Only a WvW player will tab back and forth between treb shots to check for updates to this thread.
Congrats on trying to down-play a fun recount of the game for the guy.
Drop an arrow cart.
Pretty please with a frog on top.
We all love the loot fests available to us in PVE world, and even in WvW, and I think we could make it even better with these 2 simple optimizations. I recently bought another bank tab (at 187g for 600 gems) to hold more non-essential items so that I didn’t have to stop and salvage constantly to be able to continue looting.
Salvaging
I think there should be a faster way to salvage all greens (master) and blues (fine) in your inventory. I already know you can type the bracketed terms into the search and click from there, but when the materials take up the space where you were clicking, you have to clear the search and find your salvage kit again.
So the idea is simply add a right-click to salvage kits to “salvage all (+arrows to rarity)”.
Depositing on the fly
Add a right-click to the bag icon at the top left of your screen to deposit all instantly.
I’m going to corpse camp keeps to let my team know when it’s safe to attack, and where all the siege is. Rotating camera is our best trait.
Need that gate repaired? No worries. I can max out swiftness in my spec for running back and forth from camps!
Out of supply traps? No worries, because every elementalist knows to get burning oil mastery first, and hop off to do swirling winds/ heal up for this highly neglected piece of siege.
Do you need a tower trebbed from the third floor of stonemist for 8 straight hours? I’m there! I won’t even be botting because I’ve adapted to this. I’m still playing an elementalist after all!
Spvp?
Don’t worry, I won’t go to the laser with Tornado off CD.
I will indeed fire that cannon, and pick up every single spawn of hero’s potion.
They killed our treb? Allow me to run the repair for it to be back up. I will even sit on it all game!
You’re being attacked? Don’t worry, I’ll show up and immediately, everyone will stop targeting you.
The real question: Why doesn’t anet want us to be able to play bunker D/D elementalist anymore?
Revert the stunbreak on our cantrips nerf. Nobody is using the new stunbreakers you added to other garbage spells for pvp/wvw. Except maybe people new to the class. Nobody is using One With Air either.
Why can we be CC’d in mistform? It says invulnerable right on the spell. Fix this.
Yes. Perplexity runes are extremely cheese. It’s like fighting 5 mesmers at once. We have a bunch of things that remove conditions, but the cds are extremely far apart. These runes apply confusion every couple of seconds.
In WvW if you take off signet of restoration, you can barely stay healed. If you don’t use Ether Renewal, you are going to be cc’d forever. Where is the balance here? There’s no real bunker spec anymore for eles. You ruined it. I’m about as bunker as I can possibly be: stab on earth attunement, remove cond on cantrip and water attunement. Stab, Invuln, port cantrips (If i get rid of any of those for another condi clear I can’t get away from anything.) Fiery Greatsword HAS to be the elite or I can’t get away/catch anything.
What are our options here? Full PVT and do no damage while our enemies laugh at us? Full clerics and still do no damage? Then get spiked by a thief with bloodlust stacks hitting our low vitality? Can we make good use of perplexity runes? No. I use knights with travelers runes for more mobility, more boon duration, more stats. I use Celestial trinkets because clerics lack vitality, and everything else lacks healing power. And yet still I get chain CC’d, and dominated by conditions. Which leads me to…
Why on earth did you incorporate the stacking of immobilization?
How to win as a necro: Corrupt boon/ Fear spam.
How to win as a thief: perma stealth/Backstab.
How to win as a warrior: Heal through everything/Outrun everything.
How to win as a guardian/mesmer/lbow ranger: Zerker gear.
How to win as an anything but ele: perplexity runes. I mean, how do you even damage an engineer running these now?
Does anet even play this game? Do you roam, bro? People complained about our class for so long that the only result is to break it instead of balance it. Then the other classes get buffed, and we get nonsense. Yeah, staff is great. I want to roam. Not with a staff. D/D is fastest mobility, great 1v1, but the bunker aspect took a huge nosedive. I think I covered most of the reason why.
The glory grind in quick-join feels like work.
Knocking guardians and engies off points to cap takes forever.
There are so many terrible thieves, that they aren’t our number 1 enemy anymore.
Our biggest threat for awhile now is necromancer. Good God. Was torment really necessary? Do I need a triple bunker cleanse, plus cantrip, plus heal ability to survive now? It sure feels like it. If you’re glass, just forget about it. You’ll be dead before you get that insta-gib off.
For the map with the laser I use tornado, because it seems like every other class in there has unlimited knockbacks on much shorter cds. If you don’t have one, you’re probably the one falling to your death.
After necro, I’d say mesmer is the most annoying thing because they can easily play glass, while doing more burst than the common thief. You’ll be fighting a close match on a point and a necro or mesmer show up, and you know it’s time to bail.
