Guild Wars 2

Grevender.9235:

@sakazuky: the problem is that what may be okay for sPvP puts WvWvW Elementalist in a coffin.

I know that, it’s exactly my point and I believe most of the QQing on the Elementalist forum is about the same thing. I’m convinced most of the QQing won’t be here if our monthly nerfs opened doors for other builds to play with, but no instead they nerf everything that makes Bunker Elementalists good in PvP which is our only viable build atm.

They do this without realizing how it affects our other options in case we want to change builds. And this obviously leads to alot of players retiring as elementalist and joining the FOTM class or start complaining on the forum.

And all this without even mentioning how all this affects us in PvE and WvWvW.

It’s very simple, they take away something from us but don’t return something to compensate with the nerfs. Leaving us with the same and only build but slightly weaker. If you plan to nerf D/D again in the future at least make staff, S/D, S/F or D/F become viable for PvP please. I see seldom S/D in PvP let alone S/F, staff or D/F while most other classes out there have more than one viable builds to play incase they get one nerfed or tired of the same thing for MONTHS IN A ROW.

Sakazuki,

I normally just read the forum but I guess this time I have to post my thoughts aswell.

I personally think these minior nerfs don’t affect our bunker ele in PvP that much, I seem to still do great in 1vs1 and 2vs1 and sometimes even tank 3vs1 quite well until a teammate(s) joins me in sPvP, however these nerfs affect the possibilities of other builds for Elementalists. I’ve been playing more and more on other classes lately and what I notice with most of them that I can’t see in Elementalists is that they have alot more build options and utility options. While Ele’s are almost forced to always take Cantrips as their utilities and with traits we almost always need either 20-30 in Arcana or Water.

Only our bunker build is viable and this is imo where Anet fails with their Elementalist changes, no offense but I would love Anet’s response to any other viable build for Eles right now aside from our bunker build. They nerf us thinking it will make bunker Ele complaints stop or become less but at the same time they don’t realize how these changes affect our other builds(which we don’t have anymore if you ask me). Especially in PvE we get affected by all the nerfs that should only hurt bunker eles. Some of us tried ways around the bunker build trying for alternatives in the class but we’re forced to rely on the same utilities and those get nerfed every month.

In most games Elementalists are meant to be masters of staff but here in both PvP and PvE the weapon is underpowered compared to other classes . I think it’s pretty decent for WvWvW however for zergs. I see Anet is trying to make some attempts in buffing our other utilities(signets, glyph’s) but it’s nowhere as good as our Cantrips right now. Leaving staff builds for PvP still a bad choice due to the survivability it offers. I hope they continue trying to buff those utilities, so far it has not been worth replacing most of the Cantrips we rely so much on.

It feels as if we’re being pushed in a corner with only one viable build to use like I mentioned above, if you nerf us next time with your aim of making bunker Elementalists weaker, compensate and consider how these nerfs affect our other options!! That’s where it all goes wrong imo.

I’m gonna stick to my Ele regardless of these nerfs because I still have fun playing it, I just hope atleast one of the Devs takes this post as advice and take more effort into buffing our other traits/utilities giving us the options to have other choices aside from this bunker build that 90% of the Elementalists are FORCED to use.

Thanks,
Sakazuki

SoS was indeed on very high for like 5-10mins just a few mins ago.

Looks like more people are needed to participate in this blackout, still no sign of light to pass through the server xD.

Kerithlan.1659:

Yes, starting now more or less.

Thanks, hopefully it helps getting newcomers in xD.

There is supposed to be a blackout on TC in about 10mins, is that correct?

Any other guilds planning to join TC aside from FIST and KH?