Guild Wars 2

Well put, Humpink. Way better than my tiny and comical (to me, anyway) blurbs. =P

Joining EBay also greatly decreases the chance of dying in my Meteor Showers (it’ll only happen in PvP at that point). Do you need a better reason?

We may have hit the bottom, but the true Ehmry-born soldiers take out zergs twice our size!

If more people come, we might not be able to wipe zergs bigger than us anymore since then we’ll be evenly numbered! That just takes away the fun of it.

Updated the info

Stand The Wall.6987:

Its not like anyone actively thinks about cooldowns tho. Pretty much everything comes as a second nature with a lot of practice.

Exactly! I think that’s the reason PvE staff eles have an easier time because they’re so used to it and have more room for error. If you start out with a staff in PvP, you’ll be killed off before you can effectively practice with it. But that’s just my theory anyway.

LeetMagiKarp.3751:

dps staff ele is hardest. heal/tank staff ele is easier, but still hard. most ele(let alone staff) skills alone are UP and require good timing to use correctly with each other. in pvp it only becomes good when youve learned how each of the ~25 skills can be used to max potential.

I think the only reason I’ve been able to pull off DPS staff with success is purely from spending hundreds of hours on it in PvE and doing high level fractals. I know the skills by second nature. I only have to think differently when in PvP since it’s not against AI. The biggest weakness is being singled out, but using the terrain to my advantage and knowing the right skills help. But nothing is quite like dropping a Meteor Shower into a team fight on mid and helping down 4 guys.

(but then sometimes I kitten people off and need to run around the map as one or two guys chase me thirsting for my blood)

Guild: Seven Deadly Sinz [VII]
Server: Ehmry Bay
Playstyle: Casual PvE, hoping to become PvX
Size: Large (~300 members) but core group of 20 to 30 members.
New Site: http://s7nz.com

Activities include:
-Dungeons
-Fractals
-Guild missions
-Meta Events
-Casual WvW and PvP

Our current goals are to be a guild that welcomes players of all skill levels and create a community based around playing the game to have fun. We want to also get people interested in some other aspects outside of PvE so we have a greater variety of things to do. Right now we’re able to afford keeping 10% Magic Find booster up all the time, but hope we’ll get enough active and repping players to afford more bonuses more often. Most of our experienced players are able and willing to help newer players learn how to complete dungeons and are very knowledgeable about many aspects of the game.

We have no requirements outside of knowing how to be a decent person. We don’t require full-time representation (we understand some people like being a part of a hardcore WvW group as well as having PvE people to hang out with), but we encourage it. We have no age requirement either, as are members of all ages.

We have a Teamspeak channel within the larger one for the server, giving easy access to players from other guilds and WvW. Using it is optional.

If you’re interested and would like to know more, feel free to ask. You can also contact myself, Nicholas Grayfox.8324 (Nick), or Zedd.8239 (Hikari Yumura) in game if you have questions or would like to join.

@ Anierna I prefer keeping a safe distance away from the fighting in fractals where one or two hits put me down for the count, which is why I prefer the staff, but will go to might and fury stacking in easier dungeons. Been a staff ele since beta and love it way too much, too.

@Axelifus Of course! glyph of storm is always in my bar because of helpful it is! Sand and ice storm are amazing.

Based on using staff, I’ve been using 30/10/0/10/20.

10% fire dmg, 20% fire cooldown, fire spells grant might (I change to fire fields give fury when I switch to scepter/dagger for fights that need it or I want to change things up)
20% dmg to enemies below 33% hp
10% dmg when above 90% hp
elemental attunement and blasing staff

Though today blasting staff was moved down to adept, so I’m considering where to move the extra 10 points or to keep them in arcana for attunement and swap time.

But overall, I love the damage I do over a large area and works great in high level fractals with my party. Just avoid enemies like the plague and when you have a moment of peace, rain hell from above with meteor shower.

Even got lucky and decided to experiment with it in pvp and downed all 5 members of a team on a node that were going after our bunker. But the keyword there is “lucky” because if one of them decided to give me a weird look I’d probably die instantly.

One problem my guild has with events each week is that there’s always a few people getting stuck behind when the doors close during guild puzzles, whether from having some difficulty with a part, just trying to catch up if we clear an area real fast, or even a mesmer who might have gotten locked out while heading back to help someone with a jumping portion.

A solution a lot of us in the guild have mentioned wanting is adding a lever or button on the other side of the door that can be opened by those who completed it so those who are trapped behind can rejoin the rest of the group.

I’m surprised I didn’t see this in the suggestions sub forum already (I did a search, but it came up with nothing).

edit: the search function might not be working since nothing is showing up with it at the moment.

Last night (on EB borderlands) I just saw a ton of FA guys charging up at us all the way to the spawn gates of the citadel. I’m guessing it’s a combination of fighting highly ranked worlds and being used to fighting BP and AR every week with little change.

I don’t think so. =\

Well, I’m in a small guild of like 3 people in Ehmry Bay and we prefer PvE and I’m on almost every night. But I’d also understand if you’d prefer to find a guild in your server first to save on transferring. (we’re mainly looking for people on our server because our long term goal is to get guild missions, but we wouldn’t mind people coming to hang out)

Regarding salvaging whites, don’t forget to take into account the profit you’d get selling the material, the cost of the kit per salvage, and compare to the price of selling it to a vendor. I’ve had times where it’s not worth it to salvage whites (but I also just use a basic salvage kit most of the time).

Hello, I’m from a small guild in Ehmry Bay called Lunar Blessing.

We’re a small PvE guild with 3 active members and we’re looking to expand a bit to make new friends and have the ability to do guild missions as our long term goal. We’re not out to try to become a mega-guild since we prefer small guilds where everyone knows each other and enjoys hanging out.

We’re pretty casual, but we still do dungeons from time to time (and I’ll personally join if invited at any time if I’m able). Just don’t expect much too much in terms of WvW and PvP. We’re also completely open to new comers and will gladly help them as much as we can.

We’re mostly in Eastern time zone and most active at night around when daily achievements reset and sometimes play for a few hours after. We have no requirements, but we hope to find some other active players.

I’m trying to finalize a good build for my ele before investing in a set of armor for him, but I’m finding it to be difficult. The problem is that I feel like I’m trying to get more than is possible. I love staff and glyphs (healing, storm, elementals, and renewal/elemental power), but I feel conflicted when I want to be able to do some support and fast attunement switch, but don’t want to give up damage.

So what I do know is that I want a minimum of 20 arcana for staff AoE and 10 air for fast glyphs, but unsure how I should spend the last 40 to get a good balance of support/damage/survival. I guess I want it to be an almost universal build where I can just swap utilities as needed, sometimes weapons (I usually use daggers when solo and staff when with others) without needing to carry around a few different armor sets and respec often.

Any advice? Or am I just trying to grab too many things at once? I love being able to change instantly for different situations and adapt, but can’t seem to find the right build for it.

I just did that mission last night and I completely agree! After all my hard times through Orr it felt great being able to mow down endless Risen with ease.

I thought it was a decent challenge. I would never solo her by myself though (at least with my ele). When I was coming through with a friend, who is a guardian and has that reflection wall which totally destroys the young karka when they shoot, we were able to take on the large karka with only a little difficulty (about 1 or 2 revives per battle), but won every time. I just wish the loot was better or more frequent for how long it takes to kill them sometimes.

Glad to see I’m not the only one yelling “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” when using the staff.

After my HOURS of attempts, I find that I get most messed up when grouped with other people. A vast majority of my fails come from not being able to see my character at all in the crowd. During the times I do get past them, I fail, but get farther with each attempt.