Guild Wars 2

Utility
*Arcane Power : The cooldown has been reduced from 45 to 20 seconds.
*Lightning Flash : The cooldown has been reduced to 30 from 40 seconds.
*Mist Form : You are now able to perform actions while in Mist Form. However, your damage is reduced by 50% during that time.
*Conjure Earth Shield : Now holds 5 additional charges.
*Conjure Flame Axe : Now holds 5 additional charges.
*Conjure Frost Bow : Now holds 5 additional charges.
*Conjure Lightning Hammer : Casting time has been reduced to 1/4 seconds from 3/4 seconds. Now holds 5 additional charges.
*Glyph of Elemental Power : Trigger Chance has been increased to 33%. The cooldown has been reduced to 30 seconds.
*Glyph of Lesser Elementals : Casting time has been reduced to 1 from 1 and1/4 seconds.
*Glyph of Storms : Casting time has been reduced to 1 second from 1 and 1/4 seconds.
*Signet of Air : Now increases movement speed by 33%. The cooldown has been reduced to 15 from 25 seconds.
*Signet of Earth : The cooldown has been recuded to 20 from 25 seconds.
*Signet of Water : The cooldown has been reduced to 15 from 25 seconds. Cures now 2 conditions every 10 seconds.
*Conjure Fiery Greatsword : The cooldown has been reduced from 180 to 120 seconds.
*Tornado : The cooldown has been reduced to 100 from 150 seconds.
*Rebound! : Now heals regardless of recieving a killing blow. The Aura based on your attunement is now applied immediately.

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AUXILIARY SKILLBARS

Conjure Frost Bow
*Water Arrow : Projectile traveling speed has been increased considerably.
*Frost Volley : Projectile traveling speed has been increased considerably.
*Deep Freeze : Projectile traveling speed has been increased considerably. The casting time has been reduced to 1 second from 1 and 1/2 seconds.

Conjure Lightning Hammer
*Wind Blast : Casting time has been reduced to 3/4 second from 1 second.
*Lightning Storm : Castimt time has been reduced to 1 second from 1 and 1/4 seconds.

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ELITE SPECIALIZATION

Tempest
*Overloading an attunement now no longer causes the attunement to have a longer recharge.

With this major change we want to give back the original Elementalist feeling to the Players. Overloading an attunement should be a benefit for the Tempest and not this much of a drawback, when getting interrupted during it. The cooldown of overloading will now run seperately from the attunement recharge cooldown, unless you are using the “Fresh Air” Trait, which will remain with the same mechanic and effect.

TRAITS

Fire
*Conjurer : Now also reduced the cooldown of conjured weapons by 10%
*Blinding Ashes : Internal cooldown reduced to 6 from 8 seconds.

Earth
*Diamond Skin : Now has a 50% chance of removing a condition from you when beeing struck. 1 second cooldown.
*Written in Stone : Now also intensifies the active effects of signets.

Water
*Soothing Power : Has been replaced with Bountiful Power from the Arcane traitline
We wanted to give Players who dedicate themselfs to a support Role the opportunity to still deal some Damage and defend themselfes, especially in Raids and higher Fractals.

Arcane
*Arcane Fury : Now lasts 3 instead of 2 seconds
*Arcane Precision : Now has a 50% Chance on Critical Hit. When attuned to Water, your attacks have now the chance to inflict Chill for 1 second.
*Renewing Stamina : Vigor increased up to 7 seconds from 5.
*Final Shielding : The cooldown has been reduced to 60 from 75 seconds.
*Elemental Enchantment : Boon duration now increased by 15% up from 10%.
*Bountiful Power : Moved to Water traitline. New Trait : Magic Addict.
*Magic Addict : Whenever you applie a Boon to yourself, siphon life from nearby enemys.

Life siphone damage : 100
Life sipon healing : 85*0,1 Healing Power
Radius : 360
Cooldown : 1 Second

Tempest
*Gale Song : The cooldown has been reduced to 30 from 40 seconds.
*Latent Stamina : Endurance gained increased to 15 from 10.
*Harmonious Conduit : Now gain 2 stacks of stability when beginning and overload. Upon successfully completing an overload, gain 10% increased damage and 10% less damage recieved for 5 seconds.
*Lucid Singularity : Has been removed for “The Orcans Voice”.
*The Orcans Voice : Shouts have a 20% reduced cooldown. Auras you applie last 20% longer.

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The Feeling when you wake up and it never happens. FeelsBadMan. Anyway, leave a +1 if you like it to show ANet what’s up, even if you don’t like everything.

Have a good one so far.

These are your changes, Or this is this legit? if so. please leave the source with the link to the post.

This is probably one of the best posts I’ve ever seen in Elementalist forums xD
Too bad Anet won’t ever introduce them. Some of them I would not full agree with, but 95% of them are amazing. Oh and, you have to be careful to not buff bunker tempest too much, or its gonna be OP and get ele nerfed again. Tho in the current state that it is in, it’s highly unlikely that these simple changes to off pick traits, utilities and weapons would buff the bunker version.

