Guild Wars 2

Elite specializations tend to have themes. Spellbreaker for example is locking down the boons of your enemies and disabling them through well timed counters. They have abilities and traits that benefit that play style. Soulbeast doesn’t seem to have one defined theme or role. What do you think would tie all this elite specs abilities and traits into a coherent theme?
A few Suggestions:
1. Tie soul beast traits and abilities around a specific condition. Similar to how Reapers are interact with and benefit from chill, Soulbeast traits and abilities could be synergize with bleed. The theme would be merging with your beast gives you a unquenchable blood lust so seeing your opponent bleed gives makes you stronger.

2. Some Soulbeast abilities have a duality to them(for example Vulture Stance) were they change their benefits depending on the condition of the enemy, but this is applied inconsistently. This can be applied to all of the stances and even more of the traits. Similar to how Revenants gain benefits from switching back and forth between spirits, soulbeast can have benefits from swapping between pets while in beastmode.

3. Give the Soulbeast more abilities and traits that scale with the amount of allies around them. This would give them a leader of the pack play style where they want to be around as many allies as possible. Think like Guardians Strength in Numbers trait but scaling from allies instead of level and giving offensive benefits instead of defensive benefits.

These are just suggestions beat them up as you see fit, just try to suggest some yourself so your ideas can be beat up as well!

I’m going to contribute absolutely nothing constructive to this thread and say that the thread title made me think of a MUSICAL theme for Soulbeast, to which my answer is ‘Running Wild’ by Judas Priest.

https://youtu.be/cJ9_uVqFCtM