Guild Wars 2

This is definitely MASSIVE

Vote for Kiel again to counter this!

This is absolutely doable!

I think it will take place next november in the upcoming “Mutilated” fractal patch
They are planning on resetting our fractal levels to 10 because they will introduce a new leaderboard so it’s only fair if we all start on the same level
Also they will remove levels 30+ because they will work on a better scaling system, but heh, new content! They will introduce a new system called Dodelidadoo that paint mobs with primary colors. Everytime you kill a colored mob you steal its color. Then you can mix and match colors for great great fun!! The BLTC will introduce new emotes (buy with gems) related to colors. Fun! Merry!
New exclusive content!! The tower of nightmares comes back as a new exclusive never-seen-before fractal level! With new exclusive rewards!!
Talking about rewards, the loot tables have been adjusted to give more loot the higher up you go in the levels. True story.
And finally ….

Dredges everywhere!

I think someone was just mad that a community-made tournament in PvE has better rewards and more hype than anything that has ever been organised for WvW even by Anet

Wisp.2634:

This “tournament” is a joke, that’s why the teams just left. DnT organised, this crap to be more famous, because nobody cares about thier and the community records. You dont need skill to stand in the corner and use FGS or switch skills while running in stealth. The “competition”, or anything you call it, will be the random factor. I think the organizers of this tournament and the “speed clear” community, just wants more fame.

Dont blame the teams left, they just lost the fun factor, because there wont be any.

This tournament is just for this “speed clear” crew, boring kitten will flow from the streams!

But this is my opinion, have fun…

Let us tournament the way we want, scumbag averagist!!

Hm how to put it … This will not attract hardcore players but players who can use their impressive skills to farm and buy agony resistance on the tp !

SkillWars2, you know it.

Staff ele:
- target moves => 60% less dps
- target moves and changes directions => 100% less dps
- need to do anything else than damage => 100% less dps for 13 seconds

Just stating the facts.
The problem comes from encounter designs

sazberryftw.3809:

Ah :/
That’s a shame.

Well looking at how they “fix” things I’m not even sure I would want all the broken things in the game to be “fixed”

-TAFU
-Fotm80

never forget

Am I the only one who did not shake from seeing a post by Josh Davis in this thread? They never cared about us before, they still don’t.

I will devote my resources to make a great PvE tournament, but it won’t be thanks to Anet in any way. I will do this for the community, because the community deserves it.

The devs’ check is heavy loaded, a single post does nothing to unburden their responsibility in gw2’s PvE demise.

Last “content patch” was 6 months ago, it is knows as the “Fractured” patch. Just writing this word makes me shiver. It is synonym with abuse of power, lies, deception and content removal.

Next patch will be in six months, logically, and it will probably be named “Mutilated”.

After spending many hours on pvp and pve, where I did everything possible and got bored very fast, I tried WvW.

It’s terrible.

You spend hours simply getting into action, and what action! You have a choice between destroying doors, those don’t don’t really fight back, or go roaming. Roaming is fun, until you encounter the enemy bus at which point your are dead and you have to walk for hours again just to get to play the game.

So PvE is almost non-existent, WvW is terrible, PvP is kind of decent … that’s it?

I think Earth Embrace is better than Elemental Shielding. Also I prefer the signet to Ether Renewal.

First time playing pvp in more than a year, now ranked 81 on solo queue leaderboards lalalala

Some time ago, when Sandy and I were brainstorming for the ascension project we came up with a cool idea that could fit your concept:
Have two guilds join into competition where they would both enter a dungeon at the same time with a team of their choice. Have both teams stream the whole process, use some clever streaming technology to “split screen” the event. Once both team are in the dungeon (restriced rules) and ready, a timer starts and a third party organiser announces a surprise restriction/challenge. Both teams get a set amount of time to think about how to overcome this constraint, after which they may start completing the dungeon. The first team to finish wins.
The idea is to promote both skillful play but also on-the-spot creativity (finding ways around the surprise challenge) while entertaining the community.

I’m pretty sure we could set this up! I think people from SC would be very happy to compete with my fellow rT guildmates, and needless to say this would be a tough competition The only issue is with the streaming technology. I have some friends that could help with that though, so things may go very smoothly.

Lucas.9157:

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I’m just going to say that what you said is “absolutely doable”

This way it will never happen.

