^Plus goep currently lasts for 30 sec.So if you stunbreak with it its not like you wasted its offencive capabilities.You just decreased them a bit.I can see it working with another stunbreak or flash so that you have more freedom to judge how you gonna use it.
It will all come down to whether it ll actually get no casting time..cause seriously conjures used to have a trait that made them stunbreakers in the place of geomancers freedom in beta..Well they still had a casting time with the stunbreak effect happening at the start of the casting
^ why nobody counts global attunement cooldown..
Its 11.25 sec between your earth switches at best! :P But im a bit afraid about rock solid,patch notes might be incomplete and theres more restrictions..Im also in fear of an elem attunement nerf in the form of global cd..(that would make me cry )
But for the offencive build im leaning towards 20 in arcana too and make up with stop drop and roll and water 5 for cond removal.
Besides evasive arcana heal is not for free.You need to waste endurance.And afterall the same endurance can be used to actually ..avoid the attack that would do the damage
Downside is that healing signet wont be that effective but i think for the extra 1 sec recharge of other attunements it wont be that much of a deal since your attunement dancing will have air as return point so you can use the attunements more wisely.
Well..i never thought that the time would come that i would have to face dillemas when it comes to building my ele.
Staff wil probalby never be a reliable 1vs1 weapon but its seems its getting lots of love.
Most notably the meteor shower,geyser and gust buff.
Plus if you add all those aftercasts and cast times reduces..you ll get why playing staff was so clunky.You were essentially spending seconds upon seconds doing..nothing
I think this bunker will be strong after patch
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-k34;2BJFX0-5sMFZ0;9;6JJT;429-42-41A7w0;3qNnCrBnB3Ry
3 sec aoe stability plus the 2 armor of earth and tornado is more than solid for reliable contesting points.Also i cant test right now but ive been told that arcane ressurection works with glyph of renewal.Plus the glyph counts the attunement you started casting it so you can start in whatever you want and switch in earth to prevent interrupts
I still dont know and i d love if someone could test if precasting the glyph before your teammate went down will still reliable rezz him.Tbh ive never even touched that utility :P If thats true then that would be big positive.Plus the fire effect is a nice little addition to troll people who dont know about it.
I think bunkers could roll with staff too now that geyser gets his casting time halved.
Plus imagine casting new gust and knocking back the downed enemy and his rezzers at same time
I’m not sure if it would be that useful.
What makes Fresh Air awesome is the scepter’s air skills and trait 15 (which is ranged, unlike fire 15, and stronger versus single target, if I’m not wrong).
Hehe ..No! Theres a lot more that makes fresh air potentially amazing than good synergy with scepter.
Before you needed 30 in arcane because otherwise attunement dancing (ony legit way to play ele) would get you stuck evenutally and all autattacks besides air in d/d ,s/d suck. So your damage was gonna be crappy and also if you stuck in your downtime in earth and water you would lose huge uptime on prot and regen.
Now you dont have to do a whole cycle of air,fire,earth to do good damage plus assuming that you do end up in earth and water, air will probably be up in no time to let you switch and avoid having to wait huge time for next water/earth.
Practically it could make possible for even only 10 in arcana builds have a change to tactically apply their boons when they actualkly needed and also get the on swap effects at almost max potential.
If there was a fire trait like that those benefits would be the same.Of course there autoattacks mostly suck but you could still use fire as a medium to decrase unneccessary downtime of the important attunements.
Plus cond builds that need to apply burning near 100% to be viable since we lack poison would benefit greatly
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nah it would be singet of air for sure cause its already instant
I also bet the glyph would be elemental power which unless they changed the weakness on air it will be SWEET.Plus its inevitable that new gm traits will drop other gm traits back to master.
Get ready we have a LOT of theorycrafting to do after patch it seems
mesmers and thieves get new condie..now a thief punish you for moving
lol the forum rage will be so fun!Cant wait
Yeh they should have better heals. The warrior heals are embarrasing. So either give high hp classes bigger heals or reduce the amount of cr.ap they get which can be justified by their high hp pools
Thats true!But when they do give better healing that wont be because theres this rule in game balancing that says more hp requires more ways to recover it,as the op says in the title
^ i dont think its true..I can have all cond removal traits in the game and an engie still can eat me for breakfast if do a mistake.Thats not classified as burst and yet i know that if i didnt spec in water i would be dead before i even reached range for my d/d skills to hit him..
