Guild Wars 2

Havnt done as bg in awhile. Finally decided to take a break today and have a little fun. Not. Sure are a lot of thieves and mesmers and if you add in warriors it prolly makes up 90% of the teams. I will continue to play my Ele because I have faith in this companies commitment to balance but it sure sucks the fun out doesnt it? Kind of reminds me of SWtoR pvp where half the classes were just fodder for the chosen few. Man, its lonely being an Ele when you pug. In 9-10 matches I was the only one. Any eta on the first major patch?

Thing with eles is that there are only small few builds that allow the ele to shine. Whereas other classes can offer some different builds and trait setups for the same style of play IE 100Blades Warrior can be done a number of ways and still be effective.

Elementalist is quite hard to play (imho) and it’s not surprising to see this few running around.
To those who do play elementalist and actually make it shine, all my respect.

Elementalist is best suited for WvW – think of them as a very squishy AoE ranged class.

jalikar.1385:

Elementalist is best suited for WvW – think of them as a very squishy AoE ranged class.

Lol, that is nothing like what they are in the hands of serious players in TPvP. Eles are very very strong in the right hands either as DPS or support, check out players like Phantaram (Team Paradigm, scepter/dag), Prince (Imperial, d/d) and Mianhe (Team Legacy, staff).

Seether.7285:

jalikar.1385:

Elementalist is best suited for WvW – think of them as a very squishy AoE ranged class.

Lol, that is nothing like what they are in the hands of serious players in TPvP. Eles are very very strong in the right hands either as DPS or support, check out players like Phantaram (Team Paradigm, scepter/dag), Prince (Imperial, d/d) and Mianhe (Team Legacy, staff).

I don’t doubt there are some good 1 v 1 players or that there are exceptions to every rule. But right now elementalists’ comparative advantage is in WvW, IMO.