At least now making Epi so bad kind of makes sense. You wouldn’t want the insane burn stacks to be both easily placed and easily transferred, would you? (/s)
Ele kind of a mess now its op in raids up in wvw and i do not know in spvp. Its so going to get another nerf because of burning (all be it if burning all it has that nothing in wvw or spvp but because mobs cant clear for some reason its op and will be treated as such in all game types).
Anet realty has no ideal what they are doing.
Main : Jski Imaginary ELE (Necromancer)
Guild : OBEY (The Legacy) I call it Obay , TLC (WvW) , UNIV (other)
Server : FA
""Arcane Power: The number of stacks this ability applies has been reduced from 5 to 4.
Elemental Surge: The duration of burning this ability applies has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds."
sigh … fast nerf for PvE that makes the skill questionable for dueling builds. It just robbed 20% of the 1:1 potential that it had before patch so it´s a nerf now unless you go for teamsupport with it.
""Arcane Power: The number of stacks this ability applies has been reduced from 5 to 4.
Elemental Surge: The duration of burning this ability applies has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds."
Yep, already nerfed. I feel like a mesmer again.
Meh, when I wrote “they Will fix it soon” I had the hope I would take more time
I did a few matches yesterday in EU eavening. Nice gimik that might get me back to one one of my main builds i recently parked trying fire again. I prefer to play S/F ele with sage and used earth/arcane/tempest a lot.
Had a 3:4 on pint encounter going between my teammates firing traited arcane power and overloading air … 4 oponents down in a few seconds .. LoL. (I tried viper/leadership air/arcane/tempest with fresh air …) Got killed by a power shatter mesmer twice that match but otherwise i rocked …
This is what i tried. I am a bit concerned about condi removal here but did´t feel to bad .
i did some testing again and holy crap that kitten works incredibly well if u pull it off. People litterally melt in seconds. I use full shouts aside from arcane power+earth arcane tempest as well but go with soldier runes+cleansing and purification. it has such an amazing co-ordinated burst that this might actually end up working once somebody figures out the correct meta build. I’m not sure it will open a build option but this might be the biggest chance we get to actually having some resemblance of build diversity. the only problem is the lack of heals but otherwise with a bit of skills this works amazing.
Like wolfric i’m also looking in a possible way to buff my condi hybrid tempest. I think that this would allow for an massive, condi burst build at the cost of extreme squishyness.
Hope somebody finds a breakthrough and if possible very soon.
""Arcane Power: The number of stacks this ability applies has been reduced from 5 to 4.
Elemental Surge: The duration of burning this ability applies has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds."
Yep, already nerfed. I feel like a mesmer again.
Nothing like mesmer at least mesmer has a few tools that make them impossible to comply nerf ele is the weakest class in the game and Anet aims to keep it that way. Ele is at best a one trick class that can only build to do one thing well every thing else is lost because of it and often makes it seem viable. Its going to get nerf agen mark my words and every thing going to suffer because of it. They just nerf a GM trait that is weak on any other arcain skill BUT arcain power. So they did not just nerf the use of arcain power they nerfed the super underused arcain set.
Anet has no ideal what they are doing any more.
Main : Jski Imaginary ELE (Necromancer)
Guild : OBEY (The Legacy) I call it Obay , TLC (WvW) , UNIV (other)
Server : FA
""Arcane Power: The number of stacks this ability applies has been reduced from 5 to 4.
Elemental Surge: The duration of burning this ability applies has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds."
Yep, already nerfed. I feel like a mesmer again.
Nothing like mesmer at least mesmer has a few tools that make them impossible to comply nerf ele is the weakest class in the game and Anet aims to keep it that way. Ele is at best a one trick class that can only build to do one thing well every thing else is lost because of it and often makes it seem viable. Its going to get nerf agen mark my words and every thing going to suffer because of it. They just nerf a GM trait that is weak on any other arcain skill BUT arcain power. So they did not just nerf the use of arcain power they nerfed the super underused arcain set.
Anet has no ideal what they are doing any more.
Main : Jski Imaginary ELE (Necromancer)
Guild : OBEY (The Legacy) I call it Obay , TLC (WvW) , UNIV (other)
Server : FA
Has anyone tested this with ice bow and FGS with sigil of geomancy?
Full viper, except the hat which sinister. Sigil of malice. Ice bow gives 20% bleed duration for 100% bleed duration in ice bow 4. Swapping to the bow and fgs procs sigil of geomancy. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAodnMIC1MgFNAWPA8RgFBALIAUAOAut2ZbttYTGGODA-TBiHQBA4BAoRlgEU5H50DkL1AonqPlb/hadCAIFwiKrA-e
At least for large boxes this gives access to both CC and I think even better damage than the build that only uses fgs. Don’t have all the condi gear for my ele to test yet.
Well it got nerfed a little and is still the highest dps build in pve… ele holds the topspot for pve dmg since launch.. i dont know what u complain about.. also it is so incredibly easy to play that just any1 can pull off 40k dps with the right buffs against large hitboxes.. (salty engi main talking)
Well it got nerfed a little and is still the highest dps build in pve… ele holds the topspot for pve dmg since launch.. i dont know what u complain about.. also it is so incredibly easy to play that just any1 can pull off 40k dps with the right buffs against large hitboxes.. (salty engi main talking)
Yep, a lot of people disappointed the rotation is essentially signet of fire, wildfire/flamestrike and burning speed off cool down and get in overload fire and drakes breath whenever the opportunity arises.
But hey, at least it literally offers absolutely nothing but damage and some might/fury from overload fire and blasting a fire field with arcane brilliance. Well I guess you can switch elements and tank your DPS for 10s..
