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Hmm... No.

So what's the point in any other profession if DH has unlimited damage for free, unlimited boons, teleports, permanent invisibility, unlimited self healing (can't usually get below 75%), etc? Like, I understand FFA is a totally different beast, but why is this still happening now? When it comes to like Ele, I have few viable builds and die immediately a lot of the time. Ele typically does no damage without others covering it.

So I can hit it with a fireball or what

Just wondering what the counter for the unlimited damage trap that is an immediate win condition most of the time is? Doesn't seem it's really possible to beat DH. Haven't seen a Firebrand for maybe a year now though, so maybe that says something.

Not about "bad" elementalist when the elementalist dies repeatedly to any sub-par piece of garbage necro/dh.

keeping being bad at math and keep copy pasting the 2 different builds out of thousands of possible build combinations and thinking that's okay because you lack intelligence in all its forms

Lmao I laughed so hard, thanks. The game is trash XD

It's not and I'm sorry you have a disability.

While I understand mongoloids need to have a space to talk, I'd appreciate you go back to the adult foster home that you're from so they can check on you.

Weaver's a duelist with like one very specific spec, otherwise no it just dies usually in 2 hits.

Like, who complained about Ele instead of Necro? What brainless trash complained? I'd love to know

I have played plenty in the recent weeks, it's as crap now as it was before. It would be outlandish for anyone to consider playing an Ele over a Guardian/Engi, I've been seeing engis do like 12-20k with the flamethrower per hit which there is no way out of. You're not going to hit that hard and you're going to flatline before you have a chance to react.

I mean there's literally nothing about the profession that's broken or overpowered. Engi has unlimited damage at no cost to survival, no positioning requirement etc. Engi, Guardian, Revenant, Druid all heal more and do more damage. There would be no reason to take an ele for any reason ever. I regularly see engis use flamethrower and hit entire healthbars and ruin entire teams, 15-20k hits at a time from flamethrower etc. Self heal past any and all damage for free. Dodge anything we can counter with. Most classes deal 2-3x our damage and kill us within one stun. Ranger's the same, thief can be killed sometimes.

Having one choice for spec does not make a profession good, it really shows us that it is poorly designed overall

Yeah so that's not a true statement, it's supposed to be defensively weak with "active" healing for others and itself but it dies in 2-3 seconds. Since the game designers are trash and will never be anything other than trash, other professions do 2-4x the damage with literally more healing a lot of the time. This has happened on several mmos I play, they make the "true" mage class pretty much just a spec for people to be stressed out all the time playing with no real reward other than the flashy visual effects and colors. If the profession did any meaningful damage for the lack of HP and defense it would be worth it, but getting hit for 9-12k splash damage or when classes do a 12401, 15091, 17892, 19680, 21305 combo on you in 2 seconds at no cost to defense proves my point.

Anyone that would sit and argue saying ele is good is actually completely braindead. Just wondering, what is the purpose of the "jack of all trades" class when everything else does a lot more damage, healing, has 4 or 5 times the effective hp and takes a lot less effort to play? I just don't quite understand the purpose of playing something that is so poorly designed, even though I love the idea of it.

This seems to happen in most MMOs in my experience, they nerf the "glass cannon" class because people whine about it. They do less and less damage, eventually becoming just a joke you can kill since the original design is destroyed. Glass cannon should mean BIG damage. It doesn't. You die in 3 hits and you do barely any damage at all most of the time to anyone that knows what they're doing with their own profession.

Ele is heinous, ruined trash and I'm completely done with the profession (and game) now.

So isn't this completely false, aren't there quite a few mesmers in the top...10?

You might think this is true but you don't have many choices especially as you ascend. Certain professions are completely unplayable. The ones you play happen to be decent, save for Berserker. Try playing an Ele, it's complete and utter trash. Plenty of people are brainless and talentless, so they pick the same mesmer one shot build/other builds. Certain builds have unreasonable healing and self sustain at no cost to damage. I'm just glad I uninstalled the kitten after getting too invested.

I'm not going to go on a massive rant here, but this game makes absolutely no sense whatsoever when it comes to tradeoffs. Like many other WoW copies, it doesn't perform well. I'm not saying WoW is good in its current state, that's actually complete and total garbage as well. There is very little tradeoff when it comes to survivability and damage. This becomes very apparent if you play an Elementalist as I did for a while. The GW2 game design is and always will be trash. They have no desire to correct the mistakes. Because if you're giving up all the defense in the world you should be doing a ton of damage. But similar to WoW, you get the unkillable Necro/etc/etc that has unreasonable damage at no defensive cost. They talk about Elementalist being a jack of all trades when in fact there are plenty of other classes that do what Elementalist does and far better. I've seen this argument all over the forums, but yeah. That's my experience and I'm not going to go into all the other professions. There's no reason in any way whatsoever that many of the builds offered should be completely unviable. It's a good 3/4 of the customization options. As many MMORPGs with "customization" options have done in the recent years, the pure caster (save for a couple meme builds) doesn't do any worthwhile damage to justify it dying in 2-3 seconds at times. I could have gone anywhere in the MMOs I play had I been talentless enough to copy and paste builds, but I just like what I like. I'm uninstalling, so I guess we'll see in a few months if/when I check this forum out what the responses are. But yeah, just another really talentless development team wasting away what many of us feel could be a good product but isn't.

I like playing rpgs for the same reason that a lot of people do, because you get to try to be original and choose unique specs and combinations. Unfortunately it seems balance will never be possible in these kind of games so I just quit for good now. Lmao.