Guild Wars 2

1)Ele
2)Ranger
3) I dunno nerf thief so ele and mesmer can become part of meta.

Ele damage is fine. The problem is terrible low health and armor and huge cooldowns on defensive skills.

All a thief and mesmer needs to do is reset the fight over and over. The ele waste 60+ second cooldowns surviving the first burst. Burst ele cannot maintain vs this. A bunker ele can survive a bit but wont kill anything but a glass cannon class that is terrible.

To fix this Anet thinks adding a blast finisher to dagger water and evade to fire skill is gonna save them. Which is horrible just like Diamond skin is a joke trait.

To Fix Ele:
1) Increase health and armor to that of mesmer or necro
2) allow out of combat weapon swap ( one can dream)
3) Fix focus fire and water skills ( fire aura is stupidly designed)(maybe make is cleanse conditions for the duration then explode with damage or absorb damage and anyone that hits you for the 3third time it explodes said damage.)
4) Revert old nerfs
5) Our auto attacks are about half damage compared to everyone else, adjust this please.
5) Staff Auto attacks cannot hit moving targets. A jump or side step makes them miss. Any other ranged auto attack class pretty much auto follows targets. Increase our projectile speed and cast time.
6) Staff Air Gust Skill is terrible and misses way to much.
7) Nerf Lyssa Runes
8)To many classes have insta teleport to enemy skills. You cannot kite someone as a mage if they can teleport to you every 5 seconds. Which means you are dead.
9) read Elementalist forums to find better solutions. Or other profession boards as it seems anet only made them for us.

There have been countless threads on ele changes and ideas, yet every time a dev thinks he has the answer, the fool creates Diamond Skin and/or nerfs traits. The first sign of light of a Dev in the Ele form is Allie mentioning something to the balance team about putting red circles on meteor shower. LOL! CDI is a joke, this game balance is a joke.

How about make it a requirement for your balance team to read and post on the profession forums weekly. I mean really who thinks a blast finisher and an evade on skills is gonna save the Ele. Thats on one weapon set, Dagger. What about the other weapons? We dont ask for damage only to be able to survive or sustain.

Here are basic ideas:
1:) buff health and armor to that of mesmer. ( they are still under thief in current meta but might be a start.)
2:) rework Focus fire and water skills. Fix fire aura to something useful
3:)remove the requirement to go into arcane for attunement swap duration reduction
4:) fix auto attacks so they are actually helpful
5:) Nerf Lyssa runes(The abuse is killing our CC to be able to survive)
6:) Bring thief teleport and evade in line to other classes
7:) Make our elites worth a kitten
8:) Faster number adjusting updates say like for Healing signet reduction on warriors, could of been nice 2 months ago.

Game is to unbalanced for people to care to play competitively.
The PvE raid vs MM necros and Spirit rangers is to difficult and boring to watch.
The Healing Signet warrior is boring to play against and to watch.
The S/X thief is pressing 3 buttons and is boring to watch.
The D/P thief is waiting to burst or spamming shortbow, its boring to watch.
The Guardian is bunker and pretty boring to watch.
The Elementalist is crying behind the monitor cause it is not meta.

All is vain

Yay someone else that can not tell us anything, but is sure to reassure us something might happen in the next couple months.

Can I has this job?

The op is right. Thieves are driving other dps roamers out of the meta. Thieves may not be overpowered vs condi bunker or bunkers in gerneral. A good thief will rip an ele a new kitten whether it is bunker or burst.

The problem is insta teleports and lyssa runes. Ele rely on landing cc to stay alive and when someone can port to and away every 5 seconds or evade every attack and pop free lyssa boons every engagement. This is not balanced. There was a time when I could win most fights vs thieves as a D/D bunker but that was nerfed hard. Now I can sometimes beat them as D/F but good ones will run and make me blow my long kitten cooldowns.

S/X or D/P thief is just too good vs other classes that are competing for roamer. They have everything to counter Ele or mesmer or other burst classes.

I’ve seen this too. When you gain a rank and get a free chest, the chest only contains limited items like the screen shot. Usually 1 weapon or armor and a glory booster

No one is ever looking for an Elemenatlist. There must be too many of us out there. Sad Facing.

/hide

I play Solo TeamQ. It is 100 times better than SoloQ. No Skyhammer and Spirit Watch. I’ve been all over the Soloq leaderboards, from rank 50 and now down to 78% cause I stoped playing in it. This was as a zerker staff ele mind you. So it took some effort.

