Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone

What do you think about the elementalist’s elementals? Although I like the concept of having an elemental companion on the battlefield, I’m not sure how viable they really are. I don’t notice a big difference during a fight whether I have an active elemental or not. I wouldn’t say they’re weak in general. Their abilities are okay, maybe the numbers need some adjustment here and there. On the downside we can’t time their skills.
So to compensate this, what about a skill – varying with the type of elemental – which replaces the glyph as long as the elemental is active? It would be in line with the ranger’s spirits, the necromancer’s minions or the guardian’s spirit weapons. The functionality of these skills is open for discussion. Balancing would be crucial though. Especially because they’re actually 4 skills in 1.
With this in mind, new traits could directly affect elementals and their skills. For example the trait “Comfort of the Elements” gives you a boon when using an elemental’s skill. Something like that.

Maybe it would make the elementals too strong but in this form they seem more usable to me. What do you think?

I fougth my way through Orr with my ranger the last few days and I noticed what the OP mentions. Most of the time there (still) is no music at all in Orr or it’s playing improper tracks like “Eye of the storm” (beautiful music but creates a bizarre atmosphere when you’re surrounded by rotten undeads).
The music of GW2 (and GW1) is very intriguing and contributes a lot to how the world feels and presents itself. So I really hope that Anet is still working on fix such issues. Orr would greatly profit if much darker and depressing tracks were playing. I know that they exist in the soundtrack.
And maybe we will see custom playlists for individual zones? :-) That would be great.

Hey Flash,
I guess they don’t want to spoil any content this time because the update seems mostly to be made up of new living world story. So the stream takes place after the release of the patch (the German version of the official website states the same date).

ps: lordkrall was faster :-)