Guild Wars 2

Elementalists currently have a 15 second cooldown on returning to an attunement, down to 9 seconds with 30 in arcane trait line.

My suggestion: Reduce it to 12 seconds base. Still 9 seconds with 30 in arcane line.

I read through the State of the Game and saw that they want to open up elementalist builds so everyone isn’t running the same bunker spec. This would be a great first step.

Attunement swaps and the powers within are not balanced for 15 second attunement swap times, not even close. As such, you aren’t going to get people out of putting 20+ points in arcane without some sort of change like this.

Fortunately for eles, the traits within the arcana line are actually good and wanted anyway. If you start fiddling with the placement of useful traits(as was mentioned in State of the Game) to get people out of the arcane tree, but without addressing the attunement swap cooldown reduction, it’s going to make for a pretty awkward situation as people are still going to go into it just for the required cooldown reduction.