One can only hope.

Conjure Fiery Greatsword : The cooldown has been reduced from 180 to 120 seconds. Now grants one stack of Stability (5s) every three seconds while wielded.

So shocked when started to read this…some ideas sounded really nice…sad is not official

Besides…Good job on this notes!

A lot of these (or similar) are what should be done.

What will be done:

“Shatterstone : Now applies one additional stack of Vulnerability. Cooldown increased to 5s.”

BlackBeard.2873:

A lot of these (or similar) are what should be done.

What will be done:

“Shatterstone : Now applies one additional stack of Vulnerability. Cooldown increased to 5s.”

Shaterstone OP I can hit like 7k with it. but that require a chain of skills along with some terribad traits.
Even though I prefer Ice Spike with the set up hits like 10k.

Ancient Ranger.3276:

BlackBeard.2873:

A lot of these (or similar) are what should be done.

What will be done:

“Shatterstone : Now applies one additional stack of Vulnerability. Cooldown increased to 5s.”

Shaterstone OP I can hit like 7k with it. but that require a chain of skills along with some terribad traits.
Even though I prefer Ice Spike with the set up hits like 10k.

Hahaha, that is what ele is about, setting up long convoluted skill chains to make a completely underwhelming skill do above-average damage. I am assuming you are full-zerk, setting up all kinds of vuln stacks, when you could just a rev and 16k CoR every 4s with no setup and easier to land.

I cried at the end why would you do this to me

People are lauding this? This is some player buffing what he likes completely disregarding the cost of what he doesn’t or the overall effect on the class.

For one, you’re proposing making both earth and fire more power based at the cost of conditions? Really? So you think we have too much build diversity then? Because I can’t see any reason at all to nerf our conditions other than just flat out wanting us to never have viable condition builds.

Second, these buffs would serve to continue the endless cycle of buffing the ele up only to nerf him down again. They are to the exact same areas as every change the developers have made before you; power damage, evasion, condition clear, and mandatory rapidfire use of the attunement swapping. And none of those changes, made by the developers, did any good, and neither would these; they would just continue the cycle.

We need changes to the mechanical function of our class. You CANNOT balance a class with solely active defense against eight others which have both innate defense, and active defense. We need defense available to our class which is NOT in ANY WAY connected to active skill use. And then our active defense skillset can actually be balanced like the remaining classes; and won’t be prone to abuse with changes that even equate to a light breeze, let alone the more heavy handed changes we actually need to get any build diversity.

BlackBeard.2873:

Ancient Ranger.3276:

BlackBeard.2873:

A lot of these (or similar) are what should be done.

What will be done:

“Shatterstone : Now applies one additional stack of Vulnerability. Cooldown increased to 5s.”

Shaterstone OP I can hit like 7k with it. but that require a chain of skills along with some terribad traits.
Even though I prefer Ice Spike with the set up hits like 10k.

Hahaha, that is what ele is about, setting up long convoluted skill chains to make a completely underwhelming skill do above-average damage. I am assuming you are full-zerk, setting up all kinds of vuln stacks, when you could just a rev and 16k CoR every 4s with no setup and easier to land.

Actually these are my stats I’m not full zerk but I do have a lot of power.

Just curious, have they ever use the term rework? It kind of implied incompetence in previous balancing…

OMG this would be so great….. And it doesnt sound like totally OP. It is a bit much at once and will cause some balace issues but it is the dircetion what ele needs. And the scepter would finaly become what i always loved to play …. An arcane tempest with scepter …. I makes me cry …

Can you leave the source with the link of the post?
Where Can i find the A.net compleate release?

Thank you all for your Feedback!

Please take the time and read the Patch Notes carefully, before posting Feedback.
Adding Tornment to the Fire and Earth Attunement isn’t exactly focusing around Power from our perspective.

We tried to adress as many Features of the Elementalist as possible this time and we also want to be a lot more vocal and open about our thoughts behind certain changes, to give you Players a better understanding and the possibility to contribute to Guild Wars 2.
We noticed, that in the past, we left here and there the impression of not beeing as passionate about the Game as you players are and with this and further attemts, we want to show you that this is absolutely not the case.

Thank you all for participating again and let us look into a brighter Future for Guild Wars 2.

Is there a A.net post that show the updates??
Can answer me please @Amaya.1483 ?

Shiverin.1206:

Is there a A.net post that show the updates??
Can answer me please @Amaya.1483 ?

These patch notes are fan made as clearly explained in the OP. sorry to disappoint you.

Some are a bit to much, but it reads soooo goood…..

