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WvW Tournament Rewards Distribution Delay

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Vylor.3276

It’s not MY problem that there is a bug, so why am I not being allowed to get MY rewards I worked for? Because some people didn’t get their rewards I have to sit here waiting for anet to figure out how to do it’s job… lets see how long this takes. I’m betting they will fix it in 2016… maybe.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Wurm's Bane vs. The Blazing Light

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Well which PVE title would you be more proud wearing and why?

I would be ashamed to use either of those(Or any PvE title) because of how easy the PvE in this game is. But if I had to pick one The Blazing Light, just because it sounds better but keep in mind it doesn’t mean kitten because anyone who can walk out of some circles and does a decent amount of damage can get it.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

New to staff

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Vylor.3276

Quite frankly, the builds that have been put down in this thread are bad. I have sent you a mail on forums with some help.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

any Meta WWW DPS staff build?

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Vylor.3276

There isn’t a dps staff meta. With the addition of aquatic benevolance, any WvW group is going to have an ele run this setup.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWhMM6cW4wyBr0AhAG5NwCoBOKAUuGUCWBA-T1wHAB1eBA+Z/BAeAAAA-w

Gear is up to you, as I keep my gear spread secret, but aim for 900-1000 healing power and you should be able to pack a decent punch with the right gear spread. Staff Elementalist has the best healing capability in the game when you use your waters properly, so I don’t even think there should have been as “dps staff ele” meta in WvW but like i said above if you spread your gear right you’ll still hit pretty kitten hard.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

The bad trait/skill list

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You left off Signet of Resolve. I see so many people running this heal skill over shelter and it is complete garbage. The heal skill is useless and anyone who is decent and has an interrupt on demand (most classes do) is going to interrupt this heal skill. If you play guardian I beg you to NOT be bad and use shelter or Healing Breeze depending on what you and your group need. Please don’t be a bad player, make the right choice and be half decent.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Glass Guardian Solo Roaming

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This is Darek.1835’s glass gaurdian build 2/6/6/0/0 split. Watch him kill upleveled noobs and occasionally do something special. Leave comments/critique below

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Give Protection Back to Ele... Please

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Vylor.3276

Why are you complaining about living when you are running almost no condi damage with a rampager’s accessory. Within a few seconds of reading this I can tell you are clueless at how to play staff ele because you have no blasting staff and no evasive arcana on a staff build. Also you’re running almost straight zerk with not many defensive traits (besides the 4 in water) and complaining about being a glass cannon, you might want to start with a heal skill that isn’t trash to start and then after that open your eyes and notice perma prot is easy if you have earth’s embrace with the armor or earth on your bar and elemental attunement. All I’ve got to say is is it’s a player issue because you obviously made it up yourself and quite frankly your build is trash. I could go on about how badly the min/max on your staff sigils are but I think you get the point. You also have 2k armor and are expecting to live through straight prot up-time, which is possible if you know how to blast frost fields, but hoenstly its mroe like you need to re-work your gear because like I’ve said 100000 times in this (it seems) you are expecting to live on a glass build and obviously don’t know how to blast waters and such and the player skill isn’t there for running a zerk build. It’s not the class that is weak, it’s you. and it kittenes me off every time I see a post like this and its really just another bad elementalist wanting the easy way out. Welcome to the highest skill cap class in the game. You can get perma prot but first you need to stop running bad traits and get gear someone at your skill level can handle.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

PvP for low levels

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So if I’m not level 10 I cant get a helm or shoulders, and I’m therefore kittened and your once balanced way to pvp on a character of any level is now over. Am I right? If so I’m quitting or you had better fix some kitten quick because this is the dumbest thing ever.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Fighting PU mesmer on a D/D ele

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Vylor.3276

There is this magical skill called lightning whip on d/d, it one shots clones, if you die to mesmers often you should give it a try sometime.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Ranger worth it or worthless?

