Guild Wars 2

You’ve gotten into a fight with someone and was winning/downed them and ended up using burning speed off of a ledge or forgot to target them before using rtl and fell off a ledge and died.

You went to mist-form stomp someone in a large group and didn’t realize you used mist form before stomping and u just stood there the whole time, probably being massacred as soon as u came out of it.

You occassionally use mist form in downed state to fall to your own death on purpose to avoid letting enemies have the satisfaction of stomping you, sometimes enemies probably follow u off a ledge because they are drooling so much and end up dying themselves.

You’ve used updraft in a fight and ended up falling to your death because you rolled off of a ledge.

You used tornado and charged into the middle of a zerg thinking you’d be useful but died in 2 seconds.

Anyone got anything they wanna add?

when you’ve worked twice as hard to kill half as many people.

Misjudged a cooldown when swapping back into an attunement and wasted an attunement recharge timer.

I wasn’t paying attention and was walking around WvW in a staff (without a zerg).

kitten YOU, LEDGESSSSSSS!

So… you’re an Ele if you’ve used Ele skills?

playing elementalist.

You forget the reason to use your elite skill in combat

silvermember.8941:

I wasn’t paying attention and was walking around WvW in a staff (without a zerg).

lmfao!

You had to fight against thief without off-hand weapon becouse he popped out of stealth while u were swapping weapons to stack swiftness

Hahaha, these are so true!!

Tried to LF to a spot 3 feet above you (easily walkable) and nothing happens. 40s cooldown: ele dead.

Finally got to the top of a pain in the butt JP and sneezed hitting burning retreat.

azraeltsepesh.1602:

Finally got to the top of a pain in the butt JP and sneezed hitting burning retreat.

Aww lol i accidently rtl’d off ledge before, got impatient moving so slow and underestimated its length.

You play ele ..
When you didnt realise that for the 3 last matches you were running with the wrong elite
When you realised after sigent nerf patch that you had no keybind for healing skill

I didn’t actually do any of the OPs mentioned before lol.

You have used RTL with Autotarget on, went flailing off a bridge into 6 scales (super regen at low levels yay) and their drake friends (losing half hp for your troubles).

I’ve done all except the tornado one, make it 5 seconds not 2 lol

You know you’re an ele if:

-You dropped an AOE in zerker, downed, then ressed yourself then got downed and repeated enough times to die outright from down penalty in less than 3 seconds because there’s NOTHING you can do about it. (AC spiders anyone?)

-You enter combat in WvW with signet of air because you forgot to switch it.

-You’ve used your signet instead of swapping it out just before combat. (tiny buttons above skills ftl.)

-One or more of your burst numbers in zerker made you squee.

-You actually stopped to stare at your screen after realizing how badly Gust missed someone you were 2 inches from.

-You yelled a curse word loud enough to attract odd stares when someone interrupts dagger earth 5.

-You’ve killed an alpha golem on a gate in 5 seconds with a FGS.

-Retaliation killed you from one meteor shower on top of rams.

-You’ve been called a “squish” class by some ignorant twit in a dungeon group.

-You’ve wondered why you don’t get any good looking staves.

-You’ve stopped 50 people in their tracks with one surprise lightning field and made a commander squee.

-You’ve compared dagger offhand lightning to bowling.

-You’ve mist formed in down state to the very edge of the portal to safety, but didn’t make it. (WvW)

-You sunk someone, then raised them, then sunk them again underwater and giggled to yourself.

-You’ve gusted yourself off a cliff when it was reflected.

-You’ve somehow whirled the wrong direction with FGS.

-You’ve drawn permanent aggro from a world boss despite the other 50 people hitting it.

-raged every “balancing” patch since release

You tried to use Ride the Lightning to move forward while you had a random mob behind you targeted.

Had to fumble in your inventory for the stupid off hand dagger after you switched out of staff.

Switched to air in the middle of pvp and pressed Ride the Lighting only to realize it was on cooldown.

Your dungeon team thinks the lone guardian in your group is stacking 25 aoe might.

targeted a mob in a zerg and pressed a skill only to see it go down without you doing any damage

Leuca.5732:

Your dungeon team thinks the lone guardian in your group is stacking 25 aoe might.

Yeah kitten the pugs. That’s when I whip out the staff to join the bearbow rangers and stop trying.

tim.1280:

targeted a mob in a zerg and pressed a skill only to see it go down without you doing any damage

Dagger/X and lightning whip is your best bet at tagging mobs. Scepter and Staff have much too long cast times even for auto attacks >.>

LordByron.8369:

-raged every “balancing” patch since release

yep…except some of the staff QoL improvements that did basically nothing

Quick Mouse.7635:

LordByron.8369:

-raged every “balancing” patch since release

yep…except some of the staff QoL improvements that did basically nothing

We can finally cast Healing Rain while moving you ungrateful wretch. Be thankful you even get a staff.

- When you dodge, you use burning retread instead.
- When icebow is your closest friend in dungeons like AC.
- Using RTL and realizing on half way, that there is a cliff and no way of interrupting…
- Using mist form while getting knocked down
- Laughing at the mass of PUG thieves dying with dual daggers while you don’t die at all.
- Running away from anything that looks like a warrior
- Never tell people, but: If you have water magic traited, they won’t die. If you don’t have, they will, but they won’t ever realize the difference.

