Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

because of the possible nerf that will come to 0/10/0/30/30 I was trying to figure out some alternative builds…..I use the 0/10/0/30/30 for Staff and Dagger (with different traits but numbers stays same)….

Here is the challenge I have, I am nearly forced to take 30 in Arcana mainly because the attunement swap and boon duration and has to go 30 in Water otherwise we are too squishy that mean practically for an alternative build I have 10 points to move, I can’t get out of this vicious cycle….

So I am hoping the following changes with the nerfes, what are you think about it.

I think I will not be able to sacrifice 30 in Water so I guess the changes should come from Arcana…instead of going deep in Arcana reducing the attunement switch cooldown, attunement cooldown for specific tree should be decided on how deep we are going into the attunements tree…

For ex, I choose to go 30 deep in the Water then attunement switch CD must 5s for Water but stays 13s for Air/Earth/Fire

If you invest to Arcana it can still get global reduction (may be not in todays levels like 0.5 s or so)

Which will diversify the play style also, not having linear attunement bonuses, for ex do u really like to go high in Air ok, you got 5 CD but no points in Earth then you got the 13s CD, it will be much more strategical instead of key bashing….

Now if they give such an attribute to attunement tree what will happen to Power/Crit/Crit Dam/Cond/Vit/Toughness adjustments I don’t knowbut that something ANet must figure out….

And one more point, it should be possible to play Condition Damage builds in Ele, at the moment that means staying only in Earth Attunement which is against the whole logic of playing Elementalist, there must be viable way to cause conditions in all trees, so Water should cause bleeds, Fire should have smoke poisining, something like that…..

And please give us an option to drop a conjure weapon that has still charge and pick up later while it has still charge, I really like some conjure weapon but I can dedicate an utility slot to them while I have to drop them while they have still 8-9 charges…..

It must be possible to pick them up again if they have charges….

What do u think

Best thing is to wait for the patch, and see what other options it may provide. About a week until it hits. But yeah, sadly you need to throw many points into water and arcane to be viable.

If you aim for condition builds, you could aim for a high crit build that triggers bleed and burning, while using 30 water and cantrips for survival. That route works alright.

Of course, if the devs managed to give two-handed weapons an extra sigil slot, or altered the current sigil slot to add x1.5 or x2 value, you might have more options that way using the staff.

Can’t think of a build for yourself? :|

Power Staff build…Blows groups up in team fights.

scepter focus bleeding condition build

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

scepter focus bleeding condition build

Another good spvp build, but I don’t think it has a role in tpvp.

it’s hard to speculate, especially as they said they were more interested in making counter builds on other classes than nerfing directly. I expect more boon stripping… I’ve had some success with the signet of nullification though :p