Ranger shouts have cast times. Why should ours be any different? If anything, because they’re elite spec shouts, they should be harder to use but more powerful when successful.
At one point Anet was fearful of power creep and shouts where a power creep of cantrips but was able to help out your full pt. So they gave them a cast time. But Anet seemed to comply forget about the core classes just tempest has not been buff to reflect that new mind set comply.
Main : Jski Imaginary ELE (Necromancer)
Guild : OBEY (The Legacy) I call it Obay , TLC (WvW) , UNIV (other)
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i would love the -20%. None of the competative builds use tempestious aria and i don´t think it will affect PvE much. It might be that they fear it will push shouts to allow more offensive tempests dropping water …. And while it would be great for us it might be a goal to keep PvP tempest down to support and reserve offense to next elite ….
Because with lower CD it will give good weakness uptime which will allow agressive tempests like fresh air to have a mitigation option + might and not rely on healing.
Because ele was meant to be a free kill profession! However, everyone loved ele just like in the first game and found work around. Thus nerfs such as gutting base damage via crit and power nerf. Nerf to equipment stats, runes and sigils. They allow the condi meta power creep to grow during the last 2 years. Ele had burn but that was nerfed back in June 2015.
Than you can only play as a solo bunkeroo, nerfed! Than players had to play team bukeroo, nerfed. Now you got a luke-warm, condi removal heal bot that stalls and dies quickly to experienced 2v1 love.
I mean don’t worry they won’t save tempest, they moved on to the next expansion it that seems to be more like core ele self sustain yet hopefull with burst and new condi.
Well I could be wrong. It could be overpowered and lead to core ele’s further nerfs and mechanics removal like current arcane line over 2 years. And when enough copies are sold it would be stripped like it’s predecessor.
At least it will look cool? Till they nerf the visual noise and slow down the animation to make it more readable in competitive game play.
yea after HoT having lots of effects combined and the so called “Kittencluster” they work on having most skills quite readable.
I realy hope they make an expansion that leads to each profession having both elite viable with diffrent playstyles so building up diversity again. Powercreep would work against this. Hope dies last ….
Its only the utility shouts that are mostly instant. And for utility shouts eles have 2 with casttime (aftershock and flash-freeze) and necros have 1 with casttime (nothing can save you). So eles arent unique in that regard.
