I took Vital Striking pre-patch out of choice. Now it seems Vital Striking is the best option out of necessity. I feel for pure support ele. This patch must be a bitter pill to swallow.
I’ve been running 0/30/0/20/20 with Vital Striking, Piercing Shards and scholar runes in pve since fresh air patch. I’m able to pull off 15k-19k fire grabs, pretty fun to play
nice. i assume you’re using bull zerker gear? and ugh that cd duration on fire grab is still depressing lol.
Almost full zerk. It’s all about crit dmg so you can use valk or cavalier as well. I have mixed trinkets for extra hp and armor, though I’m not sure if it’s worth it. Less precision is less dps, but on the other hand dead=0 dps.
I took Vital Striking pre-patch out of choice. Now it seems Vital Striking is the best option out of necessity. I feel for pure support ele. This patch must be a bitter pill to swallow.
I’ve been running 0/30/0/20/20 with Vital Striking, Piercing Shards and scholar runes in pve since fresh air patch. I’m able to pull off 15k-19k fire grabs, pretty fun to play
After i’ve switched to instant ground cast and it’s bearable with d/d. Also quite ridiculously fast combos with scepter
BTW this thread is becomes a whine, we’d better cry over traits
As I mentioned earlier I play or rather used to play d/d (in pve). I appreciate ground tageting with scepter, but in melee it’s unbearable…. I’m just glad that my war is already 80 :/
P.S. ANet is never listening to us >:(
To be fair, I think that trait was overrated in the first place. People are so used to it, just like with evasive arcana, that they don’t know how to play without it…
I agree here I think renewing stamina is a stronger trait than Elemental attunement.
Yes, it is and that’s why attunement is in master tier and renewing stamina is in adept tier. Seems right, doesn’kitten
BTW for some reason ironic question tags are censored
I think that Arcane Wave should be reverted to the way it was and should NOT require ground targeting, especially underwater! There is absolutely no need in that, at all! I think Arcane Blast on the other hand should have like an AoE blast when it hits of like 240 or something, so people actually have a reason to use it.
Blast is the worst of the arcane skills, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad skill overall. It always crits, has insane range and benefits from Arcane Lighting. Also no ground targeting ;P
Maybe there should be PBAoE option, like “casts aoe abilities on current target”. It may sound to easy, but it will definitely help playing d/d. I wish we had wow’s macros :/
I play D/D to not use any ground targeting, however with scepter it makes more sense. ANet, Is it possible to change targeting so it depends on main hand weapon?
Seriously anet, the only alliance tyria needs is Let’s kill the dragons alliance. We are playing with scarlet and her minions while Zhaitan is recovering in his “Elder Dragon’s Lair”. This is your best anet? Living world, where dragons are fast asleep?
Next alliance will probably be Grawls and Inquest since Grawls are stupid but strong and Inquest is smart but lacks strengh, Sons of Svanir is impossible because they are the minions of the Elder Dragon Jormag, it would be much more stupid than this alliance with the Kraits and Nightmare Court.
I’m waiting for kittening risen corrupted branded destroyers
Killing Scarlet is not enough now. She and all her dealings has to be made non-canon, or at least a bad dream from which the PC will soon wake in Fort Trinity after drinking TOOOO much on the victory celebration… but wait a minute…
And, as Danikat said, it needs to be made more clear what characters specialize in before putting them in a story. (Remember Trehearne summoning 5 flesh golems and an elite shadow fiend, then never doing it ever again?)
If you take a second and watch traherne you could see he was a necro rather early. All his attack particles are black. Which is the necro’s thing. And the reason Anet said they wouldn’t release weapons/skins/dyes that changed the attack particles of characters, because then you couldn’t id them based on that. Which is kinda nitpicking I know.
In Marjory and Kasmeer’s case, Marjory wears black and green robes (signature of the necro, really) and while Kasmeer isn’t as clear on first meeting her (assuming you’ve never met them before) you may notice her using a pink stealthing on the two of them during the intro story mission, which is a mesmer thing.
Psst… Legendaries are weapons which change attacks
Queues will be fixed as part of the new map. They will continue to operate as they have since launch until then. The queue does not function as a typical queue and we are fixing it. It will just take some time. It has been a lower priority than the other things we have done and we’ve only now been able to devote the appropriate resources to it.
You have started season/league even though queues are not… queues?
Arenanet can you please put a little window or something that will show an estimated queue time? So the players can see how long they will approximately wait until they go “in” at WvWvW or even better to actually see the queqe position that they are. It will be so helpful.
They would, but unfortunately queues are so broken one cannot estimate time left
This is ridiculous 5 my guild members have came on 2 hours after reset while i been in queue for 2 hours and they get in within 15 mins and then i restart client and more guild members get in within 15 mins again and am still in queue, wtf is going on?
Same here. Queues are bad, and you should feel bad anet.
Wellp, guess we can see who doesn’t normally get queues. They’ve been random since the beta weekends. Why they even call them queues is beyond me, they’re a lottery, not a queue.
You’re wasting your time complaining about it, they’re never going to fix it.
I know, but I’m just really frustrated. I’m posting, almost spamming, in many topics about those “queues” so I’ll probably get banned from forums.
if it was any other corporation such as blizzard or CCP
they would have figured it out if they put this type of pve achievement inside WvW with limited population it could latterly blow up the server WvW players.
they should have made secondary map or something before getting achievement up.
One does not simply blow up CCP’s server – 50k pilots step up anet. EVE and WoW have a fee which allows them to sustain better servers, but simple things like time dilation doesn’t require lots of money. Of course new map is about to be released, but it’ll use crappy overflow system >: (
