Guild Wars 2

I know a balance patch before HoT is somewhat unlikely but i think a fix for eles should be a priority. I know its been discussed to death but i have to ask. It really hurts the game, arena matches are too often decided at the start of the game by who has more cele eles. we just had a pretty kitten good tournament, but the discussion about it is 90% kittentin on ele balance (rightfully so, but still sucks to have such a cool event overshadowed by one builds imbalance).

Burning is a bit over the top (decrese stacks on cleansing ire and duration on one of the other burn skills), but sustain (and how easy is to disengage/kite for a few secs and be back on full health) is a far bigger problem. Ele sustain has to be toned down.

Ideally imo elemental attunment and evasive arcane should both be GM and cleansing ire nerfed (its a defensive skill that cures 3+1 condis that you have proc passively and on demand, the offence on it is over the top).

Or maybe tweak the healing sig a bit, make it so that you only heal with spells that actually hit the target, no more reseting health to full in couple secs with LF – > water -> dodge -> couple secs of spaming AA into thin air. Plus you can deny the ele some sustain with dodges/blocks/etc.

At this point i dont care how you do it, just do it already. Im even ok with it staying the strongest build in the game and staying present in every single team ever made like it is now (and the best option is to run 2 like we just saw ), but at least lower the gap to other classes.

The build is so kitten strong that even with couple nerfs it would still be meta and heavily played.

Ive given up on seeing my fav class ranger having a really competitve build, giving up on ele being fixed means giving up on pvp completly (and im close to it, despite how much i otherwise enjoy it). If you dont plan on fixin them at least bring the expansion out soon, the new pve contet will keep me busy for a long time and i dont need pvp then.

Unfortunately devs or at least one have always had a huge bias for eles… so I don’t know anymore

dominik.9721:

FrownyClown.8402:

dominik.9721:

First Ele main fanboy spotted. that was faster than trying to find a vegetarian by posting some meat.

Dude literally every post of yours is about d/d ele. Talk about obsessed.

second one spotted.

Oh I see the first one was so ashamed he deleted his post :<

I think it’s quite disturbing you need to go for personal attacks on forums due to the fact you hate a spec. Really, get some different obsession, this is not healthy at all.

To the topic:

Ele definitely needs some shaving, but I think they should first adjust burning and see how that goes before any more nerfs. Burning just need to be toned down, there’s no discussion about it. However, I totally disagree that Elemental Attunement and Evasive Arcana should both be a GM. They tried to do that and just every single ele was so unhappy about that, they changed their mind. If you pick Arcana, it’s for these two traits, it’s still crucial for ele and without buffing base survability, it’s not really fair to take this from them.

I would remove Elemental Contigiency and add something else, the protection and boon stacking isn’t really needed, though. Splitting heal from EA would be another thing how to tone down the survability A BIT. It’s difficult to nerf d/d ele without hurting all other specs the class has since those are already underpowered, so they do need to be careful about it.