Guild Wars 2

Well I was experimenting with D/D Ele lately out of several matches it seems two classes poses big problem for D/D Cele Ele.

First Mesmer, oh boy, they are scary good with Prismatic Understanding for crazy openers and same traits becoming baseline.

They open from stealth with sword slash and shatter (in which each shatter hits like 3000 so 12K damage) if you are not lucky don’t have protection up and you are not in Earth you 16K damage which is in the vicinity of one shot area.

I don’t know what they changed in shatters that it hits so hard but it is crazy good now.

2nd one is condi Necros, I think they got some passive condi procs, they normal scenario corrupt boon + spite was no problem for D/D Ele you cleanse and they were shutdown for next 30s now I cleanse and I got a second combo with the same amount condis. Like auto proc’ed spite + condi transfer.

Other then that it is good to have Stone Heart as D/D ele when you can guess when the burst comes.

iirc they actually did get passive spite and transfer. i wish that, instead of adding more passive play to gw2, they hadn’t nerfed the old terror build by putting all of its 4 most useful traits into the same tier of 2 different lines.

Why they do soo much dmg?

They add Grand MAster trait that pump shatter dmg by 30% if enemy dont use skill (note they nerf it frome 50%) additional Mesmer got Trait that make 1 stack of Vuln increase dmg by 1.5% not 1% like others… and ofc Perma fury on target with less hp than 75% .

Vs CI/Lockdown
Also Care of Power Lock with CI Builds, they tends to fast build up 25might on mesmer, and 25% vuln on you.. if you have 75% hp and mesmer will chain Diversion on you.. each Interrupt will deal 5k for max 6k dmg ( they nerf it now and its no more 7k+ dmg). Also every 5s 1st daze they use will stun you for 1.5s

Try to not get chain interrupted or you will doomed in 3 skills usage
in other words.. CARE WHAT you do, dont spam mindless!!

PU/Shatters
PU is totally bs atm with such long invis, but you are Ele, try AoE/sweep around, mesmers are not tanks, they eat dmg if you hit them. Also keep in mind 99% mesmer use this cloaked time, try countdown 5s then dodge to avoid spike, or stick in Earth with Dimond skin.

Nothing really new here when it comes to those 2 classes vs d/d ele. Mesmer and Necro usually had the upper hand against us. Especially the PU build.