-mesmer used timewarp and totaly broke the skill coldown table in your head.

-typically necro (but other can too) put some minor finisher field above fire field and your carefully planned 15+ mights stack for whole PT is gone for next 40s

- for some unknow reason you draw perm aggro on Mossman being 100% ber and having 0 tou

- as the logical consequence of previous point you Vapor Form to water and res yourself on the sufrace while Mossman is waiting on the ground right next to water totally ignoring 4 other party members

- after very fast skill usage you get some kind of an animation lock (like warrior perm GS whirl but ele stays still) that can be escaped only using lighting flash or sometimes using movement skills like RTL

- you wonder if ever Lingering Elements will get fixed cuz you put big hopes in this trait

I think if you’ve done that one you’re a true ele:

Your running with a zerg with your inventory open (because there are no weapon swap button for that poor class) . You foresee a battle and start equipping your daggers (browsing through your inventory because they got mixed up with your junk) but suddenly the battle start and you end up with only 1 dagger equipped… Thus having to run away from the battle like a moron to equip the other dagger.

Xillllix.3485:

I think if you’ve done that one you’re a true ele:

Your running with a zerg with your inventory open (because there are no weapon swap button for that poor class) . You foresee a battle and start equipping your daggers (browsing through your inventory because they got mixed up with your junk) but suddenly the battle start and you end up with only 1 dagger equipped… Thus having to run away from the battle like a moron to equip the other dagger.

Lol I’ve done this but i just ran in with only a dagger equipped and started spamming lightning whip everywhere.

Got two hit by a thief while you were searching your inventory for your other weapons.

Ran away and waited forever to get out of combat because you accidentally normalattacked someone with staff when you wanted to change weapons. By the time you manage to get your daggers most of the fight is over.

Run after someone and used RTL trying to catch him, only to see him use 3-gap opening skills leaving you far behind, and wondering why on earth was RTL considered OP.

-Randomly shout attunement swap shouts IRL.
-Your non-player roommates know all your character’s attunement swap shouts but get them slightly wrong and you feel the need to correct them.
-When youre bored in a home city you cast 4 conjures as a ghetto-box-o-fun and watch people grab them and play.

… used RTL on a critter which gets killed by some random guy while you’re flying to the critter… then wondered which to be mad at – the 40s cd or the person that killed the critter.

Velth.3780:

You forget the reason to use your elite skill in combat

For running away obviously! Or at least attempting to while getting rooted and crippled while a nearby norn turns into a snow leopard, stealths and charges 3000 units away.

Shift clicked a utility whilst trying to use Shift + 1 (change attunement) and that utility in the next attunement resulting in your death and chat filled with !!!11###23@@@##########99998888888%%%%%%%#333

WTB shift click no longer links stuff to chat

You have perfectly rational hatred towards your entire dungeon team as they seemingly intentionally run away from your Geyser and Healing Rain.

TGSlasher.1458:

Shift clicked a utility whilst trying to use Shift + 1 (change attunement) and that utility in the next attunement resulting in your death and chat filled with !!!11###23@@@##########99998888888%%%%%%%#333

WTB shift click no longer links stuff to chat

9s and 8s? Wish I had a naga mouse :P

After the first RTL nerf hit, you swapped to air attunement to see RTL on exactly a five second cd while in combat.

Swap to fire attunement after misjudging the cd of burning speed, then stood around like an idiot for a second or two.

Tried to cast FGS to run, only to be killed while casting.

During a fight you forget you have a heal skill.

Giggling every time a thief Backstabs you when you have Shocking Aura up.

zencow.3651:

TGSlasher.1458:

Shift clicked a utility whilst trying to use Shift + 1 (change attunement) and that utility in the next attunement resulting in your death and chat filled with !!!11###23@@@##########99998888888%%%%%%%#333

WTB shift click no longer links stuff to chat

9s and 8s? Wish I had a naga mouse :P

I don’t have a Naga. That’s me shift clicking (out of habit really) skills on the bar then trying to continue attacks.

I have a Corsair M90?. I have attune swap and heal – 8 bound to it. Though some of the buttons are a bit awkward so I have shift 1-4 as backup

EDIT:
Sat there watching Invulnerable Invulnerable Invulnerable Invulnerable Invulnerable above your head and wondered why thieves aren’t punished for bad play.

TGSlasher.1458:

I didn’t actually do any of the OPs mentioned before lol.

You have used RTL with Autotarget on, went flailing off a bridge into 6 scales (super regen at low levels yay) and their drake friends (losing half hp for your troubles).

This is actually the reason I decided to turn off Autotarget.

Eternum.1706:

TGSlasher.1458:

I didn’t actually do any of the OPs mentioned before lol.

You have used RTL with Autotarget on, went flailing off a bridge into 6 scales (super regen at low levels yay) and their drake friends (losing half hp for your troubles).

This is actually the reason I decided to turn off Autotarget.

