Guild Wars 2

Sigh topic too long lol.

Here we have another set of skills in need of some serious love, nothing that would push ele over his mediocrity boundaries, we just need something that can increase the efficiency of these skills.

Churning Earth

-Add a single stack of stability, you already become an easy target with a 2s cast rooting animation, the cripple is not enough to keep most targets in range while being very easy to interrupt.
A single stack of stability for a 2s cast animation…doesn’t look much to m

Freezing Gust

-A mere 3s chill on a 25s CD with no dmg at all, we can either increase the base dmg from 80 to 400 or add another dmg condition to ele : Torment , single stack lasting 6s

Cleansing Wave -Dagger Off hand

As it stands now the skill is inferior in all regards to Tidal Surge

-We can either increase the base healing
or
-We can add a 800 base dmg PBaoe
or
-We increase the number of condis cleansed from 1 to 2

Agree? Disagree?

I agree with your Freezing Gust suggestion. We need another damaging condition on ele.

The Churning Earth change still doesn’t really make it viable. It just makes it go from worst skill ever to terrible skill that might be the worst skill ever.
Changes 1 and 3 would be good for cleansing wave.
Offhand dagger needs buffs almost everywhere. Updraft? Long cooldown. Ride the Lightning? I’m very emotional about this one’s cooldown. Frost Aura? Long cooldown. Cleansing wave? Long cooldown. Earthquake? Long cooldown. Fire Grab? Hard to land. Ring of Fire? Actually the best skill on offhand dagger.
The problem with offhand dagger is that it gives low rewards for high cooldown skills, and it has no anti projectile and a weak approach. Focus is indisputably better.

Freezing gust should be an ice wall that chills ppl who walk though it and a ice field, Churning earth should have a knock back or root at the end of it, and cleaning wave is ok as is.

Yeah finally someone mentioned freezing gust… I always feel this should be AoE chill or adding Tormented condition on. (Like winter’s embrace back in gw1)