Guild Wars 2

Elementalist should be highly intellectual so that the total trait points at lv80 are 90 (or whatever reasonable) instead of 70.

More interesting builds and possibilities.
(And may still be kitten based on the low attributes)

Just for fun, don’t want to type too much. Not that ANeta did/does/maybe will actually hear user opinions.

1000 black lion chest (without one key) for final reward!!

bwuki.2175:

BEAST GATEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Overflow sucks..I want to logback

Walls and doors are your best defense.

I feel pity for ele too. Wordless silent grief…….
Not that Arena Net cares about the “bALAncE”
No longer playing the game.

RIP RTL~
I miss all these good time with you.

Nice to see such good origin post still exists because usually these kind of post led to thread close very soon before discussion started.

Thank both original post and Colin for the good job.

Lower level zones rewards for lv80 characters could be better to give people motives to travel different places rather than visiting for 100% map/world completion.

Only Red Post from developers counts.

Don’t forget the power of orbs.
When you had 3 orbs, the burst and damage is so good.

According to
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/6796/Colin-Johanson-on-the-Live-Teams-the-Future.html

Search for “Balance”

They are very proud of the balance.

+1, fix RTL please.
I miss the time when it worked.

Every time I set the audio quality to high, the wailing bug appear when too much sound happen at the same time. It used to happened in WvW, but it happened even in popular DE now.

I tried with higher settings with every patch, but the annoying bugs happens sooner or later at critical time.

I have to lower the audio quality to mid to avoid the problem, I personally prefer high audio quality.

Is the 5% critical chance of superior sigil of accuracy working??
Is it possible to add 10% critical change with Dual Daggers?
Last time I checked the critical chance of the sigil is not shown in values in “H”.
And I felt no 10% critical change increased when hitting the dummy golems.

So hard to QQ less while we need more glass pew pew.

The game has released for a month more. Some bugs and changes are made to each profession.

How about some general talk about what devs think about current balance of profession??

The bug fix can’t never be finished for such huge game, however, the general official ideas about profession design and possible future fixes will restore faith to players.

I remembered I read something about one skill has different effect in PVE and PVP and I think its much better for profession balance than other famous MMO gamers. But as a elementalist, I didn’t notice much differences in PVE and PVP.

Most time I see lots of complaints about elementalist being weak in the ele sub form.
I just started a level 25 thief and read some thief complains about elite skill nerf today.
It would help to clarify the design principles of each professions in PVE, Tournament, sPVP, and WvWvW.

Original I was thinking video stream the discussion would be quite entertaining and new to gamers. Grab more attention you deserved. But a youtube video such as the one for pretty legendary weapons or even a blog post would be fine.

I really think the time is Now (maybe after the Oct special events)

I saw a circle running warrior leveling from 70 to 80 within one day in Shelter’s Gate.
And he is still running a few hours after the patch.
I didn’t know leveling is so quick.
I noticed the level since he is the only one with grey level number to me.
Reported him and other annoying running bots 2~3 times.

With current drop rate and slower DR, I’m pretty sure the bags of these low level circle running bots are full.

Anet should stream the discussion and decision of class balance live on twitch like they streamed some game play online before release so we could know what the class balance devs are thinking about. Or make some Youtube video to grab more attention. Or a complete blog post related to each profession.

Since less and less live stream on Guild Wars 2 due to the game is so much fun that watching others play it is not entertaining at all. (The first game I enjoy to play instead of watching others play it)

A live stream on “Anet Talking about Profession Balance” would be quite entertaining.

When will the “Official guide: How to Play Your Elementalist as Powerful as We Designers Intended” be published?

I’m gonna order one.

On DEs with higher bots participation, I learn to drop AOE or cast in the air where bots are hitting before I see any enemy model.

I want to see enemy clearer than the bots around.

Whirlpool: This skill’s damage has been decreased by 33%
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It’s the only burst underwater for except water 5 with perfect aim.
Underwater ele suffers from short kite path before monsters become invulnerable.
Sad….no buff at all.

I could accept the signet hit front player only since other professions got the same nerf too.

Playing a level 20 thief, the underwater skills is a LOT stronger (more boring too) to ele’s. And the burst on land is what a ele should have, although I miss the water attuenement.

Every ele please plays poorly so we could get buff again. lol

BishopX.6453
I was 2 shot as my tank spec by a thief today. I got the jump on him as he came to my base, set him on fire and he stealthed…. then i died.
and they wanna nerf THAT spec?

It’s hard to love thief when playing ele.
One thief could solo two eles. I was 1 shot by a thief in WvWvW by backstab in glass firecracker build. And another nearby ele just died after me in 3 seconds when we were focus killing enemy siege.

I have no much plan for spending Karma except buying salvage kit when the armorsmith sold them in Karma.

I seldom looked at the Karma value when the gold medal jumped out for completing DE. I haven’t notice the latest Karma DR because I only logged in for 2~4 DEs in Curse Shore recently. However I could feel the dropped item quantity DR pretty soon even I just do 4 DEs.

The man behind bot (no matter big gold seller or personal) might not notice the karma reduce as soon as legit players since he is not playing. So when the mechanism is to eliminate motive of botting, the real ones suffered are human players who expect the rewards.

From what I observed, the east of Shelter’s Gate and the gate of Penitent is full of increasing bots everyday in Black Gate server. I have to fight hard to hit enough HP percentage to get loot. These bots are annoying as hell. I only see these areas without bots within a few hours after major patch. It’s a lot fun. Usually my queue for entering the WvWvW to hit some doors (I meant players) is ready, so I just suspect the bots hit too hard for the third or fourth DE so I don’t get much rare loot wearing full Magic Find gear.

The only problem is “the rate of elimination of bots through the DR mechanism or permanent ban is slower than the rate DR punishment occurring to real human players who are experiencing the game and feeling the punishment within the very first minutes”.

You guys should really all take one day off and explore the new modified world you create. Enjoying 5~6 hours with real game playing AT LEVEL 80 and see what happened from the view of HUMAN player.

“A good elementalist should never down”

Be a Norn..elite snow leopard 5
Stand still for about 1.5 second cast time.
Good for retreating in WvWvW.

Before the release, I heard the profession balance is what they care.
So I’ve stress tested a few hours, elementalist seemed fun. But I saw some nerf to elementalist afterward. However I have “faith” Anet will balance after the release.
We can see tons of complains here and no official promise when the first profession balance will start.

Now to me,
Playing elemetalist = Better DE farming = Envying other Professions

I have no time to play alternative.

So basically the following equation is not working on me.
Envy other professions = play an alt = spend more money to gear up=
need more gold = buy gem to sell gold

Whoever is playing the ele on internal beta server for Anet must be too good that no buff is needed for him. And other people hate him so all the incorrect skills got fixed so soon.

Weapon swapping during combat with longer CD than other class.
Staff is OK for long distance combat, but the long casting time kills ele in close combat. You cannot auto-attack when running away from enemy, so no much damage could be done during kiting.

Dagger/Dagger is OK for close combat, faster CC, and burst damage. But the distance is short and the danger in melee range of mobs or some other classes is huge.

There are really some other great suggestions to Elementalist in the forum. Really need a quicker workaround, or else it’s a bad start to be OP in BWE (for 3×3 days) and then UP for at least 30 days or months.

Same problem. Fix it please.

I had the missing VOs when I wanted to pick up where I left in Norn personal story.
And now the human personal story VO is broken too.

The two dragon fights have the problem sometimes.
In WvW (especially when siege) it happens every one or two hours.
And one unexpected sound crash in WvW on the road countering Mesmers.