Guild Wars 2

if you are not running fractals just get exotic zerk from wvw you will loose less then giving up the schoolar runes this way

Whats with the bs in this Post guard can easily Deal 31-32 k dps in a raid setting, at least thats what i manage on vg with uc 26 k on gorse is Pretty easy and Mesmer had a great and easy cond dps spec that does Not Even even the eSpec

Will we ever get a Portal scroll to the fractal lobby like the royal aurship pass? Want one since the Fractal overhaul:/

Can you can ask for a gift for someone else like this? If it’s sent to you you only have the option to accept it. At that point it’s soul bound to you. The person would need the display name of your friend to send it to them. [/quote]
I have some gems left over, a Bit Short of the 300 but not enough gold to buy the rest

Asking Not for me but for a guildmate that i unfortunatly Not got on our guilds secret Santa, she is reletively new and i wanted to help her out by getting her a copperfed salvege tool or some bag slot expansions but i simply can Not afford it.
I know it Sounds a Bit stupid to ask for gifts to Gift someone else, but help in anyway or Form would be much appreciated
Forgot to mention that we both Play on eu kodasch

They messed this up pretty badly imho. You only Need ascended for pve yet right now semi afking in ranked is by far the best way to get ascended stuff raids have a 150 shard cap per week and you still are expected to pay quite a few Gold, and don’t get me started in the prices in fractals… i am on the exact opposide side of op, but pvp should Not be the primary Source of your pve gear.

Coppy boons you appied to yourself to allies.
Fixed

I can not possibly come up with an explanation for that. And it does certainly not involve rewards or incentive, I am sure.

Rauderi.8706:

Much agreed, Xil. Hard timers are boring, immersion-breaking, and deny build experimentation.

I agree that something should happen over time so a full-defense party can’t just faceroll things, but a death countdown should never be a standard for good, complex fight design.

The build experimentation argument is bullkitten, and you knew it if you had allready beaten it. There were very diverse raid comps that cleared the content, some of wich had Chronos, Reapers and Tempests, while others did not. In the raid all that matters is your skill, and the skill your party mates have. It was even cleared with a daredevil.

Dont bother with the ascended Viper stuff, craft assassines and reforge it, mutch cheaper

thefinnster.7105:

Shadowflare.2759:

Horus.9685:

i do run zerk on my tempest in the junge and get along just fine, you just need to pay attention

This. Ele survivalbility never came from the base stats anyways, it’s because of the synergies in your build, so if you play it properly, you should be fine.

There might be reasons why we would want ele hp to be buffed…your complaint is not one of them.

dude im a 20k ap ele playing since launch as my main plz dont insinuate i dont know how to play my class thats just insulting

May be a bit late to reply but anyway. I don’t care how you play, and I don’t know how well you play, I am just saying that i get along just fine without a sigle point invested in defensive stats, fore some of the hero points you may want help, but in pve ele allways relied on a decent party to allow him to be played at his full potential, if you wannt easy mode id suggest condi ranger, those hero challanges are loughably easy with a pat that taks a few hits.

“I want the completly optional but cool looking shiny stuff, however i dont want to work towards it.”
Jeah, they should remove the gift requirement, your logic is flawless.

Zaroua.2714:

The instability that increases skill cooldowns when you have a condition triggers even when you don’t have a condition on you if you use a Necromancer Corruption skill.

Corruptions skills put a condition on you though, may not be the best idea to bring your corruptions skills into these scales

Sentinel.5731:

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I’m relatively new to FOTM, for a long time I had not considered myself good enough to play FOTM, […]

That sentence, and nothing else made you 2 things, firstly, good enough to play fractals, as you are open about your inexpirience and show will to change that, and secondly it allready makes you one of us as you think about what may not be completely useless, the elitists you speak about allways have been a minority.

i do run zerk on my tempest in the junge and get along just fine, you just need to pay attention

Is it intentional that the golems get not unlocked to wardrobe, and thus do not count toward the achi, when u use them in the mf to upgrade them?