*Ride the Lightning : The cooldown has been reduced from 40 to 20 seconds. If a foe is hit by the burst, the skill’s recharge is halved.

and

*Signet of Restoration : Increased the healing per cast healing power contribution by 100%

Just this bring the elementalist back to the op state it was 3 years ago… No, In fact it make it even more op than it was 3 years ago. 10 second RTL… lol

Dadnir.5038:

*Ride the Lightning : The cooldown has been reduced from 40 to 20 seconds. If a foe is hit by the burst, the skill’s recharge is halved.

and

*Signet of Restoration : Increased the healing per cast healing power contribution by 100%

Just this bring the elementalist back to the op state it was 3 years ago… No, In fact it make it even more op than it was 3 years ago. 10 second RTL… lol

This would basically just put ele on par with Druid. 10s RtL (20s when used for mobility) is right at what druid can do, but without the range capability or super-resses. Also, that would require using off-hand dagger, which has no real hard-mitigation (so wouldn’t buff or even be used by the bunker spec, as focus earth skills and swirling winds are the only hard defense the build has).

More appropriately, it might make s/d worth considering, as you can at least get back to a fight quickly after getting crapped on by a thief/rev.

Dadnir.5038:

*Ride the Lightning : The cooldown has been reduced from 40 to 20 seconds. If a foe is hit by the burst, the skill’s recharge is halved.

and

*Signet of Restoration : Increased the healing per cast healing power contribution by 100%

Just this bring the elementalist back to the op state it was 3 years ago… No, In fact it make it even more op than it was 3 years ago. 10 second RTL… lol

Now..it’s not 3 years ago, take off the “bias glasses” and look around…we have herald, dd, chronomancer, druid staff etc etc…..10s RTL on a weapon set that offers nothing in terms of sustain vs HoT elites and that has not been used in months and the signet?!

Are you kidding me? wanna compare a possible 100% buff to druid/warrior/scrapper sustain?….yeah thought so

Actually it wouldnt even be OP,considering the enviroment in which nowadays ele is.

Still no conjure shield buffs?!?!Maan that thing could be lovely with improved aoe pull,like instant aoe pull and some aoe root with moveable blocking skill and lower CD,hmmm.

EDIT:you ppl keep forgeting when comparing to druids staff and RTL,RTL aint EVADE/blast/heal.Thou 20sec/10sec if conected and another 20% off from air trait,hmmm.Still without evade frame it doesnt sound so scary nowadays

My prediction? They’re going to take the fact that Tempest was represented in ESL as proof that the class is largely OK, and we’re not going to get any meaningful changes.

I’m certainly not expecting changes like Chill no longer affecting Attunement swap, cool down reductions for underused Utilities, buffs to Fire, impactful Elites, buffs to Scepter, QoL changes to Warhorn, or reworks for Conjures. Let alone larger issues such as lack of build diversity and over-reliance on Toughness/Healing Power.

Neeeeeeeeed!!!!

Conncept.7638:

People are lauding this? This is some player buffing what he likes completely disregarding the cost of what he doesn’t or the overall effect on the class.

For one, you’re proposing making both earth and fire more power based at the cost of conditions? Really? So you think we have too much build diversity then? Because I can’t see any reason at all to nerf our conditions other than just flat out wanting us to never have viable condition builds.

Second, these buffs would serve to continue the endless cycle of buffing the ele up only to nerf him down again. They are to the exact same areas as every change the developers have made before you; power damage, evasion, condition clear, and mandatory rapidfire use of the attunement swapping. And none of those changes, made by the developers, did any good, and neither would these; they would just continue the cycle.

We need changes to the mechanical function of our class. You CANNOT balance a class with solely active defense against eight others which have both innate defense, and active defense. We need defense available to our class which is NOT in ANY WAY connected to active skill use. And then our active defense skillset can actually be balanced like the remaining classes; and won’t be prone to abuse with changes that even equate to a light breeze, let alone the more heavy handed changes we actually need to get any build diversity.

You think Anet would actually take time for something like this? Nah. They never will, as they have never done so. The only hope for that are elite specializations.

Appreciate the time spent making this; do not appreciate trying to confuse and pass it off as legit and waste ppl’s times. Esp newer players. I’ve learned in my relatively short time in GW2 that players have better ideas often than Devs, and they seem to not even read the forums – and it sets yourself up for disappointment when the REAL patch notes are released.

I might be the only one to disagree with this. Most if not all of these changes look like buffs to ele. The changes may seem like a good idea now and add more build variety, but if they balance classes by simply buffing underused things then eventually there will be noticeable power creep.

If you buff something, you gotta nerf something else.

Players unknowingly tend to agree with buffs more then with nerfs, so the dev’s should take this as feedback, but not as something they should do exactly.

What condition is Tornment? There’s a chipmunk clawing at my face now?

But seriously, there is good and bad in this, thank you for sharing. The RtL change would be really good, 40s (32s with trait) cd is way too long considering what other classes have. Now that they normalized eles cooldown reductions, this could happen as well.

I don’t, however, agree with the Mistform changes. Mistform is fine, even if the cd is a bit too long. Renewed Focus on guard has a 90s cd, but Mistform has half its functionality. Thus, Mistform’s cd should be half of that, 45 seconds.