Guild Wars 2

I think it would really enhance the use of the skill, since we we can’t use it to teleport where we actually want to half the time haha

I would rather it inflict 5 stacks of confusion for 6-8seconds to all those that get damaged by it than us have just another Blast that will be pretty much useless solo.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

I would rather it inflict 5 stacks of confusion for 6-8seconds to all those that get damaged by it than us have just another Blast that will be pretty much useless solo.

Ew confusion.
Leap finisher would be more appropriate imo, you could get a heal, daze or aura out of it in staff and another aura buff proc in D/D.

bring back the break stun .

Never mind, i miss read it. For some reason i was thinking of Ride The Lightening lol

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Never mind, i miss read it. For some reason i was thinking of Ride The Lightening lol

Heh, that one actually would make sense as a blast finisher, even if it would be an entirely unusable one.

Ride The Lightning – Blind or Weakness
Shatterstone – Blast Finisher (It explodes!)
Ring of Earth – Evasion Frame or Block (Somewhat makes sense since you get covered by stones). Add torment too.
Lightning Touch – Add blind(?)
Lightning Flash – Blind

Kyon.9735:

Ride The Lightning – Confusion
Shatterstone – Blast Finisher (It explodes!)
Ring of Earth – Evasion Frame or Block (Somewhat makes sense since you get covered by stones). Add torment too.
Lightning Touch – Add blind(?)
Lightning Flash – Blind

The rest seem solid, Ring of Earth really should get a few stacks of Torment, add Confusion to Ride The Lightening, all targets hit get 5 stacks for 6-8 seconds.

Kyon.9735:

Ride The Lightning – Blind or Weakness
Shatterstone – Blast Finisher (It explodes!)
Ring of Earth – Evasion Frame or Block (Somewhat makes sense since you get covered by stones). Add torment too.
Lightning Touch – Add blind(?)
Lightning Flash – Blind

Ring of earth stops projectiles I think, intended or not, despite there never being any indication of this in tooltips.
Lightning touch already does weakness, blind might be overkill.
The other ideas I have no objection to.

While I’m all in for making a decent condition build for eles, I don’t think Confusion fits the class especially on RTL. I think AoE 5 stacks of confusion is OP. But hey, Warriors can stack confusion almost better than Mesmers, so why not? #AnetLogic

Lightning Touch – I put a question mark in there because I want to see others reaction on it. People rarely use it (because of long cast time) so I thought maybe adding another defensive condition might make people use it.

Ring of Earth – I really think it needs a few stacks of torment.

You guys might have noticed that I put in a lot of blinds and evasion. Elementalists belong in the lowest HP and Armor tier with no natural defensive mechanism like Stealth or Clones. I don’t think Anet will agree on giving Elementalists a higher health pool so the only solution I can think of to increase Ele survivability is give them more access to evasions/blocks and blinds. Giving them more evasion frames/blocks and blinds might make bunker Eles more viable. We can’t always rely on High CD Cantrips to prolong our lives for 2~4 seconds longer.

Lightning flash is fine. If anything I would make it a stun breaker again and trade it for glyph of elemental power.

Making it a blast finisher would defeat its purpose. A blink that has to be used point blank?

[Lightning Flash] does absurd base damage instantly from range. While it could use a cool-down reduction in order to increase the Elementalist’s in-combat mobility, it also needs a damage nerf to accompany it. Instant-activation, ranged damage should never be something with which one can reliably kill another player (even though that it’s currently a shockingly common thing in GW2).

Lightning flash needs to be a stun breaker and a 2 second stun.
Arcane Shield should be block all attacks for 5 seconds or block the next 3 attacks no time limit.
Arcane Wave should be a stun breaker and an aoe launch.
Mist Form should be like retro mist from (you can heal or utility skills).

Would be fun but fun is overrated.

^ Sure. Just double the cooldowns. Except for Mist form, it has enough of a cooldown already.

lakdav.3694:

^ Sure. Just double the cooldowns. Except for Mist form, it has enough of a cooldown already.

No… Our skills already have too long of a cooldown… At the very least they should make a lot of these defensive skills on par with other classes…

On topic: I kinda like lightning flash as it is, but I do prefer its stun break qualities back… It kinda doesn’t make sense that it doesn’t when comparing to a mesmer’s blink.

Leap finishers does sound like a good idea. I like it.

Lightning flash is full of bugs and Anet doesn’t seem to be willing to fix it.

- It doesn’t work on half the stairs or terrain at angles and it never never works on bridges.
- There is a hidden bonus to it, 5% chance to get stuck in the terrain and be unable to move.
- When there is the slightest bit of lag it teleports you behind where you would have been if you just walked there.
Already the ele is the hardest class to play we would appreciate it if at least our super slow skills would work.

Same with Meteor Shower, had to believe they will dare add a red circle to it before fixing it (often it doesn’t hit an enemy right under it)

Just make it a stunbreaker again.

Watch woodenpotatoes video on blink mechanics Xillllix

LightningFlash is ok the way it is. The only 2 things that can actually make it a lot better is either increasing its range to 1200 or renewing the stun breaker effect again. This is my favorite utility since beta day one.

Both RTL and LF should have a chain skill to leap backwards where you first used it. That would promote those skills into more usefullness.

Just make it stun breaker again, makes a lot more sense or reduce cooldown.. or both