Guild Wars 2

44%. I was pretty close

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)

You sir are mental…..

He’s pressed 1 key and one shot for 16k dmg. How the kitten do you think it’s a l2p issue.

Plus I’ll 1v1 you any day

I’ll probably get another infraction for this but I’d only be embarrassed if I was a balance dev with the time and decision making of balancing in gw2…. utterly embarrassed.

Conncept.7638:

just stay out of PvP until the current horrible team (hopefully someday) gets shuffled out and someone who actually cares gets put in.

Unfortunately I hate the pve in gw2, no skill to it, just zerg. pvp is what i enjoy, so to me, balance is the most important aspect of the game. After waiting months for a new balance patch, things will not change as even though one shotting will not happen due to ferocity changes, it also means that my own damage will suffer more and just bolster the healing signet’s performance.

a t s e.9614:

There is a dodge button in this game.

So a dodge button is a counter to being one shot. I get you, aha, yeah. Has nothing to do with balance being kittening broken at all… nope.

renss.5764:

Ive never seen anything crit 16k on my 2500 armor + perma protectio..hint hint do t go glass canon…

I have 2540 armor btw….

3x celestial, 3xpvt… Your arguement is flawed.

With a 0-30-0-20-20 build.

Warrior laughed at me for 10sec while i barely could break his healing signet trying to kill him, then used eviscerate, 16k crit…

I think I’m done.

Gandara is Europe.. I’m in lux with 10 ping to germany, 15ping to france.

There’s a 300-400 queue in gandara for EB. There’s zergs… everywhere.

I can not understand how people stomach the zerg fights with 100v100.

On a side note I’m trying to stay away from zerg, but they are EVERYWHERE… I blame pve scrubs coming into wvw for achievements.

But the skill lag in WvW is kittening stupid.

Fine if you are playing an auto attack champ (warrior), but anything else makes playing pointless.

Server Gandara.

For a laugh I’ll probably do:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-k;4B2kU0y4-NkY0;9;4TT;0937-03B;41;0Lk0;3m9fgm9fgg-FTV6;1Vb-Vt5PWu5ZYvai_5DWQ70HV5-cW5P;9;9;9;9;9;4V8k3Z

It’s called balls deep.
For a couple of days.

If there are any dev’s who fancy sharing their views on ele’s.

1. Is your main an ele?
2. What is you’re build now?
3. What do you plan to be post patch?
4. Are you pve/wvw/pvp?

Would be interesting to find out if there are any ele’s played by dev’s

I /laugh at warriors who run from me. More amusingly are the warriors who /laugh at me when I run

Lets just go with, whoever plays a warrior is just… bad.

I don’t understand why Ascended armor will not be swappable….

The time to make a set is silly as it is.

sorrow.2364:

Zutha.5091:

I can not break a warrior (with healing signet) with my dps currently…. Since we’re getting a damage nerf for non-condition builds, even with healing signet changes I will still not be able to break a warrior passive heal.

Healing Signet gets an 8% nerf.
Also, you are now able to go 30 fire without losing defensive capability.
All you have to do is leave the ultra tanky 30 water 30 arcane D/D ele and try something different, more offensive.

Conditions are still meta and with changes will become even more so for none zerg/pve builds.

Removing 30 from water will be a death sentence with conditions becoming even more popular.

The funny thing is people have realised for a long time the weaknesses of an ele and after 5 months of “internal testing” things will not change… So do we wait for another 4-6 months again or kitten off?

Stealth server merger……

I’m a Cav, Valk, Celestial Ele…

Still can’t break a warrior healing signet…

Guess what I’ll be doing after patch……

little tip, I won’t be reGRINDING more ascended gear…

I do find it amusing that a majority of professions I see these days are Warriors/Guardians and Thieves…

A dev could easily look at the stats of active WVW characters and see the picture themselves and posting the unaltered stats for our amusement.

