Guild Wars 2

Anyone that Plays elementalist knows that Phoenix is one of the best skills in our fold. But I’d like to suggest a change on it. What about making it give burning? For scepter/dagger players, burning is really important due to the increase in the fire grab skill damage. The skill is already great, I know, but is one of the only skills easy to land among the scepter skills, and the burning would help a lot with the combo Phoenix-Fire Grab, for the ones who use it. Give your opinions!

Scepter autoattack while attuned to fire gives nothing but burning.

^ Dat autoattack!

The only scepter skills that need a change are:
-Water 2: make it do SOMETHING
-Dragon’s tooth (maybe): change how it interacts with interrupts rather than completely canceling if it hasn’t fallen yet but after the casting is done.

Phoenix is one of the LAST skills they should buff, as it already:
-Does massive damage
-AOE
-Unblockable
-Removes a Condi
-Blast finisher

I know it’s an awesome skill but, really, the scepter fire auto attack is horrible! it takes forever to cast and does what? 1 sec burnig? Ok, dont buff Phoenix, but we seriously need a reduce in the scepter fire autoattack cast!

Creamble.1652:

I know it’s an awesome skill but, really, the scepter fire auto attack is horrible! it takes forever to cast and does what? 1 sec burnig? Ok, dont buff Phoenix, but we seriously need a reduce in the scepter fire autoattack cast!

Adept Trait V in fire, 33% chance to cause burning for 1 second on critical hit. Assuming you have 30% crit chance + fury from swapping to fire you can easily throw a well placed phoenix ( hits 3 times) and channel fire grab as the phoenix is reaching the target and hit for the bonus damage.

edit: also if you are running arcane blast or wave you can throw that at them right before firegrab goes off for another chance at burning.

BlackBeard.2873:

The only scepter skills that need a change are:
-Water 2: make it do SOMETHING
-Dragon’s tooth (maybe): change how it interacts with interrupts rather than completely canceling if it hasn’t fallen yet but after the casting is done.

Phoenix is one of the LAST skills they should buff, as it already:
-Does massive damage
-AOE
-Unblockable
-Removes a Condi
-Blast finisher

Don’t forget the 5 seconds of Vigor!

I agree totally that Shatterstone and Dragon’s Tooth need a bit of a change. As well as Dust Devil needs to be a guaranteed blind for at least 1 target.