Guild Wars 2

TheCatacid.8932:

Sifu.9745:

atreyu.9624:

Sifu.9745:

Just avoid Scepter: the most complicated weapon in the game.

or actually start learning it lol, because it’s sooooo fun.

Ok, it is fun and powerful condi only weapon, but survivability sucks. As Power weapon it doesn’t work in my hands, dmg is just way to low compared to condi scepter.

I never considered scepter to be a condi weapon O.o condis are just a side effect. It has small aoe, vaunrl, two blinds, instant zap, vigor regen from phoenix. On top of that, you don’t need to be close to your target like the dagger which I would consider the ACTUALL condi weapon. Use focus in offhand and you have projectile reflection, condi cleanse, knockdowns, invuln, chills. kitten son.

yeah it’s kinda niche, even more than Fresh air I would say.

It kinda falls down in my opinion in general compared to fresh-air tho in anything that isn’t a 1v1 or similiar.

But in duels it can be pretty cheesy. I Fought this condi scepter guy once, in wvw, I didn’t expect it to be condi it took me by surprise.

He was mostly camping Earth with Stone heart, doing his bleed dmg and all.

I got destroyed, I was doing 0 damage to him with stone-heart lol.

I think it should be pretty strong against thieves too.

mygamingid.5816:

Agent Noun.7350:

You can hit 100% burn and bleed duration with:

- Viper weapons, trinkets, and back piece
- Superior Sigil of Agony
- Two Trapper runes and four Nightmare runes
- Burning Precision and Weaver’s Prowess traits
- Rare Veggie Pizza

After that, it’s just a question of what stat set you put on your armor. Sinister and Grieving are the most likely choices, and we’ll probably have to wait for release to know which is going to be better.

Assuming Fire/Arcane/Weaver? I’m weighing that against Fire/Earth/Weaver. Earth grants more base condi damage, permanent passive Signets, faster recharge on Signets, and you can swap out the Sigil of Agony. Both offer improved sustain. Arcane offers faster attunement refresh, some default concentration, Fury & element-specific boons on swap, and condi damage on Arcane utilities.

If I found myself switching attunements often, then Arcane would probably be better. If I camp Fire or Fire & Earth, then Earth would probably be better. I’m probably going to start with an Earth build, but Arcane is tempting.

I am seeing both Fire/arcane and Fire/earth very solid options for open world.

Earth gets extra dmg from Earth/Fire Signets + 5% dmg + 100condi dmg

While Arcane gets Burn/bleed on crit + elemental surge (more burn) + decent fury uptime

I think Arcane actually has more Sustain than earth specced like that tho, due to Shield Block + + quite high Protection uptime (if most of the dmg comes from Fire/earth swap)

Also Arcane has perma-swiftness easy peasy without using any weapon/utilities, Earth needs the Air signet. Which is quite meh utility. And even then it’s a worse Swiftness.

I am liking the arcane version more overall.

Flarre.4850:

I felt in love with core fresh air ele(scpeter/focus) but thief/mesmer make my life a nightmare especially in wvw.
Do you have some tips against them? or do i have to deal with it and be aware to not be OS.

I seem to be able to hold my own against bad/not very good Daredevils or even completely wreck em.
Good daredevils are another thing tho, they are my worst WvW roaming nightmare when played like they are meant to be played.
1v1s they just feel like a landslide in their favour.

dodge their steal, reflect/dodge/blind their shadow shot. Make it harder for them to stick on you basically.
And make sure you are not wasting your crap into one of their 25 dodges, seems pretty obvious but still…

Sifu.9745:

atreyu.9624:

Sifu.9745:

Just avoid Scepter: the most complicated weapon in the game.

or actually start learning it lol, because it’s sooooo fun.

Ok, it is fun and powerful condi only weapon, but survivability sucks. As Power weapon it doesn’t work in my hands, dmg is just way to low compared to condi scepter.

