Guild Wars 2

After 5 seconds in an attunement, you can use overload and you channel it for 4 seconds.
In these 4 seconds, you cannot defend yourself through your spells.
You cannot dodge either. Afterwards a 20 second cooldown is thrown on the attument.

So you basically become a punching bag so to speak when overloading.

People will know, that you can hit the tempest with all you got during those 4 seconds.
Besides boonstripping and interrupting.

That is what I dislike the most about the overloads. The defenceless feeling.
In several scenarios it feels like weakening yourself, rather than empowering.

Cant the overload be a form that lasts 4 seconds, rather than a channel, so that we can dodge?
Similar to other form spells where you can dodge (the Plague form from Necros for example and our Tornado).

Maybe in addtion the form could have a few spells, like Plague and Tornado.
Defensive spells, beside the overload.

Other options could be access to our heal, utility spells and elite spell while overloading.

As tempest is not really popular in pvp, this form improvement could be welcome.

Forms are not something new to implement. It already exists in the game.
That might make a change like this easier to do and likelier to happen.

Yashuoa.9527:

After 5 seconds in an attunement, you can use overload and you channel it for 4 seconds.
In these 4 seconds, you cannot defend yourself through your spells.
You cannot dodge either. Afterwards a 20 second cooldown is thrown on the attument.

So you basically become a punching bag so to speak when overloading.

People will know, that you can hit the tempest with all you got during those 4 seconds.
Besides boonstripping and interrupting.

That is what I dislike the most about the overloads. The defenceless feeling.
In several scenarios it feels like weakening yourself, rather than empowering.

Cant the overload be a form that lasts 4 seconds, rather than a channel, so that we can dodge?
Similar to other form spells where you can dodge (the Plague form from Necros for example and our Tornado).

Maybe in addtion the form could have a few spells, like Plague and Tornado.
Defensive spells, beside the overload.

Other options could be access to our heal, utility spells and elite spell while overloading.

As tempest is not really popular in pvp, this form improvement could be welcome.

Forms are not something new to implement. It already exists in the game.
That might make a change like this easier to do and likelier to happen.

Or at the very least give us 4 seconds of protection on starting an overload rather than 3. That leaves 1 whole second of no protection without using a utility where you cannot swap attunements/dodge without interrupting the overload.

Senario.2038:

Or at the very least give us 4 seconds of protection on starting an overload rather than 3. That leaves 1 whole second of no protection without using a utility where you cannot swap attunements/dodge without interrupting the overload.

Yeah I agree on the 4 seconds instead of 3.
At least as long as we have a lack of activating spells or dodge while overloading (we can activate the instant ones with no animation though, but those wont help defensively in fire and water at the very least).

Although you can use your auras to extend the protection duration to 4+ sec, if you pick up the elemental shielding trait in earth. Maybe not ideal but it is possible.