Guild Wars 2

Cannot play at all right now due to crippling skill delay, every night starting around 6pm just as many others have said. Same story.

Hey, if you could use a build editor to show what you have currently that’d be great!

Gaudrath.6725:

icebreaker.9352:

Asura , I thought it would be harder to target me in WvW ..

And now you’re just small with funny ears.

Haha, My Ele is female Asura, the voice acting and dialog is just awesome and very entertaining, you can down me in the most unfair way imaginable but if my character screams ’I’m still smarter than you!’ in the downed state, it makes it all OK again :P

But…but you get the fire on the arm and footsteps and everything =/. Lol I understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m really happy with it! only got it a couple days ago now.

Lavadiel.6231:

Incinerator fits Charr or engi (who can not use daggers)
Imho Incinerator absolutely does not fit to an elementalist.
In addition usually you need 2 exactly same dagers to look good on an ele. An exception would be for example a fire dagger + watter dagger, that would look nice but those dont exist.

I have Incinerator and the Corrupted Shard on my Asura Ele for the fire and ice feel, I absolutely love how it looks. I actually think the dagger fits an elementalist quite well as you can’t really ‘stab’ anything with fire, you can however use it as a focus for abilities like Ele’s use daggers.

I’m using zerker trinkets too with PVT gear, standard monk+water runes setup, not running with EA anymore though, full bunker build just bores me too much nowadays. I’m running 0/20/0/30/20 for some nice damage and group support with Aura sharing.

I like to use lightning flash to get a long range burning speed, they’ll usually be surprised and dodge just after this so you can fire grab right after as they’ll still be on fire. Many of the things OP mentioned work well though and I use them all depending on the situation.

I made a video of exactly what I mean, this really bugs me…

I love playing my Asura characters, but there’s one thing that’s really bugging me and it’s the auto attack animations on my Elementalist (fire skill 1 I’m looking at you) and my Warrior with an axe or sword in hand.

Stood still the animations are perfect, but when moving the animation bugs and the top half of my asura spins spastically while the legs stay in the same place… PLEASE fix this.

No one would ever fill the order if I actually wanted to make money that way, lol.

Cake sounds pretty good, honestly…

I’m fairly new to this idea and would love to hear from anyone with some experience regarding what to do and what not to do, items that sell well and items that do not. What are the basics?

I’d like to point out that I have a (fairly) large deposit of gold of around 600g as I was lucky enough to have Dusk drop last month. How can I turn this in to more!

I will still be playing my D/D elementalist as I have been from the beginning. I am however worried about how they can reduce the effectiveness of all AoE without significantly nerfing my favorite play style into the ground….

when they say they want single target damage classes to stand out more it really boggles my mind as thieves are all ready slated for being too strong in their burst combo’s, now the only thing you can use to counter a thief is being nerfed? I’m not quite sure I understand….. we’ll see.

Hey Osicat, very impressive and overall helpful videos, would you mind giving me a quick rundown of the gear you’re using? That burst is just incredible…

Raine.1394:

There have been good suggestions given. I don’t have any additional Mesmer counters to suggest. PVT gear is good. You need to build tanky if you are playing the spec, but especially if you are pvping as I see you are. I would reevaluate the benefit of healing power and not be afraid to work in a little precision into the build. D/D ele is my least favorite class to play against no matter what profession I’m playing. They have adequate damage capabilities, an extremely synergistic build, and the ability to shape and extend a fight if desired. When a fight extends and you are a good player there are more opportunities for opponents to make errors. When you watch good ele’s like daphoenix, they make extensive use of extending fights. While the Mesmer is my favorite profession in regards to playstyle, my money would be on a D/D ele given equal player skill.

For most classes, stacking healing power is almost useless as it scales best from area heals, which are plentiful for an elementalist if you’re traited for healing ripple in D/D. As it stands my max health is around 17k (depending on bonuses etc). I am am not using the cookie cutter 0/10/0/30/30 build that every D/D ele and their mother is using atm, I am running a 10/25/0/20/15 build for more precision and crit damage and 10% more damage in fire. My burst is pretty decent and survivability is also very good.

