Guild Wars 2

So I’m running a hybridish…. yea…. build mainly for wvw, I cannot live without 25% move speed so I’m at odds either locust or i go traveler. I already have CB and SA but I think SW would be great for wvw too

Edit: If locust is just better to go with, what other rune options are good?

Saying ranger is as simple as warrior is hilarious, yea maybe if you got hur dur longbow/gs but play as a melee based ranger gs/s/d/a then try and pvp vs anyone that isn’t a total noob. It becomes knowing when to time your evades, when to interrupt what having to micro your pet as well. Ranger isn’t simple and Mesmer isn’t high skill cap it’s so backwards it’s hilarious. But granted I think everyone at Anet plays a mesmer so they won’t get nerfed anytime this century.

Abbadon waded through the swamp, the portals of madness howled with a sickening cry that seemed to pierce the soul. The wandering souls of the tormented moaned in agony as Shades whispered madness in their ears floating eerily around them.

“Eternal suffering awaits all who fall prey to the swamp… beware the shadows they offer more then just darkness”

Those words echoed through his mind, suddenly a chilling wind blew through the swamp, insanity seemed to be carried with it as a shadowy fog fell upon the treeline. The drakes dove into the deeper parts of the swamp seemingly out of fear.

“What is happening…”
Abbadon looked around the swamp that was bustling with life seemed empty, dead. Even the souls and Shades had disappeared, the silence of the swamp sent cold chills down his spine, he gripped his hammer Entropy tighter attempting to steel himself for whatever may come, he had survived the raid of the centaurs he would survive this. But then he dropped to his knees. A loud howl of madness echoed through the swamp, the trees seemingly trembled in fear as pain shot through his head. His vision blurred and the shadows seemed to being to dance like flames of the Abyss, each holding a twisted smile. The howl died down just as a shadow engulfed the swamp, darkness falling all around him seemingly thickening the air to the point of being suffocating.
“Steady yourself! The Shadow Behemoth arrives!”
A voice rang out from the distance the heavy footsteps wading through the thick swampy waters could be heard. Rising Abbadon turned to see a large creature it’s body twisting shadows madness and death radiating from it’s body. The smell of sulfur filled the air as it let out another howl its smile on it’s face contorted madly upon it’s face, it’s eyes hollow and cold void of any emotion.
“Today you fall to me beast, for my brother!”
a Guardian screamed as she charged out infront of the group
" Freya NO!" A plea came out from who seemed to be the leader of the party, but it was too late the beast lifted up it’s shadowy fist and slammed it down on her, as he raised his fist again, Freya laid there her holy aegis had protected her from any fatal damage but she was stunned in place, her eyes filled with fear her mouth gaped open yet no sound came out. The beast moved to slam his fist down again. Her party could only stare in horror as they were about to witness their friend being crushed.
“kitten it, kitten it!”
Abbadon screamed as he tossed his hammer aside drawing his swords he leapt over crossing them over his head attempting to block the next blow, as the fist landed his blade caught it but the force sent him to a knee, the shockwave sending waves through the water as the sound of metal cracked under the immense weight. Freya looked up stunned and in slight awe. Abbadon turned to her his voice shakey and his arms trembling.
“Don’t just stand there! MOVE I can’t hold this back forever!” He pushed back as he felt the weight shift slightly sending the arm upwards as he grabbed her and rolled away. The party now staring up at the monster, its shadowy grin daring them to approach again the madness in it threatening to infect their very sanity it roared. As Abbadon stood clenching his blades, blood dripping from his hands he let out a roar of his own, his voice filling the party with a new found courage. But would it be enough to bring down the Shadow Behemoth? Will their now seemingly dauntless courage become tainted by madness?

MistyMountains.3751:

Most ele builds already have 2 + stuns or knockdowns…add in weapon swapping and you’re talking about ele’s with 3-4+ stuns/knockdowns in their builds >.> ya that wont be OP one bit…well at least if they added that people would stop complaining about thieves lol

Someone’s never played warrior :O hammer has 3 stuns then you can go off hand mace for a Line aoe projectile or shield for a weaker but still effective mist form and stun I count 4 stuns/knock downs most which are aoe

Caffynated.5713:

Elementalist has great damage in D/D. Updraft -> Burning speed -> Ring of Fire -> Arcane Wave -> Fire Grab can top 25k damage before your opponent gets up from the knockback. Staff is not a single target DPS weapon. The sooner people accept that, the happier they will be.

Conjures suck, except situational use of the bow for gravling mounds and the hammer for spamming auto attack for blind.

The pets are actually kind of nice. My tanky S/D condition build whips out 2 fire eles and uses them to stack might with their blast finishers and they add about 300 DPS for the lesser and 500-600 for the elite depending on which skills it uses.

Ele damage is basically all AoE and it’s all quite good. We do as much damage with AoE attacks as other classes can with single target. Burning speed, ring of fire, fire grab, phoenix, earthquake, etc. are all reasonably fast casting and hit for good damage.

Ele has some problems right now, but damage isn’t one of them. Mostly it’s weak trait lines outside of water and earth with little utility or survival, long cooldowns and awkward mechanics on some of our abilities like dragon’s tooth and phoenix.

Try speccing 30 water with D/D and you will enjoy the class much more.

Okay I’m really really tired of people claiming to know what type of “dps” x or y adds do you have a dps meter? If so please post a screenie of it. Btw last time I checked fire ele from greater and lesser do the same dmg >_> please don’t spew lies it only weakens our class as a whole.

Right now I don’t think any of our bunker builds are really bunker, I’d love to theory craft some lol.

