Elementalists seek ancient knowledge locked in tomes or particularly powerful elemental locations. For instance, you may walk into an inn and persuade a shadowy stranger to tell you about a mysterious tome full of arcane knowledge. If you are successful at aquiring the tome it will unlock the secrets of magical energy.

The less intellectually-blessed Warriors train physically, bash stuff, drink stuff and eat stuff. A Warrior's challenge may be to duel a legendary swordmaster and, if victorious, the swordmaster will teach you his skills, allowing you to select the Sword Mastery trait.

Main Hand Weapons : Axe, Sword, Mace.
Offhand Items : Shield, Warhorn, Axe, Sword, Mace.
Two-Handed Weapons : Hammer, Greatsword, Longbow, Rifle.

Axe Warrior quickly builds up his adrenaline to deliver powerful spike attacks to cut down his enemies.

Sword Warrior is quick, agile and highly mobile, bouncing between foes with a "Savage Leap", inflicting bleeding on his foes as he goes.

Hammer Warrior smashes his enemies and pounds the ground, staggering groups of foes with devastating area attacks.

Mace Warrior uses powerful stunning attacks to disrupt foes and hits them where it hurts leaving them susceptible to further blows.

Greatsword Warrior uses sweeping area of effect attacks to decimate his foes with his two-handed weapon.

Longbow Warrior inflicts fiery area of effect damage using incendiary arrow.

Rifle Warrior pulls distant foes or delivers the final killing shot on fleeing enemies using the single-target ranged weapon.

Stances : Lets you turn on adrenaline enhancement at the cost of energy regeneration. For example, a warrior could hit "Berserker's Stance" which drains his energy, but give him adrenaline regeneration. Toggling off the skill will send it into the recharge phase.

Shouts : Spells that affect a large area, giving bonuses to allies or debuffing enemies. A warrior using the shout "On My Mark" can call a foe to be targetted by party memebers and lower the enemy's armor rating. Added to this are traits that increase the number of targets your shouts affect.

Charge Skills : For even more impressive attacks, some skills can be held down to power them up. A Mace Warrior can power up the skill "Obliterate" through four different power levels and then release it at a particular level to inflict increasing amounts of damage to their unfortunate target.

Chains : In a great improvement to efficiency, Guild Wars 2 Warriors now have a set of three skills that share a single skill slot! The sword warrior for example, has the chained skills "Sever Artery", "Gash", and "Final Thrust" all on the same key, so rather than using three skillbar slots, they stack to fill only one slot. Similar in activation to the GW1 Assassin, chains go off in sequence if you are hitting your target. In this example Gash becomes available only if Sever Artery hits its target and then Final Thrust becomes available only if Gash hits. Chains effectively give a warrior two extra weapon skills on a weapon set. The GW2 Krewe LOVE this concept!

Banners : The warrior calls down banners to buff his allies with attack power. A banner can be picked up and carried around to move the buff, or it can be planted in an area to convey the buff, allowing the warrior to continue fighting. One example is Banner of Courage, which increases the melee damage of allies within its range. There are also traits which increase the duration of your banners.

Fire Elementalist - FIRE attunement automatically causes flame damage to any foe foolish enough to touch the Ele, who still has the ability to inflict massive damage on multiple enemies by raining down molten rock from above or turning the ground to fire.

Air Elementalist - AIR attunement causes nearby enemies to be continuously shocked by lightning strikes and transforms the destructive powers of wind and lightning into dazzling bolts of lightning which surge from the Elementalist's fingertips.

Water Elementalist - WATER attunement provides nearby allies with continuous healing while offering the Elementalist a means of controlling an opponent's movement with slippery ice or by freezing foes solid.

Earth Elementalist - EARTH attunement offers automatic magical protection to the Elementalist along with powerful defensive skills which can turn the ground, or even flesh, to stone. The earth Ele is not just a defender though as volcanic eruptions and seismic shocks are all at the Elementalist's call.

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