Guild Wars 2

Elementalists are extremely squishy as it is… Tornado is an ability that you HAVE to put yourself in the center of your enemies and even chase them around a lot to get the max damage out of…. But it’s very hard to use this spell as intended because everyone focuses you when you do it. 80% of the time I use tornado and try to use it as it’s supposed to be used I get killed during the duration of it or come out of with with 10-5% hp…. I just don’t understand why you take damage in a spell like this. Why isn’t it like mist form where you are invulnerable to attacks except from conditions you had before you went in?

20 seconds of invulnerability would be a bit OP, or however long it is. However, it is rather lackluster, a damage increase or 50% less damage taken while in it would be good I think

Thieves get projectile reflection in Dagger Storm, and you’re probably not going to melee it since you’d get trashed, why should the much weaker Tornado not have something similar?

I feel like if a threw something at a tornado it would just bounce off… just as much, if i tried to melee a tornado i’d probably get thrown around…

but no, you can hurt a tornado with no repercussions. #logicfail

if you threw something at a tornado since it is NOT solid and combine with the difference of pressure it will suck the item into itself.

It would suck it in but it’d just make it more dangerous as that new mass is now swirling around too.
Anyway, 15sec of invulnerability actually wouldn’t be OP offensively, because tornado is so weak right now. The only reason it’d be OP is because it’d boost bunkers even more…
I feel a much better fix would either be increasing the damage output again, or making it suck IN rather than OUT.

I don’t think you should be invulnerable, because it’ll be completely lame when one guy can just run into a mob and stay there for awhile without worry (which also isn’t very interesting). However, my thoughts on the skill are as follows.

It’s not worth using right now (because your damage is significantly less after you transform, and you lose the skills that allow you to escape or defend yourself). I’d like to see the recharge time increased to 5 or 6 mins (or maybe even more). In return, I’d like for it to be stronger. That is, take half damage and also possibly pull opponents in or deal somewhat more damage.

My thoughts are that some powerful elite skills should only be used once or at most twice in a match. This way, the moment will be more significant when a person uses such an elite skill to turn around a bad situation, which can additionally facilitate social conversation that is currently very lacking.

I defer you to my existing post.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Mist-Form-and-Tornado/page/2#post626870