Guild Wars 2

Passive: 15% boon duration
Active: All attunements are recharged
60 second cooldown, instant cast

or

Passive: 30% attunement recharge
Active: Grant all boons for 5 seconds
75 second cooldown, 1 second cast

Seems balanced to me and it would free elementalists from being forced into heavy arcane investment depending on how it is implemented. I wanted to include a stun break but I highly doubt we will ever see those on non-cantrips at this point.

What do you think?

Solo.9027:

Passive: 15% boon duration
Active: All attunements are recharged
60 second cooldown, instant cast

or

Passive: 30% attunement recharge
Active: Grant all boons for 5 seconds
75 second cooldown, 1 second cast

Seems balanced to me and it would free elementalists from being forced into heavy arcane investment depending on how it is implemented. I wanted to include a stun break but I highly doubt we will ever see those on non-cantrips at this point.

What do you think?

I swear I came up with this exact concept on Reddit ( http://www.reddit.com/r/gw2esports/comments/1fab39/daily_discussion_529_viability_of_elites_in/ca8cd8m) a few days ago =P

“Finally, I think it’d be neat if a future Elementalist Elite was made based around attunement swapping. The passive would decrease the attunement recharge rate, and the active would take all your attunements off cooldowns. This would give Eles the option NOT to spec deep into Arcane for the (essentially) required cooldown reduction.”

I have to say, I think it’d be great. The only problem is that it’d be very tough to balance. It’d also make that trait just as essential as 30 arcane is now. (But it would give us more options, which is always nice.) Also, I think the recharge rate on the signet would have to be lower. Like 30 seconds max. And the Earth Trait Written in Stone would have to be considered as well.

I’m partial to my idea of gaining an Arcana Attunement as an elite so we can make better use of the arcana traits, but this is an interesting idea.

problem is with the second version, +90% to recharge for attunements is .. interesting. it may or may not be a problem.. since, all attunements skills have a cooldown anyway.. i would much rather want to see an improvement to conjure weps first. but this does sound cool

The first one seems more likely to actually maybe happen. Though it would kinda become mandatory on everyone.

having elites for all ability types would be great, for all classes.

I’d love to see arcane, cantrip and signet elites.

Frostedblaze.9017:

I swear I came up with this exact concept on Reddit ( http://www.reddit.com/r/gw2esports/comments/1fab39/daily_discussion_529_viability_of_elites_in/ca8cd8m) a few days ago =P

“Finally, I think it’d be neat if a future Elementalist Elite was made based around attunement swapping. The passive would decrease the attunement recharge rate, and the active would take all your attunements off cooldowns. This would give Eles the option NOT to spec deep into Arcane for the (essentially) required cooldown reduction.”

I have to say, I think it’d be great. The only problem is that it’d be very tough to balance. It’d also make that trait just as essential as 30 arcane is now. (But it would give us more options, which is always nice.) Also, I think the recharge rate on the signet would have to be lower. Like 30 seconds max. And the Earth Trait Written in Stone would have to be considered as well.

Great minds must think alike :P

I actually don’t use reddit anymore, this just came to me one day when I noticed how little my elite matters compared to my warrior or other professions.

I chose a longer cooldown because with signet mastery and written in stone I feel that those skills could be a little too strong and because all ele utilities worth using are on insanely long timers so I was just being realistic.

I would settle for conjures becoming like engi kits or spreading out our stunbreaks over other skill types but everyone knows our elites are horrible.

Instant attunement recharge is probably too powerful in bunker-ish builds. Consider that it would allow a player to quickly cycle starting from Fire, then Water-Earth-Water-Earth-Fire. It might be once a minute, but doubling up on the protection, regen, burst heal and condition removal is probably too much for bunker (which is already regularly getting hit with nerfbats due to having too much survivability)

Now, a signet that replaces the need for attunement recharge rate as a stat, that could be great for enabling builds that don’t have 30 arcana. I’d personally make the active something the elementalist doesn’t normally have access to, like Quickness, though.