Guild Wars 2

Elite Specs 2.0

Revenant
-vanquisher
Weapon: GS
Remarks: Personal preference here, would be great to see a GS on a revenant, abilities could include a long range mist walking gap closer and an opposite of axe 5 , instead of pulling enemies in, push them away from the rift. As far as the legend goes, really not sure. So far went with Balthazar, with the elite spell allowing the revenant to temporarily assume the form of the Avatar of God of War, gaining access to unique abilities (similar to Rampage or Lich Form)
-ritualist
Weapon: Scepter
Remarks: the option which makes more sense in regards to adding more play options, should be ranged condi and longbow doesn’t fit that theme (imho). As for the legend , Palawa Joko makes sense.
Warrior
-weaponmaster
Weapon: None, F2 grants access to 3rd Weapon Set
Remarks: seeing as warriors already have most weapons to choose from , adding a 3rd weapon set would be really cool plus emphasise the fantasy of the spec. Utilities could include weapon kits to further develop on that. Imagine the dread of not knowing what the warrior would whip out next. Can see the spec synergising with core trait lines quite well.
Guardian
-exorcist
Weapon: Pistol (MH or OH)
Remarks: saw this suggested quite a few times, and couldn’t help but love the idea. Could be either burst or CC orientated
Engineer
-exo soldier
Weapon: ??
Remarks: not sure what the weapon should be, but the idea is for the F6 or utilities to give access to an exoskeleton of some sort or parts of it. This could make engineers the Iron Man of Guild Wars. The elite spell could be “Giant Buster”, which summons a giant suit that could be used to devastate the battlefield and even Giganticus Lupicus themselves ( if they were still around) – once again similar functionality as Rampage/Lich Form
Thief
-sniper
Weapon: Rifle
Remarks: personally this makes so much sense it baffles me how it hasn’t been done yet. Make rifle a deadly long range option , perhaps even 1500 range, remain vulnerable up close.
Ranger
-Animage
Weapon: MH dagger
Remarks: offence orientated, melee spec which allows you to siphon power from you current pet, and utilise it to shape-shift into a brutal beast – with the type of pet being used affecting either the abilities gained , or the effects of the transformation. A nice shift up from the healer spec
Necromancer
-Ghostdancer
Weapon: ???
Remarks: an emphasis on summoning and turning yourself into a ghost in order to evade your opponents attacks. The elite spell could be a ghost march, with an army of ghost coming to haunt their enemies
Mesmer
-warden
Weapon: MH axe
Remarks: another melee/ mid-range option, relatively offensive. Should synergise with the focus , and utilities could be based around warping space around your enemies in order to imprison them in thin air
Elementalist
-battle mage
Weapon: MH sword
Remarks: Never played elementalist, so not too sure – but saw the vast demand of the community for a sword MH. Should be distinctively different from Mesmer Sword though

should be here in the next quaterly update according to Colin, so atleast you get a timeframe

http://dulfy.net/2016/01/29/gw2-jan-29-guild-chat-livestream-notes/

HeavyVee.2453:

stop these silly no hell no comments.. the guy is not taking your vote!

the no comment were not a vote, it was an expresion of an opinion, and I agree with that opinion, that the sugetions are in fact silly.
1. Game mode are fairly separate, and there is no need to separate them further – you are playin the same game aftr all.
2. Hell No. The game has a lot to offer, with a variety of game modes, offering different rewards. if you want all the rewards, play all of the game. In no way should all the items b accesible by playin a single game mode – that’s like sayin I should be ablto gt a distinction on my economics module cause I do really good in management and I only enjoy that module
3. I can’t see condi requiring ferocity and precision resultin in anything but QQ, and I don’t even play condi
4. o.O Just never going to happen, no idea why would OP even sugget this
5. They are working on WvW upgrade/revamp, more info comin soon

Yep, have to disagree with OP to a degree- I actually more or less like how things are. Also as you mentioned you can already convert gold to gems, and hence all of the items in gemstore are already obtainable in game.
I say, more items in gemtore! Keep makin them glider skins, also I pray to the 6 Gods that one day they will make the Dragon’s surge visiual from sanctum scramble/HoT story as a glider skin… I would kill for that no matter the means of aquisition. As for in game gliders beside the basic one, I’m pretty sure th legendary pvp back will com with an equivelent glider skin – and I hope the same goes for Ad Infinitum. Also the exalted glider via gem exchange i like only 80-100 gold, a fair price.
I wouldn’t mind more items from in game too though, for example with the stunning artwork of exalted it seems like a shame not to have an armor inspired by them.
In the end, more cash for Anet, more stuff for us though.

