Guild Wars 2

If this helps the mods at all, this FREQUENTLY happens to me in a mesmer vs ele fight. I’m an ele, and it seems to happen a lot after great sword’s number 5 skill, and after I lightning flash after it.

Emissary Vex.5690:

The devs already have responded https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmer-stuck-after-blinking/first#post3373914

Tyler Chapman.1832:

This is a global issue happening to all classes. We are investigating this issue and will get a fix in ASAP.

Reports indicate this can happen after leap skills, picking up bundles, or teleporting. If any more reproducible steps come in please add it to this thread and I’ll add it to my report.

Thanks!

Wow, thanks so much for your response. It happens A LOT to my elementalist.

DavyMcB.1603:

Ele’s tele no longer breaks stun.. If the teleport doesn’t break stun then that’s what’s supposed to happen. It moves you but you still count as being stunned. Same effect as mesmer staff’s#2.

No.. Just no. When did I say I was stunned?

Admittedly I don’t ever come here, so I’m not sure with what frequency this is reported, but I notice it A LOT on my elementalist.

If I use lightning flash, or get knocked around by mesmer greatsword or there are a few other skills that trigger it, I will be ROOTED down as if I were immobilized.

I am a duelaholic, and this has A.) caused me to lose a bunch of duels B.) caused me to call a bunch of duels off.

It seems to only happen in combat, and all my fellow elementalists complain about it as well. Can we please get a dev response on this?

Biomanz.9302:

The reason why I think we’re such crappy roamers and is so difficult to set up our burst is because we’re inherently stuck to all our 20 skills, some of which still have defensive uses. Imagine a d/d having the burst close to a thief or requires less effort, but still have all the escape tools and heals. Or a staff user like myself going full zerker and annihilating groups of targets more easily but still have staff’s range of cc, heals, and escape skills.

Our defensive skills are limiting us, which is why we need some serious skill/trait/cd redesigns to break out that ‘master at none’ mold. But if that’s the intended design, for ele’s to not be able to specialize in ANYTHING, then that might be the reason ele’s are up in arms and aren’t wanted in serious tpvp where specializing is needed.

We are NOT crappy roamers. In fact, I would say we are just behind mesmers as the best roamers in the game.

We aren’t great thanks to big nerfs in SPvP, but you can still be successful there, but WvW is another beast, so that’s very wrong.

Bumped again. Wish this was fixed.

Ancient Ranger.3276:

Mbelch.9028:

Then you agree with both myself and oZii, we both think the cool down needs lowered. We both use the skill over mist form.

Should the skill be buffed (in that skill buffing fashion)? I think so. Does it obviously need it? No because players are most certainly using it.

Yes I was agreeing with you. The only buff I think the skill needs is a lower CD because the dmg output of arcane shield is higher than that of arcane wave or blast. That brings me to arcane blast, as is being compared to arcane wave now after the update.
-Arcane Wave: 30CD,470 Base DMG,900 Range, Blast finisher,AoE.
-Arcane Blast: 20CD,470 Base DMG,1500 Range,Projectile Finisher,Single target.
I think Arcane Blast should get a DMG boost as a buff. To bring it more up to par with the new Arcane Wave.
P.S. Arcane Shield’s base DMG is 504.

Ahh. 100% agree here.

Just a couple shots of my ele in Divinity’s Reach.

FrownyClown.8402:

Been running signet of restoratiob power build. Havinf trouble with condi bursts. Any tips?

I’ll work with you today, OK mate? I think it’s hard to do Sig without 30 in water, but it is do-able.

jojo.7490:

mbelch is ezpk

Thanks, Zillbruh. You should use the screenshot of us together, fire and ice style lol.

Reckless.6325:

Hey Mblech and any other ele that is on a server which faces fort aspen wood, once i finish regearing my ele (havent played it in a while but just got back into it) would i be able to duel u guys? Would be nice to know how i stack up against the better eles in the game haha

Absolutely! I love dueling, and you’ve got at least 3 days to slap on some exotics and hit me up. PM me in game, OK?

P Fun Daddy.1208:

Mbelch.9028:

They’re free to get into, too.

…I swear I have an excuse somewhere officer, I must have left it at home.

Come now, I’m just having fun with you.

reikken.4961:

sitting in fire is fine if you’re using staff

Do you honestly have fun and feel engaged when you do this? How about when you die to any type of focus, even a 1v1 when built to sit in fire with stafF?