I wouldn’t say fresh air scepter does low dmg in pvp/wvw. I wouldn’t say it at all.
FA can make 10k+ dmg bursts in an instant. No casting time , no telgraphed animations like an Air Overload or whatever.

Axl.8924:

So wait:Condi Eles are kittened in pve outside raids? So what do you go for for pve solo? dagger focus? I said dagger focus because of onyx skin thing from earth which gives you protection.

in the last period I was running Vanilla Fresh Air Scepter, just because it’s fun.
And it’s also decent at tagging things (which is all it really matters in open world anyway).

But it doesn’t really have that great DPS in pve, I wanted to feel like I was doing lots of dmg in boss events. (I still run FA in spvp/WvW tho, it’s my main build)

So I switched to the meta condi build for pve, but with Vanilla ele instead of Tempest (I kittening hate tempest nowadays).

Because I find Fire overload a complete overkill in Open world and if you overload and need to switch to another attunement u are just locked out of fire for sooo long.
Tempest is clearly better in fractals and Raids, but it just doesn’t work for me outside of that. I feel like a cripple running it.

So I run Fire/arcane/water Dagger/focus. (you could switch Water for something more Glassy, I prefer Water).
Full sinister / 2-3 carrion pieces not to have 11k HP / 100% burning condition.

DarkForcE.9210:

atreyu.9624:

DarkForcE.9210:

Should I consider Carrion stats (power + vit + condi) if necessary to have vital for survivability?

yes, yes and yes.

Atleast for Solo Pve / open world stuff.

Throwing in some carrion pieces it’s actually better than doing a little more DPS.

If that’s the case, I’m thinking like this since I will mainly focus open world / PvE:

- full viper on accessory gears
- full Carrion on armor sets
- Weapon will be Marauder

Any comments?

why marauder weapons? If u are going condi, with a little power/precision on the side. Stick to Viper/carrion.

Carrion on armor is good if you plan to have a secondary carrion exotic armor set.

If that’s Ascended armor, then I would say no.
Because for “serious” content people might “demand” full glassy meta builds.

Carrion is more like your solo and open world stuff.

For PvP/WvW? Focus. For PvE I might throw in the Dagger for teh LuLz.

DarkForcE.9210:

Should I consider Carrion stats (power + vit + condi) if necessary to have vital for survivability?

yes, yes and yes.

Atleast for Solo Pve / open world stuff.

Throwing in some carrion pieces it’s actually better than doing a little more DPS.

Axl.8924:

One thing i noticed is:If Ele is downed he is as good as dead.There is zero chance of surviving once a ele is downed.I feel other classes have better chances.Rangers can have their pets heal necros can fear Eles can mist away for a short distance and then hope its far enough usually leading to not being far enough and die.

Might agree or not considering the rest of the downed skills… but then I think about Mist form and that’s all we really need.

I think it’s great, both sPvP and PvE.

And absolutely one of the best downed state for WvW. It saved me soooo many times in WvW in situations I would be dead as any other class.

Sifu.9745:

Just avoid Scepter: the most complicated weapon in the game.

or actually start learning it lol, because it’s sooooo fun.

I was a D/D diehard fan once, hated Scepter, couldn’t even play. Then I started to use it and now it’s my best and most favorite build, not in the class, but in the whole game.

it just takes some time to get used to, even for a elementalist that already know how to play the class but sticked to Dagger/staff until now

mygamingid.5816:

It’s difficult to talk about Eles, because many players think only in terms of raids and the Raid Meta

Yep, so many eles running around with the glass cannon 11k HP, no defensive utilities and full glass cannon trait choices.
Getting insta-downed in Open world Events because damage just fly around and u don’t even see it coming.

full viper will most likely be over kill. But Weaver will probably use lots more Viper then Condi ele now, which is mostly Sinister.

That is due to having to cap both Bleed and burn (weaver) , compared to Tempest (just burn).