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Vylor.3276

In PvP ranger is solid, in roaming there are a select few builds that involve perma regen and sharpening stone bursting(I’m sworn to secrecy). Anywhere else in the game ranger is kinda meh, and in dungeons(even for elite ranger players) they are kinda just there to frost spirit bot and keep a constant fire field for might. But anywho, they are a solid class just the skill cap is rather high, and there are many people who spam one on shortbow so expect some kitten/kinda easy mode but as long as you don’t become a 11111111 ranger (and only bad players will die to 11111 ranger really) why the hell not have one to roam in WvW and play in PvP. Not going to lie though, they are horrible for wvw groups (very selfish class, no real group utility due to spirits dying quick and other classes being able to cover perma regen unfortunately, usually don’t take mine out into anything larger than a small roaming group).

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

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So... I just got 1 shot.

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Vylor.3276

Sounds like an l2p issue man. If its an axe warrior you should have an internal timer always running (or against any class) based off the meta traits and 90% of the time you can be ready for these things with a blinding flash, dust devil, updraft, rock barrier, shocking aura, frost aura, dodge, protection, updraft, mistform, arcane shield, frozen blast, magnetic grasp, lightning touch, even a kittening weapon swap because as a d/d ele hydromancy should ALWAYS be in play for a roaming situation. I could go on with all the skills you could sue on every weapon to prevent a one shot from happening, but I think you get the point. The point is – you kittened up, that was obviously a glass warrior so if your build has even a tinge of offense and you had the slightest idea about burst rotations and anticipating other player’s moves this could have EASILY been prevented. I’m going to say what I say to most ele’s who qq about not enough defense. I have 3k hours on ele, the class is the highest skill cap with a lower reward ceiling, so basically, you have to know what you’re doing to play this class, if you ate an eviscerate, that is a personal problem because last time I checked perma prot on an ele is not hard at all to achieve bringing that evis to 9-10k(ish) and leaving him with only the option to auto attack on axe. Also, I don’t believe you have 2500 armor because that means this guy is near PvE spec warrior and probably has quite a bit of might to eat through 2500 armor and still crit 16k… I could get into theorycrafting formulas about how much attack he would have to have to hit you for 16k through “2500 armor” and what his crit damage would have to be, leaving him with very little armor or vitality and making him an easy drop for a fresh air ele. Also, if this guy is running the bulls charge combo and you can’t dodge a bull’s charge… There are larger issues at play here than warrior being op. It’s more like you can’t dodge or even stunbreak one of the oldest combos in this game. Also, I scrolled up and saw you ran 0/30/0/20/20. That’s the other half of your problem – you’re running fresh air. That build/trait is good for one thing.. Killing people before they kill you. If you can’t burst someone down in a matter of seconds, go back to PvE, because bursting someone properly on fresh air is like playing the piano. And if that air trait is 30 in air and you are running tempest defense just go ahead and reroll. Want my honest opinion? You said “I think I’m done”.. I really hope you are done because there are SO many defensive abilities an elementalist has and I am so tired of reading post after post about ele being “too squishy” when in reality its just people who can’t meet the skill cap and shouldn’t play ele anyway.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Rangers just... suck?

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Why are rangers in zergs even being discussed. Tell me ONE guild worth a kitten that is recruiting rangers for serious WvW play and not just blobbing…. And traps ranger? Really? Any group that knows what they are doing is going to just a purge on guardian and you are now useless, Lets also not forget the utility of staff eles for cleansing with ease via large water fields which are going to be dropped halfway through a frontline push and be on a rotation. Focusing yourself on condis in a WvW situation is just going to equal cleansing and you doing zero damage until you burst condis again and again… Do zero damage because even the worst groups have gaurdians that can drop a purge and 2-3 staff eles that can say the two words “big water”.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Bunker Ranger for the win

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Vylor.3276

Someone said bunker ranger? Blast waters, perma regen, and basically evade everything tossed at you. I run this and it works quite well and is outside of the box from your typical condi bunker in PvP

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vMAQNBMhF6kRFqYxWWwWQ4axASThmYJPFzC75eMKoSIeyre0K-TsAgzCtIuRdj7GzNybs3M+Y9xsBA

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Rangers just... suck?

