To prepare the players for new, exciting content, Guild Wars 2 releases a new, exciting elite Specialization for every class when they release a new expansion! The Mechanist Specialization for engineers allows them to wield maces and summon a giant jade mech to aid them in combat. RELATED: Guild Wars 2: End Of Dragons - Who Is The New Dragon?
There are three situations that require a team-oriented build: Raids, Challenge Mode (CM) Strikes, and CM Master Tier Fractals. For everything else, just bring passable skill. By the time you do all the content leading up to these things, you can afford a second set of ascended for a team-oriented build.
after the removal of aegis spam on FB, the halving of scourge barrier, and the absolute gutting of battle scars on revenant, the only classes with innate self sustain on their highest dps builds are power scrapper (impact savant), condi virtuoso (jagged mind), and power reaper (soul eater). every other class, power or condi, has to take a dps
In GW2 it doesn't, at least not outside of Elite Specializations. And those specializations can be treated as their own class (which you can swap into without restarting), so the same thing applies; they might get nerfed or buffed but their complexity is the same as it was when it was released.
Image via ArenaNet. This Elite Specialization is all about overloading, giving the Elementalist access to a warhorn and shouts. Once attuned to an element for six seconds, the Tempest can do
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