Guild Wars 2

I was about to ask the same thing.

I have berserker and celestial exotic… Now I am deciding what status to chose for my ascended gear between this two. I WvW and PvE. I am inclined to go celestial because of WvW… since in PvE everything works.

Nice video Jerem. Have you tried using Hounds as elite? At guardian forum they used and it was a dps increase.

Try using Hounds of Balthazar… TW and the other elites doesnt help at this kind of speed test.

After the patch tomorrow mesmers will be able to start the fight with 3 phantasms up, and with the changes to IC most builds will get a dps boost.

spoj.9672:

declan.3968:

the 50% crit chance from DS XII , is it a flat 50% or is it 50% of your current crit chance?

Its +50% but ive said this countless times before. DS isnt good for dps even with capped 99% crit chance. If you want to min max necro dps you want to max dagger dps. So going 25 in curses is a must. Having said that, with the buff to strength of undeath coming next patch I may be altering the build to 20/25/0/0/25. There are a few variants I need to check before I update the build though.

Whats the buff to strength of undeath? I tryied the search and couldnt find.

Conjures will never be viable in PvP because ele’s survivability is terrible (low hp, low armor, no mobility), so its better to use cantrips as utilities. Also, the heals (number 6) are balanced around having water attun heals, so you cant keep the conjure for long.

For PvE everything works….

We need mobility to survive in PvP, and 1,5 secs of speed is not enough even with Fresh Air builds.

LoL… After testing I would like to have the old “One with air” plz…

How is it possible to be mobile with 1,5 sec “superspeed”? (and the “superspeed” is nothing super when you test it)

This is a bad time to be an elementalist for pvp and wvw players…

The AoE nerf in WvW is significant. In PvP elementalists will remain the worst profession for at least 3 more months.

This was the worst balance patch ever… the meta for pvp is unchanged.

All this threads here giving good suggetions and nothing was implemented. I’m really disappointed to see that after 3 months, THIS is what they have been doing. It makes me wonder if they play the game or at least care…

Elementalist is fine in PvE, ok in WvW and Terrible in PvP right now.

So please, dont ask for buffs in the PvE aspect.

As for PvP, ele need mobility, not damage.

I have every class at lvl 80 and I can attest that the 20 weapon skills the elementalist have has the same effective of the 5 skills from other professions. So, in reality you have to put 4x more effort to play the class just to be on pair with the others.

Before the nerfs ele was a profession with high skill cap / high reward. Not anymore and this is sad.

Low hp, low armor, boons can be stolen/ignored… mobility is the only way to go and now we dont have it.

He asked about condition gear, not If condition is viable…

Elementalists work better with power builds. Thats well known.

I agree that everyone should play as they want… but not in my party.

Everyone should decide if they want to be a good or a bad. If you know the meta for PvE is full dps and you want to go support because “its fun” you are not thinking about the rest of the party, so you are being egoistic. You want to have fun while the others carry you through the content. You are also making everyone waste time and If its someone like me who has limited game time a week, its even worse.

Sorry Kodiak, you have a bad mentality and I hope people here dont listen to whatever you said.

For condition elementalist I think Carrion is the best status (power, vit, cond damage). Even though you lose some cond damage from the earth trait line, you are still doing more overall damage.

Warrior is good in any aspect of the game, but the playstile gets a little dull after some time.

Elementalist, on the other hand, is the worst class right now for PvP, thanks to the new meta. For PvE and WvW its fine.

Anet made GW2 PvE so that support is not viable in an efficient group. Thats why i dont understand buffing support builds, even though only bads use them…

The only change I would like to see for conjures, from a PvE point of view, is the possibility of getting the other weapon on the floor and double the charges. That way i could chose to let a party member get the weapon or use it myself for 2x the charges. It would be beautiful if we could use them near permanently but I dont think they will make it this way.

For PvP theres no way to use conjures effectivelly, simply because ele rellies too much in attune swapping just to stay alive.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Karazul.2934:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Karazul.2934:

Elementalists are good for PvE, but so is every other profession. Some of them are too good though.

Like the elementalist?

There are better professions out there that brings more to the group.

Go ahead and name one then.

Warrior with banners + FGJ + Empower Allies.

Guardians and Mesmers in fractals.

Sorry Lavadiel, but you are wrong in so many ways that I can’t even start…
It would take too long to explain and I don’t have the time, but believe in Guang and NoTrigger. Even the best elitist guilds right now know that warrior is just average dps. They are still great though and without one the other professions cant buff their damage to the maximum.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Karazul.2934:

Elementalists are good for PvE, but so is every other profession. Some of them are too good though.

Like the elementalist?

Everything works in PvE… but elementalist is not great at it. There are better professions out there that brings more to the group. And I dare to say that buff the elementalist support is not the way to fix it. Support in this game sucks.

In PvP and WvW I would like the elementalist to be a high skill cap / high reward class. Whats the point in having 20 weapon skills and having to use all of them to be effective If you will be equal (or in most of the cases, less) effective than another class?

