Guild Wars 2

As a new player that started with Elementalist i would not recommend it unless you like being dead watching the rest of your party kill a boss. It is very unforgiving as a class in my opinion. HoT maps are twice as bad i tend to survive around 2 hits from an average mob one that drops me to downed and one that finishes.

Despite what Crysto says i have never seen anyone request for an Elementalist. PvP is just as bad your a glass cannon with no cannon it feels like.

What about for people with disabilities is this still illegal?

Can you point me to someone i can talk to about elementalist specific questions the guides i have found are really not cutting it. I am still having real trouble in HoT and other places in the game.

Honestly to me as a new player the dungeons need to be completely redone not just rewards but difficulty. Bring them down and use dungeons to teach new players about combat techniques and give them the skills they are going to need to do fractals and raids.

As an example Take Crucible of Eternity i dont remember the name of the boss but there is one where he spams a bunch of AoE on the ground if you get hit by it you die at least if your an Elementalist you do.

I would take that fight increase the amount of time he takes between spamming AoE and reduce the damage so that the average player will live through it. And then add in a timing mechanism and Flash DODGE across their screen for when the player is supposed to dodge the AoE to avoid damage completely. And then be able to toggle this feature on and off for those that need it and those that do not.

Well i have started leveling a thief which i am told isn’t much better but i am liking it as well. I always play a hybrid in most MMOs but since that doesn’t really exist in guild wars i decided not to try another cloth character but apparently Thief is the same but harder because its melee.

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Moondancer that is the complete wrong way of doing dungeons. Most of the time if u dont know what your doing ppl will notice and leave, whereas if u ask majority of the time ppl will tell you how things work. I hate pugs that dont say they are inexperienced and screw up some mechanic i assume the whole group knows. (making the dungeon take way longer then if u had asked)

Yes originally i started asking for help and the only thing that happens is everyone leaves and i am there again by myself trying to find a new group. When you say the majority of time people will tell you how things work is just wrong information. The majority of time when you say hey i am new and don’t know how this works they just leave and look for a group without a new player in it.

As a new player trying to get gear and do dungeons i now no longer talk at all in party chat simply because its hard enough to try and get a group but then if you admit your a noob your group just falls apart almost instantly. Its better to not say anything then admit you are new or ask questions about how something is supposed to work, because at least then you get a chance to figure it out instead of the entire group leaving immediately when you have one new player.

This goes for both fractals and dungeons.

I am a new player and found the HoT story stuff to be impossible. Trying to catch up to some other players. Took me 3 hours to get masteries feature unlocked at which point i gave up on the jungle and went back to base game. I am guessing my gear isn’t good enough i only have exotic in my main slots and some greens in my trinkets and rings.

I play an elementalist pretty much everything i ran into in HoT one or two shot me.

Thanks for all the help guys i now have a full set of exotic berserker gear. And a pair of rings from fractals that are also berserker i guess i got lucky from the chests. I learned i can cast most of my spells while moving which btw is not normal for an MMO but something the elementalist forum let me know about.

As a new player in dungeons i just keep my mouth shut now and try and follow another squishy class around and stand where they stand. I die a lot and hope that i learn something from it and do enough damage to try and offset my death.

People get mad at me a lot but i just dont say anything mostly because trying to pay attention to chat and play and not die is ridiculous.

Well after a week of taking what you guys have been saying and trying to apply it. i have found i almost never switch to Earth element while playing . I currently and have basically always used a staff i tend to start in Fire element do lava burst, AoE fire, Switch to lightning do some lightning stuff then drop ice bow and add that. If its a boss i usually draw aggro and get killed but sometimes if my ice bow has run out i can escape with the fire retreat thing.

Sorry i do not know exact names of abilities. As someone mentioned above i did not realize i could cast spells while moving its not very intuitive of MMO’s and they don’t really tell you about it just expect you to figure it out. I am wearing full Berserker’s mostly because its what is expected i wear so i figured I should get used to it.

Now days i just keep my mouth shut about being new because its so much harder to find a group if you are new. I find another squishy class and try and follow them around. I got lucky and got a ring of death and a 4 stated berserker ring from fractal chests.

The game takes a huge jump in difficulty for basically no reason when you move into group content. It makes sense why its so hard to find a group for dungeons now. I tend to just die a lot right now and hope that i learn something from it,and do enough damage that i wasn’t completely worthless.

It definitely has a lock on the conquest mode it is not selectable on the right side when you in the PvP lobby only stronghold can be checked. I am still not able to use the Trading post to buy and sell things even after buying the game i am not sure what i am doing wrong but i can’t buy anything other then basic crafting materials.

