Guild Wars 2

Authority.6145:

Sheris.6789:

Do any of these builds work with full PvT gear? Or would I need to switch to berserker?

What is PVT gear?

Power, Toughness, Vitality.
Soldiers armor.

Swim.6830:

Korsbaek.9803:

given that eles have 4 weapon sets it would be a little to strong in my oppinion

and you can still run it without the 30 in arcana

I’ts kind of the point of having 4 weapons sets. Its’ what makes the class its own. Rangers have pets, necros have double HP bar etc etc. I am 100% behind the OP suggestion.

This exactly. Every class has its flavor. We are already limited to one weapon type already. Every other class can choose melee, mid or long ranged to swap in combat. While ele’s are limited to one type for all 4 attunements. Swapping should be 10 sec standard. Give some other stat for the Arcana line.

zastari.1730:

That sounds like Dane Train from [SM]. I’ve had the same thing happen with him multiple times. Easily the best Engi I’ve ever played with.

Dane has not been in WvW for sometime or even been playing for the past week or so.

Just letting you know there is an ongoing thread for staff changes if you care to add your info to it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/staff-fixes-improvements/page/2#post1940800

Caffynated.5713:

Fire
1 – faster projectile and reduce the cast time to match the tooltip (1 second)
2 – add an instant damage tick
3 – instant cast and increase the initial damage on cast to 0.75 damage modifier. Staff is a power weapon.
4 – add an initial AoE blast at the origination point. A reverse of burning speed.

Water
1 – should always heal the ele, even if he isn’t by the target
4 – should have a 30 second cooldown. It’s good. it’s not 40 second CD good.
5 – castable while moving

Air
1 – increase projectile speed and reduce cast time to match the tooltip.
2 – make it instant
3 – this skill never lands against moving targets. Make it a frontal cone launch
5 – should have a 30 second cooldown. It’s good. It’s not 40 second good.

Earth
1 – faster projectile
4 – should act like a guardian line of warding
5 – should be instant with a 3 second immob. Increase projectile speed.

Traits
Blasting staff – increase range of staff skills to 1500 similar to Eagle Eye

I agree with this and most of what is already posted in this thread. Also sorry for the long post.

Something else I would like addressed is the ability to run a condition staff ele. Right now you have earth 2 and 5 to apply bleed. Why doesn’t earth 1 apply 1 bleed? Ranger short bow 1, Warrior rifle 1, and mesmer staff 1 all apply bleed and have 1200 range. I would rather take the bleed off Earth 5 and give it to Earth 1 for stacking. Earth 2 is good but kitten if you are going to hit someone that is actually paying attention. So you can try to root or stun but any competent player has one or more stun breakers, teleport or just dodge it. It has a long cast time and a long animation before it hits.

Granted people use it as a blast finisher for boons and I do as well but it is the only real way to really apply bleeds with staff. The idea to be able to be able to explod it on demand sounded good. Similar to cluster bomb on the thief short bow. Make it if you explode it early you only get the damage/condi stat and no blaster finisher. Only if you allow the full animation will the finisher go off.

Earth 2 – 6 stack of bleeds for 12 sec, 6sec CD
Earth 5 – 1 stack of bleed for 20 sec, 2 sec root, 30sec CD
Fire 3 – 5 sec of burn, 10sec CD
Fire 4 – 1 sec of burn applied in field for 6 sec, 20sec CD

That is about it for damage dealing conditions with staff. Fire signet is pretty good burning and Earth signet for a root but using them puts you down 2 utilities with no stun breaks in them. The passives did get a small buff this patch at least. And they do have pretty long cast times as well, but at least you can move and cast them.

stale.9785:

Thor Rising.7850:

1200 range knockback on gust would be extremely op. I would be fine with it as is, just make it easier to land.

Giving the squishiest class in game a range maker that actually forces the enemy out to max range is OP?

Remember, ele’s can’t weapon swap in combat, and have no melee utility on staff.

Or possibly you’re still content with the idea of rolling full bunker, and dropping all your AoE at your feet, then running away. My goal is to make ranged combat viable for one of the two classes that ought to be good at it, but aren’t.

What about having the same mechanic as the mesmer’s KB. This would make it a cone to hit multiple attackers and also give you a tool to knock thieves out of refuge.

Really…. REALLY?!? well there goes all the progress we had made and were holding on to.

Most of what I would say has been said already. I just want to leave a note in case Anet are reading these. The skill bar swapping is very annoying and was unneeded. You are now throwing off every player that has trained themselves on the original order. Sure we could change our key bindings but this would then messed them up for all the other weapons…. I really have to wonder WHY?

I wouldn’t say swap at this point. The bubble is a def ability. As the 3 hit block/exp could be used offensive and does decent damage. I do wish the shield #4 also provided an interrupt or knockdown. The animation is even that of a shield bash type swing. I feel this would just go along even more with a def item like a shield. Having a way to stop channeling. Granted the bubble can move targets back but they just slide back. No knockdown or anything. Also the damage it does for the CD time isn’t that great and the protection granted is cone? why not AOE? I feel like many times I have to run around everything to get allies and enemies in the target cone, or just choose one or the other if I want to apply protection or hit for the small damage it does.

Here is a score screen shot for you.
http://i.minus.com/iKvA1UePVlFz1.jpg

It’s not that hard. You have the exotic Karma gear from the vendors in Orr. Each piece is 42k Karma. Also the wvwvw PVP exotic armor you buy with badges. Price ranges from 250ish? to 370 for the chest if I remember right. I bought 2 piece of pvp and the rest with karma for my set of pwr/vit/tgh.

I would also go with a focus due to the blind, condition removal and tkittenlock/aoe blast on the 5 skill. I would probably only go torch if you are a condition burning spec.

This site might help you choose. Just follow the steps and choose what armor set you are looking for. The armor set page will show you pics and scroll down to see stats and how/where to get it.

http://www.gw2armor.com/