Guild Wars 2

I mained elementalist a long time ago, and I was thinking about returning to ele for this xpac, I have not gotten a chance to play Tempest yet and I was wondering what the community of ele’s are thinking about it considering all the post-beta weekend changes they say they have made. I realize you havent gotten the chance to test some of these changes but any insight would be grand

Thanks !

Current consensus seems to be that Tempest doesn’t really open up any new roles for the Ele, since anything Tempest can do, baseline Ele can do (better.)

We will have to see if the changes they are making for BWE 3 will rectify this.

Lukewarm, It has potential, but it is lacking in a lot of ways (double investment with 5 seconds of being in attunement then 4 seconds of channeling. Three if you count having longer attunement cooldowns).

That said, I can’t ever see using a warhorn…it just isn’t interesting to me personally. I would have loved the sword though.

I feel like Tempest is built on “unsteady grounds”…

It has a lot of skill contradictions (support without cc, melee without stability, leaps or block, close range reflect auras?), trait overlaps (auras/earth lines), thematic leaps (no storms, elite?), lacks synergy with other trait lines (damage modifiers?) and weapons (staff? scepter?), awkward mechanics (no dodge or swapping attunement?).

It is not doomed but it really needs to be refocused. I think it should be more simple and effective.

I am in love with the concept. I am not terribly enthused with the implementation in its current state. I hope the future evolution of this spec starts to really shine, but we’ll see.

I consider it the worst of the Elite specs at it does the least new things compared to every other Elite spec announced. More of the same of what Elementalist can already do basically.

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I feel like Tempest is built on “unsteady grounds”…

It has a lot of skill contradictions (support without cc, melee without stability, leaps or block, close range reflect auras?), trait overlaps (auras/earth lines), thematic leaps (no storms, elite?), lacks synergy with other trait lines (damage modifiers?) and weapons (staff? scepter?), awkward mechanics (no dodge or swapping attunement?).

It is not doomed but it really needs to be refocused. I think it should be more simple and effective.

This 1000×. It looks like they took a bunch of random ideas/skills/what have you and threw them together without any thought for a cohesive purpose.

PS they are FINALLY talking to us (see the dev posts) and listening a bit to our feedback so we’ll see how much changes by next beta. Might still be saved by release.