Guild Wars 2

As a Staff Bunker, which do you think would be better? Cleansing Water un-nerfed with SoR or maybe EF. Or Rock Solid + EF?

Cleansing water would probably be better. unnerfed it will proc alot with all the regen that you’ll get using staff.

FYI, you shouldn’t rely on any info in the ’leaked’ patch notes - we know some things are planned changes, because devs had previously mentioned them elsewhere, but the official stance is that this leak is largely made up.

I really don’t care for the nerf-reversal of Cleansing water. Where this isn’t nerfed in WvW, every elementalist is already forced into 30 pts of water.

If they make this the same in spvp, we’ll see something very similar.

cheese.4739:

FYI, you shouldn’t rely on any info in the ‘leaked’ patch notes – we know some things are planned changes, because devs had previously mentioned them elsewhere, but the official stance is that this leak is largely made up.

This one isn’t leaked. It was confirmed by the Dev’s themselves that Cleansing Waters ICD will be removed for SPvP.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Feature-Build-Balance-Preview/page/16#post3641943

Elementalist:
Cleansing Water: This trait no longer has an internal cooldown while in PvP.
Meteor Shower: Updated the skill fact to display the increased endurance regeneration while the player has the Zephyr’s Focus trait. Added a red ring to indicate area of effect for enemy players. Added a white ring for allied players.

Oh, cool, thanks for that - clearly I’d missed that post.

I’d consider using it again maybe... but burst group cleansing doesn’t really sound all that useful to me, when I’d be likely to get focused quickly anyway. I guess I’ll wait and see what else the patch does to us.

Yep. Cleansing water is to be unnerfed.

I love the change. It was a mistake to nerf it in the first place. You don’t nerf things to make new builds you buff other things to encourage people to try them.

KrazyFlyinChicken.5936:

Where this isn’t nerfed in WvW, every elementalist is already forced into 30 pts of water.

Erm, i don’t run 30 in Water, i run 10. I mean i could go 20 into Water but that would mean removing 10 from Earth which is currently used for Diamond Skin or Earth’s Embrace. Though even then i have been thinking about putting 10 points into Air for added Precision, Crit Damage and like Bolt To The Heart or Zephyrs Boon.

I currently run 0/0/30/10/30 Condition Build. However, i have been adding a bit of Crit Damage to my build and power to try and buff its direct damage up a bit so that i have a better chance against some builds.

I have been giving Precision/Crit Damage food a try over 40% Condition Duration and it has worked out quite well, still do nice Condition damage and it makes my direct attacks that little bit stronger especially Air, which i use against Warriors and Guardians with Elemental Surge and Arcane Shield and Arcane Power which grant Blind on proc which is very nice.