Winds of disenchantment

Just a fast though on state of wvw and projectile hate (mostly weaver / ele staff aimed) that due to the massive amount of projectile hate that this skill adds to the game (winds of disenchantment) and the lack of unblockable tools ele / weaver has with staff the ideal of aoe mages there is a major lose to an old way of playing gw2. Staff ele use to be ideal for dmg in wvw and it was looking to be better due to weaver but with the lack of means of making there skills unblockable (also unrefelctalable / destroy the effect that comes with unblockable) much like ranger wars even reapers oddly has cut this type of class at it knees for doing any real dps with its fier ball or any of its duel skills.

This needs to be looked at badly and fixed.

ya, we need more unblockables so the blocks mean nothing and the frontline gets deleted. sick

True, anet shouldn't be adding so much projectile hate to the game.

The only thing I hate about that elite is how fast it strip boons and how you cannot apply boons within in, combining it with other classes boonstrip and cc at the right time, you can ideally cut a group of people off inside the dome.

The only thing I hope they can possible do is allow friendly dome to cancel out the effect of opponent dome.

@jamesdolla.3954 said:ya, we need more unblockables so the blocks mean nothing and the frontline gets deleted. sick

Well ya mages are the counter to melee or front line that where you get gank or thfs to kill the mages. Right now melee or front line are the end all be all because they have both the dmg to kill and the blocks / projctile hate to make them unkillable by there conter. Even your frontline has many unblockable skills that eat other front lines blocks as if they where nothing at both melee and long ranged.

Any way if ele / weaver dose not get some type of fix to real deal with this projectile hate they will simply move to classes that fit the mages and that have unblockables. I am simply asking for ele / weaver to be on par with other classes who are dmged aimed. This is not going to changes any thing for your front line deleted argument because the dmg and the classes who can do this are going to still be there its just the level of diversity of thoughts classes are the only thing your going after.

@Jski.6180 said:

@jamesdolla.3954 said:ya, we need more unblockables so the blocks mean nothing and the frontline gets deleted. sick

Mages are still counters but they need boon corruption not projectile damage in this game. That is why necro is so important in WvW

Even small scale is impossible because these lamer tempest spam kitten in air. Dagger should be eles only offhand option.

@Exciton.8942 said:

@Jski.6180 said:

@jamesdolla.3954 said:ya, we need more unblockables so the blocks mean nothing and the frontline gets deleted. sick

The ideal is mages magic is not effective by armor but that not how gw2 works for dmg types. Its the magic attks them self that should be going though the blocks. A lot of classes has corruption and boon strips both mages and frontlines (right now frontlines has boon strip better then any other class). I am asking for ele to be treated like a mages and now some type of weird animation ranger. Ele needs a way to make there attks unblockable or some of the dmg projectiles on weaver staff need to be unblockable OR remove the projectile part of the attks and simply make the ground targeted like a real mages.

Honestly @Jski.6180 projectile hate was just as harsh pre-PoF and WoD. Guardian Shield 5, Aura Sharing Earth Eles, Walls of Reflection ...

Weaver just needs to have their combined elemental attacks, in staff, be consistent with all the other Staff ele skills (AoEAoEAoEAoE). Ele staff was never intended for single target hate.

Might as well change your playstyle with Weaver and pick specific targets or just play the base Arcane Ele,Air,Water.

@Haematic.4913 said:Honestly @Jski.6180 projectile hate was just as harsh pre-PoF and WoD. Guardian Shield 5, Aura Sharing Earth Eles, Walls of Reflection ...

Weaver just needs to have their combined elemental attacks, in staff, be consistent with all the other Staff ele skills (AoEAoEAoEAoE). Ele staff was never intended for single target hate.

Might as well change your playstyle with Weaver and pick specific targets or just play the base Arcane Ele,Air,Water.

I get what your saying but WoD is so big compared to a wall of reflection/ guardian shield 5 (also is able to be set downed and nothing else done about it to keep it up unlike the guardian shild) and so much longer then aura sharing earth ele.

The thing about weaver is all of there attks are projectiles and you would be better off with out them. The tools of a weaver get in the way of doing dmg but weaver line gives you the best dmg + in the game for ele. I am not sure if a arcain air water core ele could even hope to land real dmg and effects even at full glass with all the ranged hate leaps and blocks.