Guild Wars 2

I love how they always come out with this utter tripe nonsense right after double nerfing skills. Eles have been able to maintain a permanent lava font for years now and suddenly they pull their heads out of wherever they’ve stuffed them for 3 years and come out with this.

They should have left the cool down reduction traits the same and just increased lava font CD to 8s. I honestly can’t think of any skill that was too strong at 33% CD reduction for a master level trait.

But leaving the CD reduction traits would not affect all other skills and all other builds of the elementalist as clearly intended, or did you miss the part of “issues with both offense and defense game-wide”.

Clearly the devs saw that everything about the elementalist was OP so it needed a massive buff.

Just slot the new Tornando and feel the power – guess that is the idea.

Azel.4786:

But leaving the CD reduction traits would not affect all other skills and all other builds of the elementalist as clearly intended, or did you miss the part of “issues with both offense and defense game-wide”.

Clearly the devs saw that everything about the elementalist was OP so it needed a massive buff.

Just slot the new Tornando and feel the power – guess that is the idea.

You mean the “hey I’m the class with the lowest armor and lowest healthpool and now I’ve turned myself into a form where I can’t use my defensive utilities and I’m a huge freaking target” yeah no.

Skills that were too good when traited: rtl
Reason: it was almost a viable mobility skill while traited

Now we know why things went so wrong.

You would think that since Karl died against Svanir in his Tempest presentation that he would be more inclined to buff a class that desperately needs SOMETHING POSITIVE going for it.

Right now it’s just the boring slow gameplay of Tempest taking over the entire class.

What is the ele supposed to do in WvW now Karl? Lava font is great against an AI that doesn’t move but in WvW it barely scratch someone. It needed a buff not a nerf, and so did 75% of our useless skills and traits.

True story: tried using flamestrike against the running npc in HotM: did 0 extra damage over 20s.

Even the most basic testing could have shown has useless this change is, and how poorly thought out most of these changes are for ele.

I also think it is hilarious that they are trying to force ele in pvp to play a dps role, while simultaneously nerfing access to the most important defensive skills (obsidian flesh, magnetic wave) on an already lacking build. They also nerfed the damage for good measure too, so you DEFINITELY can’t compete with them!!

Glenstorm.4059:

Eles use Cele amulet -> removed from game
Eles use Cleric amulet -> removed from game

Can’t wait to see what happens when someone manages to win with a Marauder FA Ele.

Don’t worry, nobody will do that. There are enough thieves and revenants that will just make any match with a FA ele a 4v5.

They nerved sustain and damage of non meta builds … I call this a total fail …
I could not catch all other professions changes. If they are nerved hard too then this might be OK….

Karl and his team has been dragging our class through the mud since pre-Hot every patch we have gotten less fun and less engaging viable builds. Our class gets thrown all over the place. Every time we settle into a meta it’s decided for us that thats not the meta we are supposed to be in and get removed from it. There’s never a semblance of though every time its just remove/nerf/double nerf buff shaterstone and lets see what happens. And every time we have to sink into a less fun roll IE cleric ele.

He’s proven he has no idea how to play ele, hell their kittening footage trying to show off tempest for HOT is him getting wrecked trying to overload. It’s time he steps the kitten back from any class balance and moves to something else because I’m kittening sick of this kitten. I really hope he’s not involved on our next “elite” spec.

I don’t main ele but these nerfs seemed like a silly address complains from people..

Staff/fresh air we’re utter lazy nerfs in an attempt to fix Raid comp, and guess what? People are still not going to take Engis/thieves/guards to raids and if so.. barely one. And you know why? They did nothing to make people want to take them, really nice balancing.

As for pvp, I don’t think we’ll be seeing many Eles this season

Karl is died both to svanir and chieftain playing tempest.
He develop the elementalist class.
People still had hope about balance patch.
Lol