Perhaps you do, but I don’t. And I don’t think the ele should be less than engaging/fun.

Respectfully disagree.

Gorani.7205:

I have adapted to click twice now, but it does not the solve the problem of being useless under water. Unless I am in shallow water, I can’t target a foe and will just blast pretty textures on the sea bottom. That issue needs to be resolved.

An extremely, extremely good point. I unfortunately see this skill being removed from underwater play, though.

Then you agree with both myself and oZii, we both think the cool down needs lowered. We both use the skill over mist form.

Should the skill be buffed (in that skill buffing fashion)? I think so. Does it obviously need it? No because players are most certainly using it.

They’re free to get into, too.

At least you’re no longer in Ele forums. Good post Burnfail.

If you dislike swapping attunements, prepare for early class deletion, or decide your favorite attunement is air.

I haven’t used the new way much, but I think it’s interesting. I don’t disagree with the change, as it allows eles to be more versatile. Cast a fire field then run from the warrior, burst from 600 range after a dodge roll and still get the might stack. I like the thought, and fast cast targeting is wonderful.

P Fun Daddy.1208:

Mbelch.9028:

P Fun Daddy.1208:

Imagi.4561:

In the Ele v. Ele duels I’ve done I had fun, but they take so long oh my God.

True that.
I had a set of duels with one of my friends a while ago, also an ele, and throughout the multiple matches we played, neither of us died at any point.
It was pretty funny.

Perhaps the two people are too tanky?

I never have ele duels that run more than 10-15 minutes, and those are the really long ones.

Glad you guys like them though.

Hotjoin matches last 15 minutes. I was using full signets at the time for funsies, not sure what he was doing.

Haha that’s why, but yeah this IS more geared towards WvW. (See first post).

Obby sanctum duels aren’t limited to any time frame, and personal dueling servers are great too.

oZii, I don’t disagree the cool down is long, but the thing I love most about it is that it nearly always crits, it hits about 2-4k for people I’m crating, and it truly punishes people for attacking me up close. That’s invaluable. I’ve won some close fights because people are concerned about the shield and I can just pound away.

P Fun Daddy.1208:

Imagi.4561:

In the Ele v. Ele duels I’ve done I had fun, but they take so long oh my God.

True that.
I had a set of duels with one of my friends a while ago, also an ele, and throughout the multiple matches we played, neither of us died at any point.
It was pretty funny.

Perhaps the two people are too tanky?

I never have ele duels that run more than 10-15 minutes, and those are the really long ones.

Glad you guys like them though.

You can’t be poorly off by running 0/10/0/30/30. It’s a great baseline build to work off of.

Haha great to see some good responses here.

Serane is by far the best elementalist I’ve ever faced, but Heidia, you’re pretty darn good with that build. Yeah we were quite even.

Serane told me if he’s the best ele, then I’m likely third best. I’ve beaten him, but quite infrequently.

Frowny my man, I can’t just give out the build! But I can help you with crafting your own.

Unfortunately for me as a roamer, I’m up against FA and TC this week, but at least there are some decent people from TC to duel with.

Myst, glad to see someone else who appreciates the art of dueling other eles! I was personally hoping ELEtism would turn into an ele dueling ring lol.

Melancholia.8123:

Fire Shield can only be set up while you are in fire attunement first, and the rest are all utility skills as I said already. Burn on crit is true, though that’s only an Adept trait, not a Grandmaster. That would be a good synergy though.

I meant going 30 into fire, why not take that trait (especially if the change I proposed were true).

And you would be setting it up by attuning to fire, dropping fire circle or burning speed, moving to earth, stack a little might and grab the aura, then go back to fire with earth protection? Sounds devastating to me!

I dislike your first two builds. Why? Too heavy into air, which doesn’t grant enough defense.

My advice to every ele is build your traits tanky and go bursty with gear.

Gorni.1764:

is this about how challenging/difficult duels are or about how fun it is to play against those classes?

Hey there, I would say I made the thread to poll how eles feel about dueling and when they enjoy it. I like to think I enjoy almost every duel. But I’ve been in the heat of some phantasm mesmer duels and I just think….. >_____> When I’m done winning this I need a drink.

