Guild Wars 2

I play Staff Bunker on my Elementalist in sPvP, tPvP, and WvW and I do find it to be really strong. I am honestly expecting a bit of a nerf on it though, so I’m curious. What changes would guys make to balance it a little and lower its performance slightly? Please keep in mind any suggestions that you might make also impact the rest of the class’s mechanics.

well if you think about it, it was a horrid build until people learned they can make blast counters inside of the fields.
its quite unlike the guardian in that an ele can get constant contition removal so you cant really NECRO it down, and you cant stun it because it has 3 stun breaks.

there is really no nerf you can do to it without nerfing another class as well. I mean, we going to nerf combo fields now?

I honestly dont see how you feel “powerful” by contantly at 50% life dodge rolling every time its up, just to keep youself at 50% life, deal zero damage.. not “low” damage… ZERO damage.

a bunker mezmer can still deal damage and slo can get away
a bunker guardian can deal damage with hammer strikes and retaliation
bunker ele has ZERO, litterally ZERO damage it can dish out , unless you have the ice elemental whack someone over the head..
how are you finding yourself POWERFUL when you have no power to harm others? im not just talking about power to KILL… i mean you cant harm AT ALL.

Ele bunkers are going to get a nerf, as, I suspect, will all bunker builds to varying degrees. I’m not sure what form exactly it will take for Ele, but I suspect that Evasive Arcana (particularly as it relates to Water attunement) is going to be an area of scrutiny.

@Bishop:
It doesn’t matter what damage a bunker build can dish out. In tPvP, the only relevant issue is how effectively a point can be held against multiple attackers. Bunker Eles, along with Guardians and Engis are considered by many competitive players to be too strong at this role, and it’s starting to force a meta shift towards teams bunker builds over any other build type. They’re definitely going to take a hit.

Bunker eles is such a boring build to play because you can’t really kill anything. Not to mention it doesn’t take any skill at all to play this build. Any moron can hit the dodge button or heal button once in awhile to get back to full life without even taking much damage at all even with 2 or 3 people beating on you….it’s not that hard. I would rather play damage builds if they’re not broken and weak. Just ashame we eles are forced to play this stupid bunker spec just to be effective in tpvp.

I actually find it to be fun to play. It gets a lot more interesting against people who actually know what they’re doing.

Ignore this post. Someone with a 0 days account did the exact same post on Reddit. He’s just trying to get some nerfs to the ELe.

He doesn’t even post his build or a video, this is just to get nerfs.

Ignore this post. Someone with a 0 days account did the exact same post on Reddit. He’s just trying to get some nerfs to the ELe.
He doesn’t even post his build or a video, this is just to get nerfs.

A-Net has stated that they think Bunker Ele is too strong. I just want to know what might be coming in the future and what people think.

Ryld.1340:

Ignore this post. Someone with a 0 days account did the exact same post on Reddit. He’s just trying to get some nerfs to the ELe.
He doesn’t even post his build or a video, this is just to get nerfs.

A-Net has stated that they think Bunker Ele is too strong. I just want to know what might be coming in the future and what people think.

Quote it.

Having said that, Dagger/dagger Ele needs help. Some defensive Ele specs are too good. Some of their sustained damage is too low, while some spike builds are pretty rough.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Quick-update/page/3

no anet didnt say they want to nerf bunker..

ONE PERSON from anet who PLAYS A THIEF was upset about bunkers and said what he was thinking.

i work for the NBA… ok ok nba entertainment….. if you ask me what I think about carmelo anthony id say “HES A BUM GET RID OF EM” if you asked me casually. that dosent mean david stearn is going to remove him … or the knicks… from the league tomorrow. and I would never suggest in a meeting that I dont like carmelo anthony because my personal feelings i would rant about has ZERO to do with my work and the product of the company I work for.

LOL. Chap is one of the lead PvP devs. He plays all the classes. Bunker Ele is going to get nerfed. There’s not really much else to say on the topic.

Meh, probably would do something about the amount of healing they can get using the waterfield by combining multiple blast effects..
At the other hand an elementalist, even the most tankiest ones, need dodgeroll etc. To survive making it quite easy to knock them off points.
Atm o get the fuzz about a certain type of guardians build.. But come on, unlike at an Guardian.. 2 people who know what they are doing will yust take down the ele…
But guess that last sentence is the problem

And thats not from my point as elementalist, this is more from my point as my engineers view on bunker ele’s

LOL at the above post. You credibility plumets with that last sentence.
Staff Elementalists that spec to be tanky through high healing power and high toughness with things such as Shaman amulet or Cleric+cantrips and yada yada, etc. are absurdly overpowered, period. The nerfs are coming, and I’ll remind you when they do if you want.

Yea, the bunker staff eles are honestly probably the most out-of-balance portion of the game atm. I’m don’t think any class/build has a chance to 1v1 them, making them extremely hard to deal with as treb assault in kyhlo. If it wasn’t for being able to get a lucky moa off on them, I’m not sure they’d go down outside of a 3v3 with heavy focus.

Improve its damage, nerf its healing… a lot.