Guild Wars 2

ThiBash.5634:

I’ve been moving towards celestial items while upgrading to ascended gear and if anything, I’m getting more and more impressed with the damage my elementalist is doing. The trick is to know what to compare it with. A melee warrior will of course do more, but a rifle engineer has a very similar damage output compared to an ele. How is the longbow faring?

Engineer suffers similar problems to the Ele. Because we have so much more skills than other classes, Anet made them abit weaker than other classes skills.

My Ranger does alot more dmg than my Ele. Heck, i daresay in full BM build with Apothecary gear that my pet alone does more consistent damage than my Ele in full berserk gear.

I feel like the complaints are more about HOW the Ele “has” to be played, as opposed to how good the class is.

Many people expected a heavy damage Glass Cannon from the Elementalist, and you just cant do that imo. You can do some nice burst, but as far as consistent damage goes i feel like its the weakest class in the game.#

On the other hand the bunker build is just borderline OP and the most durable class in the game, with great mobility/CC and decent damage/support. Its just not what people want/expect when choosing a mage profession.

Shortbow seems fine to me. Very flexible weapon, every skill is very nice imo.

Longbow on the other hand…..I would like it if they just lowered the penalty of being too close a bit. And maybe buff 2 abit,it feels so underwhelming.

Hmm after this post i checked some numbers and it indeed seems like my pet does less damage now. This would also explain why it cant hold aggro off me anymore, it always held aggro when farming Karkas, after the patch im always tanking myself.

The strange thing is that even tho im seeing way lower numbers, and have the aforementioned aggro issues, i still dont feel like im killing any slower.