Guild Wars 2

Yup i can feel you on this… Ele is now a bad joke , a farce , a portable healer with boon share…as a veteran ele , i tried various builds but this class is dead. super nerfs for this (OP) class in WVW and no its dead and no one want eles on wvw cept if they heal.
Go pvt-ministrell-nomad or whatever and enjoy clicking on auras and water. thank you come again and have a nice day

katniss.6735:

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I feel ya buddy. Look at staff ele at spvp…FA in spvp…I mean, really…? Look at fire magic traitline…even thief’s acrobatics has better dmg than that (joke here). Elementalists are on a ridiculous situation due to its balance team responsibles, who fails to understand their own designed profession. And not to mention that sickened-mind blob called meta. It seems to me that everything in this game will resolve around meta.

I remember that Mike said they’re going back to their roots…but meta still persists. Meta is just another way to establish the holy trinity with just a little (mostly nothing) “build diversity” (muawhahahahahah).

TL;DR everything here is kitten. Elementalists are kitten. And I don’t have to say why ’cause everyone knows it already.

the problem is simple, the ele has gone from “let’s nuke this crap” to “let’s play catch”.
in HOM there is a skill trader ghost saying that our skills are far more powerful then it was in GW1.
pfffff, i can name a whole build and it’s useless compared to the GW1 version.

the one skill that seriously kittenes me off is meteor shower, that skill is miles apart from the original.

GW1 version: 99 damage (on lvl 20), knock down every 3 seconds and AOE.
GW2 version: 180 damage (on lvl 80) and AOE that barely hits.

if that crap is suppose to be more powerful then the GW1 version then i seriously doubt the logic in Anet’s balance team.

sorudo.9054:

the problem is simple, the ele has gone from “let’s nuke this crap” to “let’s play catch”.
in HOM there is a skill trader ghost saying that our skills are far more powerful then it was in GW1.
pfffff, i can name a whole build and it’s useless compared to the GW1 version.

the one skill that seriously kittenes me off is meteor shower, that skill is miles apart from the original.

GW1 version: 99 damage (on lvl 20), knock down every 3 seconds and AOE.
GW2 version: 180 damage (on lvl 80) and AOE that barely hits.

if that crap is suppose to be more powerful then the GW1 version then i seriously doubt the logic in Anet’s balance team.

This. They gave GW2 many skills from GW1 but those aren’t even in par with their old versions. Meteor Shower isn’t the only good example; we also have water trident and in Guild Wars 1 water trident knocked foes. It’s like if you watch the skill videos here https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/elementalist/ you’ll see that they do the same things in GW1. I honestly don’t know why they changed them.

I had an okay time in spvp this morning as maurader staff, scholar, air/force. A/W/T.
Basically range, cc, and meteor. Overload air and fire on people. The new map is fun. That’s the only one I played. Averaged 9-10 kills per game. Maybe like 1 or 2 deaths. I found it extremely difficult to get lightning flash off in that place. The wood floors seem buggy as hell.

Using the same build as above in wvw is very lackluster because it requires players be cc’d or they move out of meteor easily. And you’re easily at risk to dying on the outside or to condis. You need at least 2-3 other dps eles to be efficient rdps.

katniss.6735:

I had an okay time in spvp this morning as maurader staff, scholar, air/force. A/W/T.
Basically range, cc, and meteor. Overload air and fire on people. The new map is fun. That’s the only one I played. Averaged 9-10 kills per game. Maybe like 1 or 2 deaths. I found it extremely difficult to get lightning flash off in that place. The wood floors seem buggy as hell.

I prefer to play core ele cause I don’t like tempest. My main build uses berserker amulet for the huge damage, whenever I use marauder’s I feel I am weak that can’t cleave tank players. Eternal Coliseum has some major problems, specially for eles ‘cause we can’t teleport in a long range.

Yeah. I’d be more than fine if they removed they removed the damage and gave us 1200 range on flash.

Reading thru all these posts made me so sad, I’m a new player and I chose Ele for the lvl boost… the more I play, the more I realize how squishy he is.. big cooldowns, weak dps, weak def, I don’t want to roll other class as I want to play at lvl 80

no worries. Ele is a good one for casual play. It needs to get a feel on it but it´s amazing an will survive thing´s you currently can´t imagine. Also with staff it´s high PvE DPS. My ele lives much longer in larger fights then my warrior. In high level play ele has the problem of lost build diversity becoming a support/heal toon …

casper.9184:

Reading thru all these posts made me so sad, I’m a new player and I chose Ele for the lvl boost… the more I play, the more I realize how squishy he is.. big cooldowns, weak dps, weak def, I don’t want to roll other class as I want to play at lvl 80

I feel ya! In the PvE scenario elementalists have the biggest DPS but the defense is kitten, the CDs are still ridiculous and it’s the profession that lacks build diversity, seriously.

no worries. Ele is a good one for casual play. It needs to get a feel on it but it´s amazing an will survive thing´s you currently can´t imagine. Also with staff it´s high PvE DPS. My ele lives much longer in larger fights then my warrior. In high level play ele has the problem of lost build diversity becoming a support/heal toon …

This fact saddens me the most. I like to play my elementalist with every build I make, healing, tanking, condition and dps (I most fav) but, weird to say, most of those builds don’t really work as intended.

Ele is currently top top tier of pvp .Sadly it has no viable dmg builds but that’s mostly because of rev.
It’s actually where it should be.

Skittledness.5106:

Ele is currently top top tier of pvp .Sadly it has no viable dmg builds but that’s mostly because of rev.
It’s actually where it should be.

It’s not where it should be. It’s not even near where it should be. It’s not even top tier pvp if it has only one “viable build”. And we don’t have viable dps builds because of revs: we don’t have viable dps builds because of the devs working on balance elementalists not doing their job correctly.

Sorry ele has a tier B build in sPvP that is pickted because of the 1 class rule. Its a good support build and thats it. It feels like 90% of ele traits and utilities are left in the void.
No build diversity on higher level. It´s not where it sould be. The most flexible and challenging class was brought down to a support bot.

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Meta >Great >Very Good > A Build > B Build > C Build > D Build. You got that right in spvp. Regardless if you are on TS and have coordinate spike or rotation good luck you are kitten soft but legendary maybe possible being team carried. I could never solo que Legendary under 1-2 hours a day in 2 weeks like in season 2. Hey I hit Ruby in season in week 2 playing even less. Why do people want to be batteries. Rolling ESL back in pre June 2015 was much more fun. Mesmer PU was still OP back in the day. I’m surprised why Mesmer/Chrono never got the same love as ele. Anet close a door for a Mesmer and then opens another one. As ele’s we used to get a window, than a doggie door and for the last years update nothing. What is this build diversity I keep hearing in this game. I’m pretty kitten kitten regarding spvp or wvw right now, I need a hug. Please make us Magical again, you can do it, you did it for everyone else… you transformed them to retro elementlist that can play 3 roles.