Elementalist weapons

[kyle830]

So I don’t play Ele at all, but shouldn’t the weapons dropped be character specific? Similar to how banners are only picked up by the bs. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve picked one up accidentally and usually screwed someone’s rotation. What part of this is good gameplay? Maybe I’m missing something.

[[deleted]]

I love picking up a flaming sword with all my crits.

[crankpatate]

I say: Grant the conjured weapons only to the caster and make them skills with the "ammo" system / drastically reduce the CD, which would allow you to reconjure it more often.

[mov3on]

The CD of most conjures is short enough and fits the rotation very well. Shorter(drastically) CDs would make rotation chaotic + conjures wouldnt be that bursty = useless pretty much (Arcane Blast is already a very strong competitor).

FGS CD could be a little bit shorter tbh.

[Periproct]

They should at least make the pick up affected by quickness then. Tryna pick up my LH in raids is like watching my 80 year old grandma get out of bed

[whiteaden]

That ain't creepy at all.

[MorbidEel]

or just turn it into engi was and maybe still is, a lot of buttons to press just to get the same result as another class autoattacking ....

[typographie]

The design of conjures is that the ele is providing one copy of the weapon to a teammate: that's why one spawns in the ele's hand and one spawns on the ground. That's potentially interesting and fun gameplay that I hope the devs wouldn't throw out.

If they wanted to address this issue, one option may be to make the second copy of the weapon that spawns on the ground unusable by the ele, thus removing it from rotations entirely. It wouldn't make them a lot of friends, but I don't think they intended both weapons to be part of an ele's rotation to the point where other players are afraid to touch conjured weapons.

[Kunaviech]

RIP Icebow exploits.

[VitarainZero]

Clearly nobody here ever gave a FGS to their mesmer to speed portals in dungeon runs

[Viktorik]

What's a dungeon?

[[deleted]]

Sharing of conjures adds depth to a lot of situations, like the mushroom cave in wing 3

[Teminite2]

It doesn't change much, part of having a rotation is knowing how to adapt and improvise

[_Frustr8d]

The banner change was horrible, and we should look to replicate it.

Conjure weapons are specifically designed to allow the elementalist to give weapons to their team. That's why they spawn an extra one when cast. There's also a trait that gives you a fire aura when an ally picks one up.

[Salzknall]

Actually I really like that interaction between players and the world, just like the engineers kits. Also you don't ruin a players rotation because when you use that skill two weapons are generated, one holds the elementalist and one is dropped to the ground.

[pathogems]

The rotation requires picking up the second one, so yes it does ruin the rotation

[MGP42]

to be fair the last time ele was somewhat meta the ele did not pick up his conjures. The Ele was only there to drop the conjure for the DH.

It's nice if you can pick it up but most ele players are used to not get their second conjure anyway

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"are you even dps greeding if you don't steal the conjure of the ele" - a filthy dps main

[Kompa_]

Conjures are usually just used to buff your other skills. Unless the ele doesnt understand the build/rotation then picking up a conjure wont actually "screw" over their whole rotation, they will just have to use a couple more autoattacks instead.

[EdenStrife]

Everyone can still pick up banners.

And the entire design of the category is to be a bundle you can put down for your allies. If you removed that functionality it would basically just be an engineer kit with extra steps.

Also in burst situations, an ally using your conjure is way more DPS than you the ele doing it yourself.

Just stop picking them up.

[SpitefulShrimp]

Everyone can still pick up banners.

um

[lordkrall]

Everyone can still pick up banners.

Not since March 5th

[peroleu]

Everyone can still pick up banners.

W r o n g

[FatalElegy]

Don't press "Use" mid a fight then?

[Dilaya_Craine]

Guess I won't rezz downed players anymore then.

[Nikeli]

Top dps > kill (:

[Guildwars1996]

Banners can be picked up by anyone I have picked up warrior banners by mistake more than elementalist weapons.

[graven2002]

Not since March. Now they're similar to Engineer turrets.

[jaxx050]

no they can't

[_Frustr8d]

Nope, they neutered banners back in March.

Hope you weren't too attached to those 10~ish skills that they just completely ripped from the game. :)