Guild Wars 2

Casting a melee spell for 5s without stability breaks the purpose of having an overload act like a “pressure skill” against enemies.

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“Breaks” the purpose hahaha :P

I love ele and hate tempest so why would tempest being bad effect ele? It doesn’t detract anything from playing an ele just adds (although what it adds isnt great). I realized after the BWE that tempest wasn’t marketed at me and never will be so I don’t care about it anymore and will continue playing vanilla ele.

Ele is just going to sit on the shelf, like it has been for many of us who have been playing the same d/d cantrip build since pre release 3 years ago. Were sick of it and tempest was the change to revamp some play and they somehow managed to kitten it ups so badly it astonishes me.

I’ll just play rev/mes/necro with some rang/war/guard/theif/engi on the side. And run fractals on my ele when i wana afk and press 1 ez as that

OneKlicKill.4285:

Ele is just going to sit on the shelf, like it has been for many of us who have been playing the same d/d cantrip build since pre release 3 years ago. Were sick of it and tempest was the change to revamp some play and they somehow managed to kitten it ups so badly it astonishes me.

I’ll just play rev/mes/necro with some rang/war/guard/theif/engi on the side. And run fractals on my ele when i wana afk and press 1 ez as that

If you think fotm is that easy on your ele then you play an awful ele in pve. Also we’ve seen builds aside from D/D since launch, they may not have been as good but they were there. I just wanted something that would make the class more interesting like fresh air zerker builds did.

Embrace The Bold.7619:

OneKlicKill.4285:

Ele is just going to sit on the shelf, like it has been for many of us who have been playing the same d/d cantrip build since pre release 3 years ago. Were sick of it and tempest was the change to revamp some play and they somehow managed to kitten it ups so badly it astonishes me.

I’ll just play rev/mes/necro with some rang/war/guard/theif/engi on the side. And run fractals on my ele when i wana afk and press 1 ez as that

If you think fotm is that easy on your ele then you play an awful ele in pve. Also we’ve seen builds aside from D/D since launch, they may not have been as good but they were there. I just wanted something that would make the class more interesting like fresh air zerker builds did.

I’m mainly a pvp player, but I run fractals from time to time, I have my full zerk ascended w/ agg gear. And staff is so kittening boring easy (the game is really). The recent switch up with traits made it a little better but in a good group comp you just have to know when to dodge (ie. I play pvp, pretty decent at that) and the cookie cutter rotation when storm/bow is off CD. obviously you need to know the fractals but that’s just a run or two to learn each one. I’ll play d/f or s/f and its much more fun but just not nearly as effective and a massive increase of risk vs reward.

Tempest isn’t going to make an impact in pve. It doesnt supply enough condi pressure which would be the one thing that might be needed in new raiding (stat changes) and you cant evade (the most critical aspect in pve as the lowest hp armor class…) and even if soemhow fire does supply enough burning your litterally going to be running s/wh fire overload rotation… that sounds fun…

And dont even bother trying to defend it in pvp, its going to be unviable at a competitive level just like every other current spec other than d/d cantrip has been for 3 years.