I think what it comes down to is not understanding the mesmer well enough to effectively counter, I don’t have a problem with any other class 1v1. Thanks for all the suggestion and tips guys, I will put these in to practice

I’m certainly not glass cannon, PVT gear and cleric acc’s. I’m probably just being outplayed, I know my class pretty well and rarely lose a 1v1 scenario, unless it’s a mesmer :P I will have to keep practicing against them, thanks for the replies people!

Hey guys,

I’d love if anyone could post any tips and tricks against fighting Mesmers as a whole, things I should look at for and expect etc.
The last couple of days I’ve come across a few Mesmers that I have found very difficult to fight against. Now, I have only played a Mesmer up to level 20 or so as my main is D/D Elementalist and has been since the beginning so I’m not informed on popular builds and such.
The things I have noticed is the Mesmer’s I have been fighting are spawning a LOT of illusions, and shattering them constantly. No matter what I try I’m being burst down very quickly. I have fought Mesmer’s in the past and don’t find it terribly difficult to stick to the target but that’s not the problem here, I’m not able to do nearly enough damage to a Mesmer but they seem to be able to get me down very quickly.

Anyway, would really appreciate all input and suggestions!

Highlet.8039:

OP needs to say OP more in OP.

That actually annoyed me to no end, quoting it seemed like effort though, however.

Why are you wasting a trait on Quick glyphs when you’re not even using it sometimes and only have one glyph on your bar? Wouldn’t Zephyrs focus be a better choice for the extra dodges with S/D?

They definitely break stuns, are you sure you’re not being immobilised? Immobilise is a condition, not a stun.

haha, loved it

Second this, PLEASE fix it!

JonPeters.5630:

Can I start? Icy Mist. This trait is really bad and should be merged with Soothing Wave to make room for a fall damage reduction trait.

It’s about time!

I can’t recall any other Dagger with an effect, I think this may be it. I have two mystic spikes myself.

Creslin.1758:

Strodor.6051:

Creslin.1758:

ThiBash.5634:

Yeroc.7516:

Other than that though, I can’t think of anything that would be OP.

The fact that you can’t think of anything right now doesn’t mean certain combinations couldn’t eventually arise. Even the added blast finishers you mentioned are essentially buffs.

The thing is really, you’re missing the bigger picture here. Sure, it would be cool, and sure, it would be useful. However, skills were separated by weapon for a reason. Guild Wars 1 was a nightmare to balance. Guild Wars 2 a lot less. Adding more complications to it is really something you should avoid, unless there’s no other way to fix it.

Seeing as how this weapon swap ‘issue’ can be solved by other means, I propose to do just that. As Jamie Hyneman would say: “Simpler is better.” And right now, simple fixes would be to either give the Frost Bow 1200 range, or reverse the direction on Magnetic Grasp. Neither of those will cause even half the balance headache your suggestion does.

Imagine how brutal focus would be with all its defensive skills if you could switch to D/D. Obsidian flesh + churning earth, drop swirling winds and then switch to D/D to melee while immune to projectiles. Oh and auramancers? Yeah that’s three auras you can cast now instead of just 2…the buffs would be ridiculous.

Drop an eruption with staff and magnetic aura, and then switch to D/D and lightning flash + churning earth for like 14 stacks of bleed on a group, and immunity to projectiles.

Those are just a few I can think of…

You missed an important point within the OP, swapping weapons would put all of your attunements except the one you’re in, as well as your other weapon set on a 15 second cool down, what you say would not be possible if it was implemented like this.

Eruption + magnetic aura -> churning earth is all earth my friend. As is obsidian flesh -> churning earth.

My bad, eruption = lava font in my head.

Creslin.1758:

ThiBash.5634:

Yeroc.7516:

Other than that though, I can’t think of anything that would be OP.

The fact that you can’t think of anything right now doesn’t mean certain combinations couldn’t eventually arise. Even the added blast finishers you mentioned are essentially buffs.

The thing is really, you’re missing the bigger picture here. Sure, it would be cool, and sure, it would be useful. However, skills were separated by weapon for a reason. Guild Wars 1 was a nightmare to balance. Guild Wars 2 a lot less. Adding more complications to it is really something you should avoid, unless there’s no other way to fix it.

