Talk:Secondary professions for an Elementalist

What do you mean by 'nasty' in the Paragon section?

Big cleanup
Trap eles and healing E/Rts?! I have removed a lot of bad advice, which sadly means most of the article. See my changes here &mdash; Skuld 11:22, 16 January 2007 (CST)
 * You seriously went overboard with that one, IMHO. "Nothing worth mentioning" is the last thing that should be on a guide. What was wrong with the guide suggesting using mesmer inspiration skills for energy management? Power Drain is always fun, and Channeling on a PBAoE ele is too. How about smiting E/Mos (the kind that throw around Balthazar's Aura and JI while spamming Draw with Master of Magic up), I guess they're no good either. What was wrong with the suggestion to use high-cost mesmer/rit/monk/necromancer skills on an ele primary, due to their terrific energy storage + energy management elites? If you don't care about Divine Favor (smiters, gvg eles with breeze and/or heal party and/or mending touch on their bars), if you don't care about Spawning Power (i.e. restoration, weapon spells, channeling), if you don't care about Fast Casting (mantra of earth +stone striker, or interrupts which are already 1/4s cast and such), then why the heck not be an ele primary, since you'll get a huge energy pool + things like Ether Prodigy, Master of Magic, Second Wind and others.
 * One thing to bear in mind is that usually if you have more secondary profession skills than primary profession skills, you're doing something wrong. <--- No, this statement is what's wrong. Skills are usable both when the profession is primary and when it's secondary. It's the primary attribute that differs classes from each other. If you're using a build where you need zero in your primary attribute, why not run it on a char whose primary you could actually use to be of help? Hint: Thumpers, thrashers, touchers who run a bunch of hammer/scythe/touch skills, yet use don't use warrior/dervish/necro as their primary; they use Ranger because it's expertise that helps them out more. Another? How about necros in classic bloodspike, who run all kinds of prot and heal spells? Another? How about those MoM E/Mo smiters you see on GvG these days?
 * Here's exactly what's left in your version of the guide. Ele secondaries can only be used for:


 * 1) Winter and Energizing Wind.
 * 2) Draw bot and Heal Party spammer.
 * 3) Death's Charge, Shadow of Haste, Feigned Neutrality.
 * 4) Mystic regeneration earth tank.
 * 5) Earthbind.
 * That's ALL! Is that really all that 9 different professions have to offer to a primary ele? While I agree with some of the things that were removed, they were still too many not only harmless but helpful tips there. And most importantly, the motivation and reasoning behind this "culling" was flawed, in my opinion. This is more of a destructive change than a bettering one.
 * Adding the stub tag again. Will wait for comments from you or anyone else who feels like chipping in on the matter for a day or two, and will then try to rework the article once again. Let me know what your thoughts on the matter are.--Dirigible 20:23, 19 January 2007 (CST)


 * Yeh, they have expertise which makes sense. Ele e-management elites don't work aswell as that, and the base effect its pretty crap, its just an exhaustion buffer for the most part. Necros' soul reaping is all fueled by jagged bones, which could be considered broken by some. Glyph of Lesser > power drain. MoM does need to go in, but I didn't remove that, it wasn't there in the first place. I'm not sure what the point about e-management was, monks have ZB, can use GoLE, have runes, rits have half a dozen eltie e-management options, plsu efficient heals and non-elite ones; if they don't care its a good idea to run ele primary? Good for them, it shouldn't go in the article though :-/ &mdash; Skuld 09:41, 21 January 2007 (CST)
 * As much as I agree that an article cleanup should be a positive thing, this seems more like needless sandblasting on an article that did have good information. Am I wrong in assuming that the main point about these "Secondary Profession" articles is to list potential combinations to aid in a player making a choice for their secondary? Sure, this isn't a builds page (although other secondary pages link to them), but rather than discouraging players from choosing a particular profession simply because you, as one person of many, seem think that such a combination isn't viable, shouldn't the point of these articles be to list what is possible and let the player figure out how to make it work? Some people tend to forget that the reason why alot of builds are successful is because someone got creative enough to try something out, despite people believing it may not work.

