Guild Wars 2

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Hello all fellow Elementalists out there! I have been in love with Guild Wars 2 since the first beta weekend though I have been highly focused on the PvP aspect of the game since the game was released. I am currently rank 39 in sPvP. I play on the EU server Aurora Glade, so feel free to add me in game and ask me questions there or post here by all means.

I started recording on a whim, I thought it might be interesting to share my knowledge and experience while offering some of my insight to other interested Ele players out there looking to improve their game. Also if anyone has advice to give me, I am more than willing to read and respond to it, so feel free to post thoughts.

I will be posting more videos in the future, based on any feedback I receive here, so please feel free to offer any constructive criticism and I will do my best to reply and follow this topic for as long as people are interested in it. I will take reasonable requests, for instance if you want me to try out a build ( Not that I can guarantee 100% success rate with every build ) I will do my best to get some good game play featuring it. If anyone wants to know my build feel free to ask, I don’t really feel comfortable posting 1 link to a build since I change utilities and traits very frequently so I would probably create a video detailing what trait and utility setups I like running with.

First Video is a match on Forest of Nifhel, I am running Dagger / Dagger Aura sharing build.

Second Video will be linked when it is done uploading and shows a match on Legacy of Foefire with a standard D/D setup.

Third Video, featuring the Battle of Kyhlo with the same build as the previous two videos.

Next video, another Kyhlo game, but this time a S/D build.

New Video today, on Kyhlo again.

And now a Paid Tourney!

And one more video for tonight

Quick Paid Tourney video

Edited the content of the post and linked the uploaded videos, may or may not record some more tomorrow.

Added another video and am currently uploading one from a paid tournament, it will be up soon!

Your fps is skips sometimes in one of the vids I watched.

I’m glad you use ingame sound/bgm though. I hate it when everything gets replaced with some horrrible audio.

Nice skills though.

Uploaded a new video today, and some ready to render and upload for tomorrow!

One paid tourney up today.

Okay, so I am in love with Scepter/Dagger and decided to watch the video you listed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpuU6d_A8M (11-26-2012 Ele Free Tourney Round 3-2).

I started to try to figure out what questions I want to ask at about the half-way mark on the video. At around 9 minutes, I noticed that your utilities are set to Q,E,R,T and the mouse keys… I facepalm at this point. Why hadn’t I thought about doing that to my character?? -.- That is definitely what I will be working on in the Options menu once I return to the game.

I’m new to elementalist and I have a handful of questions about your choice of utilities, and equipment stuffs.

1.) Why do you use Ice Bow conjure? I thought all conjures are pretty much crappy, I read about people saying conjures are “sub-par” often. You only use 2 skills and then drop it? Will you please explain this?

2.) I’ve thought Lightning Flash, the teleporting cantrip that you used to teleport from the ground up onto the ledge @ the windmill was genius! I did not know I could even do that! wtf… The range for this utility seems to be kind of short. It would be nice if I could increase the range.

3.) …Why do you have so many runes/sigils in your bag? ?_? Do you switch between sets depending on what you’re fighting? That’s pretty smart. I might have to start doing the same.

4.) Do you prefer the +power per kill buff over the +condition damage per kill buff? I’ve recently been using Corruption Sigils and thinking that maybe I’ve been doing it wrong and should be using the Bloodlust sigils.

5.) Why does your scepter have the Sigil of Superior Battle? I can see the weapon info between 0:07 and 0:09 seconds marks in the video. Are you able to get the benefit from this sigil somehow? Was it just an accident that this was the sigil? Did you change it mid-game and I spaced-out while this happened?

6.) Your videos are nice and play just fine for me. Do you use FRAPS or a different program? I’m not too fond of FRAPS or Sony Vegas, but I always end up using FRAPS anyway.

7.) I really enjoyed watching you play. Thanks for uploading this video, I haven’t seen many other Scepter/Dagger players in-game. I hope I can see more

Hey, thank you for the questions, I would be quite glad to answer them for you.

