Guild Wars 2

I mean, your panic doesn’t make ANet stop nerfing ele. So why cares. I mean, if you’re a bunker ele, this doesn’t really effect your at all. If you’re not a bunker ele? Just switch to be a bunker ele. This patch, ANet basically encourages rational ele players to play bunkers.

So, if you’re not a bunker ele, try one now! This patch, it’s not only just slightly better than other spec, it’s the best of the best, far better than the mediocre spec you’re running! Don’t believe me? Read more:

1> The opponent dodged your RtL, and it has 40s cooldown? Don’t worry, just be a bunker and fight them for 40 seconds. My condolences if you’re anything else.
2> The opponent bursts you rapidly. If you’re a bunker ele, you don’t need to care, just continue to fight. Your signet of restoration/regeneration/water regen will still give you around 800 HP/s with Cleric Amulet even with the nerf, not counting other burst heals. My condolences if you’re not a bunker ele, no more healing in mist form for you. Just relax, go get a cup of tea instead of mashing your keyboard trying in vain.
3> The opponent applies some conditions on you. As a bunker ele, nothing really changes for you. I mean, which bunker eles in their right mind use multiple cantrips at the same time right? My condolences for staff ele with water fields. I’m sorry.
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Disclosure:
I play a 10/20/0/10/30 d/d spec, trying to be as offensive as possible without dying in one or two hits in pvp to all the berserker spec. I refused to play bunkers since to me it’s a trolling build. I have hoped that ANet will nerf bunkers some day. In my build, I relied on healing during mist form to stay alive because I only have 12K HP. I relied on RtL to get away. I relied on Cleansing Fire to clean conditions.

Sadly, this new patch, which “should promotes more build diversity” kills my build completely. Well, I guess I’ll just be positive and play bunker then. So I encourage you guys to switch to bunker and play it with me. The patch barely touches bunker spec, so lets play it!

Peace ~^_^~

Sunshine.5014:

Sadly, this new patch, which “should promotes more build diversity” kills my build completely. Well, I guess I’ll just be positive and play bunker then. So I encourage you guys to switch to bunker and play it with me. The patch barely touches bunker spec, so lets play it!

Always remember:

“Want to bring down cantrip Ele without affecting lesser used builds”
“We want more viable Elementalist builds”

And then nerf lesser used builds more than bunkers making even less builds viable…
Anet balancing since @2012

Those guys should go work somewhere else.

Burst thieves are OP, so they’re going to reduce the stacking and duration of bleeds.

#ANet logic

Caffynated.5713:

Burst thieves are OP, so they’re going to reduce the stacking and duration of bleeds.

#ANet logic

I laughed when I read that because I could actually see them doing that.

If it turens out to be too much they will roll something back or make small adjustments, They said this. You also don’t know what other buffs your getting besides the nerfs. Word of advice not saying OP or anyone else but instead of trying to solo 5-10 players on your ele, and being successful at staying alive and kiting forever. Try picking your targets better and play like the rest of us? just saying?

i was a balanced ele.
Since previous nerf i switch to GC
Now i’ve run out of options.

Despite what people says being tanky is a waste of time in PvE/WWW for eles.

Warlord.9074:

If it turens out to be too much they will roll something back or make small adjustments, They said this. You also don’t know what other buffs your getting besides the nerfs. Word of advice not saying OP or anyone else but instead of trying to solo 5-10 players on your ele, and being successful at staying alive and kiting forever. Try picking your targets better and play like the rest of us? just saying?

How is that going to work in a Dungeon? The simple truth that everyone, including the devs, avoid, is that these changes will affect PvE too, and in a dungeon Eles aren’t great (not bad either) more like mediocre, not 100% needed but not 100% kicked either, yet absolutely no buffs come…

I’ve said it a million times, but I’ll say it again on every thread regarding the upcoming nerfs…
“Want to bring down cantrip Ele without affecting lesser used builds”
“We want more viable Elementalist builds”

Both of the above aren’t happening with the upcoming nerfs, they HURT non-bunkers more than bunkers, leading to more bunkers, AND they don’t buff anything significantly (they said so) to make more builds viable, which is EXACTLY what they said they don’t want to do, but is EXACTLY what they are doing.

Issue is simple: you don’t get build diversity by only nerfing stuff, you need to buff crappy skills/traits to do so.

