> @"Mini Crinny.6190" said:
> > @"Sylosi.6503" said:
> > > @"Jski.6180" said:
> > > Anet hates the ele class.
> >
> > Not really, over the life of this game Ele has arguably fared better than most other classes (Guardian being the obvious exception).
>
> not really, Ele obviously enjoyed core days the most but ever since HoT, other classes have been getting what ele can do with additional effects
Ele fared fine after HoT launched, tempest was strong in PvP (multiple teams used one in the world championships), it was still God tier DPS in PVE and it was still meta in WvW. And that is typical of ele for most of the game, across all 3 game modes it has spent most of the time between being decent and God tier. Which is far better than at least half the classes and arguably better than anything other than Guardian and maybe Rev, though Rev isn't really an equal comparison without core.
But lets take another class and compare to see how "hard done by" ele is. Take engy which seems appropriate given this WvW nerf and the obvious favouritism to scrapper support (that is sarcasm for anyone unable to work it out). It took about 6 years for engy to get a meta build in WvW when they finally reworked Scrapper (and no the one guy who used to play hide and seek at the start of some GvGs does not count).
Now in PvP engy does rather well. When the most busted thing in the game was cele ele, the second most busted thing was cele engy, Scrapper spent a few months silly OP in HoT, but got nerfed relatively quickly and was generally worse than Tempest, but then fared better than ele with Holo in PoF. Which leaves PvE where for most of the game engy was between bad and medicore, unlike ele.
I can only imagine the crying if ele had been non-meta in WvW for 6 years, whilst being equally unimpressive in PvE for most of that time. Yet apparently Anet hates ele...
