so now we have 2 useless pve skills

Lol. Anet have no RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing clue what they're doing... seriously.

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Does that mean that your using the fact Mursaat Bosses are insanely overpowered armour wise as your single arguement? Because it sucks just as much as his.

The ele skills were really boring skills, now they're really crap skills and still really boring skills. Even on MoR mesmer coverage is only 50%. Critical agility just got its more interesting applications, taking advantage of it being an enchantment (stacks with skills like warrior's endurance for example) effectively removed too, I'm more dissapointed on that front. Intensity and ether lord are a couple of the skills which really had to be pve only (this isn't true for a large number of them), for the sake of spiking, so it's a wasted opportunity really. I would have preferred more interesting ele pve only skills, for example an enhanced duration on dot aoes, which don't simply make searing flames more powerful.

e/a boss farmer with 20 earth sliver armour was pretty amusing, glad I got to give that a spin.

Anet are incredibly clueless, it's really tragic. And no, I didn't 'just' work that out. Seriously, do they actually test these things? Because seems like most forum-goers could tell this stuff was nerf-worthy in 3 seconds just from reading the skill descriptions.

Save yourselves is the only one left to nerf now (well, tntf being para only doesn't stop it being pretty stupid) but that one has a decent chance to stay due to the new AL cap. And maybe seed of life but it takes more work to abuse than others.

Hey, cool, don't need to change my ele's bar OR farm faction on him.

Well I guess current Intensity is pretty strong on an assassin's promise nuker, though I'm not really sure if +25% damage is superior to an extra dot or not. And probably e/a shadow form farmers, with sliver or fire skills.

This may well not be the final form, anet might be juggling between extremes until they get something they or we are happy with.

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You can use Elemental Lord if you go Mesmer/Ele with quick casting for Lightning spells.

This will increase your elemental damage a little bit. +2 would have been even better, at 14 lightning damage and good fast casting but hey beggers can't be choosers. But for primary Ele, yes there's no point bringing that enchantment along as there are better, more important ones.

Although you can view it differently. You don't need a superior rune now to max out your attributes, saving you health in the process. Grab a major rune, save some health and use that Enchantment to boost attribute to 16. (standard). Or even with the glyph of elemental power, certain spells can be cast at 19 attribute!

The nerfs to the Elementalist PvE Only skills just made them useless. The nerfs to the sin and paragon skills made the unabusable. I still like spinning around with my sword and hammer, but it took the cake when I spun with a scythe and daggers.

I hope ANet doesn't take away my spinning dagger build from me. /sarcasm.

Yet, in honesty, they are dead. Let's move on.

i have to admit .. im not 1 thayt complains often.
now, i havent played gw for a while and didnt even get a chance to test the skills, and still havent
But wen i seen the update notes .. i died a little inside, and anet just pushed me away again.

I kind of like intensity still...maybe I'm wierd. I also use +20% enchanting to get more use out of it.

I feel like they should increase the % dmg increase though. Maybe, at rank 6, have it be 35% instead of 25%.

That, or increase the duration to 15 seconds.

What I don't really get, is why they actually made those 2 skills in the firstplace. Look at it, SF or MS and all those other AoE fire skills are already good enough. The idea of these skills was to make the more unused professions usable. But since they just buffed the SF builds with intensity+elemental lord, they had to nerf them down to oblivion. Why couldn't they give us some sort of special ward instead, something just a tad more creative? The skills we got was pure raw damage boosters, which just made the other professions (like mesmer) even more unwanted. They could've made something entirely different (like a AoE support spell?), but no.

I don't think they are going to delete elemental lord and intensity and replace them with 2 other skills, but I am atleast allowed to dream. Please A-net, fix this.