I play with a xbox controller using a program called pinnacle. Another GW2 player made a great profile for it.
left trigger activates mouse move
right trigger press and release is interact
right trigger hold is double click
Left stick is movement (aswd)
left stick click is dodge
left stick hold is heal
right stick is mouse move/look
back is map toggle
start is esc
right bumper hold is select target
A is jump
press x is ‘1’ hold x is ‘7’
press y is ‘2’ hold y is ‘8’
press b is ‘3’ hold b is ‘9’
logo button is elite
direction pad is up=f1, left = f2, right=f3, down =f4
Thief’s are easier to play and more appreciated in dungeons than Rangers. I have an 80 of each. If you only plan to pve solo, the ranger is a nice choice… though so is the Thief. Ranger will give you more solo pve play styles.
The guide mentioned above.. the one at dulfy.net… Great Ele guide. Good explanations and rotations. Only real difference in places between DKeyz and this one is keyz uses flame wall in the rotations and has pre-might stacking. I find Zelyhn’s much more fluid to follow. Once you have that method down its easier to add on DKeyz if you want because you better understand what you are doing.
Little. You can add some vitality with gems but it’s all about killing fast with an elementalist. You have little armor and little health so you want to do as much damage as fast as possible.
-Generally avoid using dagger offhand, focus has a longer fire field and offers more utility and blasts to stack might
Dagger fire circle lasts just as long as focus flame wall and is easier to blast in. Focus and dagger offhand both have two blast finishers, though focuses are faster.
I run D/F but use flame rushes fire field as I feel flame wall is too difficult to aim and blast in consistently in battle.
And for d/d you 6/6/2/0/0 is a better build. Cantraps aren’t as important as dodges.
The title says it. I got a decent trident with the on swap bleed sigil (geomancy) and it triggers on attaunment swapping. I know that I swap attaunments at least twice during every fight and even more often on vest and bosses. A sigil of battle has a 9 second cool down and gives 2/3 stacks of might for 20 seconds, which is enough time to keep constantly active plus more from blasts. Why do I never see on swap sigils in build suggestions?
I know P/P is supposed to be the most single target RANGED damage thief’s can do, but what is the spread between well regulated unloads, and poison fields with cluster bomb detonations so all 3 splits hit one target?
I would also like this. However if they make the change they will open themselves up to all the professions asking why their parts aren’t depositable. I have a whole bank section just for cooking components that don’t ‘collect’
also be sure to chain unloads. If you start the next before the first one ends, the damage multiplier continues. Standard initiative you can chain three together.
I recently joined [RED] and can say that they are a great bunch. Very supportive and helpful to their members. Constantly have people running in WvW and willing and able to help with Dungeons. I’m not sure I could say enough good things about this guild.
Couple questions.
I haven’t used sword in so long I forget if its an AoE attack.
Also with AoE attacks will Sig of Mal heal me for each attack? or each target?
and could the same logic be applied to short bow? or dagger 4 when it bounces off more than 1 mob?
Sword is AoE though I think it maxes at three targets.
S of M will heal for each attack on each target. So a standard AA chain against three mobs will trigger 9 heals. Yes SB or bounces each count for a heal.
Signet of Malice, Sword/Pistol. Use skill 5 to blind anything for 4 seconds in a field around you, and use skill 3 to do large quick damage. Also with the signet you can heal almost to full on three mobs.
Also skill 2’s second ability will clear a condition and can be spammed.
Solo PVE with a thief is really pretty easy. Only issue are mobs that can constantly knock you out of melee range.
Pistol/Pistol is for single target range, Dagger/Dagger has higher single target melee.
Shortbow is good for mob groups at range and moving around the map quick with skill 5, but personally I didn’t like the short bow.
Don’t play a necro (did level one to mid 30s) I agree that this would be nice for necros and see no real advantage it would give over any other player.
I don’t think you have any knowledge on programming or graphic meshes. It would be that hard, as they would have to create two new meshes, makes sure they fit to the wireframes properly and code the items to understand the changes.
That is exactly what that means. the shoulders are not there own mesh, they are a part of the rest of the armor. Separating them would require creating two new meshes.
I am focusing on Ele, mainly because of the stigma that Thiefs seems to have in Dungeons. I realize that Thiefs can do incredibly high DPS and help with trash, but seems every group wants and Ele and some groups don’t want thiefs at all.
I could have sworn I have gotten both, however I am more than willing to accept I screwed up. However if you can’t blast two fields at once, how do elementalists build 18+ stacks of might?
Do you have to go S/F plus ArBr and ArW? Get all 6 blasts to go off perfect w/out any interruptions or issues to hit 18?
When you can get the healing signet sword/pistol makes leveling a thief super easy in pve. skill 5 gives you a 4 second point blank blind field and skill 3 not only interrupts and does a swift strong attack… you dodge during that whole attack. skill 3 plus the healing signet and you can pretty much fully heal off 2 or three guys in a group.
I am working on my might stacking. Right now practicing with D/D. However when I lay down a burning speed and a ring of fire (for the ease) even when standing on the burning speed line I almost never get dual might stacks. Just the one stack of 3 per skill. I occasionally do get the single 6 stack add, but its so rare and random. What am I doing wrong? If I can’t do this with ring of fire, I will never be able to do it with flame wall.
…we dont even need to catch them ourselves so coding fishing into the game isnt an issue…
This… I hate this. I can only script, I can’t code but I know and understand how hard it is. What your asking for isn’t a copy and paste of item A and renamed fish. Its the code for the item, the database entry for the item. The code for tracking how many are in the world, database entry for that as well. The balancing of said item against other benefits. And you want to be able to cook, well thats writing whole new sections for the crafting, boon, player augment code.
What you could have said is “I am not looking to fish, just to buy fish and have some fish recipes”. It would still be a lot of work, but then you don’t come off sounding like you don’t appreciate how much work it is to code and make things, which I don’t think was your intention.
I want to do dungeons and WvW. I like the Thief look and style. I also like the Ele diversity. I die so much more as an Ele than as a Thief. However, it looks like Thiefs aren’t wanted as much in dungeons. Is Ele the way to go over Thief?
Just a bit of fun trivia, that iceberg picture isn’t real. Its actually made up of 4 different pictures. The top/bottom/sky/underwater all all different pictures.
What about condition cleaning. Is the earth focus ability (or staff water, or offhand dagger) the only clean you have? In boss fights 25 seconds is a LONG time to go without condition cleaning.
there was a bug where you could avoid paying the tp fee. So Anet patched it. Now if you fill a buy order for 55 at 50, you just get 50 and 5 is sent back to buyer.
I think thematically this would make the most sense for Elementalists. I just think it would look good and make sense, and just wondered what others thought. I am not suggesting new abilities… it could have D or S’s skills I just think it would look good from a cosmetic and thematic standpoint.
I know you can do this, I want to know why scepter is so much better for LH. I have read dekeyz post and watched her you tubes, but I don’t see a comparison of why S is better. Is it a burst vs sustained thing for weapons since LH is the focus of the build?
