[Warhorn Fire & Earth 5]

Personally I think warhorn should lose much more of it's dps focus and just stick to mostly support like it was originally intended. Currently it's the best in all 3 areas of support, power dmg and condi dmg for pve. Kinda sick of using it, makes me wish even more that pistol was offhand to pair with scepter so at least condi would have a different option.

[Should I start playing GW2 with Ele again]

I love ele and have invested too much into the class to ever change mains at this point, but if you're coming in fresh again and are open to try something else I would recommend trying some other classes first before getting back into ele and then see if you still want to main ele again.

[Freezing Gust on Focus: Severely outdated]

9 hours ago, Codename T.2847 said:

Focus is in a pretty good spot atm, imo. only 1 skill of the 8 is bad, so to say, and firewall is also a bit meh, but it is overall a very very good offhand as far as ele weapons go. 🙂

Yet it's only used for 3 or so of the skills available. And since warhorn got untied has been put on the eternal bench in pve and you'll only really see it in pvp with some fresh air and other similar builds because of obsidian flesh and swirling winds. Saying that as someone who often used it and liked it until I realised the only reasons I or anyone else really used it for were....rather limited.

[It's now harder to upkeep Quickness as catalyst.]

21 hours ago, rotten.9753 said:

As long as CmC is responsible for the elementalist, this class is doomed in PvE. Everything he designed is over complicated without any reward for the increased effort, the catalyst UI is abhorrent, the hammer is no longer used, the pistol is now obligatory as a condie weapon due to trait nerf and it also has very slow ramp time. The quickness catalyst has tight boon uptime, can't generate energy passively (druid on the other hand can) and herald just dumps quickness while literally being afk. The alacrity tempest needs to complete long channels, every single build is pretty much melee. We desperately need a new designer.

I'm kinda sad to say that I agree now 😕

[Suprise nerf]

10 minutes ago, Emberheart.8426 said:

And it still won't be good on those specs. They could have just needed some pistol skills and buffed dual skills to compensate weaver. There, done.

But what about catalyst you may ask? The weapon simply does not work with the spec so it's just an irrelevant consideration. And if we are being realistic catalyst has needed a rework since day 1. Who cares really?

I know...that's the whole point....personally I think pistol would have been better being condi burst focused than condi duration, it's only good for long duration fights with long or no phases. I wasn't calling for tempest to be nerfed, though the reality should be weaver and catalyst should be at least similarily or more rewarding in the more offensive specs but not sure if that will ever happen. 

[Dps condi builds: why warhorn and not dagger offhand?]

Because the support weapon warhorn must also be the best power and condi dps option for ele, what is dagger supposed to be anyways? and focus is taken for 2 skills which are mostly for pvp.

[New Arcane Wave and Elemental-staff player]

7 hours ago, Reincarnated.1754 said:

WTF. The idea of using a Staff is that you are ranged and you stay out of the mele.

This "Arcane Blast and Arcane Wave have a bit too much overlap with each other, and we wanted to give Arcane Wave a more unique identity by adding a movement component."

This put me in the mele and I die.

When you make these changes don't forget about the Elemental-Staff players.

It's probable fantastic for those that use single handed weapons.

I mean you can still cast it on yourself, for blasting might and heals, and if you're jumping too someone or something well it's a nice cc now more so in pve. But yeah if we could have all that without the jumping that'd be great. But considering all that ele has been "given" of late, I'm very catious about asking anything these days.

[Suprise nerf]

On 3/20/2024 at 1:00 AM, Faebe.7341 said:

why the kitten am I still playing this.. and why are they not nerfing the weapon and instead all weapons, its a shame

I get you but the weapon really was only good on tepest, it was trash on weaver and a mess on catalyst. Which says a lot about things.

[And just like that, Arcane Wave becomes worthless]

I actually like they gave it a CC now, so I'm not too fussed about arcane wave, that and arcane brilliance might be the only two good changes for ele in the whole patch. the other arcane skills and GM trait however....leave much to be desired. Helps give an easy access cc not reliant on being in the right attunement at the right time at least. I use it on heals and power dps builds, no use in condi however ofc.

[Whoa balance update march 19]

On 2/18/2024 at 1:49 AM, bluberblasen.9684 said:

i love the buffs for elementalist in WvW🙂

lightning flash finally buffed to 1200 range and cooldown 25 seconds and its a stun breaker again.

Mist Form finally buffed to 35 second cooldown.

Conjure Fiery Greatsword finally buffed to 60 second cooldown.

Lightning Whip finally it has its 360 range back 🙂 

 

 

 

I like those imaginary patch notes you are reading and would like to have some too.

[Expanded Weapon Proficiencies Beta Feedback: Elementalist]

So all ele pistol got updated is some mixed up animations so everything doesn't look exactly the same and some more hard to read buff icons. Nothing with making the gameplay of pistol less clunky and more fun and nothing to make air a useless attunement to swap to. I guess I can't be too surprised looking at what they were trying to do with pistol(take all the messy annoying parts of being an ele to focus into one weapon). Hopefully the changes to shortbow for engie will at least make one of the weapons  a less bland and more interesting choice, though I'm really gonna have to wait and see on this one. (For most of the others it seems they listened to some of the main pain points kinda).

