Guild Wars 2

Ok, so we need to touch on a very old topic: Ranged damage and relative DPS.

Back when this game was first built, the devs said that ranged damage should always be lower DPS than melee since there was less risk associated with it.

Fast forward to 2016 and the highest DPS in the game is primarily ranged, making eles desired so much, raid groups are often taking upwards of 4 of them.

If the devs think this is fine or even think that a staff ele should be the 2nd or 3rd highest dps build, then we need some consistency, because there’s no reason why thief pistols, ranger longbows, warrior rifles, etc. all deal such paltry DPS in comparison.

Eles had always been OP. Its like the weather, it’s already too late to fight the global warming.

staff ele has always been some of the highest dps in the game

Also it differs from the other things you listed in a very important way: it targets a static area. Simply walking out of the area reduces the damage by half or more.

You also have to remember that staff DPS isn’t the only game in town anymore. Some of those are fresh air eles, which is a D/W melee build.

If only PVP and PVE Skills were split there wouldn’t be as much stagnation in builds.

Some of the highest dps? Ha, you mean aThe number one dps clsss. Even running healing builds, Eles out dps the bottom tier professions. (When I find the dps golem thread proving this, I’ll edit the post). That’s why ele in pvp is insane. (50% projectile denial, crit immunity, near infinite condition clenses, and all while out healing the “dedicated healer class” druid and providing exceptional dps)

Yeah if u don’t dodge their kitten it’s gonna rekt ya. Dodge through their circles. Eles also very squish easy to kill.