Waisenpai.6028:

D/D roaming in WvW listings from safest and predictable to unorthodox and omg lots of conditions to spam at me via risk, Length of the battle may varies but doesn’t mean it’s harder.
Ele
Ranger
Guardian
War
Thief
Engi
Necro
Mesmer

Spvp varies more on Build vs Build, reflex vs lag and profession advantage. WvW has much more variables, more space and time for enemies to cd. Either stages of combat are far from balance in the game, expectation of game play varies on how anet views each of its professions role.
I can say playing d/d ele has a great risk vs reward feel, rather than other profession. Who thrive with key builds to overpower and destroy other profession via dualist builds.

Thanks for clocking in. I agree with SPvP being a very skewed area, which is why I tried to keep this more towards WvW, unless people only duel in SPvP.

I wouldn’t say ele builds are predictable at all! I sometimes will fight an ele and feel like I’m in hot water, or fight an ele and know I’m going to win. I guess I’m one who really has love for the finer things. I know Ozii is one of those people too, who obsesses over every stat piece to make sure we are built the way we want to be.

Your list is very like mine.

LightningBlaze.4913:

When I roam with s/d my favorite order is: Easiest to hardest profession (assuming the player is skillful…) to defeat from top to bottom
Thief
Ranger
Ele
Engi
Guardian
Warrior
Necro
Mesmer

Now when I roam with s/f the order changes:
Ranger
Engi
Necro
Ele
Warrior
Guardian
Mesmer
Thief
Btw did we encounter each others during season 1 in wvw Mbelch? I met dreztina and frowny during those 2 weeks and we did couple of duels but I don’t recall if we met Mbelch while roaming.

Oh heck yes we did!!!!! Just saw your signature. Oh those were some great duels.

Thanks for posting with your preferred match ups. I noted that all the ranged people jumped to the top as soon as you switched to focus ;D.

If you recall, I’m the elementalist that we basically tied if you used your fiery great sword but I won if you didn’t use it. Tormentum Nex. You Serane and I know each other.

I understand it affected some builds, but none of mine were affected at all. I actually had some new options opened up.

In my opinion it SHOULDN’T be moved, it should be STANDARD for all elementalists starting at birth.

Personally, I hate everything about GW2 PvE. So when conversations turn to PvE, I stop reading or I don’t comment. I would comment here if this weren’t involving PvE.

I don’t mind if you do talk about it.. I just want to know from the OP.

Shadowfall.6543:

Guild Wars 2 is very much about player skill. Someone skillful enough can be anyone (theoretically anyway).

Those who are very skillful can do well as an elementalist, but I would argue that they could do much better with any other profession.

Playing as a elementalist is a lot like playing on hard mode. Many times missing with a dodge means death, where other classes have room to make 1 – 3 mistakes. Our DPS is split between Direct Damage and DOT for every weapon set (more noticeable on the scepter and Staff). Our DPS can burst very well, but it is as good as what other classes can achieve (some can do better). And don’t forget most of optimal builds involve a lot of attunement swapping, skill selecting, and ground targeting which is just a ton of information to manage all while having to memorize the animations and cool downs of other classes to time dodges and other active defenses.

If you can spend anytime playing as an elementalist you pick up some really good habits (and lose some bad ones, or die a lot). I do not think many people will challenge that the elementalist is so weak that it cannot do well, most of the agruments are that elementalist have to work harder than any class and sacrifice more than any class just to stay in the game.

When we are finally balanced out there is going to be a lot of other classes crying the Elementalist is OP because we have gotten used to playing on hard mode. I look forwards to the day that a mediocre Elementalist can beat a mediocre warrior about half the time.

Here here. At least you get it. I don’t doubt I could do just as well on another class, but Ele just fits like a glove. I’m sure you know what I’m saying.

On your memorization and calculation note, that’s very accurate. I would say the longer you play elementalist without switching your class up, the better off you are. It’s why I feel like I get better at ele every day I play it. I see a certain animation and boom I know what to do to successfully react to it.

Now another thing to mention is at one point, I would die a ton. I’d win against baddies, I’d tie some goodies, and I’d lose just a lot. I played through it, and I’m so happy I did. When we are finally balanced to a proper state (which would include many buffs) I guarantee I’ll be called OP on a regular basis. As it is now, people are impressed an ele can beat them.

False. Fire shield, Cleansing fire, Fire signet, glyphs, ect.

Edit — also the burn on crit if you’re going 30 deep into fire.

