Guild Wars 2

Very nice, these kinds of videos make people want to play and try harder.
Ele was rather patient, rare sight

I talked to them after the fight, their main stats were Power, Toughness, Healing. I think it’s a great build and I’m leveling an Ele just to try it out <3

Tbh, you didn’t do good enough. Look at your damage – 360 + 60s (?) and like twice somewhere around 2k. It was pretty slow as well. Thief with power, prec, critic does way higher damage. With D/D you could down 70% of his hp in no time.

He told me himself that glass cannon builds countered him. I used to play a glass cannon thief but found this much more fun and much less situational. Also, 360 + 62s is the damage before I start stacking might from stealth dodging and venoms. My crit chance and damage comes to 34% and 50% making me do double damage 1/3 of the time.

I do think your right however, I’m just not getting the damage I need to take down the tankier/heal enemies quickly.

that Elem looks like he actually spend time playing the game and learning it. Good fight.

Its the new fotm ele build. Running into it a fair bit. Has very high regen, which counters a condition build pretty well, plus a fair amount of DPS. Given that you use d/d as your swap, why didnt you set up the burst and use d/d to finish?

Scootabuser.4915:

He told me himself that glass cannon builds countered him. I used to play a glass cannon thief but found this much more fun and much less situational. Also, 360 + 62s is the damage before I start stacking might from stealth dodging and venoms. My crit chance and damage comes to 34% and 50% making me do double damage 1/3 of the time.

I do think your right however, I’m just not getting the damage I need to take down the tankier/heal enemies quickly.

I sorta get your gear choice if your going to swap between p/d and dd, but you really seem to just stick with p/d, which your gear imo isnt that great for. Your hits are only doing slightly more damage then mine, though granted you will crit more, but my ticks are 50 higher then yours, and I have 5k more health. Given we only use a few attacks that crit, I am not sure it is worth it. Now if you are going to be switching to d/d a lot, then yea it makes a lot more sense to have a balanced gear-set.

Niim.9260:

Its the new fotm ele build. Running into it a fair bit. Has very high regen, which counters a condition build pretty well, plus a fair amount of DPS. Given that you use d/d as your swap, why didnt you set up the burst and use d/d to finish?

I actually did later, we had 2 more skirmishes but at the end of the 2nd one fraps droped my framerate down to 3fps and I died so I had to turn it off.

For round 3 I went back in with Evasive Roll and Swapped to D/D as soon as he blew his healing cooldowns. It was a learning experience for me. That stupid lightning ball escape is REALLY hard to chase down though, I would have killed him twice in this first round if it weren’t for it.

So that Ele is using 20 different weapon skills to fight you, while you use autoattack and 5?
Seems like a very well balanced class to me.

This video is the best representation of how thief can use nothing but shortbow + dagger/dagger.

This guy DOESN’T hit hard at all he try to kill this ele with autoattack (wich is the purpose of the build) with no chance. We need an alternative first then ANet and all of haters can ask for nerf on bs build.

Kerishan.8460:

This video is the best representation of how thief can use nothing but shortbow + dagger/dagger.

This guy DOESN’T hit hard at all he try to kill this ele with autoattack (wich is the purpose of the build) with no chance. We need an alternative first then ANet and all of haters can ask for nerf on bs build.

Seriously? Your trying to turn my post into ANOTHER one of those threads. It was a toughness/healing elementalist, they are tanky as hell.

Scootabuser.4915:

Kerishan.8460:

This video is the best representation of how thief can use nothing but shortbow + dagger/dagger.

This guy DOESN’T hit hard at all he try to kill this ele with autoattack (wich is the purpose of the build) with no chance. We need an alternative first then ANet and all of haters can ask for nerf on bs build.

Seriously? Your trying to turn my post into ANOTHER one of those threads. It was a toughness/healing elementalist, they are tanky as hell.

I think what he means is, we have pretty much just autoattack and C&D when a d/d ele has like 20 abilities. I play both proffs and do admit when comparing them thief is a total joke in terms of variety. Both are different playstyles though..

Dude i want to say that was a good fight. I wish more thieves would stay around like you did if it looks grim. So many thieves just vanish from combat in 1 vs 1 fights it annoys me to no end when i fight on my necro. I’m built to take the hits and try to fight the long fight.

This video was nostalgic considering I encountered an almost identical ele yesterday. However, he always ended up running to fort guards and waiting to re-engage me when I was fighting someone else. He eventually died at the feet of his guards from bleeding, but was able to get back up because I couldn’t get close enough to finish him off.

Just goes to show that a properly played ele doesn’t lack survivability, and in fact has more escape tools than any other class, unlike what most bad players claim. I’ve noticed this myself when I play my ele, and I’ve said this countless times…but the naysayers who refuse to learn will always argue.

The weapon set I was using at the time was identical to yours, with the exception of my bleeding doing significantly more damage, my health being over 20k, and my utilities being different.

Kurow.6973:

This video was nostalgic considering I encountered an almost identical ele yesterday. However, he always ended up running to fort guards and waiting to re-engage me when I was fighting someone else. He eventually died at the feet of his guards from bleeding, but was able to get back up because I couldn’t get close enough to finish him off.

Just goes to show that a properly played ele doesn’t lack survivability, and in fact has more escape tools than any other class, unlike what most bad players claim. I’ve noticed this myself when I play my ele, and I’ve said this countless times…but the naysayers who refuse to learn will always argue.

The weapon set I was using at the time was identical to yours, with the exception of my bleeding doing significantly more damage, my health being over 20k, and my utilities being different.

At least D/D elementalists do