Guild Wars 2

A video about the kitting of elementalist changing attunements in a role play situation.
Kitting Staff

Nice video, but what’s the point? I kinda missed it.

You can see a way to avoid any damage with this class and with this arm by kitting.
It’s not so easy it seems to be.
Or a Role play video of a norn who defeat the dragon ofspring like “in the egde of destiny”.
Or just listening to a nice music “a way of life” from the last samurai film with a nice panorama.
The point will be the one you want to see.

Zenalpha.4192:

You can see a way to avoid any damage with this class and with this arm by kitting.
It’s not so easy it seems to be.
Or a Role play video of a norn who defeat the dragon ofspring like “in the egde of destiny”.
Or just listening to a nice music “a way of life” from the last samurai film with a nice panorama.
The point will be the one you want to see.

Well, on this particular champion of course, but that has nothing to do with this class m8, every class can kite like this, some of them even easier and without the need for legendary or even lvl 80. This champion is very slow, attacks have hugely telegraphed animations and also he misses the charge very often if you just move.
So I guess the music is the best what you can take from this video

It’s funny.
On a french popular forum, some people said the same thing to me.
I just answered the évidence.
Just do it ^^.

Then, something was funny.
One guy said exactly the same with this little level 15.
Impossible to be touched if you are good with your elem, he said.
When he post his video, he was touched three times and down it in only 8’40 in a normal way so by taking damages (6’50 here).

I sometimes do boss solo in instance.
This mob is of course easy to down, but you can believe me when i say that it’s not so easy not to take any damage.

The most easy think to see it is to go to do the fight i think.
I recommand you to.

Anyway, i don’t present a performance but a nice ability of elem with staf to kit a mob in a role play video.
But if you do faster without any damage, i will congratulate your own performance.
i think you cant’ do it ^^
Take it like a little challenge i give to you in order to have fun.

Zenalpha.4192:

It’s funny.
On a french popular forum, some people said the same thing to me.
I just answered the évidence.
Just do it ^^.

Then, something was funny.
One guy said exactly the same with this little level 15.
Impossible to be touched if you are good with your elem, he said.
When he post his video, he was touched three times and down it in only 8’40 in a normal way so by taking damages (6’50 here).

I sometimes do boss solo in instance.
This mob is of course easy to down, but you can believe me when i say that it’s not so easy not to take any damage.

The most easy think to see it is to go to do the fight i think.
I recommand you to.

Anyway, i don’t present a performance but a nice ability of elem with staf to kit a mob in a role play video.
But if you do faster without any damage, i will congratulate your own performance.
i think you cant’ do it ^^
Take it like a little challenge i give to you in order to have fun.

I’m not disregarding the performance or something, it’s of course good video, like I said before. I just stated that other classes are able to do it too, and probably even easier, I remember myself when I ran into a event champion in Lornar’s pass, while levelling my warrior alt (shame on me, I know, but Ele’s still my main), I killed him without much trouble using only longbow (yeah, really typical Warrior weapon), I had taken some hits, but that’s not a problem for someone with base HP almost doubled and heavy armor, compared to Ele. It has taken me about 5 minutes, maybe less, to kill the champ. Same with my Thief alt, dunno which exact location it is, I think some ascalon map, there are a wasp champion (similar to Queensdale Wasp Queen) or maybe even two of them at the same time, I killed them both with melee Thief, no big problems.

Anyway, good performance, keep that up

Meh…low level champion and no other mobs around isn´t that impressive just shows the guy is competent player.
Just type elementalist solo into youtube search and you´ll find much more impressive things. Then type elementalist pvp and you´ll get even more cool stuff.

Also rather pointless to differentiate between getting hit and not getting hit (unless it´s instakill situation), hp is part of the combat and it´s there to be used.

What’s the RP reason for your character cancelling Meteor Shower early? Impatience or plain incompetence?

The competence just allows to do something.
You have the competence to do something or you haven’t got it.
It’s simple.

The incompetence allows to comment everything.
It can be good remarks or pure stupidity.
When you will have down it with no damage, you will have the competence to find the reason which is very simple.

This shows that even skill-clickers can solo a level 15 champ on an 80 in exotics/ascended!

In PvE, better a player who played with the nose and kill the boss than a player who is optimal at the club house watching the kill.
You ‘re certainly optimal in the club house watching the kill with a good beer.
If you’re better with your hands, 6’50 without any damage with a small video.
Or keep drinking your beers.

This one may can change your point of view about a lvl 15.
A boss may be ?
But here, i will take damages….
Boss Ascalon
The way to the boss

with yellow stuff ?
ascalon yellow

unstuff ?
Ascalon without nothing
=> I recommand the end of this one, the most interessant of this video.

