Guild Wars 2

I played every single event and most stress test till the actual release date of Guild Wars 2 and we can all agree that the best beta event was BWE2. Beta Weekend 3 ruined a few important aspects of the game. This is when everyone was complaining about the mobs being “too” easy and most characters getting a super nerf or a super buff.
The Elementalist weren’t too overpowered nor were they too underpowered. I honestly found them perfectly matched, but now with the release of the game they have ruined the Elementalist. In PvE they’re still playable but I went ahead and created a guardian. At level 10 I was taking on groups of level 15’s and above with little to no effort, just spamming my auto attack.

Now don’t all be like “LOL, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BUILD!1! ELE’S ARE OP!!!” no. I do know how to play my character, I was an ele during all the beta weekends + I hit 80 with my toon. My build I have is powerful compared to other elementalists I’ve played against but all other classes can do anything the ele can but with half the effort. Usually I don’t stay in an attunement for longer than 5-10 seconds.
Here’s the perfect example:
• In WvWvW I spot an engineer, alone. I proceed to attack; I lay down the first 2 spells, switch an attunement and proceed. The engineer places 2 turrets, shoots me and ¾ of my health is gone.
I’ve also played with the Staff, Dagger/Dagger, Scepter/Dagger. My favourite atm would be D/D.

So Anet, instead of taking endless feedback which probably will take years for any changes to happen, (I’m not saying your company is slow at making changes, because you’ve fixed nearly every bug I’ve seen in a few hours) but it would be amazing if you just undo the changes from BWE2 – BWE3 / Release

My main was elementalist and I recently started an engineer and thief as alts.
My alts are having so much more of an easier time in PvE and WvW than my ele was.

Agreed, too much has been taken from us after BWE2.

MarzAttakz.9608:

Agreed, too much has been taken from us after BWE2.

Instead of Arenanet gathering useless data they should just reapply BWE2 settings for Elementalists.

Elementalist was a bit too strong in BWE2 imho

But the combos aren’t guaranteed to hit. You need to set up your combos and have the skill to pull them off. That and our low survivability justified the extra damage we did.

I wasn’t in the betas. What exactly was changed for Ele after BWE2?

Guys, if you’re playing your ele in WvW against a single target, you’re doing it wrong. You should be unloading on groups, not single targets. Look for choke points, seiges, any place you can drop aoe to good effect. You are heavy artillery, not a sharpshooter. Look for ways to affect the flow of combat at the strategic scale.

Our single target dps is unexceptional. (especially in staff, and if you play anything other than staff in WvW…you’re dead.) That’s not the metier of the class. What we do best is aoe, and WvW lends itself to aoe based combat more than anywhere else.

I feel the same.
Got my ele to 80, got bored of how much work I had to do to get a kill while my friend was plowing away on his warrior.
Got naturally curios, so rolled a warrior to test it.
Result? Elementalist has been shelved for WvW only while I play my new faceroll warrior in every other format.

Not only do I do more damage with less attention, I can potentially facetank 2-3 mobs surviving alone on the Signet regen. I love that warriors are pretty much completed and the place where all classes may reach one day. But I honestly hope that day is soon for the ele who seems to be lacking in everything apart from utility.

inb4 l2p noob from anet fanboys who think this is a perfect game.

Same here, only using my Elementalist for WvW atm. A completely useless class for sPvP or tPvP. PvE is doable sure, but compared to other classes I don’t understand why we’re the lowers health/armor class while putting out the damage we do.

Trump.9803:

I wasn’t in the betas. What exactly was changed for Ele after BWE2?

They lowered the dmg of some abilities a little bit, nerfed staff in fire attunemt, but the hugest nerf was increasing Cd of Arcane Wave and Arcane Blast and lowering the dmg.

The thing I most noticed since BWE2 my signet doesn’t restore like 2/3rds of my HP any more. That was pretty broken when combined with water fields + eruption/arcane wave.

I think the BWE2 was good except for the high burst damage on the fire scepter. They should have speed up drag tooth animation in exchange for the damage nerf imo.