Guild Wars 2

I casually play both WoW and GW2. Overall, I find WoW’s class mechanics generally more interesting to play but my heart will always root for GW2 since there is no gear treadmill and I can have some fun with fashion wars :P!

So this is for the few of you that may have played Priest in WoW Legion. (I hope some of you have.) The goal is for Necro to be more like Priest but do it in a GW2 way. So imagine if:

1) LF was switched to the Insanity mechanic. Insanity is just faster paced and more fun.
2) Core shroud was damage focused and the skills were like Priest in shadowform.
Imagine shooting multiple lifeblasts at once for pseudo AOE / cleave capabilities!
3) The new E-Spec to be like Discipline Priest with damage shields and healing players
through doing your own damage (other games like RIFT have that healing
mechanic too). Imagine a putting a some sort of blood shield on a downed
player. Put the shield on and continue your normal DPS to heal them. No need to
walk over and rez them!

Again, it’s just a fun idea and not super likely to happen. Thoughts?

It’s not impossible, but it’s too late for the next xpac where the elite specs are already decided. That probably pushes the idea out to xpac 3 if they didn’t already do that.

(also, it would be justice for the amount WoW stole from GW2)

SlippyCheeze.5483:

It’s not impossible, but it’s too late for the next xpac where the elite specs are already decided. That probably pushes the idea out to xpac 3 if they didn’t already do that.

(also, it would be justice for the amount WoW stole from GW2)

Waouh! you’re super optimist, saying e-spec are already decided. For HoT even after they announced the x-pac, they weren’t decided for all the e-specs.

Thankfully they really did listen to players and revamped a lot of the aspects of the elite specs.

Dadnir.5038:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

It’s not impossible, but it’s too late for the next xpac where the elite specs are already decided. That probably pushes the idea out to xpac 3 if they didn’t already do that.

(also, it would be justice for the amount WoW stole from GW2)

Waouh! you’re super optimist, saying e-spec are already decided. For HoT even after they announced the x-pac, they weren’t decided for all the e-specs.

…and six months ago, when they confirmed the x-pac was in development and definitely coming, you’d be correct, it wouldn’t yet be totally too late.

We have a pretty solid idea, though, that it’s not just coming, but relatively close, so I think it’s highly likely too late. I could be wrong, though. It’s all speculation.

6 month ago they announced that they were working on a 2 x-pac. When I said that they weren’t decided after the announcement, I meant the trailer at the end of the living story season 2.

Right now, the 2nd x-pac, we got absolutely nothing about it. What we got from 6 month ago is just 1 guy saying he did some test with anet and describing very vaguely hypothetical e-spec including a very suspect double dagger warrior. What leaked from this unique moment 6 month ago may very well be absolutely nothing. We don’t even have a realease date but since we are at the 4th chapter of the living story, we can still be sure that we got 6 to 10 month to wait for an official announcement and not a “we are working on it, stay tuned!”

I hope that things are not set and there is time to change the game. At the rate expansions are coming there may not be a third one if the second one doesn’t do well.

I know it’s not fair to compare a game with a sub fee to one without. However, achieving class balance similar to WoW would be a huge step to improving GW2. Even though WoW forces you to chose DPS, heals or tanks and Anet only wants a soft trinity to make groups more accessible etc, I find grouping easier in WoW. This is because players can pick a role and all classes able to fill the role are essentially equal. There is no classes that are absolutely needed for quickness or GOTL. Sure WoW druid is the a slightly better healer than the rest but no one will complain if you bring a different healer. In GW2 classes aren’t equal and many people will complain if you bring Necromancer for damage. Class balance is super important if GW2 is to do well.

Whenever the expansion comes out I really hope they take a second look at core shroud and not just focus on the new elite. It’s a shame that it doesn’t have much use or function currently. It would be great if Necromancer could at least fill two roles well.