Guild Wars 2

This currently gives 1 second of super speed. It’s a bit useless…wouldn’t say buffing this trait to giving 3-5 seconds of superspeed (somewhere in that range) make it a worthwhile trait to take and help buff ele survivability / mobility?

Currently it is useless/underpowered, but I could see players taking this if it offered 4 seconds of superspeed.

I agree that it’s currently underpowered and completely ignored but making it 4 seconds will make Fresh Air builds race cars (I think it doesn’t have an ICD right now)

Don’t be sillt, that sort of thing would give eles some sort of fighting chance against thieves..

Then just put an ICD?

You know, One With Air would be the perfect “5 point minor air trait”, if it wasn’t for the no synergy with lingering elements. It’s flavored, it’s “cool”/ fun, it can be used stratetically, but it is not strong enough to sacrifice a major slot for, and you can’t just buff it without making it crazy with fresh air (or, well, maybe it can still be buffed a little, but just a little). By being a “free” 5-point invesment, I think it would work, but that can’t happen because our 5 minor traits must be tuned for lingering elements.

Kyon.9735:

I agree that it’s currently underpowered and completely ignored but making it 4 seconds will make Fresh Air builds race cars (I think it doesn’t have an ICD right now)

Fresh air has a 5 second ICD. One with Air’s “superspeed” doesn’t make you thaaat much faster, but its noticeable. It would be nice to keep super speed up 3/4th of the time, Ele does need some kind of drastic buffs to enter the meta for sPvP and even WvW. I honestly think giving Eles One with Air a great majority of the time would be completely fair if it was done in a way that catered to d/d build mainly, there is hardly any range on d/d so the ele has to get pretty close to you, allowing them to potentially get hit.

Grimreaper.5370:

Kyon.9735:

I agree that it’s currently underpowered and completely ignored but making it 4 seconds will make Fresh Air builds race cars (I think it doesn’t have an ICD right now)

Fresh air has a 5 second ICD. One with Air’s “superspeed” doesn’t make you thaaat much faster, but its noticeable. It would be nice to keep super speed up 3/4th of the time, Ele does need some kind of drastic buffs to enter the meta for sPvP and even WvW. I honestly think giving Eles One with Air a great majority of the time would be completely fair if it was done in a way that catered to d/d build mainly, there is hardly any range on d/d so the ele has to get pretty close to you, allowing them to potentially get hit.

I meant One with Air. But yeah, Super Speed paired with Fresh Air won’t save you from thieves but will help a lot in closing/widening the gap between you and your target. 4s of Superspeed itself without Fresh Air can make D/D have a more reliable gap closer than RtL.

But still I don’t think 4s of Super speed will happen even with the 5s ICD of Fresh Air because melee builds (cough warriors cough) will be crying about Elementalists’ mobility again. Nobody messes with the golden class.