Should I stick with Ele and ride it out or is the balance we need only a pipe dream?
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Should I stick with Ele and ride it out or is the balance we need only a pipe dream?
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Posted by: Sidian.5370
If the most important thing to you is your relative power to other classes, then you should reroll to another class and be much happier. Until that class isn’t as powerful as the next class, and then you can reroll to that new more powerful class. Until that new more powerful class suddenly isn’t as strong as another class….
Eventually you’ll have one of every class, and you can just choose to play whichever is the most powerful at that time. Problem solved.
My personal opinion is you should never pick a class based on its current strength/weakness. Pick a class based on whether or not the play mechanics are fun for you, and you won’t really know that until you’ve played it a bit. General mechanics are unlikely to change, but class power will always shift eventually.
If you enjoy the idea of constantly shifting your skills, and having a high degree of movement and timing in your combat, then you’ll likely enjoy the elementalist. If all you care about is how easy to play and how currently powerful a class is, then pick something else.
When does elementalism get hard to play? I’m at level 20 currently and up till now it’s been easy.
They want you to give them more money by buying gems and then selling them for gold.
It’s classic bait and switch. Just give in and use the Cash Shop like ANet wants. Doo ittt! Doooooooo iiiitttt!!
NOTE:
please dont reply to this unless you actually have completed every dungeon and killed the last boss in arah explo mode and tried them all 4 in explo mode.
+ OFCOUSE done both wvw and spvp quite a bit with SEVERAL different classes. since if you havent you would have no idea wth i am talking about.
Please don’t post a thread unless you’ve actually completed high school. Otherwise it will be awful, and you will have no idea wth you are talking about.
Just to start off, I’m new to the game and am slowly trying to learn mechanics and whatnot. That said, I wanted to try a Ranger for sPvP and eventually WvWvW, and what I’m most interested in is a build focused around condition damage which also offers some decent survivability. Basically I want to be able to outlast people and wear them down.
This is the build I came up with:
Any critiques? I’m not really sure what Sigils and Runes are optimal, but the Sigil of Superior Force and Superior Rune of the Undead seemed to be logical choices. I figured it was better to make conditions more potent than to extend their durations.
Also, does your increased condition damage apply to the condition damage your pet deals as well?
Anyway, any help from the more experienced rangers would be appreciated.
I primarily use D/D Precision/Power in PvP. Personally, only use HS as an execute and a gap closer if I’m being kited. This is how I assume it was intended to be used… it never really occured to me to just spam it over and over (because that isn’t fun). So I’ve been making full use of C&D into backstabs, well timed LDB to evade and put extra damage on, and sticking on the target for autoattacks to get my kills. So far it’s worked out pretty well, depending on the target.
That said, I would love if they significantly lowered the damage of HS on targets above both 60% health (it would be used as soley a gap closer in that case), moderately lowered above 33% health, and in turn increased the <33% damage (or add increased crit chance/power so you don’t have to itemize glass cannon). To me that’s a better solution than increasing the initiative cost, because it keeps HS situationally useful throughout the fight. If the <33% damage is significant enough, then you’re still going to be potent 1v1, you just have to use other abilities to get their health within that range. That’s certainly more engaging.