Sylvari bridge? in the Sylvari starting zone? I though that after I did that on my ranger in the beta I would know better then to do so on my ele. Turns out I did the same stupid thing on the same stupid bridge

Use RTL to charge into a small wvws group (rather then casually walking up whilst being hit..) only for someone to kill your target the split second you get there, leaving you with a kittened 40sec cd.

Having a zerg chase you into a keep & having to stand at the back of the keep for eons waiting to leave combat so you can swap weapons, only to have to do the same when they are almost in & you want your daggers back.

Felt like an absolute boss when you used all of your skills and merely survived a chase vs. a thief when you got caught with your pants down and …staff… in your hand.

Admired yourself for a moment for actually landing staff air 3 and connecting, then realizing it was a PvE mob and they would walk right into dragon’s tooth.

Used an S/D burst build, then realized you didn’t sign up to be a poor-man’s thief and went on hiatus from pvp for a while.

Gave lots of feedback/well thought out suggestions on forums on ways to balance an elementalist, and never once had that feedback heard.

Used Earthquake/Ring of Fire randomly because you were in the wrong attunement.

TGSlasher.1458:

Shift clicked a utility whilst trying to use Shift + 1 (change attunement) and that utility in the next attunement resulting in your death and chat filled with !!!11###23@@@##########99998888888%%%%%%%#333

WTB shift click no longer links stuff to chat

Why not use keybinds that don’t do that :p tbh I use ctrl q/e

SonOfKrypton.4357:

You have perfectly rational hatred towards your entire dungeon team as they seemingly intentionally run away from your Geyser and Healing Rain.

even today typical pug dung player run away from Lava Font (and I dont blame him, it looks scarry) sometimes I use it to set propper party placement or cast 100% hit Geyser.

when your running around with your staff and think your in air attunement and cast windborne speed only to realize you were in fire and go rolling in the opposite direction….

You try and pop LF but you automatically move your cursor to a 1500 range instead then you die.

You use mist form and die to conditions

You use rtl and die to conditions

Quietly shed a tear when you fight against a stunlock warrior in spvp that can also auto regen 80% of your lightning whip damage as a bunker ele.

Get confused when you suddenly mistform in combat only to realise you suddenly died while smashing buttons and wasting your downed ability.

Seeing your LF go on cooldown without actually bringing you somewhere.

Giggling like a little girl when you updrafted someone from a ledge (and not dying yourself)

Running around panicking when your health is extremely low, smashing the water attunement button when it has 2 seconds left on cd (with all utilities on cd as well).

Noticing you’re the only ele in spvp for 5 matches minimum between at least 6 warriors and 4 necromancers spread over both sides.

Losing sight of your mouse cursor during combat and having the feeling your hand controlling the mouse is lost in the void.

emikochan.8504:

TGSlasher.1458:

Shift clicked a utility whilst trying to use Shift + 1 (change attunement) and that utility in the next attunement resulting in your death and chat filled with !!!11###23@@@##########99998888888%%%%%%%#333

WTB shift click no longer links stuff to chat

Why not use keybinds that don’t do that :p tbh I use ctrl q/e

Yea, my frined uses e shift-e q and shift-q.
The real question is, why does shift click activate chat when in combat? Who is going to -l-I-k-e- (edit) link skills mid combat?

TGSlasher.1458:

emikochan.8504:

TGSlasher.1458:

Shift clicked a utility whilst trying to use Shift + 1 (change attunement) and that utility in the next attunement resulting in your death and chat filled with !!!11###23@@@##########99998888888%%%%%%%#333

WTB shift click no longer links stuff to chat

Why not use keybinds that don’t do that :p tbh I use ctrl q/e

Yea, my frined uses e shift-e q and shift-q.
The real question is, why does shift click activate chat when in combat? Who is going to -l-I-k-e- (edit) link skills mid combat?

For warriors in soloQ I think you would want to ping your Warbanner to let others know you’re rezzing so others don’t waste their skills also trying to help the owne players

Also thieves’ SR to tell the downed player to stop spamming 1/ press escape to cancel the guardian/necro channeled downed skill.

Would be useful for Glyph of Renewal too but… Ele.

zencow.3651:

TGSlasher.1458:

emikochan.8504:

TGSlasher.1458:

Shift clicked a utility whilst trying to use Shift + 1 (change attunement) and that utility in the next attunement resulting in your death and chat filled with !!!11###23@@@##########99998888888%%%%%%%#333

WTB shift click no longer links stuff to chat

Why not use keybinds that don’t do that :p tbh I use ctrl q/e

Yea, my frined uses e shift-e q and shift-q.
The real question is, why does shift click activate chat when in combat? Who is going to -l-I-k-e- (edit) link skills mid combat?

For warriors in soloQ I think you would want to ping your Warbanner to let others know you’re rezzing so others don’t waste their skills also trying to help the owne players

Also thieves’ SR to tell the downed player to stop spamming 1/ press escape to cancel the guardian/necro channeled downed skill.

Would be useful for Glyph of Renewal too but… Ele.

That’s what ctrl click is for, the one that doesn’t put you into your chat window. Think I might just registry hack my keys so that shift is alt and alt is shift, then reassign my attunments to alt 1- 4