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Vylor.3276

Not even going to read the replies. Yes ranger is a tad weak in PvE, but I’d still rather see a ranger than a necro. In WvW/sPvP if you keep dying on ranger you probably just cant play or your build is trash because ranger has so many passive dodges in their weapon sets and their ability to condi bomb is pretty awesome. My advice? Practice, practice, practice and play a build centered around forge runes in competitive play.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Rate the Charrmor (Charr Armor) above you!

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Vylor.3276

Dreavas Ironclaw – The Warrior

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Rate the Charrmor (Charr Armor) above you!

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I like the thief look above! 9/10 though cause I personally don’t like the spinal blades. I like your warrior as well 9/10, only because every heavy armor charr has that armor it seems. The guardian is pretty awesome. I like the backpack, don’t see it too often anymore. The mesmer has a unique look, 10/10, so does the engi, I dig the gloves with those colors.

Here is my charr, Kizger Scorchclaw the Elementalist
I wanted something kinda evil looking. I’ll post my warrior below this one

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Perfect Condition Elementalist Build

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Vylor.3276

Um no? You are possibly suggesting they take out one of the BEST dps support traits in game. The only other traits that compare for support are both 30 water traits, shouts heal on warrior, and shouts remove a condition on guardian. I’m all for the trait but I’d rather not see persisting being taken out just because it is epic support, especially for the zerker dps meta in PvE

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

NERF ELE

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Vylor.3276

The only thing ele is “struggling” with are scrubs who cant play a class that requires skill. Sure, ele is behind the other classes, but not by much. Learn how to play ele, then talk about them being underpowered.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

ascended

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Um… Ascended armor is pretty much useless when it comes to the stat difference. Ascended trinkets? Do dailys > Save larels > get trinkets. You can get 2-3 a month if you keep up with dailies. And then again the occasional fractal for trinkets never huts. While I’m on it, find a good PvE guild to do missions with once a week for an hour to get your stuff. Ascended weapons are the only real “problem” but the rather small investment in them is worth it, and being the “WvW player” you are dragonite ore should not be an issue at all.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Sick of Hammer Trains

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They just need to give the players a form of defiance (immunity to CC, which immobilize seems to be a part of), and this nonsense would stop.

Hum I wonder what stability is used for?

I dont understand what is this “Stability” you speak of?

~Necros

I know not of this stability he speaks of either.

~Thieves

Why is a thief anywhere near the enemy’s frontline is what i want to know. Also you have shadowstep – a dual stun break that removes condis if you slip up and get hit by a hammer train.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Sick of Hammer Trains

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They just need to give the players a form of defiance (immunity to CC, which immobilize seems to be a part of), and this nonsense would stop.

Hum I wonder what stability is used for?

I dont understand what is this “Stability” you speak of?

~Necros

I sense that you have no clue how to position yourself. The only thing you should be getting pressured by is the enemy’s backline. Move out of the way when you see that kitten coming and there you go.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Sick of Hammer Trains

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Well, to me it sounds like one of a few things…
your frontline needs to be coordinated (if you are melee)
if you are ranged, you need to position yourself better, bad positioning will equal death… Even if you are melee. Also, hammer trains are very avoidable, just need to open your eyes and look for them.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Seeking help in Spvp duels

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S/F is essential for PvP to get stomps off(on a fresh air), other than that I go the usual full zerk fresh air 0/30/10/0/30 with divinity runes and valk jewel to add in some toughness/vitality but every s/d ele I see in PvP gets roflstomped, the defensive aspects of focus just aren’t parallel to any other for a full glass(ish) build. Just keep in mind the focus fire skills are pure garbage.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Ranger Pets Overpowered?

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Wow, been a while since I saw qq about a ranger. I wouldnt even worry about it tbh. 98% of the ranger population is useless, and if you are dying 1v1 to them. I don’t know what to tell you.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Need to add particle effects to ice bow

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More visuals is the LAST thing this class needs. It is the most visual class in game atm and makes it easy to read. Adding more animations…? Please…

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

When did we become " OP"?

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High toughness and high armor is not an issue as warrior doesn’t have access to defensive boons. Plus if you run conditions what do you care about armor? Cleansing Ire is not a problem if it doesn’t hit you. Dogged March is not a problem if you use condition food. As far as I know conditional meta is still the king of pvp. So you want warrior to be a free kill do you?

