Guild Wars 2

One of the things I’ve kinda missed about the original GW’s was the pure forms for Elementalist. When I first heard about GW and then GW2 is to make a Geomancer Elementalist.

So where did they go?

I know that the current form of GW2 doesn’t really support the idea of running a pure Geomancer, I mean sure you could stick in one Attunement but anyone that plays Elementalist will tell you that’s a really bad idea, and even then you only have the 5 skills.

So I got to thinking about the best way to represent a more “Pure” aspect form of Elementalist and then it hit me.

In each one of the Fire, Air, Earth, Water aspects have a Grandmaster Trait called: “Pyromancer, Aeromancer, Geomancer, and Hydromancer”

These Grandmaster traits once selected would allow you to equip a second weapon set with zero cooldown between switching. BUT! the weapon set would only be unlocked for that Aspect.

So If as an Elementalist I was running Dagger Dagger and lets say had 30 points in Earth to unlock Geomancer I could equip a second weapon set, lets say a Staff for ease of use.

I would still have all the regular Dagger Dagger skills but when in earth Attunement I could weapon swap to gain access to Staff Earth Attunement abilities. Switching to another aspect would switch me back to Dagger Dagger weapon set.

Also if you spent 30 in Geomancer and 30 in another aspect lets say Water to get Hydromancer, you would gain access to the 2nd weapon set for both of those aspects.

Anyways I thought it was a great idea and a nifty suggestion for people that like to run a more themed type of Elementalist.

-Crow

So then Eles and only Eles, who already have more skills than everybody else, will get even more skills.

Yes. But there is a big difference between having skill and useful skills.

Sure ele’s have tons of skills but most of those are so much chaff unless you are spec to utilize them.

The point is the things you are spec’d to utilize you very little skills to maximize it and further more have to switch away from those spec’d aspects to be functional as a ele.

Dinks.2478:

So then Eles and only Eles, who already have more skills than everybody else, will get even more skills.

Its funny when people complain about elemetalist skills. Do you know, engineer can have even more skills (5 weapon + 5×4 kits + 4 belt + 1 elite = 30)? But without cooldown for swap, and he can edit amount of skills to choose effective for his curent build, plus he doesn’t stuck in one range. So enough to carry nonsense that elementalist has huge amount of powerful skills.
P.S.We have attunement cooldown even out of combat, when other classes can swap weapons without it.

Dinks.2478:

So then Eles and only Eles, who already have more skills than everybody else, will get even more skills.

One word: engineers.