Allow us to introduce you to the latest elite specialization to be featured in the upcoming Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns expansion: The Scrapper. Pulverize your opponents while wielding battle hammers or employ the aid of a team of mini mechs to assist you along your journey with this new elite specialization!
The Scrapper will offer a wide array of new traits, tool belt skills, utilities, and weaponry to the already extensive arsenal of the Engineer. A few of the Scrapper’s new skills will include Thunderclap, a maneuver which electrically charges the area surrounding the Scraper, sending lightning bolts colliding into nearby enemies stunning and inflicting damage. Rocket Charge is also bound to be a fan favorite, this new skill enables the Scraper to dash towards an enemy with a rocket-charged hammer inflicting a crushing blow to the target.
The Scrapper, being a mastermind of all things tech, will also have the ability to create Mini Gyros to lend specific forms of aid and support during battle. According to GuildWar’s official page, the Scrapper will employ the aid of several types of gyros which are formatted to serve specific purposes:
Purge Gyro
Deploy a purge gyro to remove conditions from nearby allies.
- This little fellow will follow you around, cleansing you or zipping to allies with conditions on them for purging every few seconds. This invention helps cover the engineer’s weakness to conditions giving the scrapper a window to either focus on the offensive, enable a swift escape, or both!
- Tool Belt Skill—Chemical Field: Generate a noxious cloud of concentrated chemicals.
- The Purge Gyro’s cartridges of cleansing chemicals are incredibly toxic if not diluted. By shattering one at their location the scrapper creates a pulsing field of poison to damage foes and use for combo finishers.
Sneak Gyro
Deploy a sneak gyro to provide stealth to nearby allies.
- The scrapper’s elite utility provides a pulsing cloak field around it veiling you and your allies from enemies. The gyro itself remains visible.
The Scraper will undoubtedly change up the standard game play of the Engineer, adding a more combat-savvy element to the class that was not so previously apparent. If you are interested in a more extensive look at the scrapper we encourage you to check out the official Guildwars2 Scrapper page for all the details.