Guild Wars 2

ah, new thread

Be patient. I do lv50 daily and some pug groups did super fast. But some pugs…they didn’t even know the zerg meta. Don’t let the game influence you too much. If I feel angry or inpatient I’ll just leave the group and do things I love. Sometimes I made several mistakes and performed like a newbie, and I really appreciated my teammates can understand…

I’ll go with the zerg meta. Everything zerg i mean. I did the same thing to my ele and at first it seemed to be very embarrassing since I died a lot, but after a while my skills improved a LOT. Recently I tried my guardian and found it’s much much easier for a zerg guardian to survive. Only deaths can teach u something and you’ll learn the skill animation much quicker under the circumstances that you’ll be one shot

I usually use D/F in fractals and S/F in dungeons. I’ve heard that staff is great for the second ele in group, but how to maximize might/fury/utilities and whatever for two eles? What’s the best weapon set/build?

I wish Anet could make a beautiful dragon…

Rangerdeity.5847:

why are you even trying to evade with it if your not good enough to land your I-frame? if you need I-frame practice go play tera bro

i use it not to evade but for the damage and fire field

BlackBeard.2873:

You can shorten the distance travelled by turning you camera up so you are looking straight down on your character.

The dodge is kinda random, and not really useful for something that needs to be reliably dodged.

thx i’ll try it

I’m just curious

I run fractal 50 daily and I found in many cases I died because of the evil Burning Speed, especially in boss fights. The animation is too long and tricky. Now I’m considering not to use it in boss fights at all…

And sometimes dodge is also tricky. I believe I’ve completed half of the animation and i still got damage…and you know what’s the meaning of one hit for ele in high level fractal…

I’ve watched many videos about solo dungeons, and they look pretty fun and interesting. But I would like to do the dungeons with my boyfriend, any suggestions/experiences/videos/guide?

InfernoHero.5687:

First let me address this:

Combat scenario is not about “fun”

This is a video game. I don’t care what your logic is behind that statement. Everything should be fun.

This week’s living story was literally the most fun I’ve had in this game thanks to Glint’s lair and I didn’t get crap for it. I used those five tomes to level my Elementalist to 20, and I’ll likely never use the shoulder skin unless I get the rest of the set.

Now, I’ll address the rest of your comment:

Ele staff rotation is pretty boring 5-2-1-1-1-1-2-1-1-1-1 etc. If you want to have “fun” with ele in dungeons by using complex rotations – please pick another weapon set like D/F or S/D/LH.

An Elementalist’s staff is one of the coolest weapons in the game. It is literally the only weapon that gives you a little of everything you would need in any situation. You might as well be reducing the weapon to nothing if you just use three skills. Even if you did stay in Fire Attunement, The fourth skill is an extra dodge, and the third skill is a really cool AoE burn.

At the end of the day it comes down to definition of fun.

This is completely true, and it was my original point in the OP.

Fun for me – to solve the problem of killing boss efficiently and elegantly.

Ok, so you have the efficiency part down. This is very far from elegant.

Fun for you – to use all skills at you disposal, you dont care much about what those skills do and why you use em. Seems like you just want to use them all “because you can” and you call it “fun”.

I’m not even looking at a skill bar right now. I haven’t played Elementalist for more than 24 hours.

Watch this:

Fire #4 is a dodge back
Earth #5 is an immobilize
Air #3 is a knock back
Air #5 is a stun
Water #4 is a chill

I know what those do because I can use them. I should use them because they are there. They are there for a reason.

Well, other people might disagree with you, especially when you slow them down by being a useless asset to the group and preventing them for having their own “fun” of killing things quickly

Oh, trust me. I am far from useless.

But why do you use other Attunements when you can inflict more damage by sticking to the Fire Attunement? btw that’s why I dislike the staff in PVE, you must sacrifice the efficiency to have fun. The D/F and S/D+F can be more entertaining.

It’s just how Chinajoy works and clearly Anet has nothing to do with that…
btw, VIP system isn’t that bad, since it isn’t useful I think

I’ll keep them, considering several new items introduced this year like the ghost wolf mini and Poly-luminescent Refractors. I believe many people still want them DESPERATELY even after the event.

I opened about 40k and finally…….. got the mini!!!!
It’s hard to describe my feelings about RNG since if it wasn’t soooooooo rare I would not be excited right now