(I have so much IR that I can dare to provide the link)

Yeah in theory you could be right but in practise we all know that Nike is doing a really good job at organising this tournament and quitting for no valid reason is a serious lack of respect not only for him but also for the other teams that could not take part in it!

Best PvE advice for you: read the guides at stickied at the top of this forum
Read DEKeyz’ guide first, then if you want some philosophical insight on D/F you can read my guide, but avoid the thread called “The Ele Meta” at all costs!

The staff is used for air 2

Guys, I think the problem is not that Guang is wrong, it’s the game that is not right. Obviously the game is bad at maths.

DonQuack.9025:

Personally I dont care what the rT guys say.

Youre saying engi’s are baller.

Ok how? Gimme some numbers, a build, a rotation.

I have an engi gathering dust I would love to carry him some more than my ele or guard. Gimme something so I can tell my guild mates “Here is Guang’s proof, numbers, build, rotation etc. Get with the times Engi = supermeta”

Or you know what? Ignore the rT guys! There are people who want to see what you have come up with. kitten or not it is something to look at. Youre so stuck on arguing with em that you cant properly display your theory and supporting facts.

This insnt rT asking “How are engi’s good?” This is some random skrublord who wants to use his engi in SC’s effectively. Bloody enlighten me! I cant be the only “lurker” reading this crap wondering what the details of your theory are.

The thing is I have read Guang’s thread and his posts on the DnT forum. I am well aware of all his theory and I could summarise it here for you, objectively. I would have to differentiate between two things though: there is the build/rotation he advises for casual running, and the speedrun part. I think we should disregard anything not related to speedruns because it is really a matter of environment. So alright, let’s assume he would go for scholars instead of travelers runes, full zerker instead of giver’s, and proper sigils.

Of course, I am going to assume he would go for Explosive powder (+10% dmg on explosions) rather than Short fuse (-20% cd on grenades).

Here is Guang ideal burst rotation:

BOB: 603 + 200
Fire Bomb: 286
Grenade Barrage: 1025 + 200
Throw Mine: 334
Mine Field: 1249 + 200 + 200
Jump Shot: 1044
Blunderbuss: 618
Shrapnel Grenade: 591
Freeze Grenade: 538

The numbers are unscaled lvl 80 damage figures, according to him, and the +200 represent Static Discharge procs. All figures come from Guang.

Then he proceeds to apply a scaling of his own to provide a dps figure for a speedrun situation: “an effective direct DPS of 16634 with all possible buffs, for 7 seconds, after which it drops down to a more reasonable 11609 for all cooldowns averaged over an indefinite period, plus by that time you should have a good 10 or so bleeds minimum for an extra 800 or so DPS.”

In comparison, Guang proposes his numbers for the scaled burst of a warrior: 14127 DPS

Right, so this is Guang’s theory. I could be right, it could be wrong, but let’s not get into that just yet.

His theory is all about damage. From this offensive potential he concludes that engis must be valuable for speedruns.

The response that rT is trying to express, is that speedruns are not all about damage. In fact, even if I used my own findings about the engi to boost its damage higher than what Guang could come up with, it would not matter. Dub has stated it clearly: what ever the damage the engi can provide, it is a burden to the team by all practical means.

So now we can certainly discuss the damage potential of the engi, and I intend to do so, with more accurate data than what Guang uses. I dislike “kitchen theorycrafting”. If we are going to evluate this properly then we need coefficients, mechanics, cast times, and feasibility frontier. I could work on this, maybe Keyz would be interested too.

In the meantime, my opinion is that practical experience beats “kitchen theorycrafting”. If the engi ever becomes useful in speedruns it will not be thanks to the rough calculations Guang came up with. Because let’s face it, this is nothing revolutionary. What beats records is clever tactics.

Shameful? We all like Lilith, her departure is a sad moment

Maybe “shameful” would be more appropriate to describe the actions of those who provoke her, in this dark hour, although she has always been nice to everybody.

I would also use “shameful” to describe the words of those same people who are talking about her with a lot of disrespect behind closed doors, at this very moment. The same people who viciously rejoice about her departure saying they “desperately want people like her to leave the community” should be the one leaving. You know exactly who I am talking about. The same people who say that if they were to leave they would do it in silence; to those people I say please do a farewell thread instead! We would be more than happy to see it

Gyler.8150:

Whelp, it’s in the dungeon forums, the other dev recycle bin.

