I would like to preface this by saying the Elementalist was my favorite class. It was challenging and fun. I have gone from getting around 12+ kills per game to 6+ since the newest update a few days ago. I have tried changing EVERYTHING around, without sucess. The runes, sigils, skill points, all of it does no good. It seems as if the damage dealt is lower, the healing is lower and the overall squishiness is increased exponentially. I have tried burst builds, condition builds and tank builds….. D/D and S/D are completley unplayable now. I would like someone in NCSOFT to please respond with a statistic of kill/death ratio for the overall elementalist class in sPvP. I would be happy with a random sampling. I bet it is abismal compared to any other class.
On top of that there IS NO COMPARABLE STUN/INTERRUPT FOR DOWNED STATE now. If you go down you are guaranteed to die no matter what. Before the update, you could go into mist form when downed and it would remove all conditions from you and you would get half health. That was the “interupt.” Now, the conditions continue to eat at you and the players continue to do damage when in mist form. When downed you die too fast. There is NO HOPE to have a team mate come and help. There is no hope to res yourself.
Great job at making a difficult to play, yet fun and challenging class into a terrible one.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about, but I do think they changed something on Elementalists… I play WvW mostly and I don’t see the grass around me all shiny like before…
Well i do agree our downstate is now again one of the worst ones because our downstate dmg is crap (and #3 ability is completely usseles), meaning if u go down at the same time as the opponent ur gona lose to probably every other class out there….
But apart from that we are still very strong 1v1 and in teamfights, nothing really changed there.
Was wondering what OP was all about so took my ele (valk/bers 0 10 10 30 20) for some sPvP and ended with 49 kills in two games. What he says about downstate is true though. In sPvP it is utterly rubbish again. Just so bad :/
Hey be happy you don’t have the Mesmer two downed state. We get teleported INTO the person stomping us 100% of the time.
isnt the mesmer downed #2 skill ment to be timed? so u use it just before the stomp?
so u are teleporting for that moment they hit the stake in the ground?
well thats how most use it..
only time you teleport into a player stomp is when you have incorrectly used the skill too early?
Edit: the probability that it could port you to where you camera is facing.. is pretty high from all the targeting mecanics.. altho i dont play mesmer.. so maybe if you reposition your view away from said stomper it might.. and i mean might dictate the direction? but that is pure speculation on my part..
Hey be happy you don’t have the Mesmer two downed state. We get teleported INTO the person stomping us 100% of the time.
isnt the mesmer downed #2 skill ment to be timed? so u use it just before the stomp?
so u are teleporting for that moment they hit the stake in the ground?
well thats how most use it..
only time you teleport into a player stomp is when you have incorrectly used the skill too early?
Edit: the probability that it could port you to where you camera is facing.. is pretty high from all the targeting mecanics.. altho i dont play mesmer.. so maybe if you reposition your view away from said stomper it might.. and i mean might dictate the direction? but that is pure speculation on my part..
Something got through on the patch and now it teleports you into danger 100% of the time. It used to be random and still not reliable at all but now its REALLY BAD.
Hey be happy you don’t have the Mesmer two downed state. We get teleported INTO the person stomping us 100% of the time.
isnt the mesmer downed #2 skill ment to be timed? so u use it just before the stomp?
so u are teleporting for that moment they hit the stake in the ground?
well thats how most use it..
only time you teleport into a player stomp is when you have incorrectly used the skill too early?
Edit: the probability that it could port you to where you camera is facing.. is pretty high from all the targeting mecanics.. altho i dont play mesmer.. so maybe if you reposition your view away from said stomper it might.. and i mean might dictate the direction? but that is pure speculation on my part..
Something got through on the patch and now it teleports you into danger 100% of the time. It used to be random and still not reliable at all but now its REALLY BAD.
just went to the mists to test the downed state skill,, it’s alot of fun on npcs..
i can see the teleport is random, but u need to wait for the last minute to use the skill cus if u port close to the player and you use too soon you will be revealed before he stomps and u die.
so my point about porting into stomping players is more about timing the skill so you are teleporting the moment the stomp hits. so even if you are under his feet as he stomps as long as you timed the skill u should not have been revealed when the stomp hits so you live..
I totally agree with you, OP… Chickens flapping around and pecking at the keys must have a very hard time with proper skill rotations, attunement swapping, etc. heck, it’s like a ten minute walk for a chicken to get from the keyboard to the mouse IF he doesn’t get distracted… The real issue here is that GW2 and the devices used to play it are all designed to be ergonomic for humanoids. Anet should acknowledge that their player base consists partly of chickens and other creatures of the avian variety.
I totally agree with you, OP… Chickens flapping around and pecking at the keys must have a very hard time with proper skill rotations, attunement swapping, etc. heck, it’s like a ten minute walk for a chicken to get from the keyboard to the mouse IF he doesn’t get distracted… The real issue here is that GW2 and the devices used to play it are all designed to be ergonomic for humanoids. Anet should acknowledge that their player base consists partly of chickens and other creatures of the avian variety.
Try to play an ele with no arcana traits, no water traits and play a d/d build, I bet you last 2s…I’m merciful so I won’t ask you to play staff or s/d as they’re completely out of your league,..be grateful^^
I agree with you.. I would die in about two seconds. The build you stated probably won’t have enough synergy, has no sustain, and won’t allow me to utilize my boons and attunements to the fullest extent. In summary, you’re giving me a VERY ineffective build and telling me that it won’t work. How does this have any relevance to chickens playing GW2?
. I would like someone in NCSOFT to please respond with a statistic of kill/death ratio for the overall elementalist class in sPvP. I would be happy with a random sampling. I bet it is abismal compared to any other class.
I would like to offer up all of the warriors in sPvP stats added together or averaged, doesn’t matter, compared to your new “horrible” kills/death ratio.
You would cry and never complain about being bad in sPvP or tPvP again if you could see those numbers.
I would like to preface this by saying the Elementalist was my favorite class. It was challenging and fun. I have gone from getting around 12+ kills per game to 6+ since the newest update a few days ago. I have tried changing EVERYTHING around, without sucess. The runes, sigils, skill points, all of it does no good. It seems as if the damage dealt is lower, the healing is lower and the overall squishiness is increased exponentially. I have tried burst builds, condition builds and tank builds….. D/D and S/D are completley unplayable now. I would like someone in NCSOFT to please respond with a statistic of kill/death ratio for the overall elementalist class in sPvP. I would be happy with a random sampling. I bet it is abismal compared to any other class.
On top of that there IS NO COMPARABLE STUN/INTERRUPT FOR DOWNED STATE now. If you go down you are guaranteed to die no matter what. Before the update, you could go into mist form when downed and it would remove all conditions from you and you would get half health. That was the “interupt.” Now, the conditions continue to eat at you and the players continue to do damage when in mist form. When downed you die too fast. There is NO HOPE to have a team mate come and help. There is no hope to res yourself.
Great job at making a difficult to play, yet fun and challenging class into a terrible one.
As for mist form, it works like mist form now instead of a reset…it’s now how it should be.
I’ve been playing it since patch and I think ele is just as strong as it was. Only issue I have is I think that magnetic grasp isnt working…but you are insane…ele is still beastly..
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