Guild Wars 2

Thinking of creating a new elementalist.

Excalibur.9748:

Thinking of creating a new elementalist.

Yes, they are, in pve and wvw. Just play smart, and know your limits.

D/D is still good, just don’t use a full bar of cantrips anymore.

No, they are unplayable garbage.

I’m running full zerker, s/d, arc shield, power, and blast.
No point wasting time trying to play d/d anymore in wvw. It is kitten into the ground compared to what the other classes can do to it.

It’s been annoying playing ele since rtl nerf, and if you have to run 1k+ healing to tank like you did pre-patch, then it’s not fun at all imo. They give the best mobility to classes with higher armor value simply because everyone complained about RTL being able to reset fights.

People don’t seem to realize that we need to be able to survive more than 1 target hitting us at a time. That’s how WvW is played. With the amount of muscle memory, and work it takes to play ele properly, other classes don’t even have to try, and they output way more damage.

I feel sorry for anyone else who mains an ele. I made alts but don’t want to play them. I don’t really want to play ele either now. All of the changes read well on paper, but putting them into practice gives unsurvivable out-comes when weighed against the abilities of the other classes. This is usually what happens: crippled, can’t move, dead. What is my 2600+ toughness doing? Nothing. Why am I playing a tank if my only option is running away and hoping I can spam dodge in water to remove the endless conditions? sigh It’s a complete disaster what they did this patch. Ele = free kill.

Its still good.

But now there are nice options on the table too…
S/D is so much fun! Fresh Air is amazing.

We might see some new condition builds too… Earth line is looking good with all that toughness and stability.

Yes D/D ele is still playable just the cookie-cuter 0/10/0/30/30 isn’t very viable

If the posters who said d/d is bad actually believe it, you can’t have played much ele…

D/D ele is good. It’s just the players that aren’t.