Overload Skills

[Peteroid.2638]

i am not clear on what "overload skills" are and what they do... when is a skill "overloaded"?.. what does this mean?.. how do i use it?.. could someone give a quick overview? :)

[steki.1478]

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Singularity

When you stay in attunement for 6 seconds (4 when traited) you can overload it creating an aoe effect around you based on attunement, you can check wiki or in game tooltip to see what each one does.

[Auburner.6945]

Overload is a Tempest mechanic that activates after you stay in the attunement you have just attuned to for 5 seconds and every 20 seconds to come if still in the same attunement.

Let's say you were in Fire attunement and you went in Air attunement, you will have a 5s cooldown on Air attunement, after it wears off, you can simply just press the same button as if you were to attune to Air again. It's a 4s channel regardless the attunement you overloaded, so bear in mind that dodging or being interrupted cancels the channeling, giving you minute effects if not fuply channeled.

[Peteroid.2638]

oh!.. so if in Air and after a few seconds in Air i can press the Air button again.... which will now instead cast the overload skill... THAT i did not know.. thanks! :)