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That’s the problem. You’re a Dagger/Dagger exclusive player who spams earth attunement just for spamming available skills. Yes, MH DaggerEarth skills are crap but you’re blinded by your close-mindedness about Dagger/Dagger that you don’t even see the potential of Stone Heart on other weapon sets.
So why do people who use Scepter or Staff attune to Earth? Because it’s a defensive weapon set that that has decent defensive skills that help them control their enemies and survive. Why do MOST Dagger/Dagger exclusive players like you attune to earth? To spam all available skills and to get the free protection boon.
The problem is not with Stone Heart. The problem lies with the Dagger/Dagger weaponset and the mindless playstyle of most Dagger/Dagger exclusive players that just spams Earth Attunement for spamming available skills and to get passive Protection.
If you have time to cry about Stone Heart being useless to your Dagger/Dagger build, maybe you should spend that time crying about Dagger Earth skills because that’s the source of the problem for main hand dagger players.
TL;DR – Any Elementalist playing Scepter or staff worth their skills switch to Earth for defensive/control purposes. Playing the spammy style of dagger/dagger had degenerated the minds of Dagger/Dagger exclusive players into swapping into any attunement currently available which makes Stone Heart useless for them.
On a side note, any decent Elementalist playing Dagger/Dagger will situationally switch to Earth for on-demand protection which will now be boosted by Stone Heart.
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Well, what would you want? A trait in earth that makes you invulnerable while attuned to earth?
Combined with elemental attunement, this trait is going to make switching to earth make you be extremely tanky.
Did you want a god mode? That’s what it seems like you’re asking for. I’m actually thoroughly surprised they made THIS a trait!
It’s all about adaptability, and with this trait were going to see ele’s make a come-back into the meta.
I don’t see how we can complain about these buffs.
PS, the 6 steps in which you named is how I already play but with elemental attunement and the protection it gives. I’m quite positive it’s how a bunch of other eles play as well.
No. I would rather have had a Condition based trait. Maybe change the 25point trait as well because considering its in the defense and condition line, it being about power damage makes no sense.
Its all well and good not being able to be crit hit, the problem comes with the fact that the attunement is just simply awful when it comes to pressure. It doesn’t matter that you are just taking say 3k damage from high damaging skills when the fact you are no threat what so ever means they CAN just keep attacking and attacking until they force you out of the attunement.
It will become just like Diamond Skin after its newness has worn off.
Why is it so hard for you to understand? It’s been pointed out a lot of times, rephrased over and over again by different people just so you can understand.
Earth Attunement is supposed to be defensive. Why the heck do you want to be able to apply pressure offensively at the same time? Do you even play other other Weapon Sets aside from that Dagger/Dagger of yours?
Does Earth in scepter apply any pressure offensively at all?
Stone Shards – clunky auto attack that applies 3 stacks of bleeds.
Rock Barrier – increases toughness
Dust Devil – slow AoE blind
Do you even play staff?
Stoning – clunky auto attack with low damage that applies weakness.
Eruption – More commonly used as a Blast Finisher. Clunky activation time which makes it hard to hit without pairing it with stuns/chills.
Magnetic Aura – Reflects Projectile
Unsteady Ground – Line of Warding clone.
Shockwave – Weak Damage. Applies bleed and a soft CC in form of immobilize.
Now tell me, how do these skills apply any pressure offensively? Earth Attunement has always been meant to be used defensively with the ability to dish out lackluster bleeding. All I see from you are cries for passive defense buffs.
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If Burning is useless on Necro, then why are there specific builds that take advantage of Dhuumfire? Free burning is also huge for Engineers since it will allow to have access to that condition while using the more defensive set of Pistol/Shield.Why do you think Burning is not a huge deal for both classes? Because you don’t even use it as you stated yourself.
Now you cry about Stone Heart? Because you obviously won’t be able to utilize it as you’re probably one of those Dagger/Dagger Eles that just swap attunements to spam available skills. If it doesn’t help you specifically means it’s useless? Grow up dude.
How are people supposed to play Elementalist? It seems that playing Dagger/Dagger has degenerated the minds of Dagger/Dagger exclusive players into a gameplay wherein they switch attunements just to spam all available skills.
I think Stone Heart was basically meant to turn earth attunement into a anti-spike state that you pop whenever you see a thief running at you, or a warrior CC and 100blading you. Combined with protection, stability, and other earth attunement buffs, you won’t even need to use a skill like obsidian flesh to mitigate burst.
The problem is, ALL the classes have fast and easily accessible burst. You might prevent the first burst attempt. Unless you stay in the attunement that is no threat you will just be hit with the next one.
This sort of style will still end the same way – The burst WILL come and we have very little we can do about it. This trait makes it even worse in that Anet doesn’t see that. They think we will be able:
1) See burst coming. Go Earth
2) Negate the burst
3) Be a threat
4) Move to another attunement
5) attack them
6) see burst coming. Go EarthIt won’t work like that, especially against classes that have burst on cool downs lower than our attunement cool downs. They will just keep attacking, force us out to heal and then burst us know that we have at least 10seconds of being at high risk.
I think you are getting up in your head too much. Obviously you aren’t supposed to sit in earth attunement all the time. You’re supposed to switch in to it to mitigate damage, then switch out of it to deal dps.
I don’t profess to be an expert on Ele, but 10-13 seconds cooldown on an ability which can give you:
- crit immunity
- 33% damage reduction
- 120 toughness
- aoe cripple
- powerful defensive weapon skillsIt would be nice if someone could calculate the effective % damage reduction gained by having crit immunity to a standard zerker build. Like, how much dps does a zerker lose if they never crit?
Give up. Those who mindlessly swap attunements to mindlessly spam available skills will never understand the purpose of Stone Heart being unique to Earth Attunement. The fact that “someone” suggested to make it into a passive “x% of something is converted to toughness” is proof enough that they don’t want to play actively.
New traits will make new builds. I can’t even fathom how people expect to play the same way they did before the new GM trait was introduced. You can’t expect to play the same way you did before if you’re transferring X skill points to another trait line which you had less points before. They QQ simply because it doesn’t fit their old playstyle and they don’t want to explore new possibilities.
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