[Ready up] Devs avoiding to talk about ele?

#1 - Jan. 16, 2014, 10:36 a.m.

Since june’s balance patch when the condi meta began and Elementalist turned to be unplayable devs have been avoiding to talk about the class. Every time there’s a balance stream or a Q&A people ask about ele changes but we never get a response to these questions.

Many people are disappointed with this situation so every now and then an “ele” topic pops in both the Structured PvP and Profession balance forums. All of them have been ignored. So far I have counted more than 10 extensive topics with very valid ideas to fix the class but none of them got any response yet.

I really thought the new subforum would bring an interesting discussion with the devs but it didn’t happen at all.

I’m not really asking for buffs or anything, I just want to know if there’s any planned changes before I decide to leave this sinking ship. The class has been extremely weak for half a year and Anet’s silence is really annoying.

I also think that if they shared their ideas before implementing them, unintended nerfs like december’s 10th would have never happened.

So what will happen at the Ready up show? Will they even mention the class?

Josh Davis

#14 - Jan. 16, 2014, 8:47 p.m.

Cynz.9437:
I actually ended up playing with dev in soloq… he was playing an ele and was doing fine O.o

Were you playing with Powerr? We won our first match-up in the 2v2 tournament last weekend with him playing D/D ele. He’s a great player.

As for elementalists, we’re not scared to talk about them, we just haven’t talked about any profession really (in regards to the next update). There are a bunch of changes coming down the pike for the entire game in general. I mentioned on the ele forums before the holidays that we think the main problem with elementalist is sustain – and that’s what we’re focusing on addressing. I mentioned on the ESL livestream today that our first step towards rectifying this is making Signet of Restoration function the same in PvP as it does in PvE.