Guild Wars 2: New Elite Specializations Coming with Visions of Eternity

I admit, I stopped playing Guild Wars 2 not long after the last expansion came out. I like the game, but in between feeling lost when not playing it often and my chronic hand issues which prevent me from playing that game often, I lost the motivation to do much in the game other than logging in every other day.

But these new specializations sound nice! With the exception of Amalgam. Who wants to be reminded of the dentist every time they play their engineer?

Back in the original Guild Wars, I mostly played a warrior and my little dervish. I liked the way the paragon looked, but that profession was just not for me. I had the same issue with the ritualist. My main in Guild Wars 2 is a warrior. With the upcoming expansion, I can unlock the Paragon for her. Since I mostly play solo or roam through the open world, I am not sure how viable this is. And since the grass is always greener on the other side… I keep trying to get into playing necromancer. They will get the Ritualist as their new specialization. They mention “supportive builds or aggressive power-focused builds”. Maybe I will give this a try – but since my main has been a warrior for ages, I will focus on her first!

As is usual for ArenaNet, we got to play with the elite specializations as a “public beta event”. It’s perfect for them to gather feedback and to give us a chance to see that we really want to play with these new specializations!

Or not. I logged in with a beta warrior. Warrior has been my main for the longest time. I logged off after a couple of fights. It’s just not for me.

But this may be because I have a hard time remembering skills in Guild Wars 2. My brain just can’t cope with the amount of visual effects coupled with “this skill deals damage within this range to this amount of enemies and on top of that, it causes this condition and also removes this condition from you, but only if you jumped over a fence or ran away from a cow within the last ten seconds, otherwise, you receive this condition instead” – or, well, something like that…

I will probably get the expansion because I have bought every expansion so far and there will be another homestead to play with! And then I will have plenty of time to first unlock the specialization and then get used to playing it.