Guild Wars 2

I have a rather comprehensive guide over on the Guild Wars 2 Guru forums.

Currently im still working on part of it, but hopefully you all find it useful. Im up to 46k views when i write this, so it can’t be all bad :p

Link

Bump to help people who are having doubts

Very nice guide, thanks for taking the time to put it together.

Sweet to see you here. Free bump from me. I already read it a while ago and it helped me kickstart my elementalist (and understand it’s fundamentals) by a lot!

Could you please explain the Dragon Tooth more in detail? In particular that thing about where it lands.

Good job on that. Are you going to add some information about how stats should be balanced for specific builds? That would be very useful. I’ve got a support build with a good bit of healing, toughness and vitality, and I was wondering how much of that I could sacrifice to be more useful in the damage department, or if there are diminishing returns on any of the stats.

There are no diminishing returns in any stat – everthing scales linearly.

Salute! for the guide.

Bigger Salute!! and Respect!!!! for taking care of your grandfather!

Nice work Anlyon. /respect

There is a need of updating in your information, some are outdated.

E.g. Mistform only lasts 3 secs now, and it does not remove cripple.

While it is true you can use it while reviving an ally / stomping, I have noticed that casting of glyph of renewal is now interrupted by it.

I also noticed you lack info on glyph of renewal, I am unsure if this is a bug but sometimes it uses the element you are in at the start of casting. Note sometimes, sometimes it acts like other spells and uses the last attunement you are in. You can use glyph of renewal WHILE moving

Here’s how to use it, locate dead ally → go into Earth → start casting glyph of renewal before you reach them → cast magnetic aura for assurance → use stability for 100% certainty → 3 happy allies.

@Vaerah, I most certainly can.

@Buck – its on the list of things to do. Im waiting for the meta to settle down a bit before i get into the builds in too much detail. Rest assured ill get there.

@Rophus – Sorry that was a bug. I’ve updated it with the GW2DB tooltip, so it’ll be updated as they update.

I also just added Glyph of Renewal in now. I wanted to test the new changes (effects around target instead of caster). Also i have never, ever used it in earth. I’ve never had three allies that are downed at the same time near me. Hell i seldom ever have two that arent in the process of getting finished.
But thanks all the same.

And thanks everyone for the support hehe.

Its not all doom and gloom as an ele!

Anlyon.8375:

@Vaerah, I most certainly can.

Thank you!

Because the tutorial seems to imply it lands related to the caster while I noticed the behavior is at least dual: if the targetted “thing” is sitting still and I cast dragon tooth, it lands right on his head as long as he’s in range (else it lands midway in the vector connecting me and the target).
It’s the “other” facet you describe that got my curiosity.

Anlyon.8375:

And thanks everyone for the support hehe.

Its not all doom and gloom as an ele!

Well tbh yesterday I did an instance in story mode for the first time in my life (the one with the Mass Effect alike robot boss at the end) with a PUG and no voice comm.
I was more than godlike, I died all of 3 times (1 stupidly, I could easily have avoided that) despite the mass + wrong pulls etc.
The other guys probably paid 2g+ each in repairs, I spent 5s
The guildie that came with me died half of their times (even if he’s a warrior) because I (also) kept healing around him on cooldown.
Even 2 elite mobs hitting me would not kill me, nor the insane “lava firing” golem at the last but one boss.