Guild Wars 2

So I was practicing a healing/support build with Engineer and I’ve started to run Elixir S with it. One thing that happens when you use Elixir S is it locks all of your skills out from use, like most invulnerable skills, but it also puts lock icons on every one of the skills too, so you can’t see cooldowns for them.

So my suggestion, if possible, would be to just show all the skills but make them not usable. This would definitely help a lot because in my experience I’d pop Elixir S when I’m being targeted or ressing under fire, and I can’t remember what is and is off CD in the heat of battle. So being able to see if heal is up, or another defensive skill is up would be great!

It would be nice if they the added weapon swap key while in Elixir S to break out of it. Sometimes I just want to break stund to get back into action quickly.

I think they should show us the cooldowns of other abilities, but no breaking out of the elixir imo.

That’s the only drawback it has, you can even chug it down while rezzing someone without interruption.

Are.1326:

It would be nice if they the added weapon swap key while in Elixir S to break out of it. Sometimes I just want to *break stund to get back into action quickly. *

If you find this happening often enough, you should not be using Elixir S.

lorddarkflare.9186:

If you find this happening often enough, you should not be using Elixir S.

I don’t run Elixir S in any casual builds because of this, the change would incentivise me to do it.
In more compentetive PvP builds however, I run it almost out of necessity. The stealth from Elixir S and the Invuln from the drink is just really good for stomping or surviving. However, I often acidently press Elixir S after using Rifle #4 and that tends to completly ruin the combo.

Sure you can say “learn to play” or “engi is not for you” as tradition on this forum board. I’m just stating a suggestion that would make me happy for taking Elixir S as it is a pretty big requirement for surviving in this burst heavy PvP meta, and I had no intention of offending anyone with it.

Are.1326:

lorddarkflare.9186:

If you find this happening often enough, you should not be using Elixir S.

I don’t run Elixir S in any casual builds because of this, the change would incentivise me to do it.
In more compentetive PvP builds however, I run it almost out of necessity. The stealth from Elixir S and the Invuln from the drink is just really good for stomping or surviving. However, I often acidently press Elixir S after using Rifle #4 and that tends to completly ruin the combo.

Sure you can say “learn to play” or “engi is not for you” as tradition on this forum board. I’m just stating a suggestion that would make me happy for taking Elixir S as it is a pretty big requirement for surviving in this burst heavy PvP meta, and I had no intention of offending anyone with it.

Not offended mate, just a friendly suggestion.

I accidentally use it all the time when I am cycling often between playing PvE and PvP. And this as well as your issue IS a l2p thing.

As previously mentioned, not being able to exit is used to balance the skill. That said, Self-Regulating defenses should definitely have an exit.

So maybe the exit could have a consequence? Like losing a chunk or all of your endurance. Would work for both the trait and the skill.

I’d just be happy if it remembered what kit we were in before entering elixir S, and returned us to that when we left. This seems to be an issue with all transformations though, so I guess it’s more of an engine problem.

lorddarkflare.9186:

As previously mentioned, not being able to exit is used to balance the skill. That said, Self-Regulating defenses should definitely have an exit.

So maybe the exit could have a consequence? Like losing a chunk or all of your endurance. Would work for both the trait and the skill.

Self Self-Regulating defenses is definitely the main reason why I want a breakout method.

While I’d be happy with some consequence for breaking out, I’m not entierly convinced that a breakout method would break the skills balance. That said, it is one of the more commonly used skills besides kits and I’d much prefeared it if ANet had a look at other abilities like Elixir R (I really do miss that stundbreaker), Personal Battering Ram or Turrets.

Going back onto OPs initial suggestion, that is something necromancers have been asking for since the dawn of time and would be nice to see across all proffesions.