Guild Wars 2

Can anyone give me a run down on the usefulness from asura only skills? I’m currently using the elite skill to summon a robot to fight w/me, and it whoops butt! The other skills don’t look as attractive :/

Radiation Field is great for 18 seconds worth of AoE Weakness and a significant amount of AoE condition damage. Pain Inverter is likewise a powerful condition damage pbAoE. Technobabble is crap.

As for Elites, the Battle suit is crap, both Golems are okay.

Pain inverter is great for when you get swarmed by bad guys. It makes a nice addition to my hammer warrior and bomber engineer anyway.

The Series D golem can be pretty useful. It has a huge hitpoint pool and intermittently sets down shield bubbles that reflect projectiles, it’s also quite responsive and tends to target your target, and also does a good job taking aggro off you.

I often use it alongside a phantasmal guardian (as a mesmer), which further reduces it’s damage received and it can routinely tank champions in dungeons for most of it’s duration.

The Series 7 golem I find tends to be too squishy, like the series D it has a habit of drawing aggro but it can’t take as good as it gives. It’s damage isn’t exactly stellar anyway, though it does in theory provide additional DPS it’s doubtful it’s DPS exceeds that of your class elites.

The power armour is just BAD in every way, it’s slow to attack, weak, if it dies, you die, it can’t jump so if you slip down a sharp surface you get stuck…

Actually I’ve found that Technobabble works “ok” in PvP if your a mesmer specced for interrupt/condition. Technobabble is a daze so it works with all the daze traits. Another cheap free stun. (Granted it does little to no dmg).

Sadly the battle suit is worthless, it was the one thing I was looking forward to for so long when I was planning out my asura. I think if it had the same kind of skills and mobility as one of the golems you use in a story mission (Short Fuse? idk maybe) and it’s own separate health pool it would be just fine. The damage would still suck like they intended it to since its a racial elite, but it would actually be fun to play and not a guaranteed deathtrap. As far as the other racial elites, they work fine, nothing stellar, but race skills aren’t supposed to be so one race can’t be considered overpowered from the others. Pain inverter is my favorite thing to use when using a channeled type skill when things love to beat on me but I can’t really do much (such as casting empower) so that I can keep my damage flowing (its not much dmg but better than sitting there, plus the confusion is super useful), radiation field is mildly useful as a deployable aoe, if nothing else, in wvw it scatters people cause all they see is the glow and instinctually run. technobabble isn’t bad but I can rarely time it right to work, not as easy to split second interrupt as it was in GW1 lol. Series D, as mentioned above, is one of my favorite asuran elites, series 7 works ok as extra dps, if you play a necro just add it to your “entourage” and since necros can aoe heal really well it’s a little easier to keep it alive.

Radiation Field is amazing on thieves. If you have 15 into deadly arts, and daggerstorm in the field, every thrown dagger will cause poisoning, and weakness. Not to mention blast finishing clusterbombs, and leaping heartseekers can keep the weakness on for much longer on champions.

Yeah, radiation field is a big help for my ranger as well, mostly because of the poison combo field.

It’ll be awesome if pain inverter could be usable in PVP….imagine a thief jumping up on you to spam his backstab combo…pop pain inverter and he’ll kill himself lol

monepipi.5160:

It’ll be awesome if pain inverter could be usable in PVP….imagine a thief jumping up on you to spam his backstab combo…pop pain inverter and he’ll kill himself lol

My World vs World build is built around pain inverter on my ranger.. and yes.. It does kill thieves insanely fast..

Incredibly powerful skill.