If pistol was more akin to necro pistol in that you could still do some decent power damage if you specced for it, it would explain air attunement and make some sense for a change.

[January 30 Balance Update Preview]

wrong thread sorry

[2024 elementalist wishes]

My wish is for them to not kill ele further.

 

Bonus if they can rework conjures and not find elementals or glyph of storms on every single dps build for a change. Variety is the spice of life.

 

Ok I really just want them to make hammer #3 skills work in a way that makes them not look like token buffs but more like actual weapon skills. And catalyst energy mechanic is just rude.

 

Yup still here I guess, so I'll add on making pistol offhand or at least a more interesting choice than it is now.

 

(Oh and longbow for next ele weapon please and thank you ❤)

 

[Which weapons would you like to have?]

Elementalist: Longbow (arcane/elemental archer)

Mesmer: Shortbow (bard)

Necromancer: Mace (melee condi)

Thief: offhand sword or greatsword (MH style)

Ranger: focus

Engineer: staff

Warrior: shortbow 

Revenant: dagger

Guardian: warhorn 

["Fun surprise" for the next expansion: Speculation edition]

Probably about as exciting as most of tgeir surprises these days🤔

[January 30 Balance Update Preview]

I thought in that huge blog post about the new balancing direction that you were not going to base things off golem benchmarks anymore. Funny how that turned out, nothing changed, only the names that sign off on it.

[January 30 Balance Update Preview]

Yeah nah, if hammer is a bit higher than expected don't bloody butcher the durations, reduce them by a bit then, wow....balance devs really don't know how to do anything in moderation do they?

 

Edit: literally the only changes for ele....

[Roaming Elementalists?]

Basically chill and condi spam can cripple and kill most eles well enough. It's why I hate fighting harbs in particular. Or if you're on a very mobile build like thief then you're only dead if you mess up. 

[2024 elementalist wishes]

15 hours ago, SeTect.5918 said:

They are never going to remove pistol and make longbow. 

I personally wouldve prefered rifle but thats bc i hate 99% of longbow skins. Thats personal preferance tho.

I agree with the rest.

Sword could also get some love. Similar to mace on engi. 

Weaver could also get some access to self-boons.

Ironically I was thinking the opposite, lots of longbow skins I like but not rifle😂

But yeah, some interesting ooints, though some aren't as likely. 

[VOTE for Anet to remake Ele Pistol]

On 12/21/2023 at 4:49 PM, zeyeti.8347 said:

This is gonna be funny as catalyst , manage your energy , your EE stacks , your sweaty rotation and the "ammo" from pistol... i really wanted a full oreinted support mainhand , dagger and sword have very narrow utility as support due to elementalist "so great" versatility. Wasn't expecting anything from pistol , so i am really not that pondering.

The lack of combos makes it a poor weapon for catalyst imo. Sword/warhorn and hammer are still superior options. Even scepter if you wanna mess around I guess.

[tempest build.]

On 12/22/2023 at 1:47 AM, AliamRationem.5172 said:

The answer depends on what you're doing.  Dagger/warhorn isn't meta for anything, so I assume we're talking about open world/story content.  In which case celestial or trailblazer condi builds are generally a better option, especially if you're playing mostly solo as opposed to running in squads.  In solo play you'll deal better damage while also having much better sustain.

Dagger warhorn is meta for condi alac tempest and heal tempest.

[Obsidian Armor - Any News?]

On 12/16/2023 at 4:30 AM, Ashantara.8731 said:

Isn't it the only feature? 😄

Oh wait, we can use updrafts with our flying mounts now, which is a nice QoL feature, and we can mount the Skyscale in combat -- would have been better if the latter worked 100% of the time and didn't require me to spam my mount-up key a dozen times. Also, I expected this ability to be unlocked for all mounts in further masteries along the way, but instead we got Astral Ward and Inner Nayos masteries which will likely become obsolete after the expac.

The combat mount has an ICD, so it works, but only when not on cooldown.

 

But yeah the other masteries were a bit of a let down as they are purely map/material specific. Not comparatively creative to the skyscale one.

[Expanded Weapon Proficiencies Beta Feedback: Elementalist]

On 12/11/2023 at 4:58 AM, AshenOwl.2485 said:

Let water have *one* weapon it's the coolest element, I'm tired of Fire getting all the goodies. 

Would be easier to make water a cooler element with a power weapon than condi because of its traitline.

[Owning Multiple Guild Halls.]

But why?

[Nerf Guardian , elementalist and necromancer.]

1 hour ago, Sansar.1302 said:

Scrapper and vindicator certainly is strong but I would not label them op

Most common roamers are still rangers and thieves, with a sprinkle of mesmers and the occasional willbender. The rest I hardly see, though I have noticed an increase in beserkers lately which is surprising. 

I just think you still lack experience so it's easier to just label classes which usually bring counters to common ranger and thief builds as op to you. 

Don't worry as you gain experience and expand your skillset it'll get easier to deal with.