Guild Wars 2

Whew so we got hit with the nerf bat a little bit today. things that stuck out to me were:

• Updated Rune of Water to provide 10% boon duration instead of 15% in PvP.
• Updated Rune of the Monk to provide 10% boon duration instead of 15% in PvP.
• Updated Rune of Earth to provide 15% protection duration instead of 20%, and 3 seconds of protection instead of 4 seconds in PvP.
• Evasive Arcana: This trait no longer creates unintended blast finishers.
• Healing Ripple (the heal when attuning to water): This skill’s scaling with healing power has been reduced by 50% in PvP only, as it had scaling that’s normally reserved for main healing skills. The maximum number of targets has also been reduced from infinite to 5.

Now I’m not sure how bad the evasive arcana change is. If it make it so all of them are no longer blast finishers then thats really bad. However the fire/earth spells that get triggered are actually blast finishers, so hopefully those will still work. These nerfs were probably justified, what do you guys think?

Edit: Confirmed that evasive arcana gives no blast finishers. Also it seems the tooltips for the runes weren’t updated, so its hard to tell is major monk runs got nerfed too.

Would just like to sign the thread that I too do not want a loot treadmill. If you want to add the new type of gear just make it as powerful as exotics + the new resistance, (that wont matter in pvp).

It’s threads like this that remind me why people think eles are terrible. Just a large amount of L2P in this profession.

check out this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Tanky-DPS-Elementalist-Videos-included

I used this build both leveling up, WvW, and SPvP. I’ve yet to find a class I can’t destroy in a 1v1 setting and even in SPvP I win most 2v1s I fight. I recommend leveling you character to max before you try sPvP.

Obviously your level/gear doesn’t matter for sPvP but it will teach how to use all of your skills appropriately. Getting the muscle memory down and learning the correct combo chains and what each skill does for you is big as an elementalist. You have 25 skills and every one of them has an important use in each situation. You really have to know your class, something that takes a while to learn and is hard to grasp by jumping into sPvP.