That settles it, time to switch back from Air to Fire

Meteor: lowered Energy cost to 5


Fireball: lowered Energy cost to 10 and recharge time to 7


Chain Lightning: increased cast time to 3 seconds; decreased damage to 10..85; lowered maximum distance between targets

chain lightening was an awesome spell, 3 second cast time is way too long...and my energy management as a pyro would be a lot better now that the costs will be lowered

Huh??

Oh noes, your losing strategy just got nerfed! Run for it!

I decided to switch from being an air elementalist to something useful after I saw protective spirit a lot.

I have no idea where the OP is getting his numbers from. ??

ign.com has a really small article on a couple skill changes.

Can you provide a link please? I can see the interview but there's no specifics in there...

http://pc.ign.com/articles/644/644916p1.html

if the informations are true... "Now when you cast a Spirit, all other allied spirits within the newly cast Spirit's range are destroyed"

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Merry Christmas folks. Guild Wars lives!

Yay lets all celebrate air no longer has 3 big nukes. Now it has 2 and lightning surge is a joke. We should all be proud and dance around. Fire under powered thats a joke. If you're going to reduce the effectiveness that it has on multiple targets, keep the range reduction. Don't completely butcher the skill by adding a 3 second longer increase and reducing the damage. Yay lets all go back to echo fire nuking. Balancing my ass all that accomplished was send a horde of people back to fire.

If you start echo nuking your not going to get anywhere except on dais'.
I thought the second i saw the mod people are going to spring up fire spiking, but really, its still not great.
Ive said (usually to myself) for a while spiking is fairly redundent, prot spirit for a start, but other problems with it exist. With the combined nerf of nr though, no matter what element it is its going to be duel attunement spiking for a while now. Ele elites arent as good as attunement except renewal.
Im thinking ele is now either 1) prot 2) duel attunement 3) smiter

WTF. I switched to air because it doesn't take forever to cast. If this stuff is true, I am going water or earth.

air is nerfed totally. Oh well i switched to earth a long time ago lol. Its good though that they changed the spirits at least though it won't be too hard to spam spirits still.

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There are water spells that don't take forever to cast.
and a 3 second chain is still usable. 80 odd damage is still good damage, the spell still has 25% armor pen. Air still has nukes - it will be harder to insta-gank 3 ppl simultaneously with it, though. Meteor coming down to 5 energy and a faster recharge is nice, but I wouldn't take it PvP just yet.

No you read that wrong. It's an additional 3 second cost. 5 Seconds is useless. In that time I could fire off Lightning orb, lightning strike, enervating charge, and lightning javelin. 25% armor penetration is a joke when its only 80 dmg. For the cost, exhaustion, cast time, and junk dmg, it's been trashed.