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.