Guild Wars 2

I have done pretty much all the zones and the entire story solo in HoT without too much of an issue using Zerk armor and Soldier’s trinkets.

This is what I run. Yes, even with the food and stone.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAseRnknBlqhlpB+fCEgilUj6cIaipjcAOgAoeZr2rF-TxBFABCcKASTfgSK/gf/BsUCCwTAoQ1fCAgAcz2sNvZghO0hO0hO0u5NH6NH6QLFQ5KjA-e

Aussiebumbum.6907:

Before this happened I someone managed to drop into cele then i jumped out and was walking around with a weapon with cele glyps. i figured it would be a quick fix to drop the spec and repick my traits to resolve this. however this is the worse part. The specialization was not accessible from the traits tab. however it still show up on the UI top left saying “Click the hero button to assign spec”. to further make this strange I have the spec fully unlocked so i cant simply unlock a new trait to gain access the trait line.

this happened in both PvE and PVP and im going to assume and not risk WvW.

Imgur picture provided: http://imgur.com/a/o3b17

The elite specialization can only be used if it is the bottom line of the three. Yes, it is dumb.

As a healer, I would prefer to see two things. Better tagging for players in WvW with our staff, and better scaling on the healing power.

Add a small amount of AoE damage on the staff auto-attack. It doesn’t have to be much, kind of like the Ele fire auto-attack has a splash on it. That way we are not punished for healing our group instead of tab-targeting and spamming bow attacks.

There should be a noticeable different between celestial armor and something like clerics. The fact that the numbers are almost indistinguishable makes me sad. As it stands now, I will probably make a celestial armor set and be done with it for HoT.

We really need something with an AoE for tagging in WvW. I love the healing I am bringing to the group, but there is pretty much zero tagging and credit happening here. Please… make the staff #1 attack have a damage in radius or something. It doesn’t have to be a lot of damage, but enough to tag the players we are fighting while we get busy with the heals. This is actually a pretty big issue for WvW players.

Asura staff is awkward at best. Please set the animations to match the staff use on the other professions for Asura. My Asura ele manages to wield a staff just fine. The Druid is a caster with ranged attacks. Holding the staff like a GS is just odd and looks weird.

I’d like to see healing scale better with healing gear. The difference between running celestial and clerics is laughably small. If we are going to be locked into a healing role, make those numbers pack a punch, else everyone will just want Revs instead of us.

Thanks!

Druid is what made me roll a ranger for the first time in the over three years I have been playing. As a former raid healer in WoW and monk in GW, I have long wanted a true role for healing in this game. Playing a water ele in zergbusting is not the same. I was debating a Ventari/Glint Rev in HoT, but not entirely convinced the numbers would be there. After watching the video of the druid I couldn’t wait to get home and make a ranger.

So, this old healbot is really appreciative for the druid, and my brand new ranger will be one of the first in line to sign up for dedicated healing support. Now to see what I will be able to do in WvW to keep my people alive!

Asura. We were the only race that looked kitten good with the hobosacks. I actually wish they were a switchable setting so I could have it back on my Engy.

But yeah… Asura engy with Super Shield and Quip. It’s pretty much love.

After spending hours and hours on my beta rev this weekend, I am convinced this will be my main after HoT drops. Roaming as condi with rabid gear and mace/axe was entirely too much fun this weekend. I also spent some time running a support setup with sword/shield and staff to drive the Ventari/Glint setup and it was a blast as well. This is the multi-role hybrid class I have always wanted.

I have already started assembling my gear for October 23rd.

3878 hours across my three mesmers, mostly on the Asura

I still suck at the game, but godkitten it do I look good doing it. Butterflies everywhere!

Elrey.5472:

MeanCoffeeBean.2073:

I don’t care so much about the display name in terms of what it looks like, but it does seem like instead of using something that has little bearing on our characters we should be able to select a character name to use on the forums and in our contacts list. People don’t know us by our goofy display name. They know our characters. It makes sense to let us bind a character name to our forum and contacts.

I mean… they are already guaranteed to be unique anyway. Why not?

Do you know what? you can type your character name in your signature! (Amazing news, I know)

Do you know what? I did that years ago! Or was reading that far down too hard? Because… you know, it is right freaking there on my post.

Regardless, if we could select character names, that would not even be required. But you know… thinking skills.

