Guild Wars 2

So switched from my condi necro to play a D/D ele less than a week ago.
Not wearing celestial armour, but a mix to get stats as close as possible.
Was about to start crafting celestial when the patch notes came along, am I wasting my time crafting it now, or is the nerf not gonna be that drastic?

Brullyra.1592:

So switched from my condi necro to play a D/D ele less than a week ago.
Not wearing celestial armour, but a mix to get stats as close as possible.
Was about to start crafting celestial when the patch notes came along, am I wasting my time crafting it now, or is the nerf not gonna be that drastic?

In wvw celestial isnt as good. Better to focus more on power and crit damage, but a little celestial is good.

The incoming nerf is not about celestial, its a nerf for D/D Ele. It won’t be nerf to the ground, it will still be a good build, more balanced with other profession. So the incoming nerf should change the situation about your celestial

But, i wouldn’t craft celestial armor if I was you anyway. You can get the same result with 3-4 celestial trinket and a mix of soldier/knight for your 2-3 other trinket and armor. This will achieve the same result and celestial trinket are FAR more easy to get than celestial armor. Keep in mind that you shouldn’t be all celestial or you won’t have enough power and toughness.

So nerfing D/D in WvW and PvE for an issue that was only really in sPvP is a lazy and thoughtless way to go about doing things. They have done sPvP only nerfs in the past, and this change should have been one of them.

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

So basically the elementalist got nerfed and the thief and warrior got major buffs (mesmer too)

Or to be more precise:
current ele meta will get nerfed
current thief meta will get buffed

I already have 90% of my deaths be because of OP thieves and now this…
Goodbye pvp. Don’t think I’ll bring my ele to see you anytime soon.

Dude. There will be a nerf to LW abuse and drake’s breath. Drake’s breath needed it, and so did LW. Will this change anything regarding how efficient the ele is? Nope.

I might have overreacted…

Still now that I play thief I don’t mind dying because I see it as a revenge for all the times that I’ve been killed by a thief (90% of all my deaths are due to thieves remaining 10% due to enemy zerg)

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

So basically the elementalist got nerfed and the thief and warrior got major buffs (mesmer too)

Or to be more precise:
current ele meta will get nerfed
current thief meta will get buffed

I already have 90% of my deaths be because of OP thieves and now this…
Goodbye pvp. Don’t think I’ll bring my ele to see you anytime soon.

Dude. There will be a nerf to LW abuse and drake’s breath. Drake’s breath needed it, and so did LW. Will this change anything regarding how efficient the ele is? Nope.

I might have overreacted…

Still now that I play thief I don’t mind dying because I see it as a revenge for all the times that I’ve been killed by a thief (90% of all my deaths are due to thieves remaining 10% due to enemy zerg)

Well ya ele are week to the thf class that kind of like scissors killing paper. Stealth class always trumped ranges / caster class because they can get in that ranges and burst the target down. D/d eles are week to glass canons over all because they play off of being able to heal over time vs mitigating dmg with high def / blocks. So burst dmg tends to put ele out for the count this is going to be no less true if these changes did not happen.

The big changes is what going to happen to classes like HamBow war if they cant grenade the might there dmg will be nothing and we may see the paper start to kill rocks even better.