Guild Wars 2

I remember a net saying they want to flat out increase the survivability and damage of the class so there can be build diversity outside of the cliché “30 arcane 15 water” builds. But how are a few grand master traits going to fix the problem? The current one that was just announced is kitten tier boring and if the others are anything like it, it will be another depressing time for ele’s in the aspect of trait diversity… I have heard nothing about baseline scaling for ele.

Also I remember ele was going to be getting a bit of polishing in the CDI thread on the pvp balance forums. Since it was unanimous that Ranger and Elementalist needed some love. Is that still going to happen or will they just skip the CDI rework and say “we fixed you with these grandmaster traits”?

Is this that #elepocolypse they were talking about….

Yes, the very first partial reveal on a three week schedule of information reveals contains ALL information on eles.

lol 1 trait and there are 4 grandmaster traits left. There are other changes also if you read the necro one you see they mention some trait changes and the new gm. So it’s not just gm traits.

GM traits are a large part of builds and 30/30 builds are usually some of the strongest builds in the game for all classes also…

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/traits-unleashed-forty-new-traits-and-more/

The elementalist is getting a variety of traits, ranging from damage and utility to survivability and support. The one we’ll introduce today is Aquatic Benevolence. This trait contains a new mechanic that will increase all healing to allies by a percentage without affecting the character doing the healing. Aquatic Benevolence has the highest of all outgoing healing effects currently in the game, sitting at a solid 25% healing power bonus when supporting allies.

Probably this announced trait is GM in water. Damage will either be fire or air, utility earth or arcana, or survivability could be earth or arcana. These are huge changes we know what each GM coming for ele revolves around we just need to see what exactly they are. If you don’t like support then the next reveals will be other then support.

probably wasting my time anyway continue with hyperbole and fear mongering.

Just want to say that these are NEW stuff so it’s appropriate to add these new traits info to the page about the new system.
There will be a Balance (hopefully, since I can’t remember them saying anything specific, but it’s about right time to add a Balance aswell), so I doubt it’s only this “buff”

Also I remember them saying how Staff will be anti-condi killer weapon, so they’re redoing a lot of Eles… Guess they got a new plastic surgeon just for us

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

Guess they got a new plastic surgeon just for us

Yea but did they get the professional Swiss surgeon or the back alley Tijuana surgeon?

Here’s hoping that they don’t force me to be a support.

They aren’t going to touch evasive arcana, are they? ARE THEY? I really hope so.

Expect there new traits being 90% garbage and 10% broken and hope that ele get something from the second. Announced trait comes into first.

I just feel like 5 new grandmaster traits (which we will only be able to use two) won’t fix us. unless they are really over tuned.

Most of us will still be going 30 into arcane and 15 in water because anet doesn’t feel like increasing anything in terms of our baseline scaling to damage, defense and healing. And im also really scared that this will be classed as the CDI for us.

Hanako.1827:

I just feel like 5 new grandmaster traits (which we will only be able to use two) won’t fix us. unless they are really over tuned.

Most of us will still be going 30 into arcane and 15 in water because anet doesn’t feel like increasing anything in terms of our baseline scaling to damage, defense and healing. And im also really scared that this will be classed as the CDI for us.

If I can have the option of bursting an opponent down quite nicely with 30 in fire then I wont mind. I don’t need to be tanky and dish out enough dps to 1 shot everyone, that would get lame.

Hanako.1827:

I just feel like 5 new grandmaster traits (which we will only be able to use two) won’t fix us. unless they are really over tuned.

Most of us will still be going 30 into arcane and 15 in water because anet doesn’t feel like increasing anything in terms of our baseline scaling to damage, defense and healing. And im also really scared that this will be classed as the CDI for us.

Exactly. EA is already one of our strongest traits. Can’t really get an upgrade there. We needed something good for water gm since it is the only other gm you can take besides EA if you want good healing (healing ripple requires 15 in water, preventing gm anywhere else). But this one is completely useless except for support (something current water gms already provided enough of), and there is almost no way the changes to other gms can help our survivability due to dropping healing ripple. So I expect a net change of 0 in my build if lower tier traits are not moved or improved.

The new trait won t do anything for ele survivability.
You will be able to heal Others for more but the numbers of any healing on the ele itself will be unaffected by the trait.

Also what’s all this bullcrap about ele getting more defensives because one, I repeat, FRIGGIN ONE skill set gets an evade when they use an ability (IE Burning speed). I feel d/d is the little skill set anet dances and only think two kitten ed skill sets exist for elementalists. Because with these buffs it feels like “If you don’t like staff, than use d/d” Like the other weapons don’t exist..

Scepter feels a lot weaker in comparison yet hasn’t received kitten. It’s not like the auto attack sucks kitten on EVERY attunement or anything. Or that Dragons tooth and shatter stone are way to slow animations that NEVER hit any player with half a brain.

Hanako.1827:

Also what’s all this bullcrap about ele getting more defensives because one, I repeat, FRIGGIN ONE skill set gets an evade when they use an ability (IE Burning speed). I feel d/d is the little skill set anet dances and only think two kitten ed skill sets exist for elementalists. Because with these buffs it feels like “If you don’t like staff, than use d/d” Like the other weapons don’t exist..

Scepter feels a lot weaker in comparison yet hasn’t received kitten. It’s not like the auto attack sucks kitten on EVERY attunement or anything. Or that Dragons tooth and shatter stone are way to slow animations that NEVER hit any player with half a brain.

#elepocalipse mate “elepocalipse”….