Guild Wars 2

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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/September_2014_Feature_Pack/Balance_changes

Skills
Weapon skills

Dagger

• Burning Speed: No longer creates multiple fields at the same location when used against a wall.

Staff

• Burning Retreat: No longer creates multiple fields at the same location when used against a wall.

Utility skills

• Glyph of Lesser Elementals: Now has skill commands when summoned and will be used with the elementals’ next attack.

Glyph of Storms

• Firestorm: Applies 1 second of burning to each struck foe.

• Lightning Storm: Applies 2 stacks of vulnerability for 8 seconds to each struck foe.

Signet

• Signet of Air: Reduced recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.

• Signet of Earth: Applies 5 stacks of bleeding for 7 seconds.

• Signet of Fire: Increased damage by 100%.

• Signet of Water: Reduced recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.

Elite skills

Conjure Fiery Greatsword

• Fiery Rush: Reduced damage by the line of fire by 70%. Increased damage by final strike by 140%. No longer creates multiple fields at the same location when used against a wall.

• Glyph of Elementals: Now has skill commands when summoned and will be used with the elementals’ next attack.

Flame Barrage (Fire Elemental): Burns multiple targets.
Shocking Bolt (Air Elemental): Stuns a target.

Tornado and Whirlpool

• Removed attribute bonus to power. Increased damage for transform skills.

Downed skills

• Vapor Form: Updated visual effects to be different from Mist Form.

Traits

• Fire Magic Blinding Ashes: Applies blind to all foes struck when used with an area of effect burning skill.

• Arcana Elemental Contingency: No longer has a global cooldown and instead split cooldowns depending on attunement.

• Air Magic Lightning Rod: No longer requires an interrupt and instead triggers on any disable effect.

I though there was some talk that signet of earth got a cdr too though it was not in the patch notes and over all all the signet for a 1/2 cast time down from 3/4.

The big one i think is “Fire Magic Blinding Ashes: Applies blind to all foes struck when used with an area of effect burning skill.” How this works will make a new meta or just make the trait a bit more zerg friendly.

dat trait + glyph of storms(fire) = <3

I like some of these changes.

No nerfs to the classic DnD builds. I wonder if water elemental pet will eaither heal or chill on command…

Noyz.6430:

dat trait + glyph of storms(fire) = <3

It still has a 5 second ICD. It’s a buff sure, but it’s not major.

Galen.9042:

Noyz.6430:

dat trait + glyph of storms(fire) = <3

It still has a 5 second ICD. It’s a buff sure, but it’s not major.

Its a question of if the aoe is on the first tick only or if the cd is per person who you burned.
If its just on the first aoe (something that new to the game at leas that i know of) its not going to be all that great but still “ok” its just going to be a very high skill effect because any burn can set off the timer even the single target ones and then you got to wait 5 sec to land the aoe.

If its per person cd then it will become a powerful meta in it self at least in wvw. Things like fire walls or fire fields become blinds that hit nearly a full zerg on there own and the self def that ele pulls from this is very nice in that when they are in fire there a base 20% chase melee attks on them will burn the person attking you.

The new lighting rod and Elemental Contingency should have a nice effect to but i do not think they are as game changing as blinding ash if its the one way.

Lighting rod should give use to nado and ele aoe stuns / hard cc but there a lot of long lasting stab in the game (too much at least how long it last) so it will never hit every one but the ones you do hit will take 1k+ dmg and have a nice weekenss applied to them.
Elemental Contingency i think is going to be the in-between def / akk for mostly staff ele maybe scepter. It should give ele 100% up time for protection and nearly 100% up time for fury with a nice added vigor and retal. Its a question of can you live with out having removal of one condition the protection should make up and then some for the heal part (all the time -33% dmg when being attked vs 1.5k hp ever 10 sec at best.)

Hmm can anyone elaborate on the whole “on command” thing for the elementals? Or is it just unclear in general?

MightyMicah.7451:

Hmm can anyone elaborate on the whole “on command” thing for the elementals? Or is it just unclear in general?

If you press the elite button again it will do it’s skill.

So instead of dying before it is doing anything (as it has been for 2 years in WvW, useless) you might be able to cast a stun with your air elite if you spam that key while dodging all over the place, blasting fields, casting waters, holding the teamspeak key and avoiding a 30 people blob melee train with the cantrips you won’t replace with the new signets or glymph no matter what they say.

Thankfully we have magnetic shield… that’s always useful… (as a sort of museum artifact display of how a MMO skill shouldn’t be balanced)

Xillllix, you sir made me giggle.

What can I say? Aside from Blinding Ashes GM + new Firestorm (Glyph of Storms), there ain’t really new useful options.

Valento.9852:

Xillllix, you sir made me giggle.

What can I say? Aside from Blinding Ashes GM + new Firestorm (Glyph of Storms), there ain’t really new useful options.

But for some of us that use Signet of earth, the additional bleed stacks is going to be painful.

As of that matter, any dnd eles run full signets? I think u will need LF as a matter of principle.