Guild Wars 2

JonathanSharp.7094:

Oh ya, wanted to add: yes, we’re watching Mesmers, bunker Guardians and tank heal Ele’s. Forgot to add that.

Hi Everyone,

Above is a recent comment by a dev on tank/heal eles? I’ve played this build and have lasted as long as my necro(with my double hp bar) and my guardian..but in turn, my dps significantly drops. Is this build that OP that they’re watching it?

I do hope they are aware of all the comments on these forums. If the one statement they make about ele balance is in regards to a nerf, then I’m not sure what the future of this class holds.

Please (respectfully)share your thoughts.

I hope they don’t nerf it. It’s my favorite thing to do. I do very little damage in response and feel very group oriented.

Guardians can tank better, the healing is not to write to home about and you do lose a nice amount of dmg….

I think they will watch this spec yust to keep it the same but slightly buff the other elementalist roles. Cause if they would nerf such an build it would probably make sure noone will try to become either tank/healer or support anymore tbh this spec is the most balanced thing ive seen so far

If they nerf this spec, without buffing elementalists in other areas, we will be completely unviable.

He said, “tank heal” (eles healing tanks), not “tank/heal”.

I agree, I feel adequate in a group (dungeon) but solo/duo w/ele isn’t fun—a lot of work for little return.

Imo as long as there is a risk to reward for the spec then all is good.

EG not to have insane dmg and insane healing.

Cirion.3598:

EG not to have insane dmg and insane healing.

I don’t think we have either…not even close.

I’m pretty sure they won’t nerf it, considering the fact that a nerf here would make us pretty useless. It’s seriously our only pve style that doesn’t completely blow.

@Virri.1789
D/D Aura builds are Glorious

Shockwave.1230:

@Virri.1789
D/D Aura builds are Glorious

I want to like them, but the long attunement switches bother me. =/

If the take away tank/heal ele, I’m seriously hoping they replace it with something, or we’ll be even more useless than we are now.

I was 2 shot as my tank spec by a thief today. I got the jump on him as he came to my base, set him on fire and he stealthed…. then i died.
and they wanna nerf THAT spec?

So they really want to make elementalists useless huh?

Would people like to know what the quote I see is?

JonathanSharp.7094:

Oh ya, wanted to add: yes, we’re watching Mesmers, bunker Guardians and tank heal Ele’s. Forgot to add that.

Does that Quote say nerf?

Do people know what happens when people start falsely interpreting and raging throughout the forums about what Devs say without a valid reason to be upset? Devs stop gifting us information, and for good reason. What incentive is their to gift us more information outside of official blogs and patch notes when people are just spreading wrong information and going to find reasons to rage? I see less than 0 incentive.

Try to cool it people, and get information from the source.

At this point I’m pretty sure all the game designers play thief because they are neither watching all the semi-perma stealth that shadow refuge offers nor infinite dodges and survivability.

One option left: Let’s play a thief then we will never have a ballance issue. What an ideal life would it be.

i’m starting to think the same. When something hinders Glass Cannon thiefs they nerf it just to make GC thieves stand out more :/

Shockwave.1230:

Would people like to know what the quote I see is?

JonathanSharp.7094:

Oh ya, wanted to add: yes, we’re watching Mesmers, bunker Guardians and tank heal Ele’s. Forgot to add that.

Does that Quote say nerf?

Do people know what happens when people start falsely interpreting and raging throughout the forums about what Devs say without a valid reason to be upset? Devs stop gifting us information, and for good reason. What incentive is their to gift us more information outside of official blogs and patch notes when people are just spreading wrong information and going to find reasons to rage? I see less than 0 incentive.

Try to cool it people, and get information from the source.

Hi Shockwave -hope you are having a great evening. I don’t think anyone is raging-just expressing their opinion/concern. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that. If you read the post it said “respectfully” and thus far everyone – has responded in a decent manner. I personally just wanted to get other perspectives to determine If I was missing something (especially if they are focusing on it). I’ve played it and the damage is abysmal -I just wanted to see if someone else had a different perspective. I apologize if that bothered you.

It´s propably just that all the whining and moaning around here starts to get on everyones nerves.

If i were an dev and looked at this thread, i would consider nerfing it yust to make everyone cry XD

Elementalist seriously need some love… If we go power house build (cannon) then we do around 1 – 3k dmg, but die in 1 or 2 hits. If we go tank / condition build, we still die in 1 – 4 hits and do crap for damage. When can we expect some love. Level 80 Ele with 30 Earth and decent gear (not fully geared yet but not bad either) died in 4 hits to a thief tonight. He did 6.5k 1 hit, 5k 2nd hit, 6k 3rd hit, and 4k to finish me off. Wth? I couldnt even out run him… Ride the lightning, Mist form, Lightning flashed as far as i could get, but he just did a double teleport thing plus 20% movement speed from his signet thing. Ele’s cant run this fast and we are the squishiest!

mcavellero.8153:

JonathanSharp.7094:

Oh ya, wanted to add: yes, we’re watching Mesmers, bunker Guardians and tank heal Ele’s. Forgot to add that.

Hi Everyone,

Above is a recent comment by a dev on tank/heal eles? I’ve played this build and have lasted as long as my necro(with my double hp bar) and my guardian..but in turn, my dps significantly drops. Is this build that OP that they’re watching it?

I do hope they are aware of all the comments on these forums. If the one statement they make about ele balance is in regards to a nerf, then I’m not sure what the future of this class holds.

Please (respectfully)share your thoughts.

ANet is more then aware. They have gone as far to lock down some good constructive criticism threads. They know we are very unhappy.

BishopX.6453
I was 2 shot as my tank spec by a thief today. I got the jump on him as he came to my base, set him on fire and he stealthed…. then i died.
and they wanna nerf THAT spec?

It’s hard to love thief when playing ele.
One thief could solo two eles. I was 1 shot by a thief in WvWvW by backstab in glass firecracker build. And another nearby ele just died after me in 3 seconds when we were focus killing enemy siege.