Main reason current ele should not be buffed

[Durzlla.6295]

> @"Jski.6180" said:

> > @"Durzlla.6295" said:

> > > @"Jski.6180" said:

> > > > @"Arheundel.6451" said:

> > > > > @"Durzlla.6295" said:

> > > > > Honestly, you’re gonna have to elaborate your point of view more, because in a PvP setting for ele it has always been a matter of you run the meta bunker build or you simply don’t play ele in PvP because you’ll implode at the first sight of damage.

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> > > > > Imo ele needs a drastic buff to its baseline healing (at least self healing) and defenses so it doesn’t need to hang on the earth and water trait lines as crutches for survivability.

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> > > > That's exactly what I meant! Ele needs drastic survivability buffs at core level and we must avoid buffs to current ele which would only cement its position as bunker thus further aggravating the situation

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> > > What elite spec added to any of the classes that has not drastically up there survivabitly? Ele just the one class that has the lowest hp and def at the same time so having active def over other classes is very fair.

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> > The problem is that ele jeopardizes everything else in order to not fold like paper, because where other classes have defensive tools baked into their weapons, and then can take like one or two defensive utilities, ele has to take 1-2 defensive trait lines and then load their entire bar up with defensive CDs to make up for the awful passive and active defense ele has baseline.

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> > This is amplified by the fact that they also need to use a healing amulet so their self healing can actually be something worthwhile.

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> > This ends up with ele either being a complete juggernaught, unphaseable by anything (usually no damage), or they’re just 100% useless because they die even with all of that investment, and/or try and go damage but now have 0 defense at no real gain since ele damage is consistent and not bursty.

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> Like war who IS a juggernaught? Or maybe a scorge or maybe a thf or maybe a eng or maybe a gurd or maybe a ranger or maybe mez or maybe rev all wich are very much unkillable with there elite spec and significantly more tankly both passively and actively then any thing ele has. Ontop of passivly being effect in combat with out going all in (like you said paper ele for any thing of real use).

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> All of the other classes are already at that point of why ele should not be buffed but its ok for them but not for ele is all every one is saying and trying to fool them self into thinking that they are playing high skill classes when the class is doing more work for them then there own game play.

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> If you not on ele your relaying on your class more then your own playing skill. This is what it means to lack every thing as an ele and have every thing as not an ele.

 

I mean, I’m saying that ele needs some reworking to their baseline survivability because having to invest so much to just be slightly above everyone else is bullshit.

 

I’m fine with ele being super squishy passively but having active survivability, but the thing is they don’t have any of that built into their weapons/attunements for the most part, which is dumb. Every other class, minus necromancer (because they have shroud) have defenses built into their weapons and don’t solely need traits and utilities to perform that role, ele should be no different.

 

All ele has is healing that’s shit without healing power, even when it’s for themselves.