Guild Wars 2

I know this is probably no where near on Anet’s radar for eles, but wouldn’t it be cool if we could truly specialize and dedicate entirety of our build toward one Attunement? To become real Pyromancer, Eolmancer, Aquamancer or Geomancer.

Right now eles are jack of all attunes because what else can you do? Swap weapons? Staying in one attunement is discouraged and seriously limits your options which is why you can never truly shine in certain aspects like condi or full support. And if you DO camp in one you’re just using 1/4 of your potential.

What if we could get a new specialization that allows us wearing 2 weapon sets but locks us into singe attunement the moment we enter combat? Or maybe get locked the moment you equip the weapon.

So yeah you get only one element at your disposal, but in my opinion this could be the case where less is actually more, because of sheer number of potential new highly specialized builds that can spring from it.

TL;DR
One weapon set 4 attunements
Two weapon sets 1 attunement

I’m sorry if something like this has already been posted I rarely visit forums and I just wanted to get this idea off my chest and put it on “paper”.

awesome ideas man , +1

I think “tempest” sound like “Eolmancer”.

Although, It most likely won’t happen like you want. Having weapon swap instead of attunment kill to many core specialization traits, need them to design new skills for every core weapons and overall it would be a huge loss for the profession.

I think it would be great to have the options to.
Personally I wouldn’t play it, as I like the versatility of the elementalist (with 4 elements).

And some people here in the forums are quite opposing to anything that makes camping one attunement remotely viable.

I’ve been wondering the same thing. It would need to maintain being an ele somehow though – maybe 1 attunement chosen per weapon, or switching main hands and off hands independently (possibly being in 2 attunements at once).

lLobo.7960:

I think it would be great to have the options to.
Personally I wouldn’t play it, as I like the versatility of the elementalist (with 4 elements).

And some people here in the forums are quite opposing to anything that makes camping one attunement remotely viable.

Well that was exactly my intention. Giving an option without forcing anyone to use it unless they want to. Look at it from this perspective also:
Most of the professions usually use mele, mid range, range or mix. Eles don’t get to mix. I’d love to be able to equip my d/d + staff camp fire and swap accordingly depending on target’s range. Or go S/D + staff in Earth for condi focused build.

Gonna sound nit picky but it was Aeromancer back in gw1 (I think it’s still here in gw2 not sure)

But yeah, I’ve often thought about this and whether elementalist should get a GM trait for each trait lime where weapon skills were locked to an attunement but weapon switching would be unlocked as well. It would also have to disable the other GM traits that do the same thing