I don’t care so much about the display name in terms of what it looks like, but it does seem like instead of using something that has little bearing on our characters we should be able to select a character name to use on the forums and in our contacts list. People don’t know us by our goofy display name. They know our characters. It makes sense to let us bind a character name to our forum and contacts.

I mean… they are already guaranteed to be unique anyway. Why not?

Asura. This is the answer to every question actually. All other races are bookahs.

Still bugged. Everyone is just standing around watching each other and not talking. Seriously…

I have to admit, it is getting difficult to find the positive in the face of the constant kneejerk reaction nerfs. What is the balance team even thinking at this point? Have they even looked at thief and engy? I just don’t understand it at all…

I actually did buy the pimp version of the expansion, but I regret it now. Not because I am not going to play it or some other idle threat, but because I feel like I have preemptively rewarded this lackluster decision-making.

They really should have left the traits alone and just bug-fixed for a month while the new meta settles in and people learn effective counter-play. What is happening now is completely counter-intuitive and entirely lopsided.

I am disappointed. Again.

IGN: Fluttershy
Playstyle: WvW and some SPVP
Server: Ehmry Bay
Role: Scholar
Time Zone: US Central

Brilliant! I have no idea what I was expecting, but it was definitely not on that level.

I still hold out hope for pistol mainhand. I want to be a spellslinger! I know it won’t happen, but don’t take my dream from me. It is all I have…

Yeah, I am pretty sure that was a case of inexperienced players vs experienced roamers working together. It would not have mattered what profession they played. In WvW, the roamers that really put in the hours doing it and work together in small tight groups are amazingly proficient.

WvW is just not PVE. Players are not mobs. They move faster, they think faster, and they do a hell of a lot more than get stacked into a corner and wait to be downed.

I am betting you guys rolled in there with your PVE zerker gear and got wrecked. That is to be expected unless you have a ton of experience. The amount of min/maxing that goes into building your WvW roaming set is vastly more intricate that slapping on PVE zerk gear.

Don’t be distraught though. Go to metabattle and read up on the WvW roaming builds for your profession. Then jump into gw2skills and make something you know you can live with. Stack extra vit/tough up front until you get really good. You’re going to die a lot in the beginning. This is expected and normal. Don’t get mad. Just put on some music, and keep at it. Don’t get sucked into the zerg if you want to improve. Learn to single out other players. Find the enemy zerg and watch it from a distance. When they move, sweep in and pick off the stragglers. Clip the backline casters when they are distracted. Soon, you’ll be having a blast and your skill level will go up quite a bit.

It’s a game. Try to find some joy in it.

Horus.9685:

MeanCoffeeBean.2073:

Our elites are garbage compared to other professions. While the elemental can be a nice addition in a fight, it is certainly not worthy of the elite slot. FGS is a mobility and drop weapon and barely deserves a utility slot at this point. When people slot Melandru as their elite, you know something is terribly wrong.

Glyphs are just awful. Glyph of Storms might see some use in PVE, but I never see them outside of that environment.

I don’t know what to do with our conjures. The idea of a kit is nice, and would even justify the damage reduction if we could swap into it like an extra attunement. This could be abused though.

Scepter sustained damage is just… bleh.

Not true :P Jou can pull a fully upgraded camp in a corner and melt them With Meteor Shower+ Lava Font with your default Pve zerker stuff
Maybe freeze+ ib#4 to take care of a remaining vet

And none of those are elites, glyphs, or use the scepter. The icebow is great, but is being nerfed, thus the dilemna.

I am not actually sure what you are arguing against, but it isn’t anything I said.

Our elites are garbage compared to other professions. While the elemental can be a nice addition in a fight, it is certainly not worthy of the elite slot. FGS is a mobility and drop weapon and barely deserves a utility slot at this point. When people slot Melandru as their elite, you know something is terribly wrong.

Glyphs are just awful. Glyph of Storms might see some use in PVE, but I never see them outside of that environment.

I don’t know what to do with our conjures. The idea of a kit is nice, and would even justify the damage reduction if we could swap into it like an extra attunement. This could be abused though.

Scepter sustained damage is just… bleh.

It’s bugged. Since it is only cosmetic, it doesn’t really impact play though.

It kind of annoyed me for a bit after I finally got mine, but then I grew to love it after all. It probably helps that I play an Elementalist though.

I mean… look at this! Awesome.

Honestly, I think a lot of the “WvW wipe whole zergs” thing is totally overstated. Any Ele that spends some time running against zergs will be the first to tell you that Retaliation makes that whole ‘wiping zergs’ thing completely untrue. Dropping a Meteor Storm on a zerg is pretty much suicide.

