Guild Wars 2

I’ll try repairing for sure. It’s just a very inconsistent thing for me in wvw. But i’ve just watched it happen ever since some patch changed some targeting…had to make a forum post after so long o.o But something definitely changed.. lightning flash always casts on myself, whereas whirling rush? casts backward with no target on. it doesn’t seem to happen on staff ele skills though? (also use instant cast on staff) not that I have noticed in 2 months, at least.

dude, what?

I have watched both of these bugs happen in open ground wvw, while I CLEARLY have the cursor 900 range in front of me. Happens so many times, even when im running in open ground with no laggy zerg near me. I dont think ive had my cursor near the UI in all these years ive been playing this game, dont know about you.

Trust me, I have watched these bugs enough over 2 months to confirm that instant casting is clearly bugged. I have used nothing but instant casting all these years, and only recently has this happened.

Apparently, no one has even noticed that instant casting is beyond broken for weeks, now. About 25% of the time in wvw (the open world PvP mode that anet forgot about) my instant cast lightning flash casts on my directly on my body, when my cursor is clearly 900 range away. It also sends me in random directions when I use instant cast on FGS 3…so many times I plainly look at my cursor with no target selected, only to send me in a random direction.

I’m guessing i’m the only one who uses instant casting, since no one has complained. But please, for the love of god, fix instant casting for the few players who use it. All 10 of us. I dont know if its ele specific, but maybe allow skill retargeting has something to do with it. It started happening in one of those patches with targeting changes.

sincerely,
Lucidity

MAKE D/D ELE GREAT AGAIN !

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

Lucidity.5947:

I’ve lost 2 games, in my past 30 games or more. From amber to almost diamond 3 right now, in less than 7 days of actually playing pvp this season. I probably started like not even 3 weeks ago. There honestly isn’t a mmr hell, but you really need to hump the meta or you’ll simply be at a disadvantage.

I started by playing aura share d/d, to adapt my favorite d/d to the new meta. but I was only getting a winrate of like 70%, which obviously wasn’t right. Once I sucked it up, and started playing D/F I just stopped dropping hardly any games at all. I guess it helps that I know and met skilled people to team with at times, but I can honestly say I went through emerald and sapphire alone, by relying on a teamfight oriented build, and actively trying to command the pugs in team chat. When I didn’t care to type, those were the few times I actually lost. Facing 2 or 3 necros helps them too, but still :p

There isn’t a MMR hell. You just need to adapt your top tier class and build to what you’re facing every match, and have the moves to back it up.

Got a high MMR and conclude there is no MMR issue with MM. Typical.

Are you the kind of person that goes into a poor country and stay into a luxury resort only to concluded that what you saw was representative of the country?

If you want to see the reality ppl are talking about get out of your high MMR resort first. THEN and only THEN your comment will begin to have some credibility.

You’re acting as if it’s a bad thing that I have a high MMR. MMR is something you earn not something that is given. I just explained to you how I earned that, in multiple facets pertaining to skill and actually commanding your team of sheep. Sadly, you must be one of the sheep. You actually have to be good at this game, there is no getting around that. If I can get a 70% winrate on a non meta weapon solo, then what is your excuse?

I’ve lost 2 games, in my past 30 games or more. From amber to almost diamond 3 right now, in less than 7 days of actually playing pvp this season. I probably started like not even 3 weeks ago. There honestly isn’t a mmr hell, but you really need to hump the meta or you’ll simply be at a disadvantage.

I started by playing aura share d/d, to adapt my favorite d/d to the new meta. but I was only getting a winrate of like 70%, which obviously wasn’t right. Once I sucked it up, and started playing D/F I just stopped dropping hardly any games at all. I guess it helps that I know and met skilled people to team with at times, but I can honestly say I went through emerald and sapphire alone, by relying on a teamfight oriented build, and actively trying to command the pugs in team chat. When I didn’t care to type, those were the few times I actually lost. Facing 2 or 3 necros helps them too, but still :p

There isn’t a MMR hell. You just need to adapt your top tier class and build to what you’re facing every match, and have the moves to back it up.

Hello.

My name is Lucidity, and I approve this message.

