Guild Wars 2

Finding a utility type that hasn’t already been used and can make some sort of sense on Warrior is tricky. Any sort of Pet/AI seems unlikely, Gadgets are a bit too close to Physical skills, and many other either overlap in theme or are just too tied to another class thematically.

One type does stand out, Mantras. I’ve always found the mechanic behind these skills to be interesting. On Mesmer, you can set up a build that is almost immortal 1v1 (high condi cleanse, healing for both you and those around you) and the traits surrounding them give the skills dual purpose.

Thematically, it would be possible to spin the skills in such a way that they aren’t necessarily magical (although Warriors already sort of use magic in the form of Signets) in nature but that the chant you recite gives you some sort of power.

There’s a lot you can do with Mantras gameplay wise. You can have a low CD and “spammy” skills like Mantra of Pain (something like Distracting Blow or Distracting Strike), one that gives a type of CC that Physical Skills don’t provide (Taunt?), and some sort of sustain focused ability (Maybe a Stun Breaker that does a small push back when you use it). The Elite is where you could add a bit more skill to the class. Perhaps something like “Flourish”: only it recharges your Mantra charges. It would theoretically force you to manage your charges and not just spamming them so that you can avoid the lengthy cast time.

This probably isn’t what we’re going to get, but the concept struck me as interesting.

Warrior has like a total of 2 skills that can hit 5 targets. Warrior has everything except basically AOE and pets. I count turrets, clones, spirit weapons, and elemental summons all as pets basically.

I feel like we’ll see something similar to Mantras but have them labelled as something differently. We’ll almost definitely get Taunt and the whole tether idea has been done with Necro and now Dragonhunter so Mantras seem like they could fit the bill.

The Baws.5164:

I feel like we’ll see something similar to Mantras but have them labelled as something differently. We’ll almost definitely get Taunt and the whole tether idea has been done with Necro and now Dragonhunter so Mantras seem like they could fit the bill.

I don’t think they will be changing the actual name of the skill type because I have a feeling we’re going to see more runes that work on different skill types like how we have Runes that deal with Shouts and Signets.

I really hope that we start seeing runes that are viable so I can stop using Pack on half my builds.

BurrTheKing.8571:

Any sort of Pet/AI seems unlikely

I don’t think Warrior getting AI is unlikely at all. For example Warrior could get a spec called Warlord or General or something like that and get soldiers or like soldier spirits they call to battle. Like, healing skill is a called Mender/Healer and goes around healing and buffing you until killed and then you could have generic soldier summons like Archer, Footman, Squire, Pikeman and Fighter for the utilities.

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BurrTheKing.8571:

Any sort of Pet/AI seems unlikely

I don’t think Warrior getting AI is unlikely at all. For example Warrior could get a spec called Warlord or General or something like that and get soldiers or like soldier spirits they call to battle. Like, healing skill is a called Mender/Healer and goes around healing and buffing you until killed and then you could have generic soldier summons like Archer, Footman, Squire, Pikeman and Fighter for the utilities.

Aragorn? Something like the Oathbreakers would be nice and all but that sounds like a Necro/Revenant thing.

BlackTruth.6813:

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BurrTheKing.8571:

Any sort of Pet/AI seems unlikely

I don’t think Warrior getting AI is unlikely at all. For example Warrior could get a spec called Warlord or General or something like that and get soldiers or like soldier spirits they call to battle. Like, healing skill is a called Mender/Healer and goes around healing and buffing you until killed and then you could have generic soldier summons like Archer, Footman, Squire, Pikeman and Fighter for the utilities.

Aragorn? Something like the Oathbreakers would be nice and all but that sounds like a Necro/Revenant thing.

I dunno man, I just said spirits because some people might have a problem with corporeal live soldiers popping out of the ground outta nowhere even though Thief has skills that do that. I personally don’t care one bit about justifying skills with lore or whatever.

Warriors are getting main hand pistol, (what other weapon makes sense? shortbow?), so their spec will go along with that theme.

ANet fooled us with that Commando theme early in the beta for this game, maybe it gets finally realized.

Raider with OH Torch.

I want a chant that grants my character the “Anti Life Equation”…. :^)

BurrTheKing.8571:

Finding a utility type that hasn’t already been used and can make some sort of sense on Warrior is tricky. Any sort of Pet/AI seems unlikely, Gadgets are a bit too close to Physical skills, and many other either overlap in theme or are just too tied to another class thematically.

One type does stand out, Mantras. I’ve always found the mechanic behind these skills to be interesting. On Mesmer, you can set up a build that is almost immortal 1v1 (high condi cleanse, healing for both you and those around you) and the traits surrounding them give the skills dual purpose.

Thematically, it would be possible to spin the skills in such a way that they aren’t necessarily magical (although Warriors already sort of use magic in the form of Signets) in nature but that the chant you recite gives you some sort of power.

There’s a lot you can do with Mantras gameplay wise. You can have a low CD and “spammy” skills like Mantra of Pain (something like Distracting Blow or Distracting Strike), one that gives a type of CC that Physical Skills don’t provide (Taunt?), and some sort of sustain focused ability (Maybe a Stun Breaker that does a small push back when you use it). The Elite is where you could add a bit more skill to the class. Perhaps something like “Flourish”: only it recharges your Mantra charges. It would theoretically force you to manage your charges and not just spamming them so that you can avoid the lengthy cast time.

This probably isn’t what we’re going to get, but the concept struck me as interesting.

The problem here is how would an elite like that work? It depends completely on the player having othet mantras in their build which they may not. Making it a waste. No elite or skill on the normal bar rely on other utility to be used except chains.

if Mantras were coming, i would really hope for some powerful support and defense. Because mantras in melee combat in pvp seem like it can be a nightmare.

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BlackTruth.6813:

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BurrTheKing.8571:

Any sort of Pet/AI seems unlikely

I don’t think Warrior getting AI is unlikely at all. For example Warrior could get a spec called Warlord or General or something like that and get soldiers or like soldier spirits they call to battle. Like, healing skill is a called Mender/Healer and goes around healing and buffing you until killed and then you could have generic soldier summons like Archer, Footman, Squire, Pikeman and Fighter for the utilities.

Aragorn? Something like the Oathbreakers would be nice and all but that sounds like a Necro/Revenant thing.

I dunno man, I just said spirits because some people might have a problem with corporeal live soldiers popping out of the ground outta nowhere even though Thief has skills that do that. I personally don’t care one bit about justifying skills with lore or whatever.

Its just game mechanics to explain lore to it. Charr racial also has this ability so i dont see how its a reach to spawn live soldiers adventurers and Scholars to the battlefield.

I actually like that idea more honestly.