1.) Why do you use Ice Bow conjure? I thought all conjures are pretty much crappy, I read about people saying conjures are “sub-par” often. You only use 2 skills and then drop it? Will you please explain this?

The Ice Bow can be quite destructive in PvP, especially on that map in the video you watched. The Ice Bow volley can take out half of the enemy trebuchet hp, as well as hit the enemy using it if they choose not to run away, I use it all the time for this. It is also quite effective at defending points or stopping enemy rezzing. I only use 2 skills and then drop it since it is quite pointless to sit there auto attacking with the Bow while waiting for the CDs of the worthwhile skills, the freeze ability is quite a good CC if it lands. You can also pick up the second bow to use the skills again once they are off cooldown.

2.) I’ve thought Lightning Flash, the teleporting cantrip that you used to teleport from the ground up onto the ledge @ the windmill was genius! I did not know I could even do that! wtf… The range for this utility seems to be kind of short. It would be nice if I could increase the range.

I’m not 100% sure but I think the thief’s infiltrator arrow has the same range as the elementalist teleport, this means we can go where ever thieves can get to (and there are quite a few useful teleport spots).

3.) …Why do you have so many runes/sigils in your bag? ?_? Do you switch between sets depending on what you’re fighting? That’s pretty smart. I might have to start doing the same.

I do that for ease of access really, I never really change runes or sigils during the game unless I get up to 25 stacks of bloodlust since they stay even if you change your sigil. I often slot different runes before the game starts depending on the enemies though.

4.) Do you prefer the +power per kill buff over the +condition damage per kill buff? I’ve recently been using Corruption Sigils and thinking that maybe I’ve been doing it wrong and should be using the Bloodlust sigils.

Well my build is focused on direct damage, and has no real source of condition damage, so I use Bloodlust to enhance my main source of damage, do note there is nothing wrong with using Corruption, it just depends on your playstyle and if you like adding more conditions or not.

5.) Why does your scepter have the Sigil of Superior Battle? I can see the weapon info between 0:07 and 0:09 seconds marks in the video. Are you able to get the benefit from this sigil somehow? Was it just an accident that this was the sigil? Did you change it mid-game and I spaced-out while this happened?

The sigil of Superior Battle works when you switch an attunement in combat, for this reason the other weapon swap sigils will also work on elementalist. The might stacks you can keep from this while fighting can greatly increase your damage.

6.) Your videos are nice and play just fine for me. Do you use FRAPS or a different program? I’m not too fond of FRAPS or Sony Vegas, but I always end up using FRAPS anyway.

I actually use Dxtory for recording and Sony Vegas to render.

7.) I really enjoyed watching you play. Thanks for uploading this video, I haven’t seen many other Scepter/Dagger players in-game. I hope I can see more

Yep, should be recording some more this coming week ^^

I did not expect those answers. Thanks so much! I’m going to need to practice trying new things in sPvP now. I think the answer to #5 surprised me the most, as I thought those sigils were worthless to elementalists because we can’t switch weapons.

What settings do you use on Dxtory?
I’m having trouble with it – I go from 60 Fps not recording to 10 Fps while recording with it however with Fraps I hardly get an FPS drop. =/

Curring.9752:

What settings do you use on Dxtory?
I’m having trouble with it – I go from 60 Fps not recording to 10 Fps while recording with it however with Fraps I hardly get an FPS drop. =/

I record at 1920×1080 in Lagarith Lossless Codec at 29.97 fps, not sure why you don’t have a problem with Fraps but lag on Dxtory.

Nope, I got the Codec and it still is sending me into 11 FPS when recording.

Curring.9752:

Nope, I got the Codec and it still is sending me into 11 FPS when recording.

Are you recording and playing to the same hard drive? I know that this can often cause frame problems for me.

MindlessRuff.1948:

Curring.9752:

Nope, I got the Codec and it still is sending me into 11 FPS when recording.

Are you recording and playing to the same hard drive? I know that this can often cause frame problems for me.

Unfortunately not, Guild Wars is installed to my SSD and I record to my 2 TB hardrive and DXtory says I have 153 M/B write speed on that drive.

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