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Posted by: Jekkt.6045

Jekkt.6045

just noticed this after looking at the icons of the new trait system. all to the right in the air line there is this icon with a heart and a lightning strike… bolt to the heart?

Deal more damage when your foe’s health drops below the threshold.
Damage Damage increase: 20%
Health threshold: 33%

now the questin is why an adept trait has become a grandmaster trait :S

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Posted by: MaXi.3642

MaXi.3642

because traits are going to be reworked?

probably too many players picked it, at the same time almost none picket some other traits… so they probably switched places and adjusted the power… I would guess that it will be more damage or higher threshold compared to adept version… or it can be also merged with some other trait, so together it’s worth grandmaster

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Posted by: Jekkt.6045

Jekkt.6045

maybe, but it’s still a bit strange that an adept trait makes it all the way to a grandmaster trait. they better give it a good change because if bolt to the heart and fresh air will be seperate grandmasters it will nerf berserk eles.

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Posted by: Akikaze.1307

Akikaze.1307

It does appear that Bolt to the Heart would be shifted to Grandmaster, while Tempest Defense would be a Master trait (shield with lightning icon).

I have a feeling each of the attunement trait tree would have a master trait which grants aura of their element type.

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Posted by: Ulion.5476

Ulion.5476

The traits have been reworked. Soothing Ice: Gain regeneration and Frost Aura when you are struck by a critical hit. The current trait Sooth Waves: Gain regeneration when critically hit. I expect something similar to that happen with bolt to the heart. It may proc a lighting bolt and increase your damage when you take someone to 1/3 of their health.

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Posted by: MaXi.3642

MaXi.3642

it can be a merge with lightning rod, that could be quite good together

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Posted by: Jekkt.6045

Jekkt.6045

reworking traits is cool but if it hasn’t been merged with fresh air it will be useless sadly.

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Posted by: Skoigoth.9238

Skoigoth.9238

My guess is that they will increase the health threshold to 50% and thus bring it in line with other very similar GM traits (Thief: Executioner, Necro: Close to Death).

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Posted by: Vissarion.6509

Vissarion.6509

The second icon (tree) is definitily “fresh air”

They called us TEMPESTs, but we can use our elite to cheat death instead

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Posted by: Jekkt.6045

Jekkt.6045

ugh, that means the build wil get a damage nerf…

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Posted by: Echo.3741

Echo.3741

There goes my hype

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Posted by: Jekkt.6045

Jekkt.6045

bolt to the heart confirmed to be grandmaster now.
elemental attunement will also be a grandmaster.

this stuff is not really in favour of berserk eles. very disappointed.

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Posted by: DiogoSilva.7089

DiogoSilva.7089

Bolt to the Heart will need a buff to justify being a GM trait.

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

silvermember.8941

Bolt to the Heart will need a buff to justify being a GM trait.

Obviously, which is why they tell us to leave comments about it.

You guys realise that since specialisations make you go fully in each trait line then the rank of the trait does not matter anymore? When you spec into air you get access to all traits at once, regardless of master or grand master rank, and if you don’t spec into air then you are completely denied access to these traits. Ranks are cosmetic now.

While technically true and I personally forgot about that fact, the problem is it will be competing with fresh air and that terrible worthless piece of kitten trait, lightning rod.

But you are right though.

I think the only major problem was evasive and elemental attunement. I really hope, Jon Peters and Karl do something to help improve ele staff adn d/d, because those changes are not looking too good for ele.

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Posted by: Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867

You guys realise that since specialisations make you go fully in each trait line then the rank of the trait does not matter anymore? When you spec into air you get access to all traits at once, regardless of master or grand master rank, and if you don’t spec into air then you are completely denied access to these traits. Ranks are cosmetic now.

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Posted by: blitzkrieg.2451

blitzkrieg.2451

Ranger traits got moved from minor to GM traits before. It’s not odd, it’s just really good for what it is… Think about the other trait lines you can go into now with more points to spend… Just because you lose the 20% dmg by having to choose Fresh air over Bolt doesn’t mean the destruction of fresh air eles… They’ll still be really good.

Tanbin – Ranger / Thief / Ele
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Posted by: DiogoSilva.7089

DiogoSilva.7089

You guys realise that since specialisations make you go fully in each trait line then the rank of the trait does not matter anymore? When you spec into air you get access to all traits at once, regardless of master or grand master rank, and if you don’t spec into air then you are completely denied access to these traits. Ranks are cosmetic now.

I was thinking about that, but they’ll probably want to maintain the sense of progression with tiers.

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Posted by: Malchior.5042

Malchior.5042

You guys realise that since specialisations make you go fully in each trait line then the rank of the trait does not matter anymore? When you spec into air you get access to all traits at once, regardless of master or grand master rank, and if you don’t spec into air then you are completely denied access to these traits. Ranks are cosmetic now.

Exactly this.

The purpose of the ranks of traits is just to create compelling decisions when making your build.

