And despite all the complaining, some it is actually very constructive complaining.

QQ exists in all the class subforums and the most annoyed will also be the most vocal, but you see nothing but QQ on the elementalist one and the occasional build that’s been done before. All those nerfs made it so the higher skill ceiling isn't rewarded, and now they're "keeping an eye on" water+arcane+earth builds which were only made to mitigate the lack of vit, toughness, and general usefulness in the first place...

Not discouraged at all being an underdog class actually. Back in DN my class was pretty much the don't even bother 1v1 class and I still did 1v1s anyway with a not optimal pvp build since there was no dual build system.

You're right about a having good control and support but that's on staves only from it's aoe abilities, and support skills on extremely long cooldowns. Condition removal comes from traiting for support and the odd water skill 5 on various weapons. Top sustained dps with any of the weapons is debatable but in normal PvE and specific encounters in PvP that don't last very long, burst dps becomes the dominating factor and that's something even DD lacks contrary to Anet's own description of the elementalist. Lack of burst coupled with half our traits working with only 1 attunement and the necessary arcane/water/earth traits shoehorns elementalists into a support role and rejects the original GW2 design philosophy. I have faith they'll fix this eventually though.

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everyobne should play elementalist!

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best linear SP game ever, and also redeems Rockstar's reputation on PC