No acess to defensive boons? Please. Do you want me to start listing?
Spiked armor – retaliation
Dogged march – regen
Balanced stance – stability
Inspiring battle standard – regen
Last stand – More stability
Furious reaction – Vigor
Vigorous Focus – More vigor
So what are we missing? Protection and aegis. Aegis is a passive boon granted to 2 classes in the game, 1 passively and purely to yourself (engi) and the obvious use of aegis on guardians as well. Protection is given out to other people in small time chunks and for the most part if you are in a situation where a warrior has protection someone worth a kitten is going to corrupt/steal/strip that boon quickly. Also lets nto forget the warrior’s access to condi removes. As you stated above “Plus if you run conditions what do you care about armor? Cleansing Ire is not a problem if it doesn’t hit you. Dogged March is not a problem if you use condition food.” Well. First off if you stack melandru with condition minus food , and clenching ire, that matters because everything I just listed gives you more toughness whether you like it or not. Secondly, it matters because that is a 33% reduction to cripple, immobilize, and chill. cripple is a situational condition and comes in various ways for almost every class. Chill and immobilize are the problem. Immobilize can set you up for a burst combo or can be used as a anti kite. Chill reduces the rate that your skills are re-casting. Other classes have this same trait. But don’t get regen when they get hit by those condis. Lets also keep in mind regen on cleansing ire stacks. While I am on the topic of immobilize, have you ever heard of the lb/gs meta for wvw/pvp? Immobilize on warrior can be used to set you up (longbow 5, throw bolas) for a nasty 100 blades and each of those skills (listed separately) are pin down 3.5 second immobilize, allowing a warrior to swap weapons and hundred blades(not immobilized the whole time, but for a good bit of it) or arcing arrow, both of which will mess you up quickly. Now lets say i sue throw bolas after pin down this is now a 8 and 1/4 second immobilize, enough for you tog et kittened easily. If you are saying people only use gs in wvw for mobility you quite frankly don’t know the class. Believe it or not people still use bulls charge/frezy/hundred blades combo. Which actually works because I have to react to the stun of bulls charge within 1 and 3/4 of a second which relies on me either using a teleport or popping an invuln to truly lose the full effect of hundred blades.

While I’m on it. Another issue is conditions warrior, warrior has access to confusion, bleeds, torment, and burning all in one build. By the way this is torment I cant do kitten about unless I dodge the sword which usually can be done but to someone who cant read a warrior well or doesn’t see a tiny sword flying through the air because they are at melee range when the sword is thrown and they are done(because having a sword in you is not a removable condition). Lets also discuss confusion, this isn’t small amount either FOUR stacks every time you interrupt someone. Hell lets put the mail in the coffin too, since you are such an experienced warrior you should know via projectile finishers in combo fields you can stack 4 seconds of burning without anyone ever touching your longbow burst move, right? Burning is the strongest passive ticking
condition ticking a about 600-700 depending on the build maybe a little higher.

This is why warrior is god mode at the moment. I would be happy to play my warrior again if they weren’t god mode though, feel free to post any rebuttal below.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

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When did we become " OP"?

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Cleansing Ire becomes a problem when you combine it with burst mastery. ATM you can remove 3 condition with only 2 bars of adrenaline and easily have all your adrenaline back by the time your burst is off CD. So you get to burst more often, burst harder, and cleanse more than you should at the same time. It’s too strong a combination. Making it so that it removes 2 conditions instead of 3 since you are only using up 2 bars would probably be enough to make it balanced.

Dogged March is really only big problem in WvW when combined with for and -condition runes but then again there are plenty of other OP rune/food combos for every class and build in WvW. In PvP the fact fact that it grants regen combined with HS and adrenal health is a little too much, on of those healing methods should be toned down a bit.

I would not say Cleansing Ire is a problem for every weapon. A lot of the bust are single target and hard to hit with exception being hammer and long bow. They are aoe and harder to dodge. Specially the long bow as a long range attack with huge AOE range with little animation to indicate the attack. I would suggest Anet to adjust long bow specifically and not Cleansing Ire. This is what people complain about the warrior, its the hambow build right? Please specify a particular build and not the profession as a whole.

