Guild Wars 2

I played a Witchhunter in Skyrim also.

Ice Bow Elementalist isn’t a bad idea, but the Ice Bow has limited uses before it has to recharge, so you won’t get much use out of it. Ranger is you’re generic pet class. It also has the ability to use magic to summon even more allies. (Oddly enough, this build, referred to as “Spirit Ranger” is very popular, and effective.)

Ranger sounds like it would be more your cup of tea. Also, its a user of Medium Armour, so it will be easier getting the witchhunter look.

Hey Everyone, I’ve been working on a project lately and I believe it’s finally time to share it.

When I started playing WvW, there were many enthusiastic, helpful and skilled players who made it their business to make sure that everyone around them knew what was going on in WvW, and why. However, players come and go, and often they do not pass along the knowledge that they’ve earned to others.

I’ve spent the last few months researching, collecting footage, asking questions of this forum, in order to create a guide that would be an updated, and more combat oriented version of Theongreyjoy’s incredibly comprehensive WvW guide, which you can find here: guildwars2.ro/Ghid-WvW.pdf

So! To the point, I’ve assembled this Commander’s Compendium, which contains all of the information that I was taught, and all of the information that I’ve collected in order to teach myself and others to zergbust, GvG and play effectively in the WvW environment. This is intended to be an educational resource for everyone, the entire forum community contributed to it’s creation, whether you knew it or not.

http://www.tinyurl.com/WvW-Combat-and-Tactics-doc
(Commander’sCompendium.pdf 14,563KB)

What it contains:
Introduction to WvW,
25 player Composition & Party Structure
Combos, Map Objectives, WvW Skills and Concepts
Leadership Skills, Trait Synergies, Siege Outline
Small and Large scale combat basics
Class Roles (GWEN+M+T+Eng)
Advanced Combat Tactics

There are many videos that are referenced inside, which serve as visual examples of many of the tactics and roles that are described in the document.

As with all things, this guide can be improved! Some of the things that I think can improve this guide are:
Video: Thief PoV, Gank Squad in 15v15 or 20v20
Video: Mesmer PoV, Gank Squad in 15v15 or 20v20
More proofing for clarity, grammatical, or spelling errors.

If you find an error, Please PM me with it’s location and description and I will fix them and I will update the document.
If you find material that you posted to this forum and find in the PDF, and you want to be credited, send me a PM and I’ll add you below

Special Thanks:[RG][NS][Agg][HOPE][TA][RE][PYRO][Ark], WvW Forum community, Theongreyjoy …

and I’ll leave this here, because this is where it all started for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYrQMoOBqaI
*all graphic materials are from the Guild Wars 2 Asset Kit

Seal, you are telling the same as I do, only you go in detail whereas I point the OP to those sites.. So exactly on what do you disagree ? XD
Meta’s are there for a reason..to inform players from an baseline experience. But my second paragraph (and also my opinion in this) is to choose your own path.
Reality however is that in group events, you are always requested a certain gear and skill set to have the most group efficiency; which is utterly BS, cuz player experience and skills are even if not more important…whats the use of Sword/Focus and Staff if you do not know how to use it hahaha

Just some general feedback about the bosses in this last season.

The Good:

Moving away from the DPS-and-dodge design that has dominated the PvE scene is a nice change of pace. Not that the old design was that bad when done well (see: Lupi), but having more active, mobile encounters is fun too. In this last episode, I found these elements of the encounter to be particularly nice additions:

I’ve noticed a lot of these elements in fights through the season, and think it’s a definitely a step in the right direction. I’d like to see a nice mix of these more active encounters combined with Lupis in future dungeons — that would make my day.

The Bad:

Too easy: no reset on wipe, OP rezzing by NPCs, actual fight went waaay too fast. Ofc, this is LS so the bar is necessarily lower than it would be in a dungeon, but I’d love to see a more challenging version of these fights in future instances.

The Ugly:

This is my biggest complaint, and the reason I’ll never enjoy these encounters as much as I’d like to: Accessibility.

