Guild Wars 2

I’ve never felt more frustrated in playing a character this weak. I mean, after months of playing an Ele, I thought that, man, GW2 is a difficult game. I love being the archmage type of player so I definitely feel that the ele class was for me. But then after a few weeks of leveling a mesmer, a necro, and a ranger and taking them into sPVP, realization struck me. Eles are in a dire state I believe. The other classes I’ve mentioned are so easy to play, sometimes I play with one hand only, no joke. Damage output is basically AI and condition dependent so the skills are mostly fire and forget or just spam autoattack. Yeah, eles spam skills to since they have a lot at their disposal, however, most skills are so pathetically weak, using them is basically just using them for the sake of using a skill other than the crappy auto attack. And then there’s the issue of survivability. Maybe this is an L2P issue but playing a spec outside of 30 water 30 arcana is just suicide. You die in 3 hits and you still can’t kill enemies fast enough as frequently as how you do it with another class. It’s just frustrating. I just needed to vent that’s why I created this thread.

I wish the devs do something about the ele as a class. Yeah, I get that they thought it was good for the game to nerf certain builds that was a bit too powerful in the survivability department like d/d eles and EA staff eles. But taking away so much of that survivability left the ele with nothing else up on their sleeves. It’s either DPS with a hammer and GS and become trying hard warriors which do amazing DPS without even swapping weapons. Or full support and still die because a full regen/bunker/condi removal specced staff ele can still be overwhelmed with so many conditions by just an engie/necro duo. And they spam these conditions like there’s no tomorrow.

I want to do decent damage without relying on conjures so much. I want to have some sort of out of jail cards when I’m close to death like how thieves stealth and shadowtrap and how mesmers evade and phase retreat so easily. Playing a mesmer full zerker, or carrion, and I do DPS without dying or worrying about dying so much since I have so many options to kite, retreat, and negate damage. With the ele, yes I have heals and regen and boons but I have to spec heavily into healing and boon duration to get anything out of it. Speccing zerker and you die in one or two grawling scratch while your cantrips have fairly long cooldowns. Relying too much on utilities to survive is not a good thing since it’s a selfish way of speccing whereas a mesmer can slot some indispensable tools in a team battle.

I think I blabbered too much and I don’t know if I got my point across, but I just want to say that my ele which was the very first character I made in GW2 will be on the shelf for a little while and that just saddens me. I wish I can play him more but it’s just not fun anymore when you feel so useless and under-performing compared to other classes.

I’m not gonna ask for buffs, but please stay away with the nerfs. The point you’re making has been made before. I don’t know wether i agree though…. Don’t think Anet cares though they’re too busy buffing warriors.