DaCalZone: Orbs floating around Elementalist would be so cool! We could call it Catalyst or something!

lord_mavubo4665: Found this translation on facebook: "Leading the sacred rite, communing with the profound; heroic brilliance blazing through frost."

Looks like Necro/Ritualist to me.

xeridian: "Its Ornate, Its Curved, Its Weird, Its Otherworldly" - That's What She Said

PhatSpheal: i feel like they wouldn't do another health sacrifice mechanic for the necro spec, since harbinger's blight mechanic is basically that already

Ram-GW2: The Chinese text implies the ritualist or a Rev.

Edit: Chinese translation (poor attempt!)

引祭通玄 英芒灼霜

-Leading Sacrifice to the Mysterious, Brilliant Hero Scorching Dew

引祭通玄

引 means "to lead" or "to guide",

祭 means "to sacrifice" or "to offer",

通 means "to pass through" or "to connect",

玄 is a term that refers to the mysterious or the unknown,

英芒灼霜

英 means "hero" or "brilliance",

芒 refers to the sharp, pointed tips of grass or a plant,

灼 means "to burn" or "to scorch",

霜 refers to frost or dew,

This gives weight to the idea that the dagger icon is for the Necro Ritualist. It could also be a reference to Rev, but I think that unlikely since dagger isn't a core weapon for Rev.

SilhouetteGaming1: While i appreciate the daily slop- i do feel like i was at a fast food place and the worker was distracted flirting with a coworker. The food ultimately tastes the same.

muovikallo: Assassins did have kris daggers in GW1. Then again kris daggers irl are connected to rituals and spiritualism so I'm guessing Ritualist as well

altarium4220: Assassin is already in GW2 in Thief and Willbender.

I don’t see what they could bring from GW1’s assassin that isn’t already in-game.

ElfTaleFilms: This is definitely a dagger spec for the thief. Daggers are the foundation for the thief professions and it's important to make sure that foundation is established for the future of the game's development

Anon-q3q: Cards is for Guardian. It has the same Diamonds symbol as Willbender. Also 3 Cards = 3 Virtues (maybe something like Oracle idk).

xeridian: The Atom Icon is Scythe Blades around an orb representing the Body, that Is DERVISH and its medium armor, will be for Ranger.

H0m0f1rST: Thank you MightyTeaslop for my daily dose of Gw2 slop content!

icewyrm.: The real question is... will they be taking alac/quick away from existing specs to give to these new ones? Or are these new specs basically just gonna be another flavor of dps/heals? Without a larger game systems overhaul there doesn't seem to be much design room for anything else. I guess they could be dps specs with some nice utility skills that the existing ones don't have, but I assume there would then be tradeoffs of some kind.

Armadan7: It's clearly a Levin sword from fire emblem

Yäzo5432: Why are people trying to blend necro/ritualist? They were 2 separate classes in gw1. If they make ritualist a necro spec would be so weird.

jaredfink5146: I agree. This is ritualist.

KapitanPonton: I love the slop era

fadfe: dagger - thief

card - mesmer

bard - ranger

is a possibility

DocM94: This is actually the Revenant assassin spec with Nika as the legend, mark my words

MikeyMacMac: Honestly its very interesting that we could be getting two of the 4 original expansion classes brought to GW2. We see skills from those being used in the already existing classes in GW2 so either we are getting all 4 and its a GW2 reworking of them, or they are very similar and named something different. Or, the greatest tease of all, these are new specs for new classes that will begin GW3. Very interesting and xant wait for Tuesday or October!

gamingchef7678: It could be for warrior class!

Nooctae: Assassin mechanics are already in the game, it's on the Thief spear

gahvno: Or I could simply be a kris, which pretty much looks exactly like this and is functional.

fosbjorn: Just call it blood mage. Self-hurt to make everyone around you stronger.

RoyCence: i dont agree with this being ridiculous or too ornate for assassin back in gw1 assassin had many daggers with this design like Ssaresh Kris Daggers and the regular kris daggers which were weapons available for the assassin it would make sense for them to follow similar design principle on gw2 im thinking this design of daggers will be the weapon you unlock when unlocking the elite spec like the past ones where you get a unique weapon tied to the spec

INDAREVISH: They could change the name of the pvp achievement, they did with the harbinger skill scourge had to make it its own spec

Jul 15 2025

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