In quick-join, on a fair class vs class setup, I do not find it difficult to have most points for both teams. That is only because of the ranking system. Anet pits rank 3s vs 50s sometimes, and that’s hardly fun for anyone.
After some patches, I felt the ele class get progressively weaker due to the buffs of other classes, more than the nerfs of our own. But I can’t really say for sure. For instance, I have problems with some rangers. lol And longbow warriors, wow. Some of those guys really know their stuff. Ranger is a metric ton of interrupts and pet healing, with high burst, and get this, stealth. The warrior spams a huge AoE burn, then adds torment, and you really can’t stand in that aoe to burst him down.
Staff is the utmost slowest damage still, unlike longbow range skills, and every other ranged ability of the other classes. You really cannot play with that on your own unless you’re support, and then what’s the point? I do not play staff, I’m just making another side point on the class. I’ve tried it maybe 4 times in spvp.
Why did we all fall in love with Eles in pvp? Because of dagger/dagger. That remains to be the most used setup, because everything else is 1s away from being 1 shotted. We want to be bunkers that can kill, just like the other bunkers: Ranger, Guardian, Engineer, whatever else. You need to be able to hold a point vs more than 1 person at a time. I’ve seen an engie keep 5 people off a cap an entire match. For us to fight 2 people at once, you have to constantly cleanse, and dodge every lockout the enemy throws at you. Meaning, you can’t eat an 8s guardian chain-knockdown up against a wall where the camera becomes your worst enemy. You need to have that 90s(72s? with cd reduction) armor of earth, or mist form available. You can’t accidentally ride the lightning back into your opponent. You can’t get pulled right before a dodge cleanse. You can’t do any combo burst at all with confusion on. Basically to win, you need to be able to break a stun, cleanse, dodge, and negate damage from an aura at all times, or you’re dead, because you’re not going to kill the person without using any of those. Most likely you will use all of your cds to kill someone, then someone else shows up and you have to try to get a stomp and get out of there, or just run away somehow while they get rallied.
This is an average day in spvp: Stomp scrubs, then next match get rolled, making you question your build, runes, sigils, weapon set, and class.
If I had a nickel for every time I clicked “trait reset”…
I just woke up. I’m here for the 20 player oceanic coverage.
Only a WvW player posts a gameplay video worth watching.
Imagine how good this game would be without the forums.
Before patch you were pretty much forced into the role of tank/support.
Now, it seems like they want us to use air, but the best application of damage with air is with a scepter. But you can’t make a good damage spec at all in spvp. S/D was amazing at release. You could get away with zerker amulet then. You can’t even do S/F now because of the constant condis and cc’s from everyone. It’s literally impossible to enjoy a glass cannon as ele anymore because literally every other class can do a better job of it.
WvW isn’t near as bad, but it’s still pretty horrible vs a lot of things (as a solo roamer). I barely ever see any Ele videos on youtube anymore. It’s just not fun anymore.
PVE/Raid eles are fine.
Does anyone really enjoy playing with monk runes and water/earth/tempest or whatever? lol
Basically playing other games for pvp because I don’t care about playing another class at all. I really don’t get anet when it comes to this class and I’m sure any real ele fan would agree with this.
Only WvW players get forum bans for making fun of the other teams.
I can’t even outrun a centaur now.
I think I just threw up in my mouth.
Don’t transfer to lagfest if you want to actually enjoy the game. Do you care what your rank is? A number that doesn’t give you anything in-game? I don’t. I just want to pwn noobs, troll with ballistas, knock people off cliffs, and pick up phat lootz the way Santa intended for the little children.
- Used lightning whip as a method of spanking your friends.
When the game first came out and elementalists weren’t the game’s angel of mercy.
S/D was possible. Condi wasn’t the dominating factor. I personally find condis way out of balance since toughness has 0 effect against it.
Dragonhunter has a dragon icon. Tempest should have a trashcan icon.
I don’t feel that AoE damage plays a major role in incoming damage received. The only times where you get bombarded by AoE damage is when you’re that guy trying to use the burning oil, cannon, or other ranged dps from atop a wall.
If you’re engaging a group of hiding necros and staff eles all geared for AoE, then it’ll seem like a ton of damage. As it should be. If you’re standing in 2+ superior arrowcart AoE circles, you’re going to get wrecked. As it should be.
It’s the single target attacks that are doing excessive damage right now. Backstab, Kill shot.
You should have to complete the OS jp to gain access to edge of the mists.
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Scores: +660 / +25 / +10
Yet another well thought out match.
Reason crafting stations were removed:
1. Too many AFK PVE players taking up queue space in home boarderlands. No
2. Racial cities felt empty. Yes
I’ve never seen more than 4 people at a given time at the crafting stations in WvW, and it has never been a problem. Now, not only has the most convenient thing in the game gone, but LA takes 10x as long to load.