Mmmm beat it solo on th 1st try on my 1st character to finish the story. Afterward finished again on the first try on a different toon, helped a friend with it.. may be just practice ? Or may be your connection is lagging? Also if you dont want the penalty box – do the fight solo, like intended. It’s there so you can’t keep rezzing and have to beat the boss in one go, which make sense you are fighting an eD afterall.. Wouldn’t want another Zhaitan

yes, please – for the love of God, can we get some information on that? I’m mainly waiting for new Gs and sword. Originally ALL of them were suppoed to be there on launch of HoT. I get that they werent ready, so not postpone the launch it happend without them. However I thought that meant at least 3 legenderies coming out every 3 month, but 3 month passed and there is 0 news on th subject.. some communication would be much appreciated. And I’m pretty sure 3 month is enough time to design 9 skins and 3 collections

Pride.1734:

Overall i like the changes, but i believe we should get nerfed (but only after rev and chrono get nerved some more).

Lol you are kidding right? Both of those classes got nerfed pretty bad yestrday, with it being a second round of nerfs for Rev, do you litterally want them to become unplayable pieces of meat for your satifaction? especially comin from a scrapper, a spec in no position to be complaining with a great amount of sustain/damage.

Noticed this yesterday, there is a horrible bug that doesn’t allow you to advertise your party in LFG if you are already in a party – you press the button and nothing happens. Queing up solo works, but that’s just lame, who wants to rgroup everytime they wanna use the LFG tool

I think that would be pretty sweet , tbh wondered about those skins too. Not sure how they would make up for the price difference – like the third gizmo which makes you dig underground, and hence it wouldn’t be fair that people who purchased the broom and carpet get a glider skin too , but the people who bought the tunnelling device don’t . Plus the fact that if we were to get 2 items from the purchase the price should be increase judging from the ones we’ve seen so far – glider only 400gems, glider+back 700gems. So what I’m saying basically, best solution would be to sell those skins separately .
But whilst we are on the topic of glider skins , I would love to see a ‘steam-punk’ style glider for my engie and PLEASE add the dragon surge visual from sanctum scramble (and some HoT story mission) as a glider – I will give you all my money

Dear ArenaNet, HoT released quite a while ago and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who would like to know when atleast the next batch of legendaries will roughly appear on the horizon? So far it almost seems that they have been put off on the far shelf which makes me sad ;/

Sign me up for Super Adventure Box, I never got the chance to see it – as I started the game slighlt later , but from YouTube it look sooooo fun. I generally don’t get this attitude of designing amazing things and then removing them, I mean its already there – why bother removing your own great work? Whilst appropriate with things like Wintersday, I dont get it with things like Super Adventure Box

Dear Anet, please make the wings from Dragon Surge from the Sanctum Scramble Adventure (and HoT story) available for acquisiton in game or from the Black Lion as glider skin. Pretty please. By far the most amazing gliding related visual, that is not available. Pair it with a pack, I will gladly pay 2000 gems for this nerdgasm. And since it’s already in game, shouldnt be too hard – perhaps just scale down slightly or leave as is. It would be the best glider for a Herald ever.

yep the last one was time ago, and it doesnt look like there are going to be any more tournaments. Another decent skin imo is the mordrem sabre which is locked behind RNG wall which i havent crossed in 8 years of different MMOs or 1 k gold on auction >.< oh and constant DS crashes

So I was kind of waiting for the post on the 2016 Update to atleast mention the new legendaries, however it did not.. which sucks kitten. So whilst the mystery remains whether the new skins will tickle my pickle at all , for now I remain with my fractal skins.Which dont get me wrong, I love. However something inside still wants something new, pre-HoT I thought they were gonna add Mistward weapons – however that got scrapped somewhere even though some skins were already ready [hammer, axe, mace] ( which again, sucks kitten). So here’s me voicing my opinion to add some cool looking skins pretty plz. Or atleast make the Misforged Hero’s obtainable in ANY way – I started the game a year ago, and there is NO way to get them, there are no more WvW tournaments and the skins actually happen to be among the coolest ones imho, or atleast make something simmilar looking
anyways vent over , thx in advance

I mean for uknown reasons i though that the new expanded sytem would see some new fractals added, probably becaue of 50 additional difficulty levels – kinda makes sense. From what i gather it has been a while since new fracs have been released.
But since that wans’t the case, I wanted to make this thread in order to find out whether others want more fractals? Would love to see the Abadon frac, that was never made alongside others.

