Guild Wars 2

F5 being an Arcane Attunement? Probably the most likely scenario since revamping the attunement swap mechanic would probably be overkill.

How bout it?

Don’t think so.

That would mean 20 new skills for Eles weapon plus other 3 for sword in Arcane Attunement.
If Attunements stay as they are there will be 12 new sword skills.
Tempest specialization 6 new utility skills.

In total 41 new skills for Elementalist.

In that case they should change name of expansion:
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns => Elementalist: Heart of Thorns

Other Professions would be very unhappy.

I would love Arcane Attunement but i expect getting some other kind of F5 skill (maybe some kind of storm attack).

Or not getting F5 skill, Guardian didn’t get F4 skill and Necro didn’t get F2 skill but getting upgrade to existing Attunements.

wharever if is a new F skill (wich i doubt, most probably a new effect for each attunement ala dragonhunter)

a new weapon type is for sure coming though wich is minimal 12 new skills if a main hand, or 8 if a off hand only or a whooping 20 if a 2 handed

Could be something like Death Shroud. Press F5 to obtain Arcane/Tempest Attunement, get 5 more weapon skills. Idk

Very unlikely.

We might just get new weapon and utilities, keeping the attunements as they are.

The problem with removing the attunements from the ele spec is that its gameplay and its traits and utilities are too tied to the attunements.
If you cant swap attunements you loose a LOT of traits, glyphs loose 3/4 of its already low functionality, Arcana line become nearly pointless if you cant att swap, along with mostly all minor traits.

At the same time, keeping the attunements as “stances” or “weapon enchantments” without changing the weapon skills, would solve the problem of loosing traits and utilities (as you keep the attunement swap, just loosing the extra weapon skills). But then the weapon skills would need to be so OP to balance the lack of versatility and/or getting weapon swap…
This is also unlikely as we’ve seen some placeholders datamined and the new weapon (Sword) had skills for all 4 attunements (and not 5)

So, yea.
Seems we get a new weapon, new utilities, but doesn’t seems like we will get a major rework on attunements.

If they do its not going to be a new atument that would just add way too much to the tempest class to where ele would become comply “dead.” More likely there may be a F5 that works with your current atument or maybe a wepon swap that some how keeps you from getting 40 skills at once not sure how that would work though.

If I had to GUESS, F5 will probably be some sort of tempest-related core move that changes in function depending on your attunement. Could be wrong, but that’s my guess.

ronpierce.2760:

If I had to GUESS, F5 will probably be some sort of tempest-related core move that changes in function depending on your attunement. Could be wrong, but that’s my guess.

I’m guessing that too, just like a glyph.

If there is an F5 I hope it makes the Ele Float using wind, likeee Storm from Xman and just blow everything up with mini aoe storms.

I don’t main elementalist, but I agree this would be kind of over the top. What I think is likely is an f5 skill that summons a storm based on your attunement. That or a way to summon a permanent storm that disables one attunement. The real question is what utilities eles will be getting.

zapv.8051:

I don’t main elementalist, but I agree this would be kind of over the top. What I think is likely is an f5 skill that summons a storm based on your attunement. That or a way to summon a permanent storm that disables one attunement. The real question is what utilities eles will be getting.

Physical skills!

I’m betting our specialization mechanic is going to be a passive, like a storm that follows us around and changes depending on our attunement, or a passive/active based on our attunement, similar to the guardian virtues. But whatever it is, I don’t think there is any way we’re getting an F5 skill.

I highly doubt Tempest (or any elite spec in the future) will give a 5th attunement. The sheer number of skills that an extra attunement grants would be huge development time sinks as well as being far out of line with anything other classes get. Reaper, for example, gets 15 additional skills while losing out on the 5 original Death Shroud skills, sum total of 10. An extra attune for Ele would be 23 new skills bare minimum (assuming an off-hand weapon and counting new utilities) not to mention new effects for stuff like Glyphs.

I suppose it’d still be possible to get an F5 skill in general, but it would probably function as a separate skill and not an attunement (perhaps something like Warrior F skills but based on current attunement). That would be a bit odd, perhaps, with F1-4 being attunes and F5 being something completely different, but that’s the only way I see an F5 happening.