Guild Wars 2

Nova Stiker.8396:

Laraley.7695:

Nova Stiker.8396:

Supreme.3164:

Nova Stiker.8396:

Supreme.3164:

Signet builds are dead…all jump on the cantrip train…-_-

Lets contemplate. Fire Aura triggers when hit right? Spread the burning and all.

• Signet of Earth SNARES your opponent with immobilize. Perfect for setting up an attack rather than wanting to be attacked. Making Fire Aura less useful.
• Signet of Water CHILLS, once again, snares are not a sign for “please hit me” but rather “move I’m going to hit you hard” not good for Fire Aura.
• Signet of Fire burns, which, makes getting Fire Aura kinda pointless.

The ONLY two worthy signets are Signet of Air and Signet of Restoration with Fires Embrace.

Fires Embrace was a noobs trap like Elixir Infused bombs, sounds good on paper but in reality is was very, very worthless.

Also, Cantrip Train? LOL, you can base an Elementalist skill level on how many Cantrips they have. The more Cantrips, the more unskilled the ele. I have a buddy who is an FA ele carrying Signet of Earth, Gylph of Storms and Arcane Shield. And yeah, he kills people and does it very well. He doesn’t need 3 cantrips to survive and guess what? Neither do I. Arcane Blast, Lava Axe and Lightning Flash is all I need.
Yeah, Lava Axe, it’s a pretty amazing weapon conjure. I cannot tell you how many times Lava Axe saved me and killed people.

Do you know that aura on signets meant protection on signets? You have missed this point

And that makes it… Good?
No, no it does not.

Guess what? After the updates, you can get protection each time you swap to Fire AND Earth.

You still don’t seem to understand you don’t NEED 4 Signets. Like you don’t need 3 Cantrips. If anything, it’s proven that you’ll do BETTER without 4 signets or 3 Cantrips. I don’t have any stun breakers or stability on my ele build because I don’t need any, Lightning Flash and Lava Axe is the perfect get out of death free card.

Oh really? Meta dd ele – three cantrips
fresh air – two arcane + 1 cantrip
Staff ele – three cantrips

Now, tell me how you’re better off without them.

It’s called skill, meta D/D is for bad ele’s that cannot survive. Simple as that. Staff bunker is the only one that can get away with it, because bunker

Lol.
No, dd ele is acually the only build that’s viable in top tier, along with staff but that’s the same case.

And then you say you use lava axe.
And then you say using actually good skills means you have no skill.
LOL.

Laraley.7695:

Nova Stiker.8396:

Laraley.7695:

Nova Stiker.8396:

Supreme.3164:

Nova Stiker.8396:

Supreme.3164:

Signet builds are dead…all jump on the cantrip train…-_-

Lets contemplate. Fire Aura triggers when hit right? Spread the burning and all.

• Signet of Earth SNARES your opponent with immobilize. Perfect for setting up an attack rather than wanting to be attacked. Making Fire Aura less useful.
• Signet of Water CHILLS, once again, snares are not a sign for “please hit me” but rather “move I’m going to hit you hard” not good for Fire Aura.
• Signet of Fire burns, which, makes getting Fire Aura kinda pointless.

The ONLY two worthy signets are Signet of Air and Signet of Restoration with Fires Embrace.

Fires Embrace was a noobs trap like Elixir Infused bombs, sounds good on paper but in reality is was very, very worthless.

Also, Cantrip Train? LOL, you can base an Elementalist skill level on how many Cantrips they have. The more Cantrips, the more unskilled the ele. I have a buddy who is an FA ele carrying Signet of Earth, Gylph of Storms and Arcane Shield. And yeah, he kills people and does it very well. He doesn’t need 3 cantrips to survive and guess what? Neither do I. Arcane Blast, Lava Axe and Lightning Flash is all I need.
Yeah, Lava Axe, it’s a pretty amazing weapon conjure. I cannot tell you how many times Lava Axe saved me and killed people.

Do you know that aura on signets meant protection on signets? You have missed this point

And that makes it… Good?
No, no it does not.

Guess what? After the updates, you can get protection each time you swap to Fire AND Earth.

You still don’t seem to understand you don’t NEED 4 Signets. Like you don’t need 3 Cantrips. If anything, it’s proven that you’ll do BETTER without 4 signets or 3 Cantrips. I don’t have any stun breakers or stability on my ele build because I don’t need any, Lightning Flash and Lava Axe is the perfect get out of death free card.

Oh really? Meta dd ele – three cantrips
fresh air – two arcane + 1 cantrip
Staff ele – three cantrips

Now, tell me how you’re better off without them.

