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Ah, so you were trying to cripple Fyonna… well in that case!
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fiery_Whirl
It cripples as well and actually since you have two of them when you spawn it, you can stack cripple longer than rocky can.
Btw she will only move if you’re close range (and targeting her might have something to do with it too but not sure). There are a lot of mobs that have this sort of AI but if you max melee her she will not distance herself from you. Also btw her trick shot attack bounces, so that would be another problem with rock elemental is he could cause you to take more damage… but she dies fast enough for it to not be a huge deal.
So for example if your friend was a staff ele as well and you stood at ~400 range she’d stay put.
That might be a better way to do it then! I’m going to try using FGS if or when we run again, because my thief friend might hate this dungeon after all of this trying to get a good time. Thanks!
And sadly there’s not a lot to do about the movement, since the thief has to melee (and on top of that move around a lot to attack from her back). Running two eles might be faster as you say, since the stealth from feathers among other things might be enough. The only problem I can see is that the npc might not reach all the way into the room where Melrona is. Our plan heavily relies on her moving through a certain pack of spiders so they don’t attack us when we clear the spiders nearest to the boss itself. We wait for her to reach it in the video, which might not happen at all with two eles. Might be worth testing though!
This is indeed cool, I liked the Malrona a lot. Probably the best duo of it I’ve seen, but I’m not sure if the trait setup you chose was best… wouldn’t have made much of a difference if there was a setup that was slightly better anyways, the idea itself was great.
There are a few things I think you could have done better though (mostly directed to the ele POV, as that’s the one I watched):
1) I don’t think 62222 with fire signet is better than 64202 for Fyonna because you didn’t maintain 90% hp for nearly any of the fight. You end up with like 4% higher crit chance and gain about ~7% higher DPS with it (arcane lightning is about 3% DPS increase), but in this case you ended up being about 7% worse than you would have been 64202.
2) Since you LOSed Fyonna into the hallway, using fgs would have been a lot better of a choice. Rocky is useless here unless you were trying to take advantage of his cripple (which I doubt), but either way fiery whirl would have been greater burst especially since she was near a wall.
3) How come you bugged the warden? This would’ve been a great restricted run if it weren’t for that :<
4) Fgs would have been better DPS on nightmare tree too, but not sure if you wanted the fire elemental to distract the sylvari mortar turrets… either way it could’ve been better, and I think autoattacking with the LH on your part was a bad idea and you should’ve just used #4 and dropped it.
5) Ever try ele/ele duo instead of thief/ele duo? On all of the parts that you stealthed at you could’ve easily done the appropriate stealth duration with just harpy feather + order of whispers spykit although you would have had to begin the run to the corner by malrona with obsidian flesh probably. You would have had better DPS but you would’ve lacked the smokescreens.
Well that is my input. Once again, nice job!
Hi! I’m the elementalist in the video, Lossë!
These are all some valid points, and I would like to thank you for bringing them up. Regarding the build on Fyonna you are definitely correct. I completely forgot to consider my health during that fight, and as such it is for sure worse.
Regarding the earth elemental, most of this is to make sure she actually stays in the same spot. She has a tendency to move around a lot when we are so few, so it is mostly there to cripple as well as giving us the slight protection it does. Whether or not this is more effective than using FGS, I’m not sure since I haven’t actually tested. However, her moving around is a big issue and that is the main reason for this. (There might be another way to solve this that we are not aware of, though).
Regarding the warden, I have no clue what happened there. It was all a big mistake I didn’t even notice until people brought it up. Thank you for bringing it up though. It’s a bit sad that it’s not restricted, but there’s not much to do about it.
The last boss fight was certainly a huge mess as well. I once tried it with LH, and compared to doing it with staff it was faster. Theory might not back this up though, as I just tested once. The reason being for the fire elemental is mostly for the burn, but FGS might actually be better here, yes. Thank you again.
Optimization \o/
And we never actually tried Ele/Ele! We’ve only done Thief/Ele so far, and it might stay that way depending on how things go tomorrow with the patch. The main concern is how Melrona will go with the new elementalist traits, since we might not be able to kill her as quickly after it. It is an exciting new time.
Thanks again for the lovely feedback! It’s always nice having someone else who can notice the mistakes you don’t yourself.
Here’s my Asuna from Sword Art Online cosplay! My character who is cosplaying her is my thief Lairië. Currently I’ve having issues uploading more than three images of her for some odd reason, so I’m just going to leave a link to my original imgur album here too, although I’m aware it most likely won’t be counted towards the contest. It’s just if anyone happens to be curious; http://imgur.com/a/iGupw .
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Lately I’ve been unhappy with her top, but I still love her. <3
