Guild Wars 2

With the recent patch nerfing Feel the Burn and Flash Freeze cooldowns, I feel like adding a 20% cooldown reduction to Tempestuous Aria is easily justified. It would return the cooldowns for those two very close to their previous cooldowns, help the awful cooldowns that keep the other utility shouts underused, and make the trait more competitive against Invigorating Torrents, especially if you aren’t going bunker or healbot.

They could tie in mounts with an expansion with this structure.

Something like a Kralk expansion with 4 expansive desert zones without many waypoints, mounts masteries for combat or perma super speed.

Edit: and maybe bring them to central Tyria in some form a few months after release to entice the f2p or HoT players.

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This is the build I’ve been running in PvE for a while. I find that a big part of D/F’s survivability comes from Signet of Restoration just because of how many skills you use in D/F rotations. I couldn’t imagine running ele without it, because we’re so squishy being able to regain health throughout a fight is necessary. Another thing I’d suggest is adding water line for survivability, I personally couldn’t imagine playing without it. It has some nice traits, and with Aquamancer’s Training you get the 10% over 90% and 33% reduced cooldowns on 2 blast finishers.

Evasive Arcana may be a better option than Elemental Surge. I haven’t run any math on it, but with Elemental Surge you can get 1 stack every 20 seconds and 5 stacks every 36 seconds and with Evasive Arcana you get 2 stacks (with longer duration) every 7 seconds or whenever you swap fire. It has the benefit of being effected by Pyromancer’s Training, which you should totally be using, it’s great. You also get dodge rolls in water for survivability, and another blast finisher in earth. Plus, it frees up heal for Signet of Restoration and another utility slot.

Flamewall will probably do more damage in PvE than Ring of Fire just because RoF is dependent on enemy movement in and out of the ring. Flamewall pulses for things standing inside of it, so for stationary PvE targets it will deal more damage.

That’s about all I have, this build definitely wouldn’t do as much raw condition damage as possible but thats a tradeoff I’m willing to make. Been having a ton of fun with this build.

This thread should probably be on the Elementalist forum.

But I personally would take the auto cleansing fire, more might, more cleanse and the burn is pretty good, better than the burn duration and small burn proc imo. Also, Carrion works wonders for condi ele, you can stomp other celes all day as long as they don’t have Diamond Skin.

Been running that exact trait setup since the patch yesterday and have been loving it, it’s pretty similar to the D/F build I had been using the last few months (6/0/0/2/6).

I run the same skills except I replace armor of earth with Glyph of Elemental Power. It’s an “I win” button against certain classes if you use it in the right attunement. Fire procs 2 stacks of burning, which lets you burn through bunkers like nothing. Water is situational but really good for 1v1s against other eles. Air shuts down burst builds pretty hard. Earth makes it hard to let people escape.

I take Sigil of Hydromancy for an extra attack to add into spikes. This build is pretty close range so it synergizes well (plus nobody expects the down state synergy).

I take Runes of the Traveler because I’m lazy and like the passive movement speed but the condition and boon duration are nice now that they’re so much harder to get.

Other than that I’d suggest trying the build with Carrion instead of Celestial. With GoeP Fire it’s pretty terrifying and with the extra water traits it feels like the build has more sustain with less healing power now. With all the active defenses and cc that focus has it seems to work better for me.

As an owner of the Endless Mystery Cat Tonic as well, I think it would be pretty cool if the transformation time was increased to be 15 minutes like most other tonics that enable costume brawl, instead of it’s current 5 minutes.

Are there any other tonics that have a different duration from the (seemingly) standard 15 minutes?

As someone who owns a bell myself, I unfortunately doubt they will never reach the same price as items like the Ghastly Grinning Shield Skin. Even if they don’t return this year, there are still a lot of the bells floating around and unlike skins they don’t become soulbound or become removed from the market after use.

But putting that aside, based on Halloween 2012 vs. Halloween 2013, I’m going to assume that the Unbreakable Choir Bells will still be available. They come from wintersday gifts, which are similar to trick-or-treat bags which were unchanged from last Halloween.

In regards to Festivoo the Merry, I feel like it will be unavailable this year. The minis from Halloween 2012 were unavailable Halloween 2013, which is probably how the Wintersday 2012/2013 ones will work.

I’ve had no support response since the 11th, but I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to respond to the ticket so I made a response on the 13th. They did say that a Senior Member would review my ticket, so that may be increasing the wait time.

Ticket Reference #130903-000476

I requested an account restoration via the support site(my account was hacked, had all its characters deleted, and had a character created on it named “Hehhehe”), however in the end I received an E-mail that had me change my password, and if I had any further questions. I had already changed my passwords to everything related, re installed Windows, and attached an authenticator to my account when I received this E-mail.

