The Advanced Weapon Skills of Guild Wars 2
Hey out there, gamer friends! Grab your virtual armor and sharpen your digital swords. It's time to take a look at the advanced weapon skills coming to Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure™ with the major update in 2024. Today, we're focusing on the Elementalist and their new pistol weapon. Ready? Well then, let's dive into the adventure!
Elemental Ammunition - A New Feature
The pistol is a condition-focused weapon, offering mobility, crowd control, and a lot of damage. But that's not all! It also brings an interesting mechanic with it - elemental bullets. These are bonus effects you receive when using a pistol skill. Sounds exciting, right? Let's delve deeper.
The Mechanics of Elemental Orbs
When you use a pistol skill (excluding auto attacks), one of two things happens. Either the skill performs its base behavior and generates an orb of its element, or it consumes an existing elemental orb to gain a bonus effect. For example, if you use the skills "Shattering Stone" (Slot 2) or "Boulder Blast" (Slot 3) and there is already an earth orb, it will be consumed and grant you a bonus.
The Elementalist's Pistol
The new pistol offers exciting tactical decisions for the Elementalist. Depending on the situation, you can opt for more damage or more defense. And that's just a taste of what awaits you. For more information, check out our article on the Guild Wars 2 Key.
Weaver - A New Level of Complexity
The Weaver adds even more interest by allowing you to focus on multiple elements at once and access multi-element dual attacks. Interacting with the elemental orbs provides additional possibilities and challenges.
Preview and Beta Event
We are excited to see how you, as players, will utilize the mechanics of the elemental orbs. And the developers are looking forward to showing you more of the new weapons in the livestream on November 27th. And the best part: You can already try out these weapons in the beta event for advanced weapon skills, which runs from November 28th to December 3rd. So grab your Guild Wars 2 Key and get ready for the adventure!
See you in the Mists!