SPVP depends on the Ele and the opponent, but I can assure you that they can be outplayed by multiple professions. There is no ‘mash button and win’ build for Ele against every class. I promise. A terrormancer, DP thief, or Shoutbow can take an Ele down unless the player is just new or bad. This is how it should be. Rock meet Scissors and whatnot.

Necros need love though. That profession has suffered enough.

I play pretty much all Asura. I usually go with the smallest possible as well because I just like embracing the idea of “big things, small package”.

This is Fluttershy:

The appeal of an MMO is precisely rooted in the fact that it -is- a long-term investment. In fact, it is the only game genre out there that can make that claim. MMOs are not the latest Call of Modern Honor’s Battlefield Duty 17: Rainbow Zombie-Clancy edition. Those are games you play for a few weeks and move on. Destiny was a game you played for a few weeks and move on. MMOs require a significant investment of time, and therefore emotional attachment.

The so-called prognosticators that spelled doom and gloom with an expansion are actually right, but not for the reasons they now purport. An expansion is what GW2 needed. It is what it still needs. What is killing it right now is the complete lack of anything to do that is even remotely fresh or fun. Where ANet fell down on this was to send out the hype train so early, and then fail to release any content whatsoever in the meantime just to keep people interested.

Where did people go? To other games of course. There is nothing to do. Dungeons are boring. Farming the Silverwastes grew wearisome long ago. WvW has gone from stale to somewhere south of moldy.

I tried leveling alts and stuff to kill time, but how many 80s do I really need now to do content I am already bored with.

The difference between GW2 and a game like WoW in terms of the expansion cycle is that WoW had massive raids with challenging content being added and tweaked while they worked on the expansions. GW2 does not have that. It has the same dungeons now that it did at release (plus one path no one does), and the same stale 5-man content. What they needed to do was release the expansion last year ideally, or at least keep people motivated with some content until Hype Of Thorns is released. Instead we have gem store updates and stale WvW.

They couldn’t even be bothered to put Lion’s Arch back, which would have been pretty simple given that the map already exists and would represent a nice quality of life change. Instead we are still walking around the same workers repairing the same boards since we spiked Scarlett on her drill platform. Seriously, how long ago is that? I got bored even trying to find the release notes that far back. How long has the Fort Marriner Waypoint going to remain broken? Taimi’s fix to the waypoints was last year in the fall. I still can’t use that stupid waypoint.

Yeah, I log in now just to get my login reward, bank it, and then log out. My wife threw in the towel a couple of weeks ago too and doesn’t even log in at all. So, yeah… people are quitting.

Honestly, it is so hard to remain calm in the face of such awful matchmaking. I have not been on the winning side in two weeks now. Two weeks without a single win. When I logged this morning out of disgust, I had 140 points and the rest of my team had zero. Zero. None. Not one point. It’s all well and good to tell people to be nice, but frankly the playerbase deserves better than this. SPVP is so broken right now with horrific imbalance, crap matchmaking, and abusive players that there is little incentive to even keep logging in until HoT.

Because not all professions have equal access to condition clears.

Power can be mitigated with active combat and toughness/vit. Condis cannot.

As a thought exercise, allow toughness to blunt condition damage in WvW if this goes live, and then it could make for an interesting new meta.

The meta for dungeons is still staff as far as I know, although SF is gaining ground. DD just doesn’t pump out the raw damage of staff. That said, I will still run DD or DF sometimes in dungeons if there is another Ele on staff running fields so I can be on blast detail.

The metabattle build:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Elementalist_-_Staff

The descriptions read too much like dagger skills for me to take this as anything other than a curiosity. I just can’t see them giving us another melee when daggers are already in play. I am still leaning towards pistol because it would be truly different than anything else we have today.

As an owner of Quip, I really want the pistols to be true. Spellslingers should be a thing in GW2. It would be amazing!

I see Koviko’s point, and it has occurred to me as well, but the practical implications of this are that there are some days that it is just less fun to play because of it.

As a mesmer, the result of the new daily structure is that on days with warriors and guardians I know I am going to have an easy time. On days with 1500 range pewpew rangers and heartseeker-spam thief groups it is best to just do one match to get two of the dailies done, and then go find something else to do that evening. This is not me hating on the latter professions at all. They are just trying to have fun, the same as I am. But, the the new class dailies have made the compositions less diverse, less balanced, and overall less fun than they used to.