Well… What warrior build that is good doesn’t utilize the longbow, cleansing ire, and a healing signet, link me a build in this chat that doesn’t use those and is used in top tier play. Whenever you do find a build that is used in the upper tier of play effectively without those things listed above… I will praise you because that brings life back to warrior and may actually make it fun once again.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

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When did we become " OP"?

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Vylor.3276

Okay, so i used to main warrior, back when it took skill. I didn’t play it for a while, so I decided to roam in WvW for a while the other night. I was full zerker, axe/shield and greatsword. Running a build centered around zerker burst dps. Note I do have cleansing ire, just because you need the condi clear and the 15 in defense is nice for a regen. Also, as much as I hate it I had on healing signet because now you can’t play without it because of how strong it is. Warrior became OP when I have 109% critical damage, 49% critical chance, stuns, knockdowns and a small amount of immunities. No big deal, right? The class I main (ele) can build kind of similar just maybe not the crit damage as effectively. But here is the kicker… I have 2.7k armor and 21k hp??? So I can burst near as hard as a shatter mesmer or sleight of hand thief but on the flip side I can take the heat like no other class in the game. Its the fact that so much burst or condis can be applied and you can still take a beating. Its just dumb how good they are. I don’t see how you aren’t playing warrior on god mode if you are even remotely involved in a guild that has some half decent people in it to help you with builds or cant look something up on intothemists. Warrior used to be fun for me and I USED to have fun on it because it proposed a challenge but now I can have insane offense, immunities off the wall, and nearly cleanse every condition on me unless I fight a necro or engi who is skilled… Now warrior is just an atrocity of skills that you can hit in any order and win it seems… It’s sad to see where they have fallen from and I hope anet does something to fix them.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Proposed meteor shower circle

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Id be down for a change to circles for individual meteors, but the whole thing? Come on…

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Proposed meteor shower circle

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Vylor.3276

So i was looking at the updated patch notes (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Feature-Build-Balance-Preview/page/16#post3667926) and i saw the proposed addition of a red circle to meteor shower. I main Elementalist, the skill ceiling for this class is very hgh right now, but for real… A red circle on meteor shower… you must be trying to kill Ele… I’d like this forum post to be a “petition” against the proposed change, throw your backing behind it if you care about your local staff Elementalist.

Thanks!

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Strategy Should > Zerg

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Just throwing this out there. But here is one video I have found of strategy > zerg. In case you missed the part where it said strategy, yea I can say that my guild small groups can hold a zerg back if we bottleneck them right but the minute a small group goes up against a zerg it is all about delaying them so our forces can get there or until they have to back off. It happens all the time with my guild on t1 servers. It is not about killing a zerg with a small group. It is being that small group or lesser force that can hold a zerg off a point or make a zerg think twice before attacking that camp again. it is all strategic points and placement of your people. Taking a zerg head on with a lesser force is impossible, so maybe fighting them on the high ground or using you stealth and damage controls at the right times is the problem not the fact that the small groups are underpowered.

Keep in mind… chances are a lesser force will not kill a zerg, but obliterating them is not victory. If you are the ones who are making the zerg turn on its tail then you are the true victor because they are on the run, and you still have what you are fighting for.

Oh and that video… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-919RMwyfnk

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Get the PvE out of WvW

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No to sound to much like a WvW crazed player…

But can you please get the toxic guys that take down supply dolyaks and sentries out of the way or out of WvW… Too many times do I run and see a bunch of toxic guys standing over a dolyak or sentry. It should be the job of the WvW player not an NPC mob to kill a dolyak. Doing this can restrict certain supply chains such as the one from N camp on our borderlands maps if the toxic guys are not cleared on the regular.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Elementalist dueling pt. 1

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Why didn’t you include your losses if you want criticisms? That’s my biggest criticism is people not including defeats in their videos, not just you.

You did well in some of your fights, I like that you used SoR, not ether renewal. Ether Renewal is trash.

You did poorly against the guardian. That lockdown is easily dodged, and the whirling blades is easily interrupted/dodged.

Also, all your opponents fought without food, and the mesmer was bad.

