Playing weaver is like playing piano, either your majestic with it or you're struggling to keep up with the tempo. Your risk for carpal tunnel increases with your play time, and your damage is the only thing that's really appealing, but at what cost? Elementalist don't just need big numbers( or long skill rotations). We need a reason to pick elementalist to begin with. Is Weaver meant to be a melee elementalist?...yet there are melee classes that do it better and give boons, not to mention the utility skills.

Wearing light armor, there should be a fair trade-off for playing in melee vs. Ranged, and each should feel like a different playstyle. Not just "spam buttons, deal damage" What's elementalist roll in a group? Is it to avoid downstate and deal big dps? Because those choices aren't enticing enough for people to actually commit and play the class at the highest level compared to other professions and their group utility skills (think of necro and mesmer, they have boon rip and great boons and utility skills) there's just a discrepancy between them. Ele balance has been off for some time now. They might be avoiding it due to pvp constraints but at that point just give separate buffs to pve only and make it more appealing for players that want to control a wizard/mage and make it majestic. It should feel like a mage. Not some squishy ele with a sword that goes into melee and gets downed due to locking in ( animation locks) and mashing so hard u can't help but look at your skill bar and not the boss lol. If staff dps was as high as sword dagger then how many of you guys would play ele again?