Each night you can look at the daily and know precisely how much fun it is going to be. There is something inherently wrong with that.

I go more purple than pinks usually, but all my armor sets are variants within the purple to pink range.

Favorites:
Brandywine
Midnight Fuschia
Evening Wine
Humiliation

Underlying Panels:
Abyss
Midnight Rose

Accents:
Celestial
Illumination

I went to Arah manually and tried to enter.. this is what I got:

It looks like I have credit for doing it… but it is not in my story, nor do I have any of the epilogue stuff… Also, I don’t have credit for it in SPVP as an unlock.

Actually.. the funny thing is that my Personal Story reads the Temple of the Forgotten God twice… once at the top and once at the bottom.

I have:
Temple Of The Forgotten God
Through The Looking Glass
What The Eye Beholds
Starving The Beast
Ossuary Of The Unquiet Dead
Further Into Orr
Marching Orders
Armor Guard
The Steel Tide
Against The Corruption
Cathedral Of Silence
The Source Of Orr
Temple Of The Forgotten God

Same text on both of those Temple bits

Something is really bugged here…

Yeah, I am set to Default on the Content setting. I get nothing at all in the top right of the screen and no mission indicator. I actually did go to Arah hoping to get a star and walked around for a bit. Nada.

This may just be me… but I don’t know how to resolve it. After finishing Season Two of the Living Story, I am unable to resume my original Personal Story. I had finished the Temple of the Forgotten God some time ago, but now I am unable to progress. I have no markers on my map, no mail, and no green text at the top right like I used to. I would like to go ahead and get this thing done if possible.

Does anyone know a way to restart or resume the original Personal Story?

My story log is attached. My Content Guide is set to default.
Thanks!

This may just be me… but I already submitted a bug too. After finishing Season Two of the Living Story, I am unable to resume my original Personal Story. I had finished the Temple of the Forgotten God some time ago, but now I am unable to progress. I have no markers on my map, no mail, and no green text at the top right like I used to. I would like to go ahead and get this thing done if possible.

Does anyone know a way to restart or resume the original Personal Story?

My story log is attached. My Content Guide is set to default.

Thanks!

I have wanted mainhand pistol since the day I made my mesmer. It always floored me that we get a phantasm that does it just fine. I just don’t think we need another off-hand. We have oodles already.

My twilight agrees with this. The effects of the legendaries on my other classes changes things. Incinerator and Bifrost change spell effects and even sounds. Twilight doesn’t do anything appreciable for my mesmer.

More mainhand options please! Mainhand pistol would be sublime. I don’t need another crap offhand.

I’ll link mine. This is the solo roaming setup when I know I am going to be fighting 1v1 1v2s. The elite gets switched out to FGS for mobility quite often. When I run in a group, I will switch Armor of Earth for Frost Bow and the Elemental for Tornado.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJAoYhcMac25wwBd0AiAB5ulqRBlfHTB-T1RHABF8AASb/Bw0DEkyvnUCCwJAYR1fCAgAcz2MAG6QH6QH6Q7m3co3coDtQACGDA-w

As for why… well, Celestial armor is annoyingly time-consuming to make, but is totally adaptable. Instead of carrying armor sets, I carry trinket sets. I change them on the fly based on what I am doing and how I am performing. If I want to push more damage and I am feeling more dangerous, I will change some or all of those trinkets out for Zerker. The armor just works in pretty much everything I do.. and I have no desire to make a second set.

In fact, the only time I ever switch the armor out is when I am doing fractals, when I go exotic zerk for the damage output.

Fun fact: Rings/Ammy from WvW, Accessories from Guild Commendations, crafted backs. It costs almost nothing to acquire sets of them with different stats. Asccended armor is crazy expensive.

For reference:

Guild group setup with DD:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJAoYhcMac25w6Br0AiAB5ulqRBlfHTB-T1RHAB/o8rgHAQa7PAmeAAOBALq+jTKBDAgAcz2MAG6QH6QH6Q7m3co3coDtUARMGA-w

Group Setup with Staff:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWhMMac25w6Br0AhAB5vmrRBlrLXB-T1RHAB/o8rgHAQa7PAmOAAuAALq+jTKBDAgAczbGAG6QH6QH6Q7m3co3coDtUARMGA-w

As you can see… not much has to change here.