Yes he made those mistakes, but against a melee heavy class you disengage with ether renewal and come back at full health. His healing power is not buffed up high enough for signet of restoration to make a difference

I wouldn’t take what Mbelch.9028said to harshly because you did say you were kind of new to ele and things he is talking about are advanced levels. Also @ Mbelch.9028 if you remove your head from your elitist behind you would notice his interrupts on air and earth were either on attunement cooldown or on a cooldown by themselves. A better way to phrase it is “use your interrupts more wisely”

The mesmer was horrible though, I’ll give you that. But calling ether renewal trash? Please… every 15 secs you pop a heal that heals back a good 1/2 of your health and removes conditions versus a heal where if you get in a pinch and your heal power is high enough, you are up the river without a paddle.

Good fights, but since you are on the offensive side of things I think that ether renewal will be much more useful for the burst heal, considering your heal power isn’t jacked with a touch of magi gear or celestial. If your heal power was higher I would most certainly tell you to go SoR way.

One thing you could do if you want a smidge of heal power is trade off your fury/swiftness on auras for soothing winds, because the fury is a little overkill because of your current crit rate. Not saying too much crit is bad, but I am saying that you would be able to heal more effectively with soothing winds and maybe some heal power+precision food. Im also not sure if you have looked into it but a few parts of celestial is awesome on ele. I run 2 ascended daggers(celestial) a celestial chest and ascended celestial amulet and it makes a huge difference in defense, especially the heal power and vitality without losing that much offense. If you don’t want to put in the time for celestial though magi is a nice alternative considering it boosts your hp up a little too.

On a strategy side, disengaging a fight is never a bad thing, if you need to hop away and pop some buffs and a cone of cold or something it is not a bad thing; but simple strategy that keeps your opponent from keeping constant pressure.

One last note, I’m not sure what tier of wvw you play in but I play in t1 so it is a little more challenging and you do have to spec a little in defense to live; which is not a bad idea to have defensive properties wherever you go because you have to be your own worst enemy so balancing your heal abilities with your offense is huge in a small group fight or even solo, because so much of the class requires knowing when to burst and when to feel your enemies’ burst coming. According to your play-style and how comfortable you are with your class of course.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Looking for talented players/awesome fights!

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Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

So, myself and one of my friends are looking to create a top 5 plays of the week video(s). These videos can be from tPvP/sPvP/and WvWvW and consist of footage you think is overall, kitten. Preferably these plays are recorded by you and really show off your best. These can be anything! Your team pulling off an awesome fight, 2v1s, GvG matches, and all sorts of PvP or WvW kittenery.

Send all footage to gw2top5@gmail.com, and in your email, please include your screen name and server.

Thanks guys! I am looking forward to seeing some awesome footage

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Looking for talented players!

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Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

So, myself and one of my friends are looking to create a top 5 plays of the week video(s). These videos can be from tPvP/sPvP/and WvWvW and consist of footage you think is overall, kitten. Preferably these plays are recorded by you and really show off your best. These can be anything! You rocking a 1v2, an awesome team fight, or a photo of a PvP score you have made.

Send all footage to gw2top5@gmail.com, and in your email, please include your screen name and server.

Thanks guys! I am looking forward to seeing some awesome footage!

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

A call to remove Hammer from Warrior

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Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

And @ CntrlAltDefeat. That what garbage hammer warriors do.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

A call to remove Hammer from Warrior

in Suggestions

Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

Like really. Hammer moves are so slow if you cant dodge them, blind someone, evade, fear, or do something to stop them in the middle of CC skills that take about 1-2 seconds to cast, just don’t play the game, and don’t kitten because you are clueless. I don’t even main warrior but when I see a hammer warrior I try this amazing thing – it is called kiting. So when you actually know what you are doing, then kitten about how “OP” hammer is.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Powerlevel crafting

in Crafting

Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

I know back in the day you used to be able to get quite a few levels off of crafting skills from 1-400. Now, I’m pretty sure that is no longer viable, right? I got my guard from 40-80 with only 3.5 crafting skills done. Is that still possible, or would I have to do more than that to get 40 levels,

Thanks!

