Guild Wars 2

So with all the BWE and with all the changes that are currently occurring with the elementalist (icebow,scepter etc) I just wanted people’s opinions on whether or not they think Elementalists will have a spot in a raiding group?

I haven’t been playing the game for long and started off with elementalist. I was planning on going through the next xpac with this class and was going to jump into raiding but it seems as though ANet are really nerfing elementalists hard at the moment.

The scepter “buff” seems to be pretty lackluster and so does the elite specialization too (although the changes that ANet are making seem to be going in the right direction, for now). The nerf to the icebow was pretty massive (I am of the opinion that it needed to be tweaked…not to that extent though).

With all the other benefits and cool things that other classes are getting I am currently thinking maybe moving onto Necro to play some Reaper, when HoT comes out is what I’ll do. Any thoughts?

P.S Whilst I dabble in PvP and WvW for dailies, I would hardly consider myself a ‘hardcore’ gamer for that mode of play, so would be nice to get a reply strictly in terms of PvE environments (Dungeons,Fractals,Raids).

It’s too early to tell, because don’t know much about how raid mechanics will work.

Problem is the majority of abilities are designed around a 5 man party. This is different than games like WoW where the raids are treated as a single unit and each class brings something to the table that benefits the entire raid. That kind of composition allows for more variance in class representation.

If the concept of a 10 man raid in GW2 amounts to basically 2 5 man parties, then I imagine you will end up with 2 self sustaining groups with very similar compositions and less class representation in the meta. In that case, I think staff elementalist will have a place in a raiding group, not only for their DPS, but because combo fields are currently the best way to provide benefits to a large number of players at once and staff elementalist has the most.

If the concept of a 10 man raid is actually a single unit of 10 people, then I have no idea, because I have no idea how that would function. It would be completely different than anything we have seen before.