Guild Wars 2

The ele class has so many bad skills its shameful that they are actually thinking of nerfing the d/d bunker build as if we have something else to fall back on? the single target dmg of the scepter is just laughable, fire all the fire skills are either slow F1 useless F2 F3. slow but semi useful for the buffs E1 slow and omg if i thought F1 was slow >.> E1 is superslow and does less dmg than F1 E2 a buff E3. a weak atk with a blind which isnt that great anyway. W1 = lol W2 wtf were the dev’s thinking? and W3 a heal. L1 still kinda bugged on animation does minimal dmg and is a channel skill though its not for the +400 for toughness trait…L2 another minimal dmg skill on too long a cd and L3 blind >.>

even if you go GC its not worth it to be 2shot by any random HS spammer in Spvp so ur still forced to go semi binker which further gimps the dmg of this set up

Focus out of the 8 skills has maybe3-4 useful ones but still way too long of a CD to be useful in the short term. while the invul/reflect are nice they are so short, nothing more useful than to keep u alive for an extra few sec BUT you have ZERO mobility.. along with minimal dmg.

there is a reason 99% of ele go d/d because all other options are bad even when specced “right” they either dont do dmg or do minimal dmg and leave u with ZERO defence.. Cause even when specced into s/d or s/f i usally have around 3.3k defense and still can take a great deal of crit dmg and cant output enough dmg while im invul/reflecting wut have you. Now when u compare what d/d can do the utility the mobility the ability to heal and deal enough dmg to last long enough its no wonder when we look over at s/d /s/f or d/f its not an option.

How the hell do you have 3.3k armor as elementalist?

Ele tops out around 3840 armor (in sPvP) if you just really want to stack it.

30 earth, earth minor perk, earth I, shaman amulet, armor runes with toughness primary, earth scepter 2 and signet of earth.

edit: forgot signet

Maybe it’s because I hardly ever spend any time in the class subforums, but I have no idea what mose of these abbreviations mean. s/f s/d F1 E5 L2 L1 W2 and now my head is spinning.

Aequitas.6402:

Maybe it’s because I hardly ever spend any time in the class subforums, but I have no idea what mose of these abbreviations mean. s/f s/d F1 E5 L2 L1 W2 and now my head is spinning.

s/f = scepter/focus
s/d = scepter/dagger
F1 = fire weapon skill 1
etc.

F1 – fire attunement. Rather F1-1 would be fire – skill 1.

Lert.6287:

F1 – fire attunement. Rather F1-1 would be fire – skill 1.

Unless you bound F1 to a different action? He means F(ire) 1.

s/f is incredibly fun if you wanna mess around with it in WvW with guildies :P

And s/d became boring for me once people figured out that red circles are bad for you.

imho the only weapons set that requires a mandatory tweaking is scepter focus, which need to be “unlocked” by its traits-dependance.
All the qqing about D/D or Staff is directly related to the inability to understand their role in the universe, but it’s okay, free badges are always welcome