Guild Wars 2

Any possibility of the Celestial Amulet ever coming back? It’s the only Amulet that made us viable in 1v1 situations as well as group situations, consistently and against good players.

With the direction they are taking in pvp you will likely never see celestial amulet.

Is this a joke? Is people actually using tempest defense, lightning rod, final shielding, cantrips, or any of the eight stuns/dazes/knockbacks available? (without counting the shocking aura from tempest defense).

I never feel in a disatvantage when doing 1vs1 or group battles with staff or D/D. Don’t want to assume things, but try to drop tempest if you know you’re gonna be doing 1vs1, also, i feel more comfortable with staff in group battles, but D/D controls are easier to apply in 1vs1.

If you want to be more offensively “consistent” then drop tempest because overloads are not viable in pvp with a dps role. You can go air/earth/arcane, be tanky and support trough crowd control instead of auras, all while using berserkr/marauder amulets.

If you want to keep the auramancer role (in case you’re using that) just stick to someone and fulfill your role, you’re using a support build, being a jack of all trades is not “consistent”.

Celestial Amulet probably would’ve been fine if they just reduced each stat. 560 on 7 stats was definitely too good. Elementalist is the profession that uses every stat in pretty much every build because every weapon has access to power, condi, healing and defensive skills. In the end, Eles, from what I’ve seen, have been doing fine without Celestial Amulet. It’s the design of Tempest and our reliance on the Earth and Water trait lines that ruin our build variety. Damage is so high from power and conditions that we have to spec for defensive and play support or else risk being kitten on by any decent player. Fresh Air has pretty nice mobility when played well and can kite well, but it relies on kiting. If you’re unable to kite, it lacks the defence to survive.

Answer is no. Why? Because there are classes out there that would benefit more (in sick way) from celestial amulet then ele .

But if we had system with exclusive amulet per class…hmm

Mr Godlike.6098:

But if we had system with exclusive amulet per class…hmm

No offense intended but I would downvote this if I could. A really bad idea since it would immediately create more imbalance between classes, and by design/intent. It’s a nice idea to toy with but the reality is that it doesn’t work at all.

Additionally, you can’t just suddenly come up with 9 different unique amulets for each class. You would have to take some amulets away from being available to all, and that’s bad as well.

Now if this is an issue at all I rather think it would better if they split the amulets into an amulet and a ring combination that would split stats 70/30. You could then have celestial as a ring stat but it wouldn’t give such a large distribution as it would currently. (it doesn’t have to be a ring, it could be anything really)

Yannir.4132:

Mr Godlike.6098:

But if we had system with exclusive amulet per class…hmm

No offense intended but I would downvote this if I could. A really bad idea since it would immediately create more imbalance between classes, and by design/intent. It’s a nice idea to toy with but the reality is that it doesn’t work at all.

Additionally, you can’t just suddenly come up with 9 different unique amulets for each class. You would have to take some amulets away from being available to all, and that’s bad as well.

Now if this is an issue at all I rather think it would better if they split the amulets into an amulet and a ring combination that would split stats 70/30. You could then have celestial as a ring stat but it wouldn’t give such a large distribution as it would currently. (it doesn’t have to be a ring, it could be anything really)

Personally I doubt too that devs could manage this idea, they should focus on reworks and buffs to help ele (and tempest) use everything else besides mender.

We had already similar stat system like you purposed but it didn’t worked very well in the past.