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Personally, as a forever elementalist I liked they took those amulets away, but I can’t understand how past almost a year they haven’t made a viable DPS build for us, a shame.
I don’t know is if this a good idea or not, but personally I think they need to rework the stats contribution of each amulet for each class separately.
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Nope – Ele is pretty sick actually. Try this:
By far highest support (boons, condi-removal, auras, healing numbers) and unkillable in a 1v1.
I saw this build from tons of competetive players and smaller tournaments and I thought it would suck as well, but it’s insane. Yes, you have no DMG, but in all other aspects, it’s pretty much godlike.
Also, reapers won’t do anything to this build.
*Edit: It’s actually that good, that I’ve seen quite a few ESL-players that normally don’t play Ele practice it, likely for the upcoming season finale.
Not gonna happen, just a tryhard attempt to keep elementalist alive, you should find some build to dont get easily rekt, but thats all.
That build sounds pretty exciting btw
Nice guide, 11/10
Everytime the bunker-support type Elementalist gets nerfed, it’s two offensive Elementalist builds that goes down with it. How is it possible to balance this class?
I have always claimed that nerfing the heal to allies on Wash the Pain Away while increasing the radius of the first pulses could be an idea.
::: Nerf heal to allies by 50% on Wash the Pain Away! Increase radius of first pulse to 240, up from 180; increase second radius up to 360 radius, up from 240.
Nice another nerf to those eles, and making it more skilless sounds pretty much like Anet tastes
The problem of the ele is that in the past yewrs has been always played with Celestial, why had the chance to use all the statistics of that amulet with every single builds he had and with the might spam was able to inflict high direct and condition damage still whith a bunker build.
Now there’s no more a bunker build and the ele need to leart to play a role.
But there’s a lot of roles a ele can do.The fresh air build is still a really high dps build, for example, can be a support/healer, a hybrid between direct and condition damage, and with the staff can inflict insane AoE damage, a really good thing for spvp.
The ele have a really high dps and different defensive skills, you need only a “meta” build to follow and be happy, nothing more.
Wait for the next meta builds and let’s see what happen
You don’t play ele right?
I like it (my post need 15 characters)
My first suggestion is to answer your forum, not just those favorable post. One of the biggest things that made me join GW2 was the staff commitment with the comunity, and now is gone. Maybe come to say “We are aware of the balance problems with Necros, Eles, Mesmers and we are thinking to make this…”
And my second suggestion is you to include some pro teams to help you in the balance patchs and ask their opinion with some changes, they clearly know what impact would have a change in the game.
Probably Anet will not answer this neither so ~all is vain.
(sorry for my english)
Is sad because the Anet staff don’t come to calm down the situation, they just let it burn in flames.
Im wondering if they refounded people who bought those amulets, can I get refound for buying HoT?
So what you’re saying is they should balance classes around roles and weaknesses inherent to the class while making small changes every few weeks to keep a realtive state of balance?
Sounds like crazy talk to me. Time to bust out the power creep.
Uhm yeah… something like that. Maybe Anet should take a step back, realise that all the eSport stuff didn’t work and start to make it again, start from the bottom and maybe one day could make GW2 a real eSports game.
(I apologize in anticipate for my english, but I’ll do my best to elavorate this)
I would like Anet to find an stable meta and work over that, maybe occasionally making a few changes, fixing some useless weapons, some useless traits and utilities. Ofcouse not sitting in a meta with no changes, but make them more slightly and keep an harmony between all professions. Can’t be possible everytime you release a patch, you are literally killing some professions and giving others godlike powers. When you realease a patch like this, changing (almost remaking) the whole game, usually you will see some broken professions and others completely useless, making this game boring, noncompetetive and insanely toxic.
Probably I have no chance someone in Anet answer his opinion, but I would like if you read this you could share us your opinion.
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The old mindless ele spec where someone could stay alive forever on point is gone. The fun part is trying new specs. If that isn’t your thing, wait a week or so until metabattle tells you what you run.
