What I’m afraid the most is that since they’ve come up with the mechanics, they may not change them, and rather let tempest useless to fall into oblivion and in the future they will make a better elite spec. The problem, though, is that we’ve been playing for so long with core eles without changing a lot the main builds for each game mode (PvE, PvP, WvW).
Tempests won’t provide a fresh air (no pun intended). It just makes us sad, jealous about other elite specs as those look much more fun, synergic, and MAINLY useful.
As already stated several times: in a fast-paced game like GW2, we can’t afford becoming channeling dummies. Interrupts come in huge amounts. Other elite specs get insta-cast skills, effects, and much shorter cooldowns. I understand that CASTING is a core stuff for eles, but you’re forcing us to:
- a) Stay melee (just look at the PBAoE nature of overloads)
- b) Channel the effect, while in melee! The after-cast effect don’t justify becoming a channeling dummy! 80% of the overall mechanics takes place during the channeling phase, which btw is 4-5 SECONDS (most of them). Not even a single stack of stability (though many classes can screw you even with 5 stacks of stability).
Why don’t you allow us to insta-cast an overload for a periodic effect around the ele, and landing a 3sec cooldown on attunements as a kind of trade-off? We don’t want to become channeling dummies… it feels “locked”. It doesn’t feel fun. It doesn’t feel action. It doesn’t feel “free” (remembering an wartower.de video from first months of GW2).