6pm Friday would be the best time! c: Think of the few west coasters in this game.

my system sounds at high are the same as gw2,they also sound hollow and quiet… so i’m guessing it not gw2’s fault. i’m using windows audio session on itunes for the best quality I can…do you think this might be why itunes is much louder? since gw2 doesnt run on that WASPI mode? o.o yes, im an audiophile newb, thanks for noticing.

ingame volume is definitely all maxed. i thought it would somehow be quiet because i had my system sounds low, but it didnt change anything. itunes just sounds twice as loud as gw2 at the same maxed volume. im not using an EQ or a pre amp or anything like that either….so confused

I finally upgraded from my gamecom 780 headset, to the JBL LSR 305 speakers…too amazing! but while ive been enjoying my music, guildwars 2 is suddenly extremely quiet compared to itunes. I used to have gw2 a tiny bit louder than itunes, but now guildwars 2 has to be twice the volume of itunes in the volume mixer, just to sound acceptable. hopefully you can help, because i need to have max volume everywhere i can for the best sound quality, so I can just control volume on the speakers themselves.

computer sound: max volume
digital audio converter: max volume
ingame volume: all max
speakers: volume 5 out of 10
volume mixer: variable, but lowers sound quality on less than 100%, evidently. i’d like to have gw2 just a little louder than itunes, not twice as loud in the mixer.

HoT really introduced a lot of anti fun skills, with low counterplay. like those op blocks that can heal you for a huge chunk of your health, just by standing there and waiting for it to come off of cd. its unacceptable to not balance the game after such a huge patch, for such a long time. like…cant you just tweak skill NUMBERS on a biweekly basis, until you need those large balance patches that actually change skill mechanics?

lucidity, come back to me….put all 5 senses, back, where, they’re, supposed to be…

I mean, with an account name like this, I can’t be wrong. now….make the trait better so I can take it to the frontlines of wvw where that trait belongs. Kappa

the answer is boon duration, eles.

I mean, like everyone is used to some degree of skill lag and rubberbanding in that game mode. I’ve put with it for years. but just a few days ago, I started getting major lag that just shuts down my game for more than 5 seconds, mostly upon initiating on a zerg. yet it never happens in LA…so i’m just so confused. no one else seems to be having major wvw lag to this degree. yet, my cpu and computer seem to be fine during freezes, because itunes and alt tabbing continues to work like nothing happened.

hopefully you can help, I’m completely clueless about this new lag…it always seems to happen right when i’m diving into a zerg, and completely messes up my initation. pretty much unplayable as an ele.

i5-2500k at 4.6ghz
2.5k resolution
8gb ram
windows 10 64bit
gtx 760

I’m just here so I won’t be fined. …but…the wide rimmed glasses are legit hipster shades, kiddies. you had to get them before gw2 was cool! :p

I could care less about any golems, but your refusal to fix a literally gamebreaking bug is just saddening. there’s rangers and mesmers running around deleting people with the exploit, because they’d never get the opportunity to otherwise. so for a legit player like me to refuses to abuse the bugs…its just sad that arenanet doesn’t care enough for a hotfix. guess they dont know how to fix it without canceling the whole week. ARENANET DOESN’T CARE ABOUT ROAMER PEOPLE

gg anet.

I was scared at first too, but it worked for me, and i’m definitely in game right now.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2mq1pe/cannot_patch_client_stuck_at_launcher/

this fix worked for me! i’m in game now.

arenanet, pls. this is like the 3rd or 4th time that has happened to me, after just working fine the previous day.

First of all, I just want to say that the patch preview was amazing, and I am very excited for the future of this game. that aside, one glaring omission left my jaw agape. we need to be able to change all this expensive and time gated armor to any standard stat set, because the crit damage nerfs between celestial and zerker are not 100% proportional.

whatever nerfs you have for crit damage was fine by me. but the “ferocity” nerfs definitely hit the extremely strong celestial set harder than the other sets. I would definitely go back from full celes like to a zerker/celes mix, for myself. but since I am a poor wvw/pvper…I really cannot be expected to start over on the pieces I just spent my months of gold I have on. As it stands I literally have three gold to my name. If I wasn’t able to change the armor I just got…I would be absolutely demoralized thinking about even starting all that crafting over.

I hope you can offer an option for celestial gear to change to something else, just like you did with the removal of magic find. I do not think its much to ask, because many people like myself analyze their builds to reach 100% optimum stats and have been happily building towards it. if you want to change things on us, just give us the option to change so everyone can be happy.

and so Anet said “Let there be ele buffs.” tyrians across the land rejoiced. ele alts and mains that havent been touched in nearly a year got to see daylight. and eles made their triumphant return to pvp. GG anet

are there any options to reducing brokenness in our eles? these are my best ideas for making the arcana tree a normal build route instead of a class required trait line…does anyone else have any ideas? im interested in other peoples ideas for fixing this glaring ele issue, as well.

