[Concept] Elite Specialisation - The Weaver

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Posted by: Valento.9852

Valento.9852

#SummonForumBugFix

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Posted by: thetwothousand.5049

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This is the first chance to look at this thread, and I was skeptical go in to it. But I love all the ideas here, and wish it was something coming down the pipe line. The new mechanic has interesting useful effects, traits are good but not op and have synergy with other trait lines. And it has freaking sword with good skills. I even like the stances you cooked up, and I normally wave off any influence from the warrior class. Its honestly a shame that a player thought this up, because it pretty much guarantees that not only will it not be used as a base for the next specialization, but the exact opposite will be thrown together by the devs.

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Posted by: Arricson Krei.9560

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This would make Ele more of a braindead-spam spec. Weaving seems like a cool idea, but Ele’s are just given a couple new spells that is a direct upgrade from their base profession. Not to mention that all weaving spells are greatly effective on their own without much thought. Sure you can prepare for a Fire/Air to stop a hard rez, but there’s no real drawback other than messing up your rotation (which doesn’t matter too much).

The sword seems like a gimmicked dagger. It has a lot of mobility, blind spam, and evade spam (and reflect spam if you think that’ll make a difference).

The stance cooldown trait is broken. Use Healing Stance, then use all util+elite stances consecutively, and you’ve reduced Healing stance by at least 50 seconds (disregarding the recharges of stances used after Healing Stance. The stances work by themselves, you pop it and you’re set. No thought required like with mantras, no room for skillful positioning like with Lightning Flash. Oh, and no uhh… no counterplay.

All the combo field traits and the Malicious Weaver trait reward spam.

The two things I like about the Weaver you’ve come up with are: reliable condi cleansing and sustain that may actually derail Water Magic from being essential, and Scepter needs more love (through the scepter portion of Ether Prism).

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Posted by: Jekkt.6045

Jekkt.6045

giving the elementalist something else than “a couple new spells” is difficult. adding an f5 would mean to give every existing weapon new skills. i had in mind to create something like, f5 is the mix of the last 2 attunements you used, but this would be way too much work for anet to realize so i went with something more simple.

there are many combinations with the weaver spells, finding the right one at the right moment is the key to it. ofc you can just do whatever you want but the question is if you will be effective. on elementalist you can always spam stuff, no matter the spec or the weapon but usually you cripple yourself more than you profit from it, the same applies here.

the sword is completely different from the dagger. the sword is more about active defense, the dagger has 1 defensive skill (shocking aura) and 1 evade (burning speed) while the sword’s focus is a mix between auto attack efficiency and skill usage. the only auto attack on dagger that gets used is air, i didn’t want that for sword.

the stance cooldown trait can reduce the cooldown by 34 seconds in theory. if you pop all stances at the same time it will still be 1s reduction and not 4×1 so effectively you can cut the cooldown by half. most likely you will not be running full stances on your utility bar and most likely you will also be smart enough not to use them all at the same time but when they are needed. waste all your stunbreaks and i’m sure you won’t live long enough to use your heal with the reduced cooldown.

weaver comes closer to the positioning of a thief than to something like fresh air because weaver is only close range, in order to provide defense the sword got those certain very short blinds and reflects, they are 0,25s long and they may help against auto attacks and every skill that has a longer casting time. it also takes 3 auto attacks to get there and it is also rng if your blind hits exactly when you get hit by an enemy attack.

combo field traits and malicious weaver dont reward spam, they reward attunement swapping because that’s the ele’s mechanic, not sitting in an attunement auto attacking. (yes, i made the autos a bit more desireable but i still want there to be a reason to swap).

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Posted by: Jekkt.6045

Jekkt.6045

bringing this up again. more feedback can never be bad :P

Ex player of PeanutButterJellyTime, Heavenly Annoying and Visceral Gaming.

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Posted by: Mogsterfortytwo.6712

Mogsterfortytwo.6712

Huh, Google ‘GW2 Weaver’ and this is the top result.

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Posted by: Valento.9852

Valento.9852

Huh, Google ‘GW2 Weaver’ and this is the top result.

Huh, last post was one year ago…

Buuut, look where we got guys… it does seem our next elite spec will embody mechanics somewhat similar to these.

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Posted by: Mogsterfortytwo.6712

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Two possibilities;

1 – The devs looked to the forum for ideas.
2 – The leaks are fake. By someone who looked to the forum for ideas.

Nice that they kept the name though, as a nod to the original inspiration. This also makes it more likely to be option 1.

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Posted by: Waisenpai.6028

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YAY I made the shining blade and I already have the bolt. Ready to Weave dual swords or daggers.

Min Min core d/d ele Borlis Pass Bunny Thumper

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Posted by: Zintrothen.1056

Zintrothen.1056

Two possibilities;

1 – The devs looked to the forum for ideas.
2 – The leaks are fake. By someone who looked to the forum for ideas.

Nice that they kept the name though, as a nod to the original inspiration. This also makes it more likely to be option 1.

Well it’s very much looking like option 1 now lol.

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Posted by: Mogsterfortytwo.6712

Mogsterfortytwo.6712

Two possibilities;

1 – The devs looked to the forum for ideas.
2 – The leaks are fake. By someone who looked to the forum for ideas.

Nice that they kept the name though, as a nod to the original inspiration. This also makes it more likely to be option 1.

Well it’s very much looking like option 1 now lol.

Yeah, I’ll cautiously agree with you on that one.

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Posted by: morrolan.9608

morrolan.9608

Two possibilities;

1 – The devs looked to the forum for ideas.
2 – The leaks are fake. By someone who looked to the forum for ideas.

Nice that they kept the name though, as a nod to the original inspiration. This also makes it more likely to be option 1.

You realise this would lead them open to being sued by the OP though, unless they specifically got a release from him/her.

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Posted by: Waisenpai.6028

Waisenpai.6028

Weaver will stil get boon corruption wreck so watch out for those 1v2. Also war will be able to boon strip, stun and skill freeze. So we aren’t that OP if rupted. I suggest d/d ele rotations to practice. Arcane shield/armor of earth is your friend with, air cantrip and sigil of air / fire cantrip. Have to evaluate stance deployment next week.

Min Min core d/d ele Borlis Pass Bunny Thumper

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Posted by: Mogsterfortytwo.6712

Mogsterfortytwo.6712

Two possibilities;

1 – The devs looked to the forum for ideas.
2 – The leaks are fake. By someone who looked to the forum for ideas.

Nice that they kept the name though, as a nod to the original inspiration. This also makes it more likely to be option 1.

You realise this would lead them open to being sued by the OP though, unless they specifically got a release from him/her.

Your tense would suggest it (sword elite called Weaver that blends elements) might not happen. It has. They either did get permission, or just hired them.

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Posted by: Lord of Rings.5371

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OP was posted On Aug 10, 2015, almost 2 years ago.

Amazing.

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Posted by: Machiavell.7396

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I hope ANet atleast will give you some credit and small reward for pretty much using your concept. Otherwise, shame on them really.

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