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I’m not familiar with how sPvP works that well (tournaments, rankings, etc)

I want to go competitive but I don’t have a good team to work with. What are your suggestions to that? :P

Can you upload some videos so that I can learn off your mad skillz? =P

There’s an irc channel called #gw2ringer where people sometimes look for ringers (paid/free tourneys) to play for them. This channel is located in the gamesurge servers.

As far as videos, I may upload some updated ones in the future.

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On Kyhlo, do you keep Frost Bow equipped all game, or do you just switch it in when you’re going to the treb? If the former, do you ever use it for anything other than killing the treb?

I do keep it since the chill/AoE still has some usage, also cause I dislike switching out utilities. Getting used to not weapon swapping and/or utility swapping is a good thing, especially when you can still do good without it.

Frost Bow is not only a good tool for yourself but also for other condi dmg dealers your team may have (engineers, necros, etc) as the ice storm applies confusion and more often than not people don’t realise how much damage they take from it.

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Hello, what would you recommend running with if you are looking to carry your team through solo queue free tPvP? (e.g. staff bunker, d/d faceroll).

Staff bunker, your chances to capture a point when another team is fighting off the points is higher.

I do have a (now outdated) elementalist guide featured in ArenaJunkies with the build and variants I used to run during BWE1 BWE2 BWE3 and part of release.

http://www.arenajunkies.com/topic/228831-competitive-build-overview-support-elementalist/

There’s a few variations nowadays. Such as changing the 2nd utility for frost bow for Khylo and glyph of renewal for every other map.

(Yes, I do use glyph of renewal)

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Could you enumerate some of the builds you are most comfortable using in a competition, their major attributes and roles? As that im aware staff + clerics amulet is perhaps the only way to go, i would love to hear about it if other viable builds and rolls have been discovered.

Scepter/Focus Support and Staff Support are mainly the only builds/weapons I’m comfortable with right now, mostly due to the role I try to fulfill within my group.

Staff + Shaman’s amulet is incredibly strong, although for different purposes (more area condi control with Eruption in small points). As far as scepter/focus, I decided to use the focus more lately against teams runing more 2-3 projectile users in certain maps where teamfighting is key (Foefire mostly)

I don’t believe in scepter/dagger viability due to escapes you’ve got available in comparison to say a thief. A lot of people will argue your sustain is better than a thief, but poison goes around easily in a fight, and this will kill you.

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27, depending on breed.

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One horse-sized duck

Leaderboard for QP: Flawed

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Im suprised nobody is as disappointed as i am about the " ladders" they come out with. I feel like they should be in game for you to check, not some copy paste on the forums. I feel the same about how they do WvW also.

Anyone else feel the same?

It may be work in progress for all we know, they’re no strangers to MMOs.

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Mianhe, please teach me the ways of the #9 ranked ele arts. I am but a humble #24301 ranked ele novice. I do not have any QPs; I, in fact, owe 37 QPs to Anet for being such a bad bad ele. Please enlighten me with your infinite wisdom and guide me to the path of pro-ness.

You have been enlightened

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whats queue time for paid tournaments?

Depends on how many teams are dodging.

Usually it’s around 10min or 20min waits if you miss the queue in NA, during the morning it’s nonexistant as far as I’ve heard.

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Q: How much do you lift?

I don’t, I’m a fragile cute asura

Leaderboard for QP: Flawed

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All we need now is Glicko rating to kick in so we don’t have to grind nonstop. Currently you can beat the top 5 players consistently and it wouldn’t matter if they get more games than you do per day.

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How disappointed are you that your color scheme doesn’t work in-game?

Not disappointed at all, sometimes the fashion po-po has to do what it has to do.

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How wide is the smile on your face when Powerr calls you out for running svanir runes when you’re not and he is?

It is about a 12cm smile. Depending on the weather and other factors being accounted for, it can go up to 14cm.

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Are you KOREAN?

I’m a mutt and have lived in Korea, however I am not Korean.

Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise

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DT/Phoenix still randomly get bugged and do no damage for some reason, you can reliably test it in the golems. I’m not sure why, but I’ve had it happen to me as well, sadly.

It depends on which shade of pink you’re using, you see, you could be using a pastel pink and you’d look very awkward, however using icy/abyssal shades of pink will allow you to blend better with the Mists enviroment and stand out in the crowd of afkers.

Hope my advice has been of any help, greetings!

