Guild Wars 2

I’ve recently gotten back into ele, and I’ve just been comparing utilities between us and other classes. Mainly Armor of Earth, Mistform, Lightning Flash, and RTL.

Why does Armor of Earth have a 90-second CD. I really cannot understand this at all. 30 in arcana, and you have 7 seconds of Protection and Stability? Not worth it.

Mistform has a 3 second duration, and allows you to move 66% faster. In reality you’re always going to be in combat when using this skill. So it’s more like say 50%? When a warrior has Endure Pain that is on a 60 second CD with a 4 second duration. You can use skills as well. This just seems unfair. Mesmer as well has a 60 second CD on their invuln. 46 seconds if traited. Can use skills as well.

I’m mainly comparing LF to the mesmer’s Blink. Yes Blink does not do damage, but it has a 10 second shorter CD (30). Personally I’d rather take the mesmer’s Blink over our LF. Oh I nearly forgot, it’s a stun-breaker as well.

RTL was nerfed a couple months ago. Warriors have insane mobility with GS. A warrior can use rush which is basically the equivalent of RTL, but it’s still on a 20 second CD whether they hit anything or not.

Just been really irritated lately with the state of elementalist. Maybe I’m not seeing something in my blind rage. Please feel free to leave feedback.

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I’ve recently gotten back into ele, and I’ve just been comparing utilities between us and other classes. Mainly Armor of Earth, Mistform, Lightning Flash, and RTL.

Why does Armor of Earth have a 90-second CD. I really cannot understand this at all. 30 in arcana, and you have 7 seconds of Protection and Stability? Not worth it.

Mistform has a 3 second duration, and allows you to move 66% faster. In reality you’re always going to be in combat when using this skill. So it’s more like say 50%? When a warrior has Endure Pain that is on a 60 second CD with a 4 second duration. You can use skills as well. This just seems unfair. Mesmer as well has a 60 second CD on their invuln. 46 seconds if traited. Can use skills as well.

I’m mainly comparing LF to the mesmer’s Blink. Yes Blink does not do damage, but it has a 10 second shorter CD (30). Personally I’d rather take the mesmer’s Blink over our LF. Oh I nearly forgot, it’s a stun-breaker as well.

RTL was nerfed a couple months ago. Warriors have insane mobility with GS. A warrior can use rush which is basically the equivalent of RTL, but it’s still on a 20 second CD whether they hit anything or not.

Just been really irritated lately with the state of elementalist. Maybe I’m not seeing something in my blind rage. Please feel free to leave feedback.

Lo and behold, the grand summary of this subforum’s woes, all concentrated within 1 single post.

Give or take a couple.

Guess what, we are still going to get nerfed soon!

Why you ask?
Mesmers OP? Better nerf eles.
Necros OP? Better nerf eles.
Guardians OP? Better nerf eles.
Rangers OP? Better nerf eles.
Thieves OP? Better nerf eles.
Warriors OP? Better nerf eles.

Plus we see other classes getting buffs after buffs, and what we get?? Buffs to conjures. thats it.

Yeah, the high CDs on Ele skills are apparently there because we have 20 weapon skills. Problem is, the skills also have generally lower damage numbers, and one of the main points of Ele is being able to do cool cross-attunement combos (RtL > Updraft > Fire Attune > Burning Speed > Fire Grab, for example) but those can’t really be done more than every 40 secs, 45 in some cases, and the full combo is just about as effective as some of the generic weapon combos that most other classes have (Guardian Greatsword can do Binding Blade, Symbol of Wrath, Pull, then Whirling Wrath for easy powerful damage, and even manages to get Retal and cure conditions of nearby allies with this combo, all on one weapon).

However, this entire theory would only make sense if it were just on weapon skills. There’s literally no reason why skills such as Armour of Earth and Mist Form need to have such high CDs when there’s skills such as Stand Your Ground (Retal and Stability SHOUT, also stun-breaker for the user) on only a 30 second CD, or as stated, Warrior’s Endure Pain Stance on a shorter CD. ANet needs to take another look and ask themselves why Eles need to have such high CDs on their utilities especially, but it also really wouldn’t hurt for them to take a look at the 4/5 slots on most weapon setups.