Guild Wars 2

Like many have stated, Elixer X should be unique and not just a copy of other classes’ elites.

I thought that the Elixer X should go the complete opposite direction than the warrior rampage. By drinking Elixer X, you don’t get strength but brain power instead! This means that you turn into a telekinetic beast for a short duration complete with awesome PSI powers.

SKILL IDEAS:

Psi Beam: Focus your mind power to shoot a beam that scrambles the brains of your enemies. Deals damage in a line that hits up to 5 targets and confusion. Works like mesmer GS.

Psi Shield: Protect up to 5 nearby allies within 600 with a psi shield (works just like arcane shield from ele. 3 hits are absorbed before exploding). The explosion deals weakness to enemies.

Force Pull: Press once to levitate the target off the ground to CC them. Press again to pull them to you.

Flash Forward: Zap yourself to the target location, chilling enemies where you appear.

Psi Crush: Enemies in the target area are repeatedly lifted off the ground and smashed over and over until they leave the area. Inflicts damage and torment per pound.

I always wanted to be a Psychonaut, and this sounds pretty interesting. As much as I like Rampage for engineer, I can definitely agree on a unique transform like this.

For Force Pull, I take it the levitate is just a glorified knockdown just as a different visual effect? PSI crush sounds interesting as well, not to mention extremely strong on CC.

If you wanted Elixir X to go in this direction, what would you suggest for Toss Elixir X?

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I always wanted to be a Psychonaut, and this sounds pretty interesting. As much as I like Rampage for engineer, I can definitely agree on a unique transform like this.

For Force Pull, I take it the levitate is just a glorified knockdown just as a different visual effect? PSI crush sounds interesting as well, not to mention extremely strong on CC.

If you wanted Elixir X to go in this direction, what would you suggest for Toss Elixir X?

For the throw Elixir X, I think the AoE Moa that was currently added is fine.

For the skill mechanics, the Force Pull would be like a “Float” like the ele’s underwater bubble skill. Chronomancer in the expansion will be using the “Float” CC as well with Gravity Well. The skill would be multifunction. You can float someone and leave them CC’ed where they are or you can press the key again and pull them to you. If they stunbreak the float, you will no longer be able to pull.

The Psi Crush is a strong pulsing CC. Each pulse is a short stun. Between pulses, the enemy can move and try to get out of the zone. It will be more difficult if they are caught near the center of it. It will also massively interrupt skill use, so its a good skill to drop on people trying to team rez.

The Psi Beam will be really brutal on confusion as well, stacking huge amounts of the enemy just stands there and gets railed.

With this elite you would be able to do things like swing a team fight by flash forwarding into the center of the crowd. Popping Psi Shield to cover allies, then blasting everyone in the zone with Psi Crush. If that one enemy tries to escape the zone, you can force pull them and float them so a thief can kill them or pull them back into the Psi Crush.

There would need to be a cool visual effect too. Like having an enlarged head pulsing with Psi energy like a true maniacal psychonaut.

Maybe it sounds stupid, but I’d preffer if engineer does not start to suddenly break the lore, and psychic powers are not something I’ve seen so far amongst the classes. Basically the engineers incentive – as the only class without direct access to any magic lore-wise – is to enhance his combat abilities with machines, inventions and gadgets, as well as exotic weapons. Alchemy is a very special aspect of us in this manner, because we can’t utilize magic directly, but understand it well enough to utilize powerful ingredients to receive powerful, magic-like effects.
We can transmute all damaging conditions to us with elixir C. We found out how to heal our flesh with elixir H. We learned how to enhance our reflexes with elixir U. We use combat-stimulants (elixir, and we even accomplished to shrink us with elixir S.
So what is elixir X? Our most powerful potion, able to wark reality and our flesh, so we can mimic the most powerful transforms of other professions.
/Lore

To keep it Elixir X identity, as being our mimic potion of other professions, I’d rather keep it at that, but make it more unique, in that it allows us to partly utilize their specialties or class-mechanics.
So instead ogf the 50:50 RNG that we have currently, I’d love it to proc one of the 8 following effects:
Warrior proc: We go into rampage.
Guardian proc: We fully heal ourselves & allies and give aegis to all allies affected, while also damaging & applying burning to enemies (huge animation of a blue flame-circle shooting out of us).
Revenant proc: The mists are town apart in our immediate vicinity, and periodically deplace enemies if they come to close (triggers in 240 range, places enemies into random directions, 900 away). Also grants us 5 stacks of stability, and spawns a moving lightningfield around us, that we & allies can finish.
Ranger-proc: Elixir X spawns a ghost-wolf, that howls to fear enemies away, and then proceeds to attack the target we currently attack.
Thief Proc: We periodically pulse stealth & clear reveal from us. (effectively allows us to attack from stealth unpunished for the next 10 seconds. For enemies we appear to blink in & out of stealth every time we attack)
Mesmer-proc: we spawn 3 phantasms, each being equiped with a different kit. One is wielding a Flamethrower, one is wielding grenades, and one is wielding elixir Gun. They attack until they or our Target is destroyed, but only have the regular phantasm HP (which isn’t much)
Elementalist-proc: we instantly spawn a meteor shower around us.
Necromancer-proc: We go into Lich-form

While all these effects are quite powerful, this skill is total RNG, therefore balances itself with the low likelihood of spawning the one or 2 effects that we’d need in a given situation. And i guess toss elixir X can stay as it is.

Considering how prominent Rampage is atm (not sure about high level PvP, but unranked is flooding with rampage warriors), I don’t think engineers would be happy that the overpowered skill remains in warriors hands but we lose our RNG version of it. They might be happy if we got something equaly (or almost) powerfull transform that have no RNG.

At the moment, players count on a few things from Elixir X:

• More stability than anyone can strip
• Much CC
• Higher health pool
• Higher dmg stats

They are also hoping for the following functionality when getting rampage:

• Still able to revive
• Still able to lift hammer in clifside fractale
• Still able to stomp uninterupted.

I suggest that they design a new unique transform with all of that in mind so they please as many engineers as possible and avoid ruining current functionality or builds.

I’d go for some form of slim-theme. Toss Elixir X could transform enemies in the area into slimes (with a similar skillset to moa) and Drink Elixir X turns the engineer larger (like rampage) and gives us a transparent green shader. They could also use the bouble-head tech to give us larger arms that woble around.

Mechanicly, it would still pulse stability like it does. As well as letting us interacte with downed players or bundles like rampage currently do. For CC abilities, I imagne a belly-flop in addition to daze on third auto attack (like Rampage). It could also have a unique mechanic of sacrificing transform duration to give out boons to allies or attatching yourself to an ally and absorb all the dmg they take (Engineer is now an Aura!).

its a beautiful idea!