I was wondering if this password change is just a phase of the restoration, or if there was some misunderstanding about my request. I noticed that my initial ticket name “Account Hacked Characters Deleted” had been changed to “Access Lost”. Could that have something to do with this?

My apologies if this has been answered before, but I looked and couldn’t find any information regarding the account restoration process.

The ticket reference number is 130903-000476

Are you talking about this?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Personal_Merchant_Express
I’ve owned both the Personal Merchant Express and the Personal Trading Post Express for months and I can confirm that they haven’t changed. The permanent contracts have always been for personal use, as their name implies.

Aphix.9846:

Yes, I would please love a developer response on exactly why are WvW ranks character bound ? Especially when sPvP ranks are account wide, why is this any different ? For me it does not make any sense especially with the amount of ranks there are…

I recall their response to the whole sPvP ranks being account bound because they offer no benefits in game, as it’s only a number. I also recall them saying that WvW ranks are character bound for the opposite reason, as they provide distinct bonuses in combat.

Fantastic guide! I decided to read it after the 5th or 6th person asked me if I was the author of the guide, as my IGN for my elementalist is Neko.

Julie Yann.5379:

I’m hoping that if the Ellen wins and the fuse weapon facility gets added to the Fractals that we might have a rare chance of dropping a fuse weapon ticket in it.

Fortunately, the Molten Weapon Facility fractal will be coming back regardless of if Ellen or Evon wins. The only differences are with Ellen you get Thaumanova, Aetherblade Retreat and Molten Weapons Facility and with Evon you get Abaddon, Aetherblade Retreat and Molten Weapons Facility!

I was planning on doing this for Evon, but just so you know the banners do NOT work like a typical banner. You get a “Banner Bundle” which gives you a banner you can place (cosmetic only) and a Support Token Boost akin to every other boost. You cannot boost anybody’s votes but your own.

During the Cutthroat Politics preview on Twitch, the demonstrator talks to a vendor that is selling 1 support token for 14 silver and 10 support tokens for 1 gold.

I’ll probably be sinking a lot of gold into Evon.

EDIT: Upon further thought, buying support tokens is probably an even better thing for the Evon campaign, because the people who would vote for Kiel for the WP cost reduction probably don’t have much gold to spare.

I’ll be giving 1g to the first fifty people who whisper me if Evon wins, in order to counteract the 1g that people would save over the 4 weeks of discounted waypoints if Kiel wins. I don’t know if I’d consider that buying votes, but if Evon wins be sure to add me.

EDIT: Upon viewing the Twitch Cutthroat Politics preview, I decided that it would be better for me to throw my gold at buying support tokens instead giving it to others if Evon wins. If you are one of the people who sent me mail prior to this decision, you’ll still get your compensatory gold if he wins.

The two points at the end can go either way, though.

1. Receive the Thaumanova fractal, and have a low probability of ever witnessing the events at the Fall of Abaddon again(A world changing event!! That deals with the gods who are probably related to the elder dragons!)
2. Or, choose Evon, for the Fall of Abaddon fractal, and have a high probability of learning more about the dragons in the future.

I’m going with Evon, because I’d rather see an area with models that have never been seen in GW2 before, instead of seeing a bunch of floating cubes for the umpteenth time.

In the livestream, Colin confirmed that the Abaddon fractal is going to be about the 5 gods imprisoning him rather than the events that occurred in Nightfall.

Plus, Colin said to vote for Evon.

Good luck Team Kiel, looks like you’re going to need it.

Evon has my support.

Considering how divided and angry some people on this forum seem to be, I’m actually kind of worried about what the community will do once this patch goes live.

Looks like the celestial items will have more critical damage on them than berserker, even.

EDIT:
Looked into it more; boots, gloves, and mantle have equal critical damage to berserker. Pants, chest, and head have 1% more critical damage than berserker. One handed weapons have equal critical damage to berserker, and two handed weapons have a 1% more critical damage than berserker.

Just a quick question, where exactly was it stated that ascended weapons would be releasing this upcoming patch?

It looks like a good day to be a staff elementalist.

Or rather, it will be in 5 days.

There are 3 effigies in 10 different zones each, allowing for 30 per character as of right now. They are in Caledon Forest, Metrica Province, Brisban Wildlands, Kessex Hills, Gendarran Fields, Snowden Drifts, Wayfarer Foothills, Diessa Plateau, and Plains of Ashford.

EDIT: Just tested, guesting resets the effigies meaning you can get it on one character.

I can confidently say that the Fervid Censer does not clip with my Charr character!
But that is only because it’s floating several inches away from his back.