What the...?
My God this is terrible... Can someone flag this article? There's more to Elementalist secondaries than this article (or whoever butchered it) is letting on, but, as I'm inexperienced in the Elementalist corner of the game, I'm not fit to restore it. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.89.253.231 (contribs) 01:23, 20 January 2007.

User:Skuld appears to have removed most of it. It was "culled"; by which he must mean took the best stuff out of the lot, but...the amount seems tiny, and surely lots of stuff is better than none at all... Leeroythefeared 09:23, 21 January 2007 (CST)


 * Lots of bad advice. Why would a lot be better than none? Point out stuff tha tshould have stayed! &mdash; Skuld 09:31, 21 January 2007 (CST)
 * The stuff he removed was loads of crap, basically. Rangers trap better than eles; unless you're incredibly bored, no reason you should be trapping with an ele. E/W's are a funny sight, imo; they generally have this idea they're tanks, and die in about three seconds. Using a Mesmer elite for e-management when there are so many in the Elementalist line is a waste. E/Mos suck at healing, if you want to heal, use a monk or a rit. All of that was faulty advice that would just confuse people new to the class. -Auron [[Image:Elit Druin.jpg|||My Talk]] 17:48, 24 January 2007 (CST)

i find e/n being a good combo, using blood magic hp stealing skills to help with the low healing skills of the elementalist, so u can heal while doing what the ele is good at, dealing damage. Can anyone tell me if it's ridiculous what i just said or not?
 * Using that kind of skill combination isn't a good idea. remember GW is a team based game where good team synergy makes a better winning situation.  Monks/rits heal and support, eles can also support too but self healing with blood magic and wasting att points into it is kind of wasted, especially when aura of resortation is a better option for PvE, and you most likely already have a lot of points into energy storage. --Lania Elderfire[[Image:Pinkribbonsig.gif|My Talk]] 20:12, 31 March 2007 (CDT)

E/P is not good
Separate characters does the job better.--Lania Elderfire 20:37, 19 March 2007 (CDT)

Explain? Solus  02:46, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Erm... let's try not to violate GW:1RV. Defiant Elements (talk ~ contribs) 02:47, 28 March 2007 (CDT)
 * fact of all of these pages is that the grand majority of secondary combinations are simply not as good as a "pure" primary build. most of the secondary skills in favored builds are unlinked. --Honorable Sarah [[image:Honorable_Icon.gif]] 02:48, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Cautery Signet E/P with frigid armour is bad because... Cautery Signet is bad: you're taking the elite to remove conditions, yet Martyr is much more spammable, and Extinguish is non-elite. Eles have a bunch of decent elites, for the most part extinguish will suffice, PvE isn't stacked full of deadly conditions that heal party can't fix, and condition pressure is dead in PvP thanks to Mending Touch etc &mdash; Skuld 02:50, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Does it matter what is better, no? The arcitle is to help players choose a secondary proffesion for Primary Proffesions, not what skills work better. Solus  02:52, 28 March 2007 (CDT)


 * Hence the note, "This combination yields little benefit for the elementalist." &mdash; Skuld 02:52, 28 March 2007 (CDT)
 * which is exactly why we should put something there, even if it's just one example build. (stacks of uncoordinated skills are still bad, thou) --Honorable Sarah [[image:Honorable_Icon.gif]] 02:53, 28 March 2007 (CDT)
 * (Edit Conflict with Skuld AND Honorable Sarah) On the other hand though, we should document the fact that a secondary is bad so that users can make informed decisions and we don't end up with a bunch of people thinking E/P will make a great combination if in fact it won't. Defiant Elements  (talk ~ contribs) 02:53, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Conseratives. Solus  02:55, 28 March 2007 (CDT)
 * Now now, name calling isn't necessary (especially when you are talking to a blatant liberal on all things social). Defiant Elements  (talk ~ contribs) 02:56, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Don't worry, Skuld doesn't know what it means. I'll contact a Mod to see their point-of-view on this matter. Solus  02:58, 28 March 2007 (CDT)


 * You're resorting to namecalling when you run out of points, GG &mdash; Skuld 03:26, 28 March 2007 (CDT)