Guild Wars 2

Death Reincarnated.3570:

Do you stand there in one spot constantly?

Do you use support elementals to draw enemies attention to them?

Do you use all of the elements?

Dredge are slow mobs. Some can dig underground so just dodge. Slow them down, freeze them and/or stun them. What wepons you use?

In Fractal the Boss (at the dredge with the spawning mobs) does an attack where an “earthquake” runs through the ground. When you cast AoE’s you cant see it’s coming especially when their are 10-15 Mobs spawning in the room at that location.

I stand behind with my staff healing and laying fields for the group, occasionly jumping in with 30 points in arcane.

This attack hit me while full HP and I got killed instantly. Btw I juggle atunements and support as well as I can. And this was only fractals 4. We helped pushing some up, in the guild as often ^^

The same attack only reduced the Warrior HP (we had two in the group) to 1/3 of their own HP. They have no extra vitality and no toghness…

Sounds unfair to my ears.

I have 18k HP and AoE attacks in Dungeons kill me instantly, while the Warriors stand in the blow and only loose 2/3 of their HP. Happened yesterday in fractals, Dredge dungeon.

And even with a staff you need to go close to support cause your Auras and heals and… and and… have a low range.

So even as a support you die, not only with a dagger.

Loco.4561:

And here’s the thing. I can beat anyone, ANYONE 1v1. The one profession that runs me closest to a defeat is a Mesmer who’s stacking heavy conditions and who uses Moa well (I’ve since changed my build a bit to try and counter these better). I used to struggle against well played thieves, I learned how to counter them and now I never, never die to a thief.

In WvW I can take on people 1v1, 2v1, 3v1 and even..4v1 (I have it on fraps). This profession is nowhere near as “broken” as people make it out it to be.

So you dont play an Ele, you you play a Rogue…
D/D is a Rogue nothing else.

And first of all I have to get rid of your delusion you are GOD.
In WvWvW you will in 99% of all cases never fight anyone in 1on1 who is
a) geared
b) lvl 80
c) specced
for a 1 on 1 match.

To get gear for a PvE player is hard, if you don’t have the time to grind. And even then A net limits drops, so you can’t really grind effectivly.
I have not unlimited time, I play 2-4 hours a day in the evening running dungeons and only have one complete gear, with just one weapon the staff, no exotic dagger, no scepter. I play since 3 days early release and the beta…

So if I go into WvWvW, wich I do to find POI’s I get rolled 1on1 because I have no chance of winning. not I glimpse of a chance cause I lack the “proper” gear and specc.

Just for you to laugh at. Once i stumbled across two Rangers…
I died instantly, I am full specced Water and have my gear complete vitality and go near 18k HP at level 80. They “INSTANT KILLED ME” as soon as I, unconsiously, entered their Range.

I really like the mechanic for the Ele, but he is as mentioned mediocre.

First af all, the Ele can make the same dmg as a Warrior (to some degree), or a Rogue. But he will be 5 times as squishy as the Warrior at the same time. So you get instant killed by every attack of some random dungeon mob. When you go all dmg with Berseker and 30/30/0/10/0 with D/D. So why take an Ele when you can get another dmg dealer?

So you can go Support, but in my humble opinion the Ingi is the support god. He has much more surviveabilty and can do some good dmg when supporting and healing. So why bother bringing a mage?

So Range and Melee have one difference, Melee is supposed to do more dmg. Okay… I honestly dont get it but thats what A Net tells us via Blogposts…
So why is the Ranger maybe the best single DPS class in the game? I don’t know, I just know Ranger is ownage on bosses.

Oh yeah lets take a look at the Guardian… They Tank/Heal/DPS/Support all at the same time, with around the surviveability of a tank while an Ele is an unarmed civilian sent to front to die a fast and horrible death.
To go in a dungeon without a Guardian is twice as hard as to go with one, expecially fractals in higher levels. The Guardian outshines every aspect of the Ele in PvE in a tenfold way.

The Mesmer is an unkillable machine, in PvE or PvP. With his clones he can easily solo most content without a glimpse.
And the Necro has is vast arrange of conditions, wich are way more usable as for an Ele. Never use Conditin damage on an Ele… I tried it sucks!!! And plz if you dont wanna cry dont compare Necro AoE with Ele AoE…

A net also posted, that DMG>Support>Heal
Okay… A net, thanks we got the lowbob end of the rope..
The best Ele’s can do actually is HEAL, support is subpar, especially because the Range of most of our support abilities is right next to my “LITTLE TOE”

In PvP I get why you have to be clustered to give boons or heals to allies, but WHY does this rule apply to PvE?
Auromancer just works when I stand next to my teammates with a range of 100-200 or so. And with the staff I only have “1”, written “ONE”, AURA, for gods sake! Play D/D to have two auras, yeahs A net give me more crap. D/D seems to be the new support build WTF.

In my opinion Eles can’t hold up with other classes, especially cause DMG is the top priority. The support is just subpar und healing doesn’t really scale very well.

I am leveling my Ranger atm and after that I will level a Guardian. So I have some viable options in PvE and don’t have the feeling I drag my group down the slope.
After that I will probably level an Ingi… still better support and I love Asuras.