Guild Wars 2

Lol.
Fort Aspenwood has not been pushing for T1. We are quite happy in T2 as long as the rest of the tier is competitive.

I have NEVER seen a company try to kill a game harder than what ANET does to GW2. People in ANET that made this decision, have you ever joined wvw on a Thursday (for NA)? It is deader than dead. Nobody takes wvw seriously the last day of the week because 90% of the time the match is decided by Wednesday. By changing the reset time you have completely kittened over the players that have stuck with this game for over the past two years, because we come week after week, and play this game. We the players come to reset on our Friday and Saturday nights because it is what we have done for the all of this time. WHY!?! would you change what has actually kept the only decent thing of this game?

You never cease to amaze me ANET, you should be thankful that this game has a decent community that makes this game fun and to pick up the slack from your mistakes….

Bump. FA for life.

So you are kitten hurt about how you trolled a person walking right past you ended up killing you.

Then you cry that they are better than you because of their build?

Typical Thief Kitten

Keep on heartseeking bro

You would be doing yourself a disservice without looking into Fort Aspenwood first. I have been on FA since launch and help out a lot with the community, don’t hesitate to pm me if you need any questions answered.

No perplex runes in spvp, so no.

Been on FA since launch, The FA community is the reason why I stuck with the game when I got bored. Now in tier 2, we have a crazy amount of fights, come here if you are looking for chance to fight outnumbered every night

Dolores.5471:

Nice to see more people trying condi ele!!
As someone already said, your 10 points trait in water isn’t really doing anything for your build (except for the health of course), I’d change it for a more useful water trait or 10 points on fire and get embers might, that would give you 10% condi duration, 25% burning duration and a little bit of power (your hard hitting skills still do decent damage even in a condi build, that should not be overlooked).

I’m not a big fan of signets, have you ever tried the glyph of elemental power? Besides the burn and chilling which are very nice, it also can perma cripple/weakeness a foe, definitely worth a try!

Signet on use causes 11 1/2 vuln, great for masking other condis, that alone is enough for me to go 10 into water

I have used EvilSnowFlake’s calculator, It is a great way to see how your skills apply damage considering your multipliers, enemy armor, and much more

Nyel.1843:

So if you’re Ele has got every damaging condition except poison, what “uptime” can you generate with your build / Sigil setup?

Maybe you can make an overview of your character using this and explain it a bit more detailed?

Nyel,

It my ele does not have tournament, but as ash said, It can be added through weapon sigils. Uptime really depends on the persons ability to cleanse.

As for the guide, I am holding off till I get some more laurels and hopefully the sigil patch comes. So I can rock some more chill.

As for the playtime, check my stream, I usually stream from 4pm pst -6pm pst before HOPE raid

http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood

Goodi.7931:

Looks interesting and quite effective, also did some testing with condi D/D builds myself some time ago and found it really fun to play.

Just one question, how do you fair against heavy condition classes? Of course switching healing signet to Etheral Renewal can help a bit, but with that low vitality and somewhat limited cleanses I could imagine some trouble?

Hey Goodi,

Right now, I don’t have a problem with any condi classes (thief, warrior, ranger, engineer) except necros. If you see a person rolling around with +40% condi duration food, just make sure you don’t get hit by their opening burst, this can be done by interrupting them first and getting the upper hand. Necro’s ability to put out the condis as well as their high pool health have really been giving me a challenge.

Potential Condi prevention tweaks that can be easily made: Ether Renewal, Cleansing fire, to swap out over signet of earth. <-good thing is that cleansing fire still ticks decent on a condi build, so you don’t lose to much. Obviously, you would want to take written in stone out because you just lost two signets, that trait would be up to you. Maybe try diamond skin? Not a fan but it has a few applicable situations.

Nyel.1843:

Is the Asura skill necessary? As I wrote I thought about the Reaper as a Human. And it fits very well with the D/D playstyle as both are short range skills.

Honestly, yes. So far it is proving to be a nice incognito skill that few people avoid, more confusion, retail, and a short CD, its a nice skill to have with this build. I am not a human, so I haven’t been able to try grenth out, but honestly, I rather have the Pain Inverter, just my style.

Ash,

Its a solid build, but some aspects I have just gotten used to now, as well as losing some condi pressure wouldn’t be ideal for the play style I’ve developed .

