Guild Wars 2

sorry about that reading comprehension fail dude above >_>

the agony sigils is what you apply on weapons and to my knowledge it does not only work but also stack, ie: one sigil in the main hand and offhand both increase the duration.
the sigils even change the tool tip of skills to reflect the changes.

if you indeed meant runes, like runes of affliction, which you apply to your armor.
they do work too, however these changes are not reflected in the tool tip.
you can easily test that by going in to the mists.
take for example a necro dagger offhand 5, it’s called enfeebling blood and applies a pretty long bleed.
runes of the afflicted, centaure and krait all have a 15% bleed increase as a two set bonus.
with 15% it’s still pretty hard to see the difference but if you stack them all (45% increase) you’ll see a pretty hefty increase in duration.

several professions to 80 O_O

i got my warrior to 80 and was dead set on getting world completion with her.
atm i’m trying to complete malchor’s leap, which ends in me being bored/annoyed by the map and playing something else.

as it took me over a hundred hours for my one char to get to 80, i’m quite impressed by your tenacity.

given that the game lags like hell for me, for the past two weeks and has become nigh unplayable in the last three days, i only enjoy brief moments of proper game play recently.

now enough of my rambling and a bit on topic:
ele is the profession i have the most problems with.
having 20 skills per weapon set is a bit mind boggling for me.
it might be because i didn’t play ele very extensively and it could get better in time…

but

even with my inability to play ele to the fullest extent i find that profession far from being weak, although i got to admit that the traits are not as straightforward as they could be.
mainly because they are seperated into the four attunements and arcane.
from what i’ve gathered, the ele is supposed to be played with switching the attunements constantly in mind.

the reason why i think ele is far from weak, is due to the fact that i can stack bleeding faster than my sword warrior and at the same time can provide a far more diverse set of combo fields.
signet of storm in earth attunement is not a god sent in dungeons.
summoning up to two elementals is no joke either.

the only gripe i have, is the fact that savannah heat is nowhere to be found.
i love that spell to pieces.

i’ve had freezes/speedlags for two weeks now.
the last three days it’s become unplayable, 10+ sec freeze, disconnects and delay.
even the chat is delayed 12+ seconds

server: far shiverpeaks
isp: t-online

i will avenge you!

i’ve grown rather fond of this build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fcAQJAqelspSXX3SrF17IyIFk2EC6BgVX3lIFVWjB

although i’m contemplating on switching to

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fcAQJAqelspSXX3SrF17IBoHAuu3V0jK3YL/pAbB

i love flamethrower to pieces, it’s just kinda sad that we lose the stats on our weapons when we equip a kit.
skill can be switched on a whim ofc, but i like the elixier gun’s belt skill as another heal quite a lot actually.

the first spec has actually about a second of 7 stacks of might which is nice but both have a constant 6+ stacks if you don’t unequip the kit.

i have a 80 warrior and find balthazar’s hound to kinda rubbish, all human elites for that matter.
don’t get me wrong i love these chubby little cuties, however they get killed all the time.
seriously, it’s an elite skills with four minutes cd and they get killed before they can even get one attack off.
avatar of grenth would be ok if it wouldn’t last only 15 sec.
avatar of melandru is just plain bad.

having said that, i as a warrior am stuck with either
juggernaut, which sucks,
battle standard, which has an outrageous cooldown or
signet of rage, which is as bland as it is, is by far the best of my elites, especially in conjunction with the signet loadout.

now that i for some reason turned this into a warrior’s elite rant; i have to conclude in saying, that i find it to be good that racials are not that big of a deal most of the time.

prayer to kormir is by far the strongest racial we have and i’m glad i have it.

as i find humans to be the aesthetically most pleasing race, i find it good that i don’t have to play a certain race, if i want to play the most efficient way.

excuse me if that comes a bit jumbled, i post this on 3 am.

i’ve had terrible delay for the last two weeks.
every minute or so i get a two second freeze followed by a speed lag.

server: far shiverpeaks
location: germany
isp: t-online (fiber optic connection i might add [kinda rare in germany afaik])

this only occurs in guild wars 2 for me

i have the same issue.
i live in germany and use t-online, with a fiber optic connection.
(not so common where i live)

started about two weeks ago for me.
most of the time it happens in the afternoon till about one o’ clock.
today after the patch it was nigh unplayable for me, even the chat had a delay of about twelve seconds.

Explosive shot reads: fire a shot that explodes on impact, bleeding nearby foes.
the shot explodes alright, however it only seems to bleed the main target.

since the attack itself is super weak, i’m not sure if this is a bug or intended.
bleeds are quite powerful, with the downside of only stacking up to 25 times, so i can see why this might possibly intentional.
the damage of the explosion is however pitiful, so it could very well be a bug.

please clear up the tool tip or fix the bug.
thank you

also; i want to remark that the traits: shrapnel and explosive powder suffer from similar problems.
either they are bugged or not ideally worded.

the wording leads to believe, that explosive shot benefits from them but it doesn’t.
once again: is this intentional or a tool tip error; which it might very well be, since this attack seems a little bit on the weak side?!