Yes, the encounters are replayable. We can absolutely play them as many times as we’d like, and even party up to do it. But doing so requires spending an hour or more hopping around the map and clicking through dialogs to advance the story to get at the “interesting” bits. This has prevented me from playing any of these LS encounters more than once or twice.

I work; my playtime is limited. I don’t want to spend an hour speed clicking through dialogs, hopping around the map, and repeating puzzles just to do a 10 minute encounter. It’s not worth it, and poses a significant barrier to replaying (and thus fully enjoying) the content.

So my suggestions:

- Add subchapters to the story journal. Let us jump right into an encounter we want to play. This will make the replayability of these lovely encounters so much more enjoyable.
- Add a hard mode. I understand the current design is to add challenge through the story achievements. But a lot of those are just tedious OCD goals, and once you’ve done them, the challenge is gone. My suggestions for increasing the difficulty without much work on your end: (a) Reset the fight on wipe, (b) don’t provide resbot NPCs, and (.c) increase the damage and health of the boss a bit so it would take 3 or so rounds to finish. This last point would be especially interesting for parties in the last episode, as some players would need to be tanky for lighting walls, while others would need DPS for burning down the boss. Sounds fun to me
- A daily gold reward (something like 35s seems appropriate for a single encounter) would encourage people to add a few of these instances to a daily rotation.

In short, keep up the good work — the PvE encounters are improving, but need more challenge, reward, and accessibility.

Thanks for reading :-)

Sdamius.4587:

Please prepare yourself for some really noob questions, sorry.
I wanted to ask how do you access your profession skills? I played till level 8 and I have no idea how to use them. I’m a Charr Engineer, so I’m expecting to be able to pull out a turret and stuff, but how do I do it? I understand that there’s weapons skills, but are they different than the profession skill?

Turrets are Utility skills, so they are skills what you need to buy with skill points. You will open your first utility skill in level 13, second utility skill will open when you are level 17, third utility skill will open when you are level 19, and last elite skill you will open at level 31. So you should level more at least 5 levels to get first utility skill slot open.

All these utility skills and elite skills you need to buy with skill points, what you will earn in Skill challenges and some point of leveling.

You can find leveling rewards from this site:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Leveling_rewards

GabyThaPro.9306:

I really hate classes like sorcerer in Aion, so elementalist profession is out for me.

I think you should scrap your opinion on GW2 Elementalists by comparing them to “wizard” type classes in other games and try them out.

From what you described, you want a high DPS, risk taking class. Not much in the game can out damage a staff elementalist, but if staves and sitting in safe range isn’t what you’re looking for (it isn’t always that easy either), just take up any combination of daggers, scepter, or focus.
Think of it this way: a thief that uses elements.

You will be highly mobile, and since you’re sitting in close to mid range, your survivability will depend on your your positioning, dodging, and defensive skills. And when you can get downed in one hit, its very important to pay attention!
Having to master 20 spells in a weapon set instead of just 5 takes some time to learn too, but its very rewarding once you do!
(I actually leveled 2 elementalists before I learned the jist of them)

Breathing fire, making earthquakes or riding the lightning not exciting enough?
Grab a lightning hammer and bash everything into oblivion, it is that good.

In the end, I’m trying to sell you pancakes here, so here’s a TL:DR;
Elementalist are:
-high damage, high risk, very mobile
-bring a lot to the table for the group, from elemental weapons for more damage to heals
-having 20 skills per weapon set, you’ll constantly be switching between attunements and hitting keys. No sitting still!
-can summon elemental buddies when you get lonely
-want more weapons? A bow? Check. An axe? Check. Shield? Check. A kitten greatsword? Check!
-coolest class in the world? Yes.

So I’d say, its definitely worth giving them a chance! Just play around a bit and see if you like it, it only costs you a little bit of time.
If you’d like to know anything else, or need any help, you can poke me in game!

~Corylopsis