Im not sure exactly where in game, but it was said that Taimi is a freaking genius even by Asura standards, I believe her designs are more advanced than prety much most Asuran, even those on the Council ( or whatever is name for the bunch in charge), at this is at her very young age.
As far as i know, Zojja is vry clever but nowhere near Taimi
I mean she’ demontrated this brilliance through out s2 and HoT story, rapidly comin up with solutions to previously uknown matters

Guys and gals, am I correct in undrstanding that to craft Unbound, you need 33 balls of dark matter? so far the wiki estimates the salvage rate to be 0.29 /item. This means that roughly 110 ascended items have to be salvaged, varying on RNG. Isn’t that excesive? o.O Or am I missing somthing? Also the fact that most have a ton of rings, and this is the only type of equipment that does not yield the dark matter – that’s like a spit in the face

Thing is, doesn’t like every profssion facilitate a knockback in 1 form or another? The only one I can think of is thieves , but they have plenty of ther things like evasion to atleast provide deffence. I remember simply running rifle a the 2nd wep on my warrior, and the knockback on 5 was sufficient for intresting plays
so it’s only a matter of whether you choose for ur build to account for a situation like that or not

But that’s what makes Skyhammer so fun , you have to keep an eye on your surroundings and the opponents . And as long as you have a knock back/ launch/ or even pull(so that takes a bit more skill) as long as you position yourself right you can easily win 1v2 or even 1v3 by launching enemies to their abyss.
In regards to Capricorn , doesn’t balancing underwater skills ( at least in pvp, much like other skills which have a pvp and a pve version ) sound like a better solution then removing underwater altogether ? Same can be said for pve . The UW in GW is sweet , why would they abandon it – I once again do not understand

Can somebody please elaborate why people hate diversity in PvP? Personally I find skyhammer to be the most fun pvp map of the bunch due to the sheer increase of posibilities, however i’ve gotten the immage that the vast majority of players really don’t (i fail to undertand why), to the point where Anet themselves succumb to peer preasure, and do not includ the map in League play, alongside courtyard ( which I dont like all that much but still, it should be there imo).
Furthermore, I’ve only started the game a year ago – and turns out till April 2014, there was another PvP map, Raid on the Capricorn – with underwater combat (!), that sounds to be among the mot unique pvp maps ever, yet they remove it – not jut from ranked, but from the game all together. (I’m pretty sure the infamous overly vocal forum ‘warriors’ had something to do with that, but I have no idea tbh). Anyway I would love to exprience such a map, so please Anet, bring it back atleast to unranked.
Lastly why not more maps in general? Wouldn’t you love to see a conquest map with gliding ? I can already imagine the srategies. Or another stronghold, with a different layout? The possibilities are endless

I really hate the mentality that people tend to have , when they can’t beat a certain build they come to these forums and nag for nerfs due to their incompetence. At the moment most professions have a couple of good or great builds IF the player is skilful with the right build . You can still beat bunker mesmers, revs, DHs , reapers, scrappers , elems and so on . It just takes skill and timing , positioning rather than blindly executing your typical rotation. Distance yourself from traps , don’t waste resources when mesmer is evading and so on . That being said the skillcap requirement for some proffesions requires is much higher for some than for others ( I’m looking at thief in particular). Overall I’d say buff the weaker specs to be more awesome , and be able to compete with current meta rather than nerfing the stronger ones – end result feels more fun in this case . But even as it stands any proffesions can beat any other proffesion depending on the build they are using and their skill level

Like many people in this thread , it has tortured me to read the suggestions . I however will bite , just to add my to cents to skill handicapped people like OP and cursE. If you think UA is too strong well , you are silly . Not only is it an actually less of a threat that AA most of the time , it has MULTIPlE counter plays – double dodge will fully negate it , a block stops it , if you go into stealth UA stops , if you dash away whilst the recant is performing the flip the skills will not trigger but will go on cd – how much more counter play do you want ? Just cause you can’t overcome it , doesn’t mean decent players can’t . If you are having a hard time against UA, I’m guessing you’ll never even touch a chrono with sword 2 evade , well of precognition, shield 4 , f4,f5 , stealth and etc – and you can take them down too .
So moral of the story get better , instead of starting "balance " threads which would ruin the class if considered .

Rain.9213:

I still really think that I would love to see a condition Greatsword elite spec for Revenant. I keep saying Kalla Scorchrazor as the legend too as she wields a greatsword and would offer us another female legend and our very first charr legend! That or…. SPOILERS!

