just another way to buff ele..

Goal: giving Anet an idea how to make DD-Ele and DD-Tempest useful for pvp while barely affecting Weaver.

my Ideas:-move fire aura to dagger main hand to make better use of the new trait Smothering Auras in Fire line (bc u will never use that trait on scepter or staff) to give Elementalist some good condi cleanse via Fire-Traitline &Dagger main hand.

-adding auras to warhorn to further support the aura mechanic while on tempest and make it worth considering over dagger or focus on support tempest

-reduce some cooldowns on dagger for more fluid rotations and buffing its damage.with some more to Cantrips and Shouts this should make DD-core ele (fire/water/arcane), DD-Tempest Healer (fire/water/tempest) viable. maybe also some other Tempest builds since the dependency on water for condi cleanse is reduced.

-also Focus sees some changes like a close to midrange pulsing blind to counter enemy close combat fighters

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Mecanical Stuff:Transmute Aura Skills affect allies and enemies in a range of 300 (from 240), reduce their cooldowns to 2s

Weapon changesDagger:

Focus:

Warhorn:

Traits:

Utility Skills:

lets discuss & hope anet finally does something for our poor eles

@DEATHsCLAW.1978 said:Tempest:Invigorating Torrents: auras you apply also grant vigor, regeneration and protection (3s each, merged with Elemental Shielding from Earth line)Reason: freeing Tempest from speccing Earth just for the protection

I can't even tell you how happy this one would make me. Ele is so close to having a viable healing role, if not perfectly meta due to the lack of offensives buffs. The main thing holding it back is how it needs 5 trait lines to do the job. Water for heals and boon share, Fire/Air for Fury, Earth for Protection, Arcane for the speed rez, and of course Tempest for access to enough auras to make it worthwhile. If they fix even 2 of these problems so the traits have some synergy (Add Fury to the Earth tree, Protection to the Tempest tree, speed rez to Water in T2 of traits) we'll see a huge uptick in the number of viable tempest healers.

Rending Earth: Blast finishers now grant furyHealing Waves: Cast Geyser when reviving. Gain frost aura. Geyser and Water Trident now heal downed alliesInvigorating Torrents: Add 4 seconds of Protection to the Skill

Doing all 3 would give Tempests some actual some build variety, but just 2 is all it would take to make Tempest slightly viable.

As an aside:

Rock Solid: Double the length of time stability lasts OR have it give 2 stacks. Make it apply based on auras.

This last one is more of a PvP focused change, but would make support tempest a little more competitive.

Some nice ideas. I really think arena net needs to look into giving Tempest more fluidity with Auras and some suggestions here seem fairly good. I think naturally nick put it right, tempest can be a great healing role if it didnt need all 5 trait lines to do so. I wholeheartedly support reworking some of these aura traits since as a gimmick for base ele, they tend to be boarderline useless at times. Let's give Tempest some love and become a true Auramancer.

@fuzzyp.6295 said:Some nice ideas. I really think arena net needs to look into giving Tempest more fluidity with Auras and some suggestions here seem fairly good. I think naturally nick put it right, tempest can be a great healing role if it didnt need all 5 trait lines to do so..

ty!In my opinion tempest needs a spammable aura, either frost or fire aura since having the other 2 auras available on short cooldowns would be op as f***

fire aura can be applied by rotation already with fire line, reducing its cooldown on a weapon skill would result in a spammable aura there. and since they added Soothering Auras to fire line tempest this could finally give it the needed fluidity and support potential it truly needs. although to be able to spec fire we need to reduce supporttempest dependecy on earth line..

@NaturallyNick.4058 said:...The main thing holding it back is how it needs 5 trait lines to do the job. Water for heals and boon share, Fire/Air for Fury, Earth for Protection, Arcane for the speed rez, and of course Tempest for access to enough auras to make it worthwhile. If they fix even 2 of these problems so the traits have some synergy (Add Fury to the Earth tree, Protection to the Tempest tree, speed rez to Water in T2 of traits) we'll see a huge uptick in the number of viable tempest healers.

Rending Earth: Blast finishers now grant furyHealing Waves: Cast Geyser when reviving. Gain frost aura. Geyser and Water Trident now heal downed alliesInvigorating Torrents: Add 4 seconds of Protection to the Skill

Doing all 3 would give Tempests some actual some build variety, but just 2 is all it would take to make Tempest slightly viable.

As an aside:

Rock Solid: Double the length of time stability lasts OR have it give 2 stacks. Make it apply based on auras.

This last one is more of a PvP focused change, but would make support tempest a little more competitive.

my opinions on your suggestions there:

I wouldnt put fury in earth traitline tbh. earth is defensive only. and on top if we add protection to Invigorating Torrents tempest wouldnt habe to spec earth at all anymore..But I agree that there should be way more stability on earth line!

the idea of putting geyser into waterline is good though I didnt even think of that! it actually should have been there from the beginning since geyser is a water skill and water is the main support line on core ele..