You can take Bolt to the Heart, but you lose the ability to be in Air attunement as often for your single-target burst damage, so you have to find that sustained damage and utility elsewhere.

You can take Fresh Air, but you lose the large spike damage from Bolt to the Heart, so while you continue to have your sustained Air Attunement, you must look elsewhere for a high damage source, or make use of some of the new strengths of Air.

Some builds will be reduced in power. Some builds will increase in power. A TON of brand new builds will surface.

It’s all about making interesting and compelling choices when crafting a build, so a single build can’t have “everything.” By having choices, the existence of skill, counter-play, preference, and synergy is created.

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Posted by: Jekkt.6045

Jekkt.6045

problem is bolt to the heart is 33% thresh and executioner is 50%. makes no sense to me.

also vigour is 120% endurance regeneration down from 150% so i think fresh air builds will switch arcana out now going for 6 in air 6 in water and 6 in earth to get the lost protection back.

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Posted by: Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867

Well yes, you unlock them progressively as you progress in the reward track. But once the reward track completed, the ranks of the traits is no longer of any importance.

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Posted by: Jekkt.6045

Jekkt.6045

You guys realise that since specialisations make you go fully in each trait line then the rank of the trait does not matter anymore? When you spec into air you get access to all traits at once, regardless of master or grand master rank, and if you don’t spec into air then you are completely denied access to these traits. Ranks are cosmetic now.

Exactly this.

The purpose of the ranks of traits is just to create compelling decisions when making your build.

You can take Bolt to the Heart, but you lose the ability to be in Air attunement as often for your single-target burst damage, so you have to find it elsewhere.

You can take Fresh Air, but you lose the large spike damage from Bolt to the Heart, so while you continue to have your sustained Air Attunement, you must look elsewhere for a high damage source, or make use of some of the new strengths of Air.

Some builds will be reduced in power. Some builds will increase in power.

It’s all about making interesting and compelling choices when crafting a build, so a single build can’t have “everything.” By having choices, the existence of skill, counter-play, preference, and synergy is created.

what you dont seem to get is that right now you can pick bolt to the heart + fresh air, afterwards you can’t because both of them will be grandmasters.

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Posted by: DiogoSilva.7089

DiogoSilva.7089

problem is bolt to the heart is 33% thresh and executioner is 50%. makes no sense to me.

also vigour is 120% endurance regeneration down from 150% so i think fresh air builds will switch arcana out now going for 6 in air 6 in water and 6 in earth to get the lost protection back.

Vigor’s 120% endurance regeneration comes from a thief’s trait that upped its effectiveness from 100% to 120%.

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Posted by: Jekkt.6045

Jekkt.6045

no, feline grace gives vigour now which is 120% and another trait that makes it 140%.

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Posted by: DiogoSilva.7089

DiogoSilva.7089

no, feline grace gives vigour now which is 120% and another trait that makes it 140%.

I believe feline grace’s trait description was already updated to take into account the other one. But I might be wrong.

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Posted by: Ignavia.7420

Ignavia.7420

no, feline grace gives vigour now which is 120% and another trait that makes it 140%.

I believe feline grace’s trait description was already updated to take into account the other one. But I might be wrong.

Yeah, basically this. Once you pick a specialization, you automatically get all minors, so it makes sense that the tooltips update appropriately.

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Posted by: Echo.3741

Echo.3741

You guys realise that since specialisations make you go fully in each trait line then the rank of the trait does not matter anymore? […] Ranks are cosmetic now.

What do you mean? They are still separated tiers. That’s pretty significant, considering the thread is about being unable to choose both Bolt of the Heart and Fresh Air because they are both in tier 3 (grandmaster)

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Posted by: Laraley.7695

Laraley.7695

You guys realise that since specialisations make you go fully in each trait line then the rank of the trait does not matter anymore? When you spec into air you get access to all traits at once, regardless of master or grand master rank, and if you don’t spec into air then you are completely denied access to these traits. Ranks are cosmetic now.

Exactly this.

The purpose of the ranks of traits is just to create compelling decisions when making your build.

You can take Bolt to the Heart, but you lose the ability to be in Air attunement as often for your single-target burst damage, so you have to find that sustained damage and utility elsewhere.

You can take Fresh Air, but you lose the large spike damage from Bolt to the Heart, so while you continue to have your sustained Air Attunement, you must look elsewhere for a high damage source, or make use of some of the new strengths of Air.

Some builds will be reduced in power. Some builds will increase in power. A TON of brand new builds will surface.

It’s all about making interesting and compelling choices when crafting a build, so a single build can’t have “everything.” By having choices, the existence of skill, counter-play, preference, and synergy is created.

It’s not. Fresh air lacks sustained DPS already, taking this trait from them is not fair and you can’t gain any major dps buffs from other traits because there are none. Also, losing either Elemental Attunement or Evasive Arcana hurts Fresh air survability, they’re not creating more interesting choices, they’re creating forced choices because there will be nothing better to pick