they call this balance?gg anet...

You want balance against monsters? If so, all missions should only have 8 monsters so it's 8v8. No one cares about balance against monsters, don't be daft. Balance among the professions is the issue.

king, now in pve you think people will want carry somethign else than eles? monk + a tank (and yet..) + eles...its all gonna be liek that..

who will need ss or mm or mesmer or rangers now with uber buffed eles..thats the point.half morons will only be like need ele only + monk...

the buff given to eles totally eclips other professions.like said above its about professions not monsters.

baz : yes my main is ele too.just i feel like if now if wan play somethign else than monk or ele geta team willl be even worse..
even 30 fire magic and 100% more damage wouldn't be enough to take out the big bad HM monk bosses like Willa the Unpleasant and Munri Magicbox. That's where mesmers and assassins come in.

We will be evaluating these new skills over the course of the next week. It is likely that we will make playbalance adjustments to them during that time. First off, don't worry about it being imbalanced too much. This is a preliminary trial period. After a week it's likely many things will be tweaked.

Also, like reetkever said, pure damage can't just dominate anything under the sun in guild wars, especially with Hard Mode.

Elementalists and Warriors are the simple staple professions that are in any fantasy role-playing game like this. There are some tactical skills in each class, but for the most part both are just pure damage.

The rest of the professions can either support an ally, or cripple an enemy in various ways, while still being able to deal dmg at a lesser rate.

Also, all of the ele skills you're giving as an example of mass dmg are AoE. Monsters move out of the AoE. You'll still need something else in there keeping the monsters from moving out of the AoE, and I don't think an ele running point-blank into the mob with Grasping Earth or Ward Against Foes is your best option for that. You'll need some of the other professions.

reetker, that why eles are eles and monster and ele boss are boss....-.-

they are boss by definition, so meant to be stronger..as well as hm is meant to be harder and monsters stronger than player.or ther would be no challenge...

ele boss unlimited energy?think you need learn more about monsters.or u neva played a denial mesmer vs a ele boss , even in hm.belive me they have all cept unlimited energy...just matter how fast it go down^^

Well bosses shouldn't be stronger or the balance is gone. Monsters are stronger and have bigger groups than players. If the game was balanced, they gave monsters the same restrictions as human players, and the same advantages (2 professions, full skillbars, runes).

And most bosses have NEAR unlimited energy (normal monsters, too. Skree Griffin Monks won't stop spamming Orison Of Healing/Healing Breeze unless you reduce their energy income)

Mursaat boss Willa The Unpleasant keeps spamming her skills, too. I once took a shower while letting my henchies/heroes attack Willa. When I came back 30 mins later, she was still alive and kicking, keeping her health at 100% most of the time.)

Oh, and I farmed Shiro'Ken witht he Famine build, so I know monster's energy drop to 0, but 1 second without a Visage, and the rangers used 10 energy skills again. I think they got like 7 energy regen :S