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Ride the lightning resetting attunements CD?

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RTL now just became another heal. Lol.

How do you counter D/D elementalist?

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Avoid earth and fire skills and you should be fine against a D/D ele.

Now, avoiding those skills against a good D/D ele is the harder part.

Ways to get runes/sigils out of karma equips?

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Normally or ‘creatively’. I just want to know, since my build is far from final and I don’t want to spend karma/money if I lock myself into it.

The last time a Dev spoke to this Forum...

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PvE Rangers are kittening amazing. My 2nd 80 is a Ranger who facerolled to 100% map completion in a quarter of the time it took my Elementalist. This isn’t a case of the Elementalist taking his sweet time scouting things out and then the Ranger knowing the efficient path – they both hit 80 at around 30% map completion, Elementalist first by a few weeks. Then the Ranger just kept rocking, sweeping across territory that my Elementalist would then timidly follow into, spending ages longer completing, constantly broke because he was too scared to kill things he absolutely didn’t have to or approach resource nodes in hostile territory, and because his frequency of armor repairs was so much higher. Luckily, the Ranger can farm like none other (see: 95% of botters, who chose Ranger because it’s so strong in PvE that you don’t even have to have a player at the keyboard), so she bankrolled my sissy little Elementalist the whole way. SPvP and WvW are different for Rangers? I honestly don’t give a crap. I’m a PvE player.

I knew a nerf to Elementalist Bunkers was coming, and thought it would be fair and just. That one trick was definitely performing higher than it should have, and I didn’t use it. I just expected they’d do it at the same time as buffs to… anything else the class could potentially do. Instead, they took their time to crap all over that build, crap all over a bunch of other things just in case the handful of non-Bunker Elementalists didn’t understand that we’re at the bottom of the totem pole, and slap some underwhelming stat boosts on a bunch of powers that still won’t be worthwhile to use. The Conjuration Buffs are like finding out your parents forgot to get you Christmas presents, so your dad filled your stocking with pens and notepads he stole from work. kittening thanks!

They took time and programming resources to NERF TORNADO.

TORNADO.

TORNAAAAADO.

This is 100% true. If you play Elementalist you shouldn’t play the game, haven’t been online for like a month. Was hoping they would change Elementalist because I got bored of the bunker builds and the supportive builds because those builds were the only builds elementalist wasn’t like doing half of the efficiency of another class.

So now there is absolutely no reason ( 0 ) to play an elementalist in PvP. Just don’t play it stay away from it if you play to win because winning with an elementalist won’t happen because they’re the worst at everything currently.

Other than guards (who have the sense to not complain) and warriors (who are still complaining), this is the tune of all other classes right now.

What does that tell us?

From 30 Arcane to 20

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With Arcana 20, you just have to be slightly more thoughtful of the way you cycle through attunements. It’s not that hard, and this is coming from a chaotic WvWvW yesterday.

As for earth, I take the armor of earth trigger on 50% one. Saves lives, that trait does.

Patch notes

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Just played a good amount of WvWvW, didn’t glitch out once with RTL and Magnetic Grasp. From what I can tell, it worked.

From 30 Arcane to 20

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10 earth makes the most sense for me right now, but I want to rethink DD post patch altogether.

Patch notes

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Well, even Warriors are complaining apparently. Everyone is letting out a knee-jerk reaction, which is fine, but not informed at all.

Goes both ways though — people are saying every other class except theirs got buffed, including eles.

I’m not saying ‘eles are still good’, nor am I saying ‘eles are now doom and gloom’. I’m saying, play in the post META, not the post ELE patch. There’s going to be a significant difference now, since every class experienced changes.

And yes, eles might look to be the bottom of the barrel after this patch. I actually am of the same opinion right now as well. But I won’t make that call for myself until I give conjures a serious second try and see how effective, if at all, RTL and Magnetic Grasp now are.

Patch notes

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Lol. Wow.

The reaction of people was expected. Very much so.

I’m not going to say anything (+ or -) until I actually get to play post-patch.

[Guide] Mastering the D/D ele 7/15/13

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As someone who is -still- leveling (currently 65) and if I would do 1-65 all over again:

Traits: 10 air, 10 water, 10 arcane, 20 arcane, 20 water, 30 arcane then your choice of 30 water or 10 earth.

10 air in the beginning is important just so you don’t gouge your eyes out on moving like molasses. You’re also already helpful in WvWvW since you can run supplies like no other class can.

As far as skills, that’s really preference I think. There’s no right or wrong. For leveling, conjures like Frost Bow are actually good for some decent AOE and kiting (and its fun as all heck…. pew pew) and Signet of Healing has a great passive.

For armor, again, no right or wrong answer. Just important to do your dailies, get the huge 4k karma boost and do level appropriate stuff to progress alongside the heart karma vendors. Armor (and possibly vit/toughness) matter more than anything at earlier points, while power factors in more and more as you level.

[GASM] Recruiting for a LIMITED TIME ONLY!

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Oh, I’m planning to get one for sure. Just waiting for black Friday/holidays.

Then, I would like to join if there are spots still open. I’ll send you an ingame mail.

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I’m a 59 elementalist—recently joined last week. This all really sounds interesting. Is TS required though? I’m afraid I do not have a mic yet.

Ideas about conjures

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I do think there’s untapped potential here, but for conjures to be effective, I think both of these things have to happen.

1. Conjures retain weapon and attunement bonuses.
2. Conjures become switchable (F5) in and out for as long as the duration is active.

I have no problem with the charges and/or the duration, since I believe that only makes sense. Would I like more charges? Sure. But it’s a lot harder to justify using a util slot just for a weapon you’ll use all of 5 seconds before switching out due to cooldowns, much less an elite.