Swiper.8352 Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Hello everyone,I have been playing my ele since Launch and overall I really like the concept. I play reaction base, weather it be scepter/dagger, dagger/dagger and staff. I understand the pros and cons of each weapon.I just got the expansion and I was excited to use the sword! But, after a few hours of gameplay with the sword I am as lost as ever. I was hoping someone could explain what I am doing wrong or maybe it is my thinking?My understanding, lets say Fire is my primary and Lighting is secondary. I am using a Sword/Dagger by the way. For example, lets say I am fighting and I need to heal myself. Well normally I would jump into my Water element and use the secondary skills on my dagger. But now, when I change atonement I change my primary to WATER and my secondary because FIRE. I understand the sword heals, but I am looking more towards the secondary water abilities. So, now if I want secondary water abilities I need to wait for cooldown and cycle to water. and now I am stuck with Water primary and water secondary? I am positive I dont understand the gameplay anymore for this ele weaver? It makes no sense, you almost have to know what is coming 4 steps ahead of time. Rather than reacting to what is in front of you. I think that is impossible. I am not complaining, I think I just need a better perspective of what the point is or how does it benefit me to weave? If I cant get the spells I want the first time around, than how should I play this class? Is it simply rotation base and you need to depend on your other abilities more? I depend on every ability on my hot bar.\Can someone explain to me how this class is suppose to be played effectively? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRay.3027 Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 You switch to water, you dodge maybe or wait a second, do water 2 and then turn to watet or fire and blast the water field. And you're done with your healing. You don't even have to use the offhand skill, maybe only if you need some additional cleansing.Or you can use use arcane trate and put on arcane wave and blast the water field immediatly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shooka.9712 Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Not much to say, It's exactly like you described it. Offhand skills are gated behind double attuning which means you need to predict/plan ahead for those skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aether McLoud.1975 Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 WHen you switch to water you got a fresh set of offhand abilities from your old attunement to use until the global cooldown is over, then you can switch to full water, and again you get 2 new abilities to bide the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephiroth.4217 Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 From my perspective:If you want to heal then there are 2 good options for SW/D.Attune to Water, use skill 2 and attune to earth during the animations, follow it up with earth 2 blast finisher and cleansing wave.Attune to earth, attune to water, skill 2 then double blast with 4 + 5. This one requires a lot more prediction timing and experience.For some extra sustain take Arcane Abatement and Signet Of Restoration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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