Guild Wars 2

SPvP is about testing your skills, not grinding enough cosmetic gear so you can flash it in PvE to show off your kitten. Tons of people played Counterstrike and other games religiously without any ability to customize their characters. They did it for the fun of the individual matches, not for some persistent advancement system.

I’m not saying those games and Guild Wars 2 PvP is the same thing, but you should treat it with a similar essence. You’re not playing sPvP so you can look cooler or expect any benefits in PvE, but because you’re having fun competitively playing the individual matches.

But if it makes you feel better, playing sPvP gives you a chance of getting some crappy 10 slot bags that you can use in PvE.

You might want to just consider your race’s elite skills first, though…

Rhoto.8791:

To the Elementalists defending our downed state abilities… You OBVIOUSLY have not done any spvp. I cannot tell you how many fights I have had where I downed my opponent only to be downed while trying to finish them, then they kill me before I can kill them, even though I downed them first. It is so frustrating to win a fight but still die because they can take you down before you finish them. WHY is our #1 skill SO FREAKING WEAK!???

You for real? While I agree our down state is weak, never have I lost a fight where me and another guy both entered downed state (provided no one comes to help either of us).

It wouldn’t matter if our #1 skill only did one point of damage, as long as it interrupts their heal. Did you not notice that because of Mist Form we can outlast ANYBODY?

Not only does it keep us immune for a few seconds but it also resets our HP back to fifty percent the first time we use it. No other class has that kind of HP recovery in their downed state. Just keep interrupting the guy’s heal, then Mist Form when you’re about to die, and the other dude will eventually bleed out. GG.

I agree with a lot of the points. What confuses me though is why people are so critical with this game in particular.

The Secret World, another MMO, was god awful for many reasons. But no one mentioned the story, and when they did they actually COMPLIMENTED the atmosphere.

But the dialogue was horrific, it was pop-culture reference after pop-culture reference cheesily jammed down our throats. Some NPC would brief you on a mission then suddenly talk about an X-Box gamerscore, while another homeless guy would talk to you about visions and then prattle on about Pacman and Oprah.

Basically it made this game’s dialogue look like Citizen Kane. But everyone seemed to love it. Weird.

I chose the name Lanach for my Sylvari Elementalist. I took it from the word Dealanach, which is Scottish Gaelic for lightning.

As you may have guessed, I stay mostly in Air attunment.

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/lanachs-air-elementalist-dual-daggers-pvp-guide-daggers-air-lightning-crit-burst-5995.html

This is the Air-focused PvP build I use. I also wrote a guide detailing why I picked the traits and skills that I did and yadda yadda.

It’s primarily for fun, and probably not viable for most situations. But what can I say, I really like lightning.

One advantage to our downed state is that if you’re in a one on one fight, and it comes so close that BOTH of you get downed, you will almost always outlast the other class as long as you interrupt his heal. This is because our vapor form heals us far more than any other class’s down skill, so as long as the guy doesn’t have a friend come to finish you off, eventually your opponent will bleed out and you’ll rally.

Of course this is a very sad, sad consolation for our pretty bad downed state.

I use Lightning Hammer. It has huge AoE in its swings, and it applies blindness during the third hit. So as long as you lay down blindness quickly enough, you should usually get out of multi-aggro fights with relatively few scratches because enemies keep missing you.

If the enemies attack really fast though (blindness only applies to their next attack), you’re kind of boned when using this method. Keep an Arcane Shield handy just in case.