So if the prediction from a Reddit thread I read about this subject hold true and nothing else gets added: this Viper setup should give u 100% burn/bleed

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoNEEAsIAUAOA1msNcGA-TlRAQBrbhhbqEEAPAgQq8zL7DEQ9ACCYRA-w

it’s only 80% burn/bleed, but that’s because weaver has another 20%

Armor is empty, it’s sinister or whatever.

fungihoujo.8476:

I’m returning to GW2 after a year or two off and my main’s an elementalist. At first, I was just doing some pve- world bosses and hearts- and wasn’t noting anything too strange with my old build.

So I decided to do some PvP finally once I was used to controls/abilities again and it feels like a mistake.

I get killed in 3-kittens by half the guys I face, while doing next to no damage regardless of what ability I’m using in return- and the classes that can’t kill me in seconds like necro I do zero damage over their healing.

I know the game’s extremely build based, I wanted to see how I enjoy it before buying the xpacs but I can’t enjoy it like this.

So- what sort of build should I be using in pvp? Right now I’m using a staff build and it sucks hard. I’d prefer a build where I can 3 shot people- of course, I don’t have any abilities from the xpacs as I’m still deciding whether or not to buy them.

to be frank most of the builds in sPvP if not all, just use the Elitè from HoT.

That said, Ele has one good Core build that works in SPvP without tempest.
And that’s Fresh Air Scepter/focus, but it’s not an “yeah I just started using it, let’s kick some ass” build, infact you will probably get rekt while learning it, and even after learning it, you are still kind of an underdog.

The meta ele build for SPvP it’s a Tempest Support build, so no you are not going to 3 shot anyone. Your role would be actually babysitting people and stuff.

btw it doesn’t have to be black or white.

Full zerk in solo works, I don’t run it tho. Just throw in a couple of Marauder or Valk pieces.
Just so u can run around with like 15k HP, maybe a little more if you want, instead of 11K where even a fart can down you in the case u fail a dodge or something.

Just wait for the third expansione. We will be able to run 3 elitè at the same time to achieve the maximum Power Creep level ever reached in GW2.

Alta.7025:

Hi
i need your help in case of nowadays the game became unenjoyable for me due to very low fps
months ago i had more with higher settings

i have radeon r7 370 graphic card (2gb)
amd a8 -6600k (4x 3,9ghz)
8 gb ram

so my hardware must be more than enough, other games with higher graphic quality and higher settings can run with more fps…

how can i improve my fps?

Remove shadows, lower the resolution, lower everything. Welcome to 2002, but hey atleast you should have good FPS.

If that doesn’t work , then there must be some problem with your hardware.
Overheating maybe?

well Blind it’s still negating one attack atleast. Might be a big important skill, or the weakest non-crit auto-attack.
But It’s still some mitigation.

the pic is clearly an exaggeration not to be taken seriously, as it clearly shows multiple buff stacking and a Zerker setup.

That said, I did get crit for 15/19k in a fair duel by this ability… seems kinda high to me, maybe we need to learn to counter/dodge it and it’s not really op?

I am not sure about how easy/hard is it to pull up these numbers, but if I am fighting on a point and some sniper come behind my back from Range and instantly 19k my ass from stealth, well that doesn’t seem very good…

Let’s not talk about WvW, good lord I can only imagine the Sniper cheese roaming builds.

Condi thieves are the lowest of the low and should be stripped of any human right.

I dont meet many of em tho, it’s nice to see there are still people with some dignity out there.

Wolfric.9380:

I roam with S/F ele constantly. But its a condi heavy hybrid. While i realy like fire/earth/tempest (which does huge damage, unforunately a bit hard to land in duels ^^). earth/arcane/tempest plays most exiting.
An yes earth is mostly to defend against those thiefs that are omnipresent in WvW ….I actually developed the build to survive against them ….

I wanted to try a S/F condi build, but didnt get to it.

Does it use Stone Heart by any chance? because I wanted to try something around that.

BTW: I have succesfully upgrade to Glyph+Water for my roaming build lol. It does work great, I am actually surprised at the kind of condi clear that now I have.

