Guild Wars 2

Alright, so like many of the eles skills, Shockwave functions quite nicely in PVE, but in PvP/WvW its useless. It’s Cast time, combined with time to target and the fact it moves in only a straight line mean it doesn’t even need to be dodged. Playing against anyone whos not a rock make the thing kitten near impossible to land. So I suggest making it an instant cast or half second cast or something. I’d be glad to lose the bleeding damage it provides for a buff that makes this skill easier to land or quicker to cast. Any thoughts?

Split for pve/pvp?

In pve it certainly is pretty good, pvp i can´t comment on though.

I would love to be able to do everything instant cast, ArenaNet please help me out with this!!! I’d make it worth your while!!!

Get back into my staff Shockwave. Nobody told you that you could come out of it!

I like this thread.

All ele skills should have shorter cast times.

Arenanet thoughts: ‘lets make a class with even more skills then the others, elementalist’. Ok but how we balance them? ‘Ok simple make all skills a lot weaker then other classes’. I can live with this but, the cast times kills it completely. We need like 8 seconds cast times, to do the same as a warrior or guardian in 2 secs. AND we need to go from element 1-4 risking full cooldown lock on the elements, not being able to proceed.

Secondly boost normal hit damage. Currently it’s ridiculous underpowered to other professions.

@Shockwave

Oh you guy. You so silly.

@Strang
Yeah a split balance would be cool. In pve its good for kiting and keeping mobs still for ground aoe, but in PvP/WvW its easy to dodge even by accident.

I always thought Shockwave would be better if it pierced targets.

I’d say a better solution (to avoid making it OP) would be to make it a skillshot. Make it cast at a ground target line (like the whirlwind attack on wars). This way we could lead targets. As it is, if a target is moving perpendicular to you you just can’t hit them with it period.

Just make it travel faster. Then it could actually hit something.