Guild Wars 2

I vote for Mags. I have way more respect for them and what they can do despite being outnumbered by the T1 servers. I think mag players are more confident in their individual abilities, they dont run away.

Good roamers, good fighters in the field. Their commanders are less kittened too as they can’t rely on outnumbering their opponent.

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If you move the good traits to master I will be forced to trait to master or even grandmaster. Those traits are necessary to absorb and mitiage damage.

I have low health and low armor, dodging is what keeps me alive. Cleansing wave, elemental attunement and soothing disruption are all important to sustain myself.

The fire and earth traits are nice but I cant use them if im dead. Il will just keep traiting water/arcane.

Industrial Themed Ele

Ok thank you for responding though your answer makes me sad. I dont want wow style pauldrons. However atm with my slender sholdered cat the face on the pauldrons looks compressed from the side. I think il buy a makeover kit and pick the wider sholders to see if that could stretch it out a little.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Recent-change-in-charr-shoulder-armor-scaling/first#post902056

Reposting because I dont think the bug forum gets as much attention as here.

The lovely lion head shoulder pads have changed size since launch for female charr. They are now small and puny. Please fix an otherwise beautiful armor.

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I would also like the t3 charr shoulder pad to go back to original. Atm its too narrow from the side.

I don’t like the idea of new item tiers.

I get that anet wantd to bridge the gap between exotic and legendary but that assumes I play gw2 because I want a legendary. What I do want is my character to be complete, in other words end game armor and weapons. Now the goal posts have shifted

At the same time I have plenty of gold so hopefully I can just buy the lame pink gear of the tp at some point. Hopefully anet can come up with more original ideas to keep people playing.

This is image illustrates why I cant be bothered playing. My favourite part was exploring. The charr areas were awesome purely for de ja vu from gw1. The human, sylvari and asura areas were beautiful and colourful. Orr was wacky and cool too.

Then I came to the norn areas. Dear god the map designers just gave up trying here. No creativity. Boring fog and snow capped mountains. Oh look a lake, its gonna be full of quaggans needing my help. Probably with the Krait. I know this because that’s what I found in the last 50 lakes I visited. I pushed myself through two or three norn areas. Then I hit Lornar’s pass where every identical yurt and waterfall is according to the game a point of kittening interest. Boring boring.

Wow you want to nerf ele of all things. I really liked speccing into water and I never felt like I was particularly op.

Its the game design thats the problem not the kitten build. You made a game about holding points to win and then get upset when people make a build to do just that.

Why don’t you make a game mode where bunkering isnt rewarding rather then nerf specific skills/builds.

Ive played ele since beginning. It’s an amazing class with good sustained aoe damage, amazing mobility and team support with healing, combos and boons.

The class does not reward players who spam skills mindlessly. However a player that can use the right skills in the right order will be repaid many times over.

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There’s a shiny new sword that you can only get by killing the Green Spotted Bandersnitch that spawns once a month? It’s stats are exactly the same as the weapon a beginning Weaponsmith can craft but it glows blue and shoots off black sparks when it hits something?

A green spotted bandersnitch you say?! Drops a sword that shoots black sparks!? Tell me more for trully this is a prize worth farming.

@op DR is easy to avoid even in Orr. Your problem I suspect is that you are used to make 120g in three weeks. Thats 40 gold a week. You are playing the game too much. That can’t be healthy. Maybe in you next break you can try to get map completion in the real world.

I have levelled to 80 and finished all the high level maps and I am r11 in pvp.

Elementalists are in a workable position in pve. We have good aoe with fire but I think single target damage is below other classes. A water spec ele can provide a lot of support to team mates with regen and condition removal. We can aquire and spread boons quickly.

SPVP is a more hostile environment as our strengths are lessened and our weaknesses highlighted. The large amount of burst damage quickly eats through our base 10khp if our dodge and defence skills are on recharge.
Our own damage spells are not suited to fast moving pvp. Fire aoe skills take too much time before they start doing damage. Condition damage is below necro and engi. Burning is very easy to remove.

sPVP is seperated from PVE. If you wanna role play go play WvWvW!

sPVP and WvWvW are very different. For one WvWvW doesnt have balanced teams and goes on for weeks. WvWvW is just a huge ugly zerg where one person has no impact on the final result. sPVP is all about personal skill and ability to work in small 5-8 man teams.

In the orginal GW pvp was way way more seperated. You had the casual pvp with zerging and stuff in Factions. You had random arenas where you learnt to PVP and actually had to know how to play your class (kinda).
If you reached a high enough ranking in the RA you could apply for teams aiming to get to Halls. Getting on these teams was really hard unless you have played a lot.

In summary GW2 sPVP is seperated from the PVE content but is still accessible compared to the high level pvp in GW1.

I think Guardians are balanced. Here is why.

We have the lowest base hp, 10k. This is naturally offset by armor and we can use skills to blind, retaliate and block. However conditions like bleeding, poison and burning can eat through our hp quickly.

We have minimal range. Scepter gives us some weak range and stuns but it’s not going to kill anyone. With sword we have a teleport but it is short ranged. Good ele, ranger and engi have all been able to outrange me and pew pew me down.

In summary against guardians use conditions from afar. Or if you are a thief get behind us and press 2

Awesome. If we eles practice and practice our attunements maybe one day we could do what that thief did with his #2 button.

But hey we have combo fields! I’m sure giving people regen for four seconds will make all the difference.

Nice points by everyone. I personally would like only two changes to the ele.

A 15-20% buff to fire damage and for air skills to attack/recharge 15-20% faster. Both these elements are about damage. Fire is the brute aoe while air is single target and crits.

Water and Earth I think are fine.

Just crafted it today.

Thanks Science that made me laugh.

It’s stupid being rude to the opposite team as next round they could end up being your teammates.

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It’s funny how the ‘learn to play’ people never actually think to teach and just belittle.

My ele is only late 30’s and already finding pretty much everything must be kited / cc’d to hell because 5-6 hits and I’m dead. After having tried a warrior in the mists, and am going to level it proper after some sleep, I get the feeling it will be able to stand toe to toe with the same enemies and not lose more than 20-25% hp, and would be even better if I was actively dodging etc.

Ok well start by improving your defense. Take the auto arcane shield at 25% health trait. Then take the arcane shield active skill. You can now block those pesky 5-6 attacks you mention.

Try using a focus and scepter. Against a single target start with earth. Apply bleeding. When they get close use scepter 3 to blind. If they are still attacking use focus 5 to make yourself invulnerable.

Oh no they are still attacking! Switch to air. Focus 5 is a knockdown. Run away from the mob while zapping with air 1 + 2. If they attack use Air 3 to blind.

Still not dead?! Switch to earth. Summon earth elemental! Keep zapping and if you need to run through the earth skills again.

What about water? Water 4 cripples! Use the time to move out of their range.

Dont stand their and expect to kill the mob before it gets to you. If this sounds like it too much work when a warrior can just smack it with a gs then please go play the warrior.

Can we buy any sort of reset for how our characters look?