NO

Balance changes take too long (6 months for fixes in broken classes is a joke) with no dedicated profession balance players (Being the two balance dev’s both play warriors… go figure). There should be one lead PER profession…. NOT TWO BALANCE DEV’S MAINING THE SAME PROFESSION.

Leveling 2nd+ character is just a massive grind. The first character was ok… but that was at release with lots of players around, it’s mostly deserted.

Gear grind is horrible…. Ascended introduction was just… kitten.

WVW promotes massive zergs which results in larger zerg winning a lot of the time.

I can not break a warrior (with healing signet) with my dps currently…. Since we’re getting a damage nerf for non-condition builds, even with healing signet changes I will still not be able to break a warrior passive heal.

Consider for a moment that due to Ferocity changes there will be an average of 10% dps lose to power based builds.

Now consider the -8% in healing signet change…

Excluding condition builds, doesn’t this just mean there is no change in healing signet?

I for one on my ele can not break a warrior healing signet a majority of the time and after patch with the continued nerfs to ele, will still not be able to break a PASSIVE heal.

i.e. there’s no change to warrior.

So what happens if a thief’s trait is said to Guarantee a crit hit, but the ele trait says you can’t get crit hit?

Will the game explode?

My first request would be:

1. “Can a dev play an ele for 8 hours a day in wvw for a week in tpvp and wvw”
2. There is no need for a second request. Everything people point out is glaringly obvious if you actually played the profession…. e.g. get 1 of your TWO (yes only two) balance dev’s to stop playing warriors.

LordByron.8369:

No he was so excited because ele would have a new role….

If you look at traits he refers clearly to STAFF ele becoming a HEALER.
Since even this is OT i won t discuss on the reason given by ANET itself for removing healers from the game…that proves a certain hate from anet towards ele profession.

And again its not about D/D

kitten being a healer -.- What you think we are? pve bots?

Two things are going to happen…

Seems a dev who’s preferred profession is ele has recently been quoted saying something like ‘eleocolpse’…

Most ele’s saw it as something good… what he meant was the death of ele

Either there is more on the cards because … tbh the changes I’ve seen announced do nothing but nerf ele’s (Celestial death, crit dmg, reinforcing condition meta).

The only advantage I see is with Crit dmg nerf we might be able to spec a little less into toughness….

Or he was taking the kitten….

What I would like to see is that same dev who is excited for the ele changes to come in here and explain why… As it seems delusional from the limited info we’ve had so far.

Xenon.4537:

Astralporing.1957:

What 36% more overall effectiveness?

They said each stat is getting a 6% buff

Power gets a 6%
Precision gets a 6%
Condi gets a 6%
Toughness gets a 6%
Vitality gets a 6%
Healing Power gets 6%

6 * 6 = 36%

That’s not how it works

It’s not improving by 36%, it’s improving by 6%.

Actually i currently have 72% crit dmg with my ele.

After the patch it’ll be around 50%., That’s a 22% lose in damage. No amount of power/pres/cd/vit/tough could make up for that in pvp terms.

Considering the general rule is max 10% for zerker… it’s far high for celestial user which contains a time BLOCK on crafting.

In a game that offers gold for RL cash. If people use that cash to buy something that is then changed at a later date… this is open to false advertisement.

p.s…. I’m a development solicitor

From reading the Critcal Damage blog it seems I’ll be pretty close to my estimate.

15 ferocity per CD %.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-k;4B2VV0y4-NkY0;9;59-TT;10;328A17A6J;4mydgUPrTg-FTV6;1Vb-Vt5PWu5ZYvai_5DWQ70HV5-cW5P;9;9;9;9;97e;3A-6I

I use 4 celestial style stats:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-k;4B2VV0y4-NkY0;9;59-TT;10;328A17A6J;4mydgUPrTg-FTV6;1Vb-Vt5PWu5ZYvai_5DWQ70HV5-cW5P;9;9;9;9;97e;3A-6I

It’s how I enjoy it and although I don’t have silly dps, it’s ok.