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Trahearne would also be awesome for a condition greatsword spec. Actually making it a hybrid condition/power, range/melee weapon like the underwater spear would be freakin awesome and let it synergize with the majority of Revenant builds. Plus it would be awesome communicating with him again and having him be your sidekick this time around. You could still be partners in the fight against the dragons too!

Special mechanic could be calling on the power of Caladbolg for some special effects

Both Kalla Scorchrazor and the SPOILER sound fairly cool , can imagine both playing out nicely.
In responce to the other post though, who is this Artorias you speak of? He sounds exciting as a potential legend

So I know that HoT just came out and I’m having an absolute blast both in pve and pvp, Maguuma is gorgeous. Love Shiro/Herald – my new main. Anyways due to the nature of elite specs, sooner or later ( and I know in our case we are probably looking at later) the second batch of e-specs is gonna come out.
And I know that it kinda makes more sense to do a ranged weapon spec , seeing as how we only have the hammer – and I’m sure that a longbow legend or something could be awesome . However , I would still love to see a power greatsword spec more – just cause you know , greatswords are awesome. So I was thinking what kind of spells could be used. Up till now came up with some abilities – they are pretty random though .
1- , in a similar fashion how necro gs aa is slightly slower than others , Rev one could be slightly faster , cause the class is kinda fast paced .
2- perform a vertical ‘spin’ attack, repeatedly striking and slowing the opponent
3 – a Rev weapon should have a mist walking ability imho , so this could be something like , turn into mist and dash at your opponent, slashing through the opponent upon impact and applying x condition , 1200range
4 – a horizontal spin attack , heavy AoE dmg with some fancy mist visual
5 – perform a vertical charged up slash dealing heavy damage in a line in front of you and knocking away enemies that are caught by the sides of the attack – think axe 5 but instead of pulling in , pushes away , also slightly larger
So yeah, I believe something like that should make for an interesting skill composition to play around with . Haven’t really managed to come up with utilities that would accompany it nicely , though I think a transform elite would be awesome ( think warriors rampage or necro lich form) , nor the unique f2 or something of that sort .
If anyone has played DMC 4 , something similar to Nero’s devil arm could make for some awesome utilities and would kinda actually go with the class ( channeling powers of legendary deities) and I haven’t really seen anything similar in any mmo.
Anyways what do you guys think ? Any ideas ? This is all very hypothetical discussion , just for the hell of it .

So i just beat the Mind of Mordemoth in the last mission which was pretty fun – i thoroughly enjoyed the fight, the gliding part was cool as was the rifts/ allies – which lead me to my question. When the illusions of your allies were summoned ( you had to beat them and after they joined you) they were wielding different weapons opposed their usual one’s – I only managed to notice the red katana-ish sword Rytlock was using and an odd GS for Marjory, and even those I couldnt make out in detail as I was busy beating the fight. The models seemed unfamiliar , I’m pretty sure I havent seen them around, any ideas what they were? And why were they being used?

Well sorry to disappoint some people, even though I wouldn’t mind a little buff to the sword oh, if you think it’s useless/dead well then you are not very smart . At all . As some one who mainly does pve/pvp – I find the sword to be my fav, for reason beyond aesthetics . In both game modes, the block on 4 has saved my life multiple times , whilst allowing me to maintain mobility unlike shield 5, and the sword 5 functions as an interrupt , breakbar breaker , extra dodge and relocation device. That’s brilliant, much better than shield imho. Gives a variety of gameplay options – more than axe( assuming in you in shiro) or shield. Also even though it sure would be nice if you shadow stepped to your target on sword 5 and then kidnapped them, it would make the skill too easy – and you can achieve the same thing already if you use PT and then sword5. The flip skill on sword 4 could be buffed though, feels unimpactful

Exactly what I’m wondering ! For some reason I always thought they would be introduced as BL set , like glittering or dreamthistle, however that hasn’t happened yet which is sad even though I’m loving my fractal swords and entropy , judging from the looks of the axe /mace/ hammer the skins would replace mine in an instant . Anyways long story short , ArenaNet we want out mist weps! Really curious how a sword /gs from the set would look

I really don’t get the reasoning for this though , especially since Anet did give us the majestic iteration we all got to love . Is it simply because it’s super fun and we shouldn’t have that ? You say PVP, but then why is it ok for a thief to be able to inflatrators signet, then steal to the target , with additional options of shadowsteping and SB5ing as well – giving them the possibility of anywhere between 2-4 consecutive shadowsteps; but it is not okay for Rev to have to 2(!) consecutive ones – seeing as PT is the only port we have ; before we could do 2 steps and like a second afterwards, a third – which is still less then thieves , and leaves us with no energy or -1legend, which was seemingly fair .. Reverse the Phase Traversal bull kitten ! This is horrible >.<

Give it back Roy, for the love of God! This stupid cd removes so much flavour from the class, as well as severely damaging our mobility – from king of chasing, to nothing special, atleast make it 2 sec, 5 i simply ridicilou – specially counting its our only port spell, compared to the wid selection of lets say – thief.. Wasn’t this talked about during beta – and the conclusion was reachd that it was all good due to enrgy cost? Give me back my master of portals, feels like you guys took a kitten on my rev, and it feel like its only the begining ..