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Ask me anything related to Ele gameplay or matching dyes while afking in the mists.

I play a necro, but I traid a warrior for one play session...

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@JP: One good way to start making more power builds viable, don’t make minions give sigil stacks whenever YOU explode them. See: Bone minion, Wurm minion.

Sigil stacks are very common nowadays, and now that they get 5 stacks per kill, having bone minions is a big no-no.

My personal opinion: Heartseeker Ability Is Over the Top

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Alright, before this becomes a 90 pages long about why Heartseeker is okay because you can ‘dodge’, here’s the reasons why it’s currently out of place.

1) Initiative cost vs Damage done: The skill itself is meant to be an executioner move, but currently it’s equally rewarding (both initiative and damage wise) to spam it all the way through a fight. My suggestion, make this skill not worth spamming through from 100%, let it be what it’s supposed to be, an executioner. It should be a drastic difference if you hit someone with it at 100% health and 33% health, currently it hardly is.

2) Reliable leap: When comparing old Heartseeker (and even current burning speed on Elementalists) this skill is way more reliable, not missing as often as it used to, hence increasing it’s damage output throughout a fight now.

3) Distance traveled with it (FIXED AS OF TODAY, SUPPOSEDLY): Initiative-cost wise, it travels further than Infiltrator Arrow does for the same cost (2 Heartseekers go further than 1 IA, supposedly fixed now)

4) Buffed stealth lines, stealth abilities: You can now afford to bring very defensive utilities as they have a better use now, while still being able to use them offensively. If 3 out of your 5 heartseekers hit, you can simply stealth and start to meta the fight and dictate how it’s going to go afterwards. I’m aware stealth doesn’t ‘teleport’ you away, but it’s still a factor that you will now have to guess from there on, or take a new batch of heartseeker to the face.

Being able to switch professions midgame

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What’s wrong with switching weapons mid-game if I have them in my bag? Are you saying I can’t be prepared to tackle any situation and everyone should blindly guess at what their opponents will be using??

You have 5 minutes to get ready before the match starts, it is your own fault if you didn’t think of possible things you’ll go against and have a balanced comp around it.

Allowing weapon swapping at any time of the game just becomes a blind guessing of what is your enemy bringing next and brings up a lot more issues related to combo fields/finishers.

I agree with DeathbyCactus.. Are you all suggesting that a ‘’leave it by chance’’ would be a solution for tournaments? Are you suggesting the old Random Arenas in Guild Wars 1 ? oh.. or is it the pre-match preset builds that you could wiki online and spam it on a character until it works? Are you all above familiar with the pvp system in Guild wars 1 ?

Weapon changing is a way of managing your skills differently in each situation. If there where pre-set builds you would only play in blind and some builds would always be a favorite. This would create a huge instability in the game balance. (pvp hammer-warriors in the good old GW).

All these where checked and balanced. That is the point of PvP in GW2. To have many possibilities and opportunities to face any situation. That makes the system balanced.

It’s pretty obvious to me that this is unintended.

Hell currently you can leave a tournament match to rejoin with another character.

So what? If you change a character mid-game, that will erase your score on the current game tablet and you will have to start over just as entering a new game. So what’s the difference. In order to win, all team players need to contribute points. (tournaments are the only thing that you can gain from the team win). The only thing you can win personally is the Glory and Rank points which are calculated through your character contribution through the current match. Changing character will sacrifice that points but would also help you gain some if you feel that the character you currently play is unable to stand on the score table. So even if you have the opportunity, is it worth it ?

Take a harder look at my first post, I am indeed, talking about tournaments.

PvP damage is quite high

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Could you post your build and what are you dying fast to?

I’m sorry to say, but it is most likely your build (and the ways you’re trying to mitigate the damage)

Being able to switch professions midgame

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What’s wrong with switching weapons mid-game if I have them in my bag? Are you saying I can’t be prepared to tackle any situation and everyone should blindly guess at what their opponents will be using??

You have 5 minutes to get ready before the match starts, it is your own fault if you didn’t think of possible things you’ll go against and have a balanced comp around it.

Allowing weapon swapping at any time of the game just becomes a blind guessing of what is your enemy bringing next and brings up a lot more issues related to combo fields/finishers.

Being able to switch professions midgame

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Not sure are you guys at ArenaNet aware, but right now if you switch characters in the middle of a tournament, the character you get in will be instantly forced into the match. It’s bad enough that you can switch utilities/weapons midgame, please do take a look at this