It’s called skill, meta D/D is for bad ele’s that cannot survive. Simple as that. Staff bunker is the only one that can get away with it, because bunker

Lol.
No, dd ele is acually the only build that’s viable in top tier, along with staff but that’s the same case.

And then you say you use lava axe.
And then you say using actually good skills means you have no skill.
LOL.

You last sentence made no sense.

Regardless, you are not a good elementalist if you are running around with full Cantrips or full Signets.

Diverse your utilities, you’ll be surprised how good and viable other utilities are for Elementalist when you don’t dump everything into survival.

So much for an attempt at a new signet build / aura build. Cantrips forever i guess.

Nova Stiker.8396:

Laraley.7695:

Nova Stiker.8396:

Laraley.7695:

Nova Stiker.8396:

Supreme.3164:

Nova Stiker.8396:

Supreme.3164:

Signet builds are dead…all jump on the cantrip train…-_-

Lets contemplate. Fire Aura triggers when hit right? Spread the burning and all.

• Signet of Earth SNARES your opponent with immobilize. Perfect for setting up an attack rather than wanting to be attacked. Making Fire Aura less useful.
• Signet of Water CHILLS, once again, snares are not a sign for “please hit me” but rather “move I’m going to hit you hard” not good for Fire Aura.
• Signet of Fire burns, which, makes getting Fire Aura kinda pointless.

The ONLY two worthy signets are Signet of Air and Signet of Restoration with Fires Embrace.

Fires Embrace was a noobs trap like Elixir Infused bombs, sounds good on paper but in reality is was very, very worthless.

Also, Cantrip Train? LOL, you can base an Elementalist skill level on how many Cantrips they have. The more Cantrips, the more unskilled the ele. I have a buddy who is an FA ele carrying Signet of Earth, Gylph of Storms and Arcane Shield. And yeah, he kills people and does it very well. He doesn’t need 3 cantrips to survive and guess what? Neither do I. Arcane Blast, Lava Axe and Lightning Flash is all I need.
Yeah, Lava Axe, it’s a pretty amazing weapon conjure. I cannot tell you how many times Lava Axe saved me and killed people.

Do you know that aura on signets meant protection on signets? You have missed this point

And that makes it… Good?
No, no it does not.

Guess what? After the updates, you can get protection each time you swap to Fire AND Earth.

You still don’t seem to understand you don’t NEED 4 Signets. Like you don’t need 3 Cantrips. If anything, it’s proven that you’ll do BETTER without 4 signets or 3 Cantrips. I don’t have any stun breakers or stability on my ele build because I don’t need any, Lightning Flash and Lava Axe is the perfect get out of death free card.

Oh really? Meta dd ele – three cantrips
fresh air – two arcane + 1 cantrip
Staff ele – three cantrips

Now, tell me how you’re better off without them.

It’s called skill, meta D/D is for bad ele’s that cannot survive. Simple as that. Staff bunker is the only one that can get away with it, because bunker

Lol.
No, dd ele is acually the only build that’s viable in top tier, along with staff but that’s the same case.

And then you say you use lava axe.
And then you say using actually good skills means you have no skill.
LOL.

You last sentence made no sense.

Regardless, you are not a good elementalist if you are running around with full Cantrips or full Signets.

Diverse your utilities, you’ll be surprised how good and viable other utilities are for Elementalist when you don’t dump everything into survival.

Yep, so viable. Like glyphs and conjures are the best skills in game, totally worth wasting a skill slot on.

It’s hilarious you call the top eles bad, seriously.

OMG y u do dis ANet?
You’ve heard people’s QQ over the water and arcane changes and you put them back, why change this though?
That Fire aura on signet looked very promising.
So much for build diversity >:C

Just a thought.. maybe it got moved to the Tempest line.

It might have been moved to the tempest line but i doubt, it was likely removed entirely.

Makes me sad aswell because Fire Aura Signet build was my favorite build as of recently, or atleast when i was last playing (Few months ago).

The build was great for both WvW and PvP and i thought would be the new meta, eventually when more people discover its awesomeness, but alas i guess it won’t.

Lawful.5314:

It might have been moved to the tempest line but i doubt, it was likely removed entirely.

Alas the trait was moved to Guardians so I doubt we’ll get it back with Tempest.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Perfect_Inscriptions

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Lawful.5314:

It might have been moved to the tempest line but i doubt, it was likely removed entirely.

Alas the trait was moved to Guardians so I doubt we’ll get it back with Tempest.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Perfect_Inscriptions

That sucks, i really liked the signet builds with that trait.

Now there is no reason to use signet builds anymore, again.

Bumping this cause this needs a fix. Its absurd they are removing traits that work towards build diversity while adding bullcrap conversion traits to the fire trait line.