Guild Wars 2

i’ve noticed some ele’s in soloQ recently. they cant be killed 1v1, you can get them down, but then they will heal full up. i’ve heard some ele healing buff in pre patch ready ups, but haven’t looked into build exactly. there was one with dagger focus and around 1500 toughness, that’s all i remember. there was some water field involved but i couldn’t quite discern animation. they did enough damage to eventually wear down my knight amulet phantasm mesmer (mostly air), but managed to heal back each time i got them down.

i’ll search for build later, but has anyone else noticed them? also, is this just self heal, or they can heal team like that? there was some team healing buffs in patch i remember.

actually one more thing i remember, traits were ?/?/?/6/6

Only self heal doesn’t make them a healer.

Even though I’m not that good in ele issues, I know that 6 points in the last line (evasive arcana) allows them to “heal on dodge”, if they are attuned to water.

For Mesmers fighting Ele, I can recommend Boonrips (e.g shattered concentration) as those make up a big part of eles defense (and offense).
Lockdown builds also work properly as ele’s cast a lot and usally have a low health pool.

I think most classes (if not all) can play like this if built correctly. I’m fairly sure it’s capable, but as you say.. they take a while to get you down.

Yes, Water Elem with Benevolent Runes or New Water Grandmaster trait is like a healer, great in team fights and even holding nodes until reiforcements come. You heal more your teammates than yourself (your water autoattack aoe heals too).

EverythingEnds.4261:

Only self heal doesn’t make them a healer.

Even though I’m not that good in ele issues, I know that 6 points in the last line (evasive arcana) allows them to “heal on dodge”, if they are attuned to water.

… In Water attunement, yes. In Earth Attunement we get an additional Combo Blast. Atleast in PvE, most of the healing done by Elementalists are via Combo Blasts through Water fields.

To be honest, he had to be a Staff ele, dagger or scepter one doesn’t have water field.

New Grandmaster, Runes of the Monk and Benevolence sigil with setup like 0/0/2/6/6 outputs 47.5% more healing to allies from everything apart from your base heal (although it’s mostly used as a water blast finisher). Even Celestial Ele can constantly heal his group.

But selfheal hasn’t changed that much. I believe he was just good at blasting his water fields and kiting you.

Sadly, they don’t bring Stability and aren’t as pumped with support/surv as guardians so they’re not the meta.

But when it comes to healing allies, probably the best sustain healers in the game. From my own experience, good one can keep 4 others alive on Teq despite all the damage

This is SPvP forum, Benevolent runes don’t exist there.

i think it was a D/D ele and the water 5 (as well as dodge roll in water) LOOKS similar to a blasted water field even though it isn’t one.

i have been playing D/D ele in solo queue again it is very survivable. with knight’s amulet it’s very hard to kill. celestial is squishier but has more heals and vitality.