Guild Wars 2

So why we got a ungeneric and too specific(Only scepter have its advantage) trait?

I mean most of the time in WvW/PvE i would like to have like Fresh Fire or Fresh Water. So this trait can be changed to Fresh Element and you pick one of 4 element to make it reset on crit. Or give each line new trait that makes it possible which is not an elegant solution imo.

Fresh air makes the most-sense as air in certain sets has the best offensive layout. The original thought was that builds could be based around air that used other attunements situationally and were able to get back to air very quickly.

Fresh fire could make some sense for a focused fire-staff build, but proccing on crits doesn’t fit with the theme of fire. Any suggestions?

Fresh earth and fresh water probably won’t happen b/c that would be a LOT of sustain for an ele, getting MORE access to prot or the condi. cleanse/heal/regen in water. However, because we lack sustain, here are some concepts:

However, a GM trait like Fresh Water that procced when you got >3 condis on you would be excellent in theory, balance and implementation might be a bear.

Fresh earth: Earth attunement recharges when a single hit does >15% of your health.

stamp of approval

However, water tree would become a requirement again because who doesn’t want to pop water 15 a million times.

Water swap cool downs would have to be implemented, but honestly a Fresh Air, Fresh Water Build has such a fun name to say.

What are you running on your ele?

Fresh air, fresh water.

Added* obvious solution would be a recharge on fresh water, duh

BlackBeard.2873:

Fresh earth and fresh water probably won’t happen b/c that would be a LOT of sustain for an ele, getting MORE access to prot or the condi. cleanse/heal/regen in water.

This.

On the good side though, you can only choose 1 “Fresh Trait” because you’ll need at least 20 points in Arcana for Elemental Attunement if you want the boons. But imagine having unlimited heals and condi cleanse, it would be too game breaking of a “buff” even for one of the most broken class.

Recharge on all fresh skills to prevent on swap trait spam

Actually this all kind of begs the question. Should Elemental recharges be reduced if we feel the need to add reduced recharge traits like fresh air or fresh water?

Shockwave.1230:

Actually this all kind of begs the question. Should Elemental recharges be reduced if we feel the need to add reduced recharge traits like fresh air or fresh water?

Probably not, we could get some other mechanic like aura duration!!!! (/sarcasm)

Joke aside, we probably wouldn’t need attunement cd reduction in arcana but I have no idea what would be our profession specific trait benefit.