What are you even saying here… Why I think two attunements would be balanced? We all have two weapon sets, and seeing as that is the basis of balance, what is your point. You could still build offensively or defensively or hybrid if you prefer, just pick your two elements.
Yeah everybody has 2 weaponsets but their weaponsets are complete.Elementalist weaponstets have the lowest damage autoattacks ,unreliable skills to land that require skills from other utilities and are full of filler skills like shatterstone and dust devil on scepter..
Lets take an example.Offencive ele.
You ll need fire + air cause 1 of them has so lackluster damage that you wont even kill a balance build.Now not only don tyou have ANY form of defence but you also need to dedicate your whole utilities with cc skills like signet of earth or a lolool conjure cause you can land your burst without healp of other attunements plus you cant sustain your self at all,plus you have 13k life ,maximum damage thats not even half of warrior,no prot regen,less mobility in d/d and twice as much cooldowns on your skills and otherwise completely unreliable burst.
For bunker water ele you d need water and earth.But cond removal happens when you swith to water.But now you can switch to water every 20sec cause after you go there first time earth will be in cd and you wont be abl to switch back.
You do lower than half damage the guard has ,cant sustain boons due to attunement cd,no mobility a burst heal thats available very 20 sec now..you are the definition of uselessness.
Im not gonna go through all 6 different combinations of elements but trust me they all suck..And that is obvious since the class was design to function with everything.
You cant make a warrior play with only 1 weaponset.
But even if they were to redesign skills(lower cd,raise damage) you are basically asking the same as removing for example mesmer clones and giving them an axe and shield
I see what your saying but I disagree with a few points. Forcing elements would imo make the ele more customizable. Because I figure every ele would want to achieve something different.
The attune swap effects could become swapping to weapons of that attunement effects.
BTW no weapon set in this game is complete, that is why we have two. Even mesmer has two sets only, shatters are just added abilities not a whole new set of skills. Closest thing to ele is engineer in terms of ui setup, but even engi only gains extra skills by equipping proper utilities. Ele would generate its power still from swapping weapons, and with the arcane lingering, boon uptime would still be half of weapon swap or so, so you wont lose effectiveness there.
Cons would be loss to access of skills for every situation. But currently no other profession has that ability. Guard example, choose staff and want that hammer cc mid match oh well. Ele chose damage and turns out I need support? well like everyone else you would suffer for you choice.
Honestly in 20 skill skill bars there is at least 1 skill for every situation. dual swaps for every one else gets a skill for essentially half of the situations.
But an overhaul like this has gw3 written all over it. It is too big a change.
K Pop
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