Guild Wars 2

Zelyhn.8069:

oZii ! It’s been a while! How’s your ascension going?

I have a strong belief that they intentionally made the condi side of the meta a bit too strong just so that people would give it a go. Now they talk about shaving it a little. You know what that sounds like to me? Inference in a market economy to reach equilibrium.

Hey Zelyhn I have been ok I been made a Necro so I was learning that. I still play my ele alot and it is still my favorite class but I fill the staff roll in GvG’s so I have been playing alot of staff lately.

I partly agree I think what happened is that condition builds got buffed because people complained about bunkers and how sPvP was all about bunkers. Now there are enough bunker counters in the game I actually at this point I actually think a buff to RTL would be fine which was something I didn’t agree with earlier.

There are some buffs coming to conjures though I saw in the preview notes. Earth shield actually looks interesting as a pseudo cantrip.

Senjun.8149:

Heres my theory.

The only people who dare to play the most complicated profession with the lowest health pool and the squishiest most daring setup are only players looking for a challenge.

The only people you see rolling face on an ele now are simply some of the best players in this game, for the fact they are doing so on the most complicated profession to do it on. The majority of eles now are probably very skilled players.

Even a broken profession in the hands of a very good player can seem overpowered. The reason you see less and less eles everyday is because new players simply can’t play a broken profession and do well against a very rewarding, easy to play, overpowered (in comparison to elementalist) profession.

I manage to win 3v1’s (against all 80s) as a scepter/focus ele and kill any upleveles that might be with them aswell. Does that make me overpowered? No it just means against all these other pampered professions I’m just use to dealing with being the underdog simply because of the profession i play. I feel like anet see’s this and goes “UH OH WE CANT HAVE THAT!”

More than likely when you come across an ele, you’re running into someone who probably has a higher skill cap than whatever the opposing combatant can bring to the table and this is why anet doesn’t see we need some decent buffs.

Long story short, in the hands of an average player elementalist is garbage. In the hands of a very good player elementalist is just above average.

The reason i got good with focus is because if anet nerfs it, watch their entire ele population delete gw2 off of their computer.

I am pretty great ain’t I? Thanks, because of that,