Guild Wars 2

Ok, it is not strictly Ele thing but I am Ele main, so I rather prefer to discuss here.

http://dulfy.net/2015/06/16/gw2-upcoming-june-23-patch-notes/

This is the first hint I see about how the new attribute system will look.

Attribute Point Changes

Attribute points on equipment have been increased by ~30%
The attribute difference between exotic and ascended gear has been changed from 5% to 10%
Base attributes at level 80 now scale to 1000 instead of 926
Each profession’s attributes will be updated to have half of their functionality be part of a specialization and half of their functionality will be a baseline for that profession. (see individual profession notes)

>>>>Attribute points on equipment have been increased by ~30%<<<<
It seems they will only add %30 more stats to gear.

So lets say you have soldier %30 more Power, %30 more Vitality, %30 more Toughness but it will stay 3 stat based gear. So additional boon duration, condition duration, condition damage, etc you get from trait lines.

>>>>Base attributes at level 80 now scale to 1000 instead of 926<<<<
I think this is clear.

>>>>Each profession’s attributes will be updated to have half of their functionality be part of a specialization and half of their functionality will be a baseline for that profession. (see individual profession notes)<<<<
Meaning of this is the biggest mystery for me.

Now are we getting attribute points from specializations(like the current trait system) and depending of which profession we choose also a pre-set of attributes points?

I have a feeling Celestial will become really a must for Ele now.

posthumecaver.6473:

Each profession’s attributes will be updated to have half of their functionality be part of a specialization and half of their functionality will be a baseline for that profession. (see individual profession notes)
Meaning of this is the biggest mystery for me.

Our profession-specific attribute is the attunement recharge rate. At the moment, you get 30% bonus recharge rate by investing 6 points into the Arcane trait line.

The base attunement cooldown will be reduced from 13s to 10s
This is the equivalent of having 30% bonus attunement recharge rate

The base attunement swap cooldown will be reduced from 1.625s to 1.5s
This is the quivalent of having 8% bonus attunement recharge rate

So the first effect is like having all of our profession-specific attribute baseline, while the second effect is close to having 28% of that attribute. Therefore we are getting more than half our profession-specific attribute in baseline.

By specialising in Arcane we get 15% bonus attunement recharge rate, which is half of our profession-specific attribute.

So overall we are getting a slightly better deal than they announced

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

posthumecaver.6473:

Each profession’s attributes will be updated to have half of their functionality be part of a specialization and half of their functionality will be a baseline for that profession. (see individual profession notes)
Meaning of this is the biggest mystery for me.

Our profession-specific attribute is the attunement recharge rate. At the moment, you get 30% bonus recharge rate by investing 6 points into the Arcane trait line.

The base attunement cooldown will be reduced from 13s to 10s
This is the equivalent of having 30% bonus attunement recharge rate

The base attunement swap cooldown will be reduced from 1.625s to 1.5s
This is the quivalent of having 8% bonus attunement recharge rate

So the first effect is like having all of our profession-specific attribute baseline, while the second effect is close to having 28% of that attribute. Therefore we are getting more than half our profession-specific attribute in baseline.

By specialising in Arcane we get 15% bonus attunement recharge rate, which is half of our profession-specific attribute.

So overall we are getting a slightly better deal than they announced

So this mean specializations will only effect Attunement CD and will not give any additional attributes.

Only attributes we will get 3 stat combination from gear (or 5 from Celestial), oh men, we are screwed.

With the engi I guess we are the profession most dependent on attribute salad , I think celestial will be only way, considering even we go 0/6/6/6/0 with will not get any vitality, toughness, healing as base attributes.

I was really hoping they will convert 3 stat gear to 5 stat and 5 stat Celestial to 7. I have no idea other then runes where are we going to get boon duration. No gear has it I think other then Giver(was it?).

Even they buff celestial %30 -%10 I think we can barely make 15K HP or we have to play full soldier which I hate.

We are getting 10% bonus boon duration from specialising in Arcane.

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Current celestial amulet: 438 to all stats
Projected celestial amulet: 438*1.3/1.1= 518 to all stats
Projected base stats: 1000 to all stats

So we would get 1518 to all stats with the celestial amulet, which is 15,180 HP, add our base class HP to this: 15,180 + 1,645 = 16,825 HP
This is quite less than we have now indeed. But we do not know enough yet about how stats will be changed next week.