Deez, I find glass-glass often comes down to luck rather than skill. IE Lag, or an unpredictable trait.

Bad Ele, that’s the reason I don’t really re-duel a lot of mesmers. They love to make counter builds, while my build is made for literally everything. But eles most certainly can beat condi mesmers.

reikken.4961:

not WvW but rather sPvP, but!

my favorite class to fight is thief
ranger gives me the most difficulty
and guardians are always boring to fight
mesmers are the most annoying, but they make up for it by being satisfying to kill

in order prob
thief
warrior
necro
ranger
ele
mesmer
engineer
guardian

Ah, I do a lot more WvW than SPvP. But I like your list.

Guardians are pretty easy to counter, but I find their skills fun to watch, so I think I placed them a few spots higher.

Rangers just kitten me off. I dislike how most of them are some form of spirit rangers.

Thanks for your list!

A little elaboration on the topic:

I run a main ele, but have 80s in each class but two. I love the class, and 95% of my hours are on it. One of my absolute favorite thing to do is dueling.

A close second would be roaming.

So what I’m looking to see is a fun thread where people discuss their favorite duels, and maybe elaborate on why some of their duels aren’t a favorite.

PLEASE READ: This is a WvW thread.

So if you want to follow a format, you can make a list of your favorite classes to fight.

I’ll kick it off.

My favorite classes to fight are in ranked order

Elementalist
Engineer
Thief
Guardian
Necro
Warrior
Ranger
Mesmer

A little explanation on my list: I love fighting elementalists. I think ele fights are the most engaging thing we can do, and one of the best ways to learn about our class. Heck I learned something in a string of duels last night with some fellow eles.

You’ll find on my list that it almost goes in decreasing order of how passive the class is. Mesmer, being one of the most passive classes I think in the game, is my least favorite fight.

I have less fun fighting thieves since their repeated nerfs, as they stealth a lot more.

Lastly, I’ll add which I most frequently tie, as I rarely will lose a duel. I most frequently tie bunker condi engineers, warriors and mesmers which all fit that bunker, condi stereotype.

Discuss!

A note, I never turn down a duel, but I will sometimes turn down a rematch if I found the fight to be stressful. I’ve turned down several mesmers for rematches, especially if I find their play to be annoying. In the same regard, one of the people I duel most frequently is a mesmer, as the person is extremely nice and plays intelligently.

The Game Slayer.7632:

Armor of earth- CD reduction to 70s. Lasts 7s.
Don’t [ever] use the skill, don’t care

Arcane shield- Cd reduction to 50s, change functionality. Lasts 2s, blocks all attacks for 2s. After 2s, it explodes (just how it did before). Blast finisher. Still breaks stun.

I can agree with this one. I think the CD needs reduction on this skill. I think blocking all skills might be OP, but 5 skills would be a nice start.

Lightning Flash- CD reduction to 20s ( or atleast something reasonably lower)
What I’d give for LF to not be on a 40 second cool down. I’d say 20 is OP, I’d appreciate 25-30.

Mist form- Condis stop doing damage while invuln, but arent removed due to this. when the invuln is over, condis start to hurt again.
Not sure how I feel about this. I think mist form is fine.

Every conjure except for FGS- Reduced CD to 20s.
Conjures need more reforms than just this.

Cleansing fire- increased cd to 60s. Removes all condis.
No, no, no, No, NO, NOOOO. That would be the worst thing to do to this skill. With 30 water, this skill already does a full clear almost..

See my responses in bold.

I thought this thread was more about WvW and SPvP, but it looks as if PvE has taken over?

I was flamed on another thread for saying this, but I’m doing really well in SPvP on my ele, and no you won’t find in my post history that I’m a closet warrior.

I worked hard to make a build I felt countered the two different offenses, conditions and power, and I built around that to buff my damage after I built tanky.

I die less than once per game, and when I’ve dueled in SPvP, I’ve had almost a flawless record, but I did come across one build I simply couldn’t beat. The terrormancer necro spec.. I am sure if I dueled it more, I’d come up with something, but I only dueled the guy about 4 times and I lost each one.

I have yet to come across a build I can’t tie at least minus that necro spec. (What really got me were the constant fears plus his dual health pool. I got him to 30% just about each fight despite that)

I’ve played ele for a long time, but not since beta (I play on a mac) and I think if you really practice your build and balance it to all situations, you can do well.

