Guild Wars 2

Hi ArenaNet, please enjoy my ranting on the weakest class in the game atm when it comes to PvP – The elementalist.

You didn’t even fix the Attunement recharge rate all you did was to lower(buff) the basic attunement recharge rate from 16s down to 13s, you want us Eles to be op in low level fights? Are you serious? What is the actual point of doing this I see no reason, all the big fights happen in level 80 areas where all the rewards are given wether it’s in PvE or PvP/WvW. This is freaking sad.

You say you want to put us elementalists out of the Arcana tree, that is not going to happen any time soon if you keep putting traits we need f.g “Elemental Attunement” up to the Master tier for no reason. It was in a perfectly good spot to begin with why would you put it further into the Arcana tree if you want us out of it?

And oh yes not to mention that you claimed to have “buffed” the attunement recharge rate, I just described what you really did to it, it’s a complete joke. I for once thought it was going to get a lower cooldown since the base cd was lowered by 3s which would mean that in the end (if players decided to go 30 points deep into the Arcana tree) would get a -3s cd on attunements compared to the ones who did not, but no, it’s the exact same thing as it was before.

Before the cd was 16s with 0 points on the arcana tree and if you went 30 points deep your attunement recharge rate got down to 10s cd on attunements which is EXACTLY the same as now (post-patch), what have you “balanced” really? All you’ve done is change the basic attunement recharge cd from 16 down to 13 to make it look more balanced for the ones who don’t take a single point in Arcana yet this is the tree we need. I highly recommend as I stated in another thread 30 minutes ago that you;
• Move down “Evasive Arcana” to Master tier.
• Keep “Elemental Attunement” in the Adept tier.
• Make the Attunement recharge rate become based on how deep people wanna dwelve into the Arcana tree. F.g the base cd is 13s, and if someone wants to go 30 points deep into the Arcana tree they get -3.9s on the Attunement recharge rate because it gets lowered by a -30% cooldown rate on the Attunement swaps=13seconds times 30%=3.9s faster cooldown on attunement swaps=13s minus 3.9=9.1s attunement recharge rate. That would be their reward.

Us eles go 30 deep into arcana because of the attunement recharge rate and since you haven’t adressed this for high level characters we are still going to have to go equally deep over and over again, we rely on our attunement swaps, please don’t be blind to this, this is all we’ve got, people can argue “omg eles have 2029309k skills” sure we do but not all of them are used 24/7, those autoattacks are so poor we never use them except for lightning/air which is solid I guess.

Please freaking consider this, I’m going nuts over the fact that I cannot even PvP properly, when I kill somebody I actually celebrate because it never ever happens. I have a lot of dmg in my build, solid amount of crit+crit dmg still I have to go deep into arcana just for that particular trait (evasive arcana) and the attunement recharge rate.

If you one day (I hope) go through with some of the changes I’ve mentioned above it’ll be great for us eles, I already have an okay build in mind that I’d love to try out one day involving fire/air/arcana/water, relying heavily on fire and less on air/arcana and least water.

Thanks, please fix.

i read half of your post
umm, maxed out attune recharge stayed the same
whereas, people who don’t sink into arcane line but use it marginally are able to accomplish better recharg time than previously…

pretty self explanitory, and a good change
sorry, to the 30 arcana crowd wanting more.. don’t you have alacrity issues to worry about? >_>

cheshirefox.7026:

i read half of your post
umm, maxed out attune recharge stayed the same
whereas, people who don’t sink into arcane line but use it marginally are able to accomplish better recharg time than previously…

pretty self explanitory, and a good change
sorry, to the 30 arcana crowd wanting more.. don’t you have alacrity issues to worry about? >_>

“Good change”? It was kittenin*g terrible! I get what you are trying to say though, I still don’t agree… :/ If this is the logic they came up with when they wanted to “keep players away from Arcana” it’s just not good enough.

cheshirefox.7026:

i read half of your post
umm, maxed out attune recharge stayed the same
whereas, people who don’t sink into arcane line but use it marginally are able to accomplish better recharg time than previously…

pretty self explanitory, and a good change
sorry, to the 30 arcana crowd wanting more.. don’t you have alacrity issues to worry about? >_>

P.S you will get the exact same results wether you decide to sink into the arcana tree by 10, 20, or 30 points as before, they just buffed the base cd reduction of attunement recharges. Nothing has changed.