supreme.3602

Yes, I agree.

Some user interaction would be nice, as well. It may be hard to believe, ArenaNet, but we can give valuable feedback, too.

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Just cleanse just dodge

Been a while since I’ve done one of these. The purpose of this thread is to shed light on another kind of build that fellow users can utilise. I’ve made this specific build very recently but I’ve been playing a similar version of it for a very long time now. I thought it would be best if I show it to other people, so that they themselves can have fun and enjoy it like I have. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PGhAg2lZwmYXsFWJO2PvtfA-zRhYKRDCMKkKyQVaD6rMisAqMBc4gMKd/zJBQHNAaUwnG-e Key things to remember: You can use Written in Stone against DPS players. Use Diamond Skin against condi. I don’t have a specific/favourite elite skill. I frequently switch between Rebound, Glyph of Elementals and Tornado. For the Glyph, I like using Fire, because it does a lot of Burning; Water, because it heals around 7.5K of your health + removes a condition. You must always transmute Fire skill #5. It will give you 5 stacks of Might and removes 2 conditions. The same goes for Air skill #3, but without the boon. It interrupts, too. There’s a lot of synergy going on between the traits, so it’s imperative that you keep them how they are. Invigorating Torrents goes hand in hand with Smothering Auras and Elemental Bastion. If you stick to what I suggested above, you’ll be fine. There’s also no need to use Water traits, because you’ll be stacking up on aura heals, regeneration and protection all the time. The build is a bit tricky to use since Obsidian Flesh got nerfed, but it’s nothing to worry about. You just need to keep your wits about you and you’ll be fine. Burn damage is essential, but don’t miss out on the Doom/Geomancy proc, as they are the key to winning.

Using Carrion opens up options with using Sigil of Visions to push in Power crits. Honestly, that's not worth it. With a build like that, your main damage is coming from Sigil of Doom, bleeds and burns. You need to be using Sigil of Geomancy and Superior Runes of Balthazar, too. All that power stuff won't do anything and neither will Sigil of Visions. You're limiting your build's potential.

Why use Carrion? Just use Shaman instead. That power damage is kinda worthless, tbh. And use Invigorating Torrents.

For me, it's for WvW roaming as a Tempest. Exactly. It's not really game-breaking. It would just make our builds that much more diverse, which is what they wanted, right? I have my burn damage from various sources, but it would be nice to have 3 stacks of bleed from immob again.

I use both. If Strength of Stone wasn't nerfed, I would have an amazing build... sadly that isn't the case.

Go back to this trait having 3 stacks of bleed, instead of 1. The latter is not enough and changing it back to how it was will make condi builds strong again. We don't really have much of those going around, to be honest.

I would rather have 10 targets back, instead of 900 range.

We don't need trade offs. Please stop what you're doing and clear your head. There's no need to nerf Tempest again.

You know what's funny? If you're using an Overload, you need to either cancel or dodge out of it to use Obsidian Flesh. Counter-productive gameplay. OF should be a stun-breaker, too, and it should at least override the current skill that's being used. As of this moment, the skill is just clunky and inefficient. I had no problems using it before these nerfs, because I was able to use everything else at the same time. Nobody complained. Obsidian Flesh is on a 50-second CD, for God's sake. It makes me wonder if Distortion will ever get this mechanic, as well, or is this some form of Elementalist torture/punishment?

Nice drama :) keep it up

The skill is just going downhill now. Dunno what to say.

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That might have been the point of the change? It was fine for seven years. Why change it now? It just made roaming and dueling for ele harder, especially for builds that don't rely on weaver (sword). They did this to Mist Form, which is understandable because it's a utility skill, but for a weapon skill to be so useless like this... Nah, this nerf was dumb.

Really don't like this change. Bad for outnumbered roaming.

I just wish Overload Water was 10 targets again.

Imagine if Plasma Blast actually hit someone, instead of going through people right in front of you. That would be amazing.

They have different colours... it's not hard to know which one is which.

You sure about that? Lol whos on wsr? wsr is like vabbi pack all so called try hards on a server then complain no1 can give them a proper fight :D Kill, LAYS, Okay, TT, Ice, FAIR :)

You sure about that? Lol

Remove retaliation. I can't do a Meteor Shower without going to 35% HP :)