The problem with any fixes to make conjures viable is that we already have 20 weapon skills. Making them function like engi kits would give us access to on-demand 25 weapon skills – engis themselves only have 5 weapon skills.
I do think they should be instant cast and function like a bundle, but:
- We should be locked out of swapping attunements and lose any attunement effects like healing ripple and evasive arcana while holding them,
- Summoning them should not count as a weapon swap, and
- We should be required to hold them for at least certain length of time, and there should be a similar cooldown before they can be summoned again.
I.e., we should have to sacrifice a lot to make use of them.
Or just stop rooting me when casting FGS. I’d be okay with just that.
True engie only has five main weapon spells, but they also have F1-4 spells too.
Stick a kit on & you`ve another five of whatever that kit does.
Most run at least two kits, I do (bomb & tool)
Plus some engie kits can get some amazing bonuses, like Bomb kit 4-shield 4-rocket boots = lot of aoe stealth.
Heal F1-rocket boots – massive aoe heals.
& probably more I`ve not even learnt as of yet.
Whilst using conjures in this way, we`d still be restricted via the cds on sttunement swapping, the conjures themselves don`t give any ways to boosts buffs etc that I recall (not used them much since beta & learning they`re not worth the hassle (wvws))
I don`t agree with having to hold them for a set amount of time, you don`t with kits except for the 0.5sec or wtk it is GCD. We`re already low enough health & locking us out of those would definitely remove the use of the conjures again.
I agree it shouldn`t count as a weapon swap, keep attunements active & let it stick to those.
Also agree that FGS shouldn`t have to be stood still to cast that.
What on Tyria were they thinking when th…..nvm, that`d involve thinking to start with ;p
If you really want to play elementalist, forget that there’s any PvP in this game. Play PvE and you’ll be happier for it.
Alas, that isn`t an option for some of us.
I`m a PvPest, I find PvE beyond tedious.
I`ve done a whole three dungeons in this game, Arah, to get rid of that green crap top right (see sig), Arah story again to help someone met in game & CoF to help someone else get their legendary.
Within seconds of being in there, I`m thinking this is too basic, no surprises such as players jumping in to try to kill us etc
Eles were OP bunkers, couldn’t die even with 2 folks hammering on them – BUT we wouldn’t kill anyone that had the slightest clue what they were doing either. Was that fine?
Oddly, yes that was fine.
That is the whole point of being a tank, to survive more then what the average can do to you. Yet idiotnet fail to realise this.
Guardian can still tank extremely well, so can warrior, engie & even ranger.
Even now I`ve had as many as four players chasing me all around the border map (yesterday several times) & they`ve not killed me because of the usual noobish not stun/immobilising me even once or when they do, they`ve already blown cds at completely wrong times, just because they`re off of cd (my favourite is the usual rangers trapping/rooting you & then using their knockback to free you almost instantly just because it is off of cd lol).
What should`ve happened is that the devs should of watched the youtube crap, played their own game &/or watched some stream, then they`d realise they should`ve told the noobs that couldn`t kill Ele “equip stun/immob` uttils/weapons you dumb kitten” & that would more then likely of fixed things, rather then whack-a-mole nerfing one build & therefore nerfing every other build along with it.
Phew, rant against the dumb devs over.
Back to my other games
I don`t know how long since you`ve played an d/d ele, but they don`t have great mobility, not even close.
I`ve a necro that can out run ele & not have to lose damage to do so, ranger the same, thief & warrior are the best mobility in the game by miles, literally
Still yet to see a good reason why all of those that can weapon swap melee/range are allowed better mobility then a d/d which is purely melee range with no options.
As for our heals, yes they can be good, but everyone of them is a HoT or small heals combined.
Warriors built right can heal just as well, if not better, yet still are much higher damage then d/d ele are.
Same goes for Guardian & their heals can go from almost dead to full instantly.
Damage builds = die easily. Survivability builds = die easily.
i commend you for your skill in computation, as i’ve double checked your equations and have come to the conclusion that they are absolutely correct
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Still amazes me that a warriro, that can range/melee swap every four seconds, also has highest mobility, possibly even better then thief except for stealth crap.
Did daily crap on lowbie warrior today & realised, even their stun removal is only a 20 second cd.
tbh I dobut any of this`ll ever get sorted to anything near balanced, but I`m not fussed any more.
Survarium is entering alpha, ARMA3 almost release state, Wild Star on the horizon along with EQ, which I`d never of thought of until I saw some of the things they have planned. Wizard Wars looks amazing, Magicka variant
Hell, even contemplating SWeaToR & I have star wars, but few have said it is good pvp.
Time`ll tell…
Oh & P.S. Even Terraria has bettter pvp then gw2 lol
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Hackers/glitchers, you forgot to add in those, they always appear in match threads ;p
I’ll accuse you of both of those later, maybe mid week
Why thanks ye kind sir, one shall look forward to that ;p
As for UW just sitting in towers/siege et al.
Erm, I`ve been making a nuisance of myself in both enemy borders & seen plenty of other UWers.
[hands over glasses]
