Guild Wars 2

Hey guys. Just thought id post this here for those of you who dont check gwscr that often. We beat the previous record by 42 seconds and we can definitely go faster. Enjoy. ^^

Participants:

Elementalist 1 – Badarka Goes Ele (Dara Slice.8306) – http://youtu.be/inczPZmNV30
Elementalist 2 – Nova Firebender (dutchiez.7502)
Guardian – Spoj (spoj.9672) – http://youtu.be/nGPX4mZU1BQ
Warrior – Rittga (Agony.3542)
Thief – Jeremy Blutschatten (Jeremy.5063)

Extremely nice run! Though you could probably improve on the nightmare tree. Have the eles considered slotting the Glyph of storms and using the air attunement attack? Each lightning bolt will hit 5 times on the nightmare tree, totalling in 180 strikes. Might be worth checking out to speed up your run. You’d have to drop Arcane Shield for it though, but it shouldn’t be an issue with WoR/Reflects

We did actually discuss that at one point. But never got round to using it. Anyway we already have ideas to do most of it completely different.

Also, what builds were the eles running? I saw a few lava fonts but the radius on them were rather small, wouldn’t blasting staff net in a DPS increase due to the enormous DPS increase on meteor shower and more cleave on font/fireballs?

Not sure what the exact math would be behind it, figured i’d toss it up.

The staff ele was using 25/25/10/10/0. And the other was using 30/30/10/0/0. Same builds as used in arah p3.

Im not sure blasting staff is ever worth taking.

spoj.9672:

The staff ele was using 25/25/10/10/0. And the other was using 30/30/10/0/0. Same builds as used in arah p3.

Im not sure blasting staff is ever worth taking.

I find it rather useful, it makes meteor shower extremely accurate and gives it a massive DPS boost since the trait applies to each individual meteor. Also turns fireball into a big cleave for pulls and the increased font radius is also nice.

Then again, it probably ends up in slightly lower DPS, though i’m kind of biased to the additional cleave/radius on my spells.

Err, you should have better used 30/30/10/0/0 on staff ele and 25/25/10/10/0 on S/X. Persisting flames is a must have to not let the staff ele deal awful dps.
Aside of that and a few mistakes a pretty clean run.

PS: Spoj, dat rotation ._.

Persisting Flames = 1 more lava font tick very worth.. Blasting staff is only useful in TA for the tree at the end, so 10% dps for the rest of the dungeon is hardly worth trading for possible 1 second faster tree kill.

Anicetus.1253:

Err, you should have better used 30/30/10/0/0 on staff ele and 25/25/10/10/0 on S/X. Persisting flames is a must have to not let the staff ele deal awful dps.
Aside of that and a few mistakes a pretty clean run.

PS: Spoj, dat rotation ._.

I could have them mixed up. xD

Wasnt really a whole a need for rotation seeing as my job was blind and clear blossoms. I assume you’re talking about the wardens before the tree anyway, that was messy for all of us.

xsquared.1926:

Extremely nice run! Though you could probably improve on the nightmare tree. Have the eles considered slotting the Glyph of storms and using the air attunement attack? Each lightning bolt will hit 5 times on the nightmare tree, totalling in 180 strikes. Might be worth checking out to speed up your run. You’d have to drop Arcane Shield for it though, but it shouldn’t be an issue with WoR/Reflects

You don´t need any form of defense at the tree, the guard will blind his first attack (the fist slam) and he will die before he can do any other kind of attack, except maybe the AoE rings which are easy enough to dodge out of.

Ice storm from the Ice Bow is better than the Glyph of Storms cast in Air, much better.

Blasting staff does increase the damage potential of Meteor Shower, but this increase comes at a cost and it is depending upon the size of the target. For a human-sized target (radius 45) the increase is 54%, while for much larger targets (radius 180) the increase is 28%. This is just an example, I do not know the radius of the tree.

Persisting Flames increases the number of total ticks from Lava Font not by 1 but by 2.

So what would be the optimal build for the staff ele in this situation?

Dang that’s fast, great job

30/20/10/10/0 or 30/15/25/0/0.

Now do Aetherpath! And all the other paths that don’t yet have submissions while you’re at it!

I wouldn’t wish that to my greatest enemy.

Zelyhn.8069:

Ice storm from the Ice Bow is better than the Glyph of Storms cast in Air, much better.

Blasting staff does increase the damage potential of Meteor Shower, but this increase comes at a cost and it is depending upon the size of the target. For a human-sized target (radius 45) the increase is 54%, while for much larger targets (radius 180) the increase is 28%. This is just an example, I do not know the radius of the tree.

Persisting Flames increases the number of total ticks from Lava Font not by 1 but by 2.

Correct, but i was wondering if they would be better off if they slotted the storm glyph and a staff instead of arcane shield/LH. The radius of the nightmare tree -SEEMS- 360 with 5 individual hitboxes of ? range. All i know is that the air glyph hits 180 times if planted in the middle, so i’m guessing it’s an split hitbox that connects in the middle, much like most ’’Epic’’ level world bosses such as tequatl, the shatterer and golem MKII.

The fastest way to kill the Nightmare tree would probably Eruption > Air attune > Storm glyph > Bow > Water attune if using piercing shards, if not > Fire attune and #4 > Lava font > MS > FGS.

No idea if you can do it more effectivly but this is what seems most effective.

4x Fiery Rush + Lightning Flash.

Restricted.

haviz.1340:

R374rd3d.

Fixed that for you.