Guild Wars 2

I’ve heard a lot of complaining about how now “D/D Ele is not viable at all”. This doesn’t make sense to me? I’m doing just as good with my air cele d/d build as i’ve ever done. Am I missing something? I haven’t noticed anything at all in terms of dmg. I’ll be the first to say im not the best ele out there, but I can 1v2, even 1v3 just as easily as always???

You’re running air instead of fire so you don’t feel the pinch. But yeah it’s still as good.

Still doing fine on my D/D ele. Whiners need a scapegoat and attacking “the company” is the easy way out for them instead of blaming themselves.

I don’t like the nerf to rof but I can still work with it. The other changes are just fine I think.

earth/arcana/water and air/arcana/water are just fine. I imagine fire is fine as well just not as powerful but I haven’t played it yet.

D/D yes I guess, since you have plenty of blasts and defenses.

For Staff however it’s a balancing train wreck. We lost the best trait to get might.

Bandit.8279:

I don’t like the nerf to rof but I can still work with it. The other changes are just fine I think.

I actually feel, at least right now, that RoF was buffed. Maybe this is because I was used to just not walking through it and laughing as the ele had 0 damage outside burning speed. Now, due to my playstyle, I still haven’t adjusted to dodging the ring cast and not caring about walking through the fire, so I take more burning damage than I used to. Still doesn’t kill me, but it is more than it was if you just didn’t walk through it and kill yourself.

the problem with d/d was never the damge it was the healing lol but still the build is good

the RoF definitely suit my play style as I never expect people to stand in fire haha I just wish it would tick burning to those inside the ring like the guardian’s skill but I’m sure people would whine about that too

Mee too. RoF was no issue. Most of the time it did not hit me. If in wait and if the ele comes breathign dodge RoF + Flames …. If outside don´t run in. I understand this is more issue to melee classes but when usinge ranged attacks it was just a nice animation ^^.

D/D did not change much. Slight burn reduction and might on cantrips gone. Both was good. The vigor CD hits non water builds that used it but not so much D/D. The blinding ashes is also minor for D/D but hits other non meta builds much more.