Guild Wars 2

just some fights and duels from reset, i included a bit of insight into the duels/fights and how i handle certain things/why i do what i do, enjoy! or dont! whatever!

Nice to see a video with commentary, however its very hard to read what your thought process was, and also see it in action at the same time.

Maybe shorter notes more centered on screen so we can see and read at the same time? Or if you wanna get fancy you can pause the video, draw some arrows and kitten about whats going on.

I toyed around with a D/D Ele shortly after GW2 was released and then pretty much quit once they nerfed the travel aspect of the class. At the time, the class was simply a blast to play.

I’m wondering though, with roaming in WvW, how do you deal with LB Rangers who can pretty much take down an Ele with their first opening burst? I’d like to try the class again but after testing in PvP, it just felt like I was 2-3 times more work for the dame damage that others could do with 2-3 buttons.

Perhaps I just suck as an ele…

D/d ele is fun but there are a lot of classes that simply do it better war gurd eng even necro to a point. D/d ele needs a lot of condi clear or it will melt but to do that you give up a lot of dmg. Aura reg and reg that clear condi is a must and earth tends to be a must for the higher def and protection. I wish fire and air has more use in the d/d set up letting it do more dmg and not just be a bunker water earth tempest set up.

What do you change about your build to fit Tempest, and when do you do so?

Cougre.6543:

What do you change about your build to fit Tempest, and when do you do so?

i swap fire line for tempest.

i run tempest when im running into larger groups with my buddies, it performs alot better in larger fights thanks to the aoe pressure and cleave, and thanks to harmonious conduit and earth overload i have a lot more stability to counter the inevitable cc spam you find in those larger fights, not to mention the extra heals/cleanse for my group from water overload tempest in general just performs a lot better in those situations. also sometimes i get bored of core and need a change

Noble.2670:

i swap fire line for tempest.

i run tempest when im running into larger groups with my buddies, it performs alot better in larger fights thanks to the aoe pressure and cleave, and thanks to harmonious conduit and earth overload i have a lot more stability to counter the inevitable cc spam you find in those larger fights, not to mention the extra heals/cleanse for my group from water overload tempest in general just performs a lot better in those situations. also sometimes i get bored of core and need a change

I see, but isn’t there a better specialization to use in conjunction with tempest than arcane? To me they mostly seem to diminish one another in that one benefits from fast attunement swapping while the other encourages you to camp attunements for a longer time.