Guild Wars 2

I know some of the Tempest traits were left for later to touch. You were looking for ideas for Tempestuous Aria… Gale Song, et cetera.

Usually, the first idea that comes in mind is to combine Tempestuous Aria with Gale Song. It is mostly consistant with the philosophy brought in the June 23 patch where most traits that fits together were combined together.

Gale Song which procs Eye of the Storm could be looked at too. Eye of the Storm breaks stun in a 600 radius to allies, gives super speed for 5 seconds, long cooldown of 40 seconds. Eye of the Storm is obviously quite the boring shout and a lackluster one. So I had a few ideas for Eye of the Storm. Amongst them:

-It could grant one stack of stability.
-It could grant light aura (not shocking aura).
-It could grant a static charge to the allies and yourself. (That’s the buff you gain from overloading air)
-The super speed could be reduced to 3 seconds if something is added.
-A more reasonable cooldown.

For Lucid Singularity ideas were discussed too. I had to test the true meaning of -100% condition duration to movement-impeding conditions. It actually grants a total immunity to those conditions, which is better than expected. It ignores the conditions, it does not reduce the duration, and they will not be applied while overloading. So a few ideas thrown around:

-Adding Obsidian Focus to the trait (Thoughness when channeling)
-Completing an overload counts as a shout (But it would require Rune of Soldier too much)
-Super speed for 1.5 seconds at the begining of the Overload, and another 1.5 seconds upon completing the overload.
-Bonuses when an overload is recharching depending on the attunement. Air —> Crit chance ; Fire --> Power ; Water —> cleanse 1 condition every 5 seconds ; Earth --> Thoughness

I disagree. Gale song is actually the only trait I like from tempest. AoE stun break on 40 sec cd with superspeed is pretty good if you ask me. Also, 600 radius is quite big.

Gale song is great and i prefer it. Combined with tempestious aria its even better. The 40s CD is long, but otherwise its very compftable. Added to the stunbreaks on overlaod this maks tempest quite stable.

The traits that need attention are:

Latent stamina: Clear loser against the other two traits. I don´t bother with it and don´t know what to put in…
Speedy conduit: Feels like a filler …. 25% basespeed added would be great.

Tempestious aria: In larger groups this is outclassed by the other traits. It need a slight buff that helps in group fights. Shout CD reduction would be great. A +condition duration would fit perfectly to give something diffrent and new.

Imbued Melodies: Basicall it is good, but bound to warhorn makes it rare.

Well Gale song is useless guys =D it will proc If U get stunned … so it’s kinda stupid as the utility is for you AND ur allies … few skills (in both pve and pvp) are able to control more than 1 or 2 people. the only utility i could find is that ’s a shout … and maybe superspeed but too long Cd.

ex : hammer fractal or elite well from chornomancer. so … underwhelming.

I don’t think it’s useless, if it triggers is because someone needed to stop you, instead made you and nearby allies faster (backfire)

Wolfric.9380:

Gale song is great and i prefer it. Combined with tempestious aria its even better. The 40s CD is long, but otherwise its very compftable. Added to the stunbreaks on overlaod this maks tempest quite stable.

The traits that need attention are:

Latent stamina: Clear loser against the other two traits. I don´t bother with it and don´t know what to put in…
Speedy conduit: Feels like a filler …. 25% basespeed added would be great.

Tempestious aria: In larger groups this is outclassed by the other traits. It need a slight buff that helps in group fights. Shout CD reduction would be great. A +condition duration would fit perfectly to give something diffrent and new.

Imbued Melodies: Basicall it is good, but bound to warhorn makes it rare.

It’s odd. You find Gale Song good, but find Latent Stamina lacking. I am pretty sure that you’re amongst the ones who think that Latent Stamina truly has an ICD while the ICD is only for the on-swap part.

I don’t understand how some of you can pretend that Gale Song or Eye of the Storm is good. Gale Song and Tempestious Aria are two bad traits that would benefit to be combined together.

I said gale song is OK. I you dont play full auramancer you pick it. Latent stamia is the weakest of the thre picks. The order is unstable conduit-gale song-latent stamina.
Tempestious aria can´t compete with the other two traits well in group PvP but is not bad in a 1:1 or 2:2 shout build.

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