Guild Wars 2 reveals the Engineer’s Mechanist spec, details next week’s beta

    
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ArenaNet is taking the wraps off its ninth and final elite spec for Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons today: It’s the Engineer’s Mechanist, “a dynamic innovator, using their mechanical expertise and advanced Canthan technology to battle alongside a jade mech of their own creation.” And as awesome as this looks, you can kinda understand why it was saved for last.

“Choose your mech’s traits and use it to crush your enemies—together, you’re unstoppable. Mech Commands are selected by the player’s trait choices—in effect, the specialization traits you choose customize your mech’s loadout for combat. The mechanist can specialize in various combat roles. They gain access to the mace as a new main-hand weapon, which can be used to apply barriers to allies, synergizing strongly with specific traits in the specialization. Signet utility skills allow them to give further bonuses to themselves and the mech. These signets can have a variety of impacts, such as commanding your mech to emit a large protective force field for allies to shelter inside, creating an electric field around it to confuse enemies, or commanding your mech to unleash its ultimate weapon, the Jade Buster Cannon.”

Earlier this week, the studio unveiled the Thief’s scepter-wielding Specter and the Ranger’s bunny-thumpin’ Untamed specs.

Click to read the Specter's blurb
Click to read the Untamed's blurb

All three specs, in addition to the previous six, will be on display during next week’s beta. “The third beta for Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons kicks off next Tuesday, October 26 and runs until Saturday October 30, giving players a first look at the final three new elite specializations coming to the expansion next February,” the studio notes. “Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons will have one final beta event featuring all nine professions and the first hands-on with the siege turtle, the game’s first co-op mount, taking place in November.” Like the two previous betas, this one is open to all players of the game, even free-to-play players; all you’ll need to do is log in and create a temporary character and you’ll be outfitted for the new specs.

Source: Press release
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