Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

So I was having fun lvling the ele and was planning on doing roaming in wvw + pvp mostly. But that was before HOT, and it seems like there aren’t that many eles around. Are they still a strong pvp/roaming class?

I know ppl out there will say “play what you want”…but I did that with thief and warr, and those 2 classes aren’t that strong currently and it’s disappointing to put so much effort into a class only to find out how weak it is compared to other classes. Any input would be nice.

Thanks!

Well we are more or less as good as we were before, problem is that the rest got stronger making us an ok at best class currently. In WvW we still can get a staff and nuke groups or run around doing ok healing as Tempest.

Which leads me to my problem which is while each class got something new and cool to play, we get to become a ok healers with really meh damage unless we equip a staff, in which case we play just the same as we did all these years.

I’m changing to chronomancer.

Phantaram has an interesting spvp tempest build that i think is on metabattle. Could probably adopt it for roaming wvw as well. Ele for roaming as tempest looks to be pretty good on paper because you can build to be somewhat tanky (cavalier’s + scrapper runes + huge protection uptime) yet still put out some good damage with overloads.

Got a link? I don’t see any Tempest w/ Cavalier/Scrapper on metabattle.

Bhima.9518:

Phantaram has an interesting spvp tempest build that i think is on metabattle. Could probably adopt it for roaming wvw as well. Ele for roaming as tempest looks to be pretty good on paper because you can build to be somewhat tanky (cavalier’s + scrapper runes + huge protection uptime) yet still put out some good damage with overloads.

Use celestial, and mix it up with some zerk/knight/cavalier. Don’t know if scrapper runes are worth it.

Ele is still great in pve/wvw/pvp, just not as meta-crunching as before when basically every other class was just a worse version of eles.

Tempest is pretty fun too, especially the overloads. If you enjoy ele by all means stick to it. We’ll never be as bad as necros or rangers in pve, simply because of our class mechanics.

imho, Stick to what you love, If u love being a Elementalist stick to it, you are more likely to succeed with a proffession you love then the FoTM as u want to learn it and Not feeling forced to so u can Play OP for a Month

Its a MMORPG, buffs and nerfs come and pass throughout all proffessions, we all see bad times and good, Are elementalists weaker then pre HoT? yes, they’re not considered as good as they were anymore, but they arnt unplayable, Because the elite isnt so impactful as some proffessions u arnt forced to play it so there are much more viable builds out there to choose from using and not using the new Elite Specialization Tempest.

I mean im stuck between Necromancer/Elementalist/Ranger, I like the Elementalist alot but its Proving one hell of a learning curve for me tbh ( i dunno if its a harder proffession or not ) but its pretty disheartening when i just mess everything up which is why i generally play the others from time to time haha

but no, Eles are still good in all game modes, Stick to what u love really im sure tempests problems will be fixed over the course of the balancing patchs

grahf.7540:

Got a link? I don’t see any Tempest w/ Cavalier/Scrapper on metabattle.

Bhima.9518:

Phantaram has an interesting spvp tempest build that i think is on metabattle. Could probably adopt it for roaming wvw as well. Ele for roaming as tempest looks to be pretty good on paper because you can build to be somewhat tanky (cavalier’s + scrapper runes + huge protection uptime) yet still put out some good damage with overloads.

Phantaram’s spvp build doesn’t use scrapper or cavs. I’m not too confident that scrapper runes would be great in WvW as I think Trooper would work a bit better for a tempest for the condi cleanse. Scrapper works well in PvE though.

im trying to force things to work, eles arnt as strong as they were.. and Havnt broken into the Meta group yet (meta hasnt fully formed though so we may find something still)

but they arnt underpowered, and tbh Warriors are doing fine since the buffs now :P, i know sometimes being the weaker proffession is heartbreaking but tbh, they get fixed reguardless, u just gotta hold out through the thick and thin really.

I love the Ele at times i do stop playing it though, mostly because im finding it such a hard proffession to work really, i struggling to learn everything to to it and at times i feel useless due to that, but i keep trying to get good at it

This game has no good reasons to not level every profession. If you are so limited in time that you have to choose one or the other, don’t worry about maximum potential, you’ll never reach it anytime soon. To be the best in this game, you need to understand the mechanics of not just your class, but all classes.

There are no classes that can’t contribute to each and every game mode.

Your role will change in wvw or pvp depending on profession, and for pve everyone generally does the game thing with some professions bringing extra utilities. (such as portal, but a mesmer will still try and deal as much damage as possible)

Do not base your profession on what people consider the best in pvp at high mmr. It is irrelevant to your gameplay. This expansion, I’m enjoying my elementalist and thief the most. I have already leveled a scrapper as well, but didn’t enjoy it as much. While some players think scrapper is better than elementalist (I’m not even playing tempest right now). I find I have more fun and perform better on my ele. Sure I miss some things from my engineer, but that is how this game is balanced. No class can do it all, and every profession must make sacrifices for what they can do. Even though mesmer is amazing in pvp right now (chrono) the mesmer has terrible sustained damage. All classes suffer from some weakness.