When I reached the rank 50+ mark the match making decided I had won to many and started throwing low ranks in my games and giving nothing but Skyfail and Spiritfail/ My rank quickly started falling. Thats when I started TeamQ Solo. You can find really good 2-4 man teams running and stomp some premades. Then group up and go as far as you can til you hit the ProTeams, Which is like 3 full NA teams that actually que anymore. Most people you will fight will be the pug teams. I have managed to stay somewhere between top 300-500 on the TeamQ LB as someone who rarely finds a full group to play with.

Also make some friends with good palyers you meet and do 2-4 person ques. You will find it much better then trying to win at the Soloq Matchin Making.

We already have to wait to long for the next patch. March is it? Whats another month to wait for ESO to launch and kill pvp. There is what, 3 full NA teams that can get a constant 5 people to play with. Everyone else is just a pug group of 1-4 people and will very rarely win vs a set 5 who play together all the time.

Play what is fun and makes you happy. Who cares what some one thinks of you on the other side of the screen. Block them or whatever. Take a 5 min smoke break and hope they get a que before you. I play Elementalist almost 90% of the time in tpvp and I could care less what others think. I have fun on it.

Diamond skin is terrible and should never be in any tpvp ele build. Unless you are always fighting pure condi classes. Which is almost never these days. Most necros have switched to the meta MM.

It is mostly trying to survive vs S/X thief, Hambow, Condi warrior, Pu Mesmers, MM Necros, Power necros, Condi engis.

Or trying to do enough dps to take down better bunkers then you, Knockback engi, necro bunkers, guardians, bunker warriors, condi warriors, condi engis, Sadly MM necros.

The best way to play an ele is to do your burst, whether its d/d s/d s/f or staff and get out before a better class jumps on you and you spend all your time trying to survive. Also pray that your 40sec+ burst you just blew is good enough to kill someone. While others can do it without blowing all utilities and every 10 or less seconds

Any old D/D build should be fine vs condi necro as it has plenty of condi cleanses

They should just try to make every class like the Elementalist with the amount of skill and effort it takes to play well.

I would say do a couple SoloQ’s til you learn rotations on the map and what builds are most popular for each class and are able to kill them or atleast bunker them til help arrives.

I personally stoped soloqing. Skyhammer and Spirit Watch are just terrible maps. You either get a team that knows how to play them or you don’t. Rarely is it 2 teams that know the maps. Plus these maps favor Certain classes and builds more then others.

I solo TeamQ now. It is 100times better. People are willing to switch classes to counter the other group setups. Sometimes you get paired with really good people who are 2-4 person queing and they will sometimes add you after a win. There is no Skyhammer or Spirit Watch! Be ready to also get kittened in the face cause you will hit good coordinated teams. Be ready to switch classes cause your enemy will try to counter your groups setup.

Most important part is, just play to have fun.

Make flamewall into Flamefield and give it a area as big as warriors longbow F1 skill

They did nerf aoe. They allowed pet classes to dominate pvp. Each pet blocks attacks so just bring more MM and Spirit rangers and win games.

Like Blackhat said Pick your amulet depending on the role you want to play. I personally like Soldier with cleric gem for bunkering or Barbarians for dps

Blackhat.4016:

LelouchViBritannia.3607:

Morderger.6298:

30 in earth is bad. Diamond skin is only good against pure condi builds. Which hardly anyone plays anymore. Probably should go Divinity Runes. You probably wont even notice the +boon duration you have now.
Can try
0-10-10-30-20
0-20-20-10-20
0-0-20-30-20 bunker
0-0-20-20-30 bunker

Amulet and Utility choices for those builds would help. Though I suspect the second answer would be “cantrips, cantrips and more cantrips”.

Amulet depends on whether you want a DPS or bunker build. And yes, it’s only cantrips. Arcane skills can be good in burst builds but most ele Utility skills are garbage.

This guys is right. You should take a couple amulets with you and base your choice off of the other teams comp.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhEmkblR4gjEAkCoMUEyICFPYRRROzA-ToAAyCtIqRVjrGTNyas1M+YWA

this is something I messed around with as D/D. you could change one cantrip to lightning flash to better land earth#5. But cantrips are an eles life line

30 in earth is bad. Diamond skin is only good against pure condi builds. Which hardly anyone plays anymore. Probably should go Divinity Runes. You probably wont even notice the +boon duration you have now.
Can try
0-10-10-30-20
0-20-20-10-20
0-0-20-30-20 bunker
0-0-20-20-30 bunker

There is no huge ele meta at the moment. There are very few Eles in top 200 soloq and hardly any in teamq. Maybe 10 at most constantly play in teamq. There is a build for S/F which some run which is fairly decent. Not sure what it is off the top of my head.
Some builds that are decent if you play flawlessly:
30-30-0-0-10 zerker staff – ice bow
0-30-0-10-30 think this is S/D
0-20-20-10-20 can use any weapon
0-0-20-20-30 bunker
0-0-20-30-20 bunker
0-10-10-30-20 bunker
Not much has changed with Ele builds, Diamond skin was a joke trait vs 1 build. other then that they just moved traits around to screw us even more.

