Zacharus, Warrior.
Second Law.
Second Law.
3rd? Ultimate Dominator 250k
Not 3rd, lots of people have gotten it by now. Just don’t announce it :p
Congrats anyways chem, best ele EU
Isle Of Janthir
True that there is atleast 9-11 guys in NA with dominator 3 of them I play eve with
ppls just don’t see a point making such a big deal
best ele EU
Chem’s definitely not a bad Elementalist given the number of things he does right. But definitely not “best Ele EU” given what I know was out there months ago (playing NA side). I’m pretty sure ‘the best’ has mastery of switching between all the weapon sets and staying effective with all of them; which involves defending, skirmish, and dueling. But the demonstrated capcity to play Ele in such a limited manner should be enough of a demonstration of how strong the team’s melee/combo finishers are. This 250k is a testament to zerg cordination and leadership; not individual skill and expertise. Grats to ‘Red Guard’ for the lasting demonstration of your WvW open-field dominance. (Shame on you everyone else…)
I have a minimum spec PC and get slide-show or computer lockup in zergs. I can’t melee well because micro was never my thing, and the stutter causes me to miss close range skillshots. I used to watch streams to see what this game was really like for mostly everyone else. I’ve watched his stream many times before (got bored because of the excessive salvaging), and that’s why I’m going to be critical of it now on this day of ‘completion’:
Besides multi-weapon proficiency, I don’t see inventory swapping. You can switch to X/D to ride the lightning when you fall behind your group, or after choosing to Swiftness the trailers. You can swap to X/F to swirling winds to block what would be a disadvantageous engage for your team, stay out of combat, and swap back to staff. Ele staff positioning requires you to stand in a location that gives you more vision on where to place fields. It took Chem months to move away from the middle of the zerg towards the periphery, and to utilize more advanced staff Ele tactics like getting enemies to waste important cooldowns. By positioning on the periphery, you can also try to draw AoE attacks onto yourself that would have been more effective used against your frontline ball. You have immunity cooldowns to save yourself when you are focus fired, and you can retreat back into your team ball after you use them. When you have an enemy zerg on the run, you could race ahead and mass snare them for the incoming pain train.
I watched Second Law in a high profile GvG, and Chem was barely using skills; just waiting for an opportunity to cast fields; and his team won anyway. His chill and water fields were timely but it was like he was micro’ed entirely on when to use everything. I know Ele is a bit of a combo field bot, but you have to do more than just that. Water 1, Air 1, Air 3, Earth 3, Burning Retreat went underused. Evasive Arcana dodges aren’t clutch; the earth dodge doesn’t blast and the water dodge doesn’t support teammates. Doesn’t time Eruptions to go off in fields. Doesn’t cover conditions with burning and doesn’t upkeep Soothing Mist. Isn’t making the most of Elemental Attunement timing to give teammates boons. Tornado wasn’t used in combo fields. Fiery Great Sword isn’t used to advance scout. Didn’t know how strong Glyph of Storms could be pre-player cap nerf.
In general, Chem has had tons of time to play around with specs and gear options that he didn’t utilize. But it’s entirely up to him, on whether he wants to retire after ‘beating the game’, or to spend more time in remedial class where he won’t learn anything because of how far ahead his guild advanced beyond the rest.
best ele EU
Chem’s definitely not a bad Elementalist given the number of things he does right. But definitely not “best Ele EU” given what I know was out there months ago (playing NA side).
Annnndddd I stopped reading.
^Dude, I don’t even think he meant that remark totally serious.
Of course he did. I even quoted the wink of seduction. Don’t people wink at you on the street because they think you are amazing?
best ele EU
Chem’s definitely not a bad Elementalist given the number of things he does right. But definitely not “best Ele EU” given what I know was out there months ago (playing NA side). I’m pretty sure ‘the best’ has mastery of switching between all the weapon sets and staying effective with all of them; which involves defending, skirmish, and dueling. But the demonstrated capcity to play Ele in such a limited manner should be enough of a demonstration of how strong the team’s melee/combo finishers are. This 250k is a testament to zerg cordination and leadership; not individual skill and expertise. Grats to ‘Red Guard’ for the lasting demonstration of your WvW open-field dominance. (Shame on you everyone else…)
I have a minimum spec PC and get slide-show or computer lockup in zergs. I can’t melee well because micro was never my thing, and the stutter causes me to miss close range skillshots. I used to watch streams to see what this game was really like for mostly everyone else. I’ve watched his stream many times before (got bored because of the excessive salvaging), and that’s why I’m going to be critical of it now on this day of ‘completion’:
Besides multi-weapon proficiency, I don’t see inventory swapping. You can switch to X/D to ride the lightning when you fall behind your group, or after choosing to Swiftness the trailers. You can swap to X/F to swirling winds to block what would be a disadvantageous engage for your team, stay out of combat, and swap back to staff. Ele staff positioning requires you to stand in a location that gives you more vision on where to place fields. It took Chem months to move away from the middle of the zerg towards the periphery, and to utilize more advanced staff Ele tactics like getting enemies to waste important cooldowns. By positioning on the periphery, you can also try to draw AoE attacks onto yourself that would have been more effective used against your frontline ball. You have immunity cooldowns to save yourself when you are focus fired, and you can retreat back into your team ball after you use them. When you have an enemy zerg on the run, you could race ahead and mass snare them for the incoming pain train.