Hello, I’m APeX Lucidity. I’ve been playing ele since bwe 1, falling in love with all the shiny buttons to mash really fast. Since november, I have played nothing but ele. I got to enjoy a lot of the godmode d/d in pvp against some of the most known players in the game…then watched my class receive many nerfs, some needed, some a bit heavy handed. real eles can’t be nerfed though, they’ll never leave the class for the pure fun it gives. But after playing ele at a high level in both pvp and wvw..I can recognize the class is definitely the closest to being “broken” meaning theyre extremely hard to balance due to the way the class is designed. I feel a lot of this brokenness can be attributed to the extreme reliance on the arcana tree. once the class has brokenness gone, only then you can truly balance the ele around the new changes to actually fix the class. Here are my ideas on how to fix the biggest offenders.

1. Split up evasive arcana into separate dodges into each of the elemental trees, perhaps stashing them in at the 15 or 25 point traits depending on how strong the dodge is. by doing this, we now completely negate the need to go all the way deep in on arcana. non arcana builds will finally have just a tiny bit more utility they need to be viable in anything besides just pve. just try to imagine playing a 30 fire 30 air glass d/d ele in pvp: its just not going to happen in any real fights atm. but with this proposed change, a glass ele now has just a tiny bit of utility of the weaker fire and air dodges to hopefully help them approach viability. because in its current state, evasive arcana is simply too good of a trait to pass up on: splitting it up into pieces will allow people to get some utility in non 30 arcana builds. perhaps a replacement trait for arcana could be something as simple as granting all dodges like we have now, leaving 30 arcana still an attractive spec for support oriented eles.

2. Elemental attunement needs to be a core part of the ele class. Perhaps even a bigger offender than evasive arcana, this trait is so good (broken) that the ele class simply has a hard time even functioning in a pvp/wvw environment without it. We are balanced for having low health, armor, and high cool down defenses…the one thing we have going for us is plentiful boons. But forcing eles to go 20 into arcana to get this class defining trait pigeonholes us into the arcana tree forever. just imagine being a glass staff ele, getting pounced on by a thief that can 3 shot you. without swiftness on attunement, you simply will not escape from anything for long. without protection on demand, the squishiest class in the game will simply melt. but, I feel that this trait should be lowered to boons only for yourself instead of 5 people. this would provide an opportunity to have a replacement trait that once again upgrades elemental attunement to five people, for supporty builds. at the end of the day..think of what each class gets for pressing f1-f4..in its current state in order for ele to get any real utility out of pressing f1-f4, they need to have at least 20 into arcana always. this just cant fly if you want any semblance of build diversity for this class.

Once we are no longer forced to grab the same grandmaster and master traits as always…can we finally start utilizing other trees. yet, my proposed changes would also give viable traits for the supporty eles out there to actually serve their role by going down the arcana tree as opposed to a combat stats tree. once these changes have happened, individual aspects of the ele might have to be buffed or nerfed depending on how things actually play out.

I managed to take this shot at the perfect moment of casting static

staff eles are the god tier carry of organized wvw groups. blink static initiations, massive aoe dps (up to 10k meteors, 6k shatterstone, 3k lightning flash) and all the water fields your driver needs. you wont have fun if youre doing something else though, feb o.o ele sucks for roaming since the d/d godmode nerfs, theyre pretty much a liability in small ops. everyone knows to jump on the ele first. you have to roll with it for the moment though. the class is broken, its either too strong or outclassed. it wont be fixed until they do things like split EA up into each element tree, to actually allow build diversity. but, staff ele is definitely a huge part of a zerg busting guild. if you arent doing that, it wont be fun :/ I would suggest playing another class for now, since youre a roamer…even I wouldnt pick ele as a roamer right now.

answer: go glassy and 3 shot them. I fear no teef with 99% crit dmg zerk/celes d/d. anticipate when theyre about to attack you and dodge. if you get caught out, make sure to cantrip fast enough so you dont get burst..run around then turn around and crit their face off. when theyre stealthing and youre dueling, try turning around a bit to anticipate when theyre going in for the backstabs. try using about face, then updraft, and combo them to death till they run away. they definitely like to run. make sure youre packing the trusty fgs so you can run if you need to, too.

I’m really not a fan of these changes. the dress dyes even STRANGER now. blood looks just as dark as black cherry or abyss on some parts of it….how does that even happen? The back of mine looks like a muddled black/red mess…just a few hours ago I had a bright but doable red/black fade thing going on. on another note…why did you bother to remove a dye channel t1 headband in the last update? didnt think our armor needed nerfs..

1800 power base
40% critical without fury
2200 armor
99% crit dmg

come at me, I dare you.

I’m an ele main since beta, in a highly skilled wvw guild. so i’m going to give my perspective on some changes. I’m definitely happy to see this direction with build diversity, but some of the changes really do feel like nerfs to a class that supposedly is not in a good spot already.

By moving cleansing wave to master tier, you’ve hurt one of the eles only sources of condi removal. this would cement in ether renewal even more as the go to heal (an already easily interruptable one), because we all know no one is going to run cleansing fire as its a very lackluster spell now that it doesnt even break a stun. this would also have the effect of cementing in 30 arcana for all eternity, for that meager evasive arcana cleansing wave.

