New data on the Guild Wars 2 site has revealed what we already knew from the Manifesto: Everyone's favorite overpowered spell caster, the Elementalist, is back. And by the looks like it, he or she has some new, but still overpowered, tricks.
You can check out the videos of the Elementalist in action here, and I strongly encourage you to do so for three reasons. One, its the first video of player models using skills in-game. Two, it shows some in game graphics. Three, its awesome.
Now what the article and movies describe is a little unsettling. In Guild Wars 1, the Elementalist was a very powerful addition to the party but was constrained by the fact that there were only a limited amount of skills the player could cast in an instance and most would be from one or two elements only since any more would decrease the damage of the skills.
However, the article suggests that in Guild Wars 2 the Elementalist acts more like a Chromatic Drake (a monster found in the Eye of the North expansion), that using a special skill can change its skill bar and stats to match a different element. If the Elementalist can use Elemental Attunement to swap skills and stats at will, the two major limitations on the Elementalist in Guild Wars 1 would be removed, creating the ultimate machine of magical death. It'll be interesting to see how they balance this decision.
Also, as a side note there is a screen about an Elementalist of a different race (charr). I didn't mention this as I think it was pretty obvious that different races have access to the same classes but there you go. Whether or not some races cannot be certain classes has not been confirmed.
I'll bring you more updates as they appear.
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