Guild Wars 2

Hi

Another idea that might help tempest out of its misery.
This might not please all elmentalists, but i can see a mass of players that will enjoy the feeling of:

Fire, air, water, earth elementalists!

The system:

When you take tempest, you completely loose your elemental swaping.

You gain a weapon swap instead. The first elemet you trait in will be your element.

The swap will be on 6s going down to 5s traited arcane. Swap of course triggers attunement effects.

Wooot: The feeing of high elementalist is there.

An this will be powerful enough. You loose versaility but gain tremedous focus.

Imagine:

Water: Staff – D/WH. THIS is healing support.
Fire: Staff – S/WH This is raw power + might sharing.
Air: Constant bolting with fresh air.
Earth: Massive defence. I can see a S/F – D/WH bleding build.

The overcharges complete the feeling of being a dedicated emementalist.

The only “Drawback” i see is this will lower the skill floor. It is not the 4 ele swaping elementalist annymore. But exactly this is a new playstyle!

It doesn´t feel to hard to implement an it synergizes with what tempest offers ….

Greetings

Wolf

^>Tempest ._.

sounds super cool
the ele really needs a different playstyle. 3 years brainless swapping of elements after just 3 seconds switch to the next is annoying…it is a cool way of figthing bcs its new and all..and got some advantages in some situations..but some new playstyle is most welcomed)

I think the feeling would be great for a large part of the community. Maybe it won´t be top tier in sPvP but it will offer a diffrent ele. And i feel there are viable builds with it. I see at least three fire build types that will do heavy damage and share might + fire auras (which can also heal with tempest). And i see water with hardcore healing. Air with deadly bolting and earth super tanky. This feels like being an ele.

You loose 50% skills + versaility and get focused. Overcharges just have a cooldown and add greatly to the feeling. Balance should not be such an issue. You have only one element.
The easiest balancing will be the swap time. 6(5)s feel the right place but i did´t do exact math. I am usually very good at estimations doing game balance/design for 33 years ;-).

Greetings

Wolf

I would rather they balance tempest around 1 second attunement cd for more complex combos. Thats probably too much work for them, would take an insane amount of time to balance everything out I’m sure but it would be a new an interesting playstyle.

Well it will also synergise with current traits. Of course not all will make sense with all elements. It is more work than changing numbers but basically it should not be to hard since all mechanics are already there. It is one option that might make tempest diffrent and cool. Especially for manny casual and RPG players. The current tempest just has a bad feeling, bad play and bad numbers :-(.