Now I’ll restate what got me flamed in the other thread — I do think we need major help, but I think those who are skilled can make it work.

Elfis.9102:

You guys are asking for things that you don’t really want. Let’s pretend that they did for some reason give elementalists 5000 HP, 400 armor, and 20% autoattack damage next patch. It would either come with huge nerfs to other powers, or those nerfs would follow shortly in the next patch. That’s how balance works.

If you really wanted high HP, armor, and autoattacks, you would be playing a warrior, because that’s what warriors do, and it isn’t what elementalists do, never has been, never should be (maybe in beta, all op damage, but not since release).

The lower the HP pool, the lower the armor, the worse the autoattacks, the better the cooldown powers can be. That’s balance, and the active power end of the balance spectrum is the end I want on the ele; not the HP and autoattack end.

I think most people, at least I am one of them, feel that the tradeoff you stated isn’t balanced right now. We should either have a stronger base damage/hp/armor pool right now because of our long cool downs, or we should have shorter cool downs because of our poor damage/hp/armor pool. I agree with your tradeoff scenario, I just think we’ve drawn the short straw in every category as of now.

I think having them all the same is almost necessary? One flaw of fresh air is burning all your attunements early, then dying with no defense.

You could easily do that in water(I say water because I only frequently trait 30 into water). Also, how then do you justify the zero benefits of 30 in arcane?

As an adept trait, I’d most definitely pick it though. As a master trait, I’d consider it big time. A 3 sec cooldown difference is big.

I mean you didn’t overshoot my attention span, I’m just the case that disagrees. I don’t like any of my traits to be random, but unfortunately one is. (soothing wave). I personally like my play to be dynamic and action packed. This is why I refuse to use skills like armor of earth, ether renewal and traits like you are describing.

I think each attunement would do well to have a grandmaster like fresh air, I just don’t think it’s valuable to have a random skill chosen. On dagger, it could be my 6K fire grab, or my semi useless if spammed fire circle.

I wouldn’t pick it, but I understand some who would. Staff for example. Perhaps if it were “whenever you burn an opponent”, recharge fire attunement, I’d take it. As I draw burning from many sources.

Secondly; gotta love magic the gathering.

I definitely realize that. That’s why I always try to say the skill is my least favorite as it takes me away from active play.

It also if I’m using it with rock solid decreases my amount of might stacking.

oZii.2864:

DiogoSilva.7089:

One of our major problems was base attunement cooldowns outside of arcana. That was fixed in the last patch. Good. It was a first step in the right direction.

Two other major problems remain for us. Base survivability and auto-attacks. The former is obvious. The later is tricky, because I think auto-attacks should be nerfed across the game. However, it’s not like arc lightning, lightning whip and fireball are breaking the ele, right? Making our other auto-attacks at a similar power level to those three would be great.

Agree actually I would say ele auto attacks are reasonable they just need to be a bit more effective or a reason to use them. Dragon’s claw should be projectile finisher chance, vapor blade projectile finisher chance, earth range extended to 600.

Dragon’s Claw reduce down to 2 projectiles divide damage of all 3 claws into 2 lessen cone arc.

Also scepter’s auto attack in fire.

I agree with all of this.

I think dragons claw could be changed to something a little better tho overall.

It may be strong, but I consider it a very poor choice for my style of play. I am always attacking. Additionally, if someone is smart enough they’ll just attack you full force when you heal and you may as well not have used the skill.

Ether renewal is and will remain my least favorite heal for just how passive it makes you.

Diogo and Thibash,

I guess on second consideration, you’re definitely right. That’s my mistake, but I consider rock solid a waste of a trait almost, as you’re going 10 deeper into earth for (what I personally consider) a useless heal.

So other than it makes use of my least favorite ele heal, it also utilizes one of the lesser grandmaster traits. In my opinion if you’re going thirty deep into air, you’re going more bursty/offensive, and that can be great. I just don’t see it all functioning well.

I’m going to put the build to a test this afternoon to see how wrong/right I am. I agree with you guys in that it is at least creative.

Deez, I’ll send you a tell next time I’m online. I’d love to duel in SpVp since I’m sure Mag will never draw FC.

To more directly address your drivel:

Wintel.4873:

Sounds like a reading problem, look up what “valid concern” means.

Well, they also said diamond skin would activate at 85% health, and they’ve been saying they’ll diversify builds for ages, too

Don’t care, read the thread title and stay on topic. SPvP is SPvP.