Gabriell,
As Ash said, Shocking Aura Works great, As it will also double as an interrupt.
Ordinarily you cannot say this. but with this build having 3020 base toughness with 3150 when attuned to earth, combined with the retaliation that pain invertor provides and confusion stacks, you can actually afford to take a hit, and with when facing glass cannon builds, I can actually rely on people to do this in order to win the fight.

Whenever you take a big hit, swap to water, double dodge to get the evasive water, then pop another cleansing wave which will get you almost 2/3 of your health back.

But yea, It is difficult to venture out of your comfort zone when you are no longer using cantrips. But for sure, stability can be an issue with this build. If you are really having problems transitioning to this build, you can give yourself rock solid and earth’s embrace to help give you some more stability, granted you will lose some condi damage from the 10% conversion trait.

My bad, I meant superior sigil of earth, which I may have made a mistake. whoops.

yeap, 10 in water for the extra vul condi on signet use

Two reasons why I have the rabid and cav gear.

1.) increased precision-I did some testing and inorder to really keep the superior sigil of earth close to the cooldown, as well as to make sure I am using the 25 tree in arcana I needed about at 25 base crit chance, 50 with fury.. But once the sigil patch comes, and I can have two on swap sigils with separate cooldown procs I will definitely be going hydromancey or battle with doom, at which point I can drop my total the rabid, and I will go with a mix of Tough Condi Vitality or Tough Condi Healing

2.) I just geared up my engie, and I am all out of laurels :/.

Yea Nyel,

Goals:
-Ability to kill tanks in OS and in WvW
-Ability to have a fair chance against full zerk classes in WvW and OS

First things first, this is a very wacky playstyle compared to meta, you will find yourself lighting whipping all the time because thats what you used to do, not anymore.

This build is made up to throw on a different amount of condis that mask the hard hitting ones (burn and confusion). So the important thing about dueling is that you land your important skills to the fullest extent.
-Interrupts to proc confusion~every ten seconds, this means using your updraft, earthquake, and sometimes the shock aura every 10 seconds to maximize this.
-Fire~ basically same as meta~ burning speed, ring of fire, dragons breath, fire grab.
-Earth~magnetic graps (huge for imob, to keep them off you while your hard hitting skills recycle. Ring of earth (bleed and weakness)
-Water~frost aura and Frozen burst for the chill
-Air~Ride the lighting for closing gaps, and shocking touch for weakness

I would say most of my time is in about 35% fire, 25% earth, 20% water, 15% air

It is also important to keep the pace in the fight fast, and to always be in the persons face to keep the condi pressure up (and to distract them while they have 4-7 condis on their bar.

Generalized play style
-against glassy players, use the confusion to your full advantage, and allow them to kill themselves. (works more often then it should. I don’t know if people just don’t see it coming or what)
-Tanky-Immob, burn, chill… rinse and repeat. As long as your rotation is good, the sigil of doom should handicap their healing a decent amount. save your confusion for when they try the hard hitting skill.

Get asked a a lot what I am running, and why I die so often in OS. Two parts, 1.) I am bad. 2.) I don’t like running meta, I like trying new stuff, and building my own builds.

After tweaking around with it for quite some time now, I have finished my “Mesmamentalist” D/D ele build. So here it is, fully built by myself, tested long and hard. I am actually happy were the build is at currently, just looking to improve my own personal skill, and I think it can compete with a lot of other classes out there.

Small things can be tweaked, I.E fighting mace shield warrior, go rock solid in earth. But for the most part this is what I run exactly.

I am sharing it because I would love to see more condi eles out there, and I would like to share the feeling of when someone invites you to party and says “I wasn’t expecting that”.

Enjoy and good luck

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vEQQJAoYlcMoytlNwvB0RMAQK0y4hIfQS5ROzYDA-zEDBYiBkqAk6AI/ENHaRjZSAl1FRjVJLyaGYaXIqYB1jALAACAz8nz8nzMpAWUaE-w

You should look into Fort Aspenwood, Looks like they fit into what you are looking for.