Its a similar situation in the arcana tree. elemental attunement and blasting staff are both absolutely necessary traits for a wvw ele. they are so necessary, that I would call it broken really. we dont even get to enjoy our lovely vigor trait. yet, you want to shuffle things around but leave it more or less the same for wvw eles. honestly, this tree is full of issues. elemental attunement should be built in as a core functionality of the class so people can pick something else while still giving their swiftness/protection we need as the squishiest class in the game. we’ve basically been balanced around it…try to imagine playing a glass ele in wvw if you dont have swiftness. blasting staff is also so necessary that you can’t really pick anything else if you’re in wvw. the only solution to me, would be to make blasting staff the standard aoe size, so we could also enjoy some of the other arcana traits that aren’t absolutely 100% vital to the functionality of the elementalist in a competitive setting.

that being said, i’m glad you are discussing changes in advance its a great step forward, and theres plenty of people willing to give their insight on classes. I can’t wait to play around with the new ele changes! love you, gw2

the only trick I can contribute…is a likely unintended bug. I havent told a soul so I can keep using it huehue. sorry o.o

since you are new with the class, you should try 0/20/0/20/30. its as balanced as it gets. grab air training and bolt to the heart (or the fury if youre d/d) and in water, grab the conditon cleanse on water attune, and cantrip cooldown reduction. ether renewal is a good heal you should be using, it gets rid of lots of condis. take lightning flash always, and armor of earth/arcane wave/arcane shield/mist form depending on what you want. have fun with the ele

I’ve just transferred from sos to bg last week. after a week of some good wvw, tonight I had my first experience with the game being truly unplayable. I mean everyone has experienced the skill lag of a 3 way server battle in sm, even on anvil rock. but reset had another level of lag I had never seen before. I would be able to walk more or less okay..but try to static a zerg? or wall them? FORGET ABOUT IT. I couldnt even use utilities to save myself. I could really only cast autos. and even then, sometimes my auto would bug out and my animation would sputter like a machine gun, doing no damage. when fighting a long battle in keep, my aoe circles (and dmg) sometimes simply disappeared. only autos could be cast and landed with damage with any precision. good thing eles dont need to swap attunements or cast any spells besides autos c:

my guild just logged off after that long fight. it was just unplayable…please do something anet.

I’ve just transferred from sos to bg last week. after a week of some good wvw, tonight I had my first experience with the game being truly unplayable. I mean everyone has experienced the skill lag of a 3 way server battle in sm, even on anvil rock. but reset had another level of lag I had never seen before. I would be able to walk more or less okay..but try to static a zerg? or wall them? FORGET ABOUT IT. I couldnt even use utilities to save myself. I could really only cast autos. and even then, sometimes my auto would bug out and my animation would sputter like a machine gun, doing no damage. when fighting a long battle in keep, my aoe circles (and dmg) sometimes simply disappeared. only autos could be cast and landed with damage with any precision.

my guild just logged off after that long fight. it was just unplayable…please do something anet.

I’ve heard most of these phrases..but my favorite happened in a zerg battle in wvw. I got downed, mist formed out…

“I refuse to die.”

or something like that. another one I like, when exploring the map..

“can’t wait to see it all”

makes me actually want to do map completion one day

my opinion with structured gvg:

god tier: guardian, necro (at least before the nerfs hit), (staff) ele, warrior
mesmer tier: mesmer
niche use: teef (jump on that one special squishy)

brazillian tier: engi, ranger [go play pvp if you want to wreck with these classes]

anet, I hate you. everyone else is in o.o

nevermind, it was all a lie. gg anet.

now im downloading slowly…but getting no connection errors. yet theres not a single percent showing up as downloaded, despite only 9 files to download?

ANET WHY YOU DO DIS??

i’ve been in this guild for like 2 days. if you’re looking for a dedicated group of skilled people, youve found them. I went and guild v guild on the first day with them, and had the most fun I had in this game in months. no joke.

we need to separate the haves from the have nots. the haves have approximately like a 75.69333% chance of being better. and im tired of not being able to solo queue like the fierce gold elo jungler I am. using the notion of a 300 gem purchase as a prerequisite for entry effectively limits the population further, which is exactly what we need. because these servers be overflowing with pvpers. surely everything must be going right, but we can make it righter.

EXPOSURE GRANTED

HOW IS THIS STILL BUGGED? I’m about to level past all of this if you REALLY have to wait all the way till november. I’m already level 63…don’t do this to me anet. someone didn’t even test his bug fix, why do I have to be punished by choosing to investigate my little skrits?