Guild Wars 2

There was a lot of constructive feedback. Plausible solutions for bad design choices. And yet… They sticked with horrible and unpopular choices for one of the most popular archetypes of any game, the mage.

ANet is trying very hard to make people not play their game.

That’s all? Really? REALLY?

I read all other BWE3’s posts changes. Just by the looks of them, compared to this, you can say that Tempest is the most ignored one. Exactly the one that was in a desperate need of love.
All the feedback about Tempest were strong in one direction: it needed hard changes (not minor buffs).

Before, we didn’t have any good trait options. Now? We have traits that we HAVE to have. In some aspects, we still don’t have real options…

Tempest didn’t add any other role or nice aspect for Elementalists. And it still doesn’t.

What about revamping aura traits from other lines and putting them all as options for Tempest? At least, it seemed that auramancer was an intended build for tempest (it is a nice mid range support option) and aura traits are not used at all the way they are now (and will still not be used when Tempest arrives, because they are all spread in so many specializations that it doesn’t synergize well). Auramancer was a fun build to use in the days. You took it from us, maybe now it’s the time to give it back. It’s an easy and cheese solution for the most frustrating Elite Spec of them all.