Guild Wars 2

There are tons of posts regarding Elementalists being under powered, complicated to play or just overall frustrating. So is Anet doing anything about it or are many of us just doing something horribly wrong?

For me most of the frustration personally comes from dungeons and my lack of survivability. I find just am not having any fun playing the class.

Here is a general list of what i have tried:

Damage set: low survival rate, good damage (only thing that kills faster then me is a war)

Healing set: better survival rate, no damage, party does love me though (got a marriage offer once, no joke)

Tanky set: Live longer then healing, so survival is higher, better damage since i am alive longer to dish out more.

Tried different specs (Yes i do attunement swap and have tried several different weapons)

PS: What do you find works for you guys? Also does anyone know if burns stack? (i.e. Signet burn, 3 from staff or another professions burn)

Well I invested in a half glass cannot half defense (with toughness) sort of build, am pretty survivable and still do decent damage. But that’s only for PvE.

According to
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/6796/Colin-Johanson-on-the-Live-Teams-the-Future.html

Search for “Balance”

They are very proud of the balance.

I think it’s safe to say the game does require some more balancing.

I appreciate they’re taking their time seeing as it is still early days… but there are so many bugs that exist in a number of ele skills. If there is no significant amount of bug fixes next patch… i will not be a happy chappy.

They should already change the official profession description so it no longer states “massive damage” to give players false hopes.

That would already fix a lot because if you don’t go class cannon the Elementalist isaside from bugs all professions suffer from mostly fine.

They are working on it, they know it all and they are working on it. One could wish for more updates to the community about work in progress etc but in the end its not like they are just ignoring the problems which the forums are on fire with.

They are not ignoring the problem, they simply think there is no problem at all.