Guild Wars 2

Making it more complicated than it is won’t help, quite to the contrary. And reducing the number/complexity of skills will ruin what’s individual and fun about it. It’s the one class I think they’ve put a lot of work into for this reason.

Structurally, I think the class is perfect as it is, it just takes far too much work to make it effective in its current state. Other classes attack you without breaking a sweat ala Hannibal Lector calmly killing someone with a hammer to the sound of classical music whilst you’re mashing keys in spastic frenzy just to stave off even a mediocre attacker.

The only change I think it needs is more obvious outcomes to polarised speccing. If you spec power/‘Glass Canon’ you currently get more glass and less canon. It clearly needs a boost to dps-output in this capacity if we’re going to be that squishy. Similarly, if you spec for support/survivability you lose dps output AND it’s not nearly as supporty/survivable as it should be in this form so a little boost here is needed too to make it worth while.

Now, the only teeny weeny inchy problem with boosting the ele, is the very high potential it currently has to spew out damage if played right (or under the effect of finger stimulants) even in its current state so boosting either traited dps or survivability would make anyone who is currently effective as an ele turn into a beast leading to much forum whinging and calls for nerfskittenomfgs etc.

Still something needs to be done, it’s such a pain in thekittento play, it makes a man want to take the easy road and roll a special needs warrior.

Big time. Major priority to bring pvp into line imo. It’s the only class that is blindingly obviously overcooked, I can’t understand how this got through the net when the elementalist is such an underpowered mess. No other class is so hard to take down whilst putting out such damage. Even crap warriors that don’t seem to know how to use all their skills are ridiculous in pvp so the good ones are absolutely silly. A summary glance at the number of people playing them in pvp should be something of an indication, very frequently half of both teams are warriors. And sure, yeah, stun breaker you say, that easy, huh?That’ll get you out of one of the dozen ways they have to nail you down. So is the suggested balance to give us all a stun breaker with no cooldown?