1.) Elementalist

GvG 20v20 [RET] vs [CNB] Streaming live now @ http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood

GvG 20v20 [HOPE] vs [ZzZz] Streaming live now @ http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood

GvG 20v20 [HOPE] vs [Agg] Streaming live at 11pm est @ http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood

[RET] vs [EP] 20v20 GvG, check it live at the top of the hour at : http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood

Welcome To GvG night on FA, Streaming [GLOB] vs [TE] then [HOPE] vs [DR] at the new GvG arena! Check it live at http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood

GODS vs Crit GvG live at http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood

GvG [HOPE] vs [Crit] streaming live at http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood

Long awaited and highly anticipated GvG [HOPE] vs [DIE] kicking off now, live stream for those who can’t make it

Edit: Highlight video can be seen here,

http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood/c/3281076

wasn’t trolling, and the numbers we fielded is not a lie. holy cow you guys are upset. just don’t run away to PVE over the course of the week, I like killing.

FA Militia commander leading the rally on BP BL here.

Good fights BP was impressed on the group that fielded today on your BL. My advise to you, not trying to be a kitten, just have a scout or two around the proximity of your group while in WvW, it will help you greatly from getting side swiped and what not.

Also, I can 100% assure you that we never fielded 80 people today in one group. We had approx 45 people active on the teamspeak with an additional 15 militia. WE were big, but never did we go over 60 people. Good fights guys, thanks for the fun.

wide scale crashes.

RET taking GvGs. That is fair numbers, no Arrow Carts being built in open field, no number advantage. Come and fight.

Any guilds interested in GvGs this week?

“inserts cliche statement about being outnumbered”

The QQ in this thread is getting out of hand.

alanis.6094:

How is running around in groups of 100-125 remotely fun?

I can assure you, nobody is running in groups of 100-125

Fort Aspenwood has a Big [HAMR]’s Highlight video from Sunday on SOR BL. Enjoy

Handin.4032:

Last night me and a guardian in my guild

Okay people, let us use proper grammar. …Last night, a Guardian from my guild and I…….

Hmm. Welp, I know who does run.
http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood/c/2942492

HAMR TIME: Check it out! The all HAMR Guild! http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood

Bored on a thursday? SIC GvG night, Check out the fights at http://www.twitch.tv/acquire_fort_aspenwood

phaneo.4597:

Mada.5319:

I think some people are still unfamiliar with the arrow carts range when buffed with arrow cart mastery. With the range buffed, arrow carts built outside inner CAN hit the back of the lord room if it they use the gap above the east gate to look in or if the gate is already down. Sincere apologies to TC.

Also the increased radius of AC shots, if fully traited into AC mastery. Earlier these were all SAB glitches, now Anet made them legit :p

The arrow cart was behind the lords room at bay shooting into inner. Let me know how that one works

No way I am reading 47 bloody pages. Did Anet say if they are going to fix yet?

Ya. Happened to FA last night as well.

kylia.4813:

Mercenary Higgins.1807:

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

Eh, all it takes is a little bit of momentum in FA’s favor and its really hard to stop them :P They start manifesting a significant oceanic presence out of thin air! (Last week anyone?)

DPS PRO and AVTR have been going strong on FA for weeks now.

…months.

AVTR yes

Arrow Carts: Need to find a happy medium for the damage. Right now, it is, crazy. Split the difference Anet.

Swirling winds: This was a mistake, even if it wasn’t intended to block trebs it turned out to be a powerful tool. You needed 3-5 eles for full coverage, but they had to be coordinated. Also, they ended up getting zerged any after the enemy knew about it. That being said, swirling winds most likely won’t be brought back, but it is a mistake.

Another glitch that has popped up after this patch has to do when jumping off a high object. when you jump off your charcter will do the animation of falling get up and then take the damage from the fall. Sometimes your character resets and completes the jump up to 4 times before allowing it. Idk what it is, just throwing ot out there.

30 second X:: meh

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

Eh, all it takes is a little bit of momentum in FA’s favor and its really hard to stop them :P They start manifesting a significant oceanic presence out of thin air! (Last week anyone?)

DPS PRO and AVTR have been going strong on FA for weeks now.

Yeap most of major guilds I know agree that it ruins the fun. Ban them from your teamspeak when you see it. Honestly, when there are 40-50 people in your channel it is hard to call out spies. And when you do its like “ya man im the asuran jumping like crazy next to you”

Evalana.5480:

Er, Build the rams? o.O

Hahaha that was not ACE’s doing

Hey Anet, can we reset the FA BL please?

Signed-Attempted to be dedicated WvWer but DCs 5 times in an hour.