Guild Wars 2

The upcoming changes will actually not hurt us that much.

However there are VERY bad signs on the way Anet seems to work:
- Devs seem to pay more attention to GW2Guru than to official forums. Not to mention Euro forums, not to mention non english forums. Its dead there.

- The changes even if they don’t affect the gameplay that much are incredibly bad calculated. It doesnt aim the right target. Its an American air strike not a surgery work.

*RTL nerf again
Yay. The problem with RTL is that is that its the only mobility tool available to Elementalist. And its off hand dagger. If you want to be mobile = go offhand dagger.
The change (20sec CD with a target, 40 without) is actually a good idea. But it doesnt solve the main problem : Elems beeing pigeonholed into D/D

*Cleansing Water nerf
This is one a of the most stupid decision I’v seen in a while.
If you want to nerf Cantrip Condi removal spam, hit Soothing Disruption instead of kicking every Elem actually trying to play something different. The worse part is that this change actually hurts more Healing Rain and Dwaynax6 than D/D Bunkers.

*General “D/D Bunkers are too strong” thema
Elems feel pigeonholed into D/D Bunker because :
- Staff and Scepter are nearly ineffective in sPvP because they are slow and very avoidable.
- There is no synergy in Elem traits line besides aura+signets and cantrip+cleansing
- The best DPS line is Water because Bountiful Boons is too good (and other master traits too bad).
- You have to spend points into arcana, not only because of boon duration and water#25, but because it would be giving up all what Elems are designed for : attunement dance.

TD;NR suggestions:
- Swap RTL/Lightning Flash making the 1st a Cantrip and the other an air OH Dagger ability. Keep the 20sec/40sec nerf planed.

- Don’t nerf Cleansing Water. Change regen for Aegis on Soothing Disruption.

- Improve Staff :
Haste Fireball travel time.
Water Blast a channeled water jet.
Increase substantially the duration of Healing Rain.
Increase substantially the damage, travel and animation time of chain lightning but make it single target.

- Nerf/Change Bountiful Boons so it gives heavy support instead of the best overall damage trait possible.

- Remove/Change Intelligence. Give to every trait line an innate reduced cooldown to go back to the related attunement depending on how much points you invested into the line. So attunement only traits doesn’t feel wasted.

I’d be in favor of custom games, allowing you to exclude certain professions from joining. Imagine, a distant world, where there arn’t bunker ele’s exploding the map with their obcene damage. Did I mention they are bunker ele? Yeah…

and the sotg they said if things need to be tuned back or forward they will address that. Bunker ele’s were too effective, anet had to do something to pull them back a little. Nothing at all fair about going invulnerable for 3 seconds and being able to use utility skills still, that was a necessary change.

Removing conditions on regen? Maybe wasn’t smart in nerfing the entire build but it was broken, and impossible to counter. No good ele would die from a cond build, simply because of this trait. That had to be changed in some way.

Ele had overspent it’s time on the top, it was time they got brought down to everyone elses level. I’d suggest waiting to test out the adjustments, see how they really affect your playstyle. Ele hasn’t seen half the amount of nerfs thief has.

I cannot agree less.

NinjaEd.3946:

Ele hasn’t seen half the amount of nerfs thief has.

you are not playing for a long time do you? ele got hardly hit by many nerfs especially in beta and was then considered one of the hardest profs to play… until people realized how to play semibunker with valk amulet while using fury for crit chance and utilize boons

but yes, cantrip builds needed a nerf, anyway, i dont think RTL and SoR changes were necessary… they hurt other aspects of ele much more then that OP bunker build, people will probably tend even more to bunker now…