Guild Wars 2

I totally agree, it’s a real pain to go look for your staff or daggers in your inventory, especially in wvw. +1 for out of combat weapon switch button! Don’t think anyone would be against this tbh.

I may have expressed myself wrong, elementalists can be very hard to kill, but we have to put almost all of our traits into it, and pick defensive utility skills, at a cost of our damage. I would like to see a bit more survivability for double dagger, so we can use part of our traits and utility skills for damage. I can survive in pvp just fine, but killing someone before they finally kill me is a real challenge. But I may be doing something wrong since no one seems to agree ^^

I agree, and I do use all those things, got my healing power way up, and lots of boons in water & boon duration gear. But don’t you agree we have to go through a lot of trouble to do what other classes do easily? It takes part of the fun out for me, having to work that hard to survive, while other classes just faceroll through life. Same goes for our offense by the way, which is why I would like a bit more defense to start with, to be able to focus more on offense. No?

Well I wanted to avoid talking about PvE and dungeons because that is another thing.

In PvP I am now using a cantrip/aura build (and I’m a halfway decent player, I’ve spent a lot of time getting to know the class, perfecting my build en routine, so I know what I’m doing). I get toughness on every single item in my gear, I use three defensive utility spells (mist form, earth shield and lightning flas/cleansing fire). Next to that I have 30 points in water with three defensive talents, and still other classes are able to outlast and outdps me.

I just think because D/D forces us to go melee, it should provide some extra incentive to do so, after all in PvP going melee with a warrior or a thief could mean suicide as things are now. And I’m not going ‘lolol nerf other classes’, just give us some extra defense for making up for having to go melee ^^

So lately I’ve been working on deciding on a build (and ofcourse stats) I want to go for in PvE, and trying out different things before I started farming an exotic dungeon set with specific stats. I finally went full Power / Toughness / Vitality, with Power / Toughness / Healing Power jewelry, because I liked the doube dagger playstyle and it really needs the toughness. My build is 0/10/10/30/20, so with most of the points in water, also for survivability.

Playing sPvP and WvW a lot (as well as dungeons actually, but I won’t talk about PvE), I have noticed that elementalist has a lot of disadvantages in PvP, at least when it comes to defense. Ofcourse compared to medium and heavy armor, we have a disadvantage. But compared to the other light armor classes, we also have disadvantages. Necromancers have ridiculously high base health (including their F1 which is basically an extra health pool), and mesmers have a great single target 1200 range build (greatsword), along with their illusions to control people and keep from getting hit (along with dazes and such, you know what I’m talking about).

This isn’t a problem for staff DPS, or even scepter mainhand, because with a bit of skill you can manage to keep at range and kite and what have you. But as a D/D elementalist you are forced to go in melee range of classes that almost always have more base defensive stats than you. The result is that I had to invest a lot of points in defensive traits and gear to be able to survive as D/D. Taking points in water and earth gives us lacking bonus defense, but it really kittens our damage. I for one am not going glass cannon in PvP because that’s just ridiculous, but putting so many points in defense just to be able to survive is ridiculous. Again, staff and scepter builds are okay with this because they don’t require melee range, but D/D does require you to go melee.

So, what my real suggestion is (will also be mentioned in the TL:DR, I just wanted to sketch where I was coming from): change the windborne daggers trait to something more defensive. No one cares about run speed increase anyway because you can keep up perma swiftness, and D/D really needs some more defense because it forces you to go melee. This would open up some points that we now have to put into defense, and we could put those in offense. I’m not sure what would be best, I was thinking of something with +% toughness while using dagger as a mainhand weapon, but I’m not a game developer and I don’t know that much about balancing. Again, this would only change D/D to increase their defense, giving them a fighting chance in melee range. Scepter and staff would remain unchanged, so no balance issues there. It just makes no sense that the class with the least defense has a build which requires them to go into melee range (and I personally think D/D is the most fun).

So, to conclude (I did go a bit more in depth than I was planning to, just wanted to make it clear), here is a much needed:

TL:DR : Double dagger elementalist needs more defense, at the moment we have to put too many points in earth and/or water to be viable, so change the windborne dagger trait in arcana (nobody cares about movement speed) to something that gives a defense bonus while using dagger main hand. I would say extra toughness, but not sure what would be best.

Just wanted to see what you guys think of this, and if possible, get the developers to read this (even if only the TL:DR), because I think D/D is a really fun build, but at the moment it requires too many points in defense, and you need those points in defense because you are in melee range and otherwise you get two shot. Let me know what you think!

Also posting for my friend who can’t log in anymore, Saturday he received notification that he had entered an incorrect password, tried everything for a couple of days and still doesn’t work, password also can’t be reset.

Display name: Maxxe.8409
Ticket numbers: 120902-008226 & 120904-005841

A friend of mine also had this problem, without him doing anything, he received the notification that his password had been changed, and has not been able to log in ever since. He also tried resetting his password, but it does not work.

Ticket number is 120902-008226. He had trouble logging onto the forums so I posted it on my account