Don’t you know that the “free world transfers” is just a way of doing server merger’s without calling it server mergers

Whiteside Ridge has been effected drastically. There’s only kitten commander’s left (Amitush, Jack Giant Slayer etc) and people are leaving daily.

I’d just like to add that balancing will not effect zergs.

The only factors in zerging wvw is:

a) Numbers
b) Movement

Profession balance means kitten all

Medazolam.3058:

Zutha.5091:

I’d love this idea. 20 badges per tome

20? id think it’d have to be around 200 to be on par with similar costs for previous tomes, but that’s just like my opinion, man.

ah see, wvw badges income varies

With tpvp the amount can be predicted… but if you’re a romaer in wvw it could take hours to get 20 badges. If you’re on a losing server there will be no trains.

General rule of thumb is an horus work for a tomb. 200 is 8 horfus work on some servers.

e.g. I roam in wvw… I’d be luck to get a tomb in a week, let alone an hour at 200 badges

I’d love this idea. 20 badges per tome

Please don’t tempt them to delay the balancing for another couple of months.

It’s poor as it is.

I think PVE is toxic in general :P

Let me purchase level 80 characters so I can just buy armor and wvw.

Berengar.6951:

Or ignore real world science in our video game where I can shoot lightning out of my hands and people apparently aren’t corporeal since I can run right through them.

Best think I’ve read all day.

Ithilwen.1529:

I’m not a “noob” at World Rank 130 and a bit under 7000 ap. It sounds like you are liking being OP and scared it’ll change.

ha? I play an Ele

WR is about rolling with zergs and does not contribute anything to playstyle or skill.

It always annoys me to see the term “risk vs Reward” in theme park mmo’s where there is no risk at all. You’re taking about choices… you don’t lose anything so there’s no risk.

Stop it.

Truthfully… I play a D/D ele, it’s how I enjoy playing.

But I’m still not stupid enough to run into 30 players and or fight using D/D with zerg v zerg as I get melted. I swap weapons.

it depends on your build at the end of the day.

Chaos mesmers I ignore as they can’t do enough damage if I don’t engage them.
Power Mesmers… well I have to fight.

If you’re running with a zerg most the time (as most noobs do), spec to be useful…

I don’t see the problem… sounds like you just suck.

No point speculating for a patch 3 months away.

With nothing worth while in it.

Turtle Dragon.9241:

I think the Feature Patch will be on May 31st.

Allie Murdock said the patch is not in June.
They said they will not make the changes during WvW Season because that will impact the Season.
May 30th is the last day of WvW Season 2.
May 31st is not in June, so what Allie Murdock said still holds true by 1 day.

That is ridiculous -.-

Being a RAD, the speed of development is typical for a poor I.T department where they use the excuses of “analysis” and “proper cycles” for delays….

Suppose the continuous attitude of poor developers keeps me employed.

Meh, this means balance patch at end of WvW…

7 months for a balance patch. kittening pathetic development.

7/10

Mine is ‘Grem Lin’

I hope the patch comes out soon before DS2 on PC comes out…. If that doesn’t happen GW2 may become a distant memory.

What i use:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-k;4B2VV0y4-NkY0;9;59-TT;10;328A17A6J;4mydgUPrTg-FTV6;1Vb-Vt5PWu5ZYvai_5DWQ70HV5-cW5P;9;9;9;9;97e;3A-6I

Please note that I tend to always have Fury and min 5 stacks of might up.

I think you may be stretching your requirements a bit too much without including ascended.

Paulytnz.7619:

So I guess what I am saying is FORGET about reaching 80, ask yourself why is 80 so important? What is it you really want to do with the character once you reach there? You can do pretty much everything at any level so there’s no real rush to 80.

Try fighting lvl 80 ascended gear players in WvW with a non-80 character. I guarantee I could auto attack with an ele any non-lvl 80 to death.