Celano.8492

Pretty much no one plays Catalyst as it is, nerfing it even more will bring down even more. They definitely have logs and numbers and they can see how little people play Ele in general and catalyst in particular. I am main catalyst and I can easily be the only catalyst in any 50 men squad in open world, prior to so called "buff" to catalyst I was often asked to switch hero in raids, strikes etc simply because my damage was not reliable/good enough as well as my utility was nothing useful which would happen even before raid/strike started. You all talking numbers 42k 47k 55k 38k but you don't get the simple truth that it is extremely difficult to bring that to the table in real encounters. And the fact that it is possible in certain situations does not mean that it must be nerfed even more. The only way I see catalyst being nerfed is making it do more realiable damage which is downright impossible with the way elementalist is designed in general. Therefore the only way to make it somewhat playable is either give it bigger Possible DPS and I mean possible because not always will anyone be able to pull it off, either somehow redesign it so it becomes way more reliable. Also, why the hell would anyone play a spec that does exactly the same like anyone else with only difference being that with Ele you have to sweat like crazy and watch out for any random whiff of the wind when you can play literally anything else, sweat way less and do as a result way better because your damage and performance in general does not depend on luck and random whiffs of the wind??? The logic must be that if it is hard to play it must be likewise rewarding. Anet were talking about this in their Balance philosophy article and stream a couple of months ago!

Amongst all melee classes catalyst is the most complicated, inconvenient, lacking any QOL, weakest, totally useless almost in any modes except for PvP and there it is just a bit useful. The amount of time, build strategy and brain you have to invest into this class to get what anyone else can get on any other class in a matter of hours. That's all there is to ELEMENTALIST in general and especially when it comes to Catalyst. Nothing else to be said. As long as arenanet does not address this issue properly will always keep complaining about this class and that will be absolutely fair. I main Catalyst and in general ele for over 900 hours only because I am a die hard fan of Mage class my whole life in any MMO. Other than that, when I need efficiency I switch to warrior, necro etc. P.S. you can give it 55k benchmark and it is still going to be trash because the Catalyst is in need of rework and overhaul just like they did with FB for example or Ranger etc etc.

I mean my mouth is just foaming at this point..... Anet looks like a company with a huge experience and this game is 12 years old at this point or something? The point is that I am running catalyst on pure enthusiasm as does probably the bulk of people playing ele spec in general due to the fact that it is complete garbage in comparison with other specs that do way better owing to the fact that they require way less skill and knowledge to pull it off, while Elementalist requires full knowledge of rotation, Catalyst in particular depends immensely on not being interrupted cause that way the damage drops immensely. If you missed any of your damaging skills you lose damage, while other specs simply PRESS 1 BUTTON AND IT IS STILL DOING WELL, DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SAY HERE? Yes, some tryhard on youtube pulled off 46k on golem or something, I went to that same golem with same build, same everything and only managed 30-32k tops if i remember correctly and I play CATALYST basically since it came out and before that mainly played Ele spec in general and that's been for about 2 years at this point probably. There is no joy in playing a spec (CATALYST) 3rd skill of which does literally NOTHING, I am running open world right now and it just does 0 damage, or 1. And that's it, I spin that hammer like crazy and I see ZERO'S POPPING ON MY SCREEN! Are you trying to drive people nuts or something? Just delete the SPEC from the game then, and that'd be the end of this everlasting story. Furthermore, you must be some kind of masochist to run full DPS build in open world with CATALYST having only 13k hp, what a joke! Here is the crazy idea, why not buff base health of elementalist if you are so afraid of Huge damage that can be pulled by only 5-10 players in the entire game so Catalyst could run full power build without dying of sudden wind blow in open world?? Meanwhile my reaper is full power and I can drink coffee while slashing hoards of enemies left and right without giving a kitten about losing my hp or damage. WHERE IS THE LOGIC???? Hard to play = crappy unrewarding frustrating experience, Easy to play = you are going to have a blast. Do you, Anet guys, REALLY believe that your game MUST have specs that MUST be played on pure enthusiasm alone? If that's your main BELIEF then you will never be able to balance your game and all what you said in you post about "Balance philosophy" is nothing but placebo. Which, I am pretty sure you are aware of, will eventually lead to loss of players cause i am certain that if I am thinking of quitting this game because of this sort of "BALANCING", there are people out there that just did so or going to do so shortly or at least thinking about it just like I do.

You really think it makes sense to nerf catalyst 100 times? From 0.1 to 0.001, really? In addition to the fact that after patch my PC crashed 5 times due to some errors caused by your game client, wasted time on trying to fix the whole thing multiple times..... I mean, do you even test your game before applying any changes to it? Or you just throw it out there and hope it will be fine?

Oh my God thanks God I am not the only one. I was gonna trash my windows already or buy a new PC! Currently downloading GW2 Client for scratch, I have uninstalled anything I could and updated all software on my PC! Removed my RAM and put it back in etc etc!