I did unlock masteries after a bunch of deaths in HoT took me about 2 hours maybe more to get the first part to get that unlock done as soon as it let me select one i was out of there far to difficult. I did the first tier of pact commander and switched to fractals because i want to be able to do them at some point it also seems like it might be easier to get a group for them.

Specialization is just a weird thing to call it then if it is literally your only choice.

So it seems that the conquest mode is locked? does anyone know when it unlocks? Stronghold only has one map?

It seems super limited and a little bit boring it also seems to sort not promote conflict most of the maps were just a race to the others you might run into one person like me who doesn’t know whats going on and tries to attack the enemy. Like i said i ran it about 5 times and am like ok is this all there is? is it because they want to push you toward World V World i haven’t tried that yet and might see what that is like tonight.

Well its easier to when you don’t even know it exists. I did have some utility skills equipped but they were racial i think? like i could summon a wolf guy and put down a turret thing but nothing like i have now. And no traits i think they are called equipped.

Another new question After getting the expansion i unlocked the Tempest specialization it doesn’t look all that appealing to me do i need to get more masteries to unlock more specializations?

Also question i tried PvP for the first time yesterday and well i got the same map 5 times in a row and it well wasn’t very engaging it was like a mini version of Alterac Valley where you have a race to kill the others leader. Did i just get unlucky and get that map a bunch of times? Is there more to it i know there is WvW but that doesn’t particularly interest me.

Also i assume there is pvp specific gear i am missing which is why i got destroyed so much is there a PVP specific stat that only functions in PvP like a lot of other games have?

Ok so i am not trying to be mean but your post is not useful in really any manner. I come from playing a huge number of MMOs Everquest, FFXI, WOW, Tera, Star Trek Online, EVE, Rift, SWOTOR, and nothing is like this one or prepared me for this one. Nothing in this game seems to be intuitive to what i have come to understand about MMOs

The game is obviously built by explorers of which i am not. I am more of a social and achiever style of player then explorer. I want to know enough to get by. Which is how i ended up in the situation i am in. Nothing in the open world requires anything close to the tactics it does in a dungeon which is when i resorted to coming here. I developed a First Order Optimal Strategy that works through a large portion of the game at least what i thought was getting 1 to 80. When i hit a dungeon i found i was so far behind its been a momentous task of unlearning what the game already taught me.

When it comes to dodging this is how i came to the conclusions i did about it. One i dodged a few attacks in the beginning but still got hit by them. Two i encountered mobs that put down AoE markers. Three i concluded dodge was intended to be used for these situations. This is common sense when it comes to game logic. What your talking about is common sense in life which has absolutely nothing to do with game logic.

I just found out about utility abilities only after reaching level 80 and coming here and now i have far more then i know what to do with trying them all isn’t even feasible because they are obviously supposed to work together but the combinations are pretty infinite. Its something i should have picked up over time but without being able to communicate with other players do to being a free account and the fact that i did not really need to go in there to progress lead me to this situation.

Honestly i do not want to redo the content i just had to do which is why i have not tried out any other classes it was recommended i do all the starting areas first and then slowly move up the level chart in zones so i havn’t actually been fighting in a zone that is above level 40 before i got to 80.

3. well i dont think so i am pretty sure WvW is a different tab this was a mode were like bomber guys spawned and blew up walls and archers spawned and there was a middle area where everyone was fighting but for no real reason and then our leader got attacked and we lost.

4. is this a unique mechanic to this one fight? so any other fight if i do not get fully out of the way of the attack it will hit and kill me?

The wiki looks like it has a ton of information but you sort of need to have specific questions to answer and like guild wars itself there is a huge amount of information overload going on that site. Every sub page references another page which goes to another its hard to find the root mechanics to build on.

Like i think if i understand right i found out in my other thread that dodging will negate an attack regardless of if you are still in range which is not something anyone coming from any other game would expect.

4. So your saying that dodging negates an attack regardless of if you are out of its range? Example big ogre raises his hammer i dodge into him not going out of range i will negate the attack? Is there a way to tell if its going to be an ongoing or is that just experience with the bosses?

There doesn’t seem to be a good source of reliable up to date information if you are coming from a more traditional MMO. Its sort of worse then trying to learn something from scratch for this game you have to like unlearn what you already know and then try and start from scratch.

1. Do all conditional damage just do that extra damage over time?

2. So i was very close before i ran out of materials cool.

3. Ok i think i get it its similar to WoW greens like of the Wolf, or of the whale but instead its Berserker. So i could get like a silk helm of the berserker or whatever its actually called.

4. Still missing something fundamental here. If i dodge but do not get out of the red circle wont i still take damage? i am still in the circle after all.

Where do i find trait lines? You all have a ton of knowledge about mechanics and the game that you take for granted. I do not have a functional base knowledge of the game and how it works and am trying to acquire.

