Guild Wars 2

Recently while working on map completion I came across a dynamic event in Fireheart Rise, Icespear’s Shelf called “Use Ezoola’s tool to collect ice cores needed to summon elementals for the assault.” It was a pretty basic event overall, but it involved using a environmental weapon called an “Ice Core Collector” and it really struck me how this fake flamethrower, even with one skill only useful for the event, is better than our default flamethrowers. Here’s a skill breakdown for it.

1: Core Capture (used only for the event)
2: Flame Stream (our auto-attack)
3: Ezoola’s Punch (the same thing as our air blast)
4: Ezoola’s Claw (another attack skill, basically the elementalist’s Dragon’s Claw dagger auto-attack)
5: Ezoola’s Retreat (basically the elementalist’s Burning Retreat staff 4 skill)

What I noticed is that while this set up seems to lack some of our utility, it has more raw damage and something we lack; an escape skill. It is all personal preference of course, but I prefer escape skills to blinds, so the 5 skill in particular struck me as more natural and interesting. What do you all think? Personally I would prefer if Arena Net altered our flamethrower to be a little more like this one, perhaps as follows.

1: Flame Jet
2: Dragon’s Claw
3: Air Blast
4: Napalm
5: Burning Retreat

That would be really fun, actually. Those skills are a lot more appealing than our current #4 and #5, which are both really boring and unwieldly, and just not very useful.

Looska.2781:

That would be really fun, actually. Those skills are a lot more appealing than our current #4 and #5, which are both really boring and unwieldly, and just not very useful.

I like FT #4. Drop it then use rifle #5 to get Fire Shield which burns enemies who attack you and grants you might. I like using FT #5 in the middle of a zerg along with a bunch of other cc we have. That’s the only time i have fun with it though. If they replaced it i don’t think i would be too upset.