Guild Wars 2

I notice one ele doing 20k meteor showers in wvwvw

Use Meteor Shower, then right after using it, use Tornado. Tornado doubles your Power and Precision.

And make sure you only fight against naked enemies, because you will never see 20k even against blue armor

Neko.9021:

Use Meteor Shower, then right after using it, use Tornado. Tornado doubles your Power and Precision.

Wow…never thought of this.

20 30 0 0 20 in full berserker gear.

Our organized zerker ele teams in WvW will stack might, throw out Ice Spike for mass vulnerability and then tornado meteor zergs with over 5k power, 100% crit chance and 100%+ crit damage (tornado triples your base power and precision). It’s… epic. I haven’t seen a 20k meteor because most people are wearing Soldier/Knight gear, but 12k-15k do pop up quite frequently when you have a big might stack and hit somebody with stacked vulnerability.

I run 30 20 0 0 20, because you can’t always rely on other people, but if you had other people spread vuln throughout the enemy zerg, you could take +10% damage above 90% health and +20% damage to vulnerable targets while attuned to water for some truly gargantuan crits.

… and this is why some Ele players have complained about the combos from the beginning. They nerf because of combos. They flat out disable mechanics to break or degrade combos. Combos add hidden time to effectively use a skill. Combo abilities limit build options by taking up slots and force 1-trick-pony play.

“Hey guys, why do I keep seeing tornados that run away or sit behind walls?”
“Oh, that’s what makes Eles hit hard.”
“Yeah man. Eles are OP damage.”
“True that. They need to nerf them more.”
“Kitten straight!”
“Reported Ele dps as a bug.”
“LOL, now they get that nerf.”
“’Kitten ’em.”
“Yeah. Who cares about Eles anyways. Moar warrior sauce plz.”
“Cherry or strawberry?”
“What?”
“You asked for warrior sauce. I’m asking what flavor.”
“Kitten flavor because that’s the taste I leave in their mouth.”
“LOL, reported for being a kitten.”

I found out the same thing lately. It seems eles deal by far the most damage to a zerg – by far. One ele can dish out such insane amounts of damage especially due to the buff to the radius of the hits. I tried one meteorshower on a golem and one golem is being hit 8-9 times usually. That means if not everyone mass zerg on one spot for the 5aoe limit of kittens chances are very high that you will get hit many times by the same ele in a zerg fight. And even if you get hit only 4 times thats sometimes 20k damage being hit for 5k which is rather realistic.
If he uses this trick then you might be simply dead even in a tanky setup. In my opinion they should take a look at this imbalance. No single person should have such a huge effect on an entire zerg.
I will probably make an ele too now because if you think about it – the ele is THE damage dealer in the zerg who damage wise probably outshines every other class by a factor of 5-10 with meteorshower.

Arpheus.6918:

I found out the same thing lately. It seems eles deal by far the most damage to a zerg – by far. One ele can dish out such insane amounts of damage especially due to the buff to the radius of the hits. I tried one meteorshower on a golem and one golem is being hit 8-9 times usually. That means if not everyone mass zerg on one spot for the 5aoe limit of kittens chances are very high that you will get hit many times by the same ele in a zerg fight. And even if you get hit only 4 times thats sometimes 20k damage being hit for 5k which is rather realistic.
If he uses this trick then you might be simply dead even in a tanky setup. In my opinion they should take a look at this imbalance. No single person should have such a huge effect on an entire zerg.
I will probably make an ele too now because if you think about it – the ele is THE damage dealer in the zerg who damage wise probably outshines every other class by a factor of 5-10 with meteorshower.

You’re more than welcome to roll an Ele and try it out yourself. Just don’t come here and complain about the time you wasted.

As for meteor shower, it is devastating. I’d say probably one of the strongest, if not the strongest AoE spell in the game. But it also has many tradeoffs:
1. 4 seconds of channeling. That’s 4 seconds of not moving, which can be very dangerous if you’re in PvP or WvW where movement is key to survival.
2. Easily avoidable. After you cast it, there’s a 1 second delay before the first meteor hits. Also, since it’s damage over 7 seconds and the location where meteors land is random, you can easily move out of the AoE area and not get hit by a single meteor.