The learning cliff for this game seems almost as big as EVE online. Its enormous.

1. Do i have abilities that do condition damage? how do i know? what is the benefit of maximizing condition damage?
2. Ya i spent half my gold 10 on getting my tailoring up thinking i might be able to make gear that was exotic or better but i have yet to make something that is better then what i have found tailoring is 395.
3. Ya i am not really into PvP at all i tried the map a couple of times and was quickly disinterested in knocking down walls and getting crushed by people who play all the time. By Zerk armor is that short for Berserker? i feel like i am missing something critical when people refer to it i haven’t found anything that is listed as berserker armor in the wiki armor types for my race. I want to know what it looks like etc.

4. Ok so i understand that red circles are bad and i should dodge what i do not understand is if i cant get out of the circle even through dodging. Why would i dodge why does it matter? There was one boss in CoE that we stacked in a corner and had AoEs spammed all over us i died and they did not how and why?

I do have HoT and i have no idea what your talking about fire top top top that does not mean anything to me. I have not used daggers or focus. You are literally speaking a different language then me. What are fractals? I will see if i can get a couple of daggers and see how it works for me tonight.

What do you mean when you say cleave enemies? What utility would i need to switch stances for? and what would i switch to for burst damage?

Where do i get berserker gear? is it from Crucible of Eternity because my friend said i should do that dungeon to get the gear i would want.

well i understand that i have to move but it seems like a really tough balance between standing to cast my spells and then move and cast move and cast. I am currently using a staff and have pretty much my entire way.

Is there a way to lock my target i find myself not targeted mobs in story events and stuff where there is more then one person due to having to drop AoE effects that seem to click off my target probably because i am double clicking when i drop it sometimes or something.

The thing is i never really had to use dodge much until i hit 80 and tried to do a dungeon and found i was woefully unprepared.

Good information what is condi? its obviously short hand for something but its Greek to me. It would be nice if there was like a notation what classes were very high skill . If its more tricky then trying to survive as an elementalist then i will probably pass since i just get crushed right now.

I only have about 11 gold and as i stated before i cannot seem to buy things that are not base crafting mats on the trading post even though i purchased the game. Is there like some sort of mastery i need to unlock before i can do that?

Where would i get exotics with karma? i have around 37k but i understand that its a low number when it comes to karma and may not be able to afford one. I don’t know what you mean by aiming for berzerkers i was just told Crucible of Eternity had the gear i would want.

Does anyone have an answer to my dungeon question about dodging? I will repeat it again here basically i was told that it does not matter if i do not clear the AoE rings on the ground if i dodge at the right time. I do not know why that would be is it just bad information?

Well i dont really care about PvP so i dont think those type of videos will be particularly relevant. I will see if there are any PvE elementalist videos to watch though. I just played around with switching stances for the first time last night i did notice a bit of a change in survivability but i now need to learn like 15 new abilities and what they do.

I just recently found out that even attacks that are not telegraphed can be dodged which is not something that is intuitive for an MMO. The whole game feels a bit backwards and like someone with ADHD made it.

Well for dungeons i stopped telling people i was new mostly because people will just leave and it already takes a long time to put a group together for a dungeon. I try and keep my mouth shut and follow. Hmmm trying to pick classes that would compliment my friend they already have a ranger and a mesmer and a guardian which is why i went elementalist first. What makes Thief difficult?

As for gear i am doing dungeons to get exotics? i mean i dont know where to get them with the stats i need i was told Crucible of Eternity i hope that is right. Has the stuff with the right stats on it. Also lasers suck.

Okay so i do not understand what you mean by my level is equalized. After playing again last night i definitely had never switched stances the F1-F4 keys opened up a new world of playing i am not good at it but think i did better.

After a pretty decent wait i got into a dungeon Crucible of Eternity i think is the name? anyway we got to a boss and i could not avoid the AoE stuff. The guy in my party says it doesn’t matter if i dodge at the right time but couldn’t explain why it doesn’t matter?

Last night i decided to raise my tailoring following this guide i got from 1 to 395 and spent around 10 gold my friend said that this was a gross misappropriation of funds. Is gold that hard to come by? What am i going to need gold for in the future? Also i cannot buy a lot of what is on the Auction House its locked out and i do not know why. An example is i needed an extra silk patch to try and get to 400 tailoring and could not buy it as it was locked out. I am no longer a free account so i do not know why.

If elementalist is the hardest class to play is thief easier i don’t see a lot of them and am interested in making one as my alt. Please note i don’t really care about PVP at all and am mostly looking at PvE.

