Guild Wars 2

Since the Mist Form Cantrip is completely outclassed by other invulnerable spells such as Elixir S where it has a shorter cool down AND you can begin a stomp or revive within it’s duration, not to mention it comes with a secondary tool belt skill. What if A-Net changed Mist Form to be an alternate Obsidian Flesh where you can cast spells too (kind of like the DH bullkitten we’ve been dealing with this season). Also, to maybe give this spell some flavor, what if it also gave you a couple seconds of quickness and made your attacks unblockable as well (I’m not sure how overpowered this ability would be, but it’d definitely be a nice counter to the current guardian meta).

This suggestion may even promote more dps builds out of the elementalist (such as d/d and s/d) rather than the traditional heal bot we’ve been pigeon holed into. The invulnerability would allow the elementalist to successfully land their rotation without fear of dying within a couple nanoseconds due to our low armor and health.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always imagined d/d ele and s/d ele as a thief alternative where you jump in, execute your target with your rotation and escape successfully and I believe this change may create a new meta for the elementalist all together!

Please tell me what you think of this/post your own ideas of how to direct the elementalist away from it’s current meta build !

1.Invulnerability should be used to survive key moments like 2-3 man focusing you
2.Yes we need better or more active hard damage migration at least on pair with other low heath pool classes…thiefs…how many times they dodge in row…
3.Something is horrible wrong if class needs time and Invulnerability to land damage when any other class has single skill that in few second’s can destroy you walking with marauder.

yey i somtimes play power warior or thief. the warrior can twoshot other glass cannons. If i hit a thief with a stun hes usualy dead 2s later. The thing i loveed about ele is damage control. You propably don´t survive in the long run but you are eaten in chunks not a few seconds. Mainly this is due to perma protection. But without some armor this is´t working anymore very well. I settled at about 2600 armor as a very compftable spot. More feels useless no armor kills me. I still struggle to find a new pvp build that fits me. Menders is not he right thing for me. I currently go with sage and try to find how this one works best for me. The changes were horrible for the non healing bases eles. It feels like being forced to menders or sage. The only healing amulet i used in the past was settlers which sometimes was fun to play for me. I even did´t play cele … Would love to have a viable viper build, but can´t survive well enough with it if the oposing team plays a bit coordinated….

fyi, you can overload attunement while in Mist Form. Utility only, not downstate Mist Form skill 2.

I always think that can use skills while be invulnerable is a cheesy mechanics and should not exist.

cgMatt.5162:

fyi, you can overload attunement while in Mist Form. Utility only, not downstate Mist Form skill 2.

Again why do you want to waste life saving skill on casting horrible bad damage skill.

I am only pointing out that you can currently do this by overloads only. You can also glide while in downstate Mist Form. There are plenty of opportunities in some game modes where counter-pressure is skillfully executed. I think it’s fine as is, plus you can do all of what you’re asking with Obsidian Flesh but that comes with other advantages and disadvantages.

mkay I see your point