Guild Wars 2

There are classes with many more bugs than warriors though that are also still waiting for them to get fixed. Elementalists and necromancers for example. Warriors are in good shape overall. Sure there are issues (as with every class) but I’d actually hope warriors are far down the prioritylist currently.

You do realize the other classes got nerfed right?

No groups on Gandara have been able to get into Arah (SM or Exp) since the patch. Doesn’t matter what way you try to enter, group will always be split up upon zoning in. Please, as the dungeon appears to be working on other server, look into this. A simple server-reset might be all we need..

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You shouldn’t really copy someone’s build who hasn’t done alot of spvp >.> Anyway his build has some “cool” traits, but “cool” and “effective” are 2 different ballparks. He’s lacking alot of crit % and power that he could have from investing into air or fire instead of into evasive arcana. IMO evasive arcana is only useful for bunker/support specs, the earth/fire dodge does very low damage, while the aoe blind from air and cleansing wave from water do really well in support/bunker builds.

While I agree with what you say if the build was actually for sPvP, in this case it isn’t. It’s mostly a solo-PvE build but it also works fine for roaming in WvW. Nowhere in the OP does it say he was referring to this as a sPvP build, but I suppose it’s a quite understandable misunderstanding since for some reason most posts are about sPvP.

Very nice guide, thanks for taking the time to put it together.

Well if you haven’t played elementalist at high level (not sure if you’ve played mesmer at high levels either) then you shouldn’t have made this post I’d say. Mesmer starts out worse than ele, but gets better and better as you level up. Ele starts out nicely but gets “worse” as you level up.

Having played both classes to high level (Mesmer 80, Elementalist 74 currently) and both in sPvP quite a lot, your post is either just a troll or simply misinformed. First off, you mention elementalist weaponswap. There is no such thing.

Even so they do still have more skills available in combat than other classes due to attunement-swaping making the class more complex (which is one of the fun parts about elementalists).

The earth elemental you mention actually have quite a long recast. The greater elementals are good, but it’s not that special.

Pure dmg on the elementalist is actually prettykittenlow compared to other classes, which might seem a bit weird. Elementalists in current form can do great in a support role in the hands of a skilled player, but an ele going glasscannon will do less dmg with less survival than other classes. The exception to this is WvW situations where you can AOE somewhat safely as staff-aoe can be great.

I enjoy both classes very much, but there is no question in my mind that mesmer is the stronger class for most situations currently.

Only read the OP. Agree with most of the things you brought up for sure, even if I still feel the elementalist is viable/strong if played correctly, just not enough so for how much harder it is to play well.

About the D/D chain you mention however, I’d suggest you try playing around some more with combofields even as D/D as that will make you use some more skills, stack might extremely high (I can get ~16stacks or so quite easily, 9 of which are AOE) and thus gives you a more fluid gameplay. RTL > Updraft > Burning Speed > Arcane Wave > Ring of Fire > Magnetic Grasp (Gives Fire Aura) > Earthquake (rather long CD but when available) > Churning Earth is one example.

I think Risotto brings valid points. I’ve played one char to 80, one to 65 and some to 40ish by now, with one having finished the entire storyline and the others all having the story at their level and I have yet to find a storyquest that is too hard. There are some that are hard for sure, but never too hard, and with proper usage of dodge it’s never too overwhelming.

Sounds quite interesting. Bad link for the actual build however so might want to look into that unless it’s a temporary issue.

Would love a response to this aswell. As many others I’m holding off on running the dungeon as I’m on the final step of the quest until I’m sure this is fixed.