Wethospu claims it can bo done, im sceptical tho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoxPk5U0bq4

Humblekain.5418:

I like the idea of ride the lightning being ground targeted, opens up options. However I’m not sure adding yet another blast finisher to dagger offhand, which already has 2, is such a great idea though.

If they were to add a blast to dagger off hand you would now have 2 blasts that you can use, instead of one on a kitten cd, and a theoretical one.

They said there is not mutch unterwater stuff at all in the ypac, so id expect the awnser to your question to be a no.

F2p players will not be able to launch an expedition into the jungle, neither can they participate in one, thus they can’t enter guild halls. However the guild initiative building in lions arch serves the same purpose as the new guild halls and can be entered by everyone once heart of thornes is released.

rhapsody.3615:

TheFrighteningFrenchFry.3275:

In PvE, chronomancer, herald, and reaper will be meta. Berserker will be good for condition damage builds ( condition damage warrior isn’t meta ) and maybe for direct damage builds ( IDK for direct damage builds ). Druid is good for healing if raids need a healer/make it a lot easier to have a healer. (s)crapper MIGHT be used in raids if a ton of CCs are needed. Tempest is mediocre especially compared to what other traitlines/weapons ele have. Daredevil can be useful is useful for difficult solos because of the extra endurance but won’t really be used in group PvE play. And last and most certainly least, dragonhunter is useful for being useless.

I pretty much agree with this, except I think Druid could have a place in WvW/PvP meta. I haven’t tried Tempest myself, but I have seen that it can heal for tons, and a few people I know that play d/d ele in WvW are excited for it. I did try to create a hybrid power/sinister Berserker (with a focus on burning), and was impressed with the numbers I saw (in PvE).

As for being “replaced,” I can only see Chronomancer definitely leaving Mesmer in the dust. Mesmer is a utility class- the insta-recharge F5 is really good, especially in fights where a double-feedback is super helpful. Heck, just a double time warp is awesome, and both are even better! Alacrity and the wells are also pretty great.

Otherwise, I don’t see why our current builds wouldn’t still be viable in our current content post-HoT. We have to see what’s in store for us in raids and fractals, as well as the rest of the jungle maps. Surely a meta for raids will develop separately from other PvE- and our current meta of DO ALL THE DAMAGE ONLY might not work 100% of the time there and probably will suffer without the new elite specs.

Mimic is still a thing, 4 feedbacks with a few buttons… well maybe 3 and a half, but who cares

´Now thats a true dilemma :/
Tbh I really like both skins, but i think ill get the Aetherized for my Asura engi, since it fits the physical aspect better^^

Bad troll is bad.

BlitzX.4039:

Lendruil.9061:

Hello,
- Again Cliffside: The party can stack on a rock at the endroom where the hits of archdiviner dont hit. Only the big aoe-attack in phase 3 and 4 will hit.
- Dredge: At the clowncar, you can damage the boss before he spawns. If you kill him before he spawns, the next door won’t open and you cannot progress.

According to guildies these 2 are fixed already.

No they are not ._.
At least not the clown car one, dont know about the cage spot since i leave when peapl start doing that^^

Eh, they should just get rid of that stat.

Bri.8354:

NoTrigger.8396:

if players perfom perfectly, then why wouldnt they run at least halfway decent builds?
also if you have to kick players because another profession deals more dps then i can assure you players in your group do not perfom perfectly.
the problem you are trying to talk about here does not even exist tbh

Players can perform well within the mechanics of the encounter, keeping the orbs away from the boss and players, dodging the teleport, stopping the AoE in time, assigning correct roles to the split phase, and so on, but still fail due to the timer. In raids its not only how you play that defines success, but what you play as.

NoTrigger.8396:

i have one question for you tho, if the timer is as strict as you say, how do you explain it that people with suboptimal group comps, suboptimal gear and suboptimal rotations beat the boss with like a min left on the timer?

From what I could tell, the groups that beat it were fairly optimal. You don’t need a perfect team to beat it, but you do need a fairly optimized one.

