Guild Wars 2

Lately offhand dagger has felt so outdated. The main problem I have with it is the relatively long cooldowns. I want some changes!

Here are my ideal changes:

• Fire Grab cone angle increased a bit
• Frost Aura CD – 40 > 25
• Cleansing Wave CD – 40 > 35
• Ride the Lightning CD – 40 > 30, keep on-hit CD reduction at 20 secs
• Updraft CD – 40 > 30
• Earthquake AOE – 240 > 360
• Churning Earth AOE – 360 > something bigger

These may be OP but ehh…

I’m curious as to what you all think of it and what buffs/nerfs you’d like to see it get.

Mate, those CD recharges would probably make dagger good again in WvW, but in PvP, it would be still nowhere near good enough to wield. It needs damage avoidance, like blocks, evades or invulnerability. For example, they could replace Frost Aura with a skill that would transform you into a solid block of ice, where you couldn’t be hurt but neither be able to move or cast abilities. Make it have 30s CD and we’re good to go.
I would also rather have more heal on Cleansing wave, as it would make it better on Evasive arcana too (which is terrible right now).

Honestly, devs just need some passion towards their classes, but I feel like they have no to give.

I think off hand dagger dose it job of burst dmg well maybe just the frost aura needs an update because of the aura change but other then that its mostly good. What the real problem is that main hand dagger lacks a good def skill to let ele get into close combat. I say at least ring of earth needs to block every thing for 1.5 sec and not just block projectiles for its .2 sec or so.

Yeah it needs equivalent cooldown reduction and at least one invulnerability or block skill to be competitive in comparison to other classes in the meta.