[GW2] It's Magic!

The Yogscast Elementalist preview vid is must-watch -- those guys are adorable (WOWww!) and it does a superb job showing off the endless litany of Elementalist abilities. The ability animations do really look fantastically amazingly fabulous.

I was never really that big into Mages -- I get it, you wear a dress and cast Fireball and Lightning Bolt, you're basically the same in every game ever, maybe you get really wild and run around with a pet puddle or a sad, little baby Rock-Man.

But, looking at that video, those are some really bad-ass spells. And it's not just the beautiful spell animations -- the spells genuinely look fun to use -- they have fun applications. You can scoot back and forth leaving trails of blazing fire like the Ghost Rider. You can zoom forward on gusts of wind and make the earth burp rings of fire and ice.

You still get all your classic spells like Chain Lightning and Rain of Fire, but the class also gives you new toys - things like boomerang-ing aqua-swords and crackling electro-whips. Earth Spells can allow you to play like Magneto, flying through the air towards your target while a shield of pure force deflects attacks sent your way.


There looks to be a huge bag of tricks to play with, with 100 different ways to play this class.