Elementalist´s problems are not in PvE… everything works in PvE. Maybe I would change conjures so elementalists could get the other weapon on the floor and double the charges… This would make conjures a lot better.

But for PvP elementalists sucks right now and in time Arenanet will see it.

Elementalists are good for PvE, but so is every other profession. Some of them are too good though.

The elementalist lacks in PvP (the weakest class right now) and WvW (you can stay behind the zerg using AoE……. waiting to be ganked and die).

Warrior all the way…. for everything.

I have all classes at lvl 80 and Warrior/Guardian are tops for everything, but Warrior is in a better state right now. They were buffed to the point of OP while Elementalists are being mostly nerfed since last year.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

…Given that warriors themselves are actually a relatively low-DPS class…

If warriors are low dps class which ones do you consider high dps?
I would put warrior in a middle-high dps but never on a low position.

The only people that is not having a problem with this updates are the ones with a lot of free time. I like to be part of the Living World but also think its taking too much of our time… I cant play the rest of the game.

I am really happy with the september 17th update… bug fixes, new boss mechanics, LFG, etc. Please, add more permanent content… I am getting tired of temporary content that I cant experience because I have real life to take care.

Thanks.

You are:
[X] Married
[ ] Have Girlfriend
[X] Employed
[ ] Have Pets
[X] Have Children
[X] Are an Adult
[X] Have a Life
[ ] Have no Manual Dexterity

You Think Living World is too:
[ ] Hard
[X] Time Consuming
[X] Temporary
[ ] Full of Jumping Puzzles

You are Currently Threatening to:
[ ] Quit
[ ] Uninstall
[ ] Kick Colins’ Dog
[X] Tell the Internet That You are Upset

People chose GW2 because Its not as grindy as other MMOs. But the living world is taking all the time i have for playing the game. I like leveling alts, doing bosses and dungeons, but I cant. And its not because I am a completionist… I like to experience the living world and be part of it.

Please, make temporary updates once a month and use the other middle of the month update for permanent content like dungeons rework, bug fixes, etc.

I also agree with OP. The content is coming too fast. I am a completionist and did almost every archivement in this game, but I had to work a little more in this last month and couldnt finish some of them. This made me lose some interest in the game. Its like I have another job when I am home… I want GW2 to be a game to spend my free time.

So, please:

1. Update less frequently or;

2. Make permanent content so I can finish everything when I can.

Deadlines sucks and I already have a lot of them in my job.

I love this game and thats why I am posting this.

Having lag problems here too, since the last update (jun 26). Brazil, Sao Paulo.

Thank you all for the help!
I decided not to make a condition elementalist…

Why arent we good for conditions?
We can mantain 100% uptime for burning and stack 20+ bleeds easily. I tested…

Hi everyone,

I have a question about the best equip setup for my condition elementarist that will mostly be used for dungeons/PvE solo. The build i was thinking to use is this (copy and paste if it doenst work):

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArdhMmYbvx2gjDAhHGIACjHgoBJiCPA;ToAAzCpoay0koJbTumkNNIYWB

The gameplay is:
- Stay in earth 90% of the time
- Use all signets on CD so i can proc Fire Embrace (fiery aura) and keep swift/fury 100% uptime
- Signet of Fire to deal large fire damage to a mob with almost 100% uptime (counting Burning Fire)
- Superior Rune of Undead to maximize condition damage. I prefer cond damage over duration because of the stack limit problems. More damage is better in my opinion.
- Rabid equips with Superior Sigil of Earth to proc more bleeds and burning (Burning Precision) and streangh my condition damage with the 6 undead rune bonus.

My question is:

[b]1. Is this a good setup?

2. How is a condition elementalist compared to a condition necro?[/b]

Thanks in advance!

Serum.4067:

As of 7:43PM EST Maguuma has cleared Balthazar Temple. Big thank you to everyone involved!

Thanks a lot.

How many hours for the temple to get contested again?

Karpuz.5409:

Any server with cleared temple at the moment?

I need the Temple of Balthazar too…

I didnt use my karma for all the way until lvl 80 just to buy Orr gear… and now I cant because in my server no one clears the Orr Temples…

Sorry but you have to learn how to play a thief (my main).

I have all classes at lvl 50 at least except mesmer (yes, I bought other char slots) and In my opinion the thief is the best in open world PvE/dungeons, even better then warrior or guardian. You just have to learn to use condition damage and forget about power/crit. With condition damage you can forget about power and crit, and focus on vitality/tough. My spec is 0/0/10/30/30 right now, with d/d and p/d off.

I can agroo 10 mobs, spam caltrops + death blossom + caltrop dogdes + CnD (stealth) and wait them die in less than 8 secs. I can have perma swiftness easy and even ignore mobs if i want, dropping agro with CnD. I kill melee champions just bleeding them to death.

The downside? Two…
You are not good at zerg events in Orr… And in dungeons you have to be the only one aplyin bleed, because of the 25 cap. And i can alone reach the cap in seconds.

Oh, I almost forgot… you will also be very strong in PvP. I can kill any class 1v1 and the only one that gives me some trouble is BS thief.