Execellent explanation! Which describe entirely my fears.
I’m pretty sure that GW1 veterans remember how ele players were regarded in general: “noobs profession”, regardless of your level of skill you’d still be regarded as noob for simply playing an ele.
In every discussion both in game and outside the game, your opinion was never appreciated simply for being an ele player, comments like :" lol blind spammer scrub"-" knockdown nab"-" invoke rankless nab spammer" and so on.
People have got all the rights to pick a profession which does not require big efforts to have fun with, that’s a legitimate reason, but we must always look at both sides of the coin.
When you play an “easy” profession, generally in people minds you automatically become a “scrub-noob” etc etc; believe me it’s an terrible feeling, everytime you try to talk about PvP you get laughed at to say the least, this is what happened in GW1 as ele player.
I really want the ele in GW2 to stay as it is, of course minus some obvious balance issues ( elites, glyphs, fire traits) and major bug fixes( RTL-magnetic grasp-mist form), but pls Anet do no dumb down the ele for the sake of players that in all honesty they could simply switch to an “easier” profession
Ive played guild wars 1 for over 4 years and dont recall ever be called a noob ele, furthermore eles simply annihilated pve back then with the proper builds, there were so many builds u could choose from besides sf/ms u could almost never get bored of the class and be efficient like no other.
And that was with splitted attunements, theres also not 2 sides of the coin, the gw2 elementalist description is exactly the same as gw1 elementalist description so the 2 side of the coins goes down the toilet, i much rather have creative elementalists classes which were actually viable for decent damage and good heal in water, great dps in fire, great protection abilities in earth and sick 1 target dps in air, right now u have the same boring profession across the game using same weapons and skills, adding nothing to creativity or build choices, thats why u get 20 clunky spells and other classes achieves the same and better with only 5.
This is not an elementalist, this is more like a paragon, the only way i would agree for this to be a class full of bloatware and make u take as much efficiency of that bloatware as is possible for a human was to call it a different name or simply add a class called “elementalist” and call the current one BloatWare Mage or Elemental Paragon as this one clearly isnt an ele.
The concept is fun, but i dont see anet doing much effort to make this class viable to play, thats why many ppl suggest to remove these attunement stuff and split them up, its the easiest way for ANET to balance the class because currently, with all its versatility, with all its 20 magnificent skills, in spvp u are still forced to go melee or die in 1vs1. If this is what u think that gw1 elementalist was all about then im sorry im in the wrong forum.
Having said all that, i still use my ele in pve, mainly CoE, i dont find the class boring but i do fint it borked when i have skills that block for 5 seconds only 3 attacks and then it explodes which recharges in 60 seconds basically telling u “this is not a good skill to use for solo crowd killing”, or having lightning flash with 45 seconds recharge time while the mesmer equivalent blink is only 30 seconds, or having stupid traits like “u get more damage while in water”, “your fire spells add might for x seconds when u are casting”, “bleeds u apply last longer” and other random crap like that, how the heck can u convince me this is a versatile and fine class when the trait system itself is forcing you to stick to an attunement more than others?
