Guild Wars 2

So my main is an Elementalist. And I am a big fan of staying in one attunement, so the idea of overloading the attunement is very cool to me. However it’s very clear the overloading favors melee-based elementalist builds. Though it really isn’t that big of a deal to run in, start the overloading then run back out when it’s done (I realize if you’re stacking then it’s kind of a moot point).

But so far I’m liking that portion of the elite specialization.

Currently Warhorn feels…lackluster. I like the idea that were given, but the implementation just feels very anti-climactic. Even the animations are very subpar. I feel like using warhorn on ranger and necro, the animations and effects fit and don’t feel like they just fall off (Not much experience using it on warrior). When I use my warhorn on Ele to summon an orb of lightning, and this little ball that you can barely see the “zaps” on the enemies kind of just falls out of the warhorn, it’s not very satisfying to see. Fire4 on Warhorn seems useful and would be interesting to make a build around, but the animation on it is not really existent.

I feel like I mostly used the warhorn Air4 for swiftness, didnt’ use the 5, Used Water5 for healing people, rarely used the 4. Didn’t even really use Earth attunement. I think I used the dust storm a few times, but then I mostly used the Fire5 to set up a fire field for might followed by Fire 4 to spread the aoe might i just gave.

All in all I like the idea of the overloads, but the Tempest doesnt’ seem to be adding anything right now. It seems to me like staff is still more of utile than the warhorn.