Backpack placement needs to be worked on, but as far as I can tell they fit the backpack’s placement to one body type of each race so if you don’t have that body type you’re out of luck. It would probably be a tough thing to fix due to technical limitations.

I noticed that on the game release page that when hovering over the bottom nine images, they all have fairly straightforward names. However, the image with all the races posing together is titled “The End of Culling”. Anet did an amazing job removing culling from WvW, but what is different about this image is that it is obviously taken in Orr. Perhaps this is a hint about possible removal of culling outside of WvW, which would do a great deal to make populated areas look more alive.

I am one of the people who purchased an Infinite Molten Berserker Tonic, and I must say that it is a fantastic tonic. It can do every emote, though a few are bugged and get cut short, and a lot of its actions have a unique sound (jumping, /laughing, etc.). It seems like everyone I meet who has it, though, wishes that it had some form of costume brawl skills.

Obviously, giving it similar skills to the actual Molten Berserker wouldn’t work. Most tonics can’t jump, so the shockwave wouldn’t work, and putting a teleport skill onto a costume brawl skillset would probably effect standard play in some way. But if we could have a skill similar to his 3 hit attack during the boss fight and something like a PBAoE stomp, it wouldn’t be particularly strong, but would definitely add a little more flavor to the tonic for a (currently) 80 gold pricetag.

Regardless of costume brawling with it, I really feel like this is the best tonic currently in game, and I intend to keep it until the end of GW2.

This is the current set that I’m using for my elementalist, went for a shamanistic look.
T3 Charr Head
T3 Charr Shoulders
HotW Gloves
Drybones Chest
Drybones Pants
T1 Charr Feet
As a side note, I really like the contrast on the new dyes.

Serious.4839:

Going for the Bifrost on my elementalist.
Gift of Mastery – 1/1
Gift of Fortune – 1/1
Gift of Bifrost – 0/1
-Gift of Energy – 1/1
-Gift of Color – 0/1
—Opal Orb – 100/100
—Pile of Crystalline Dust – 250/250
—Unidentified Dye – 250/250
—Arah Tokens – 0/500
-Superior Sigil of Nullification – 1/1
-Icy Runestone – 1/100
The Legend – 0/1

All of my current gold is going into a fund for my precursor.

I finally got my precursor from forging 80 rare staves! Going for Arah tokens finally.

Going for the Bifrost on my elementalist.
Gift of Mastery – 1/1
Gift of Fortune – 1/1
Gift of Bifrost – 0/1
-Gift of Energy – 1/1
-Gift of Color – 0/1
—Opal Orb – 100/100
—Pile of Crystalline Dust – 250/250
—Unidentified Dye – 250/250
—Arah Tokens – 0/250
-Superior Sigil of Nullification – 1/1
-Icy Runestone – 1/100
The Legend – 0/1

All of my current gold is going into a fund for my precursor.

Someone found a town clothing crown in the data files, it looks almost identical to the Toad King’s crown.

The only thing that I can think of is that maybe you have the bomb equipped, which would be hiding your other skills. Your 5 skill should unequip your bomb and allow you to access the other skills if this is the case.

i agree with nemui, there is no way we’ll get a significant amount of data just by using the forums, though

I agree that the precursor market is way out of whack. I am one of many people who have three gifts finished and just need the precursor. All we can do is farm, play the TP, or wait for the scavenger hunt. As you still earn gold from merely playing, I’m opting for the third option, and if I get enough gold for the Legend before there is a solid way to get it, I’ll be buying it.

In respects to the scavenger hunt, it could be coming out on the 26th patch and we wouldn’t know until the patchnotes are released. Anet specifically said they wouldn’t announce it because it would cause the precursor market to crash.

achensherd.2735:

While I’m not saying hacking isn’t a possibility, if they were hacking, why stop at 22? If you’ve seen the bots in this game (at least back when they were more rampant), they’re capable of Jumper-like abilities. Hacking to level 22 would be oddly small potatoes.

Oh geez, this thread is old.

Serious: what happened?

I didn’t hack at all, by the time I was up to level 22 it was about 6000 centaur kills for a level (with exp bonus from food). And the reason I accidentally left was because I wanted to see if I could kill a hand of the earth elemental in one hit, but I was using engie rifle 1’s skill and it penetrated and one hit them both ;_;

The most interesting thing I remembered was this:

At level 10, and all 12 levels afterwards, the kill that netted me a level would give me a blue weapon that I could use (Rifle, pistol, shield). This was strange, because centaurs never dropped anything other than Tiny Supply Bags, Rawhide Leather Straps, and Hooves normally. I’m gonna test it with the 0 drops for my new guy.

