Guild Wars 2

Quick Summary:
With the new update, all of my traits were refunded and I redistributed them as they were. But, I’m having so issues concerning the change to Soothing Wave. I don’t think I’m going to be able to have the build I had before the update, so I was wondering if I could get some feedback or ideas on how to tweak my current build.

My Build:
My trait distribution is 30 in Earth, 30 in Water, and 10 in Arcana. Originally, I had Written in Stone (maintain the passive effects of signets when you activate them), Aquamancer’s Alacrity (20% cool down on water skills), Soothing Wave (originally got 6 seconds of regen when I used Signet of Water and Frost Bow currently gain 3 seconds of regen when I take a critical hit), Cleansing Water (removes a condition when granting regen to myself or an ally), and Elemental Attunement (when attuning to an element you and nearby allies gain a boon).

The problem:
I was okay with loosing Elemental Attunement, because I got Blasting Staff in return. However, the change to Soothing Wave is a major blow to how my character worked. With old Soothing Wave, I was able to have a good amount of condition removal, and the 12 to 18 seconds of regen were nice but, it was nice due to I got the regen/condition removal when I wanted and needed it. With New Soothing Wave, I get only half the regen only when I take a critical hit. But, from all my time playing I’ve noticed (especially as someone who is typically not in the fray), I don’t take a lot of critical hits.

My question:
Is it even worth it to keep the new Soothing Wave? Do monsters crit more than I remember or is this trait’s functionality in my build just as awful as I’m perceiving it to be. I’m open to suggestions and ideas on how to rectify this issue.

yes, I agree with you that new Soothing Wave is not useful (in PvE, dungeon). As an Elementalists we want a source of regen not coming from being hit, but rather hit enemies. So either decrease the cooldown, boost the regen or change to when you score a critical.
… but this trait seems to be designed for pvp.

Soothing Wave should never be used in PvE, only in PvP or WvW. This thread is thus void.

Im using soothing wave, its really nice. (wvw-er btw). its useful against rabid condi spammers, they crit a lot, and dish out condis and i pair up soothing wave with cleansing water. every critical hit every 10s is removing a condi and giving regen. /win

Had to change my build up a bit but its all good now. Still disappointed but whatever.

The minimal positive feed back is appreciated ^ ^
The negative/snarky feed back is not and is being dealt with with this passive aggressive sentence.

Monsters do not crit. it’s intirely a pvp thing. and isn’t it lovely that we who play pvp gets kitten because of some pvp thing and now have to fight to get something usefull in pve. >.<
OK. so. like before the nerf.. I run 30/0/0/20/20 staff build. with heavy support and versitily through atunements…
A large part was mixing the defense of the old soothing wave with mist forms from (down power). mist form active power and – superior rune of vampirism.
giving me an excellent use of an otherwise unused rune. . last ditch difference..
being around 14´k health and limited dodge well you need all that in a pve world fractals etc.

So now I have still cleansing wave (a must)… my runes need to be dumped. likely for the expensive 10g a piece traveler (- I have 70g) so ^^ yey all my money-
and what the heck am I supposed to put in 10point talent??

vital strike? its quite rare I’m at 90 for long
arcane abat? seriously?
Reduced cantrips? currentluy I don’t use cantrips. but I guess after the 60g spend I could remove speed siget for a cantrip
piercing shards?? hahahahahahaha
or the new soothing…… I don’t pvp….

Please devs—— when doing compleate revamps—- please think of something else then pvp.. and give us something usefull here.