Fire Element Overpowered

Kaida, almost.

Fire: AoE damage
Earth: Party support/knockdowns
Water: Snares/utility ;d
Air: Anti-physical/spike damage.

Anti-Physical? Blind is utility. Gale is utility. Besides, under that mentality, Water would be anti-physical as well, since Blurred Vision is a must on a water bar.

Tomato, Tamahto.

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all attribs have their own usage and meaning
fire is just heavy damage but most people are equipped for it since it's the most used attribute

They are pretty much balanced. If you don't like they're spells, just interrupt them :P

if you wish to play a mesmer as a kite that is ur right, i have a guildie who is a badass mesmer, she has gotten so good she uses her mesmer to tank fow and b4 u ask no she doesn't use ursans as she does not have gwen.

i love ppl like her, ppl who hears a certain profession is too be played a certain way and laughes as they pwn their way thru the game playing their profession the way they want.

Free your mind,think outside the box people.

Ya I know because tanking is good..../sarcasm

Anything can tank. This is common knowledge.

And who said that it wasn't aloud? It's fine by me, as long as people understand it's sub-par compared.

Alot of the PvE-only playerbase uses Fire Magic purely for the damage already.

This terrible thread full of misinformation had died a comfortable death until some newbie thread necroed it.

Please, just let it die.

Everything that's popular is OVERPOWERED! OMG RC is used so much in HA that's OVERPOWERED ASWELL!

/sarcasm off

Close thread please someone already.....this will go nowhere.

- Ganni

Fire is good for an excuse to drag the game out till VoD.
Air is good for blinding melee.
Earth is pretty useless in the current metagame.
Water is good for movement control.

You started this thread talking about finding alot of fire eles in AB. They are so very common there because fire based AOE is great for capping shrines....the npc's make little or no effort to move out of the area.

I am sure that is not the only reason but Ill tell you that I would much rather run into a fire ele than an air ele on my primary character. The air ele will do more damage to me (armor penetration), will reduce my damage output (through blindness or weakness), and will likely keep me from getting away (through knockdown).

The fire ele does have spells that cause burning but condition removal isnt that uncommon and self heal is omnipresent...degen gives time to run away and heal up....repeated heavy hits much less so.

Some of the spells I see many fire eles using in AB for shrine capping such as Meteor Shower and Firestorm are virtuallly useless against a good player..."hmmm meteors starting to fall better run out of the effect before i take damage." or better yet, "hmm hes starting to cast MS...wait a few seconds then.....interrupt."

What a fire ele has is the ability to spread decent damage over an area. If you look at his DPS (even with burning factored in) it is actually among the lowest of the primary damage dealers out there when targeted against a single opponent. Id far rather face a fire ele than a good warrior or assassin. Never had a fire ele kill me in under 4 seconds...

Sorry but by themselves fire eles are easy to kill, dont do that much damage all told, and can be very easily neutralized (a monk can out heal their DPS and can remove burning rather easily, a ranger or mesmer can shut one down fairly readily, and a warrior can take what they dish out while knocking them down)

YOU FORGOT GALE!!!!!!QQ

Closing this trolling flamefest.