Guild Wars 2

I really did enjoy this game and the ele class. I mostly pvp and have 5500(maybe 1500 staff maurader) games on my main ele. I have three actually setup, when I cared enough to change specs and try to counter build the other team. But now? We have nothing, but one useful build. It saddens me. I picked ele because I was looking for that powerhouse mage backliner kind of thing. Where you needed positioning and kiting to survive. But as you all know our burst builds always took last place over the others. Every class basically has insta teleports or leaps that are on lower cooldowns than our own making kiting worthless. Along with easily spam-able auto attacks which hit harder than most of what we cast that take 1 to 4seconds to get off and are mostly locked in place.

I’ve tried my best to make marauder staff tempest to work and at times its gimmicky and does pull off. But you are basically just spamming air overload. I just wish we had a mage class that could actually be a mage. If we try anything other than bunker we are food for any other class. I been fighting thieves who are just spamming vault and hitting me for 8k+ damage which is also an evade, which is pretty easy to use to dodge a 1 second cast time auto attack that misses if anything jumps or moves side to side or basically anything else we can cast.

I’ve had ranger arrows and engi pistol or basically any other class ranged autos that will basically follow you like homing missiles. Our auto attacks are just basically garbage on every weapon. How is this possible? They are basically spammed only for heals, or were before hots release. And on top of the auto attacks, My fireballs look like flaming pebbles now. Lets make a list of who has better ranged auto attacks….

Ranger – longbow, shortbow, staff? pets? (lol)
Engi – pistol(apply condis), rifle
Guardian- scepter, longbow? how is this possible?
Rev – Hammer? lol?
Mesmer – Greatsword? Scepter?
Warrior – Rifle
Thief – pistol, shortbow
Necro – axe, scepter? not really sure about necro ranged autos

Anyway not really sure where I wanted this to go. Just finally had it with hoping anet would balance something. Except every major balance patch was just basically an overhaul that never addressed balanced. Never addressing the actual issues on what was pushing certain builds out of the meta. Am I alone in this? Is it a L2p issue? Did anyone else actually want to play a mage class and not a buff/healing bot?

Sadly, Anet right now seem to be very set with the concept of Elementalists being that kinda jack of All trades, the Everquest 1 bard, where they do everything and excel at nothing, making full Damage builds not really reachable for the proffession.

i mean hopefully on the next expansion they release a Proper mage, or give the Elementalist a proper mage specc, it could happen, things change expansion to expansion atleast, just depends if ur willing to stick around to find out if the next expansion brings either of them.

i think Fresh air Tempest D / F, is working out for some pretty well as a much more offensive styled build, but it isnt a back line caster realistically, so i dont know really may not be what ur really looking for, i wouldnt push fresh air builds into anything but the D/F combo though, Focus is just so good for that specific build.

There is actually a pretty good Marauder Tempest build out there for sPvP.

Marauder Conjure Staff Tempest.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWn0XC9XiFRA+MA8RglHAzdyeZ/sEDhgwOQIAcAahA-TJBFABiXGggHAw97PAwFAAA

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/How-to-use-Earth-Shield-with-Tempest/first#post5797240

I favored Elementalist in my gw1 days as an aoe thrower, and was hoping for as close to that as we could get. For the most part I was happy with what we got, but i’ve never been too happy with our auto attacks. I’d like to see attack chains, someday.

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I really did enjoy this game and the ele class. I mostly pvp and have 5500(maybe 1500 staff maurader) games on my main ele. I have three actually setup, when I cared enough to change specs and try to counter build the other team. But now? We have nothing, but one useful build. It saddens me. I picked ele because I was looking for that powerhouse mage backliner kind of thing. Where you needed positioning and kiting to survive. But as you all know our burst builds always took last place over the others. Every class basically has insta teleports or leaps that are on lower cooldowns than our own making kiting worthless. Along with easily spam-able auto attacks which hit harder than most of what we cast that take 1 to 4seconds to get off and are mostly locked in place.

I’ve tried my best to make marauder staff tempest to work and at times its gimmicky and does pull off. But you are basically just spamming air overload. I just wish we had a mage class that could actually be a mage. If we try anything other than bunker we are food for any other class. I been fighting thieves who are just spamming vault and hitting me for 8k+ damage which is also an evade, which is pretty easy to use to dodge a 1 second cast time auto attack that misses if anything jumps or moves side to side or basically anything else we can cast.

I’ve had ranger arrows and engi pistol or basically any other class ranged autos that will basically follow you like homing missiles. Our auto attacks are just basically garbage on every weapon. How is this possible? They are basically spammed only for heals, or were before hots release. And on top of the auto attacks, My fireballs look like flaming pebbles now. Lets make a list of who has better ranged auto attacks….

Ranger – longbow, shortbow, staff? pets? (lol)
Engi – pistol(apply condis), rifle
Guardian- scepter, longbow? how is this possible?
Rev – Hammer? lol?
Mesmer – Greatsword? Scepter?
Warrior – Rifle
Thief – pistol, shortbow
Necro – axe, scepter? not really sure about necro ranged autos

Anyway not really sure where I wanted this to go. Just finally had it with hoping anet would balance something. Except every major balance patch was just basically an overhaul that never addressed balanced. Never addressing the actual issues on what was pushing certain builds out of the meta. Am I alone in this? Is it a L2p issue? Did anyone else actually want to play a mage class and not a buff/healing bot?

We have been actively asking to get back our ele from GW1 and remove the elemental version of a protection monk that gw2 devs call elementalist…3 years no change, no change will ever come so…play the buff/healing bot and wear down targets after min 1m fight or move to mesmer if you want a burst mage

I was shocked at first that this class is basically a melee with a couple of aoes and ranged attacks and stopped playing it, but after a while I grudgingly came back and started to get used to it. It’s no steriotypical mage archetype, but it certainly does have its own unique flavor from other MMOs.

You can actually be a mage archetype in PvE. The game mechanics and structure just don’t allow it in PvP.

I’ve come up with some interesting glass cannon and damage/support builds for commanding in PvE.

From the PvE perspective, I kind of wish they would give us a weapon like druids have that focuses solely on support.

As far as PvP, I’ve just stopped playing lately.