Guild Wars 2

why is staff ele classed as “Support” in WvW, i’ve seen Ele’s get more kills than Rangers / Thiefs in WvW. Ele’s AoE’s are pretty strong in WvW.

The way i see it, Elementalists are fine in WvWvW, the AoE’s are good, Frozen Ground is probably 1 of the best slow effects in the game?, top it off with Meteor Shower, Gylph of Storms, Eruption, Lava Font, Static Field, Unsteady Ground. They’re pretty solid AoE’s.

- Elementalist’s pretty important class/role when it comes to WvW, and IMHO, they’re mandatory to have.

- Elementalist’s in PvE, are somewhat good (actually they’re pretty easy for me xD) i haven’t tried high end PvE yet so i can’t really comment there.

- Elementalist’s in PvP are just trolls.

^ my opinion on this class. They need faster CD’s on attunement switching thou.

the funny thing is, with all the effort you have to put into the legendary weapons, all you get is Aesthetics. I wouldn’t stress too much about it (unless your 1 of those RP players). To add the only reason people really want this so bad (right now) is because no one else has it yet. Who cares about aesthetics, its all about being the “first” to do something. Not sure to feel sorry for you.

Killer.4709:

Pinkerton.5643:

Anlyon.8375:

PvE

• Gather 5 mobs -> Glyph of Storms is Earth -> Churning Earth -> any Burning skill -> /dance -> collect loot

WvW

• Equip Staff -> Glyph of Storms in Earth -> Eruption -> Flame Burst -> Collect loot

PvP

• Play lots and learn what to dodge, and what to do when -> Get a decent build -> ??? -> Equip awesome looking Scepter/Dagger.

I think we have a little work to be done, but all in all, we’re in a good spot, and i’ve been playing since BWE #1 and watching the ele since 2009.

Swap that scepter/dagger for d/d and I’ll be your friend =)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s figured this out.

I love this class but come on we are a little underpowered. With my boon build I can run with 25 might stacked and I still don’t hit as high as a ranger with 2 buttons. I watched a video of a ranger and all they did was run in circles with a rifle on click the first skill button for 600 damage a hit then click another skill which fired multiple shots for almost 3k a piece… and that was on arah explorable. For them to get that kind of damage and have 24k hp and medium armor while I sit there with 15khp and my light armor trying to survive while switching 4 elements and balancing all like 7 of my boons and still hitting less than that just seems a little unbalanced. Luckily I don’t care cause I’m having fun. Only posted on here cause I didn’t like how you both oversimplified a very challenging character. And if your truly only doing that in dungeons too you’re not even close to holding up your portion of the dps.

this.

im actually wanting to reroll to archer, but the only thing stopping me is my world completion on my ele, it sucks to go thru all that kitten again, 2 weeks of work out the window. But on the brighter side, ele is fun, its all it is.

#eletroll

Meteor Shower should be constant DPS within the AoE instead of random damage, you could stand still in the MS and only get hit once, or none at all. Reduce CD’s on Attunements and maybe some skills. I go through all my skills / attunements (combos) within 10 seconds so im running around normal attacking; Elementalist’s need work.

I heard they got nerf’d during the beta stages; 1 word, why?