Guild Wars 2

We also get a water attunement that’s more on the offensive side of things.

Like, it invokes physical pain in me everytime I gloss over our water traits and I happen upon Piercing Shards. A trait that pretty much serves no purpose at the moment, because who in their right mind would even attempt to feasibly fight in water attunement.

Not only that, but offensive use of water magic is something I quite enjoy and really wished Anet would have explored that aspect a bit more. The same goes for Fire as a supportive element as well, which is something I’d also like to see.

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hear hear

/15hears

You know what, I’m going to design my own Elite spec (ripping off some ideas from others of course!) and find ways to make fire and air support based and water and earth offence based, basically switching the attunements around. In fact, I’ll just change around the attunements entirely and that’ll be the profession skill change. Water will become Ice Attunement and apply chill and do heavy damage. Fire will become…something…I’ll need to think about how to do this. Air can be about shocking your allies back to life and can become a healing spec. It’ll be hard to figure out how to makes these work with current traits though. But imagine a healing FA spec. There are plenty of traits in Air that aren’t damage focused and can work with a healing spec.

Zintrothen.1056:

But imagine a healing FA spec. There are plenty of traits in Air that aren’t damage focused and can work with a healing spec.

Oh wow, that sounds awesome. I could totally see air being a support spec. Like, think of an air mage whose constantly swapping in and out of air to bolster their allies’ actions. Granting superspeed to enhance their mobility or paralyzing enemies with lightning to massively slow their actions down. Imbuing allies with electrical energy to revitalize them by applying superspeed and healing them for a small amount. I could totally see it working.

Hell, fire skills that are based around healing and cleansing conditions would be cool too. Perhaps in the form of a trait that caused your fire fields to heal and cleanse a condition on allies standing in them.

Really there’s just so many ideas, I’m making myself sad thinking of it all because we might never actually get them

I am hoping for a focus main hand and an elite spec that is on the line of a pure mage or a siege mages (thinking an ele with wells or some other high dmg aoe utility). That and the class wepon skin would be an orb i think orbs / books fit the focus wepon skins well and are unused atm.

Years ago there used to be a Lightning Hammer build in PvE that would fight in Water for max DPS. You can also see a basis for Air+Water synergy in the traits already, so I’d want to enhance that.

As of right now, you can drop some pretty mean Ice Spikes when built for it.

No matter what it is I’m 100% convinced that the Elite skill will do nothing interesting at all.

Xillllix.3485:

No matter what it is I’m 100% convinced that the Elite skill will do nothing interesting at all.

Naturally.

Jski.6180:

I am hoping for a focus main hand and an elite spec that is on the line of a pure mage or a siege mages (thinking an ele with wells or some other high dmg aoe utility). That and the class wepon skin would be an orb i think orbs / books fit the focus wepon skins well and are unused atm.

That sounds pretty cool. Dual wield Anomaly or Knowledge is Power is definitely an appealing sight.

I second (third?) the idea of an offensive water attunement.

we have fire for pure offense, air for pure offense, earth for defensive offense, and water for cc/healing. What we don’t need is water to be offensive, we have that, we want is water to be stronger cc/heal.

I also hope they change the way attunments work. Because always having fire and lightning as dps, water for heal and earth for defense is getting boring. As we have it now it really gets dense, you stay 90% of time in fire for the damage and only switch in other attunments for a short time to use one or two skills and switch out of it as fast as possible. Staying in any other attunments beside fire for a longer time is completely pointless and I hope this is changed in a future elite spec (Only exception is of course dagger with fresh air)

Catastro.8410:

Jski.6180:

I am hoping for a focus main hand and an elite spec that is on the line of a pure mage or a siege mages (thinking an ele with wells or some other high dmg aoe utility). That and the class wepon skin would be an orb i think orbs / books fit the focus wepon skins well and are unused atm.

That sounds pretty cool. Dual wield Anomaly or Knowledge is Power is definitely an appealing sight.

I want dual Chak Focus for monster hands!
The ideal is to be a pure mage and focus are not weapons they are just objects you focus magic though unlike a staff that seems to be a mix of magic use and hitting ppl with.

Before HoT fire/air/water was the standard ele build before tempest replaced water. It was mainly used so that you would switch to water when you used Ice Bow to increase the damage on Ice Bow 3 and 4.