#bladesworn

[ilona-art]

Piece of Tetrica Jadeblade, my Bladesworn. Recently started playing the spec and I'm kinda kicking myself for not playing it before cuss it's super fun. 👀 Sponsored by ArenaNet

[sabrerine911]

"Big Berserker, Quaggan uppies and the fractal adventurers." finished! (GW2 crossover piece) This was…a lot of colors XD

[zlideart]

Can’t forget the occasional guildwars2 admiration post :)

Having fun experimenting with shading methods on my Bladesworn!

[onemanwarband]

Octahedron as of JW

Spoiler tagged as a precaution since I'll be editing this post.

The "peacemaker" kit from character select. Why? because I'm too aesthetic for my own good.

Therefore: hylek hue potion to show the details more. I wanna take some fancier ones in her shadows spooky hot topic mode, but today is not that day.

[fellis-world]

Discovering the Gunblade. Thenzyn finding a faster and much more devastating way to end his missions ~

[mordremiya]

lanceris me boy

ive finally been motivated to do art on the regular!!

[virtue-of-justice]

[senterya]

TL;DR of the 2nd elite specialization beta preview

Vindicator

They gain access to the "Legendary Alliance Stance" - utility skills will flip between belonging to Archomorus (red) or Viktor (blue) when used. Archomorus' skills will be more offensive and Viktor's will be more defensive/supportive. F2 ("Alliance tactics") will flip all your skills to the other side.

They want to be in bigger fights, as they have aoes and wide cleave with greatsword.

Access to only one dodge, but with a longer evade frame and with a "charging up" aoe implying where you will land, and with impact damage.

Not intended to be a boon support, but can offer a few boons to the team.

"We might actually get some spirit bickering" between the Shiro and the new legends, according to Indigo.

Bladesworn

The gunsaber uses amber bullets mined in Echovald Forest and is based on Kurzick tradition.

Gunsaber is your second weapon - meaning weapon swap in combat is not possible, you can only swap between the gunsaber and your first weapon set.

Adrenaline is changed into "flow" - it starts building up passively as you enter combat (not granted depending on you hitting the enemy).

F2 turns on "dragon trigger", a stance that changes your 1-5 skills on gunsaber, consuming flow and filling up the upper ammo-like "charge" bar. The more charged the bar is, the higher damage your gunsaber's 1-3 will deal. Skill 4 gives aegis and 5 gives you a small teleport while you are in dragon trigger.

Pistol will come with damage and mobility.

Utility skills are a new type called "Armaments". Most of them have two charges.

Elite skill will reload all ammo-type skills with +1 charge (tradeoff for it are longer cooldowns on most skills in the bladesworn kit).

Catalyst

Invokes imagery of celestial beings.

Melee and mid-range dps specialization - "Hammer is the new melee bruiser weapon". They were careful to give it skills that make it a little different from dagger/dagger.

Hitting enemies charges up the Jade Sphere - your new F5. Works similarly to gyro, you can place down a pulsing aoe with it that changes depending on which element you are attuned to.

Hammer skill 3 (in each attunement) summons a circling orb around the Catalyst that deals damage - switching between elements and using skill 3 again refreshes the duration of the already existing orb(s) and adds a new one. Recasting the skill fires the orbs at the enemy.

Fire and air are mid-range and high damage, water and earth are melee and more defensive.

(won't go through all 20 skills it's too much and I was too excited to take proper notes hhhhhhh).

New utility skill type called "augments": duration-based buffs basically, all related to different elements.

I'm not covering traits to keep the post at a reasonable length, but keep an eye on the GW2 reddit if you are interested in those as people usually screenshot and post every tooltip and traitline from the stream!