Nerfing OP things is good, nobody can argue here.
Nerfing good (not OP, good, normal, balanced) stuff to the level of underused things just drives ppl to the unique decent/OP build left, which is the exact opposite of build diversity.
Or, if you’ve nerfed everything, the class has surely tons of builds – but all bad – so ppl simply stop playing it.

maddoctor.2738

How is that going to work in a Dungeon? The simple truth that everyone, including the devs, avoid, is that these changes will affect PvE too, and in a dungeon Eles aren’t great (not bad either) more like mediocre, not 100% needed but not 100% kicked either, yet absolutely no buffs come…

“The ele is the PvP extremely powerful at evasion right now. But even then, he bleeds into WvW, he is adamantly not useful in PvE as a damage mitigator.”

They know ….
They don t care ….

They even know war and guards are OP if you ask yourself (or as they said…they are fine and any other class is UP)

Warlord.9074:

If it turens out to be too much they will roll something back or make small adjustments, They said this. You also don’t know what other buffs your getting besides the nerfs. Word of advice not saying OP or anyone else but instead of trying to solo 5-10 players on your ele, and being successful at staying alive and kiting forever. Try picking your targets better and play like the rest of us? just saying?

Ah, you mean like when they realised they screwed up when they removed EA completely from the game & partially put it back in, months later? ;p

I’ll use a bunker build finally, hope it is FUN TO PLAY WITH as this is a major philosophy they stand for.

Valento.9852:

I’ll use a bunker build finally, hope it is FUN TO PLAY WITH as this is a major philosophy they stand for.

I hate to admit this but I will likely do the same also. Fact is CW wasn’t eve nerfed in WvW lol the only specs that got hit are balanced and zerker ohh and focus. LMAO I don’t even know what to say /smh

I’m so glad that I saw many more bunker ele today. It’s the spirit! Lets show people that Ele is not dead; we will survive. Keep trolling people with the bunker build guys, forget the build diversity, that’s what ANet wants us to do.

Sunshine.5014:

I mean, your panic doesn’t make ANet stop nerfing ele. So why cares. I mean, if you’re a bunker ele, this doesn’t really effect your at all. If you’re not a bunker ele? Just switch to be a bunker ele. This patch, ANet basically encourages rational ele players to play bunkers.

So, if you’re not a bunker ele, try one now! This patch, it’s not only just slightly better than other spec, it’s the best of the best, far better than the mediocre spec you’re running! Don’t believe me? Read more:

1> The opponent dodged your RtL, and it has 40s cooldown? Don’t worry, just be a bunker and fight them for 40 seconds. My condolences if you’re anything else.
2> The opponent bursts you rapidly. If you’re a bunker ele, you don’t need to care, just continue to fight. Your signet of restoration/regeneration/water regen will still give you around 800 HP/s with Cleric Amulet even with the nerf, not counting other burst heals. My condolences if you’re not a bunker ele, no more healing in mist form for you. Just relax, go get a cup of tea instead of mashing your keyboard trying in vain.
3> The opponent applies some conditions on you. As a bunker ele, nothing really changes for you. I mean, which bunker eles in their right mind use multiple cantrips at the same time right? My condolences for staff ele with water fields. I’m sorry.
….

Disclosure:
I play a 10/20/0/10/30 d/d spec, trying to be as offensive as possible without dying in one or two hits in pvp to all the berserker spec. I refused to play bunkers since to me it’s a trolling build. I have hoped that ANet will nerf bunkers some day. In my build, I relied on healing during mist form to stay alive because I only have 12K HP. I relied on RtL to get away. I relied on Cleansing Fire to clean conditions.

Sadly, this new patch, which “should promotes more build diversity” kills my build completely. Well, I guess I’ll just be positive and play bunker then. So I encourage you guys to switch to bunker and play it with me. The patch barely touches bunker spec, so lets play it!

Peace ~^_^~

One Problem, I’m not rational. I like using silly builds that shouldn’t work. Also they’re nerfing us this patch but probably building us up next patch. Gotta fix the hole in the wall before renovating your bathroom don’t cha? I’m hopin to someday be able to use a build with 30 in Fire

who really cares if they buff staff or conjured weapons?

Conjured weapons are like using a warrior with just 1 weapon and the inability to interact with anything or you lose the weapon….

Why don t you simply roll a war.

In the case of staff its quite boring as weapon being slow as hell…..and anet politics to have low dps for ranged SPELLCASTERS and the aoe nerf means it will just have a slight buff.

as i said only bad players think that ele in www was OP
Even anet proves you wrong…..

A forgiving class in www is thief…
You know that class used to scout because it can stand in opposite fields with impunity, escape zergs and kill stuff in the meantime?

Yes that.

And again anet told even this

So if you can t understand the difference between surviving in a square or running avoiding cripple of some bad designed PvP game modes and WWW its your fault.

WWW OP CLASS:
thief
NECRO
and possibly still mesmer…still testing.

They did it completly wrong again…you can still tag Whole zergs with mesmer it just needs 2X of them…and they crippled their 1VS1 instead….