With the new Guild Wars 2 expansion comes the new two-handed spear weapon for all professions, and now we have one more chunk of details to get you ready. In anticipation for Janthir Wilds in August, the team shared one more blog and a livestream of gameplay to show off the spear’s capabilities.
The final blog gets into quite a bit of detail about the Mesmer, Revenant, and Elementalist’s takes on the new weapon, with each profession’s new abilities integrated with the spears. If you’re not caught up, the team already covered the spear necessities (sorry, bad pun) in a separate post, including how you’ll have the chance to earn the Kodan Spear Training Mastery, and the fact that ranged versus melee use varies by class.
For Mesmer, a new Clarity skill prompts you to hit from precisely the right spot, rewarding you with bonus effects in other attacks. Revenants’ spear attacks center around pulling off Abyssal Raze, an AoE skill that stacks and prompts bonus effects. As for Elementalists, you’ll be able to use different abilities based on your choice of element, and then build up to a far larger weapon skill.
There was also a live gameplay preview showing off the skills on Twitch. The animations look fantastic, as the chat points out, and VFX are just as neat, with skills such as Abyssal Raze having great stacking effects.
Guild Wars 2 devs have already shared details about spear use for other professions. One blog highlighted it for Warrior, Thief and Engineer, while another got into it for Guardian, Ranger, and Necromancer.
