Guild Wars 2

Vigor on switch to water attunement doesn’t make sense thematically or mechanically for the tempest. How about 5s vigor when gaining an aura, with an internal cool down of 10 seconds?

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And maybe switch this trait with Tempestuous Aria so it doesnt conflict with Unstable Conduit as an Adept trait

I think that the tempest should get another form of defense instead of vigor. Vigor simply doesn’t work with overloads in their current state. If overloads were changed so that you could dodge while channeling then maybe it would work, but I wouldn’t count on that happening.

Indeed, traits should we swapped.:) Then we can use our tempest trait line fully for aura’s

Ganathar.4956:

I think that the tempest should get another form of defense instead of vigor. Vigor simply doesn’t work with overloads in their current state. If overloads were changed so that you could dodge while channeling then maybe it would work, but I wouldn’t count on that happening.

I agree with this as well. The problem is that protection on aura is in the earth line, which is basically mandatory IMO as a tempest because of that and the damage reduction in melee range. I’d like to see protection on aura moved to tempest as well. This would destroy any non tempest aura builds but I think I’m ok with that.

Other opportunities for better traits:

Condi removal on aura application to 5 allies nearby
All auras applied to allies nearby have x% increased duration.