Guild Wars 2

Well since evasive arcana is dead now lets do a small recap of the traits best moments..
Anet may say to you that blasts were unintented but evasive arcan was making a blast finisher throughout all the betas and stress test.

In the very first one beta it used to apply burn,heal,swiftness and bleed

Then at bwe 3 if i remember correctly it was changed to..(wait for it)
Flame blast,healing wave, UPDRAFT ,SHOCKWAVE..All these spells including the blast finishers and the projectile one in earth ..Not to mention it was during the era were ele was very ,very strong anyway

Then during stress tests was nerfed to the state we knew it before the patch ..only to be considered op again and completely be removed from the game 3 months after launch!

My point is that if you thought the trait was op before then you would be surprised to jnow how much anet buffed it during bwe3..
If that tells something to me is that they have absolutely no idea about what they wanted to do with the trait and maybe with the whole balance of the game.
I d be very pleased to know whats the direction they plan for ele..

My opinion’s still that they should have removed the spells and kept the blast finisher instead of vice versa. You could up the damage on the spells tenfold and it’d still be useless, because you’ll always be out of range of your target when you dodge.

ThiBash.5634:

My opinion’s still that they should have removed the spells and kept the blast finisher instead of vice versa. You could up the damage on the spells tenfold and it’d still be useless, because you’ll always be out of range of your target when you dodge.

Not if you play as D/D

ThiBash.5634:

My opinion’s still that they should have removed the spells and kept the blast finisher instead of vice versa. You could up the damage on the spells tenfold and it’d still be useless, because you’ll always be out of range of your target when you dodge.

^^
This
remove the spells and keep the finishers

Alternately, make it a universal (ie, not attunement based) mini Arcane Wave+blast, with a 10 sec cooldown. Then you can’t spam the finisher by swapping attunements.

It’s evasive arcana after all, not evasive attunementa.

I want my playstyle back.

kostbabis.8791:

Well since evasive arcana is dead now lets do a small recap of the traits best moments..
Anet may say to you that blasts were unintented but evasive arcan was making a blast finisher throughout all the betas and stress test.

In the very first one beta it used to apply burn,heal,swiftness and bleed

Then at bwe 3 if i remember correctly it was changed to..(wait for it)
Flame blast,healing wave, UPDRAFT ,SHOCKWAVE..All these spells including the blast finishers and the projectile one in earth ..Not to mention it was during the era were ele was very ,very strong anyway

Then during stress tests was nerfed to the state we knew it before the patch ..only to be considered op again and completely be removed from the game 3 months after launch!

My point is that if you thought the trait was op before then you would be surprised to jnow how much anet buffed it during bwe3..
If that tells something to me is that they have absolutely no idea about what they wanted to do with the trait and maybe with the whole balance of the game.
I d be very pleased to know whats the direction they plan for ele..

its pretty simple, arenanet staff is terrible at balancing this game.

I would think that a 10 second universal cooldown would be fine. I’d even be ok with a longer cooldown as long as any attunement’s roll counted as a blast finisher.

I think that they should keep the blast finishers, and just make them tied to the spell effects.

EDIT: To be honest, this was the fix I was expecting. Boy was I disappointed…

Yea i want my playstyle back. Thanks for giving me such a great game with the elementalist, because thats really the only class ill play only because 10 weapon skills isnt enough to keep my attention in an mmo. 20 from the ele is great, and then you keep nerfing and nerfing and nerfing and nerfing and nerfing and taking away ish without giving anything back. Im losing hope in this game and too many are comming out in the near future to stay, if you keep taking away major traits then peace.

Yeah I want it back too! It was just such a blast to play

Rhyse.8176:

Alternately, make it a universal (ie, not attunement based) mini Arcane Wave+blast, with a 10 sec cooldown. Then you can’t spam the finisher by swapping attunements.

It’s evasive arcana after all, not evasive attunementa.

I want my playstyle back.

I would be totally on board with this. The spell effects sucked anyway.

Oh, one small change if it’s just a blast finisher with no damage: the trait doesn’t go on cooldown if you don’t complete a combo with it.

I think because it was around so long that it just further points out how little Anet really gives a kitten about our class. To me it seems like one day some pointed out by chance that EA could blast finish and someone said that they will have none of that and got rid of it. The funny thing is since they don’t check up on us often it is likely it was one of us who reported the bug on blast finishers for every dodge roll.

kostbabis.8791:

I d be very pleased to know whats the direction they plan for ele..

Down.