I disagree on just about every point. It sounds like, based off of requesting Ele to lose a blast finisher (Scepter fire 3) outside of combat by turning into a projectile and losing dps or using Water Trident as a projectile (which makes 0 sense and would require them to nerf the healing on the skill), you haven’t actually learned the class before asking for buffs.
Staff 2 fire is wide enough: on top of that, this has already been buffed with the June patch with staff AoE becoming baseline. If you aim well with this, you should be having 0 problems.
Staff 4 fire is wide enough as well. You can literally turn you camera 180 and use 4 through the enemy while kiting them. The main use of this skill isn’t dps, hence called Burning RETREAT.
Staff 2 water – Water isn’t about the dps. Since you have a chilling field already, you can use it when they’re slowed and if they waste their dodge, you can instantly pull combos like swapping into air for the stun field before meteorshower + arcane brilliance for immob on hit trait. There are so many things you can do with this skill that your request would literally ruin combos. The delay on it allows you to swap into other attunements and bait out dodges.
Scepter 2 Fire – The slowness can force enemies to dodge, just like staff 2 water. You have tons of tools on Ele to knockdown, stun, immob, etc. and it should almost always hit if you know what you’re doing. Also, you can just chain Fire Grab at the end of their dodge to hit them or waste their 2nd dodge which you can then just use Phoenix to hit. You can even Signet of Earth + Dragon’s Tooth for an ensured hit.
Scepter 3 Fire – Have you even played Ele? You can abuse Phoenix to hit 3 times (the projectile hits twice, the blast hits once) and deal max dps: if you make it a projectile, not only would you give up a blast finisher outside of combat, you would being losing dps.
Scepter 2 Water – Same thing with the staff 2 water. It’s slow so enemies can dodge out of it, but you can abuse it to lead enemies into other aoes and fake them out multiple times.
Scepter 3 Water – It appears you don’t understand the philosophy of gw2 either. They don’t want you watching HP bars and simply clicking on someone to use a heal. Heals are AoE for a reason, because they promote skill to heal people, thus the heal itself can be stronger (compare staff 1 auto on water versus soothing mist or regeneration. Staff 1 requires aiming, thus can be stronger.)
Warhorn – if you don’t like the sound, mute your weapons or don’t use it.
