Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2

Magnadeus Dec 15, 2024 @ 8:17am
No more elite specs?
It seems that after End of dragons elite specs are no longer a thing 2 expansions later.

Will we ever get more in the future or is Anet completely done with them?
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Adaman Dec 15, 2024 @ 9:22am 
27 is not enough? :D
Sychon Dec 15, 2024 @ 10:22am 
I think they said something along the lines of having run out of space for new elite specs. As said above, 27 should now allow for enough customisation. I think they will continue to expand on weapon specialisations, though.

Can't wait for the Scepter & Focus Warrior.
ItzaLaggin Dec 15, 2024 @ 10:39am 
Originally posted by Sychon:
I think they said something along the lines of having run out of space for new elite specs. As said above, 27 should now allow for enough customisation. I think they will continue to expand on weapon specialisations, though.

Can't wait for the Scepter & Focus Warrior.
sarcasm ...love it
Sychon Dec 15, 2024 @ 10:43am 
Originally posted by ItzaLaggin:
sarcasm ...love it
Half sarcasm, half curiosity... :P
Last edited by Sychon; Dec 15, 2024 @ 10:53am
SinisterSlay Dec 15, 2024 @ 3:35pm 
I think they are too much work for their scaled down team.
And I am ok with that honestly. I would rather they made more builds viable rather than forcing us to all shift to some new meta again with new elite specs.
nazeer28 Dec 16, 2024 @ 9:03am 
Most likely saving it for Guild Wars 3
󠀡󠀡 Dec 16, 2024 @ 12:22pm 
I think they are too much work for their scaled down team.
And I am ok with that honestly. I would rather they made more builds viable rather than forcing us to all shift to some new meta again with new elite specs.

Oh look, not having e specs is actually better guys xD

Like the other poster said, they are saving for GW3 since GW2 has been in maintenance mode for years. It's embarrassing what they have done to this game.

Financial reports fail as well, lowest revenue since 2021. Janthir Flops didn't sell at all.

Step up your cash shop game and buy more lootboxes quick!
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Sychon Dec 16, 2024 @ 12:45pm 
It's in such a maintenance mode that they released 2 expansions and announced the next already... I wish some other games were in maintenance mode now...
LSD Dec 16, 2024 @ 1:23pm 
Originally posted by Sychon:
It's in such a maintenance mode that they released 2 expansions and announced the next already... I wish some other games were in maintenance mode now...
Calling them expansions is a real stretch. 99.9% recycled assets and mob grind =/= an expansion. Even the free LW stuff in the past had more meat to it than this stuff their skeleton crew of interns has been putting out.

Taking the WvW warclaw -- itself a reskinned non-flying griffon -- and going "yeah screw it, this can be the defining highlight" really speaks for itself.

Meanwhile core parts of the game like balance, major issues, bugs, server lag etc. haven't been touched in how many years now?
Sychon Dec 16, 2024 @ 1:26pm 
You are welcome to dislike the content they are giving. The point is, they are giving it. Ergo it's not in maintenance mode.
LSD Dec 16, 2024 @ 2:57pm 
Giving it? Pushing it, more like.
Uriel Dec 16, 2024 @ 3:33pm 
Originally posted by LSD:
Calling them expansions is a real stretch. 99.9% recycled assets and mob grind =/= an expansion. Even the free LW stuff in the past had more meat to it than this stuff their skeleton crew of interns has been putting out.

Taking the WvW warclaw -- itself a reskinned non-flying griffon -- and going "yeah screw it, this can be the defining highlight" really speaks for itself.

Meanwhile core parts of the game like balance, major issues, bugs, server lag etc. haven't been touched in how many years now?

How long have you been playing ? A month or so ? The warclaw was released way before the griffon. Every MMO recycle assets, this one is no exception, but at least some of those were creative in the first place, like Sylvaris, for exemple. Do I really need to mention the uninspired "elves with eyebrows twice as large as their heads, alliance will have the blue ones when the horde will have the red ones" ?

As for bugs, server lag and so one, we really must not be playing the same game, for I have had none of this for the past 12 years... And however you may dislike the latest content you can't in good faith call "maintenance mode" a game that pushed 2 proper expansions in the time it takes most other game to spit a lightweight DLC or two. Or really, pushing any expansion at all. You want maintenance mode, check Champions Online.

Also, look at Elder Scrolls Online. Since Microsoft bought Zenimax, it's getting better (or "less worse", really), I'll give it that, but for years they pushed 4 expansions a year, two of which were merely dungeons you had to pay for, one single zone per other DLC, and one was called a "chapter" so it wasn't counted as a DLC you could have access with with the paid sub. Until next chapter was released and then it magically turned into a DLC. Their stories feel like fanfics written by kids who barely know the lore. And anytime you read "meaningful" in the patch notes, it translates into "tedious grind". Like "we wanted to make jewellry-making meaningfull" actualy meant "you will grind for ressources about 10 times more than for any other craft, gain 1/4th of the XP, and that will never be worth it". It was so "meaningful" that they recently patched it to be more along the line of everything else.

Say what you will about GW2, but a single expansion has more content than 2 or 3 years worth of ESO paid for content, at a fraction of the cost. And yet somehow ESO is considered a "great" MMO. Yeah, I suppose it was for a time, when it came out, then it got greedy AF. GW2 may have a greedy cash shop, but you never needed a new skin to actually play the game.
LSD Dec 16, 2024 @ 5:15pm 
Originally posted by Uriel:
Originally posted by LSD:
Calling them expansions is a real stretch. 99.9% recycled assets and mob grind =/= an expansion. Even the free LW stuff in the past had more meat to it than this stuff their skeleton crew of interns has been putting out.

Taking the WvW warclaw -- itself a reskinned non-flying griffon -- and going "yeah screw it, this can be the defining highlight" really speaks for itself.

Meanwhile core parts of the game like balance, major issues, bugs, server lag etc. haven't been touched in how many years now?

How long have you been playing ? A month or so ? The warclaw was released way before the griffon.
lol what? Griffon was there PoF release in 2017. Warclaw wasn't there till like 2 years after PoF. It's a griffon model without wings.
"How long have you been playing", good one.
Uriel Dec 16, 2024 @ 11:08pm 
Uh, my bad. For some reason I confused Griffon and Skyscale... Nevermind. The rest of my post stands, though. You're perfectly free to dislike the game, but it's definetely not in maintenance mode, and even games that are supposedly more active can push far more crap than this one.
RotherHans Dec 17, 2024 @ 1:25am 
Originally posted by Adaman:
27 is not enough? :D
In a way it's actually 81,
as every spec can be played in Support, Condition Damage, Power Damage build.
Depending on the stats and especially weapons loadout.

That's WELL ENOUGH complexity for any paygrade and kinda too much for the rump crew left to this 12 year old MMO still grinding out actual content.

9 more Elite Specs just isn't in the budget, IMHO.
A new weapon is all that we can look forward to, boosting either one of the support/power/condi builds.

My bet is on Trident next year.
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