Guild Wars 2

My Little Pony: 565382321>6
Greensleeves: 2456765312342212319702456765321354321233

Several others in the works as well.. it’s terribly addicting!

I solo the whole lot with no issues, and from my experience ~ I’d recommend checking out your skills and load up on some of the following if possible:

1) Stability – for opening the presents. Keeps you from getting knocked down.
2) Condition Removals – Having at least 3 ways to remove conditions helps a lot so you can cycle through and have one on the ready for losing confusion.
3) Healing – Self explanatory but have a couple ways to heal if you can
4) Damage mitigation – don’t underestimate the usefulness of things like AoE blinds, chills, decoys(pets) or reflecting damage back to them.

I hope this is helpful!

Also.. it’s incredibly poor form to not give a free trait retrain after major changes like this.

I am usually the last person to complain about any changes.. but this one, this one hits home enough to warrant me at least saying something.

I am so incredibly disappointed by this change. My main (and only 80) character is a support focused elementalist. I was having SO much fun with this ability. It quickly became an essential part of my play style as a good way to provide better emergency heals to my teammates. Now it seems like a useless trait.

What sense does it make to have just the remaining spells on the dodge now? If you are dodging.. the majority of the time you are trying to evade AWAY from something. Other than water, this renders the other attunement spell triggers mostly useless since the range is so short (except maybe earth?) to touch whatever it is you are dodging away from. With the blast, it makes sense because now you are sacrificing your own # of available dodges (leaving yourself vulnerable later if not timed well) to dart into the fray and cause a blast to help your allies and affecting enemies. This seemed like a very sensible risk vs. reward situation and now.. well, it just doesn’t make sense to me at all why you would ever even want to take this trait.

I haven’t tested out the changes to Frost Bow yet – but I am concerned about the changes there as well, since that is one of the skills I have on my bar 90% of the time.

So far beat with:
Asura Engi – no speed boost
Human Ele – speed boost

Speed boost actually made it harder, I have a MUCH easier time beating this with Asura. For me, the small size makes it easier to land jumps.

Less watching of youtube and more watching of where to jump tends to help.

Human Elementalist – Possible 25% passive from air attunement – not entirely sure if this was on though.

Oh man this was so hard but SO much fun! Finally beat after countless tries – I loved the challenge, thanks for making something so satisfying to win!

@Pedroso – Due to the amount of time needed to design such large areas, I would not expect any other cities to get the same kind of overhaul Lion’s Arch received, at least, not this first year. I suspect it will get built upon year after year though.

..Or.. in this case.. The Mad King is in the Details..

Just want to express my delight at noticing more gradual changes in Lion’s Arch last night. If you haven’t had a chance.. I suggest taking a good look at the Lion fountain as well as the Moon.

The Art and Design teams on this have done an absolutely beautiful job overall on all the details. For all the people complaining – take a quick time-out from worrying about your lewts and just appreciate all the hard work and artistic details put in just for the short term!

Got any favorite details to share? Let’s hear/see ’em!

@SecondtoNone

I can’t really say for WvW/PvP since I don’t do much of this – so this info is based on my PvE experience:

For general use – Frost Bow, by far is my favorite. It has an almost permanent spot on my bar because it is so good for the control it brings. Deep Freeze(5) is amazing!

For sheer combo use – Fire Axe is my favorite. It does a nice amount of damage & is great for stacking more might. In a chain, I typically use it just after setting down eruption, summon ring of fire over the eruption blast to get might, roll backwards from 3, then 5 to leap finish over the flames to get fire shield.

Lightning hammer blast finisher.. yea… I forgot to mention this one, since I almost never use it – it’s really only useful with it’s own field from 5.. like you mentioned it’s too slow to use with much else.

Let me know how this works out for you if you give it a try! I’d love to hear your thoughts.

I love my Ele! I had no interest in them at all until I decided to randomly give one a try during Beta and that was that. I was totally hooked.

Now, my main is 80, and I still love her just as much as ever for all the crazy versatility she has. I really haven’t tried many different builds, since I love my original (10E/30W/30Arc) but I also tend to do more group play than soloing.

Sure, I’ve made a ton of alts.. but I just don’t have any drive to play them.. I keep on going right back to my ele, every time.

You also have access to more fields/finishers through your other skills with summoned weapons and Whirlwind(whirl finisher). Frostbow has projectile finisher on 2, Axe has 2 fields(3, 4) and a leap finisher on 5, Lightning Hammer has field(5) and leap finish on 2, and Greatsword has whirl finish on 3.

I favor staff and these to make some crazy combo field + chains in my personal playstyle – but it is a lot of quick flipping around between attunements & summoned weapons.

I would love a range increase for this – but I suppose the arrows must melt by the time they fly that far.

Even as is, this skill has an almost permanent place on my bar for PvE – it’s incredibly useful for all the CC it brings. Haven’t tried it out much in WvW yet though.