Guild Wars 2

Crit once to completely recharge your Overload Air, constantly spam back-to-back Overload Air, turning you into an …actual tempest?

Or does the 5 second rule still apply even if you recharge Air Attunement via Fresh Air?

Hello? If Fresh Air can instantly recharge an Overload cool down with one crit, this would be more overpowered than anything we have ever encountered?

You have to be in another attunement to proc Fresh Air. So you’d have to cast your overload, swap to another attunement, then swap back. Wait 5 seconds, then cast the overload again. It’s finnicky and not that strong, since air’s overload is adjusted to take that into account. It’s a decent way to stack aoe vulnerability, but not the best.

Wasdclick.1764:

You have to be in another attunement to proc Fresh Air. So you’d have to cast your overload, swap to another attunement, then swap back. Wait 5 seconds, then cast the overload again. It’s finnicky and not that strong, since air’s overload is adjusted to take that into account. It’s a decent way to stack aoe vulnerability, but not the best.

Is this what you tested in BWE2? The only reason we currently have to be in another attunement to proc Fresh Air is because swapping attunement is the only way to trigger a cool-down on Air attunement.

Overload will trigger a cool-down without switching out of Air attunement. But I don’t know if this cool-down can be cleared by Fresh Air, nor do I know whether the 5 sec rule on Overloads can be bypassed if you never switched attunements.

I thought someone tested in BWE that you can’t recharge overcharged air attunement with fresh air, but I could be wrong or missing new updates.

EDIT: See this thread, not sure if its intended or a bug.

i tested it during the first bwe and it was pretty terrible.

first you have to stay in air for 5 seconds, that’s something you usually never do, the max i ever stay in air is maybe 2-3s at maximum.

this can be bypassed by just staying in air before you engage for the first overload but after that it still comes to those 5s. when you use your overload you have to stay in air for another 4s until the channel is completed. you cannot channel the air overload and switch attunement, this is something i have demanded multiple times in feedback threads, without much success.

after the overload ends (after 9s in air in total) you can switch to a different attunement, proc fresh air, get back to air and wait another 5s.

it’s slow and most likely you will have more dps by just playing fresh air the way it’s supposed to be played..

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

I thought someone tested in BWE that you can’t recharge overcharged air attunement with fresh air, but I could be wrong or missing new updates.

EDIT: See this thread, not sure if its intended or a bug.

Ah that’s a shame – looks like Auras are still the way to go.

Iohanna.4863:

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

I thought someone tested in BWE that you can’t recharge overcharged air attunement with fresh air, but I could be wrong or missing new updates.

EDIT: See this thread, not sure if its intended or a bug.

Ah that’s a shame – looks like Auras are still the way to go.

*looks like not going Tempest is still the way to go.

Jekkt pretty much nailed it. Just too clunky to really be effective.

I used tempest fresh air in BW2, altho it didnt cooldown the air Overload to 0 but still 5, it was rather cool and effective

Iohanna.4863:

Wasdclick.1764:

You have to be in another attunement to proc Fresh Air. So you’d have to cast your overload, swap to another attunement, then swap back. Wait 5 seconds, then cast the overload again. It’s finnicky and not that strong, since air’s overload is adjusted to take that into account. It’s a decent way to stack aoe vulnerability, but not the best.

Is this what you tested in BWE2? The only reason we currently have to be in another attunement to proc Fresh Air is because swapping attunement is the only way to trigger a cool-down on Air attunement.

Overload will trigger a cool-down without switching out of Air attunement. But I don’t know if this cool-down can be cleared by Fresh Air, nor do I know whether the 5 sec rule on Overloads can be bypassed if you never switched attunements.

Last BWE the overload air cooldown (and therefore the attunement cooldown) was only reset when critting outside of air. And I don’t think they’ll change that seeing as Anet doesn’t have a good record on fixing ele bugs…