Guild Wars 2

there is a reason why nobody plays this class, and why the only elem i see when i do pvp in both teams, is me

laters

what? troll or serious?
Elementalist is a pretty popular class. I think you’re the outlier on the luck when coming across eles

Ikr, it’s only meta

The meta healer build for tempest is still pretty strong.

But I do think ele needs massive underused trait/skill improvement. The class simply lacks diversity.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Elementalist
right on the top, 2 popular builds for pvp

Amaimon.7823:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Elementalist
right on the top, 2 popular builds for pvp

From the build:

This build provides great team support by mixing damage mitigation, condition cleansing, direct healing, and projectile denial.

Eles have been on the support for years now, is it too much to ask for something else to be viable?

Exciton.8942:

The meta healer build for tempest is still pretty strong.

But I do think ele needs massive underused trait/skill improvement. The class simply lacks diversity.

You can argue that for all classes.

maddoctor.2738:

Amaimon.7823:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Elementalist
right on the top, 2 popular builds for pvp

From the build:

This build provides great team support by mixing damage mitigation, condition cleansing, direct healing, and projectile denial.

Eles have been on the support for years now, is it too much to ask for something else to be viable?

Cele ele wasn’t really a support build. And that was around for ages.

Ele has the same problem necro has: great at organized team play, not so fun at solo q. Anet needs to find a way to create alternate specs for solo q play (dps ele, power nec) without buffing the meta specs.

Kuya.6495:

Ele has the same problem necro has: great at organized team play, not so fun at solo q. Anet needs to find a way to create alternate specs for solo q play (dps ele, power nec) without buffing the meta specs.

In Ele subforum we suggested tons of thing to buff dps Ele without buff metahealingbot.. they added 1 stack of vulnerability to shatterstone and gave us the new powerfull flamestrike

Kuya.6495:

Ele has the same problem necro has: great at organized team play, not so fun at solo q. Anet needs to find a way to create alternate specs for solo q play (dps ele, power nec) without buffing the meta specs.

This is all I want, really. It sucks trying to play healbot Ele in soloq because you rarely get a coordinated enough team.

It’s weak and boring. The only thing it has is a bit of mobility and the aura share, everything else sucks kitten .

Even with the highest glass canon damage build possible a heavy class do more damage by roiling their face on the keys and having twice more hp or armor. So what’s the point of playing elementalist? Because the gameplay has a niche where some functions of the class can be used in some high-end tournament? Very few actually care about that, specially when you solo queue. So I stopped playing the class then left the game, my friend elementalist also left the game or stop playing the class.

It’s a disaster if you have a bit of perspective and look at where the class started at launch. I was running in pvp over 5 completely different and functional builds. None of which are usable today.

Time to go dagger/dagger?