Ele with rifle

[ChronosCosmos.9450]

Let me slay some vampires with my elemental bullets baby.

[Evil.1580]

Yes, baby - you read my mind ;)

[leunamsil.6742]

Yes plz, i want to equip rifles on more classes =D and in a more serious note it would give ele a single target long range weapon, which is something ele doesn't have

[Just a flesh wound.3589]

The Predator would be a good Legendary for an Ele. Lots of fire effects.

[kharmin.7683]

Hmmm... as long as the rifle is made relevant, I suppose. I haven't seen a good use for it, personally, on any other profession.

[Randulf.7614]

Or short bow. My Chuka champawat is soooo suited to my ele.

Rifle could be fun though. I’d like to see more rifle love

[Nath Forge Tempete.1645]

@kharmin.7683 said:Hmmm... as long as the rifle is made relevant, I suppose. I haven't seen a good use for it, personally, on any other profession.

PLz ... Is engineer a joke to you?

[HyperLooser.2698]

There is a heart in one of the snow maps where you equip a lightning rifle to kill portal imps, i really love it, so we kinda already know how a rifle ele would feel like sort of.

[AzureTerra.1642]

@Nath Forge Tempete.1645 said:PLz ... Is engineer a joke to you?

Yes. Only scrapper made me consider Engineer as tolerable.

I'd love to have Longbow on Ele as i have the Stormbow skin and no one who use uses lightning that can use a bow

[ChronosCosmos.9450]

Lol, I just want it to roleplay, but you're right. Only good class with rifle is Engineer after DE nerf.

@kharmin.7683 said:Hmmm... as long as the rifle is made relevant, I suppose. I haven't seen a good use for it, personally, on any other profession.

[PlagueParade.7942]

I'd like to see CORE classes get more weapons that all elites can use just to create possible more diversity in builds.

[Nath Forge Tempete.1645]

@AzureTerra.1642 said:

@Nath Forge Tempete.1645 said:PLz ... Is engineer a joke to you?

Yes. Only scrapper made me consider Engineer as tolerable.

I'd love to have Longbow on Ele as i have the Stormbow skin and no one who use uses lightning that can use a bow

well ... core engineer and holosmith has always been performing greatly with rifle ... You just basically denying it LOL

[AzureTerra.1642]

@Nath Forge Tempete.1645 said:

@AzureTerra.1642 said:

@Nath Forge Tempete.1645 said:PLz ... Is engineer a joke to you?

Yes. Only scrapper made me consider Engineer as tolerable.

I'd love to have Longbow on Ele as i have the Stormbow skin and no one who use uses lightning that can use a bow

well ... core engineer and holosmith has always been performing greatly with rifle ... You just basically denying it LOL

Hard to deny playing with it and finding it awful

[Trise.2865]

Okay, so what would this rifle do that Ele can't already do?

[Stand The Wall.6987]

only if it shoots arcane blasts with its auto attack ;-)

[Fenom.9457]

I'd rather see longbow or dual pistols (or offhand sword if only we could dual wield them), but I'll be excited to see any new weapons

[Tails.9372]

@"ChronosCosmos.9450" said:Let me slay some vampires with my elemental bullets baby.

[Auburner.6945]

I would love a GS more. FGS is already so fun but it's timed and has only 1 skill bar. It can mix melee as most professions and range as mesmer. However, I agree that the class lacks a ranged single target weapon.

[Leo G.4501]

I think the more interesting aspect to Elementalist Elite Specs tend to be how the profession mechanic is altered to incorporate the theme of its new weapon, more so now that the devs are looking into more of a trade-off mentality for these alterations.

So if an Elementalist spec gets high-powered single-target long-ranged offensive capability with its possible weapon, the rifle/bow (I feel it could be either), what changes to its profession mechanic would allow that? What trade-offs?

Think it might be possible the profession loses attunements completely for a new type of OOC skill selection + weapon swap? Just a thought I had...

[Jski.6180]

Not sure why it would be a vamiper but there a lot wrong with the ele class right now things that are real bugs i would not hold my breath.

[killermanjaro.5670]

@Fenom.9457 said:I'd rather see longbow or dual pistols (or offhand sword if only we could dual wield them), but I'll be excited to see any new weapons

I'd agree with this, not against rifle ele but I think dual pistols could be fun, as would dual swords.

I would actually quite like a 'conjured weapons ele' as well, where each attunement is a different summoned weapon, so for example switching to fire would give a weapon and skillset similar to fgs, switichng to air would then switch to weapon and skills similar to lighting hammer etc (only using new conjured weapons and skills so its different to the existing conjured weapons). The only problem I could think of with that (aside from the work/resources needed etc) is that I'm not sure how it'd work stat wise for equipment, as if each attunement was a different conjured weapon then I don't know which weapon type equipment would fall under, maybe a new weapon type like a gauntlet or ring of some form would suit it, but that means adding a whole new weapon set, skins, legendary etc. Its perhaps too complicated to ever see the light of day, but I think it would be a fun way to play.

[Emberheart.8426]

@killermanjaro.5670 said:

@Fenom.9457 said:I'd rather see longbow or dual pistols (or offhand sword if only we could dual wield them), but I'll be excited to see any new weapons

I'd agree with this, not against rifle ele but I think dual pistols could be fun, as would dual swords.

I would actually quite like a 'conjured weapons ele' as well, where each attunement is a different summoned weapon, so for example switching to fire would give a weapon and skillset similar to fgs, switichng to air would then switch to weapon and skills similar to lighting hammer etc (only using new conjured weapons and skills so its different to the existing conjured weapons). The only problem I could think of with that (aside from the work/resources needed etc) is that I'm not sure how it'd work stat wise for equipment, as if each attunement was a different conjured weapon then I don't know which weapon type equipment would fall under, maybe a new weapon type like a gauntlet or ring of some form would suit it, but that means adding a whole new weapon set, skins, legendary etc. Its perhaps too complicated to ever see the light of day, but I think it would be a fun way to play.

They could make it so you get your normal weapon skills, but you can replace whichever attunements you want with conjured weapons that have their own skills. This would be done out of combat similarly to how revenant can set their legends out of combat. For example, you might use staff and not like your air skills, so you can replace that attunement with a conjured weapon.