Guild Wars 2

i got bored, so i tried brainstorming a buff to tornado. (decent idea)
Tornado lasts at least 20 seconds instead of 15. And when you swap attunements, you become enveloped with an effect based on the attuenement you’re in.

Fire: become a giant flaming vortex, burning nearby foes.
Water: become a massive whirling current, chilling nearby foes and have a small chance to freeze enemies in a block of ice.
Air: You are empowered with excessive winds and launch nearby foes.
Earth: gather up dust and debris and become a dust devil, blinding nearby foes and crippling them.

(maybe 2-3 skills per attunement. idk. I’m just spitballing)

Fire Attunement
Firestorm: unleash multiple bolts of fire around you, damaging foes
Blazing Defense: enchant nearby allies with a fire aura. (5 seconds)
Incinerator: unleash a cone of continuous fire in an arc around you, damaging and burning nearby targets.

Water Attunement
Freezing Rain: cripple and chill nearby foes while damaging them over time, periodically hitting them with ice shards.
Frostfall: summon 5 giant spikes to revolve around you shortly before hitting the ground, exploding and inflicting vulnerability and weakness on nearby targets.
Chilling armor enchant nearby allies with a frost aura (7 seconds) and protection

Air Attunement
Whirlwind: _you are protected with swirling winds that reflect projectiles and destroy all unblockable projectiles. (10 seconds)
Forceful Winds: you launch nearby foes far away from you

just tell me what you think. and yes, something like this obviously wouldn’t happen anytime in the near future.
It doesn’t sound too OP does it? I mean, i was clueless about the numbers for damage and range/radius and stuff. any ideas?

p.s.
i forgot about earth attunement

we can keep dreaming :P

yeah…how silly of me. I should’ve known better

I’ll call it first… OP!

LightningBlaze.4913:

I’ll call it first… OP!

Thank you! That’s what I wanted to hear.

You sir should work with Anet

no change, but allow the elementalist to continue to swap attunements and get the accompanying bonuses

this would be enough of a buff for me

reikken.4961:

no change, but allow the elementalist to continue to swap attunements and get the accompanying bonuses

this would be enough of a buff for me

That’s only really a bonus if you spec into arcane, I think that this skill should just be better without specific traits because right now it’s lacking.

nah it’d be good in every trait line

electric discharge (air 15) would be especially awesome. what with the boosted stats. especially if you also have fresh air

reikken.4961:

nah it’d be good in every trait line

electric discharge (air 15) would be especially awesome. what with the boosted stats. especially if you also have fresh air

Oh yeah, I forgot about the damage on switch traits but I still think that it shouldn’t be so reliant on traits to be a decent skill.

I’d be happy with just reflecting projectiles.

It’s pretty hard to survive using it. They should rename it kamikaze until it gets buffed.

Aridia.3042:

I’d be happy with just reflecting projectiles.

It’s pretty hard to survive using it. They should rename it kamikaze until it gets buffed.

Am I the only one that wishes tornado had the effect of Pull instead of blowout?

If I have to slowly creep along giant neon sign “saying kill me”, I at least want something to make kiting this form somewhat more difficult.

you can actually firestorm and tornado to kill evrything

Only Glyph skills vary depending on what attunement you are in. I think thats their thing. Otherwise i would like it.