Guild Wars 2

Seriously, what else would you run in PvP.

Both Staff and Scepter relies on your opponents being completely incompetent idiots that get hit by sloooooooooow hitting AoE. While Focus is overpowered vs projectile weapons and massively underpowered vs anything else.

Hyo Jin.5630:

Everytime I cross an Elementalist in WvW it’s the freaking same thing : Tanking 10 of us & then running away while killing 2 – 3 of us (full exotic, good players, not casual afk players looking at the birds).

For a start a Bunker ele can’t tank even 5 people – even a very good one wouldn’t seriously try to fight 10 people, secondly 1 good player would know how to counter a D/D ele, thirdly a bunker ele does very little damage.. are you sure the 2-3 players that died weren’t level 1 and AFK?

Just immobilize the kitten out of them and spike.

D/D is the default choice for many because its a very easy to play spec with high rewards.

S/D is a much harder thing to master with a very high skill cap, along with the fact you actually have to target people and somewhere on the ground pre-preemptively rather than just spam AoE near your target.

That being said, It has been proven to me time and time again that a good S/D can always beat a good D/D.

Being honest there are much more staff eles on WvW on servers where I am.
There are very few D/Ds and almost every of them is poorly-skilled, so we don’t have problems with it.

Milennin.4825:

I’ve been playing the D/D Elementalist since beta, and still do, because it’s simply the most fun thing to play.

Same here, I’ve been playing Ele since beta, and I basically swap between D/D and Staff. 0/10/0/30/30 build, duh. Being down all the time is not fun, so why bother with anything else.

They really need to mess around with the scepter skills, right now it doesn’t feel fluid like the dagger does. The staff is extremely weak unless your enemy stays in the fields, and is mainly only good for WvW or dungeons. I feel like D/D is going to have some heavy nerfs for pvp in the path on the 30th and then eles might branch out some.

Right now D/D is by far the strongest weapon for a variety of situations, has the beat flow between attunents, and has a huge amount of cc and healing. Compared to scepter which has less healing, no cc, and very little flow between attunements. If they want ele players to branch out to scepter, it’s going to need a little more cc. Though its burst is extremely fun if you can land it (which is quite hard against decent players in pvp)

Hyo Jin.5630:

Didn’t mean to taunt, but obviously it’s insanely annoying to see all those Elementalist running with EXACTLY the same bunker/heal D/D OP build. Guys, seriously, aren’t you bored to play this way? (Never crosses an Elementalist with Staff, or maybe 1 – 2 times..)

I played Staff the first couple months I played this game. That was boring and limited my play to keep defense, siege/cannon busting or zerg “support.” I recently switched to bunker D/D because it allows a modicum of viability in direct combat.

But don’t worry: I’ve already fizzled out of D/D, and I’ve basically stopped playing until something more interesting comes out.

I ALREADY KNOW there are a lot of posts running through this forum, but please, Anet do something.

Eh, not everyone is daphoenix.4283. A good elementalist can take most players 1 vs. 1 and, maybe, a significant number of players 1 vs. 2. You have to play a perfect game to beat players 1 vs. 3, and forget anything more than that unless conditions are perfect and your opponents are drunk and/or terrible.

Or maybe you want all the players to reroll Elementalist D/D so that there’ll be only this kind of class fighting in sPvP / WvW? Players like the easy way, they got something with the Elementalist D/D.

It’s hardly easy to master D/D. The attunement dance is annoying and timing your heals and cantrips isn’t a cakewalk. It’s doable, but not “the easy way.”

It also takes a significant amount of resources to gear properly.

Thank you for reading this post, I really appreciate it.

Don’t let Anet nerf D/D into the ground. Rather, Anet needs to provide Elementalists with some S/D and Staff viability. Or just admit that the current system is kittening awful and introduce some new weapons and skills.

I still find it funny that thieves are always whining for us to be nerfed yet they can do this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ecl8d0TQGQ Thief needs to be nerfed more than any other class in the game. They are just kitten that we actually have a counter to all that BS and they can’t just 1 shot us anymore like they could in the beginning. They wont be happy till all we can do is stand there and let them kill us in 1 hit.