Guild Wars 2

What was your original vision for the Elementalist? It seems like a very conflicted class, with trait lines that focus on one particular element, and starting questions which ask “what’s your favorite element?” Did you imagine players would attunment swap as often as they do?

If you could redesign the ele from the ground up, what would you change?

What’s the one thing you think an Ele does better than any other class in sPvP?

I love staff Ele, and I’m super pleased with all the changes, but the changes just aren’t enough for sPvP.

There are some good powers. Air 4 is super useful. Air 5 is amazing CC. Earth 5 is great for CC. Air 3 is… kinda nice? Water 3/5 isn’t bad but not nearly enough healing, and requires an ally to notice it and stay still for you to help them.

The damaging powers though, the autoattacks, Fire 2, Earth 2, Fire 5, they all fail at connecting compared to any other class. A ranger can do more swinging his sword than an Ele can. Great in WvW for casting from invulnerability of the walls, useless in situations where a fight might break out.

A Staff Ele is basically a mobile arrow cart or turret. Super useful, but you wouldn’t take it into a 2v2.

I’m in a very small guild of friends scattered across servers, and we want to try to consolidate on another server. We’d like to maybe all go to a lightly populated server so that we can do it cheaper, but in doing so we’d lose all of our upgrades.

As a small guild, what meager upgrades we have have taken forever to get acquire. The ability to transfer the guild, or have the guild upgrades be cross server, would be a huge deal.

Is there any way this could be done?

This sounds really fun. Some additional information that would be useful:

1.) What server is this on?

2.) The Time and Date link doesn’t work.

3.) The map isn’t easily available to non-forum users. Could you link it another way?

I’ve got an alt or two I’d like leveled, so I’d absolutely join in on this.

Yay custom arenas. Totally happy to see it and spectator mode. But while I’m happy with the idea of custom arenas, have you really looked at what kinds of Arenas are getting made?

Some arenas are password only guild arenas. Great! Guildies want a place to fight one another for practice, that’ awesome. Some others are high rank only places. Also a good use.

Then there are “NO CAP POINT” arenas. There are also “Glory Farm” areas. Both of these indicate some real deep problems with sPvP.

For one, the game seriously needs a duel mode. Custom Arenas are nice, but they depend upon players deciding to not actually play the game as made. A mode specifically designed for player vs player duels, or team vs team battles, would make players super happy.

Then we have glory farm servers. …. Wat. I have no idea how to fix this, except to say its broken. If players want to farm glory by fighting one another, they need an Arena.

Custom Arenas are a poor patch to the real problem that the game needs more modes. Players want to fight one another in me vs them matchups. Last-man-standing free-for-all matches, cage matches (two players enter, one team leaves) and team vs team matches (first team to wipe other team 5 times wins, etc) would ensure players could get the fun they want playing the way they want.

Now I’m not too upset with the game as is. Point capping is fun, and the game isn’t broken for me, because if I want to play a proper point cap game, I sign up for a tournament and play another team. It would be nice if I could play more than one map on a given day, but at least its a proper game. I think that what we have is great, but it needs more.

haviz.1340:

Btw, I thought that inverse law of female armour was mostly applied for heavy armours. Might have been mistaken though.

That depends, is a chainmail bikini light or heavy armor?

So, here’s the problem I’m facing. The CM armor set is the only one I really like for an elementalist, since everything else for a female character looks either overdone or provocative. That’s fine, there’s at least one set which is pretty.

Because dungeon tokens are not interchangeable, I need to run CM about 27 times to get all the tokens I need. Even split across three paths this is pretty grind-tastic. Still, at least its a consistent push towards progress, and not a random drop.

Nobody in my guild wants to run CM, since there’s new things to run. Fine. CM is not that bad with a PUG.

But, and here is where it gets dreary, the area in front of CM, which formerly let me find a PUG reasonable fast, is dead. It was dead on NSP, my old server, and its dead on Maguuma, which my guild moved to. The LFG web tool has yet to show me a single bite for CM, everyone’s running Fractals. And, before the fractals, everyone was running the Halloween content.

It doesn’t help that nobody I know finds CM enjoyable. I can’t blame them. It takes a long time for a moderate reward. It’s fun the once, to be sure, but doing it time and time again is tedious.

To the developers: I know you’re sick of hearing this, and I realize its not simple to release, but LFG system please. I’d love a straight up matchmaker system where I could go and PvE towards 100% match completion which would insta-port me to the dungeon the moment 5 people across server were interested. Even some communication saying “coming in a few weeks” would be great, because I don’t know if I should give up on CM armor entirely and try to craft something, or just wait.

TBH: I don’t even really want to run CM anymore, I just want to finish the armor set I’m working on. Changing fractal tokens and/or tokens from any other dungeon towards CM tokens would be a workable solution as well. Anything that lets me get decent elementalist clothing which doesn’t follow the inverse law of female armor.

To other players: Seriously, is anyone running CM anymore? How do you find players? Is it possible to 2-man or solo?