Guild Wars 2

I’ve been an ele for, well since launch really, and had this on my mind for a long time.

Just keep in mind what I’m about to say, and disregard anything else. I don’t care for any other “blast” finishers of other utilities or skills for an ele other than what I’m about to describe below.

Weapon = staff
Trait in talk = Arcane XI Evasive Arcana

When you’ve got Evasive Arcana, attuning to Earth sets off “Shock Wave” which has a combo finisher as a blast.

So, if you cast Staff Water Skill 5 “Healing Rain” > attune to Earth > and dodge into the field… how many blasts is that?

The reason I ask is the blast field itself seems big and kinda just sits there a little longer than a normal water blast. This technically means there’s consecutive blasts occuring within milliseconds of each other to give the longer lasting animation, right?

When I did the test myself, it seems the healing gained from said blast is more than 2,000HP. Looking at the Shock Wave animation… I do see 3x ‘rings’ as the animation disappears. To me, I guess this means 3x blasts.

Tell me if I am right/wrong lol, I’d just like to know since a friend of mine had me show her ele blasts.

Thanks~!

Evasive arcana has a 10sec ICD per attunement spell, and Healing Rain lasts only 6 seconds. Thus, you will only ever be able to get off one blast with this particular combo by yourself (ignoring that others can also take advantage of the water field).

The “3 blasts” from the skill you see is nothing more than the animation generated from the combo, it is still only one blast despite the visual.

Regardless of the radius of the either combo component the resulting water/healing effect will generate a radius of 360 and heal allies in that for 1320 (coefficient listed as .2-ish).

SirMirex.8543:

When you’ve got Evasive Arcana, attuning to Earth sets off “Shock Wave” which has a combo finisher as a blast.

Attuning to Earth is not a blast. Dodging while in earth with EA traited is indeed one blast though.

SirMirex.8543:

So, if you cast Staff Water Skill 5 “Healing Rain” > attune to Earth > and dodge into the field… how many blasts is that?

Attune to Eart = no blast
Dodge while in earth = one blast
One blast in total