Gokil.2543:

Glad to hear. I pretty much havent touched earth since the cdr trait nerfs and the glyph heal buff. There’s not many power matchups you lose to anyway, so might as well go water. It has a pretty respectable amount of cleanse with the glyph in water and water 3 granting regen and thus cleanse. Idk I heard others say they can’t miss earth cd’s anymore after having played it so long. I guess I kinda forgot what they were like (though not having earth 2 every time can be a kitten).

I am actually running Signet of Restoration still. With Written in Stone from Earth.
With the spammy nature of the spec, I feel like the HPS it’s pretty much on par if not better than Glyph. I don’t remember atm so might be wrong, but I do not think there’s an icd on it…
But It’s also true that I am using a trait to make it so.

I kinda feel like Im naked when I ran the Glyph.
Should probably give it another go and use DiamondSkin/StoneHeart instead, or try the Water variant.

I do feel like Earth is as good as water tho, it’s basically Power defense vs Condi defense.
While condis are quite a problem these days, I must say that when roaming I still meet lots of power builds(which may not even be roamers) and especially many thieves , and when more than a power player hits on you the 10% less dmg received / free Earth of Armor / 40 sec invuln really helps me staying alive.

I tried roaming core FA today, for many (many) hours.

I am pretty happy about it, it just worked nicely. I do find some condi spec a bit too much to handle, but hey I don’t have to 1v1 em at all costs.

Love the Arcane power root combo.

Most of all the gameplay is pretty fun, as much as I actually like Tempest, it got pretty boring.

I was running Air/Earth/Arcane tho.

it was a pretty fun video, enjoyed the music also.

Do you think vanilla FA is a competitive roaming build compared to a FA tempest?

FrownyClown.8402:

I won’t go out of my way to say this is OP or even meta but here is a fun power d/d ele build with decent sustain.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYhcMoxhdOwwB8RMQAY1aIJWGoswRIKEFgAwCA-TpQQABAs/A0lBAA

Its very rotational and might-centric like pre-hot and is easy to focus down if the ele does not manage his skills affectively, but it offers rewarding damage, above average condi clear and above average healing.

this is basically the old cele build, that eles stopped using because cele got removed and because HoT came and brought too much goodies for everyone and it felt behind.

No d/d art was lost, it’s simply not up to nowadays standards.

DenimChicken.8639:

has anyone found some good power roaming builds that focus a little more on survivability rather than just 1 combo wombo’ing people? I’m getting annoyed of the playstyle of “wombo combo someone, then run around like a little kitten so you dont get annihalated by aoe spam”. I know it’s the lifestyle of thief, but i just want the dmg/suvivability ratio that I had pre-power creep/trait changes.

I’ve tried a few builds like using some soldiers and valk gear with daredevil runes + crit strikes (instead of DA) for perma fury to accomodate lower crit chance, but meh.

Im thinking of trying marauder/valk gear + exuberance runes or something like that…try to get at least 18k hp in the hopes that I’ll have at least SOME survivability and I won’t die to people sneezing on me.

Anyone have any suggestions or builds?

I run something like this in WvW when I roam, it’s very standard

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQJAWFn8lCFmilOBGOhFYCTLBEAyAzhwRYL0LNcGaDA-TFTDQBL4CAKBBgJo8p+D2MxEPdBVRZAVUacgHAwAOCAS4QAkQlY+b/BBAtA-w

But I run around with 2600armor + Scrapper runes, which makes you take a little punishment and not die in 2 hits when making a mistake.
That with all those dodges granted by 3 base / 2 more from heal / more dodges from Agility signet grants you quite a lot of survivability.

I run Staff because I have more fun with it, but I guess D/P is fine too, changing a couple traits (like pulmonary)

I’ve roamed with Scapper, condi engi, tempest/ele, warrior… yet I find the above build the safest build I’ve touched out of them all considering the fact that you still deal tons of dmg.
Like the above poster said, tankyness comes only so far, the rest is getting in and out of the fight using thieves mobility for sustain.