Oh , hell yeah full ascended : armor , back , amulets , accessories , infused rings , Valkyrie hammer , 2 Berserker swords with Blade of Sunless or Fractal sword skins depending on the mood , using Entropy for the hammer ( IMO underated ) , full set of hoelbrak runes , rage sigils – I’d say I’m pretty prepped

Thanks for answering ^^ love the fact that you read our stuff. I’m sure it’s gonna be cool to acquire, but +1 for non rng collection, luck is almost never kind to some of us

Too sexy in general, easily favourite heavy set. Mistward Dragonhunter sounds fairly cool, just in blue shades opposed to Revenants red, but that’s just imo ^^

Hey there, Roy ( or anyone else), can you please tell me where and how does one get the Mistward Armor? I.e. Is it gonna be gem store or in game acquisition: gold, karma, pvp tracks? If you can’t say it yet, give me a hint. Just love the set, can’t imagine playing rev without it, and in general can’t wait to main a Revenant, love what you did with it

Whilst I doubt that we’ll see warriors wielding daggers and dragon energy, I simply must give you a shout out for how well written your idea is, ican clearly see you put some effort into it. I’ll give you that its cool and original , and fits the setting – just personally doubt that they’ll go that way . my Spidey sense tingles bout 2h axe and a lot of swords (4+) but then again , such an outcome seems even less likely So wouldn’t mind taking your spec as long as I don’t have to use something silly like a torch

Can people stop saying Revs have 12 utility skills ? As of now they have 20 with 10 being active at a time , and with Glint coming this week that’s gonna be 25 with 10 selectable at a time – a pretty good selection , even if they are locked in too sets(legends) of 5 ( which I find enjoyable for differention sake). Other classes must also lockin 5 utilities at a time , but they can choose which ones, we can’t hence we get 10 – simple, fun, fair and different . So please once , just once be cool and stop nagging. Also saw a post bout this , but please don’t remove the bright green from Shiro quickness – IMO looks sweet

Okay so I’ve seen some complaints going around and I really , really fail to understand them – people saying that Shiro has low DMG are ridiculous. They must be pressing the wrong buttons at the wrong time , as I’ve had no problems taking out any of the classes (vice versa too) .Special shout out to the quickness skills – that and autoattack = crazy dmg, and if you activated the heal skill , you get a nice fast heal as well as some bonus damage – main thing is not too use other skills whilst in this mode , as that will push you out of the quickness boost due to energy regen and try to stick in melee (though hammer has its uses too). Oh , and the sword 3 is a magnificent follow up after the burst (and uve got some energy back . the other 2 utilities I’ve found really enjoyable as well and useful , as personally I love being able to blink around during the fight and reposition myself, a similar set up to my warrior .
So I really hope that Shiro stays the same , much like Revenant overall – the class managed to actually stand out and differentiate from others and I pray it stays that way .

Off-topic , loved the e-specs too – haven’t tried Dragonhunter but the Chronomancer , Reaper and Tempest were all extremely cool. And gliding is sweet , feel like Batman from Arkham Knight. Like, keep up the good work ArenaNet – real excited!

P.S. Love the Shiro Legend

So Revs get wep swap now which is cool, but this is a random idea for balancing purposes what if the legend and weapon were associated with each other? so when u swap ur legend , u automatically switch to ur other weapon – again this is a random idea, but i think it kinda makes sense and the class will feel less cluttered, although it does reduce number of playable combos ( i.e wep – leg) . Feedback? )

The title is pretty self-explanatory, it’s been a while since we’ve received any announcements regarding the rest of the elite specializations and well I’m curious , specially bout warrior ^^ would love to see something like being able to wield multiple swords* (for example) at the same time – something crazy like 4 or 6, not sure how gameplay would work out though equipment-wise

When I was playing yestereday, and went over to buy some traits in LA – on my warrior (80) I could only see the ones that I already have, and on a mesmer (40) I couln’t see any since I didn’t have any. Is that a bug or are traits no longer purchasable?