Guild Wars 2

dragonkain.3984:

Holosmith.

Seems to be heavily melle oriented spec but lacks stability or resistance or overall surviviablity to be in melle, so he’ll be an easy kill in any PvP mode. Damage is crazy however. Solution – tone damage down a bit but give them more defences OR range.
Losing F5 skill kinda limits this specs viability by alot too…
All utilities besides Laser Disk are worthless so they need serious buffs (including toolbelt one’s)
Overall, spec is a suicide bomber who will be doing his combo and then dying with no chance of revival in any PvP(useless engineer downed state abilities say HI)Overall class doesn’t excel in anything but running away. No strengths no weaknesses.

^This. For all those saying eng dmg is OP, I reply that their healing is sub-par. The part about the “useless engineer downed state abilities say HI” is spot on.

I wouldn’t mind a slight dmg nerf to Holosmith IF the spec got better healing and downed state abilities.

Out of all the new elite spec’s, Holosmith was the closest to being ready IMO. Next would be Spellbreaker, followed by Firebrand, then Deadeye.

Mirage, Weaver, and Scourge need their dmg buffed.

Renegade is obviously unfinished. Needs a bit of work.

Soulbeast needs a complete overhaul, else no one except masochists will be playing it.

Most impressive was Holosmith. That will be my main for the expac. It’s like a Swiss Army knife. I don’t even care if the damage is nerfed a little, I love the versatility. Melee, ranged, AOE damage…it’s got it all.

Just below Holosmith, I’d say Spellbreaker is very good, as is Firebrand. Firebrand is more complex to play.

Just below these three would be Renegade. A fun specc, feels unfinished.

Next tier would be Mirage, Scourge, and Weaver. I never got into a rhythm with these.

Was underwhelmed with Soulbeast. Wasn’t fun to me.

Biggest disappointment…if only because I was looking to make it my main…was Deadeye. Compared with Holosmith, it’s a one trick pony. Ranged damage. Granted, it does that one trick very well. But it’s still one trick, and one trick only.

Came into the weekend expecting to make Deadeye my main. I leave the weekend as a future Holosmith.

Before the weekend began, I expected to make Deadeye my main for the expac. I played all the new elite speccs at least 30 minutes per.

I came away a Holosmith-to-be. It’s like a Swiss Army knife…something for every situation.

And it’s a lot of fun! I was grinning from ear-to-ear while playing…both in PVP and WvW.

Really looking forward to playing this again in the Crystal Desert…and beyond.

I’ll see you all out there!

My take on DE:

-A one trick pony. Ranged damage and that’s it. Compared with Holosmith, which has the total package…melee, ranged, aoe damage…and it falls far short.

I came into the weekend expecting to make Deadeye my main for the expac. I left the weekend looking forward to playing Holosmith.

It takes a really good laptop to play GW2 on. Even a mediocre desktop has an easier time with GW2 than most laptops.

Salad, anyone?