Work-around: Add crafting stations to Heart of the Mists, and/or player Home Instances. It’s 900 gems for a Home Portal Stone, and there’s plenty of space to add crafting stations in player HI’s.
I commonly end up with 20+ stacks just skirmishing by sm. It’s a little over the top and stops some fights cold. Perma treb poison and swimming in ac/cat spam is bad enough
Yeah, siege is kittened. It’s all we ever fight in t3. I’m pveing for APs now out of sheer boredom.
Wow, I’m going to lose my homepage now.
BUG: My skills were all given to the warrior class. Mobility. Healing. Well, they already had highest burst, highest health, lets give them everything else, too.
Only a WvW player will find this thread 3 pages back and bump it again.
I’m more concerned with people sitting around waiting for a rez in heated combat situations. The timer should be 2 mins max.
I tank better than a guardian.
All I see is a video of an overpowered necromancer that can sit in 21s of immobilize and walk away.
I still feel the ride the lightning nerf wasn’t at all necessary.
Solo roaming is dead. Even in full zerker s/d, the damage and defense is far below that of other classes in like-wise gear. You can kill under-geared bads. That’s it.
Can’t wait for Wildstar at this point.
Using warbanners in GvG seems like cheating.
TC roamer = slow guy at back of blob.
I don’t even know what to say right now. It’s pretty much comedy gold above.
They should let us apply town clothes as a skin to our pve/pvp/wvw clothes. I must look fancier/sillier.
Only a WvW player completes the daily in WvW exclusively (if possible).
To address T3 topic from page 1: If you own Overlook in ebg, and you mostly just spam cannons, trebs, mortars, acs, etc non-stop at fights in the road between northern sm and overlook, you deserve to be spawn camped with players and siege. Literally every time we killed annoying wall siege, DH rebuilt it as soon as it was clear again. lol If your team is constantly running out the same set of stairs for hours on end from your spawn, why would we (Mag) leave? It’s not like green is doing anything. They also get camped in their keep. You’re not Mag’s play toy, but look at your KDR and ask yourself if you’re doing something wrong as a server or not.
As for T2: I believe Mag will move up past FA at this rate. We’re getting mountains of ppt from kills alone.
Guilds: Rich, Koss, SOA are now attempting to use the same exploit. I guess they don’t care about getting banned. We know where to look and screenshot those doing it. I’m keeping you all updated so that you don’t get brought down by the initiator who doesn’t care what happens to their own character, let alone yours.
wats a gc ele? global cooldown insta gib?
if 2 thieves and a warrior can’t kill an ele, they need to uninstall for realz.
immobilize and chill = gg ded ele.
heck, even poison.
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I really hope they add a c.o.d. to the mailing system for trading.
Because he saw the salad dressing.
The game’s become a chore now. Log out with your share of the map or greater, wake up to owning a supply camp and everything else dominated by the high pop server. How many weeks in a row does Anet expect people to play that way? People are transferring/game-hopping left and right, because nobody wants to pve for anything other than the gear to use in pvp. The only redemption I can see right now is fixing the puzzles and getting rid of repair costs. sigh Oh, and the sweeping infractions on forum make people less likely to post anything.
Man, if arcana reduced overload times as well as attunement cooldowns…
Why are you spamming to try and justify doing that much damage? I’m not glass cannon. I’m in full toughness/vitality gear. My runes have toughness on them. My weapon has toughness on it. Elementalist’s wear light armor. We do not get 2600 armor. No one should be hitting me in my gear for 7kx2 followed by 9k+ in the span of 3s. It’s flat out broken. Period.
At least you didn’t get double infracted for talking about kittens in a leeto thread.
They were struggling with Maguuma so they had to add 400 more players to their roster.
Well most of the time I don’t even need to leave air attunement or swap weapons to maintain sprint. Switching healing skills could be the thing that keeps me alive in a big fight. But that’s kinda off-topic lol. I don’t really feel (edit) underpowered in wvw. In spvp I prefer s/d. And pve (guild missions/fractals) I don’t have problems with anything.
My wvw/general spec: d/d
Things to note: If you’re not going to be running condi clear in a utility slot or from the heal, then having V in water is necessary. That gives you 2 condi clears because of the dodge in water. I find it far more useful than regen and vigor when I already have decent healing and vigor from my off-hand sigil. Sometimes I will use ether renewal if I know the other team is necro heavy. In a gvg I have to drop the 10 air to help with group buffs and crap like that that makes d/d less enjoyable really. The -33% damage every aura is far superior to stability and protection every 90s or whatever that (earth-traited) earth’s embrace gives you. So basically I run around with protection, fury, and sprint 90% of the time, and regen about 75% of the time instead of just regen 75%, and fury/sprint 50%, with protection only on earth swap and utility, making it 25% of the time on average. None of those percentages are accurate, but that best describes the spec the way I play it.
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I like arc wave cause it’s useful in all game types.