Guild Wars 2

One of the huge knocks against the Tempest is you have to stay in a single attunement long enough for it to recharge to access your overload. In the process you end up losing tons of skill casts you would have had with a stock Elementalist’s more free flowing cycling of attunements.

What if the Tempest’s first minor trait also gave universal, all-weapon-skills 20% cooldown reduction? Or weapon skills cooldown reduction based on the number of your attunements that are fully charged and ready so that ‘settling into’ a single attunement after a quick rotation grants a slowly stacking weapons skill cooldown buff as your other attunements recharge.

Either way, it makes staying in one attunement far less painful and is structured to work with any of the weapons available to the Elite Spec, and helps the Tempest work as a caster who prefers to hold their ground in one attunement, eventually preparing their overload, rather than the free cycling (but slower individual cooldowns) of the traditional Elemetalist gameplay.

The base cd of overload just needs to be dropped to 15 sec the old base atument swap time and remove the effect of the arcain line to drop it even more but have the abitly to drop the cdr of overloads to 30%. It would play a lot like the old ele.

For your ideal having -20% to all weapons may be a bit much you start to see some ability become way to easy and powerful to be on that type of cd. Think about something like obsidian flesh base cd of 50 sec if you give it -33% from earth line and then -20% from tempest link a drop of 53% your looking at obsidian flesh on a 24 sec cd. If you keep the -20% cd on wh on-top of the -20% your starting to look at cd on 4 skills (or 2 atuments types) on a -73% cd.