Recycle bin is a nice way to call this concentration camp.

I can’t wait for a Guangmaths post

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo

I play the usual D/D ele in pvp, getting close to top tier, and well I am getting really annoyed by something:

The Tropical Bird’s attacks (rune of the pirate) deal more damage than a Fire Grab on burning targets.

And that is, when Fire Grab connects, which is close to never.

Duran.3196:

someone made a suggestion making it passive but limited to the ele and the trait just makes it aoe

Yeah that was me. I keep making suggestions and they keep banning me. Eh.

You shall not path

16) When you make a claim the burden of proof is on the people you are trying to convince

You have the right intentions but the wrong perspective: the weapon skill set is not too bad, but what is ridiculously poorly designed is the PvE content

You can perma blind the tentacles, for lazy afternoons when you don’t want to touch the dodge key

Zhaitan? Beh, I always thought that the real final boss in this game is Wethospu!

That, and also all capital city map chat should be linked.

We’ve been asking for this for two years now

But hey, don’t worry, the devs are listening! Oh wait, that’s an other game actually.

Hey guys remember the last time they added content? That was last november, with the Fractured patch!

Oh wait

Actually that is when they removed content. Fractals 50-80 #neverforget

They are all useless in PvE.

As for Elemental Contingency I fail to understand how Anet could come to think it would be appreciated: the players have expressed times and times again their dislike for this kind of mechanic.

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Darox.8069:

Gyler.8150:

Whelp, it’s in the dungeon forums, the other dev recycle bin.

Recycle bin is a nice way to call this concentration camp.

I suggest we rename the dungeon subforum to Auschwitz

Alternatively they could call it what it is: look at the dungeon forum icon,
It’s a pile of s..omething in a frame.

I was thinking, since the devs are reluctant to release any kind of meaningful PvE content, what ever the reason, maybe it would be sweet if the game was open for content modding like games such as Skyrim for example.

- The loot is irrelevant anyway
- The community is much more passionate about the game than who ever is developing it
- The framework is already in place with Fractals of the Mists
- It would make people stay on the game at virtually no costs for the studio and much more enjoyment for the players

Thoughts?

And focus water 4 needs to be unblockable

lordkrall.7241:

Are we really going to count (more or less identical) levels as content now?
In that case we should also count those 20 Instabilities which actually are new unique things.
Which makes your calculation quite a bit off.

I am already counting instabilities, look, I said “gear gating”.
Because let’s be serious, no one ever does the instabilities apart from x0’s and 49. And even still, people doing 49 only do so because they do not have the gear to do 50. So yeah, gear gating.
So nope, instabilities (= gear gating) is just a way to make it longer to reach content that was already there before the patch.
So instabilities = less content

maha.7902:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I’m not hoping for anything really, just adding non-constructive useless posts because I’m bored

dis guy gets it

Looks like your guildmates disagree though

Am I the only one to think that dodging affects both builds almost exactly the same way?

Also remember that time when I was complaining about lingering elements and they acknowledged that adept minor traits are very useless for air and fire, and that they would work on them?

Azhure.1857:

Danicia responded quickly and was to the point. She would not say that you’re free to make a new thread on the topic if she wasn’t sure.

You know nothing John Snow

English keyboard:
RDFG=move
Z=jump
SpaceBar=Dodge (mash it!!)
3456=attunements
S=Heal
ETVBN=skills
YHX=utilities
J=utlimate
W=next enemy
Q=sheath weapons

And you can bind many keys around this area for other stuff

Aaaalright we had a good laugh, now time to give you the answers you are looking for:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Attunements-and-Traits/first#post3665071

Some people just want to watch the world burn

Hey there, I am Zelyhn. I am using a friend’s account because my main account has been permanently banned from these forums.

Unless the moderators un-blacklist my email and allow me to appeal, at least, then there is no chance that I will be able to update my thread.

This is a shame because the feature patch brought about a lot of interesting changes. Maybe in the future I will start this thread anew.

But you should melee the ice elemental anyway

Theorycraft the way you want

The tooltip got a huge nerf indeed, bloody hell, I won’t use that tooltip anymore

Talented players tend to produce more that just statements about themselves

I just wanted to say that this is absolutely doable.

Link for great justice:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/General-Dungeon-Discussion-Thread/first#post3631364

She does a little jump right before it