Seeing as how this weapon swap ‘issue’ can be solved by other means, I propose to do just that. As Jamie Hyneman would say: “Simpler is better.” And right now, simple fixes would be to either give the Frost Bow 1200 range, or reverse the direction on Magnetic Grasp. Neither of those will cause even half the balance headache your suggestion does.

Imagine how brutal focus would be with all its defensive skills if you could switch to D/D. Obsidian flesh + churning earth, drop swirling winds and then switch to D/D to melee while immune to projectiles. Oh and auramancers? Yeah that’s three auras you can cast now instead of just 2…the buffs would be ridiculous.

Drop an eruption with staff and magnetic aura, and then switch to D/D and lightning flash + churning earth for like 14 stacks of bleed on a group, and immunity to projectiles.

Those are just a few I can think of…

You missed an important point within the OP, swapping weapons would put all of your attunements except the one you’re in, as well as your other weapon set on a 15 second cool down, what you say would not be possible if it was implemented like this.

I don’t see how this would be overpowered, yes it gives us some extra flexibility in terms of ranged and melee combat. However, it also severely limits what you can do during the 15 seconds your attunements and other weapon set are on cool down, it would have to be used strategically. For instance if your caught without 3/4 of your abilities, you’re essentially screwed, no gap closers, CC. You’re stuck for 15 seconds with your trousers down.

Fumo.8735:

Wintersday is coming and I know you smart types are up to your tricks… what with your high tech present pranks and what not. You be good this Holiday season because Toymaker Tixx is checking his list and he is checking it twice.
I’ll be watching you myself, you little boogers. Be good!
-Anonymous Charr

You’re dumb, you’ll die and you’ll leave a dumb corpse. Wintersday IS coming. Be ready.

Riiko.4512:

I really love Asuras ! For one, the animations are adorable. Especially the dancing.
Also, I find it really cool how my Asura warrior yells "For great Justice ! " , pulls out her rifle with one hand and fires away at a towering foe. The awesome dodge roll also roped me in .

Here is my favorite dialogue so far:
" I have a major in pain, and a minor in suffering . "

This is my favorite “You’re dumb, You’ll die, and you’ll leave a dumb corpse”

I think you’ve pretty much hit the nail on the head here, It’s not than D/D needs any sort of buff, because it doesn’t. I believe it’s in a fairly good place at the moment, However, everything else could use some attention. Our traits, weapon skills Etc.

Wow, Get a mouse A.S.A.P

This is my Asura elementalist, She’s just so kitten adorable!

what’s not to love about the asura?

I really hope they do something with it, would be nice to have the weapons scaled up a bit so we can actually show them off.

I haven’t really tried Glass Cannon D/D, the notion of it just seems a little silly to me, impractical. Low HP, low armor… you must have a hell of a fun time with GC thieves. who have A higher Hp pool, more damage output and stealth. I’ll stick to my 10/10/10/20/20 Build. Pretty decent damage and survivability.

Personally I very much enjoy D/D, which is fortunate because it’s pretty much the only weapon set, except for scepter dagger that’s viable in PvP. Even S/D has it’s draw backs and I still wouldn’t use it in 1v1 situations.

I would love some more options but the only time i ever use staff is when I’m defending a keep. D/D is far superior everywhere else. It really shouldn’t be this way.

I swapped the 10 points in acana into fire and running with 10% more damage in fire as D/D.

I find it actually works better than before, I prefer the extra damage as most of my burst comes from the fire attunement. That’s not to say I stick to fire… no, my play style has barely changed but now my burst is stronger.

This will either get merged or deleted, they’re not going to respond.

It can’t be taking this long to iron out a few bugs with them if people managed to change their appearance successfully when they were accidentally added to the game.

I reeeeaally want these items now.

Thieves definitely need to be brought down a notch in PvP if you ask me. Although don’t go on the thief forums and tell them that. I swear the majority of thief players are whiney 12 year olds that want a ‘I win’ button on their class and they will defend there class blindly to the point where trying to reason with them is absolutely pointless.

Mage.6045:

I don’t play Asura (they just don’t strike me that way) but I do think that they are an awesome race. I think Anet worked wonders creating them. Still I don’t feel like playing one.. strange…

But their laughing animation is SO over the top and it fits their personality so well… I mean what other race would you see rofling

Their /threaten animation is equally adorable. I love doing it in WvW, they look like they’re trying to hard to be threatening but failing miserably.

