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Since this happens every couple of weeks or so these days, why isn’t there some sort of outage notice board so CUSTOMERS know there’s a generalised problem and we don’t have to search around all over the place, check our firewall and router settings, reboot the PC half a dozen times only to find it’s an upstream problem.
Maybe a section under “News and Info” called “Outages”.
How hard can it be?
Also fails in South Africa:
Gunnar’s Hold (EU)
Build 16732
Error Code: 42:1020:9001:4103
“You are apparently just pushing alot of buttons in the least effective ways possible. "
Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact that my warrior (or probably any less squishy profession) just strolls through areas where the Ele gets pulped all the time.
With a warrior, taking a couple of unfortunate crits or getting stun-locked at an inconvenient moment can be handled. The same thing with the Elementalist is almost invariably fatal. They’re just too fragile and don’t have enough recovery and/or protection spells.
Anyway, it’s moot now, I’ve stopped playing the character; just too much hassle and too little reward.
It doesn’t seem to be just me complaining about this. Seems there are a lot of people moaning about the Elementalists tendency to die at the drop of a hat even on these forums.
I’ve tried lots of trait combinations. My current one is:
30/i/vii/vi
0
0
30/vi/ix/iii
10/v
My armour is pretty middle of the road; I can’t remember the stats offhand though.
I’m presently using a staff (I read it was better for survivability) but I used to use a sceptre/dagger combo which was better (in my opinion). Something that happens a lot is I get interrupted while I’m casting heal and then the next shot kills me. Maybe I should try to spec for stability.
I think the biggest hassle with the ele is that you can lose 60% of your health with a single crit (which happens all the time with elites) Then a couple of minor hits take you down the rest of the way and this can happen in less than a second.
Maybe I should just video a fight and then you’ll see what I mean.
A few people have recommend this build
Elementalist survival (Earth) Build
Tried it but it doesn’t do it for me. Still seems to have problems with multiple mobs
I know I’m probably doing it wrong but I just can’t seem to play the elemental. I’ve tried about 10 different (recommended) builds and none of them seem to work. Since my ele hit eighty I’ve spent nearly 2 GP in armour repairs as a result of getting rubbed out more or less as soon as I engage. The toon survives all the one-on-one engagements but, the minute two mobs target me, (even lev 77s) I die almost instantly.
- Yes, I dodge (you only get to do it twice before you run out of energy);
- Yes, I swap attunements (I start with fire and end with water in the vain hope of surviving long enough to cast a heal);
- Yes, I hit heal in time.
- I throw as much shielding up as I can;
- I’ve tried staffs, daggers & sceptres, none of them seem to make much difference;
- I’ve tried cantrips, glyphs, arcane and all the variations thereof.
I admit my armour isn’t the best (only mid range level 80 exotic but then I’ve run out of money doing repairs). The upshot is that I’ve NEVER managed to get to the centre of the Altar of Lies in Malchor’s Leap. I invariably get wasted on the way.
The bottom line is, I can’t seem to do enough damage before I get killed so I must be doing something wrong and I can’t see what! I’ve read loads of forum posts about techniques and (allegedly) unstoppable Elementalist builds but I’ve yet to try one that works (for me)
By contrast, I have a human warrior that’s virtually indestructible. Easily takes on four or five mobs and, while I was levelling it, could take on two or three mobs five or six levels higher without any trouble.
Really sick of this character now. It’s just too much hassle to play without (from what I can see) any significant benefit.
Maybe my network connection is too slow or something.