(edited by Aiglos.2907)
Constructive Suggestions for the Next Update
This will likely be pointless, just judging from the latest patch, it’s unlikely any dev reads this forum or even plays an ele. We had plenty of “your top 3 changes” threads, and the only thing we got out of that, was making another arcana major trait useless and a fake fix to magnetic grasp. I’m losing hope to actually be constructive.
1. First ArenaNet needs to play the Elementalist at level 80. Have them play high-end PvE zones, dungeons, WvWvW, sPvP and tPvP as Elementalist.
2. Actually fix everything that is bugged. Not destroy, but fix. (keyword: fix)
3. Change ~75% of the traits to something that’s actually fun / useful.
4. Buff elite skills.
This is about constructive as I can with suggestions for the Elementalist.
It needs serious unbugging in a lot of skills and traits. Not just claiming it is fixed in the patch list, but actually fixing it ingame. And by fixing, I mean making it work as intended, not destroy it.
They need to have a good look at Elementalist traits after fixing the buggy mess that it currently is. Then it shouldn’t be too hard to see that many of the traits are either: boring, useless, not fitting in general Elementalist gameplay.
From this they should re-think many of the traits, and turn them into something good.
Finally they should buff the Elementalist elites so they don’t make me rather want to bring a 4th utility over an elite.
If all above is too much work for ArenaNet, then I’d like to request a rollback on Evasive Arcana as a compensation for the current state Elementalists are in. I could live with that.
(edited by Milennin.4825)
Bring back finishers at the end of Evasive Arcana rolls.
That is all.
I can deal with all of the other nerfs (strictly speaking from a Staff Ele perspective).
Buff our damage & defenses IMO…
Compared to most clothie classes I have played (In every game i have played almost all of them has a mage, and i always choose mage to be my first character, in some cases the mage has been done correct, but f’d up by the developers) the damage output/Defensive input is just poorly Flawed.
The elementalist (Being known as a Mage, and a Necromancer being known as a Summoner) is just…how do i say, rubbish? the damage output is poor and in some cases we take more damage than outputting damage, this is wrong, a Mage focuses on 3 elements:
- DPS
- Defenses
- Support
I feel the cloth mechanics in GW2 seems to be poorly designed & Overlooked as is our DPS.
we are supposed to dish out the dps and take damage where as right now all we do is:
dish out a tickle and get 1-2 shotted from a Warrior or Thief.
Also, this isn’t a L2P Issue, I have mastered my Cycle and stats and can only be an annoyance to the enemy, as an elementalist, our DPS feels flawed.
just my opinion.
Stop nerfing, start buffing.
RoostaGW2
suggestion:
Change Elementalist name into Flopmentalist! since they ruin Flopasive Flopcana, all we could do now is flop flip flop!
remember that early stream when John was playing a d/d ele during headstart and was getting his kitten beat all the time..they just dnt care about ele.Balancing the game whithout completely kittening up with this class is just the best outcome we should expect..But compared to beta ele this one is just a plain ,dull imitation
My guess would be that the one guy that probably had the “gw2 ele idea” does not work in Anet now
This will likely be pointless, just judging from the latest patch, it’s unlikely any dev reads this forum or even plays an ele. We had plenty of “your top 3 changes” threads, and the only thing we got out of that, was making another arcana major trait useless and a fake fix to magnetic grasp. I’m losing hope to actually be constructive.
Aww I really do know what you mean hug
It’s definitely unfortunate, and it crossed my mind that I should have posted this in the warrior forum. It may have been read there
I think they probably will read this though, if only to find out what is working well for eles so that they can nerf it
We’ll see what happens though. I definitely appreciate that everyone seems to be posting honestly and with valuable input.
Constructive suggestion: Rollback the current update.
I’d be happy if they fixed the bugs they put in with this patch. It was one step sideways two steps back.