All in all, I don’t see too many complaining about staff Ele’s in WvW. Meteor shower + tornado is another topic, and I personally think should be nerfed (nerf the combo, NOT meteor shower). Also, Ele’s other staff damaging abilities are rather terrible, so I think it’s justified to have one strong skill to make up for our other lackluster skills.

BAEK.8561:

Arpheus.6918:

I found out the same thing lately. It seems eles deal by far the most damage to a zerg – by far. One ele can dish out such insane amounts of damage especially due to the buff to the radius of the hits. I tried one meteorshower on a golem and one golem is being hit 8-9 times usually. That means if not everyone mass zerg on one spot for the 5aoe limit of kittens chances are very high that you will get hit many times by the same ele in a zerg fight. And even if you get hit only 4 times thats sometimes 20k damage being hit for 5k which is rather realistic.
If he uses this trick then you might be simply dead even in a tanky setup. In my opinion they should take a look at this imbalance. No single person should have such a huge effect on an entire zerg.
I will probably make an ele too now because if you think about it – the ele is THE damage dealer in the zerg who damage wise probably outshines every other class by a factor of 5-10 with meteorshower.

You’re more than welcome to roll an Ele and try it out yourself. Just don’t come here and complain about the time you wasted.

As for meteor shower, it is devastating. I’d say probably one of the strongest, if not the strongest AoE spell in the game. But it also has many tradeoffs:
1. 4 seconds of channeling. That’s 4 seconds of not moving, which can be very dangerous if you’re in PvP or WvW where movement is key to survival.
2. Easily avoidable. After you cast it, there’s a 1 second delay before the first meteor hits. Also, since it’s damage over 7 seconds and the location where meteors land is random, you can easily move out of the AoE area and not get hit by a single meteor.

All in all, I don’t see too many complaining about staff Ele’s in WvW. Meteor shower + tornado is another topic, and I personally think should be nerfed (nerf the combo, NOT meteor shower). Also, Ele’s other staff damaging abilities are rather terrible, so I think it’s justified to have one strong skill to make up for our other lackluster skills.

I don’t think that many ele’s will agree with you that the combo needs to be nerfed.

BAEK.8561:

Arpheus.6918:

I found out the same thing lately. It seems eles deal by far the most damage to a zerg – by far. One ele can dish out such insane amounts of damage especially due to the buff to the radius of the hits. I tried one meteorshower on a golem and one golem is being hit 8-9 times usually. That means if not everyone mass zerg on one spot for the 5aoe limit of kittens chances are very high that you will get hit many times by the same ele in a zerg fight. And even if you get hit only 4 times thats sometimes 20k damage being hit for 5k which is rather realistic.
If he uses this trick then you might be simply dead even in a tanky setup. In my opinion they should take a look at this imbalance. No single person should have such a huge effect on an entire zerg.
I will probably make an ele too now because if you think about it – the ele is THE damage dealer in the zerg who damage wise probably outshines every other class by a factor of 5-10 with meteorshower.

You’re more than welcome to roll an Ele and try it out yourself. Just don’t come here and complain about the time you wasted.

As for meteor shower, it is devastating. I’d say probably one of the strongest, if not the strongest AoE spell in the game. But it also has many tradeoffs:
1. 4 seconds of channeling. That’s 4 seconds of not moving, which can be very dangerous if you’re in PvP or WvW where movement is key to survival.
2. Easily avoidable. After you cast it, there’s a 1 second delay before the first meteor hits. Also, since it’s damage over 7 seconds and the location where meteors land is random, you can easily move out of the AoE area and not get hit by a single meteor.

All in all, I don’t see too many complaining about staff Ele’s in WvW. Meteor shower + tornado is another topic, and I personally think should be nerfed (nerf the combo, NOT meteor shower). Also, Ele’s other staff damaging abilities are rather terrible, so I think it’s justified to have one strong skill to make up for our other lackluster skills.

You missed a downside, in that the high number of targets and hits means that a fairly large percentage of the time you are getting five procs of retaliation hit you per meteor. I’ve been killed by this several times today alone.