http://melementalist.com/booncondcontrol-cheatsheet/
http://www.twitch.tv/madspin
Sup guys,
Been having a lot of fun this week fighting w/ Maguuma. Looking forward to some more fights later on in the week. I got some entertaining footage to go through and edit later when I’m not feeling too lazy. In the meantime tho I wanted to give you guys props on pwning us so hard yesterday. I made you guys a collage in honor of the dope ZergBusting™ I witnessed last night.
Say Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese™!
- Mel
HI! Thanks for the bag!
Grats on the win. Think that’s 3-1 now.
…waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait for it!
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT@#%#%!#%!%^!
TrollMark™ …gets em everytime.
Mel! How’s Magguma roamers so far?. I’ll log in a few hrs to finally face some of them. Hopefully the queue isn’t a killer…
So far so Glassy™… Seems like most of the roamers are concerned w/ DPS over sustain and surviving. I got 100 to 0’d a few times by a mix of classes, but in a group fight situation we’ve been able to res each other up most of the time. I’m looking forward to roaming over the weekend to see what they have to offer. So far we haven’t had any problems winning outnumbered battles against Mag. I think the Mag roamers are like us and like to roam on other BLs instead of their own so you can find them running around in our borderlands.
You’re gonna be blowing these kids up dude. Good luck trying to find a decent duel.
- Mel
“Can’t believe I’m defending somebody from oPP, but as good as Rennoko is, I doubt he’d have better results if he were fighting in T1.” – ©2013 Poxheart.2845
One last thing. Move Geomancer’s Freedom down to adept, or make it better. Warriors have a much better version of that trait at adept, Dogged march.
Yea I like this idea… they could move Geomancer’s Freedom to adept and give us 3s of Protection w/ cooldown. It’d be a good defensive option to choose between Earths Embrace.
Ladies and Gentlement, :P
Elemental Attunement as a whole is not a staple to elementalists. The protection on Elemental Attunement is.
EA is a good party support skill. EA is versatile. EA has good synergy with the water traitline, which happens to be one of our best traitlines. But although all of those characteristics help making EA a strong trait, none of them make it a staple.
5 (8) seconds of protection under a 10-ish second cooldown is what makes all elementalists require it to survive.
So true man… The swiftness and regen is nice also but it’s mainly that Protection. That combined with Frost Aura givin -10% damage reduction is sooo crucial when you’re getting focused. I always thought EA was really powerful for only a 10 point investment and I can understand why they want to move it to Master tier. At the same time, they need to give us some more options on getting protection. Earth line would be a nice candidate. I always thought the Earth 25 trait was sketchy being 10% damage on full endurance within a condition damage & toughness line… maybe replace that with protection on dodge roll or something.
I’ve been training myself to get used to running w/o Elemental Attunement and it’s definitely a noticeable impact. It’s not the Might, Swiftness, or Regen I’m missing that I’m noticing… it’s the Protection. I’ve been playing with 2000-2500 toughness and nothing beats just having flat out -33% incoming damage.
Don’t get me wrong I get it… AoE Protection for 5s is really powerful for an Adept trait…. Go ahead and take Elemental Attunement away, just give me an option to apply Protection on myself. (Something aside from having to trait for glyphs & auras)
- Mel
Personally, I think this would be a better change than those they proposed.
Fire: Condition Duration and Condition Damage (Burning might actually be decent)
Air: Critical Damage and Precision
Earth: Boon Duration and Toughness (Longer defense buffs without the need of Arcana)
Water: Healing Power and Vitality
Arcana: Attunement Cooldown and Power (Gives more spec choices access to power without gimping themselves)
I like this remix of the trait line attribute bonuses. The 1 second Attunement Cooldown per 10 points isn’t much of a bonus anymore especially when paired with 10% Boon Duration per 10 points when compared with other lines.
The Fire Line is pretty weak right now and other than getting Power from the traitline itself, most of the trait options don’t do direct damage, but help with condition damage. A lot of Eles that invest in Fire are doing so because they want to add Power to their builds. We tend to “settle” on the lackluster choices provided by the Fire line instead of our other lines that offer stronger traits where we invest in those lines because we “want” those traits.
I like the idea of having access to Cleansing Fire in master tier for Fire and it’ll really help out with being able to invest 20 points in Fire while still being survivable. It’s a nice defensive option in an offensive tree. I’m curious to what’s going to happen with Grandmaster Fire traits because as of now the options just aren’t that appealing to go full 30 into Fire…
Persisting Flames is a cool Grandmaster trait as long as you can get your combo finishers off . I didn’t like the whole gimmick of everything tied down to blast finishing off my 1 combo fire field, but when it works it’s pretty nice having a lot of Fury.
