Guild Wars 2

2 reasons…

1. As an ele main I don’t need to deal with the new hard to get hero points and focus on the other content. Let necros and mesmers die dozens of times to the same hero challenge while trying to unlock their elite specs.

2. I’m having such an easy time in pvp. I keep using my old arc/wat/fire dd setup. Some old dd players are testing tempest and pulling out some aura shenanigans but they die much easier. Thus I have one lees enemy to worry about in PvP.

Karl, why have you forsaken me?

There were 4 tempests in the NA ESL stream yesterday, 2 of which made it to the finals. I doubt you can call it nonviable when top tier players have made it work against teams consisting of revenants and dragonhunters, which are probably the dominant marauder. Builds in the meta right now.

nearlight.3064:

There were 4 tempests in the NA ESL stream yesterday, 2 of which made it to the finals. I doubt you can call it nonviable when top tier players have made it work against teams consisting of revenants and dragonhunters, which are probably the dominant marauder. Builds in the meta right now.

The last-minute change of auras giving regen and vigor basically makes tempest viable. And maybe even able to go the distance without arcane+water.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

nearlight.3064:

There were 4 tempests in the NA ESL stream yesterday, 2 of which made it to the finals. I doubt you can call it nonviable when top tier players have made it work against teams consisting of revenants and dragonhunters, which are probably the dominant marauder. Builds in the meta right now.

The last-minute change of auras giving regen and vigor basically makes tempest viable. And maybe even able to go the distance without arcane+water.

Exactly, and the build I saw on the NA ESL were actually far from optimal. By that, I mean that they have been missing something very strong that I do not wish to disclose yet.

Didn’t they all use fresh air builds which is against the concept of overloads as they must be punishing to use because of their high reward.

Fresh air gets a revival with tempest. Basically you start in air (+can overload) and overload air when waiting on other elements cooldown.