And this goes with my post. Realistically, what can we do to him? I feel it’s extremely awkward that they’ve introduced a Sargeras type character so early. Flora/Earth and Mind, who else can compete with this enemy?
By all indication, even if he does have his own body, what stops him from moving on in another form? The only ambiguous hint is the heart, in Heart of Thorns. But still, this is too much and I don’t see anything else being even remotely on the same level.
Well, it seems he has a core (like a seed?), and we’ve seen mordrem flee from Holy Fire in Season 2, and also, Glints EGG! I think the egg will be important to defeat the “core of thorns”, Mordremoth brain/heart.
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When i saw the trailer i always thought that as an avatar due the way “he” can form and dissolve from vines. Maybe Mordremoth hasnt any face, just his core. It would be interesting, but maybe people would find boring to fight a cluster of trunks in final confront hehehe
A voice that seems to be Mordremoth itself says:
“I AM THIS WORLD.”
“YOU ARE PART OF ME.”
“IT’S TIME TO COME HOME.”
So, he seems to talk for himself, unlike Zaithan? Is he without form, just his heart (of thorns) being his “true physic self”? Are those phrases just the call to sylvaris or a call to all beings in Tyria (its time to come home)?
Are we even sure that the voice that calls itself the Pale Tree is infact the Pale Tree?
We may have yet another Elder Dragon(one of Light) on our hands trying to corrupt the Pale Tree’s children by giving them the Dream and getting interrupted by Mordremoth/The Nightmare cutting in……
it would be more interesting, maybe a “good” dragon.
Yes, Water Elem with Benevolent Runes or New Water Grandmaster trait is like a healer, great in team fights and even holding nodes until reiforcements come. You heal more your teammates than yourself (your water autoattack aoe heals too).
I play D/D Zerker.
And yeah today i got a whisper from a warrior: wtf dmg
When i made him half hp in under a sec with burning speed arcane projectile and arcane wave, finishing him of with a 11k fire grab xD.
I usually manage to bring down enemies before they even know whats happening.
With Healing Build and Staff i rarely die (if ficused i can run, drop stuns, and heal me), but my purpose is help my team in Team fights. Stack might to do some damage, hide and drop some Meteor then heal your team.
Might is easier to get now, everyone in a party can blast lava font. Staff Elementalists are required in WvW zergs too. Have you joined some organized WvW Guild?
Without conjures ele will cease to be viable in dungeons. It’s conjured weapons that make ele the top dog in the tough fight for spots in dungeon speedrun parties, and at the moment eles are quite viable in every other area of the game (including PvP thanks to the runes of strength and celestial amulet change last patch).
What you are asking for is the same as killing off this class completely in one area of the game.
Well, Staff Berserker elementalist OutDPSed Hammer builds before patch and still has more DPS than many professions right now (PVE). We can live without Hammer, but the Staff rotation is quite boring.
Well, celestial amulet is the best for a hybrid profession like Elem. The signet reversion helps a lot too. The Water new trait with healing sigils and runes make you a really good Healer. I can survive some bursts and heal me really fast.
So, i’ve been testing Water Bot Elementalist. New Water Grandmaster trait + monk runes + sigil of benevolence (celestial amulet, traits 0/0/2/6/6). It’s great for team fights, you feel like a Healing profession .
Anyway, i’m not sure if it is viable in competitive matchs. Anyone have tested or seen this build in competitive tournaments?
Actually, Marjory speaks about him in Origins of Madness patch. He’ll likely appear more next season, given the Marjory Sister-Seraph as backstory. He contacts her from time to time.
Canach at Vigils Keep has some dialogue too. He implies that Scarlet aimed some greater good:
“Speaking from experience, when someone does something this drastic, they think they’re doing some sort of good. Which raises a troubling question… what good did Scarlet think she was doing?”
Maybe the voices she heard aren’t Dragons whispers. We dont know this yet. She tried resist it, it was a slow process, and i think she had a bunch of free will even at the stomp when we killed her.
It was the three orders joined with the lion guard that defended and took back LA. And it was a pact member that unveiled Scarlets plans and killed her in the end…
You have a point. I think would be cool if this big failure could cause some politics intrigues inside The Pact. Maybe the departure of Trahearne as general?
Captain Magnus has some tough dialogue about Lionguard situation, even about himself. I dont think Captains Council power structure will remain the same.
Friendly neighborhood Grouch here (oxymoron?). Starting in early January I’ll be working more closely with the Skills and Balance team and with you all as well. While our Skills/Balance designers do read the forums quite often, they don’t have as much time to post and drive discussion – and that’s what I’ll be stepping in to help with.
There are a lot of valid concerns with the elementalist right now and we’re going to be working on addressing those points. Once everyone gets back from holiday vacation we’ll be posting up our proposed balance changes and we’ll go from there.
(Please don’t hurt me.)
Josh,
u guys don’t want increase Elem health and don’t want give them more mobility, so what to do for more sustain? I think you should increase protection uptime, more traits that grants protection, less cooldown time for armor of earth.
You guys should think about what role Elem should fill and how tweak the profession to achieve this. What do you guys expect Elem to do? How you think Elem gameplay must be? We need know this, please!
I’m really curious though, if we had gotten the Abaddon fractal, would Scarlet still be involved? I’m starting to think the elections really were rigged, I just don’t see how Scarlet could have anything to do with Abaddon.
Bobby, if you are able to clarify what the Abaddon fractal contained, that would be pretty cool. Thanks.
Abaddon = Chaos Energy,
thats the link with Scarlet Briar. Maybe she would take control of Dessa Engine to study Abaddon and we would try to prevent this.
Bye, Allie, and thanks for everything you’ve done for the community! Good luck with your personal endeavours.
I, for one, welcome our new zerker staff ele frost bow wielding overlord.
Berserker staff Frost Bow ele is new meta! Tyler Chapman (Powerr) said I had to give him credit for running it since he gave me the initial idea. (I changed his build though…no Blasting Staff? Ugh.)
Anyways, thanks for the warm welcome.
lol I’ve been using this build for a while in hotjoins, it has potential.
There’s no mage in GW2, maybe if u glue mesmer + elementalists in an unique profession.
I think that Anet thought of healing as mean to compensate elementalist lack of tough and vitality, but now we can question its overall viability to this function (assuming that you NEED to trait in water to get this).
I dont get the complaining about using just 2 skills, you can do much more between cooldowns, every profession has its signature skills and Elem is important to any zerg.
Devs wont respond because probably they don’t agree with you. Jonathan has said that Elem is OK, it’s just the meta that counter them (many players agree with him).
When nerf bat has come to bunker elem Devs said Elem arent suposed to be better at roles than other professions (aka bunker guardian). To them ELem is a versatile profession that can do a little of everything but not excel at everything (or anything?). The next months many professions were buffed and then Elem has become this. To me just 1 profession to 1 role doesnt make much sense.
But lets be honest, since day 1 elementalist players were complaning about the profession, even when daphoenix posted his über build. Many players think of elementalist as the Mage Wizard Nuke RPG type, but in GW2 theres nothing like this, maybe just something from mesmer and 1 skill from fire staff.
Anyway, i agree with the lack of choice ragarding traits, the problem with minimun health in favor of healing that’s always being nerfed and the atrocious cooldowns of elem utilities.