Erebus Delirium.4892:

Strodor.6051:

Erebus Delirium.4892:

Finally, the cat is out of the bag. This build is drastically overpowered. When I first started going up against players using this build, I called it the “armored cannon build” because that’s exactly what it is.

This is pretty much THE Elementalist build for WvW. This build is going cookie-cutter and needs a nerf for good reason. The “only 0.1% of players are capable of playing this way” argument is completely inaccurate. The same argument was once used for Mesmers, and look what happened to them.

Learn to counter it and you’ll be fine. We need to be close to you to do anything, so use any immobilize/stun you have.

Our main damage skills are fairly easy to evade if you know what to look for, See a ball of lighting coming at you? dodge just as it hits you. This will also stopped you from getting knocked down as most players will use updraft just as they hit. Same goes with burning speed, use whatever you can to get away and keep your distance from us.

I’m sorry, please don’t try to play the L2P card. I can dodge every lightning ball and bolt. I can even come at you from behind when you don’t notice me, have complete control of the fight, stun you in between attacks, and still lose.

The problems:

1) DPS is significantly reduced against you.
2) Your HP regenerates rapidly.
3) Your DPS is on par with a glass cannon Mesmer.
4) Your mobility is second only to Thief.
5) Your sustainability is greater than a Necromancer..

All of these features combined makes the build too strong and too popular in WvW.

If all you say is true, you shouldn’t even be having a problem with us. So yeah, L2p. Sounds to me like you’re trying to win a fight with us using a glass cannon thief. If this is the case; Why the hell are you kittening because your main counter is winning most of the fights you encounter? You can’t expect to have it easy with every class/build.

Erebus Delirium.4892:

Finally, the cat is out of the bag. This build is drastically overpowered. When I first started going up against players using this build, I called it the “armored cannon build” because that’s exactly what it is.

This is pretty much THE Elementalist build for WvW. This build is going cookie-cutter and needs a nerf for good reason. The “only 0.1% of players are capable of playing this way” argument is completely inaccurate. The same argument was once used for Mesmers, and look what happened to them.

Learn to counter it and you’ll be fine. We need to be close to you to do anything, so use any immobilize/stun you have.

Our main damage skills are fairly easy to evade if you know what to look for, See a ball of lighting coming at you? dodge just as it hits you. This will also stopped you from getting knocked down as most players will use updraft just as they hit. Same goes with burning speed, use whatever you can to get away and keep your distance from us.

Fritz.5026:

at this point getting decent names that are not already taken is not easy, so take what you like and be happy.

also remember, most people will refer to you as your character name so dont pick something you dont want to be called repeatedly.

Haha. This. I named my ( what i thought would be at the time) alt Asura elementalist ‘Smaggle’ as I fell in love with my little Asura it become my main. I am now constatly referred to as Smaggle by my guild.

I pretty much picked the default Asura female face for my Asura elementalist when I was making the character quickly with friends who were also trying out the Asura. Little did I know how much I would love my new chraracter and her adorable animations/ voice acting. Now I’m stuck at 80 with the default face kitten it.

T-t-t-tripple Post!

It was awesome, really enjoyed the fight and the lot at the end.

Would really love a response. Just a simple ’We’re working on it’ or ’It’s on halt for now’ would do fine.

Wallach.7291:

Strodor.6051:

Gender change is going to be included within one of the kits, when they were accidentally added you could see what they did.

Was re-naming part of any of the services when they were briefly visible?

I believe so yes, If I remember correctly these files are still within the game and there was a post on GuildWars Guru that shows the items.

This took a while to find again, but here:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/news/824-new-items-coming-soon/

Gender change is going to be included within one of the kits, when they were accidentally added you could see what they did.

I’ve been using that trait for a while in sPvP for the extra 1k Vitality it gives, you really do notice it.

I know this effected staff users way more than it did for a D/D user like me, but I still used it, and I still loved it for stacking might so I could at least have some damage. Shame that it’s gone.

However, Sticking the 10 points from Acana into fire and using 10% more damage while attuned to fire has given me a much more reliable damage output. So i don’t NEED to stay alive longer with evasive roll in water and healing blast finishers because I can kill my enemies quicker.