Thanks for the responses i have a new thread in the players helping players, I got to level 80 but it wasn’t easy. The main reason for coming here is i spent around four hours in a dungeon and we did not finish it. The responses here are well heaped in jargon that i do not understand. For instance in the other thread i just found out i had points i could spend on buying abilities called hero points i think that is correct name for them.

I am missing a basic level of understanding how the game works is what i have figured out ankitten ot sure how to get caught up in knowledge but its a start.

Well i don’t really know what you guys are talking about but i thought i might see if my stats can help out i am a fresh level 80 new player i have 20 gold, around 27000 karma, my tailoring is at 37 and artificing also 37 before i ran out of low end mats. I do not seem to get them anymore from salvaging even using the basic kits. This is after 9 or 10 days of playing.

Dungeons seemed ridiculously difficult it wasn’t like any dunegon i have ever done before. I mean i was like 30 levels above the dungeon i was in and it was still crushing me. In fact i had a level 22 monster kill me in a zone. Which is why i came here because obviously if a 22 can kill a level 80 i am doing something wrong. I guess the problem i had with dungeons is we couldn’t tell what we were doing wrong. Was there a special attack we had to avoid was there a period of invulnerability there just wasn’t any indicators fight would start i would die within casting my first few spells and it would go down hill from there. I tried waiting but aggro didn’t seem like something that mattered or could be controlled.

Elements

That is interesting i probably missed a tool tip or something when leveling and so have never switched out of fire assuming that it was similar to guild wars one where i would have to go out and get new skills not that i played much guild wars one. I assume you have to be out of combat to switch elements.

Telegraphs

How do i know the range or if the attack is targeting me? is there an assumed range or default range in which the attack is going to occur?

Exotic Gear

Ok interesting 6 tiers of gear and exotic is near the top i only have around 20 gold i imagine these things are in the thousands so where do i go to get gold? I haven’t used the Trading post as i couldn’t being a free account. And didn’t really think about it since buying the game until you brought it up.

What are Fractals of the mists? I assume Ascended gear is what everyone is chasing at the moment? Is it raid only gear? Will i be able to join raids in exotic gear?

Ya i have found the wiki and game to be pretty confusing. What do you mean by switching elements all the time? I guess i do not know how to switch elements is it in the hero panel? as for changing abilities i use a staff and pretty much always have i think but you maybe right i might have started with a different weapon.

For dugeon stuff it just seemed like pure chaos me and two other guys were trying one of the dungeons i dont remember which one i think it was maybe twilight arbor. I say it was the three of us because we would get a 4th and 5th player we would wipe once and then they would leave. After around four hours we had only managed to kill two bosses the rewards did not seem well balanced for the incredible difficulty in them.

It seems like not all attacks are telegraphed with a signal on the ground of where its going to land. Particular were these dogs that just pounced and you die sometimes not even taking me to a downed state but straight to death.

Ok i found the utility skill thing and i well got all of them but now i have way more skills and abilities and path things then i know what to do with. But i sort of understand the build pages i was reading earlier better.

Where do i get exotic gear and what is exotic gear? blues?

Ok so i am new been playing for around 9 days just bought the game yesterday so i could post and talk to people in game since the free account doesn’t really allow you to use anything but Say chat channel for more then a few minutes. I am a level 80 fire elementalist and tried my first dungeon and found i was woefully unprepared.

So i have started trying to read up but every guide i have found is very steeped in jargon and assumes a base level of knowledge i have managed to not acquire in my leveling process.

My first question i seem to die in about one hit during a dungeon is there a respec i can do so that this does not happen maybe earth elementalist or do i just need to get better gear though all the gear i have seen in guides focuses on offensive stats.

I notice in builds they have abilities i do not have, is this like guildwars one where i need to seek out and learn these abilities? The most common one i see is frost bow.

When i started i had a set of spells that very quickly transformed into new spells but since about level 10 i have had the same set of fire spells will they transform again? are these 5 spells the only ones i get ever?

I know that these are probably very simple questions that i should know the answers to but i have not been able to ask questions in game or post on the forums until i had purchased the expansion.

I am level 80 i have not been in any zone above level 30 though. I started to do some dungeons and am getting well crushed by them. I was thinking maybe an earth based one might have more protection.

I was hoping there would be a respec option but i have yet to find one to change from fire to earth. Also i have not really been able to talk to people in game until yesterday or post here about it because i was a free account until yesterday.

Hello i just started playing about a week ago and picked elementalist. I am currently looking for a way to make me more survivable. I right now die in one hit and i do not mean down i mean straight from standing to dead it seems like. All the information i have seen so far is how to do as much DPS as possible but at this point surviving is more important to me as if i am dead i do no dps.

I am fire based right now but i could remake to one of the other elements if they are better for surviving.