(edited by Piratoz.8627)
Long Term Problems With Eles
Cantrips are the only choices that elementalists even have other than LH+IB.
Slot skills need a huge rework.
CC spamming ele with Lightning Rod, Tempest Defense, earth shield(skill3 and 4), D/f might be the new meta for pvp. Maybe aura share too. If there’s more of these eles, then there is longer Shocking Aura uptime, so more cc and more lightning rod dmg :P
edit: Proposing Earth Shield as the new meta conjured weapon =]
(edited by sMihaly.1492)
CC spamming ele with Lightning Rod
Ele do not have access to all that many interupts/stuns and these that we have got mostly long cooldowns.
I agree with OP about the conjures, make them like kits, or at laest “like kits after casting them for X sec”
One of big eles problem is that having twice as many weapons skills should cover for our weaknesses but many of these skills are just bad and many of these that aren’t require setup with other skills to hit or have long cooldowns
Our elites are garbage compared to other professions. While the elemental can be a nice addition in a fight, it is certainly not worthy of the elite slot. FGS is a mobility and drop weapon and barely deserves a utility slot at this point. When people slot Melandru as their elite, you know something is terribly wrong.
Glyphs are just awful. Glyph of Storms might see some use in PVE, but I never see them outside of that environment.
I don’t know what to do with our conjures. The idea of a kit is nice, and would even justify the damage reduction if we could swap into it like an extra attunement. This could be abused though.
Scepter sustained damage is just… bleh.
Clarishy – Ranger
Tinkershy – Engineer
Our elites are garbage compared to other professions. While the elemental can be a nice addition in a fight, it is certainly not worthy of the elite slot. FGS is a mobility and drop weapon and barely deserves a utility slot at this point. When people slot Melandru as their elite, you know something is terribly wrong.
Glyphs are just awful. Glyph of Storms might see some use in PVE, but I never see them outside of that environment.
I don’t know what to do with our conjures. The idea of a kit is nice, and would even justify the damage reduction if we could swap into it like an extra attunement. This could be abused though.
Scepter sustained damage is just… bleh.
Not true :P Jou can pull a fully upgraded camp in a corner and melt them With Meteor Shower+ Lava Font with your default Pve zerker stuff
Maybe freeze+ ib#4 to take care of a remaining vet
Our elites are garbage compared to other professions. While the elemental can be a nice addition in a fight, it is certainly not worthy of the elite slot. FGS is a mobility and drop weapon and barely deserves a utility slot at this point. When people slot Melandru as their elite, you know something is terribly wrong.
Glyphs are just awful. Glyph of Storms might see some use in PVE, but I never see them outside of that environment.
I don’t know what to do with our conjures. The idea of a kit is nice, and would even justify the damage reduction if we could swap into it like an extra attunement. This could be abused though.
Scepter sustained damage is just… bleh.
Not true :P Jou can pull a fully upgraded camp in a corner and melt them With Meteor Shower+ Lava Font with your default Pve zerker stuff
Maybe freeze+ ib#4 to take care of a remaining vet
And none of those are elites, glyphs, or use the scepter. The icebow is great, but is being nerfed, thus the dilemna.
I am not actually sure what you are arguing against, but it isn’t anything I said.
Clarishy – Ranger
Tinkershy – Engineer
For PvE, most eles will probably go staff all the way. That will probably be the only viable builds (unless Sword tempest has something else to say next week).
Long term problems with ele you say?
I do agree that the 5 point minors need looking at. I think the Earth and Water ones are in an ok place right now but Fire and Air need work.
Jon
(source)
The air minor is still terrible and redundant.
The fire minor is not going to work with Lingering Joke Elements, and it is random enough to prevent strategic use: we are the masters of the elements, not the gamblers of the elements, this does not work for us.
It seems that the devs have failed to take into account the constructive feedback we have kept giving them for more than two years.
I would like to give detailed comments on the changes that they propose for HoT, but the truth is that I am tired to saying always to same things. I wish they would discuss with us. I am incredibly disappointed.
Retired elementalist theorycrafter
Our elites are garbage compared to other professions. While the elemental can be a nice addition in a fight, it is certainly not worthy of the elite slot. FGS is a mobility and drop weapon and barely deserves a utility slot at this point. When people slot Melandru as their elite, you know something is terribly wrong.
Glyphs are just awful. Glyph of Storms might see some use in PVE, but I never see them outside of that environment.
I don’t know what to do with our conjures. The idea of a kit is nice, and would even justify the damage reduction if we could swap into it like an extra attunement. This could be abused though.
Scepter sustained damage is just… bleh.
Not true :P Jou can pull a fully upgraded camp in a corner and melt them With Meteor Shower+ Lava Font with your default Pve zerker stuff
Maybe freeze+ ib#4 to take care of a remaining vetAnd none of those are elites, glyphs, or use the scepter. The icebow is great, but is being nerfed, thus the dilemna.
I am not actually sure what you are arguing against, but it isn’t anything I said.
Meant the part about the Glyphs; ofc you place a sandstorm on the stacked camp, my bad
They did say that they were toning down IB and LH, but that doesn’t mean uselessness. It does mean that the AoE off IB won’t be so brokenly good, but they may end up overall well-rounded or useful.
Also, they said that they were looking to improve other conjures to be more useful. Maybe earth shield WILL be the new uber conjure