Guild Wars 2

As per the thread title…

Evasive Arcana: This trait no longer creates unintended blast finishers.

Were ALL blast finishers at the end of Evasive Arcana dodge rolls unintended?

If so… every staff Elementalist playing your game begs you to reconsider. We were FAR from OP even with the finishers, but it gave us Staff Eles a sense of excitement while playing… without it, we are pretty friggin boring. I dare say nigh useless compared to D/D Eles.

Please clarify this ASAP. You’ve got a lot of pissed off Elementalists right now who would like to know if Evasive Arcana is working as intended now, or if (hopefully) the new patch has bugged it.

Thanks,
Dude who spends way too much money in the gem store.

Moderator edit: Removed CoC infraction from thread title

I think they screwed up blast finishers all around for us, EA was the most prominent one (and the one that really annoys me) but I read the fire skill 2 on scepter (or was it dagger?) was also ‘fixed’ to create the blast at the target location instead of around the caster. only now it seems it doesn’t do a finisher at all.

so yeah, some word on what the intended changes (in contrast to the effective nerfs) were would be great so we know whether to be patient or just reroll/move to alts for until some staff-buff comes our way.

Use Arcane Wave if you want a blast finisher?

We already did.

Malcastus.6240:

Use Arcane Wave if you want a blast finisher?

Many already did, but even that isn’t a great option because of the long cooldown (30s) it carries.

The only readily available blast finisher for Staff Ele’s now is eruption, which outside of a super-easy tank/spank PvE fight is difficult to time and pull off (especially if you want to hit anyone other than yourself with it). Oh, and it’s totally awesome to have to put two attunements (and half your weapon skills) on cooldown all the time just to get ONE blast finished AOE heal that has also seen a healing coefficient nerf…