Listen, I get what you are saying …
I think we’ve both made our points clear at this point. I’ll admit that at least some of your points have merit, but the reason why I have such a hard time jumping on the bandwagon is because I just don’t experience it in the way that you do. As they say, the truth is likely somewhere in the middle.
And yes, maybe I’ve been playing staff too much. Probably played GW2 too much. But I’m having a blast (no pun intended) with it and I can hold my own. When I see that I can burst down the CoF gate controller in a few seconds on my non-zerker build, I feel my dps is fine. The past few weeks in sPvP, I dunno what the patch did to other professions or that I’ve ran into the wrong players, but I have little problems duelling on my staff ele. And I always feel like I’m at least contributing something useful to my team. And mind you, I’m not saying this to brag, I’m trying to illustrate why I feel posts like these are exagerated.
So yeah, the main reason I cannot agree with you is because I don’t experience the same issues when playing my ele. Or at least, not in as large a manner as you describe.
I’m just getting started with ele and I love the staff in PvE but in Spvp I don’t seem to do well. I’d like to be able to hold my own 1 vs 1 and sometimes run support healing build. Can you link me to your build(s) that you are doing well with and give a quick rundown if its not too much trouble?