Guild Wars 2

The most annoying useless trait that we elementalist must have.

Arcane Power Trait
Lingering Elements (Attunement bonuses linger for 5 seconds) This trait only works with Soothing Mist and Flame Barrier. You can swap it with Renewing Stamina, because for staff ele we have to use Blasting Staff for skill radius. Staff ele need as much vigour as D/D or S/D. it not like we can spam Evasive Arcana Right Now

Air Magic Trait
Zephyr’s Speed (Move 10% faster while attuned to air) I don’t really get why the dev put this trait at all…

Fire Magic Trait
Flame Barrier (You have a 20% chance to cause burning whenever a foe attacks you in melee. Only triggers when attuned to fire). Elementalist hp pool are too low to withstand five hit from any job at closed range to give them 1 sec burning…

Earth Magic Trait
Stone Flesh (Gain 1 toughness per level while attuned to earth). So to gain 80 toughness I have to stay at earth attunement all the time?

Agreed that Lingering Elements needs to be fixed to work with all minors. It’s just silly. (it does still work with damage boosts and such, however, like 10% damage in air).

Perhaps flame barrier could change to an X percent chance to gain a Fire aura or something more useful— or even just a power boost like Earth gets. But yeah, I guess we shouldn’t just accept lame traits that could be improved.

I don’t have a problem with Zephyr’s Speed— its good for running around the world, as with Signet of Air (assuming they stack, I haven’t checked) it allows you to match the movement speed of Swiftness.

As someone who has abandoned heavy Arcane builds, moving Renewing Stamina to a minor trait would make the tree much more attractive— as I could then grab 3 of the awesome traits contained in, rather than just 2 + vigor. It also would synergize very well with Evasive Arcana.