There was a lot more but I can’t really remember right now.

Sorry to necro this, but I thought it was funny that when I googled “Legendary Defender of Shaemoor” today this post popped up.

I just wanted to see if anyone else had tried to level up in the starting zone, and as far as I can tell I haven’t seen anybody trying to. I am going to attempt it again, because on my level 22 I accidentally the Earth Elemental and left the zone a few months ago.

The pic is one of my last days there on Danger Jones.

Wish me luck.

P.S. I think they disabled drops in the starting zones because of people like me. The loot bags I was getting were ridiculous.

Edit: P.S. Some interesting things happened there after a while, if anyone wants to know I’d be happy to divulge any info.

LithePanther.5027:

You buy them on another character and use the transmutation trick to switch the skins to the character you want it on.

I can confirm this, I did it on my Priory elementalist yesterday. Gave him Whispers armor.

After you buy the armor you want with another character, transmute the look onto a white rarity item, which will allow you to move it to the character you want the armor on. Just transmute it to them from there.

The trick uses twice the transmutation stones, but it’s the only way to do it.

Score upd8!!!!!!!!

I heard about this idea a few months ago in another thread about putting less incentive on zerging, and I thought it was a great idea.

The gist of it was that any groupings of players that is greater than a certain number would show up on your map similarly to cross-swords. There probably could and would still be zerg on zerg fighting (especially for keeps), but it would make zergs a lot less effective at offense because a 50 man zerg at a tower can be pretty easily stopped by 10-15 people if the defenders have a heads up. Zergs would become much less efficient at rolling through towers with an indicator of their location.

Props to both JQ and BG for good fights, it’s refreshing to fight an uphill battle this week, at least from my point of view. I’m definitely learning more about strategy this week than in the previous ten in tier 1, not to say those weren’t good battles. Hopefully someday soon I’ll be confident enough in WvW to use my commander tag against you guys. See you on the battlefield!

Score update brought to you by Qüaggan!

Notes are up.

Elementalist

Fixed a bug that caused several spells, including Tornado, Arcane Shield, and most frequently Whirlpool, to sometimes fail to display any graphics.

Arcane Power: The number of uses on this skill’s effect will now decrease if an attack lands or if the attack is negated by Blind, Block, Evade, Obstructed, or Invulnerable.

Arc Lightning: Fixed a bug which would cause this skill’s animation effects to continue playing after the skill ended.

Evasive Arcana: This trait no longer enables players to break knockback effects.
Glyph of Renewal: Increased this skill’s cast time while underwater from 1 second to 3.5 seconds.

Ice Spikes: This skill now appropriately displays area-of-effect rings.

Rock Spray: Skill facts for this skill now display the proper distance and bleed damage.

Vapor Form: This skill will no longer allow players to rally off of kills that grant zero experience. This skill will now also properly restore death state on completion.

8.625/10 because of the Codex Alera reference and a name that works well with both your class and your legion.

And to the unfortunate soul below me:
Neko, the Elementalist.

Score as of 6:30 am server time.

Score at ~5 minutes before 11 am server time.

Score at 11:30 server time.

dekyos.1548:

This week SoS won’t have a 1 time only event to skip in full force and jump 30,000 points instantly with. The larger portion of their lead last round was acquired during the 5 hour period when everyone was fighting that stupid giant crab for 20 slot chests.

This week you won’t have a 1 time only event to attend in full force and fall 30,000 points behind instantly with. The larger portion of your deficit last round was acquired during the 5 hour period when you were fighting that stupid giant crab for 20 slot chests.

Don’t forget, if you would have done the same as us you wouldn’t have fallen so hard. Your absence was crucial to us gaining a lead. Nothing stopped you from going to WvW, so maybe instead of giving the event credit for our lead last week, you could give yourself some credit for it too.

Now onto 11/23’s matchup, it’s been fun so far, I can’t wait to see more of all of you in the coming days. See you on the battlefield, everyone!

As someone who has to work late on Sunday nights (banquet hall manager), I was so glad that when I got home and logged into the Southsun Cove it said that the event was moving the ancient karka to the nesting grounds. Fast forward 45 minutes (I got on around 11:15 PM CST), and it disconnected on the final phase of the event.

I understand that there were people who put more time and effort into the event than me. Would my lesser participation be enough to warrant reward compensation?

Earlier this week I tried to purchase gems with my credit card, kept getting the “Card Approval Failed” error and thought I’d try with a debit card instead. 2 days later I tried with a debit card and continued to get the “Card Approval Failed” error. I submitted a ticket on the issue 3 days ago when debit wouldn’t work, and haven’t gotten a response yet. Reference number is [120918-001048].