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

New queing system: Love it or hate it

in PvP

Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

So after they have had the patch which changed how you que into two separate joins it seems even more unbalanced. So in solo que it is people randomly thrown together and usually ends up being like spvp. In the team arena, you have to have a 5 man, if you and your friend want to play together and don’t have a team… Forget it; because you will most likely end up hitting an organized (5 man) team and just get your clocks cleaned.

Now before this fix the maps did get repetitive playing them 200000+ times a week but you ran into less 5 mans whenever you and a friend wanted to play for glory. Now but Anet has shown that you can do rotations of maps in paid tournaments so why not keep it that way.

In all honesty, it was a noble effort to try and balance things but in effect it has become worse; at least in my experience with it.

Now please… can we get our old tPvP back?

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Ranger Bug List

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Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

Please fix the bug with the juvenile forest spider’s f2 skill. "Paralyzing venom’ its does not match the description in the attached image. If it is not a glitch, why does my spider have two immobilizes. Seems useless and on top of that the description reads “stun(2s): unable to use skills or move” Adding this to this pet is a very nice skill and would greatly appreciate it.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Ranger as it stands now.. A must read

in Ranger

Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

Ranger is a class that requires real skill now. All I’m going to say is it is trash rangers who fought for the pet buff and now they are all going to go cry because they cant run a BM build anymore. Now the rangers who really know the class will succeed, the way it should be. Im not telling you traits but in PvE. Condition/traps build. I drop more condi’s than some necros. PvP? Kiting build. Kind of like a thief but no stealth, just a ton of evades. Think OUTSIDE your build specced 30 into BM. Because thankfully… Those days are gone.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Fused Weapons

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

Here is a genius idea. Instead of complaining when you play the RNG game realize it is gambling. You don’t always win when you gamble in Vegas you don’t always win when you gamble in Anet’s RNG cycle. If you play their RNG game and loose you have no right to complain because again – It is GAMBLING. If you like the skin and go for it, sure, go for it. Just keep in mind GAMBLING… Anet has the right to do this and people who want to play with their money can play with it like that… Its not Anet’s fault you just lost x amount of gold or money. lets look at the cause here. YOU wanted the skin YOU spent the money. All Anet did was put a skin out there that gives YOU the option to try to get it. So before you blame the developers, lets look at the cause of your frustration. If you worked at your job for a week and made 100 dollars, then spent it all on lottery tickets, whose fault is it if you don’t win? Yours? Or is it the person who facilitates the lottery… You did not have to buy in. But you did, and you lost, plain and simple.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Southsun Cove Bounty Target

in Last Stand at Southsun

Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

Okay so my guild (Masters of Blackgate) did a guild bounty today. We got the wildman in southsun cove. Anet NEEDS to take down this bounty until southsun cove living story is over. My guild was spread out over SEVEN overflows because of all of the people doing the living story. And thank you Anet because of that my guild failed, because of how spread out we were.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

No really...

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Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

Im a warrior on Blackgate. As you know the reset yesterday put us in first place(Wasn’t easy JQ and SoR, nice fight this week). Anyway, earlier this morning (Saturday morning) I fought and engineer and won, fair and square. So right after I finish him a thief and necro shows up(I’m at 40% health) and obviously beat me. I don’t have a problem with that. But what I do have a problem with is the disrespect that followed. The Necro and Thief rez the engineer who then proceeds to dance on my body. I’m sorry I outplayed you fair and square but I really don’t think a response like that is appropriate…

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Why is ranger pet better then Warrior?

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Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

There is no “master class” that owns everything. Just like people adjusted to engineers getting buffed we must now find a way to beat rangers as well.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Why is ranger pet better then Warrior?

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Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

I have 2 80’s a warrior and a ranger. Honestly. If you know the class of warrior ranger should be a challenge, everything should actually be a challenge. When I play my ranger the problem is people DON’T kill the pet, and that’s why i can beat them. I’m sorry anet made you think and use strategy while fighting something.

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]

Uncontested Temple of Balthazar

in Dynamic Events

Posted by: Vylor.3276

Vylor.3276

Looking for any open on US as well

Kizger Scorchclaw
Champion Magus/Paragon
80 Elementalist of [APeX]