Guild Wars 2

There is the new trait Stone Hearth(XIII) which gives you the ability, that crit dmg isn’t effect on you. And that is only available if you are in Earth attunement.
But there is the trait Arcane second passive: Lingering Elements, which gives the ability, to maintain the attunament effects for another 5seconds after switching attunament.
But if i switch from Earth attunament the Stone Hearth effect doesn’t remain on me..
Is this a bug, or is this supposed to be like this?

lingering elements only affects with Soothing Mist, Flame Barrier, Zephyr’s Speed and Stone Flesh. The trait sucks in general

Yep, we’ve been told in the past that there are no plans to make LE work for anything apart from the 5 point minors of the other trait lines. It’s... really terrible. The traits for increased damage while attuned to Fire/attuned to Air/attuned to Water and hitting vulnerable foes? None of those work either.

ohh, i see. thanks for the answers!

Yeah it doesn’t work for Stone Heart. i think this is good. It would be INSANELY broken if it did and would have likely meant just a reduction in crit damage rather then total removal of it. TWO thieves used back stab on me at the same time while i was in Earth – i took just over 2,000 total damage

I always though a great grandmaster trait was to move lingering elements to the grandmaster arcane line and have it function with everything past the 5 point minor traits. I mean it wouldn’t that over powered. you already wasted 6 points out 14 in your traits and could pick a few % modifiers in damage in the earth(10% withing 600 of target) and water traitline (10% dmg about 90%.) I guess it would be overpowered lol with constant switching.

The class is just broken overall so it’s normal it doesn’t work with LE.

One of those great decision to punish the ele for it’s class mechanic instead of making the class mechanic into something useful.

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I always though a great grandmaster trait was to move lingering elements to the grandmaster arcane line and have it function with everything past the 5 point minor traits. I mean it wouldn’t that over powered. you already wasted 6 points out 14 in your traits and could pick a few % modifiers in damage in the earth(10% withing 600 of target) and water traitline (10% dmg about 90%.) I guess it would be overpowered lol with constant switching.

Both damage modifiers you mention work regardless of the current attunement. The ones that could work with LE are: Internal Fire, Air Training, Piercing Shards.

yeah, that’s the way it’s designed.. i’m fine with that, but they need to merge it with arcane fury.. it would mostly pick up the slack where earth and water traitlines are lacking..