Guild Wars 2

Elementalist

Lowest base hp
Lowest base toughness
Lowest base power

That’s all.

PSX.9250:

Ele need a nerf more than anything, they can do everything extremely well. Plus Diamond Skin is OP.

So, 1:10 ratio compared with warrior in spvp is a case? Or the same ratio vs guardian or necro?

Malganis.7468:

I’m not understanding why Ele’s have the lowest health, and the lowest armor, but not the highest damage to compensate?

In comparison, Warriors have the highest health, highest armor, and the highest damage, and their trade off is the lowest healing.

Totally Totally Totally agree with you.

Low survivality, no filters against enemies(Mesmer has clones and 5k base health, thief hides and kills with 1 move light armors and has medium armor).

That’s the build i’ll use when i finish celestial exotic set.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArYhEmKbzx3wjEAEFwYSQBBMIUgRDlC5A-jUDBYLg4OAEBAUBgJfFRjtLoIasaHYqSIKXw6XoaYByUGybIZA-w

Xillllix.3485:

Belial.1605:

I love ele’s design, but in my opinion somthing have to be changed.

When hey they moved (nerfed) Elemental attunement and Soothing mist to master tier after our thousand of post (and many of us asking specifically that they do not go ahead with that idea) I lost all confidence that the elementalist issues would get fixed.

They destroyed my build (10/15/0/15/30 – need 20 points in water now for soothing mist) and then tell us it’s for the sake of build variety? It’s been a month now and I’m still trying to find a good build. And the 2 latest traits; Diamond skin, Super speed and the latest heal skill *arcane heal) are all useless in WvW.

I used exactly the same build that you posted! With S/D

I’m speaking about Spvp, Ele is a really good support character (With S/D tons of damage combo related) but that’s not sufficient. I played a lot of match, in most of these i had a lot of points at the end of the game, but i’m having the impression that 2 warriors with warhammers pressing 5 buttons in team are infinitely more effective than having 2 eles.
Eles have low base hp, low base armor, and good but not enough damage to kill other classes in 1 vs 1. If you want to kill, you have to spent all of your points in offensive traits and armor, and you are a paper sheet. If you want to survive and tank a little bit more, and mantain bases, you will kill nothing. Thief will kill better and faster than you, warrior can kill and tank, ranger make good damage without coughing blood. I love ele’s design, but in my opinion somthing have to be changed.

LightningBlaze.4913:

Belial.1605:

Hi all,
In my honest opinion Elementalist is now unplayable in WvW and in pvp.
In 1 vs 1 there is no way to kill a guardian or a warrior, i have to wait 14 seconds to make a combo with fire field (with 30 points in arcana), and when the combo goes well there aren’t other options to damage seriously the opponent which is still alive.
Physical resistance is ridicolous against heavy classes( i have 3000 armor, not bad for a light class). I’m not leaving water and arcana too, i had to spent 20 points in water to have cleansing wave and 30 in arcana to have a good mobility and cooldown times reduced as low as possible. The situation changes against light enemies, but for me and my experience (5 months only ele) this class is the worst of the game in most of the situations. I use S/D. Sorry for my bad english.

You are focusing too much on defensive traits. Pre-patch I was also running 3k armor with rock barrier up and my burst was still high to defeat any warrior and guardian. I lowered it now to 2857 because I prefer more offense rather than defense when it comes to solo and small group roaming. The defensive utilities and sigil are way more than enough to have great survivability along with good armor and hp pool but don’t over do it to the point you are not dealing more than just average damage with s/d. I have been playing ele since beta; I am still learning and finding new ways to play this profession very well… so your 5 months playing ele is still not enough to master the class. If you are stuck on a single build/gear for many months you just won’t become better with the profession, you gotta keep experimenting and finding new ways to improve even more.

I think that you are right man, although my build worked properly since new patch. i’ll redesign that. So i need an advice, which kind of weapon set do you suggest?

reikken.4961:

Belial.1605:

Hi all,
In my honest opinion Elementalist is now unplayable in WvW and in pvp.
In 1 vs 1 there is no way to kill a guardian or a warrior, i have to wait 14 seconds to make a combo with fire field (with 30 points in arcana), and when the combo goes well there aren’t other options to damage seriously the opponent which is still alive.
Physical resistance is ridicolous against heavy classes( i have 3000 armor, not bad for a light class). I’m not leaving water and arcana too, i had to spent 20 points in water to have cleansing wave and 30 in arcana to have a good mobility and cooldown times reduced as low as possible. The situation changes against light enemies, but for me and my experience (5 months only ele) this class is the worst of the game in most of the situations. I use S/D. Sorry for my bad english.

I kill warriors and guardians just fine
try incorporating some offense into your build. of course you won’t be able to kill them if you don’t do damage

Don’t know what can i do more without losing survivability….It works against light classes like i said

oZii.2864:

Belial.1605:

Hi all,
In my honest opinion Elementalist is now unplayable in WvW and in pvp.
In 1 vs 1 there is no way to kill a guardian or a warrior, i have to wait 14 seconds to make a combo with fire field (with 30 points in arcana), and when the combo goes well there aren’t other options to damage seriously the opponent which is still alive.
Physical resistance is ridicolous against heavy classes( i have 3000 armor, not bad for a light class). I’m not leaving water and arcana too, i had to spent 20 points in water to have cleansing wave and 30 in arcana to have a good mobility and cooldown times reduced as low as possible. The situation changes against light enemies, but for me and my experience (5 months only ele) this class is the worst of the game in most of the situations. I use S/D. Sorry for my bad english.

Is that 3000 armor with Rock barrier? That is alot probably should shave that off some.

No, knight armor + signet of earth + second earth skill(duration 30 seconds). 0/20/0/20/30 is my build.

Hi all,
In my honest opinion Elementalist is now unplayable in WvW and in pvp.
In 1 vs 1 there is no way to kill a guardian or a warrior, i have to wait 14 seconds to make a combo with fire field (with 30 points in arcana), and when the combo goes well there aren’t other options to damage seriously the opponent which is still alive.
Physical resistance is ridicolous against heavy classes( i have 3000 armor, not bad for a light class). I’m not leaving water and arcana too, i had to spent 20 points in water to have cleansing wave and 30 in arcana to have a good mobility and cooldown times reduced as low as possible. The situation changes against light enemies, but for me and my experience (5 months only ele) this class is the worst of the game in most of the situations. I use S/D. Sorry for my bad english.