Guild Wars 2

Anyone have any spoilers they’ve found/heard of/strong speculation from parties who’ve been pretty-much-spot-on-in-the-past?

Theres this rumor about a new air trait that devs in twitch chat said is a good spoiler (perhaps to indicate the magnitude of upcoming changes?)
Im also 90% sure that signet of air will stunbreak

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-skill-and-trait-changes/

For example, the elementalist’s stun breakers have always been loaded up on cantrips, so we spread some out to the other categories like glyphs and signets.

For example: elementalists have a new grandmaster Air trait that allows them to recharge their air attunement

kitten which cantrip(s) will take the hit? Bet people

Lightning flash and cleansing flame.

haviz.1340:

Lightning flash and cleansing flame.

Stun break removal from lf would be too much of a nerf. AoE and CF is my guess. Although most stability in this game removes stuns.

haviz.1340:

Lightning flash and cleansing flame.

Wait are you speculating or .. :P
I bet on cleansing flame and armor of earth.I wonder which glyph will get the stunbreak effect considering that no one is actually instant.

kostbabis.8791:

haviz.1340:

Lightning flash and cleansing flame.

Wait are you speculating or .. :P
I bet on cleansing flame and armor of earth.I wonder which glyph will get the stunbreak effect considering that no one is actually instant.

Maybe GoEP is going instant cast? I hope so. It might be a useful glyph with the weakness changes and instant cast.

Purely speculating.

Ride the lightning will be nerfed.

What does “recharge air attunement” even mean? Does that mean it resets the cooldowns on all air abilities?

I can see that as a button, but as a trait, how would we activate it?

oh great, not only they aren’t nerfing stealth but they are giving them “torment” facepalm

I really hope Lightning Flash retains its stun break…

chronometria.3708:

What does “recharge air attunement” even mean? Does that mean it resets the cooldowns on all air abilities?

I can see that as a button, but as a trait, how would we activate it?

Probably recharge the cooldown of “air attunement” not the skills..Also the conditions that need to be met will probably be something stupid like 5% hp ,but id keep the whining for after patch:)
Honestly air is your standby att and the benefit to getting there faster doesnt seem that much unless your going for double burst of air skills in less than 10 sec.
But still fact that you can leave the other attunements sooner has to the potential to introduce new dynamics for the ele

the only cantrip that could lose the stun break is cleansing fire, logically speaking

Mist Form is the same as Elixir S for engies, which is a stun break (and MF also has longer cd)
Armor of Earth gives stability, which makes you immune to stuns anyway. Also, other stability skills (Stand your Ground, Balanced Stance) also break stuns. And AoE got a 85s cd.
Lightning Flash is a blink, same effect and range as Mesmer’s Blink (which has a shorter cd), and that skill is a stun break as well

Cleansing Fire is a condition cleanse with aoe burning, doesn’t deserve the stun break anyway.

As for which signet/glyph could get the stun break, I have no idea, none of those skills would lead me to think “this should break stuns”.

I’m predicting mist form and armor of earth losing their stun break.

Both are instant and will be able to be cast during a stun even if they don’t break stun.

The result will be Mist form will be used during a stun to take no damage during the stun, but it won’t break a stun, kind of like obsidian flesh, and armor of earth will need to be used preemptively.

They may make mist form’s duration longer to compensate

The grandmaster air trait will likely kick in at 50% health, or some such mechanic, I wager.

It will be interesting to see how well the weakness change will aid staff in PvP, as earth auto attack has it. Glyph of Elemental Power might become more useful in fights as well, unless they lower the duration of it. Hopefully they don’t. Rather, changing the utilily to something defensive would be nice.

I think cleansing fire will get nerf….. because I think the devs just want to nerf us to kingdom come!