I watched Second Law in a high profile GvG, and Chem was barely using skills; just waiting for an opportunity to cast fields; and his team won anyway. His chill and water fields were timely but it was like he was micro’ed entirely on when to use everything. I know Ele is a bit of a combo field bot, but you have to do more than just that. Water 1, Air 1, Air 3, Earth 3, Burning Retreat went underused. Evasive Arcana dodges aren’t clutch; the earth dodge doesn’t blast and the water dodge doesn’t support teammates. Doesn’t time Eruptions to go off in fields. Doesn’t cover conditions with burning and doesn’t upkeep Soothing Mist. Isn’t making the most of Elemental Attunement timing to give teammates boons. Tornado wasn’t used in combo fields. Fiery Great Sword isn’t used to advance scout. Didn’t know how strong Glyph of Storms could be pre-player cap nerf.
In general, Chem has had tons of time to play around with specs and gear options that he didn’t utilize. But it’s entirely up to him, on whether he wants to retire after ‘beating the game’, or to spend more time in remedial class where he won’t learn anything because of how far ahead his guild advanced beyond the rest.
After playing 3K+ hours, switching manually weapons in bags is really annoying. I remember when one year ago Anet said they were about to implement “templates” to switch weapons and traits out of combat.
You know the story tho.
Same goes for everything you stated, you can’t always blast with an earth dodge, tab and mouseclick targetting is kitten so good luck using anything beside AoE correctly.
Red Guard [RG]
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Master Fuhon, that may be the most socially awkward response I’ve seen, lmao. Still, I’m sure he appreciates the constructive criticism
Zacharus, Warrior.
Second Law.
Second Law.
Master Fuhon, that may be the most socially awkward response I’ve seen, lmao. Still, I’m sure he appreciates the constructive criticism
When you realize that any internet conversation is with people who won’t be joining in visibly, you come to stop altering your communication style to fit only those present; because there’s no need to fit in perfectly with a bunch of people you might never run into again or whom won’t understand you anyway. And it is somewhat ‘awkward’ to talk to invisible people when others aren’t aware they are actually in the room, but you get used to it when you have higher social awareness about the situation.
By the way, the wink comment was just me pointing out how sarcasm isn’t indicated in the real world by a wink. Please stop flirting…
Lol you’re funny. 1 post of full kitten. that took you a while i bet
Lol you’re funny. 1 post of full kitten. that took you a while i bet
Do people really know, emotes usually don’t match the microexpressions that appear on your face amidst a real conversation? That face you just made… if you hold it there long enough, the drool will start to pool up and drip down over your bottom lip. It’s more effective to breathe out the nostrils and using the diaphragm than it is to draw air up through the back of the mouth, unless there is something lacking about the air or process in which you are able to breathe.
My previous post took 500ish hours. I’m just going to say that. I could not have completed it without every minute that I had previously spent playing Ele and then some. I might be overestimating because I counted AFK/loading screen, doing story, dynamic events, gear farming, building forts, running yaks, watching a little Ele WvW streaming, etc. But I’m still just going to say 500 hours anyway. I could probably throw in how long it took me to learn touch typing, or how long it took me to learn English and how to write. But I’m not going to count those because I would have done them anyway had GW2 never existed.
Speaking of ‘awkward’… What is counting social interaction in terms of time expenditure? What is committing thousands of hours towards doing the exact same repetitive things with minimal internalized knowledge of what you’ve been doing? What is not realizing the person you are talking to is not on the same ‘spectrum’ of characteristics as you are?
Suddenly this conversation really has grown more awkward… because it’s no longer about playing Elementalist, but it’s about an ingroup’s stereotypes and projections.