Guild Wars 2

Zhaneel.9208:

I thought that’s what Mesmers were supposed to do?

But regardless, are staff builds effective damage wise for Ele’s? They’d better be, otherwise I would agree that ele’s need a dps buff.

Staff builds are extremely effective damage wise. The problem about them is that you need someone to tank the enemy for you, or you’ll die easily. But for big events with lots of players I felt like I was the only one doing damage on the champions, since I really could see the health going down by my spells. For the people saying that an ele should be supporting only have never played an elementalist before or seen what eles can do. For single player I recommend using a build which grants you a lot of mobility. If played right you won’t get much damage from enemies. Although I agree that eles need a serious buff for their survivability without hopping around a lot.

So what you basically want is for Anet to give out programming information on anything they are updating? You can’t compare a video game helper software with a game as complex as Gw2. There’s a lot of stuff going into a game like this and yes, one line of code can have a significant influence. As I have said a game is a complex construct and one line of code can change a lot of other stuff inside this construct that you might not be able to be aware of. Trust me, when they are doing code changes, they have to make sure they won’t harm anything about your system, because when they don’t you can sue them for a hell lot of money. I work in a game developer studio I know what I am talking about!