Guild Wars 2

I play Staff Bunker on my Elementalist in sPvP, tPvP, and WvW and I do find it to be really strong. I am honestly expecting a bit of a nerf on it though, so I’m curious. What changes would guys make to balance it a little and lower its performance slightly? Please keep in mind any suggestions that you might make also impact the rest of the class’s mechanics.

Screenshot is current stats and skills I use. Running 10 Earth, 30 Water, 30 Arcane.

Stop trolling. You made the same post on reddit which got downvoted into oblivion; you created an account on reddit 4 hours ago just for that. Link to thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/11oyjg/bunker_elementalist/ . You haven’t provided any videos or links to builds and your screen shot is a joke as your stats do not indicate you even running with exotic gear.

As mentioned by others in the reddit thread, three are plenty of other classes out there that can bunker extremely well. The majority of videos found out there for bunker classes pertain to gaurdian and engy. I understand ele can bunker, but other class can do it extremely well also. So please provide some evidence that shows the class can do it far better than guardian and engy and then maybe you’ll be taken seriously.

A-Net has already stated that they think Bunker Ele is too strong.

I’m just curious at what people think that they may do besides just give everything -33%.

People barely know why some builds work well… And untill they figure outhow t works and how to easily counter it.. Let them yust run like chickens without a head

I think guardians bunker build is more silly. I will be holding a point, and now I’m on my but outside of the point and over time the guardian will claim the point with all of his knock you out of the ring skills. Even with armour of earth and free amour of earth. Not to mention that if I don’t take mist form then a pure backstab thief will kill me most times. Not to bad when he attacks the point alone, I can normally get out of his combo, but still sometimes I will go down. And when your in a 3 min fight with that guardian who just took your point by knocking you out every cd he gets, that thief comes along and suddenly … your dead

Really dude? What are you, on something? Bunker staff ele is crap. GTFO with your obviously troll posts. Clearly you haven’t tried guardian bunker. Or Engi bunker.

Also. Nice attempt there at trying to get our already sucky class nerfed.

why would anyone want to play an ele bunker build…… you are unable to kill anything. i dont get it why ppl tend to play bunker builds.

Dps isn’t that bad in a bunker spec…or should I be keeping this secret?? ;p

Soldiers amulet 10 air 30 water 30 arcane (standard staff “bunker ele” build) your meteors tick for 1k, your fire #2 aoe ticks for 800, fire auto attack roughly 700 and earth #2 3k total damage. That’s not that bad considering you’re tough to kill.

If you’re fighting people outside of a point, then don’t. Fight on a point so people have to stand in your aoe :P But we all know that….right….

I don’t really care if ArenaNet wants to nerf something. Though I do hope they realise that if they nerf survivability specs, burst/DPS specced professions like Thieves and Warriors that have their defenses built into the profession itself are going to completely and utterly wreck everything. Much like during the BWE events, when everyone was squishy as hell.

Why is it okay for these professions to twoshot others? Why is that suddenly an L2P situation on the other’s end? Bunker builds are just a counter people came up with to deal with that crap. People did learn to play. But now it’s suddenly “overpowered”, because no-skill crutch scrubs like 100 blades warriors can’t 100>0 people in three buttonpresses anymore.

Hsulf.9370:

Dps isn’t that bad in a bunker spec…or should I be keeping this secret?? ;p

Soldiers amulet 10 air 30 water 30 arcane (standard staff “bunker ele” build) your meteors tick for 1k, your fire #2 aoe ticks for 800, fire auto attack roughly 700 and earth #2 3k total damage. That’s not that bad considering you’re tough to kill.

If you’re fighting people outside of a point, then don’t. Fight on a point so people have to stand in your aoe :P But we all know that….right….

as i said, the dps is awfull

Wheeping Song.6423:

why would anyone want to play an ele bunker build…… you are unable to kill anything. i dont get it why ppl tend to play bunker builds.

Some people prefer and enjoy survivability over the ability to quickly and efficiently kill other players. You know, those of us who played healers and tanks and buffers in other games…. we haven’t suddenly changed our preferences.

Stupid question, but what is a bunker build?

Stupid question, but what is a bunker build?

In a nutshell, a super defense oriented build that is meant to literally “bunker down” on a point and keep enemies from controlling it. You are very hard to kill but deal very little damage.

In my experience, the elementalist bunker build is the one thing we do exceedingly well.