Guild Wars 2

Hi, this is just a request to allow us to use any utility skill instead of an elite skill in the “0” key.

As a Norn Warrior, I don’t have useful elite skills:
Battle Standard is nice for support and rez but the long cooldown and short duration makes me hesitate every time and I barely use it (even though this is what I have equipped all the time), I know many other warriors out there share the feeling.-
Signet of Rage is good for soloing but I’m not the signet kind of character and prefer group play rather than solo farming.-
Animal Forms or Rampage are,.. pffhh baahahaha… OK lets move on, lets just say I’m already equipped, lvl 80 and this doesn’t fit anymore, even leopard for the cloaking is situational and bad as an elite slot.-
Mystic Wolf (Deluxe) is nice but I still have no clue what it does and when it does it… its skills are so random and the cooldown is so long that its not very useful.-

As you can see; we, Norn Warriors, don’t have many options for Elite Skills. I would trade my “0” for another utility slot any day, any time.

We had this option in GW1, I don’t know why it was changed in GW2.

Please, either fix the warrior elites (bring them on par) or give us the chance to equip an utility skill in the elite slot!

Ty!
Kind Regards,

I find myself using my golem when I’m outside of groups. Wouldn’t mind the option to skip out on an elite, since It’s fairly situational.

That’s my point,… our “oh snap!” buttons are not life savior nor game breakers but still have terrible cooldowns and we don’t get to choose for different character set up… Some racials are good but we Norns only get bad transformations… I wasted 120 skill points (quick maths might be innaccurate but I think that’s correct) in skills that won’t fit my game style (I built myself for power/toughness/vit using axe shield, survival build).

Not even one elite skill out of 8 that I get to choose from seems useful to me (and I’m sure many other warriors feel the same). 5 transformations? seriously? none of them work properly! a banner and a signet… and the deluxe wolf… that’s it.

The way you talk about Signet of rage.. kinda tell’s it all.

If your not using it you are doing it wrong, plain and simple.
Battle standard is good in certain situations/ rage signet is ALWAYS good.

Here is a tip… dont let it just stand there passively…. use it every time it come off cd and profit.

Renquist.9530:

The way you talk about Signet of rage.. kinda tell’s it all.

If your not using it you are doing it wrong, plain and simple.
Battle standard is good in certain situations/ rage signet is ALWAYS good.

Here is a tip… dont let it just stand there passively…. use it every time it come off cd and profit.

Whenever I equip it, I keep it always active please don’t asume to much to fast… I know SoR is a good elite skill, but should it be our only good elite skill? When you think about ELITE SKILLS costing lots of skill poits and blah blah blah… our choices and game style get reduced to a single signet.

Yes banner is also good but veeeery situational. Hey I even like the banner, its my default elite because I normally play in team but like I said in my first post, having only 2 elites which are a signet and a banner, it doesn’t feel “warriorish” and if they tried to follow a trend and give one for each “type” of warrior skills, where is the elite shout? and the elite physical skill?

Something is clearly wrong here, the lack of elite skills in my norn warrior seriously is disturbing.

i run a dungeon support warrior build. crap ton of health armor and power. my runes give me +60% might duration. when i use signet of rage i gain the stacks of might for something like 57 seconds.

while it is a shame that signet of rage is perhaps are only really great elite skill, it is still an incredible powerful skill, warriors have it better then engineers anyway in terms of elites.

+1 for letting us use regular skills in our elite slot

In sPvP i’d gladly use a utility skill instead of signet of rage tbh.

half of the time its gonna get removed or corrupted anyways. I’d rather have either another physical utility skill or endure pain (i use balance stance as my stun breaker)

Back in the good old days of GW1, Elite Skills weren’t meant to be only strong long cooldown abilities; you also had the copy of a regular skills with probably +1 damage but half the cooldown. The way elite skills were implemented defined your character. They were the seal, the strawberry on top of the ice cream (?), the signature at the end of the character builder, it was a way of saying this is how I play my char and this elite skill is the backbone of my build.

I understand we had many to choose from and it took the game years to develop those skills but if we could at least equip a utility skill instead of an elite, it would give us so much further customization options… I believe it would be a great improvement to the game and will open many doors to all players.