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I have full Flame Citadel armor
, now before you judge me, I got this armor because I thought it suited an Elementalist so amazingly. A flaming armor set practically SCREAMS Elementalist (just like the Arah gear screams Necro who I’m currently trying to buy the scythe skin for so he can have Arah armor and a scythe and be awesome like a possum). If there was other elemental armor I might of gone for the air one instead :p but Citadel of Flame armor screams Elementalist (especially when you have the emberglow scepter)
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Perhaps you’re playing the wrong profession, then? There is no weakest profession, just the same as there is no weakest build. It’s all just a matter of play-style.
Whilst, again, I wouldn’t want you to think I’m attacking the poster… what is it that you want extra? Other classes may be able to do bigger headline damage, but the Ele has abilities that they don’t. Do you want their headline damage AND your other abilities on top? That would be overpowered. Do you want simple headline damage? Then maybe you’re on the wrong class. I’m not having a dig, I’m just puzzled…
I love my Ele please don’t tell me to go play something else -.-. Please tell me what abilities we have that others do not. As I said I do quite well with my Ele, doesn’t mean their not in a weak spot right now. We have the lowest health, lowest armor, and lowest benefit per point of toughness. On top of that we have less damage than for example warriors while they maintain much more health than us and higher defenses. Thiefs (which is the closest thing to our equivalent) have more escape utility with their stealth to avoiding getting trashed, hit harder, hit easier, and most importantly do it all MUCH fast than us. In a game where seconds are your resource instead of mana or other resources having to use upwards of 6 abilities for your rotation (plus setting it up do you don’t miss) gets beaten out by 3 abilities that hit just as hard (maybe a tad bit softer) but much much quicker. I can trash thieves if I play well. The point Is though we have to work twice as hard to be able to do anything “well”. I love the Ele, i love feeling like the avatar, but it doesn’t change the fact that currently we are the weakest class. That is all. Disagree if you wish. Anywho this isn’t a thread about Ele balance. Make a thread about it and I’ll gladly go into great detail
Can anyone give me some tips for levelin crafting quickly? I’m near max level and I’m stuck in the first tier of crafting cus I just don’t get materials anymore. And when I go farm I hardly make any xp with what I do make.
Any tip for leveling Artificing and Tailoring quickly? I need to hit 400 in both so I can make my exotics when I hit 80
Thanks for the help in advance
We agree to disagree then. There’s more to killing someone than hitting them with the biggest spell.
O deffinetly. I don’t need the big numbers to feel good abou my class. Nothing feels better than landing my full rotation on a poor kitten. It’s wonderful, because I know it requires skill to do what I’m doing and isn’t as easy as HS spam
Though it doesn’t change the fact we’re currently the weakest profession
(I will stomp though so i try not to let it get to me
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I’m pretty sure its done for a balance issue, It would be unfair to give ele’s weapon swaps in PvP for instance. 20 skills vs 10 is a little skewed in the ele’s favor
You guys have such a huge range of spells anyway. Hehe Stance switch more.
Hmm. all other chars get 10 skills across 2 weapon sets. The elementalist gets 20 skills for 1 weapon set. Doesn’t that give you 2x the tools at your disposal? Trouble juggling 4 attunements?
I don’t have any trouble at all stance changing. Over the course of leveling my Ele and playing PvP I’m quite confident in my abilities. There are 2 main issues with your statements though
1rst: We don’t have the same versatility of another weapon set. Yes we have 20 abilities but that isn’t really versatility. What I’m trying to say is for example a warrior can go from melee to 1200 range with his rifle., a ranger can go from long range with his longbow to melee with greats word, etc etc. by changing weapons you are changing play styles. We cannot do that. By changing elements you are changing your type of damage. Fire being main damage and aoe, air single target usually gives mobility and some control, water for support and control, and earth for conditions. That’s what we get for changing. If dagger dagger changing elements doesn’t make me magically able to switch to middle or long range, I’m still stuck in melee range. Same thing applies to staff. It’s not nearly as flexible as people make it out to be. More abilities=/=Versitility
2nd: Our abilities are balanced to be as effective as your 10. In otherwords having more abilities is actually a hindrance because our spells hit for less, and our damage combos tend to be twice as long. (don’t misunderstand this as me not having the ability to use my rotations I can, it’s just isn’t as efficient as hitting 1 or 2 buttons) and twice as easy to avoid (I’d state my rotations and combos for my d/d aura elementalist but the more people who know the worse off I am :p Pm if you wanna know build and rotations and such). Not to mention we have so many abilities that are near useless. For example the 2 ability under air in d/d Is almost not worth casting, you really only go into water for the frost aura and 2 heals, and the main reason for earth is earth quake and maybe churning earth. This doesn’t really affect our need to be able to switch weapons but it’s the counter argument to those who say more abilities=better