Also theres a lot of balanced non cond builds in game that could kill a non water/arcana ele with no problems
Its deeper imo..The damage increase you get leaving water is not enough especially when you consider you lose bountiful power and perhaps vital striking.At same time your burst is as unreliable as ever and on huge cd
I think we can only suck it up..elementalist is balanced around healing…
Theres this rumor about a new air trait that devs in twitch chat said is a good spoiler (perhaps to indicate the magnitude of upcoming changes?)
Im also 90% sure that signet of air will stunbreak
I find the Bow to be very useful, it is in most of my PvP builds and currently on my PvE character. Same is true for the FGS, I prefer it to the other elites (esp. after the tornado nerf, the one where you lost your 28 seconds of stability when the skill ends).
The others have more of a niche use. I would just like them to last 1 minute, not have charges as well. Or conversely, last the full duration of the charges, and not 1 minute as well. Changing weapons should drop the weapon on the ground with the charges and / or time still left on it so you can still use the thing. Pulling it, needing to heal so you swap then presto its gone.
FGS is simply pure gold in wvw.It allows you to outrun zergs easily and is essential after rtl nerf.
The bow is also strong and could be amazing for surprise attacks from stealth or portal.Number 5 appears to not be stunbreakable from what i tested.Basically a mini immobile moa unless the enemy has invuln spells i think.And of course the chill on it.
Lightning hammer could give the mobility we lack on focus and staff aswell since 6 urrently outperforms rtl by far.
Droping them on the ground when weapon swaping would be amazing.Basically it would change so many things on them ,perhaps the whole pve and pvp meta!!
It would be so good if they gave a grandmaster trait for this but its not gonna happen
Wait..so you tell me that the thief didnt play properly???
And you had to watch the video to realise this? Is there any other way someone at 5% hp can take on a thief?
Nice video btw!
Engineers have got two interrupts only in theory. Since you pull the enemy to your location, all the enemy has to do is stomp right away.
You won’t have enough time for the 3rd to charge up.Engineers are also the only class that can literally pick themselves up preemptively from downstate.
You need an utility skill to do that, it has got a 120s cooldown, must be placed exactly before you die (cause it has got a 6s duration and you get 20% downed hp per pulse) and it can be countered anyway, either via launch or dealing enough damage when downed.
It is useful? Yeah. But we shouldn’t be required to use it to make up for a poor downed state.Also, elementalists can do that as well – glyph of renewal, fire attunement.
glyph has 4,5 sec casting time, longer cd and does not stunbreak and refill endurance.Of courses its a certain rezz if it finish the cast but well ..everybody uses elixir r nobody uses the glyph so you get the idea :P
On the other hand people should know that toss elixir r is also countered by projectile reflect/block skills!You didnt mention it
No, more skills shouldnt be equal power to less skills, more skills would be better because it simply has more skills available for you in any situation, it allows you to do more precise actions and waste less WHICH is easier to do then having less skills and not having them available when needed. Balance is more complex then " oh i can do like 7 buffs 5 conditions, remove 3 and aoe damage in one skill, but i only have one skill, while others have 10 separated skills(which added together will be equal to my one and only skill) but each skill only does less stuff, so im obviously better"(not)
The only resource in gw2 is time.I dont think the classes with more skills have less activation times on their skills..quite the opposite.So even if they truly had like double the option (which they dont im sure) the time ticking away is really the same for everyone.
Plust there are systems that prevent those classes from having acccess to all skills at all times and those skills have way longer cds than normal.So while you are right that more skills =easy mode thats not true at all when you add the cooldown management of them plus the mchanicsm that prevents you from having access to them ,the “activation time to effectiveness” ratio etc
I can make you a class with 100 skills all on 2 min cds and 3 sec activation times where every skill has only 1 sub effect of a skill of multiple effects of other classes!Would you say th same then?
Your post makes sence if we assume the game is completely unbalanced!
I fully understand the concept and what you are saying man..Im just saying its more complex cause you cant rally access,activate,and have evrything recharged however and whenever you want if we take into account ..balance..
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