Guild Wars 2

Jon Peters talks about builds that are “lost in spirit”, here is one potentially.

If Lightning hammer is gutted too much, eles won’t be viable for might stacking anymore, because stacking might is best done with scepter, but scepter personal damage is low. Lightning Hammer is used to make up for the low damage of scepter. If the damage is too much lower than what a staff ele can put out, you can kiss might stacking eles goodbye, because people will not take a Scepter Ele into dungeons just to stack might and do terrible DPS, it’s too much of a sacrifice to make.

So please don’t give LH the “fiery rush” treatment.

2 ele comp will become 1 ele and 1 engi. Not a bad trade.

For reference: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Elementalist_-_S/F_LH

With all the PS warriors around and prestacking…people will just run staff.

Laraley.7695:

With all the PS warriors around and prestacking…people will just run staff.

and people do that, they are both viable alternatives, if your group has 2 warriors 1 runs gs dps build, the other runs ps build, if your group has 2 eles 1 runs staff, the other runs scepter/focus LH, if you have 2 of each well.. you’ll figure it out but it is nice to have 2 meta builds per class in that situation so there’s options, not a lot of classes have multiple meta builds currently.

Change to LH may remove one of Ele’s meta builds. D/F is decent, but it’d probably just be better to have 2 staff eles than have a D/F.

Devildoc.6721:

Laraley.7695:

With all the PS warriors around and prestacking…people will just run staff.

and people do that, they are both viable alternatives, if your group has 2 warriors 1 runs gs dps build, the other runs ps build, if your group has 2 eles 1 runs staff, the other runs scepter/focus LH, if you have 2 of each well.. you’ll figure it out but it is nice to have 2 meta builds per class in that situation so there’s options, not a lot of classes have multiple meta builds currently.

Change to LH may remove one of Ele’s meta builds. D/F is decent, but it’d probably just be better to have 2 staff eles than have a D/F.

SF is just so weak, without LH it will be unvaible really. Same with DF. If they really lose their conjures, no one will run it.

Laraley.7695:

Devildoc.6721:

Laraley.7695:

With all the PS warriors around and prestacking…people will just run staff.

and people do that, they are both viable alternatives, if your group has 2 warriors 1 runs gs dps build, the other runs ps build, if your group has 2 eles 1 runs staff, the other runs scepter/focus LH, if you have 2 of each well.. you’ll figure it out but it is nice to have 2 meta builds per class in that situation so there’s options, not a lot of classes have multiple meta builds currently.

Change to LH may remove one of Ele’s meta builds. D/F is decent, but it’d probably just be better to have 2 staff eles than have a D/F.

SF is just so weak, without LH it will be unvaible really. Same with DF. If they really lose their conjures, no one will run it.

Don’t forget that D/f is losing 2 10% modifiers and Bolt to the heart.

Xcorpdog.2840:

Laraley.7695:

Devildoc.6721:

Laraley.7695:

With all the PS warriors around and prestacking…people will just run staff.

and people do that, they are both viable alternatives, if your group has 2 warriors 1 runs gs dps build, the other runs ps build, if your group has 2 eles 1 runs staff, the other runs scepter/focus LH, if you have 2 of each well.. you’ll figure it out but it is nice to have 2 meta builds per class in that situation so there’s options, not a lot of classes have multiple meta builds currently.

Change to LH may remove one of Ele’s meta builds. D/F is decent, but it’d probably just be better to have 2 staff eles than have a D/F.

SF is just so weak, without LH it will be unvaible really. Same with DF. If they really lose their conjures, no one will run it.

Don’t forget that D/f is losing 2 10% modifiers and Bolt to the heart.

Yeah, basically Air and Arcana got kittened over.

You’re right. D/F fresh air builds got wrecked with the bolt to the heart change.

Staff campfire build is pretty much the only thing left now.