S Tier:
1. Guardian bunker
2. Warrior ham/bow or condi far point bow Sword/shield or sword
3. Engi far point assualt either bunker or condi
4. Ranger bunker spirit

A Tier:
1. Any warrior dps set with healing signet
2. Pu mesmer or condi
3. Necro any build
4. Engi nades/bombs rifle or pistol/shiled or pistol power build
5. Ranger spirit dps

B Tier:
1. Any warrior build not using Healing Signet
2. any other dps mesmer build
3. Guardian dps builds
4. Thief any dps build

C Tier:
1. Any Elementalist build
2. bunker Mesmer
3. Bunker thief
4. Power rangers

Probably but its clear that Anet doesn’t read the Ele forums, except grouch, but I dont expect him to do much for us.

I haven’t done wvwvw in about 6 months, but from what others say from it. It seems Ele is nothing more then a combo field/ CC bot for other dps classes. The problem with staff dps is wvwvw is that you cannot choose which 5 people get hit by your big aoe spells or if it will be the same 5 people on the next attack. If you go zerker staff in wvwvw you are probably just a rally bot for the other team as well.

I agree, Ele needs some loving. I play a zerker staff Ele in tpvp and do alright, but like the others said, any competent team will put someone on the Ele and null anything he can do. It takes very good timing and positioning to pull off a game changing aoe of death.

Dps Staff cannot 1v1 vs any good player of any other class, which is very sad and frustrating. Any mesmer will kitten you up and any thief that pops lyssa runes will do the same in 2 seconds.

The Problem is now that most dps classes have a insta teleport burst skill + stability + stealth on such low cooldowns, where the Elementalists defense is on 40+second cooldowns.

Bunker builds can do alright and can take down zerker builds, but you will never beat another bunker or keep a point capped. Mist form will lose cap, Focus Obsidian Flesh will lose cap, and basic kiting and trying to setup your combos with enough distance between you and your target to get the end of the animation to land will most likely lose cap also.

Secpter + X is nice burst every 40+ seconds also for a 1 trick pony. Where any other class can do the same burst every 2 to 10 seconds. Aka Backstab thief, Mesmer Shatter, PU mesmer is kitten also, Warrior 100b or longbow or axe, or hammer still. Necro Power build and Condi, Engis nade/bombs, or condi build. Guardian dps buffs are quite kitten also. grrrr Sorry ranting now. Anyway any other dps build will last 100% longer then a Dps ele and there is something wrong with that.

Anet kittened the Elemenatlist and gave everyone else what we had and still expected us to still be on par. Nerf everyone else to Elementalist Hp and armor. and see where we go

Hi guys, I’m not the greatest Ele out there but I do alright. Check out some of my videos. Can see on twitch or youtube. I do mostly staff these days and use to do D/F. Spvp and Tpvp. I am using 30-30-0-0-10.

Heres a video of teamq yesterday of 2 games.

I disagree also. My staff dps elementalist kitten s the kitten out of people. And also A bunker staff home point staff ele is nice as well and can bring a lot to team fights as well.

I stream some. I’m not the greatest Ele around but I do alright. Mostly SoloQ and some TeamQ mixed in.

check out stuff from Blu. He shout cast tournys that happen around the gw2 pvp scene. There are still some people left that play this game. Don’t get discouraged. There is a Twitch channel for Blu and one for just gw2pvp, which is used sometimes.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrM__2NGk8pnUoTCwJtNx-A

Ele takes a lot of work to get good at and you will still be beatin by people who put in less effort into playing their class.

Mesmer is probably a better choice right now til they work out some issues with the ele.

Just wondering Is the MMR for your account the same for Team Q and Solo Q or are they different? Can’t remember ever reading anything on this.

Eles win games! nuff said

I really was only complaining about auto attacks miss rate. Just seems that 1 outta 2-3 cast will hit a moving target, while other classes seem to be able to pluck you away with autos while you try to kite around. So instead of people just running side to side or straight at you, they may try to kite back instead of the elementalist being the one running away.

think cmc comp is out of commission at the moment. haven’t seen him playing lately.

can check out my stream channel. I am not the best ele out there, but I do alright. There are some D/F and some Staff play videos. link is in sig.

get a frostbow ftw

There needs to be a separate bridge for those people who have played 500 tourny games to someone who has done 10. Ranks 1-20 in their own little bracket, the rest of us can be paired together. If they farmed hotjoins then make the system require them to have atleast 50-100 tourny games in the first bracket. Or you could make it so that in Hotjoins you can only farm up to a certain rank, say like rank 10. Then in order to increase rank you have to do Tournaments.

