Guild Wars 2

Tornado has a CD of 180. Its damage is usually around 1000 per tick. You can make it blind, knock back, or damage foes. It has a radius of 340, is a whirl combo, and gives 15 seconds of stability.

Dagger storm has a CD of 90. It does damage about equal to the tornado between bleeding a direct damage. It reflects projectiles. It cripples. It has a radius of 900, and it gives 8 seconds of stability.

Which one of these elites would you rather pick? The answer is obvious. Tornado just doesn’t feel strong at all. If a man spinning like a dervish with two daggers can reflect projectiles then why can’t 500 mph winds at least destroy them? You can still run from the tornado but killing it with arrows doesn’t make a lick of sense. And if you’re going to keep the range so pitiful then at least make it hit hard. Dagger storm hits the same and has thrice the range, which isn’t right.
Tornado needs a serious buff because going into it right now is just a death sentence.

I’ve tried time and again to use Tornado in SPvP on my ele. It’s pretty much worthless (pretty good in the water though). The enemies can run away from it easy, you’re no less squishy in it than you are out of it, and it has an activation time that makes it too clunky to actually use. Is anyone even aware of what their tornado is doing when they add the skills into the wind? Seriously makes me feel kitten for even trying to use it. At least the greater elemental does something useful.

Many have had similar complaints, many expect dagger storm to get some serious nerfing duration wise, I predict it will retain reflect but also make the user still take damage upon reflect. As for tornado its good for shoving people into wall and keeping them there, so you just have to be smart when you use it, unlike other elite panic buttons. Like Chief said, tornado underwater/whirlpool has some serious stopping power, good damage on top of huge pulling power, Ive soloed groups as large as 5 using it since it keeps them from escaping, attacking, and healing.