I’ve been reading so many negative things about the ele’s and towards Arenanet lately.
Sure we’ve had a few nerfs . I too felt the pain when they nerft RTL. And oh! how I miss being able to press the heal button in mist form.
But honestly I don’t understand how some people are going on about ele’s being too weak to survive and some even go as far as to say; they are not going to play this class anymore… I think that maybe those people chose the wrong class to begin with.
Having said that I must admit that elementalist is by far the hardest class to master, and yes it takes a lot more work, you cannot simply rely on your standard attack to do enough damage, you need to find those right combinations of attacks that are most effective. These combinations should also differ from the enemy you’re facing.
But isn’t that what makes this class so much fun to play? I have 4 other characters but after a while they bore me because the combat starts to become repetitive.
I think Ele’s are not weak at all, I myself rarely lose in 1vs1 PvP or WvW, and what I especially enjoy is zerg vs zerg, to be able to jump in the middle of the battlefield and spam those great aoe’s, jump from here to there damaging everything and everyone, and still be amongst the last standing.
In Dungeons I am usually the one ressing other people and hardly going down myself.
I consider myself an average player. I’ve seen far better ele’s around, so this is not bragging about my own skills
(I play mainly D/D 0/20/0/25/25 but sometimes swich to staff, though I’ve seen some great, although rare F/D and S/D ele’s around)
I also think we shouldn’t compare our skills to other classes skills, it just doesn’t work that way. Every class has it’s ups and it’s downs.
For example there are lots of skills that could be considered just as good as a dodge; try and attack an ele while he’s doing RTL/Burning Speed/magnetic grasp/updraft/teleport (and then still have two dodges left)
I swear that even if they nerf RTL to 50 with c/d of 280 and replace my daggers with bunny’s I will always love my Elementalist! And will always be an ele!!
I guess what I wanted to say is that it’s not bad giving suggestions (I’ve seen some great ones out there:)) But that we should not exaggerate them too much!
Even though it is true that we are kind of pushed into similar builds and utility skills that doesn’t take away the fact that Ele’s are a great class and are far from under powered or broken!
I do think the Ele could use some working on, but I think a few small changes could suffice, say;
-make cool down time relative to the amount of points in that skill tree (thus making it possible to create a build focused on one or two elements)
-make conjured weapon skills count as spells so that Signet of Restoration works with them.
Some of my favorite tricks;
- churning earth ,rock-armor, change to air; shocking aura(for fury) (teleport when necessary)
- ressing someone in a group of enemies that are about to stomp using mist form ?
- stomping an enemy far in the midst of an enemy zerg using mist form.
- using frozen burst on a backstab thief always makes me laugh, especially if they keep trying and waste al initiative.
- go fish; Stand in wvw and pretend to be AFK wait for someone to bite :p
Anyway a big thank you to Arenanet that managed to make a game that I spend nearly 2000 hours in and that for 50€
