Guild Wars 2

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Yeah, it would be fair, they might be the only ones left out of the crazy party

#powercreep wars 2

it’s funny to think back at that time when anet kept saying they wanted to shave down cantrip ele without destroying it or the other variations that didn’t play with cantrips, aka double arcane ele 0/20/0/20/30 which was hardly op and was super fun to play. well anet, look at the mess you have turn eles into.

Screw that. Let me bunker mid as staff. It’s getting there, but not quite.

Escuse me, I don’t play Ele, but what were the nerfs that took D/D out of the scene? Was it any in particular or just the other classes getting stronger?

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Escuse me, I don’t play Ele, but what were the nerfs that took D/D out of the scene? Was it any in particular or just the other classes getting stronger?

Combination of nerfs to ele/buffs to other classes.

Why not staff/scepter? Why so prejudiced?

Can’t give back what was never there.

Oh snap.

For real though there has never been a reason to play dagger over scepter in my opinion.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Escuse me, I don’t play Ele, but what were the nerfs that took D/D out of the scene? Was it any in particular or just the other classes getting stronger?

1. remove blast finisher from evasive arcana only earth left and reduce the heal on water roll too(not sure)
2. reduce heal on cast on signet of restoration
3. reduce damage per boon from 2% to 1%
4. nerf Ride the lighting (make it 40s cd and shorter range)
5. nerf Lightning flash (remove break stun)
6. nerf Cleansing fire (remove break stun)

so ele got nerf on damage, survivability and mobility.

^7. cleansing water got 5 sec icd
8.evasiva arcana doesnt proc signet heal and neither sscepter earth 2 (those “bugs” gave a false sense of opness for the dps ele and when they got fixed alongside all the otehr nerfs it was simply an overkill)
9. all auras got an icd
10.healing skills ratios were lowered
11.mistform locks ulitites,heal and ulti
12.cleansing wave ,elem attunement moved up (oh yeah nerfs still happen today )

there are probably more..especially if you go even earlier when rtl moved horizontally and didnt lock your skillsDD
We got fresh air though so wasnt all in vain! I cant make an ele build without it even if its balanced /non glass !

Phantaram.1265:

Can’t give back what was never there.

Oh snap.

For real though there has never been a reason to play dagger over scepter in my opinion.

For real though, there is a concept known as ’’enjoyable’’. Some of us find d/D playstyle enjoyable. Even if it is suicidal to stay in melee range for the majority of a battle with the lowest base hp and toughness.

Phantaram.1265:

Can’t give back what was never there.

Oh snap.

For real though there has never been a reason to play dagger over scepter in my opinion.

Back when Auramancer was overpowered there was certainly a reason to.

Leuca.5732:

Phantaram.1265:

Can’t give back what was never there.

Oh snap.

For real though there has never been a reason to play dagger over scepter in my opinion.

Back when Auramancer was overpowered there was certainly a reason to.

This fad never caught on in EU. Trap ranger mostly didn’t catch on in EU either. NA was very trendy. It was like whatever PZ ran everyone ran, and PZ just so happened to play Dagger ele and trap ranger.

They nerf cantrips because eles run 3 of them > buffs warrior stances so they run 3 of them. Dat logic

Phantaram.1265:

Leuca.5732:

Phantaram.1265:

Can’t give back what was never there.

Oh snap.

For real though there has never been a reason to play dagger over scepter in my opinion.

Back when Auramancer was overpowered there was certainly a reason to.

This fad never caught on in EU. Trap ranger mostly didn’t catch on in EU either. NA was very trendy. It was like whatever PZ ran everyone ran, and PZ just so happened to play Dagger ele and trap ranger.

Doesn’t matter if it was trendy or not. They were very numerically efficient at what they did.

Ironically if all the ele nerfs we’re undone, ele would be viable again. Not even OP. Just in line with everything else currently.