Guild Wars 2

Currently our elite skills seem rather weak and almost useless or gimmicky at times and I feel they provide hardly any utility. Here is my suggestion to make the elite skills more viable.

Glyph of Elementals – Make the skill a dual use skill (swaps to a second ability after used). Have it so when summoning say an air elemental the second ability would be their stun, water elemental for their heal, and so on. This will fix the randomness involved with the current design of the AI.

Tornado – It seems that no one wants to use this skill because we become an instant target once used. A way to fix this is to summon a stationary tornado with a health bar equal to that of the caster (therefore glass cannon eles can have their tornado killed quickly to prevent the massive dmg it could put out). This would take the pressure off of the caster and would provide a tremendous increase in viability and utility.

Fiery Greatsword – idk it’s good in pve or I guess taking down gates/trebs but if anyone else has an idea for it feel free to post

And of course, I must once again suggest my idea of adding another elite skill. One similar to cold snap in WoW where it would reset the CD of all weapon skills. Make it like a 3 min cooldown or something so it’s not abused. And yes, many people have told me this elite would be far too overpowered due to double firegrabs/blazing speed but that’s hardly possible seeing how after the first blazing speed you’d be out of position for the second and firegrabs can be hard enough to land as is.

I have never played WOW so I have no idea what cold snaps is, or what you mean by that, but a reset weapon cd skill? Watch me cast armor of earth and drop 2 churning earths in a row for INSANE damage AND 20 stacks bleeds on everything. Plus double earthquake for cc lock.

But HELL YES our elite skills need to be reworked. I can’t standing of them, I hate pets, but the elemental summoning elite is the best of the bad IMO.

Elementalist Elite skills do need a revamp yeah.
Atm all 3 of them are kinda.. worse then an utility slot :P
The elemental is nice, but only because the others are quite.. useless..

Oh how I would love having an elite to become superpowerful at one element.
In fire: turn into a magma overlord, with every step you take fire novas blast from your feet, constant meteor shower around you, and more skills to your imagination.
Water: Every step gives a water blast, healing allies and freezing enemies. When cast under water, gives you enormous speed.
Air: gives you the ability to fly, with clouds forming around you lightning down every enemy and knocking them back.
Earth: become an earth lord, quaking the earth with every step, knocking down mobs. Change the topography of the map with your attack.

One can dream..

An elite turning you into an champion of the attunement your in at that moment… i would only dream for that yeah.. though it actually is a very good idea.

sadly enough i do think it would end up like Tornado…. worse then downed state

our elites are pretty bad compared to other classes. I like ele and it can be pretty strong in the right hands but so much of our class just feels watered down.

I wish Fiery Greatsword worked like this: Instantly spawn a greatsword in your hand and leap + minor firedamage target. We already have a summon and give to friend spell for every element, make the elite one different!

I wish the Tornado was done how you mentioned. Oh lord I wish.