What I didn’t like about Pyromancer’s Puissance is that it basically forces you to stay in Fire if you want to get the max benefit out of it. The time between attunement cooldown is what made this trait unappealing to me too.
I wanna know what you guys think about Grandmaster Fire options???
Peace!
- Mel
I like all the changes proposed so far… great job on the new ideas and balancing decisions. I was wondering if Ele is going to see any new Grand Master traits for Fire/Water/Arcana for this upcoming patch. Or is it only going to be the tweaks to Air & Earth Grand Master traits for now?
Hollarback!
- Mel
Wow all these kitten responses to my troll thread 15/10 would do again thanks for the laughs BG
The jokes on you guys… since we already fought w/ [lulz] back in April in a 4v4 that you guys asked us for. We even had the exact same composition as you guys then (Elementalist, Mesmer, Guardian, & Thief). You guys lost to us, never asked for a rematch, and just have been flapping your yaps since.
The thing is we like fighting you guys… It’s just funny to us how you guys say how bad we are when you’ve already lost to us on your own terms. (Spazzle was on WiFi too Anomaly)
Thanks for the [lulz].
- Mel
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG…yea we got em. We got em all!
Sorry Anomaly you just try too hard to troll (and fail)… none of your teamates are chiming in to help you out either. It’s just you replying over and over pretending each post is going to be your last, and with each post you just show your age that much more kid. The way you guys all act it’s like the one thing that every [lulz] member has in common is that their bodies all produce and excessive amount of Estrogen™.
**For real group photo of [lulz] – reference attachment as perspective to whatever else is said from this guild. (Anomaly is the ugly asian one)
What I love about that [lulz] screenshot is that he’s only telling on himself and his whole chump crew. You guys are too busy standing on the sidelines whipping out your CameraPhones™ stead of actually fighting. Then I get /whispers from these same guys talking trash about how oPP is zerging w/ RIOT and what not.
::kitten motion::
So you busted out the MS Paint to doodle over a screenshot to try and “paint” the picture as if we’re zerging you guys constantly. Meanwhile you don’t even realize how you come off looking so bitter. It’s all good… keep sending the /whispers, keep making the highlights, keep tuning into our streams, keep talking trash in our stream chats, & keep making forum posts about us. I take pleasure in knowing how bad you wanna troll us (and fail).
So these screenshots are from the other night from other [lulz] members. This is the kinda crap they /whisper to me while I’m just playing the game having fun. The first kids crying because we have +2 BorderlandsBloodlust™… I guess he’s implying we can’t beat them w/o it??? Then he gets his boyfriend to /whisper me, only this guy tries to get borderline “racial” with me but he’s obviously too scared of being reported so instead he blocks me and keeps /whisperin me.
http://oi42.tinypic.com/1pw275.jpg
http://oi44.tinypic.com/2v3l91d.jpg
Here’s a vid from last night which that screenshot was taken from. Both sides took turns pushing each other back to spawn, but if you wanna talk about Zerging… JQ always takes the cake hands down
http://www.twitch.tv/madspin/c/3000265
Nice try… Next time say “Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese!” first. (lawl @ Greek ftw)
- Mel
in Account & Technical Support
Posted by: MadSpin.2041
This just started happening to me recently and it’s REALLY annoying… I’m wondering if anythings been done or going to get done about it?
Race: Norn
Sex: Female
Class: Warrior (Heavy Armor)
The “Pit Fighter’s Sandals” clip in the rear making them look “split” when worn with the “Aetherblade Heavy Legplates”. The front seems fine only the back seems to be clipping/splitting.
Thanks in advance!
- Spinz
Hi I’m [oPP] Melanin,
TheHolderOfTheBoulder™ has spoken and [oPP]. [AAO], and [RIOT] aren’t gonna be making a switch anytime soon. We’re not gonna switch because to us it looks as if you guys are trying to build a new JurassicPark™, but this time without the T-Rex™. Removing the T-Rex™ might sound like a good idea to you guys, but the fact of the matter is you don’t have a JurassicPark™ without a T-Rex™… you just end up with LizardIsland™. It’s just messing up the whole ecosystem because there’s a reason why T-Rex™ takes over the middle of the island in the same way that it makes sense for Zergs to take over Keeps and StoneMist.
Ssssssssssstop trying to turn our Nossssssssssss into a Yesssssssssssssssssssssss!
Thanksssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
- Mel
Started playing the build this week and I’m enjoying it a lot. One thing to note, however, is that Glyph of Elemental power does not give 100% uptime on the conditions; it gives “a chance to apply a condition based on your attunement.”
Yea blame it on Anet™ and their elusive skill descriptions… after further investigating the effects of the skill i looked on the wiki and it shows as follows.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glyph_of_Elemental_Power
Try it out for yourself…
@CallousEye thanks for the props!
