Guild Wars 2

Because weapon swap would be overpowered, what if conjures replaced an attunement instead?

When attuning to earth you materialize an earth shield and have those skills.
When attuning to water you materialize an ice bow and have those skills.
When attuning to fire you materialize a flame axe and have those skills.
When attuning to air you materialize a lightning hammer and have those skills.

Would give synergy with attunements and should be balanced because doing this locks you out of the attunements basic skills until you conjure is gone.

That’s actually a pretty cool idea.

Noyz.6430:

That’s actually a pretty cool idea.

Glad to hear it. I’m glad so many responded with their thoughts about one of the most discussed issues of conjures. =P

Yep pretty neat idea, what about firey greatsword though? Just separate like normal?

Could either be normal or use fire attunement. I’d rather say normal though so that you can use flame axe and fiery greatsword if you want to.

I don,t think Anet want’s to dedicate more than 30 minutes a year improving the elementalist skills. Just look at our new broken elite glyph which summons a elemental that stay still and doesn’t do anything. It was probably tested like 5 minutes: “hey it looks like it does something, ok let’s work on another class”.

Would certainly allow for some interesting build diversity. I think the biggest issue though is that this still wouldn’t make them good enough (and it would be a nightmare to code I imagine). Currently they’re just limited use bundles which already exist in the game.

This has been suggested in various forms for over a year now, if not since launch. I believe it intrudes upon Engi kit swapping territory, which Anet has stated (at some point) that they want to keep unique to the class.

I’m sure every ele would appreciate this kind of change, though.

TBH I have been suggesting that since release. People are just sick of beating a dead horse.