The scale of efficient builds is pretty large, with each step outside of the meta causing a reasonable cut in efficiency. For instance, exotic instead of ascended berserker is a personal loss of ~12% DPS IIRC, not taking frost spirit is a ~35% loss, using the wrong sigil is a ~5-10% loss, and these keep stacking up. Between having a non-optimal profession composition and players not using all the best options, a group can lose a lot of effectiveness.

So if you could imagine, the guild who got the first kill of Vale Guardian with 1:20 remaining, which is pretty high on that scale, was just 17% less efficient, they wouldn’t have made it.

Also keep in mind this is only the first boss, which they call easy compared to the next 3. If the next ones are designed similarly, expect even more reliance on efficient group compositions.

Afaik Frost Spirit is 70% chance to deal 10% more dmg so 7% dps increace
and the raid is a daytime instance, so there is no proper 10% sigil there.
Oh and please don’t start the Exotic debate again, it is balanced around asc gear and thats fine. Don’t have it and still want to raid? Then get it, its not like something prevents you from gearing out your chars.

Came to my mind while I was thinking about how mutch Dmg anet can give Raid bosses without onehiting eveything, and thus rendering their shiny new healers completely useless.
But in this Game we have pretty nice stuff to avoid/mitigate dmg, with a frostaura and Prot you’r at around 40% dmg reduction. Were they balancing around that when designing healers/ raids?

Rising Dusk.2408:

In case anyone didn’t notice, we are now officially the raid forum. This means we’ll get a lot more developer activity once HoT comes out.

Does that make you the Forum Specialist for Dungeons, Fractals & Raids then?

I think those should be added to the cultural armorsmiths tbh :/

Taku.6352:

Gotta blow trough the last 5 pages while Gaile is sleeping. >:)

Also since last thread was locked I’ll ask again.

Who wants to do a 10 hammer guard raid on saturday? (EU)

Uh, me o7
Wanted to try as well, think it may be the easiest way to see how challenging the contend actually is

lol so thats where Rockies cd went

like if u cry evrytim ._.

When they make Dragons Tooth ground targeted i hope they at least give it another Animation, like summonung it above us and then throwing it.

I would have been okay if the gave it about the dmg Meteor shower does. Now it is just butchered.

It has to do more than ’nades auto anything else is ridiculous.

Don’t think the Gyros need such drastic overhauls. Health can be adjusted as BWE come
the only thing I’d like to see right now is the cond clear Gyro to give himself 3 Seconds of Resistance each time it clears conditions, ans some way to prevent the Elite Gyro to aggro mobs in pve, while keeping its “visible” aspect for WvW and PvP.

Plague blast is pretty nice, so you schould look for a schroud build.
Don’t know enough about the class to make further reccomendations though.
And this thread may belog in the necro subforum – just sayin’ ;D

Dahkeus.8243:

I’m really wondering how this is supposed to work…I mean, I can see the value of running stealth with several people so that the enemy only knows about you from your gyro…

But here are the potential issues:

- Will this really be useful outside of running with an organized team in PvP? Not sure how often you’ll have teammates coordinated enough to make good use of this in solo q.

- Will the cooldown/duration be good enough to offset the fact that you’re really not very stealthy with a gyro giving away your location every step of the way?

- Will the gryo aggro mobs? If so, I can’t see this as having any use in PvE.

Its easier access to stealth right now is the only reason you bring a Thief instead of an engi in PvE Dungeons and Fractal contend, when you are looking for an more optimal approach – if the Engis moving Stealth field will not aggro mobs, Thiefs will have a hard time

Blaine Tog.8304:

Horus.9685:

Blaine Tog.8304:

bladex.9502:

Blaine Tog.8304:

Eles should have a weapon swap button — but it should only work while out of combat. That would help streamline us between encounters without giving us utterly ridiculous in-combat power.

You can already do this by just equipping different weapons.
I don’t really see the difference between prestacking might and pressing weapon swap to go to your staff, or prestacking might and equiping your staff to go to staff

It’s slightly more convenient. It’d just be a nice quality of life change.