Peace,
(been working a new build this week… got pwned by a few assorted Eles out there in the field, …thanks for the StressTests˜)
- Mel
@skinnyb Hah! Thanks Bro! Yea.. TC’s the only server we’ve been considering to switch to mainly cause we have a lot of respect for yall and had a lot of fun when we were matched up with you guys back in Feb. BTW So today I FINALLY… FINALLY put our duels up from back in Feb. I wanted to do more of a Build Explaination video and showcase it in there, but times just slipping by so I figured I’d better just throw em up yanno.
For those who don’t know skinnyb is [DIS] “Mister” Cheng, a former D/D Ele who I had the pleasure of becoming rivals with on the battlefield. One thing led to another and he went from being my rival to my Doppelgänger™. In this vid here he’s running the “NutCracker” Build I came up with… and pwns me with it. It’s the first time I’m fighting a good S/D Ele (cause you know… we’re a rare breed and all) and it’s also his first few days playing S/D. I know he’s gotta be sick with it now cause everytime I fought the guy he’s stepped his game up.
Doppelgänger™ Duel vs [DIS] Cheng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3hnFxRGpZQ
…This vid makes me reluctant to switch to TC. I’d rather be fighting yall instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxL4IhLNd2k
@Raif We live in a PerceptiveReality™ so if what you originally posted is how you percieved your reality to be, then I can understand that completely. On the other hand, if you consciously made the decision to stretch the truth, then shame on you for telling DuckTales™ WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
I know how it goes on the battlefield though, you see somebody rocking your same class and we all have something to prove. I’ve learn the hard way to try and stay disciplined enough to take the entire fight and more variables into account other than my own Ego™ of wanting to roast another Ele. Once I knew you were rocking [Ether Renewal], I knew i’d only have a short window to try and burst you down before you’d heal again so I kept you on tabs while focusing on the thief and other players.
Glad you were able to learn something from the vid too man… I invite everyone to record footage, not so much as in to post up vids and brag about em, but they make a great learning tool for reviewing and getting better. I’ve learn a lot just watching vids where I’m getting roasted by somebody. Just for the record, you pretty much was playing by yourself since you can only coordinate so much w/ pubs. (Which is why I said it was “fair”, because it wasn’t really since me and Hedrokka were on comms)
@PistolWhip Ssssssssssssh… let these guys keep playing their D/D bro. The purpose of this thread is to hide the information in plain sight. There’s no way having 900 range on your opponent is reliable bro! (Thanks for the props)
Peace
- Mel
Water
Earth
So there you have it in a nutshell. You decide what’s “good” or “bad” for yourself. I see too many posts asking that question about various skills, abilities, traits, etc and I feel it’s such a poorly framed question. Step up to any chick and ask her if MagnumCondoms™ are “good” and she’ll tell you if you’re working with a large package then “yes it’s good”, otherwise “no, it’s bad”. Meanwhile, most of you guys aren’t even getting laid cause you’re too busy asking somebody instead of going out and doing it.
Have fun, experiment, and see for yourself. Good, Bad, Right, Wrong, is simply a perception of your own reality. It’s all an illusion. If it works for you then great, don’t listen to anybody trying to tell you otherwise.
- Mel
@vinceftw Yea I can see how S/D play comes off that way. That’s how it came off to me intially as well. Keep in mind you have Dagger offhand which means you have access to all the Attunements offhand Dagger spells. So you still have the following Dagger offhand damage skills:
Now here’s what I comparitively like about Scepter vs Dagger mainhand. Remember what’s “good” for me, might be “bad” for you and your playstyle so I don’t want anybody to twist this up like I’m saying Scepter is better than Dagger. I can only share with yall why I personally prefer the Scepter over Dagger and possibly give you guys some insight on Scepter aspects that you might not understand and appreciate.
Air
Fire
Hey Raif,
I was diggin thru last nights footage to see if I could find you in there and I found you up in this clip where my main focus was this [UL] Thief. It was at SoRs spawn just like you said cept the video tells a different story entirely.
GoodTimes™!
- Mel
Hey Raif,
The only Ele I remember from last night that I (we) was repeatedly going against was this Red Sylvari D/D Ele from [RotV] “Ravens of the Veil”. (I actually had some nice fights against this Green Sylvari [RotV] D/D Ele from several weeks back and was wondering if it was the same person that mighta just done a MakeOverKit™) I was trying to 1v1 that Ele but she was running around with this annoying Mesmer so I really didn’t get a chance to.
We were running 7 deep at the height of it last night in JQ BL so the other 3 musta been pubs focusing you too. We spent most of the night trying to avoid this large [UL] “Ultimate Legion” group while trying to catch any stragglers here and there in the ruins.