That’s the main problem, there must be something to run, but nothing even near to compete.
I honestly don’t like to QQ too much, but I feel like cheated, and we all know they are going to do nothing for the elementalists until the next season and who knows…
BY THE WAY! I fould this somewhere and is pretty much like a Deja vu.
if a single amulet remove is “destroying” your class, then you probably have to admit you were carried by that specific amulet, wich means you have been slacking during all this time not trying different and more hardcore builds, i.e ele players don’t take that high skill they are selling to us, and they have been competitive only thx to a build. If you was a really decent group of players, you will adapt and learn to play!!
You clearly don’t like elementalist too much haha, but I think is like that.
With the info Anet gave us about the nerfs/buffs of elementalists and the amulets rework we only can conclude that if you are a good enough player, you only can survive in this wild jungle, nevermind keep in the meta, Ele’s are the warriors of this season. You wouldn’t make any better because you haven’t any resource to shine and feel in a good position if you compare with a Thief or a Revenant. Just to show you how it would be, the Arcane shield what used to be a pretty good spell (pre HoT ofc) could be rekt by Unrelenting Assault and land you 4/5K damage easily.
Many weapons and spells are too old and useless compared with the new Rev’s spells and unfortunately Elementalist was always relying in a single build, and now is just too old and useless, most of the utilitaries of Ele’s are now too old and useless.
@Posthumecaver: 60% was definitively not enough, specially with paper as you mentioned, 100% prot is not hard now because tempest does have the magic bullet, you can reapply prot by applying auras, overloading, switching to earth, etc. About toughness is only effective againist power builds… protection is still enough to keep them at bay if you heal time to time, yet, if that and auras are not enough vs certain matchups you can now use stone heart and mitigate even more damage… not needed tho, is not like you’ll try to keep being a bunker just defending yourself.
@Laraley: Yes, its countering them! besides clearing the conditions, it’s adding even more conditions on them, the boon stripping downtime is really meaningless because by casting one Aura you get them all back … cd of the 3 auras comming from shouts alone excels boon corrupting cd (10 secs), add to them the boons you get by overloading, auras on hit, and the ones on skill bars. … . now, if you are scared of a necro spamming auto attacks…. the problem is another…
Even with tempest %100 protection is not possible, specially people going for vigor/regen or weakness traits instead of stability because Tempest Aura are not there if u can’t complete the Overload cast (and the Elemental Shielding providing no protection), which is even with 1 stack of stability is not guarantee the way CC is spammed in this game, so no, Tempest has no magic bullet.
And if you go for Stone Heart instead of Diamond Skin would you have enough condi cleanse? I highly doubt it.
Earth oveload has full stability, and the protection lasts until you can cast it again… of course, I recognize you can be caught out of a rotation, or sometimes you have to heal due to focuss, and in those cases is hard to play your rotations normally and can be caught out of prot… we are not unmortal after all, my point is, the removal of cele amulet doesn’t change this… with protection we are fine, without it we are not… cele amulet or not.
Is not that easy to overload an attunement, you are so vulnerable and is an double-edged weapon, overloads will be pretty much dead next season with the change of the meta, you just can’t cast an overload when anyone could kill you in 2 hits. (not complaining about a faster meta, I actually like it, but overloads will be useless in that case).
This is not World of Warcraft, I played World of Warcraft a long time and I don’t miss those bars, but what would be great to see is how much life has the opponent you are targeting, nothing else.
Well, Elementalist seems to be done, I’ll make a try next season but I’ll probably quit this game. Good Bye Anet.
no tears for you, ele has been top of the meta for so long, good riddance.
So what? “oh It’s ok, let them kick us out of the game, we still can play unranked”
I can see potential builds for the Tempest after Jan 26th, but what I DON’T see is a replacement for celestial amulet. The jack of all trades profession losing its jack of all trades amulet.
GG Anet.
P.S. shatterstone change was asinine.
Probably good build for core elementalist (no nearly meta ofcourse), tempest is dead because the way it bunks is just dealing with the damage, they can’t avoid damage so…
Elementalist
This profession has seen a lot of defensive additions through recent updates and the addition of the tempest. In this iteration, we’ll be fine-tuning the defensive nature of the elementalist a little more and improving its offensive side a bit. To that end, Diamond Skin will see its first change in a long while, moving to condition removal (as is more thematic with the elementalist) rather than condition avoidance. In the effort to improve offense, Air grandmaster traits will be getting usability and damage improvements, WHILE THE SCEPTER AND FOCUS WILL BE RECEIVING SOME POSITIVE QUALITY-OF-LIFE MODIFICATIONS.
I wonder where are those changes…
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Attuning to air is not a Sceptre ability, and Focus is an entirely different weapon.
Seriously, stop trolling. This is a proper thread about the need to buff Sceptre auto-attacks, and your trolling is derailing it.
If you think it’s trolling then you just don’t understand balance. Balance isn’t about making one thing good or bad, it’s about adjusting it with considerations to other things it can be used with. That is why I include other points about the build that scepter is usually used with. For the buffs you want, other things need to be looked at as well.
Ofcourse isn’t making things good. for the longest time elementalist has being reduced to 1 single build, a good one but a single build after all. With this patch they just kicked auramancers out of the meta so far and there’s no remining builds… So buff the scepter what is a joke (compared with revenants weapons for example) and whats the buff? make better a trash skill that noone use. NIIIICE JOB! (sorry for my english lol)
Why you don’t just remove Sigil of energy?
I know, right?
Anet is KILLING (no nerfing) the ONLY viable build for elementalist and giving me this:
Shatterstone (Water Scepter)– Reduced the timeit takes for the shatterstone to explode from two seconds to one. It has a small radius so the explosion would often miss. Cooldown increased from 2 to 3s.
You have to be kidding me… I quit
Well, RIP Elementalist, is the only class I play, I guess I feel like a warrior now. Good bye and thanks Anet
Well, Elementalist seems to be done, I’ll make a try next season but I’ll probably quit this game. Good Bye Anet.
My friend quit after 3 weeks of playing into it. he went meh…!
I wanted to invite my friends to this game, but I don’t because I’m ashamed of this game now and I don’t want their hard disk get collapsed of this crap.
Bring it back, Im tired of the same 4 maps all the time
Im wondering about this system work, I’ve reported players for disconect in ranked matches several times, and they keep playing and ruining the pvp experience to other players. Just some minutes ago I reported a player who didn’t even knew to play his class, he raged and went AFK and disconected in a minute, I lost 2 pips and we were facing a full premade (500-2xx).
Thank you Anet for this funny pvp experience, really pleasurable.
(sorry about my english)
I like SC2 system, copy paste
My english is pretty bad and I’m not sure I can explain properly what I really mean.
A good fix for that could be when someone (or a whole team) queue with a guy is 2 division below the highest player in the party, It assimilates the MMR of the highest player.
The funny part is Diamond Skin was never considered before, Diamond Skin isn’t OP by itself, the exaggerated condi meta made it strong.
I also blame the so-called “pro” players for not protesting during an official stream, not even on interviews!
Actually they do, in their own streams
I would love to play Raid on Capricorn again, at least an unranked match :’c
…because of exploiters playing in it.
Edit: Removed “NA” from title, both EU & NA deserve same threatment, even if one has less exploiters… it sill has exploiters.
I really don’t see the exploits, queue with many teams for MMR exploits is already fixed; play with low rank players is part of the system.
You’re just complaining about the system, if Pro Players used the system for their benefit and you won’t, is not their fault.
If you say the system is broken (also my english),I agree, but I really think your topic is pointless.
I don’t want to be mean, but bind your spells would be a great idea to improve your gaming, also it will help you to win because you will have a better chance to win your team fights and thats a very important part of winning or lose a game, of course conquest isn’t that easy, the decision you make will make the real difference.
Good luck, have fun.
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