I have somewhere around 2000+ tourny games played. I do not want to have to type every game, telling people where to go or to not 1vs2 on far point. It gets old.

Ya I’ve done the WvWvW thing for first 6months of the game. Don’t want to be a combo field bot. Into the spvp these days. I love the feeling of killing 3-4 people on a point with my aoe. I just feel like our auto attacks are lacking when my aoe is on cooldown. They cast to slow, by the time someone runs at me i can get 1 1/2 shots off. and if they are ranged they just run side to side or jump and my autos miss causing my only source of pressure to be ground target spells.

I feel cheated out of auto attacks. They are mostly one second cast time and seem to hit 1 outta 2-3 cast at max range. This is when most classes can just spam 1 all day long and auto kill you. When fighting another ranged class, I can not keep pressure up cause they just pluck me away while never missing with their auto attacks. It just feels so wrong to be a mage class that cannot mage. Anet needs to spend a good month repairing the Elementalist.

I love this class and thought it was going to be a mage/wizard type of play. Even support is rough. Its just not enough to keep up with what other classes can do every 10 seconds, while ours are 40 sec cooldowns, let alone the only source of our damage output relies on insta gibbing someone in a mesh of 10 button mashing and now on a 40+ cooldown before it can happen again and unable to access other skills in those attunements.

/frustrated

I have had some decent games. 1 blow out that I lost and another 4vs5. other then that most games were 500-400 combos. I would have to agree though. There were a lot of rank 20 and belows in the teams. I would like to see a bracket for those people 1-20 ranks. I have a couple thousand tourny games played and hate being paired with people who do not understand basic rotations. Please adjust this. I do not mind waiting around longer for it.
I know my mmr isnt great lately because I stopped caring like most people when this kitten was broken. I know it will take a while to balance out. I have been all over the leaderboards from rank 15 to 78%.
WeW! go troll burst staff ele!

Hows does sync queing effect decay on leader boards?

Higher ranked players would much rather be pit against people of similar rank and skill, and like you said anet match making failed us all. I was so pumped for this game before it launched and coming to it from the fail that was Swtor, I was hoping to have my new pvp mmo for years to come. Yet with slow development, lack of incentive, and this match making from hell there is almost no reason to play. It’s a shame there is almost no better pvp out there at the moment for us.

Try out my d/f build. I rarely have trouble with condis. The problem with ele is auto attacks deal minimual damage. Maybe they crit for 1k if you are lucky. Ele also has to give up so much to either be dps or bunker. If you go down dps road you are a 1 trick pony waiting to be back stabbed by thieves for 9k damage while you barely push 14k hp. With bunker you have to bring atleast 2 cantrips and you have trouble even breaking 3k armor with 21k hp, with minimal sustain. Your defense cause you to lose the cap points.

It is a rough life for ele at the moment. You have to do 4 times the work as any other class that is played semi decently. I love my ele and so want it to be brought back to the meta. Our healing was nerfed yet bunker warrior, ranger and engis all do it better then we ever could. The only reason our healing was good was because you could rtl away to safety. Anyway its all been said before and i doubt anet will listen to the player base because i didnt see any post in ele forums asking for conjure or staff support buffs.

Hi all names’ Morderger and I main a D/F Elementalist. I know its weird, but I like the challenge. If any NA teams are looking for a substitute or maybe a full time ele send me a message in game. I am currently rank 43 in game and have been playing since open beta’s. Started out in WvWvW for first 6 months and then made my way here.
Usually Sundays and Mondays are my days off so I try to be on a good bit then. Also have a some experience with Guardian dps/support, and Necro.

Available:
Sunday-Monday: any time
Tuesday: after 10pm est
Wednesday: After 3pm
Thursday: after 10pm est
Friday: after 10pm est
Saturday: 10am-3pm and after 10pm est

not working either

I have run D/F for the last couple of months and this is my build. It works fairly well as a sustain dps and hybrid bunker. Also makes for a great stomper if your guard cannot get there or is running a dps/support role.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAodhEmkblR4gjEAkHnYCLjChIK8QRxM0A-TsAA1CmI2RtjbHzOyds7MK48xEEA

D/F ele doing lots of soloq

I stream some. D/F and staff ele, along with necro, warrior,guardian mostly.

http://www.twitch.tv/morderger – Morderger\

NA also

I like the bottom one better 7/10

Occassionally two teams I am in run,

At Least We Have Home Point [QQ]
Spicy Asuran [Qz]