Actually if you could stay on topic too, that’d be great. It’s asking if any SUCCESSFUL elementalists are playing SPvP. I’ve stated my fun in SPvP even if I play it infrequently. And that fact doesn’t disqualify my speaking to SPvP eles.

Waste of my time and not helping the Ele community in the slightest, just stroking egos. A bit selfish IMO.

As I see it, these forums rarely are read, and this post isn’t made to further eles, just poll them.

Nikkinella for heavens sake you know I play ele, only ele. I have a lvl 80 of each class but necromancer and ranger, but 95% of my hours logged are on ele. If you all need picture proof let me know.

Wintel, yours sounds like an attitude problem. If I can do well at ele in spvp, then I can. Come test things with me and find out for yourself.

Actually, read some of my posts and realize I ask a multitude of people to come duel. What’s selfish is your trashy attitude. You aren’t the god of fact and fiction.

In fact, your entire ‘What I say isn’t subjective but what you say is’ stance is ridiculous.

I think ele needs a lot of help, but RE READ my posts before you flame a respected elementalist.

If you can’t make elementalist work for you in spvp then you need to learn how to play the class better. You should be able to win many fights on skill alone. Spvp is where I’ve gone to duel server mates since release, and I know our sad state of affairs there.

Summation, do we need help? Yes. Does it make our class invalid? No, users with little skill like you do.

Oh.. And if someone says they’ve had a good experience, give them props and ask them if they’d like to duel. That’s the thing to do if you’re interested in figuring out of they’re blowing smoke, which I’m not.

Assumptions and condescension rejected. Good day

Calm down mate. I’m in no way inexperienced at ele. I simply don’t waste my time in an inferior game form.

I would hardly call Grouch’s post “arena net admitting ele needs help.” If you note, we faced a full team of R59s. Not all noobs.

I actually guarantee I’ve got more WvW roaming and dueling experience than you.

You stick to your kittened opinion, I’ll give mine. PM me in game if you’d like to duel.

I just played a series of TPvP games with my custom D/D ele build.. The results? One loss, but 6 wins.

Our loss was because our engineer pooped out.

Get this— team composition: two eles, two engies and a guardian who wasn’t good at all.

We are noobs to TPvP. All roughly around R15. Not sure how good that is. But we played some really good games, and in all those games, I only died 4 times as the DPS roamer.

The most competitive game we played was against a coordinated guild of players, all R59. They all had assignments and we really did well against them. The score came down to the wire at 494-500 (us). At the end they had two points but a stomp I made boosted us from 495 to 500 granting us the victory.

I guess I’ll also include my thoughts on how I FELT as an ele today. I felt appropriate. I at times took on 2v1 and won. I at times took on 3v1 and killed one and escaped. At times I had 4v1 and escaped but I also died several times in that same situation. My mobility in those small maps was great. My damage was more than sufficient, and I only couldn’t kill a bunker engineer, who also did no damage to me.

I was the top scorer every game, but I’m not boasting, as I know I’m not great at SPvP, I’m just trying to give hope.

So what am I saying? If you put the time into building and connecting with you build, you really can make ele shine.

Star Ace, I’m not saying I support the condescension or the assumptions from that poster, but I also say that build can’t have much good to offer PvP wise. I’d like to duel him and test out whose is more effective, as I also feel the people in charge are playing random builds (see above..) and are messing with the overall ele dynamic.

I don’t think it is good for anything in the PvP/WvW realm.

Grouch understand while I’m happy to see any post, that I will believe it when I see it.

I’d prefer nothing changed period if the outcome will be a nerf. Please encourage them to consider negative repercussions on any changes if we forecast them

Enjoy your time off. It is most certainly going to be important for all classes to get things straightened out in the future.

As it is, even condition classes laugh when they see eles with diamond skin. The skill doesn’t work as intended, as it’s letting first hit condis tick for damage in SPvP. As for in WvW, why would anybody ever take it, when eles are frequently the most focused class. We have zero stealth, few hit deterrents like blocks, invuln or retaliation, and our auras could use revamping.

Both our skills and attunements need cooldown reductions period, and for HEAVENS SAKES, a ‘buff’ in a trait line does NOT constitute a nerf elsewhere, as we don’t have infinite trait points to use them all!!!

/end rant.