Guild Wars 2

Tried this for the first time in WvW last night and was completely underwhelmed. This is how I thought it would play out:

1. Zerg’s clash in open field
2. Pop Tornado
3. Rip through opposing zerg line
4. Unorganized zerg line to break into chaos due to knockback and fear of the epic ele-nado.

Reality:

1. Ele turns into a nearly invisible tornado
2. Opposing zerg doesn’t even flinch
3. Ele dies because the risk didn’t yield any reward

I expected many players in the opposing zerg to go flying due to the knockback. I also expected many AoE damage number to go floating up. I saw pretty much none of that — maybe one round of 900pt damage to five players, and never any knockback.

Seriously is this elite useful at all? Lava-font is more impressive tbh.

No. Using tornado makes you less effective than not using it. It’s the opposite of elite.

Tornado exists to super charge meteor shower, give you buffer health vs. retal, and for the whirl finisher in light or water fields while you wait for your meteor shower to end. Otherwise, it’s trash.

Tornado can be strong in Skyhammer’s (pvp) hammer room, or to capture points when combined with skills like Obsidian Flesh or if your build has strong passive defenses.

I’m not sure if you can make much use of its triple power effect, except for Meteor Shower scenarios. Perhaps with a sigil. It would be great if you could use your heal/ utility skills while under it. Ether Renewal would rock there, and arcane skills would be insane. Perhaps too insane. ;P But I wouldn’t mind a nerf to the extra power given if that meant I could heal or cast arcanes within it.

juno.1840:

1. Zerg’s clash in open field
2. Pop Tornado
3. Rip through opposing zerg line
4. Unorganized zerg line to break into chaos due to knockback and fear of the epic ele-nado.

This is how you shouldn’t use it, because – as you already stated – you’ll die.

You gain insane attribute bonuses in tornado form, so why not use it to augment some spells with long aftereffects, like meteor shower? You can position yourself near the enemy’s back line (the ones who in most cases won’t have stability), channel meteor shower onto the melee ball’s track, pop tornado form and giggle over your 4-7k crits for every second meteor while blinding or launching the enemy’s casters into some necro wells.

In small scale combat however, you should always pick either FGS (that damage and mobility!) or the elemental (air elem provides some nasty CC), because tornado is easily kitable and makes you free fodder for everyone with a brain.

I use tornado to throw people off of capture points

Ever tried to tornado through a meteor shower, and spam your 1 skill?

woutterr.5974:

Ever tried to tornado through a meteor shower, and spam your 1 skill?

No — I’ve heard this is effective, but honestly thought it was a bit gimicky. I was also running D/D so no Meteor Shower. I would hate to think this elite is only useful for buffing meteor shower once every 150 seconds.

It’s fun to use it on narrow ledges at certain keeps like Mendon. It’s pretty hilarious when you use perplexity and spam 3 with it for the interrupt.

And you can actually speed up the movement by dodging while in tornado form.

Aridia.3042:

It’s fun to use it on narrow ledges at certain keeps like Mendon. It’s pretty hilarious when you use perplexity and spam 3 with it for the interrupt.

And you can actually speed up the movement by dodging while in tornado form.

well … 8scd on perplexity runes… so its not viable anymore.

“I have a dream….”

12k meteor per hit.

Caffynated.5713:

Tornado exists to super charge meteor shower, give you buffer health vs. retal, and for the whirl finisher in light or water fields while you wait for your meteor shower to end. Otherwise, it’s trash.

This, it magnifies meteor shows by a significant extent.

charging meteor shower, yes… and trolling enemies by pushing them off cliffs and towers (best around longview, cliffside, hills and briar).
situational yeah, but fun.

Cast meteor for the giggles. But today I tossed one down then finished up 3 guys that were already low while still in tornado. That made my day.