It boils down to this, we had few viable builds that worked for us in tpvp. All of which were more or less gutted, healing spec builds ranging from support to bunker got hit hard by the 15point trait nerf, Fine we still have auramancer and a decent array of support builds ( I count support as you know buffing, ccing, healing) but EA’s “fix” gutted that aswell, and since most Ele’s, i know myself definitively, used 30Arcane if not simply for the Attunement swapping, there leaves very few viable choices. Maybe I’m wrong and I’m doing it wrong, okay fine but if I am please teach me because I love this class, just not the state its in now =p
tl;dr Ele’s are fun and when you play it solo man you feel epic, but sooner or later you wake up and see we’ve not upto par.

How about making it so we don’t blow? Since the patch I’ve spent quite a bit of time crunching numbers, testing builds, theory crafting to see if I can come up with something for Ele… but sadly nothing that works against any player that isn’t brain dead. Our 15 point trait in water that was nerfed for some stupid reason was the thing that kept our squishy selves alive. Lowest hp, armor inability to do reliable burst, now inability to preform half as decently as any other bunker speced class. Yea we can do “great” dps but really its good for what pve where pve is face roll? But Guards can still bunker and now outheal us? I’m not saying I’m going to quit simply because I refuse to believe that anet has reduced itself to this level but seriously someone tell me what can we do other than drop conjures for better classes to use? I’m working on my Engi now and pray that they don’t get GG’d. Also inb4 ban from fourms or some crap.

Edit: Flame shield up unless that got nerfed. Maybe a mod will finally post in ele fourms now too o.o

DanH.5879:

Hi all. We were 2 vs 1 elementalist bunker, and we coudn’t kill it. even 3 vs 1 was really hard. please understand it shoudn’t be supposed to be like this !
courtesy of the thieves guild and all the nerfs we took so far.

Sorry that you can’t play and have a hard case of l2p bug =/ Bunker ele’s 2v1 againist anyone decent will have a hard time winning. Conditions..boon stripping and alot of cc really screw with us because of our abyssal low dmg. I mean we can stack might to do some decent punch but boon stripping takes care of that

Calle.8746:

Okey ‘nough with the crying already. I seriously don’t get where Elementalist bunkers are to unbalanced. When I play bunker Elementalist I’m hard as hell to kill, ye sure. Sometimes I find myself tanking even 5-6 people although that’s when the people really suck. However, mostly I have no trouble tanking 2-3 people. It’s because your build are wrong for countering bunker. Let’s make a super clear example. 3 bunkers vs 1 bunker – 4 people doing low damage with high survivability = never ending fight. The guys will keep doing kitten low damage while healing and tanking like bosses.
Now I have faced people with builds that makes my bunker Elementalist completely useless. The main point of PvP in guild wars is team play, is it not? Everyone contributing to the fight in their own way. Now a team with just burst people or a team with just bunker people aren’t gonna win the fight. 1v1ing people isn’t everything even though it’s awesome. No matter how skilled you are or what build you play, you will always end up getting killed sooner or later. Seriously doubt there’s any player that has NEVER died in a 1v1.
You guys are to quick to blame things on unbalance and bugs just because you’re having trouble killing it (not saying there aren’t unbalanced and bugged stuff but point is, most people go “omg unbalance hack hack ban bugs!!!!” when they’re having trouble with something". I mean seriously, what u people want – running around 1 hitting everyone?
I used to have a lot of trouble with theives. Raged a lot cuz’ they are so messed up and unbalanced but mostly cuz’ any noob can be “good” with it. I acctually went through an entire sPvP game only using “2” skill and got the highest kill and even won several 1v1s wich is just lol. But now I’ve managed to counter them pretty good. Theif is acctually the class I have the least trouble with now. Sure I get dropped in 2 seconds sometimes, when I don’t pay attention or the theif managed to sneak up on me. But the fact that it was unbalanced made it more of a challenge to beat em’ wich improved my Elementalist skill greatly.

Now I’ve heard rumours that Elementalists survivability are getting nerfed the 15th. If that’s true I seriously hope they’re gonna boost up our damaged otherwise this class is just not gonna be worth the effort. I love the extra challenge Elementalist bring, but we all got our limits.

People are too lazy and don’t feel like adjusting their play or feel like it’s their own fault. Fail at a dungeon? too hard cause they have to dodge…. can’t kill someone in pvp? X class is too op and mines needs a buff Gear not up to par? Takes too long to farm It’s always something basicly they want this game diluted down to tank and spank lol heal through everything press 1-2-3-4 optimal build/rotation or it’s garbage and not done correctly.

Sugram.3106:

Shinya.8014:

The Fire sword is awsome. Go dual dagger and you’ll do fine. You only need to pop the elite when you’re in trouble

D/D u are close at close range, & what happens with ele’s at close range? u know? they die fast!!! mage’s are weak at close range in all games & ele is same, ele is nor warrior or guardian who are meant for close range!!!

You’re either a troll or a bad or both… D/D Bunker ele die fast? lol maybe if you have 5 thieves on you than maybe you die fast or 5 players chaining a million stuns on you and you don’t have armor of earth or mist form or shocking aura or lightning flash… Please go play your guardian or thief

On topic the Ice ele is pretty kitten good by traiting 10 points into earth I gain protection if I have an aura applied to myself and oh look EA makes my rolls blast finishers for that frozen ground ^.^ Ele’s need work yes like every other class, but to be honest it boils down to l2p.

Hi I pvp alot, don’t think I’m God’s gift to gw2 but I consider myself above avg and could you so you some pointers if you want add me in game ^^