Guild Wars 2

1. Lucid Singularity now reduces the cooldown on overloads by 20% and reduces the effects of the singularity trait by 40%, meaning the cooldown on overloads when attunement swapping is now 3 seconds instead of 5. This will give elementalists a higher resistance to immob, chill, and cripple while runnng glassy builds.

2. Tempestuous Aria reduces the cooldown of shouts by 20%, they apply 5 seconds of weakness (buffed from 3 seconds). Wash the pain away could be altered to keep a 20 sec cooldown when traited, or it could remain the same.

3. Shouts: “Eye of the Storm!” applies 3 seconds of quickness. This would make it not only easier to actually land an overload since it would be exponentially quicker, but you’d be able to catch up with most players so they can’t as easily kite out of your circles. This would also affect the trait “Gale Song”. Aftershock’s cooldown is now 35 seconds.

4. Warhorn Skills: Heat Sync’s cooldown is now 15 seconds. Wild Fire applies 2 burning stacks for 6 seconds per pulse. Lightning Orb’s radius is now 450. Cyclone’s range is now 900, radius is 360. Dust Storm applies 2 seconds of blind in a 1 sec interval.

5. Overloads: Overload Fire now applies 2 burn for 5 seconds in a 1 sec interval. Overload Water is now a water field. Overload Air’s Static Charge now ensures your next 3 hits deliver a lightning strike (buffed from next 1 attack). Hardy Conduit applies 4 seconds of protection (buffed from 3) so it now completely overlaps the overload.

Please keep the comments civil.

chargeup time on overloads is 6s fyi, not 5

And I hope those are 5 different options, as I don’t have anything civil to say if you think all 5 should be applied at once.

By the way, half of those would be hilarious in pve, where ele doesn’t have any problems.

I’d rather see buffs that don’t benefit the supportive build in any way rather than general buffs. which rules out all but the first two. but even then, #2 could have use on support builds with that cooldown reduction. but #1 is BrOkEN in PvE, so #2 is the best one. But let’s tweak it a bit. Let’s see…

reikken.4961:

chargeup time on overloads is 6s fyi, not 5

And I hope those are 5 different options, as I don’t have anything civil to say if you think all 5 should be applied at once.

By the way, half of those would be hilarious in pve, where ele doesn’t have any problems.

I’d rather see buffs that don’t benefit the supportive build in any way rather than general buffs. which rules out all but the first two. but even then, #2 could have use on support builds with that cooldown reduction. but #1 is BrOkEN in PvE, so #2 is the best one. But let’s tweak it a bit. Let’s see…

With FA being meta in PvE, it would only make sense that I was talking solely about PvP. I doubt Tempestuous Aria would be OP in support builds, and if it’s not then it’s another option, which is healthy. Even in that case, one would outmatch the other, most likely keeping invigorating torrents as king.

oh they are able to make pvp/pve splits now. but I don’t think they’d make a split that fundamental. They said someting to that effect.

Why are you buffing tempest to make FA ele viable? The issue has always been about the weapon not doing enough damage and the sustain being subpar to other dps professions.

FrownyClown.8402:

Why are you buffing tempest to make FA ele viable? The issue has always been about the weapon not doing enough damage and the sustain being subpar to other dps professions.

Fresh air vanilla ele is already incredibly strong.

Arcane Shield’s CD reduction made FA ele OP #metaagain