Guild Wars 2

Fuzzion.2504:

Well lets look at it in the grand picture

Fire – No real buffs or Nerfs
Air – Major mess created/ Nerf
Earth – Unchanged
Water – Buffed a little
Arcane – Major mess created/ a little nerfed

Cantrips – Too early to tell
SoR – Unchanged
Glyphs – Did anyone use these?
Signets – Too early to tell

Elites – One can only hope
Conjures- Nerfed a little

In total its too early to tell but air and arcane got messed up.

Earth was nerfed. Earth embrace is 25% trigger instead of 50%.
Arcane is a huge nerf. Since we can no longer have evasive arcana and boons on attunement.

All of the things people say eles are “good” at now will change when the new system is in place. If you think eles are squishy now wait till the new system. Eles will stat getting one shot. lol

I agree with you completely. However, I dont think ele will ever be “balanced”. It is not the devs will. Ice bow is where is should be and I have no idea if D/D will be viable. They have been wanting to force players away from D/D for alooong time. This expac might just do it.

aspirine.6852:

No, a good player with ‘just’ exotics will destroy, no matter what the other is wearing.

Half true. Its more based on the builds used Exotic armor is the minimum.

Neko.9021:

Ele Elites are actually really good. FGS mobility is useful for all sorts of things (organized teams use them to rotate in sPvP, speedclear teams to move through stuff faster, gives an escape in WvW). The Elemental gives a good AoE heal or the Rock Elemental can be an actual tank because it somehow does a good job of pulling aggro, not entirely sure why. Tornado is pretty terrible ever since the nerf though, I’ll give you that. ^^;

But the elites Eles have are overall pretty strong.

Our Elites are not as strong as he suggests when compared to other classes. FG was good for the DMG as well as the mobility. After the nerf the ONLY thing it is good for is running or trying to catch someone as long as the class is not a nike warrior or a thief. Tornado is only good if you use it on a wall or some kind of choke point. Even then the radius so small that any class with a range weapon can kill you long before you knock them down. The DMG is also very meh. On top of those things confusion and torment will rekt you before you can do anything of note. On the positive side it does give you stab for the duration.

Front line D/D is possible but requires 0/0/2/6/6 Armor of earth at 50% is very nice if you dont have guards in you grp. If you do have stab from guards than Earth Trait V combined with Aura share is very nice because of perma protection. It goes w/o saying that you wont be able to run armor/weapon/runes for dps. I’ll leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jiTXy3myho&index=4&list=FLxq6sL6bSj3jriH4CdsctBA

Some of the posts in this thread..wow. Warriors have not been in a “bad spot” since beta. Go play a class that gets nerfed every patch then see how “balanced” warriors are.

Stealth not OP…lol. Add stealth detection skills and all will be right with the world.

Eles need to understand that anet gives no f***s about ele. If being nerfed every patch has not proved this I’m not sure what anyone can tell you. Ele is one of the classes with a high skill cap if not the highest. It WAS rewarded with a strong tank and high dps for most builds. Devs didnt like getting their face roll classes wrecked sooo the nerfs rained down from on high. Welcome to modern day gaming where every buff goes to the classes that are the easiest to play.

The Game Slayer.7632:

Seems really unnecessary. And it would break the game too.. Why not just add more conjure traits?.. It’s a bit ridiculous.

I that is the point. Our elite skills are lacking to say the least compared to other classes.

D/D did not need a nerf. Once again devs nerf eles while leaving the true op classes alone.

Be careful OP. Ele are no where near as strong as they were at release. Devs will probably nerf us even more due to QQ.

Odds are it is not the person. Anet has destroyed the Ele class for what reason I do not know. If you want proof look at how many nerfs we have gotten vs buffs. Then compare that to other classes.

@Wolfheart
If the OP doesnt want to play all the classes to figure out what he likes thats his business. He asked you for recommendations according to what his is looking for in a class. Your other comments are not needed. Give him what he asks for and info that is pertinent, nothing else.

@OP
Thieves Warriors and Eles. In that order. Eles have alittle ramp time depending on what weapons you are using. However, I think a thief would suit you best.

I did have something useful to say but I cant remember what it was. I think its because trying to figure out how people think Thieves take skill to play or that Elementalists are OP.