Guild Wars 2

Question from a relatively new elementalist: What skill/trait do we have that blocks siege damage? I’ve seen this mentioned a few times on forums and in WvW, that elementalists fend off siege damage somehow, but I don’t know what skill is being referred to. Thanks.

It is the Swirling Winds from Air Attunement with Focus off hand.

You stand close to the thing you want to protect and use Swirling Winds before the siege is damaging what you are defending. For a proper full defense you need elementalists to rotate this ability

Focus – Air – Skill 4: Swirling Winds will destroy any projectile (including those from Siege). It doesn’t work aground ground-targeted attacks (such as those from arrow carts) or melee attacks. Cooldown 30 seconds.

Focus – Earth – Skill 5: Obsidian Flesh also destroys projectiles, but you have to be very precise with your positioning. Cooldown 50 seconds.

Due to cooldowns, you wont be able to protect an area forever without having additional Elementalists with a Focus equipped.

Duly noted. Thanks for the replies.

Kaleden.9386:

Focus – Air – Skill 4: Swirling Winds will destroy any projectile (including those from Siege). It doesn’t work aground ground-targeted attacks (such as those from arrow carts) or melee attacks. Cooldown 30 seconds.

Focus – Earth – Skill 5: Obsidian Flesh also destroys projectiles, but you have to be very precise with your positioning. Cooldown 50 seconds.

Due to cooldowns, you wont be able to protect an area forever without having additional Elementalists with a Focus equipped.

Are you sure earth 5 can block siege? I’ve tried it a lot of times against trebs and Air 4 is the only one that destroys the projectile, earth 5 just makes me invulnerable.

The trick to working with Obsidian Flesh is ensuring the projectile hits you before it comes in contact with the ground by standing or jumping in front of its contact area. A few patches ago, I thought they removed it because I was having bad luck positioning myself, but just last week I was protecting Hills from treb fire and was able to “catch” the treb shot using this skill. When this happened, no explosion animation played and the wall’s health remained constant (it was a paper wall, so it should have been noticeable). I think it’s just very touchy.

Here is a demostration of using Obsidian Flesh for projectile absorption done by Drq.

http://youtu.be/icp-HpO_0yQ?t=12m34s