Elite skills are so underwhelming
In the past two and a half years they:
-Nerfed FGS into oblivion (including a nice taunt in the tooltips)
-Removed all possible tricks with Tornado but added a combo field \o/
-Reworked Elementals to give us more control and be more powerful, although they initially imposed absurd cast animations to command the pet to begin its skill cast on the next attack – a cast in as cast!
Recently they removed the cast-in-a-cast absurdity on Elementals.
And now you ask for buffs? Do you even realise how ungrateful you are???
:D
Retired elementalist theorycrafter
Tornado: Needs a substantial rework. It’s one of the few Elites where you’re actually better off not casting it. Ever.
FGS: Really good mobility. If they fix the damage bug, the missing +140% buff to FGS 4, the DPS will be pretty good. With no Dev feedback to multiple threads about it, it seems unlikely they’ll fix this soon.
Elementals: They’re alright. In PvP, it is sometimes used for the Ice Elemental. A condi cleanse, heal and CC on a 15s CD is pretty good even if it’s a bit clunky. This might be used more if, like Necro minions, they had no fixed duration and the CD started when the Elemental dies.
Am I the only one who doesn’t like the concept of conjured weapons?
Am I the only one who doesn’t like the concept of conjured weapons?
Nope. No one likes them. At this point I wish they would simply remove them from the game and give us other utilities instead.
Retired elementalist theorycrafter
Now that Jon Peters told us he plans to change one of the guardian tomes, namely one of the tome’s most powerful skill, Light of Deliverance, may become a signet, it just shows how they don’t care about elementalist elites…
It shows that in the stream, Karl unintentionally leaked the new elite icons, and JPeters then went on to explain them.
Tomes are probably being changed so they can fit in the currently existing skill types. We don’t know if elites like Tornado or others will get similar changes or not.
Perhaps we should wait until Tempest’s reveal to find out anything about it.
Am I the only one who doesn’t like the concept of conjured weapons?
I have no problems with the concept of conjured weapons, but the fact that these skills cripple you instead helping you makes them quite useless. Conjured weapons need to function with our attunement mechanic, and they need to have some advantage over our normal rotation.