Guild Wars 2

The passive traits Sunspot (15 points in Fire Magic) and Electric Discharge (15 points in Air Magic) are not only incredibly weak and a waste of a trait. They actually do the player a diservice. Earthen Blast (15 points in Earth Magic) at least has it’s cripple effect.

The problem is that when you are switching attunements out of combat, which often happens when elementalists switch to Air to cast Windborne Speed while they travel, this traits would activate and aggro all nearby mobs. So now you end up with mob attention on you, and in combat speed instead of non combat speed, when you meant to travel elsewhere.

This is a problem everywhere in PvE, and especially in Orr.

The damage this traits do is also ridiculously negligible. There is no point for them to exist, as this damage never does a spot of differance. While other professions sometimes have amazing passive traits (Engineer), most Elementalist passive traits do not add much to the profession.

Elementalists got pooped on by Arenanet. Welcome to the wrong profession my friend.

I have that 15 pt trait in Air and yet I don’t have the same issues other people have. But then again that’s because I don’t have the “auto targeting” option check and I don’t click on random mobs when I’m traversing the world.

MasterK.2394:

I have that 15 pt trait in Air and yet I don’t have the same issues other people have. But then again that’s because I don’t have the “auto targeting” option check and I don’t click on random mobs when I’m traversing the world.

Not having autotargeting on is something that should NOT be a requirement to play your profession without random aggro from swapping attunements. I can see how you wish to play, but that is not something that we should be forced into by a game mechanic. If it is intended then there should never have been autotargeting to begin with.

In short, the passive “5 point” traits are virtually useless for elementalists. The idea that each tree is an element was a novel idea but honestly, this has proven more of a gimmick than a valid concept. Forcing an attack on attunement swap while out of combat is even worse.

These attunement swap attacks should remain the realm of Sigil’s like they are for other professions and passives should be given to useful things.

To be fair, autotargeting is for lazy people and unskilled players new to the game.

I do agree, however, that if you’re not in combat, auto-triggering effects should not activate and put you into combat.

Well you could always just GASP not swap your attunements out of combat!! like if it’s really that big of a deal for you to get your windborn speed just swap to air attunement before combat is over, problem solved!

Lol really, now it’s the players fault facepalm.
And actually you suck if you don’t use auto targeting, for you have to waste brain farts dealing with targeting, not to mention you can waste cooldowns with no target, for staff that is.

Durzlla.6295:

Well you could always just GASP not swap your attunements out of combat!! like if it’s really that big of a deal for you to get your windborn speed just swap to air attunement before combat is over, problem solved!

Because Air is always off cooldown during combat.

It’s caused by autotarget. Turn it off, it’s bad for you anyway =/