Guild Wars 2

Yeah DD ele with cantrips are absolutely balanced. Even underpowered I would say!
Just buff them already. They don’t have enough mobility, survivability or damage. They don’t have enough CCs. They have limited access to boons and condition removals and can barely ever heal themselves during a fight.
Just buff them already!

Your sarcasm is noted. However, any ele with a brain has not asked for a buff to the spec and knows that the first thing that should be changed is the burning stacks that are generated.

Nice try.

Fix the burning and the damage will take a nosedive and shouldn’t be much of an issue anymore. The real damage from D/D Ele comes from the Burning as even at 25 Might stacks(which is very difficult to maintain against good opponents) you wont be doing enough damage with just Lightning Whip and Burning Speed. Don’t get me wrong, D/D Ele would still be able to win the long sustain fights, but it wont be doing such heavy damage so quickly.

If you nerf burning too hard though the whole ele class will be out of PVP again though. Because we don’t have any other spec besides it, never had any.

Burjis.3087:

Yeah DD ele with cantrips are absolutely balanced.

Yes it is, thank you for your feedback, but elementalists already knew that.

Xillllix.3485:

Burjis.3087:

Yeah DD ele with cantrips are absolutely balanced.

Yes it is, thank you for your feedback, but elementalists already knew that.

Yes, you’d want to think that way.

Yep, everyone thinks D/D Cantrip with Water, Arcane, and Fire/Air Spec is underpowered. That’s why everyone’s constantly asking for everything else to be buffed past that spec’s level.

Makes total sense and exactly describes how all the discussions here go.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

If you nerf burning too hard though the whole ele class will be out of PVP again though. Because we don’t have any other spec besides it, never had any.

Let me show you another perfectly viable elementalist spec along with its 5 variations.

Alekt.5803:

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

If you nerf burning too hard though the whole ele class will be out of PVP again though. Because we don’t have any other spec besides it, never had any.

Let me show you another perfectly viable elementalist spec along with its 5 variations.

There is none. Why do you think every single ele runs DD fire in pvp?!?

Burjis.3087:

Yeah DD ele with cantrips are absolutely balanced. Even underpowered I would say!
Just buff them already. They don’t have enough mobility, survivability or damage. They don’t have enough CCs. They have limited access to boons and condition removals and can barely ever heal themselves during a fight.
Just buff them already!

And ofc those things cant be countered by:
- disrupting rotations so they cant stack might and only do moderate damage
- heavy burst from stealth to outright kill them (using the fact that they have light armor a lame health and they only tank by sustain)
- waiting the ele to go past water to use the real damage
- using the terrain to just snipe with range attacks in places designed for that. (you know, eles cant swap)

Look, we all know that celestials ele has more damage than it should because of the burning buffs, but just complaining about the versatility without looking at the limitations of the class is dumb.