Profession mechanic

Profession mechanics are combat abilities exclusive to a given profession. They consist of unique skills, effects and secondary mechanics which add to the characteristics of the professions. While all professions have unique skills and skill types to utilize, the profession mechanics further differentiate them.

Active profession mechanics skills such as bursts or stealing are activated with F1—F5 keys and the status of these skills as well as other profession mechanics are displayed by the mechanic bar which is positioned above the characters weapon skills in their skill bar. Every profession has a primary mechanic, which may be include one or more mechanics working together; for example, the necromancer uses their accumulated life force resource to enter Death Shroud. Generally speaking, profession mechanic of a profession refers to the skills activated through the function keys, but any mechanic exclusive to a profession can also be called a profession mechanic.

Each primary profession mechanic has a specialization tied to it. This can be either provide increase in recharge rate of their unique skills, a bonus in damage, or other effects. Primary and secondary mechanics often have traits tied to them. Adept minor traits for elite specializations change how a profession mechanic works, or replace it entirely.

Profession mechanic

Profession	Core mechanic	Specialization	Elite mechanic	Elite Specialization	Other mechanics
Guardian	Virtue	Virtues	Dragonhunter's Virtue	Dragonhunter
Revenant	Legend	Invocation	Facet of Nature	Herald	Energy
Warrior	Burst	Discipline	Primal burst	Berserker	Adrenaline
Engineer	Tool belt	Tools	Function Gyro	Scrapper	Device kit, weapon kit
Ranger	Pet	Beastmastery	Celestial Avatar	Druid
Thief	Steal	Trickery	Bound, Dash or Impaling Lotus	Daredevil	Initiative, Dual Wield skills, Stolen skills
Elementalist	Attunement	Arcane	Overload	Tempest
Mesmer	Shatter	Illusions	Continuum Split	Chronomancer	Illusions
Necromancer	Death Shroud	Soul Reaping	Reaper's Shroud	Reaper	Life force

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Skill types