Guild Wars 2

Thanks Anet for making Staff Elementalist garbage to play in WvW again.
I stupidly thought I would dust off the old Ele and give it a run but after a week of Irreleventalist play I will put it back in the basement lock the door and throw away the key.
P.S Better make Meteor shower radius smaller and reduce the number of meteors, think i actually kind hurt someone a little bit once.

Gravox the Terrible.2157:

Thanks Anet for making Staff Elementalist garbage to play in WvW again.
I stupidly thought I would dust off the old Ele and give it a run but after a week of Irreleventalist play I will put it back in the basement lock the door and throw away the key.
P.S Better make Meteor shower radius smaller and reduce the number of meteors, think i actually kind hurt someone a little bit once.

Meteor shower used to be better in the days of old (2012~2013~2014) but now, with so many invul skills, blocks and aegis I feel like the damage is little, and can be easily avoided. I think they need to either increase the damage of each meteor + increase the number of meteors or increase the damage of each meteor + bring back some functionalities (they were removed since June 25, 2013). And as much as I appreciate the buffs for Ice Spike, Eruption, Static Field and Gust, most of all super important skills still have huge cooldowns (Healing Rain, Frozen Ground, Magnetic Shield and Unsteady Ground).

Well i main staff ele in WvW and i must admit it has been hit pretty hard by that meteor shower PVE nerf. Although the first major nerf was that 5 person hit limit on MS and static field. But overall still playable. Eles got “kicked out of meta” because of the meta switch in WvW, there just it no need in ele aoe damage anymore. We are not durable enough to run in with the rest of “pirate ship”. Everything we can do (except siege clear and wall bombing) other classes can do better.

But i need to point out that eles in SPVP are far (and i do mean FAR) worse than in WvW.

soulknight.9620:

Well i main staff ele in WvW and i must admit it has been hit pretty hard by that meteor shower PVE nerf. Although the first major nerf was that 5 person hit limit on MS and static field. But overall still playable. Eles got “kicked out of meta” because of the meta switch in WvW, there just it no need in ele aoe damage anymore. We are not durable enough to run in with the rest of “pirate ship”. Everything we can do (except siege clear and wall bombing) other classes can do better.

But i need to point out that eles in SPVP are far (and i do mean FAR) worse than in WvW.

Yeah I agree. Now Meteor Shower is just some little rockies drop from sky . I miss those days when it used to hit 5 targets on a consistent way and huge damage. We have yet to see a true DPS ele and Condi ele at sPvP. Right now you can’t compare it to what other professions can do.