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Ele compared to Ranger
it will never happen ….. because we have pets …..and others dont ……
Ele has massive aoe, ranger not so much… Also ranger damage is screwed over due to our damage being split with our pet…
On the flip side, we have massive damage buffing skills that affect up to 5 players like glyph of empowerment and frost spirit… but personally I’d give up the boring heal/buff bot role for something that required more than two brain cells…
Edited b/c gw2 forums are stupid and had to fix it…
(edited by Allison The Strange.4519)
That isn’t even the highest damage elementalist build, as he brings a focus for swirling winds instead of warhorn. All things considered, realistic tempest DPS (25-30k) is roughly double that of well-played condi-druid damage (10-16k).
As already mentioned though, our utility to the group is in the form of unique buffs and damage modifiers which if applied to the correct people can easily account for a deficit in personal damage. It just so happens that while doing this buffing we’re also pumping out a ton of passive heals, so that’s nice too!
I had no idea the difference between ele and ranger was this large. Honestly it’s embarrassing for rangers. A good start would be a 15% weapon skill damage across the board, allow us to rely slightly less on pets or make the next elite spec focus on pets and pet damage even more. Only after fixing pet path finding, and giving all pets some kind of leap-like ability in their auto attack to keep them from endlessly chasing targets and missing
hey we have the pet to compensate the 50% damage difference to other classes \s