In July, there will be a new event for World vs. World in the MMORPG Guild Wars 2. You can defeat your opponents and then take on parts of their class. At the same time, there will be additional rewards for one week.
How does the new “Class Swap” event work? During the one-week WvW event, defeated opponents leave a glowing orb above their corpse that you can collect.
By collecting it, you take on a part of your opponent’s class. However, only your healing and support skills change. Your equipment, weapons, and traits remain unchanged.
When does the event take place? The event starts with the WvW reset on July 5th at 8:00 PM. It will run for exactly one week, until July 12th at 8:00 PM.
Thus, it takes place parallel to the current Dragon Mayhem event, which runs until July 16th.
What additional rewards are there? During the event, you can look forward to additional rewards in World vs. World. You will receive:
- Double World Experience Points
- 25% additional progress on the WvW reward track
- +50% Magical Sensitivity
You only steal skills, not the playstyle
What was the idea behind the event? According to the blog post, the event is about getting to know the opponent better. Therefore, after defeating them, you can take over their class.
Many players compare the event to the secondary class system from Guild Wars 1. Some even suspect a secret test behind it to see if such a system would be well received in Guild Wars 2.
In general, ArenaNet is returning to more of the predecessor’s concepts and has already adopted the idea of regular events in April:
How does the class theft work? Once you have collected the glowing orb, you will receive the healing, support, and elite skills of the opposing class. So, it only concerns the second five skills on the right side of the health points.
However, in the theft, you do not take the five skills of the opponent, but five pre-made ones that are always the same. From a thief, you always receive:
- Withdraw (Healing Skill)
- Scorpion Wire
- Blinding Powder
- Scaled Poison
- Thief Guild (Elite Skill)
How meaningful is the event? While some players look forward to the fresh wind in World vs. World, many see the event as rather pointless.
This is mainly due to the fact that you only steal five skills that have no synergy with your own class or playstyle.
Since the skills are predetermined, many players also expect that there won’t be any accidentally overpowering combinations of classes.
Some players are also eagerly waiting for the announced alliance update and now feel that this will be delayed further due to such events in WvW.
Even if the event may not be the most meaningful, our author Alexander Leitsch still finds the development of Guild Wars 2 to be positive:
