Guild Wars 2

Currently if you want to overload an attunement you have to stay on that attunement for 5 seconds which takes away the fast playstyle the ele needs.
How about 2 seconds ? if not instant.

3s would already do the job. i don’t think instant will ever happen

why not ? I was just thinking about that.
If we have instant on overload, i would not mind having to wait longer before using it again.
my thought : the longer you wait before using it, bigger the damages are.
ex : overload on your 1st atunement => 100% damage ==> CD 10 sec
2nd attunement => 110% damage ==> CD 12 sec
3rd attunement => 120% damage ==> CD 14 sec
4th attunement => 130% damage ==> CD 16 sec

sorry if it’s not clear or wrongly said, i’m not english

i just don’t think the devs would ever make it instant.

Honestly, instant would be fine as it presents a good risk/reward level that is possible to balance. Overload for a benefit now, but realize you are hurting future you (with longer CD afterwards)

The alternative is to keep the pre-charge but get rid of the long CD afterwards, which presents you with an option “Suffer on your overall capabilities for a few seconds to get a benefit when the overload is ready, risking that you get forced to swap near the end of the pre-charge.”

Of course, that assumes that overloads aren’t given the “tornado balance” (i.e. kill me now as I am an incredibly kitable aoe channel with no real defense but prot, and I can’t even dodge or else I just wasted 3-4s b/c most of the benefit is backloaded)

To be honest with you, I don’t want it to be instant. However I also don’t want it to be 5secs, that is way too long.