Don’t say everything is easy without doing it i mean.
i don’t make performances but its not easy as you like to present it without any experience of this fights i think.

The point is not to kill this mob 15.
after the role play gaming, It is to pretend that the elementalist is a good class to kit a mob so a good class to avoid damages like this.
And it’s not so easy to do, let’s try it if you have not understood.

I see you talk about kits and i suppose you were talking about the engineer, cause in none of those videos i saw an ele being played. Man i suppose you messed up on the translation or something no worries mate, it’s engineer! Very nice videos too some real meta stuff. If these videos are true zen kitten you’re the supreme shogun. BUSHIDO

Zenalpha.4192:

But if you do faster without any damage, i will congratulate your own performance.
i think you cant’ do it ^^
Take it like a little challenge i give to you in order to have fun.

Here you go, first attempt: 3’30
http://youtu.be/FqrjSzE1enA
I’ll try for faster if you can beat that.

P.S: Food used was not performance enhancing,
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Piece_of_Candy_Corn_Almond_Brittle

P.P.S: In case you missed the point, my previous comment was referring to how Meteor Shower drops less meteors if you cancel it = lower DPS..

Congratulations Zencow.
A very nice video and you have done it in a very intelligent way by using the second earth elementary wich give you much more time to make your AOE.
The utilisation of the ice bow with this tactic wich give you time is very well done.
I appreciate your choices of build like a very nice way of doing it.
I have learned something watching you and i will use more this earth elementary in those fights.
Thank you to have taken the time to do.

I’m interested to see your build if possible.
I can try to do it faster but the good way of doing it in a fast time is yours anyway.
And that’s the point.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhIm0blR1gjEAkCoEeQADFMZoRHSBA-jkxAYfAqAQyrIasF3ioxqrxUuER1A-w

Ele DPS master race.

30/0/25/10/5 would’ve been better for the amount of attune switching I was doing.
30/10/20/10/0 is what I usually run nowadays since Persisting Flames and Ice Storm buffs makes the Fire Attune staff camping+Ice Storm with Earth IV work really well together to out-dps anyone else.

The fastest way like with any boss would be to use FGS and pull it to one of the buildings/ inside the hut where he spawns for Fiery Rush abuse.

Thank you zencow.
Very Interessant.

My traditionnal Build is this one.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhIm0blR1gjDAhHEwQCiHW0gDlCzA-jkxAYfAqAQyrIasF3ioxqrxUuER1A-w

I play it usually with a berserker stuff and look for power, critic and damages over critic.

The force is the burst but it’s a very fragile build who need to be careful.

Your build bring more resistance and more dps on alterations with the earth.
And I think you try to up your critical damage using the 11 of fire.

What is your equipement ? Berserker ? alterations ?

I will test your build and i wonder if the up of dps with alteration compense the critical rate and damage under critic. of mine
It’s perfectly right that ice storm give an alteration wich is boost with your earth build so it’s an angle that i have never test.
Ice storm is powerful so it’s possible.

May be better for me to change i will see.

Full zerker + Scholar Runes. The Dungeon people have calculated Scholar Runes are better than Ruby Orbs as long as you can stay >90% hp for 30% of a fight. With staff it’s really easy to avoid damage in dungeon settings where you are under no threat of taking damage if you’re skillful like CoE/Arah or have high DPS team everywhere else and can stand away abit from the melee (you still want to be in range of AoE might stacks + and for Stone Splinters though!).

In pick-up groups who stack on top of bosses without having the damage to support it e.g. Spider Queen, SE p1’s 3 golems you’d have to switch to pvt gear and be bad like them.

Flat damage is always better than critical damage due to:
1. It’s always effective even when you don’t crit. Mathematically a skill on average does:
Damage = (weapon strength x power x skill coefficient / target armor) x Crit multiplier.
Crit multiplier = ( 1 + Critical Chance% * ( Critical Damage% + 0.5) )
When you add crit damage you are adding to a smaller part of the equation, when you are get +damage% however it is multiplied on top on the calculated damage.

2. +damage% applies multiplicatively. In total I have +86% damage from traits sigil of force and scholar rune, not +65%.

Fire XI vs XII:
Persisting Flames gives not only fury but it makes Lava Font last 6 seconds instead of 4 for a 50% damage increase. As Lava Font is 75% of your damage in total it’s a much better damage return than 10 stacks of might. (25 might stacks improves damage by about ~40%, 10 stacks is only ~16%.)

The best time to use 30/30/0/0/10 is with dagger main-hand for Fresh Air for Air 15 and Lightning Whip spam.

I also don’t use sigil of battle/boon duration runes for pve any more since I expect team-mates to blast in my field when I use a staff and in good teams I’d get 25 mights anyway.