Guild Wars 2

the only way i saw tempest being worth it for fresh air was if the overcharge channel carried on when switching attunement, the way it is with every other channel for eles.

the way it is: overcharge, switch attunement and it cancels

the way it should be: overcharge, switch attunement, attunement goes on 14s cooldown (with trait) but the channel keeps going until its over.

Agree cuz during that long skills it is nearly impossible to stay in one attument. Able to change attument while overloading would make them more tempting. If we can channel MS and change attument we should be also channel overload and change attument w/o being punished.

Edit: Rising cd for attument after overload is one kind of exhaust punishement and that is enough, we don’t need others not reasonable punishements.

yeah i was thinking the same thing, i’m so used to things like meteor shower that take a few seconds to cast stay casting when I switch atunements (sometimes i cast meteor shower and switch to water/earth depending on the status of the fight). First thing that annoyed me was doing Fire overload (WHICH BTW IS AWESOME) and seeing it being interrupted when I switch attunements or dodge. I’m also used to use dodge a lot when i use my tornado elite skill which is similar and should behave like that.

I cast meteor shower while casting it change to earth for magnetic aura and light flash back, a bit of wvw playing. Many people will have similar experience.

Yeah it’s really dumb and counter-intuitive that you can’t for example start channeling the water overload and switch to air for shocking aura on dagger while you’re attacked.

Also, even if you cancel the overload with attunement swap right now you still get the ~5 seconds of swiftness and protection, so it might even be beneficial, which can’t really be the point of the mechanic.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Also, even if you cancel the overload with attunement swap right now you still get the ~5 seconds of swiftness and protection, so it might even be beneficial, which can’t really be the point of the mechanic.

Not if it goes on full cd, which is what was announced, i dont play beta cause i dont own it (waiting for a REAL elite spec for ele before giving my money …. for obvious reason)

Mattmatt.4962:

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Also, even if you cancel the overload with attunement swap right now you still get the ~5 seconds of swiftness and protection, so it might even be beneficial, which can’t really be the point of the mechanic.

Not if it goes on full cd, which is what was announced, i dont play beta cause i dont own it (waiting for a REAL elite spec for ele before giving my money …. for obvious reason)

If you have arcane + 20% overload CDR it goes on 13 seconds CD which is doable if you need 5-6 seconds of protection in a hurry from whatever attunement you’re currently in.

Well if you speced arcana, you dont care about the prot from tempest since EA is enough …
As i said in the french forum, tempest gives nothing that the ele need to survive: dispell and boons(aka prot), making the only tempest build viable beeing 000111 (or maybe 001011 if you go full auramancer (aka full shout)).

Yes.

I don’t need no stinking 15 letters to agree.