Josh XT.6053:

My thief build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-thief-condition-build/

Pretty hard to kill it if played right because you’re stealth 24/7.

oh good lord, not this ebola build

Substance E.4852:

lol skirmishers have no problem ganking people trying to get across the map to the battle yet demand everyone act like civilized gentlemen when a duel is in progress…

aint that true? I even spent most of my wvw playtime as a roamer, I still find pretty funny when people kitten about their 1v1s being ruined.

Xanctus The Dragonslayer.2318:

you are definately something else amongst warriors. Kinda like the EU version of tapdatmouse. I wonder how you deal with condi bombs?

Best way to deal with condi bombs is to cut out that material from the montage.

Ayyy

Usually I try not to interfere if it’s clearly a duel.

Deep in me I want to jump in and try to kill the enemy, while the ally curses at my scrubbiness.

Wolfric.9380:

Hmm maybe you think of longbow druid? My friends are running condi trappers for roaming ….

nope, I’ve seen many druid roamers Sword 1h and Staff… they have got it all it seemed: condi clear, good dmg, good sustain, and good mobility.

IM JELLY

Wolfric.9380:

Druid is a top roamer.

druid roamers are next level bullkitten atm in my opinion.

Comparing skills across classes is lame, but I still think it’s quite funny they are allowed to have a 1200 blink on 15 sec CD, while elementalist RtL was nerfed to 40sec without hitting a target.

Josh XT.6053:

Elementalist is the best roaming class right now

I’m not saying ele can’t roam decently, but no way Ele in the best roaming class. There are builds which have more killing power and ability to chase runners/get away from a fight.

Infact with that build (water/earth/tempest full cele) if someone that does not completely suck decide to run away…well, they just do.

These days in my server matchup the borders were quite active, even with queues at times and it was fun playing in em.
The changes to Desert are in the right direction…I would rather see more changes to keep improving the Desert Borders than go back to Alpines.

Bigsexy.8302:

2475hp heal every 15 s is like 165 hp/s? While the old was 351 hp/s with 3 full bars.

Not sure if a buff or a nerf.

yeah, you missed the part where it stack to 3, depending on how many adrenaline bars you used. (ofc berz adrenaline skill count as 3)

started playing in 2012, still no legendary, basically I do not care about em.
If I had a precursor I would rather sell it.

You do not need any fancy gaming mouse with over 100hundred buttons. But if you feel that could be easier for you, well , go for it.

WASD (or ESDF whatever) to move, rebind A and D to strafe left and right not turn, use the buttons all around WASD like RFCXQE123 ,whatever works for you, for your abilities and then use the mouse/rightbutton to “look around” and move the camera.

It just takes some pratice and then you are good to go.

My keybinds usually:

WAD – (forward, strafe left and right)
S – dodge
QERFCX1234 – Abilities
alt+QE1234 – more abilities buttons if needed
Shift – Swap weapons

I would really suggest you to start using the mouse in GW2 from now on, even if at the start it’s gonna be a struggle! (maybe start by doing some pve with it) you will only gain benefit from it.

If you think it’s too hard to use keybinds and use mouse at the same time you can start doing baby steps, like use WASD to move and Mouse to move camera/target and click your abilities with the mouse.
Then when you have gained experience you can start to add keybinds for abilities to go along with the movement buttons.

Vieux P.1238:

MrKrataus.6420:

When Anet teased HoT on twitch, Gw2 had 80k viewers, BnS wasn’t even out LOL such a trash game, even hello kitty online had more viewers, nice boobs mechanics

That is a load of BS…OP’s where is your source? I seen both launches, & i cant tell you straight up. Your numbers are totally fabricated & WRONG. BnS had 2k viewers on there channel a few hours prior to when it started. & followed over 10k viewers during that hour. BnS actually broke every Gw2 twitch viewing record. & still is. Go take a look. Top NA BnS streamers are over 1k viewers atm. Gw2 streamers never get does numbers. EVER!

