN I CAN HAS 4 SPIRIT WEAPONS1111`1!1111!!!!!!

I really, really hope this is a hoax. I have to believe it’s a hoax.

Otherwise it means that they really though that Guardians needed another worthless spirit weapon. I don’t think I’ve seen even the worst player in a PuG bring spirit weapons.

Please be a joke.

PLEASE, NO.

No more useless spirit wapons..

Guys… The pastebin file dates to December. It’s already three months out of date, if it’s even legit. Just because it’s on pastebin doesn’t make it a legit leak.

Even the fact that something THIS bad possibly comes from the devs is disappointing. I’m just assuming that’s the source but I wouldn’t put it past them at this point.

Tarsius.3170:

necros get sharknado

This

How about they kittening fix Guardian weapons BEFORE they add new stuff? Ugh…

Was this data mined or something?

No, it wasn’t. It’s a pastebin “leak” and it’s not even remotely current.

What this new Elite should do:

Casting Time: 1.5s
Recharge: 180s
Duration: 20s
Summon an Arcane Staff to defend you.
The Arcane Staff casts 1 tick of Empower every 3 seconds(giving 3 AoE stacks of Might that last 10s). This is affected by Boon Duration, Spirit Weapon traits, and triggers Altruistic Healing. It also heals for 375(1/4 of Empower’s heal) whenever it casts. This is affected by Healing Power.
When commanded, the Arcane Staff creates an AoE similar to Firestorm(Fiery Greatsword#5) but blue,
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Firestorm
with the same properties(Damage, Duration, Radius, Range), including hitting up to 10 foes per strike just like Fiery Greatsword’s Firestorm.

However, Staff of the Zealot can be traited to
reduce recharge with Spirit Weapon Mastery
increase damage of the AoE with Wrathful Spirits
not be destroyed when commanded with Eternal Spirit
cause burning on every hit of the AoE with A Fire Inside
last longer with Improved Spirit Weapon Duration

And we also get a new staff skin, Foefire’s Spire.

Oh man…but this staff will be duying in PvE or WWW instantly…