Guild Wars 2

So with the balance patch coming up Oct. 1 I have an idea for ele that might be interesting.

Why not make Staff Ele a viable bunker at mid as an alternative to Guardian?

Team Stability on Earth Attunement – 20 earth
Cleansing Water & Wave – condi removal to group
Blasting Staff – giant combo fields to execute finishers in and huge Water 5

The only thing that’s missing is a bit more group utility. I’m not really sure what to do for that so what would you guys think would make Staff Ele viable at mid bunker without breaking it and replacing Guards?

Make AOE damage either a one big instant burst (just like how the Elementalist is described in the fancy official profession webpage) without huge huge delay like Air#2 or make them tick the first damage the moment the field is laid or make the fields last longer/bigger without relying heavily on traits. IMO, there’s too much drawback on all the spells: cast times, animation delay, HUGE cooldowns, either damage only without any other effect or CC only with little to no damage, and not to mention the attunement cooldowns themselves which basically requires a mandatory 30 point arcana investment. And also: crap auto attacks that can be sidestepped.

And please extend Water#3 duration. The time frame for it to be utilized with a blast is so small add to that the very small radious of the skill. This skill is utter crap if not comboed with a blast.

And please make Air#2 and#3 much more reliable. These skills are so situational and at the same time very unreliable. Make Air#3 work similarly as Mesmer GS#5 please. XD

I agree the EA Staff ele was god a few months back so the nerf (I mean bug fixing was badly needed) so now the Staff ele is but a myth or legend in tPVP but I still seriously believe in the potential of Staff ele to be the super support member of an anti-condi spam meta that is dominant right now. But the class is too much effort whereas other classes can do the job better with either passive play or easy peasy button smashing with little to no drawbacks. Guardian is still the only viable mid bunker and nobody calls it OP. Oh well..

P.S. I have yet to see a Zerker Staff Ele own in a high end team play in structured PVP. Right now, nukers are basically condi spamming Engies and Necros. We have no ranged power nukers who wield magic in play which is sad.

I think it would be good for the game for Guardians to have competition for that spot. I’m thinking maybe Water field finishers could get a bonus, like how Fire fields can in the Fire tree

jmatb.6307:

I think it would be good for the game for Guardians to have competition for that spot.

Unfortunately the devs and the community seem to be okay with Guardians being the only viable mid-bunker based on the fact that this topic is being ignored and will be buried and forgotten like the rest.

Jon Peters just said in the GW2PVPTV stream that staff ele is getting some love, so I am not sure exactly what they’re buffing, but he did mention support so I think staff ele will be more interesting, if not viable

Because Staff Ele + Bunker guardian = mid point defender.

how about we kill off bunkers with 4 pips control point?

Deimos the game format is fine, but the lack of diversity in classes in roles is not.

We gotta stay with the one game mode until more people play it or the already tiny pvp scene will be split too much

aye, for myself, having played guild wars 2 alliance battle, where 2 blue fighting 1 red on a control point, the control point will slowly change control towards blue.

now in guild wars 2 … one bunker can hold off 2 attackers while the control point does not change color at all …

just doesn’t feel right to me. but i still play spvp though.

as for the spvp community size, bringing in more players from pve / wvw would help.

Ele has a viable bunker build. But it’s s/d mostly. (Note that focus decaps the point).

The skill floor is much higher though essentially because you have to play with three attunements until someone goes down.

I only know one ele that can run it, but when done right it will win almost any team fight.

The problem with running staff is that leaves you with 4 very useful traits in the arcane tree. It’d be great if staff eles got some love though, still hoping on that shamans amulet staff……

And then we’ll be off again to the “unkillable ele so OP” QQ but this time instead of running d/d, eles will be running staff. Please don’t make this happen. And please make zerker staff sort of viable at the very least. I want to nuke nuke nuke like a powerful wizard!