Horus.9685:

How about remove atunement cd when ooc? That sounds reasonable to begin with, for the rest… well one can dream

They’d have to make all on-swap boosts trigger only in combat. Otherwise you could swap rapidly between Fire and Earth to stack up to max Might stacks and extremely long-duration Fury and Protection.

Because THAT would be a problem Warriors could do that for a long time^^
And ofc make the boons in combat only only thing that may be missed is superspeed when swapping to air when traited.

Warriors are balanced around high Fury uptime and they have to give up more than Eles do to stack Might super high (particularly if attunement swapping had no cooldown out of combat). And we’d also miss out on out-of-combat Swiftness from swapping to Air, which can sometimes spare us from having to run the Air specialization or Signet of Air.

Overall, I’d rather keep the mechanic consistent between in- and out-of-combat.

I meant their harpy feathers/ birthday blaster exploit – all they had to do was mashing a few buttons
The removal of ooc att cd could be done with either an icd on our boons, or making them trigger only in combat id be fine with both since it offers some nice qol

The only things we are missing for a whole trinity is dedicated healers and those arent needed anyway due to the selfheal everyone has and the existance of water fields- why do ppl qq about it? Its a mutch more active and involved playstyle.

/sigh oh well :/
Just would have liked having acces to a less flashy version^^

Dont know why now, but I have the complete edition on my acc and used it quite a bit back then when my ele had a fire theme going on. But when i got the complete edition, i deleted the original Mad Memoires, because well it had worse stats and a got the better, shiny one. Since we have wardrobe for quite a while now- is there a way to get that skin back?

Zenith.7301:

I think it’s a good change. Necromancers were always billed as the “master of conditions” yet they were always eclipsed by engineers and rangers.

We need more useful auras for a group.

Vampiric Presence in turn could turn into an aura that says “Your group does 5% additional damage and that damage is converted to health”.

Death Magic could increase boon effectiveness on the group by 10% (as in, not buffing duration since that’s for heralds but actually increase the effect of each boon by 10%).

Is that meant as apermanent things? Because we have plenty of builds that will be unkillable with that sort of healing in pve

Blaine Tog.8304:

bladex.9502:

Blaine Tog.8304:

Eles should have a weapon swap button — but it should only work while out of combat. That would help streamline us between encounters without giving us utterly ridiculous in-combat power.

You can already do this by just equipping different weapons.
I don’t really see the difference between prestacking might and pressing weapon swap to go to your staff, or prestacking might and equiping your staff to go to staff

It’s slightly more convenient. It’d just be a nice quality of life change.

Horus.9685:

How about remove atunement cd when ooc? That sounds reasonable to begin with, for the rest… well one can dream

They’d have to make all on-swap boosts trigger only in combat. Otherwise you could swap rapidly between Fire and Earth to stack up to max Might stacks and extremely long-duration Fury and Protection.

Because THAT would be a problem Warriors could do that for a long time^^
And ofc make the boons in combat only only thing that may be missed is superspeed when swapping to air when traited.

How about remove atunement cd when ooc? That sounds reasonable to begin with, for the rest… well one can dream

Asura all the way

Zenith.7301:

You said you’re talking PvE here and yet you mention Death Magic as the alternatives lol.

Not Blood Magic. Not Curses. But that garbage Death Magic /smh

edit: You have Relentless Pursuit. On a PvE build. Oh, god, please specify if you’re an open world PvE type of guy, this build is terrible for dungeons.

Might i remind you that everything is viable? Not everyone likes runing with us Zerkers, if he enjoys the playstyle of that build let him play it. your suggestions may be right, but im sure you could phrase that better.

Pretty mutch what the title sais, Elementalists can glide when they use downstate mistform and run of a cliff

Earth overload is by far the most disapointing
id change it so it takes you higher in the air making oyu imune to melee dmg and ad a knockdown like slickshoes, remove the breakbar from trait, keep range cc as counterplay

No need for a welcome Kit for me, just wanted to ask why this isn’t stickied? Seems like a great thing and it seems to be something youd want to support by a stickie tag