It’s experience. Seriously. Not a day goes by that I don’t get flustered with my Ele, but then I stop and take stock and realize that I am doing a little better and better each day. This is not an easy profession, and no matter how well I do I still see room for growth. It might be the same for you. I’ve played most of the other professions and the only one that comes close in my mind to the complexity, speed, and rhythm of DD Ele is Kit Engy. It’s not just knowing a rotation or combo.. it’s seeing what the other person(s) is doing and countering without even thinking about it on a conscious level.

If you are using SPVP for your benchmark of skill, that could be part of the problem. SPVP is really hit and miss, especially in the hotjoins. I’ll be in one and come out on top of the charts without a single death, then in the very next match get utterly destroyed at every turn by someone on a profession I know intuitively.

Keep practicing and don’t give up. Ele is easy enough to play to a mediocre level, and there are oodles of mediocre eles out there to prove it, but everything above that is all a matter of time and practice. The skill will come if you stick with it. You’re going to have to put a LOT of time in to really see the Ele shine. This profession is an investment.

Yeah, Piratoz, not too sure why you want to nerf the movement of FGS considering that is the only reason I ever, ever put it on my bar in WvW. The damage is crap from it. The storm on 5 is awful for damage. The swing on 1 is so bad I actively cancel it as a waste of charges.

The only thing that I like from your post is the Lava Tomb mirroring the Ember fields. That is a clever idea.

If you were advocating things that would make it more elite, then I would agree, but not boosting the storm to at least the level of our -utility- and removing the only real benefit it brings (mobility) and I just cannot agree overall.

Double pistols. Spellslingers for GW2 pl0x.

Whatever… this is the fifth week in a row EBay has been up against GoM and the previous four matches were all EBay/GoM/DH. This is stupid. It’s not even close on the population and coverage. Meanwhile we watch ET leap entirely over our tier.

ANet will not fix it. Devs… you are killing your WvW player population with the complete lack of attention and inequity in the matchups. We need feedback. We need something.

I mostly roam, but I run all Celestial armor with Traveler’s. For the back, accessories, neck, and rings I am running Soldier’s. Infusions are toughness or power depending on the piece, but consistent.

This puts me at just over 2600 armor, and 2170ish power without any might stacks. The crit is low, but with fury on attunement swapping I never really notice it.

I can roam or command with this set. Roaming I use DD, commanding I run Staff.

The vitality in the below link looks low, but the truth is that it is solid in WvW varying between 23,500 and 25,200 with my guard stacks and how far along we are in the week in WvW (Robust server-side buff).

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJAoYhUMac25wwBd0AdAB5xqvRBlzbnB-T1RHABF8AASb/Bw0DEkyvnUCCwJAYR1fCAgAcz2MAG6QH6QH6Qbo3co3co3sQACGDA-w

I have a level 80 human and an 80 asura Ele.

I love my Asura the most. The animations are the best. Being tiny really helps in WvW more than you would know. Some of the verbal statements are just hilarious. I spend my time solo roaming more than anything else though. I will say that tagging on the Asura makes it harder for people to find you in a zerg quickly though.

The human has better armor choices, but they all seem to vary between kitten and kitten. I wound using a hybrid of Trickster’s and Adept just keep her fully clothed and still look nice. There really isn’t any advantage though outside of that.

Oh, and a parting thought… The Asura Pain Inverter utility is totally underrated. If you 1v1 or roam much as DD, give it a shot.

EDIT: kitten and kitten was obviously the filter, but strangely works well in this case.

I never asked for Kain/AR/EBay. Strawman is strawman.

The complaint isn’t about the match itself in terms of fights, the complaint is about the fact that we just keep getting the same servers over and over with nothing to bring any variety to WvW. It’s not like there is anything else to do in GW2. You’ll have to excuse me if I refuse to run in circles farming pretend candy for weeks.

We’ve actually been hoping for a match with you guys again since you picked up some folks. It’s good to see you guys rising so fast.

We are on week three of the same GoM/DH/EBay match. People are just taking the week off again because it is so stale.

Is it too hard to, you know, change the match each week? There are only eight servers in our league. Mix it up a bit?

Asura!

We’re Geniuses.
The hobosacks actually look pretty cute on us.
They are small and don’t stand out.
All other races are Bookahs.
The animations are hilariously adorable.
Asura + Quip makes me smile every day.
We’re geniuses.

The racials don’t really matter. Pain Inverter is actually pretty nice, but not worth losing a kit for. Supply Crate or go home.

Fix please.

/15characters