The new Chronomancer elite is essentially a ground-targeting AoE field that pulls foes towards the center while dealing damage. This is what I have always wanted Tornado to be, rather than the weak, cheesy, situational transform that it is. Elementalists have so much damage, but none of their elites are very useful for securing that damage. I wish so much that Tornado functioned like Gravity Well rather than being a transform.
FGS and Tornado are both auxiliary skill bars that almost always reduce your damage. Tornado even can make you more vulnerable to incoming damage as it removes your access to utility skills while only providing minor buffs to your survivability. Meanwhile Glyph of Elementals is only particularly useful in 1v1 fights and even then it is still easily killed (Not to mention the fact that it is inferior to Supply Crate while having a similar cool-down).
It’s time for Elementalists to get an elite skill that actually has synergy with their profession and it’s just a shame the only chance they will ever have for such an elite skill is through an elite specialization as Anet has more than demonstrated that they are completely unwilling to improve (or redesign) the existing Elementalist elites.
Brother Gilburt – Guard / Agent Gilburt – Thief
Yeah, when I see gravity well that’s essentially what I wanted Tornado to be. But now that mesmers are getting it, that means Eles won’t get anything like that and Tornado will continue to be garbage.
When Jon Peters talks about each class getting “something cool” I guess for Eles he means “something that looks cool when you’re idling in Divinity’s Reach”. Cause that’s what’ll happen with conjures and that’s basically what Tornado is.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer