The moving of Cleansing Wave to the master tier simply isn’t fun as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been running 30 earth, 10 water, 30 arcana S/D in Dungeons, WvW and PvE for quite some time now. It’s been great at support, very survivable, fun to play, and capable of grinding champions into a fine paste via a death of thousand cuts.
Cleansing Wave, Written in Stone and Evasive Arcana were the bread and butter of this build, with Written in Stone giving me permanent 25% movement speed and area blind via Signet of Air, Cleansing Wave keeping me alive, and Evasive Arcana keeping me amused. I wonder what I should sacrifice here… Speed, Survivability, or Fun. Since the patch I’ve been trying a few alternative builds (with Air, with Fire) and they just don’t work as well for me. Oh, they function as a build, but they are less fun to play for me. I enjoy being able to sort of eletank in dungeons, duct taping other players back together. Which has become that much more difficult without cleansing wave or the toughness from earth. So should I remove 10 points from arcane and remove the part of the build that makes it cool to play?
The only solution I see to keep the playing style I like, is to move 10 points from Earth into Water. Exactly the opposite of what anet was trying to accomplish. I’m not sure what to think of this change, since it is not completely crippling my build, but it’s just a nuisance. I won’t start screaming the elemantalist is bwoken fowever, since it’s not, but it just became that much more annoying to play for me. And I love the class. Please stop “helping” it in the way you’ve been helping it anet. If you want us to experiment with builds, and go outside water and arcana, you should make survivalist traits available outside water and arcana, not move those traits up a tier or two.
In the hopes this actually has any effect on anet…
Peace. Have fun playing your elementalists, and remember to kill your daily amount of warriors in WvW today. We elementalists can do it
- Edited some dubious spelling
(edited by Lord Deurkruk.2573)