Guild Wars 2

Just a little time after launch people discovered the healing side of the ele, at that very moment the nerfs began. First the healing ammount, then the mobility, then a major nerf on mobility, another nerf on healing, a nerf on condition removal. In the end the healing build ended up in being only viable in WvW. Now we got few new spells in staff and that seemingly is so strong that the build needs another nerf that’s not staff related.
Renewing stamina and Elemental attunement- a core buff traits for the d/d s/d healing builds are getting nerfed. If we say that’s a try to move the build to staff entirely, then its a mobility nerf, since staff is much less mobile.

When Anet obviously don’t want this build to be worth anything just get it over with – remove the Cleansing Wave from Evasive Arcana, remove the Healing Ripple from Water 15. Easy and simple. Why the needless torment of the people who just love healing…

I endured every nerf of these. I’m disgusted that GW2 had a potential of becoming top MMO and that potential was ruined by letting it rot(pvp bugs, no real rate system, too much temporary content that doesn’t repeat in any way). I already reduced my gameplay to doing only wvw and daily achievs. Most likely with December 10th when i will probably not even enjoy wvw anymore because of movement loss or the healing/condi-remove loss( i barely make it even with what I now have) – well… I hope then Anet will announce the next update changes so i can see the deletion of what i loved and just leave without any regrets.

I feel exactly like you. I don’t want run staff in WvW (despite the amazing build 0/30/0/30/10 incoming), i don’t want play scepter, but with this patch, DD will definitly be unviable. I lost the count, is it 6 nerfs in a row ?

But there is still an hope:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/December-10th-Elementalist-changes/page/3#post3138306

I really hope they wont move reneving stamina to master tier, if they dont, the upcoming lingering element debug could finally be a thing liking a buff. (even if its just debugging and if our dispell will be screwed up again, i just made my mind that we’re forced to lose against engi and necro ^^)

Dont get me wrong, I’m not quiting because the build is going to be ruined(not like its not already…), actually it will be just a minor nerf. Well i quit partly because of it, but i quit mainly because Anet just kitten all over the place time after time and expect the people to like it. This was just my icing on the cake.

When meteor shower is on cooldown, waypoint back to spawn.
That is how you play WvW.
You don’t want your teammates to be killed rezzing you, or rally the downed players from your meteor storm.

They could just replace every adept-tier trait with new traits that have fancy names and descriptions that say “this trait does nothing” and it wouldn’t effect builds with new ele at all.

The new meta-ele builds MUST take lava tomb, b/c it will be your most-used skill. Nothing but glass-cannon is viable b/c the cost of basic survivability means giving up everything else, and still surviving worse than any other class.

Are you talking from sPvP, WvW or PvE perspective? The problem imo isn’t so much the nerfs to healing, it’s that in most PvE healing is only required if your group is nooby.

I play healers in most games too, so I get the disappointment. I occasionally run with the zerg in WvW and healbot on my guardian to satisfy this urge. But in most cases you are dragging your team down by focusing too much on healing.

I didnt knew the heal build have any application in SPvP. Which it doesnt – the last few nerfs made sure of that. Pve doesn’t need it as you say. No, I talk mainly for WvW. Since there is the only living application of the build. And not for zergs, who cant play with zergs?!? I’m speaking of solo/team scouting, and if you think the healing/condi removal there is not important – you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about, most likely because you don’t run the build. So please, don’t comment something you don’t understand.

Hellissane.3041:

I didnt knew the heal build have any application in SPvP. Which it doesnt – the last few nerfs made sure of that. Pve doesn’t need it as you say. No, I talk mainly for WvW. Since there is the only living application of the build. And not for zergs, who cant play with zergs?!? I’m speaking of solo/team scouting, and if you think the healing/condi removal there is not important – you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about, most likely because you don’t run the build. So please, don’t comment something you don’t understand.

Yes, let’s immediately jump to erroneous conclusions about other people, because that creates productive discussion!

I almost exclusively WvW, prefer small groups, and run heavy group condi removal and boon support — with, yes, some healing too. My above statement still stands. I just re-read your OP though, and I mistook this thread for a discussion of sorts, when actually you just wanted to drama llama. (“Why don’t you just remove ALL healing Anet? WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”)

Apologies for trying to inject a little sense into the topic, or hell, even agree with you some.