The Op’s is obviously not bias & just frustrated that many of the Gw2 population are migrating to BnS. & It’s is actually true. There’s no denying it, it’s a fun game. & i’m sorry, pvp is actually freaking amazing in BnS. Try it, if you can Q in. That’s the big drawback. To many ppl playing it..Q time is horrible.

there’s no queue these days…atleast not today, I was able to login without problems (
Well that’s when the servers manage to stay online tho).
Or maybe because I had chosen a reccomended new server.
Anyway small scale like duels might actually be decent enough in BnS, but I couldn’t even survive the terrible quest hubbing levelling system straight outta 2004.

archmagus.7249:

Xyonon.3987:

Rapid regen changes, it’s a tooltip bug. Btw careful with those question marks, they might be extinct soon if everyone uses as many as you.

Rapid is not affected by healing power. However, it is affected by the Power of the Mists bonus you get from WvW.

My Rapid Regen heals for like 640 with Mender amulet, and 470 without.

Hakata.6742:

I don’t intend to re-roll another class just for sPvP.

You know every toon is boosted to 80 with every skills unlocked in spvp right?

502 – 0 … Oh well

This is not a moba, nor a Fps.

Wolfric.9380:

I play 99% with my ele and stick to it learning to play it as good as possible. I put all in it not multiple toons. So at one time i can aford and it benefits me i might by it. Currently it would be an all in and i propably won´t do it. But maybe sPvP.

So imagine it costs 1G would you considder it?

well, it is an interesting sigil. It’s a bit too much rng based (you might transfer a decent condition, or might not) which is probably why we dont see much use of it compared to other stuff, but afterall if that wasn’t the case it would be very very strong.
.

abc.5790:

I have a problem with burning.

It doesn’t do enough damage to me.

That sucks coz now I can’t sympathize with the suffering of the people in these threads no matter how much I want to.

Come on! Condition removed: 18, 39 , 25

u either had someone else removing condis for u, or little to none specced into that kind of builds in those matches

TheDevice.2751:

They are the best pvp build.

Anyone who says otherwise is just kidding themselves lol.

I mean. Every burn guard i’ve even met knows how cheesy they are. XD

In before the people with the usual replies:

- l2p, burn guard only have 1 condi!!1shift+111

- burn is fine, l2p!!1shift+shift+11!11

- l2p, burn is only a problem in lower tiers!!1shift+11!11

- l2p, you don’t see 5 burn guards teams in esl!!!1shift+1!!1

Necromonger.4970:

Nocta.5274:

You’re not really familiar with what Betas are for I guess.

I guess you’re not familiar with what betas are, 48 hours here and there isn’t a beta testing, it’s just marketing gimmick to make you pre-purchase the expansion. The cycle of alpha, closed beta, open beta takes months, not a few days.
Not to mention that ANET is “beta testing” on the main servers, forcing(indirectly) everyone, who pvp, to participate. well, no thank you…

rekt.

Malchior.5732:

atreyu.9624:

The problem is how many times in a short span of time you are able to use it (if you feel like to spend that energy).

It’s quite ridiculous in my opinion. Either an increased cost, or reduce the range or something.

Then you get to your target with no energy and are forced to swap. I don’t see anything wrong here.

Yeah ofc, it is pretty punishing having to swap to another legend with that free sweet 50% energy to keep fighting normally…

I mean it’s not like you just covered 2400 / 3600 range in a matter of seconds right? Such a harsh tradeoff.

Press one button, Stack quite a bunch of might, kitten high dmg… all while evading.

That is one hell of a balanced skill if you ask me.

The problem is how many times in a short span of time you are able to use it (if you feel like to spend that energy).

It’s quite ridiculous in my opinion. Either an increased cost, or reduce the range or something.

Exciton.8942:

Great. Looks like I will switch from ele to ranger and continue farming tears.

Time to dump eles and jump on the ranger hype train boys!

I was kinda excited when I heard about the scepter buffs.

I was.