Guild Wars 2

Azunai.1065:

I personally played D/D ele sicne release, got my 2 incinator and full ascended trinkets

now tell me one reason to keep playing GW2

Heh, yeah, as I wrote in my post in Fish’s thread about this, been rolling D/D since release and gathered up laurels and everything to fully kit her out in ascended trinkets. Well, except rings, which I got from FOTM. Lately, as I was getting bored a bit, I’ve been entertaining the notion to make her gearset “complete” and grind out a pair of incinerators, even started working towards it a little. Guess that won’t happen with this change, since I don’t see myself playing my main any if this goes live.

Bunch of laurels wasted anyway. Overall, this change kinda feels like a slap in the face – I did my dailies every day and everything to get the ascended trinkets, and this change makes me feel.. “why bother anymore?”. I mean OK, so, what if I shelf my main, maybe find another profession that I’ll enjoy equally (doubt it, tried everything but necro and ranger so far, my engineer’s been parked basically since he hit 80 a while back),… what’s to say that they won’t do the same to that class – so I go out, get everything I want for it, feel satisfied about the build and the effort I put into getting said gear as I want it to be, just to get it taken away by a random sweeping change which will ruin the profession,.. kinda sad. These kinds of changes should be done, well, with a much, much, much lighter touch. I really don’t care about the reasoning behind it – fact is, the class was like this from launch onwards – there was plenty of time to “fix” it earlier, or seriously say “guys, eles bla bla, nerfs incoming, be prepared!”.. this is just.. meh.. and insulting in a way.

So, yea.. I getcha.

Mik Hell.8206:

Also does RtL bug as often as it used to?

Yea, it still often bugs out unfortunatly.

Fishbait.6723:

R.I.P. Ele`…

Certainly looks that way.

Gonna have to put my redheaded witch in storage.. if I get over it..

OK, so.. I think you guys at ANet are taking it a bit far. An ele has to give up a lot to get the said mobility and tankiness. They do not need nerfs. They need buffs, so that the “only viable” build won’t be a bunker D/D. I main an ele. I love the ele, without the ele – for me, again, personally – GW2 is 50% of the game it is. I’ve been running D/D since before it was the cool thing to do, since launch, and have kept quiet thru all the past nerfs, they were “sigh,.. I can deal” kind of nerfs.

I have killed, and been killed by any other class in the game – it’s all about the player behind the keyboard. If you know how to counter me, you can kill me easy. If I blow my CD’s without thinking, I’m toast. Playing a good ele has a relatively high skill ceiling. An ele without mobility is a dead ele (because of the inherent weaknesess of the profession). And the bunkering is there in the first place because it is a necessary evil with the profession in its’ current state – I would absolutely love to get rid of my pvt armor :P, but that’s kinda impossible.

In effect, this nerf is like saying “screw you eles, pick up a staff and be glasscannons hiding behind the zerg and hope noone plinks at you, or you die” – that’s what it looks like to me.

And yeah, sure, I can grab my warrior or guardian and go pwn while hitting 4-5 keys with 50% less risk and 200% the dps, but, to me – that’s just not that fun. For me personally, the RTL nerf is kinda a gamebreaker – in the “I really don’t know if I want to play GW2 anymore because of the constant amount of bad balancing decisions” way – it’s really overdoing it. Also, what does “hit anything” mean? A tree? A slope in the terrain? Other players? A rock? *woops edited, I managed to misread that one. Rest of it still stands tho, even more now that I read it properly.

The mist form thing, idk, I guess I could deal (tho it’s not a good idea at all).

OK,… I have a bunch more things I could write, but I’m kinda trying to write a reasonable post (and not a novel :P) and am sleepy, so I’ll refrain and ask nicely if anyone from ANet reads this – please, don’t do it this way. Take a better look at the ele and its weaknesess, and buff that. That’s how you’ll get rid of that problem and make other builds viable, not this way which will “kinda” infuriate most of us that really love playing a D/D ele and find it the funnest class in the game to play.