Guild Wars 2

Lets talk about these shall we? They are generally regarded as the worst possible choices in the game. Everything from Norns’ Become The… to Rampage for Warrior are just awful. Poor Necromancer has two out of his three Elites being Transforms; when fighting under water he can only use the worse of the two.

I don’t think there is any Transform in the game right now that is actually good. They don’t grant you enough bonuses to make up for the fact that you lose out on your Healing skill and your three Utility skill.

I really hope Anet is planning on rehauling the Transform mechanic.

Maining an engineer and thief only, Ive only expeirenced 4 of the transforms, whirlpool I believe is actually pretty good with the never-ending pull and decent dmg per pulse, I wish I could use it on land. Daggerstorm I think is a transform, is decent in some circumstances. The other 2 might be decent if they had a CD of say… maybe 40s lol?

Anyways, a simple perma boon or skill added would fix a lot of them, tornado for example, is very slow and melee, permanent swiftness or a dash skill could make it so much better when it comes to hunting down ranged. Rampage, on the other hand, is much better off than tornado, but would greatly benefit from a heal skill or quickness to compensate for its slow attacks and loss of other skills. Btw, Im mainly in WvW, so I do realize that usefulness differ greatly between pve and pvp, and should probably be split or buffed accordingly.

Personally, I dont believe they are as terrible as what I hear about them, they are just supa situational and most of the time not worth the CD. Give them a heal, one perma boon and/or a skill to compensate for each ones weakness.

Lord Aargadon.4135:

Personally, I dont believe they are as terrible as what I hear about them, they are just supa situational and most of the time not worth the CD. Give them a heal, one perma boon and/or a skill to compensate for each ones weakness.

Pretty much this. I haven’t seen or used Tornado in a loooong time now. I wonder why.

I use Lich Form and Plague all the time, I love those skills and feel they are worth it. /shrug

Tome of Wrath and Tome of Courage for Guardians are pretty good. They’re not abilities that you’re counting the seconds until they’re off cooldown, but they’re situationally powerful which is how elites seem to be intended.

Most racial abilities aren’t worth using, so Norn aren’t really unique there. The warrior transformation elite doesn’t get used much, but I’m not sure if that’s because it’s necessarily weak or if Signet of Rage is just so powerful. Rampage seems more about CC whereas Signet of Rage is about damage and speed. There aren’t a lot of PvE situations where CC is MORE valuable than 30 seconds of might, frenzy, and swiftness, so it obviously won’t see much use.

As a Norn Ranger, I looked forward to my “Become the Leopard” skill. After I used it I was saddened by the actual effect. I lose my pet, my skills, and they are replaced with sadly under-powered and lackluster abilities.

I will have to place the “Become the Leopard” skill as simply a cosmetic skill used when roleplaying.

Its simple..

If they didn’t lock me to the spot on every use and lasted say 5 mins (or permanently, they are far from overpowered) i’d use them..

I’n their current form they sit in my skill selection gathering dust because they are useless..

I wouldn’t call Daggerstorm a Transform.

It is a channeling ability.