Guild Wars 2

Bsquared.3421:

Are you guys for real? Anet is focusing on exactly what they said they would: fixing bugs and exploits. There are a lot more of them to fix, so really I wouldn’t expect any systematic attempts at class balancing any time soon.

Give the Chicken Little routine a rest. The sky is not falling.

This times 1000. Calm the kitten down people, seriously.

Did you honestly expect to get major class changes, new downed state skills, massive buffs, and a weapon swap 1 freaking month into the game?!? Seriously? For real?

The Elementalist as currently constructed is a pretty decent class with bugs affecting our effectiveness more than anything. Quit your whining, the class is not nearly as broken as many of these posts would suggest! I’ll admit, I wish they had fixed a few more Ele bugs (e.g., make windborne dagger actually work, cantrips mastery on mistform, etc.) but the game is just over one month old, they have more pressing issues (as evidenced by the number of fixes to Necro).

The game is 1 month old, but there was 6 months of beta testing and these bugs were reported by the time and still not fixed…

You are just unlucky, they drop don’t worry. Just got 10 crystals today, 5 from items which I created using orbs and rest from gold chests. I don’t buy copper or silver.

The game is still lagging from time to time like hell.
sPvP unplayable today, 3s lag spikes, asked the oposing team and they were lagging too, guild mates were lagging…
Any explanation Anet?

importune.7120:

It sounds to me that you’re just not playing it well. The elementalist, at worst, is BARELY under the other classes when played (and built) properly.

Also, how could you say that ANet is ignoring anything? Have you read these posts? :

Changing a game of this scale has tons of implications and requires testing and tons of group thought before anything can be done. Give it time, and try different builds. Everything has a counter.

I will not talk about the Elementalist is “OP” or “UP”… I am quite fine with the current state except bugs on elementalist.
I am sick of it… mostly Arc Lightning animation stuck and RtL strange behavior, I have been reporting these bugs since BWE1 and nothing have changed!
It is in development over 5 years, these things have been reported many times in betas and I am sure even alpha testers must have reported it… what are they doing?

Good job MajorMelchett.6042, keep up the good work. I hope we will get it sticky as Necromancers got their topic even with a responce from Anet.

Anyway, regarding a bug.
I was testing something with the Steady weapons on Golems and found that Arcane Blast and Arcane Wave deal to the golems the same damage like with normal PvP weapons, not reduced and is always different, so basically you cannot test these two skills. See screenshot for combat log or check it.

Please fix this skill, it works only 50% of the time.
Often you’ll stun yourself or go in opposite direction then you are looking, sometimes you only move 20ft and get stunned for the time of the animation and so on…
Also Ride the lightning does not work with the 20% lightning skill recharge trait (Aeromancer’s Alacrity) the cooldown should be 12s as tooltip say but it’s still 15s.

Reporting this issue since BWE1 and still not fixed after so many months… that is sad