What’s your guild tag is it [PD]? I checked out yalls website and I like the design. Thanks for the build/gameplay props and if we run into each other tonight I’ll tell the guys to back off so we can go at it.
Peace!
- Mel
@Cempa Glad you liked it & Thx for watching. S/D Eles are still a rare breed out in WvW Tier 1. You’ll always find D/D Eles running around and then a some Staff Eles here and there. Personally I HATED Scepter at first and leveled to 80 w/ Staff and did some WvW w/ Staff for a long time until I got roasted by a D/D Ele one day so I tried that out, but then got frustrated with having to commit to melee range and people running away from me so I forced myself to use Scepter until I got good with it. I find it synergiszes really well with small group play and I love playing WingMan™ for D/D spec Eles.
@Gully I hope most of these guys stay D/D and Staff personally…. More fun fighting em that way
Here’s a 4v4 MirrorMatch™ duel vs [lulz] w/ Elementalist, Thief, Guardian, & Mesmer composition. The [lulz] Ele is D/D spec. There’s a conflict of interest going on when any D/D Ele is low on health, but still wants to apply pressure and damage because you have to play close in to get any hits which usually means you’re gonna be exchanging blows. With Scepter you get extra range as well as some skills that don’t require facing the opponent to hit them which REALLY comes in handy when you’re being focused.
(ShoutOut™ to [DIS] Cheng …I still have our vids to put up bro my bad for slacking)
[oPP]Camping™ E7: TarnishedDominos™
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxL4IhLNd2k
[oPP]Camping™ E6: CampJacking™ [TSYM] & Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU8HZOF_QXg
[oPP]Camping™ E5: IT’S MY CAMP PUNK!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINyL0Pu9ZQ
4v4 MirrorMatch™ duel vs [lulz] w/ Elementalist, Thief, Guardian, & Mesmer composition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obFbbBVDbv0
[oPP]Trolling™ E1: [UL] CreepJacking™ FAIL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhkMXaGeYSk
Doppelgänger™ Duel vs [DIS] Cheng (S/D vs S/D)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3hnFxRGpZQ
1v1v*™ E15: Reintroducing [DIS] Mister Cheng (S/D vs D/D)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1AWNT7pSIw
http://melementalist.com/builds/melanins-bunkerburster-build-nutcracker/ (full build details)
Hi I’m [oPP]Melanin,
I like to dump on people and here’s an example of dumping on people using scepter/dagger with:
[Mist Form]
[Lightning Flash]
[Glyph of Elemental Power]
[Glyph of Elementals]
Figured, i’d link a vid of some Scepter/Dagger play as well. I love Scepter/Dagger because it gives me a lot of options. I can get in close when I wanna and drop bombs from distance or on myself.
(ShoutOut™ to [RIOT] Ilthel & Israel… when we link up on the battlefield, we have to be VERY careful NOT to CrossTheStreams™ of [Arc Lightning]!)
Enjoy!
- Mel
(edited by MadSpin.2041)
[DIS] is having a lot of fun on KA BL. The first two hours were pretty boring, it seemed like nothing was happening anywhere. Since then, it’s been a blast. I would love to meet [HB] again when [DIS] is fielding it’s full potential, I think some of the fights might have gone the other way.
Oh btw, there is a scepter/dagger ele in [OPP] that one of our eles keeps complaining about. He says you’re the best ele he’s ever fought and wants to know more about your build. He also thinks that you could beat me in a duel and now I’ve gotta set this straight so whisper Rhyme in game if you’re willing to duel me.
Sup yall, having a lot of fun fighting Kaineng & TC peeps. I play as [oPP] Melanin, a S/D Elementalist. Here’s the footage from the duels I had with [DIS] Mister Cheng & [DIS] Rhyme. GoodTimes™.
vs Mr Cheng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW-Ch0YSW0U vs Rhyme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDhDnsJLU-U vs Rhyme REMATCH
gg. peace!
- Mel
Armor Texture Issue
There’s a texture bug I’m seeing w/ the “Havroun Doublet” chest piece. The texture bug is on the left arm/sleeve where the texture turns “white” & “red” regardless of dye preference. I notice the texture bug whenever I go into water. Swimming on the surface doesn’t seem to trigger the bug. It only seems to happen when going underwater. Unequip/Requiping the armor “fixes” the bug.
Also it’d be “nice” if the sleeveless right arm didn’t have the armor clipping for the gloves above the wrist and actually showed the full glove. I know the gloves had to be clipped at wrist level for the sleeved hand to work, but it’d be nice if we had independent armor clipping for left/right arm/leg.
Race: Norn
Sex: Female
Class: Elementalist
It’s tier 2 Norn cultural light armor.
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