Guild Wars 2

Warrior was meant to be full tanky…..
Thief evades is what we wanted them to have….
Guardians struggle to survive…..
Ele S/D will be okay once Condi meta is toned down.
Got directly asked about staff & required 30 points in arcane, said they`re looking into GM traits, but staff may be a problem as they don`t want too much AoE….

Right near end, was busy fighting in wvws, but I`m sure Sharp stated that “he`s seen ele in pvp only use one attunement, mainly fire”.

holy kitten! That kid has never once logged the game I`m sure!
Unbinding F2-4 right now, obviously been playing wrong.
/failol

timidobserver.7925:

There is this one dev on TC that turns on his Anet tag and then rocks people that try to solo him. He plays a thief.

Surprise surprise, they don`t have the balls to play a balanced class ;p

Surely you fine chaps aren`t trying to elude as to Thiefs needing a nerf when it is clearly Elementalists….

http://www.twitch.tv/helsethgw2/c/1935123

P.S. Sarcasm mode was on full there

I recall all those times I`ve played since beta & during live that my Ele` used to one shot all other profess…no wait, that never happened.

P.P.S.

Well it`s been made more then clear since the game came out that that “we don`t whack a mole” is a load of crap.

EA got removed, then weeks/ months later it got returned (partially..).
Staff Ele` got almost flat out shafted with the nerf bat.
Scepter, well let`s face it, D`Tooth that is next to pointless most of the time, Phoenix fails still when you dodge, Air 1 that keeps firing on corpses unless you stow weapons, is stupid because by then, someone/thing else is already eating your face.
So that left D/D which they rolled the one sided dice & said “Well, let`s shaft them too”.

Synergy was one of their quotes about Ele`, yet to really get that you had to go into arcana because the silly standard attunement cd is too long tbh, but since the constant RTL (& other) nerfs, where is that synergy?

As for RTL being our best escape, it was my only “Oh crap someone is hitting me from range” button, because we don`t have range & melee like every other profession.

But now that it is 40sec cd when someone blocks, insta-stealths, dodges by time we get to them (because RTL is a huge telegraph…) or even just hit a kittening piece of a pebble on the ground that doubles our cd, well then we`re probably still out of range.

Oh sure, we have the latest earth3 cast/joke, but swapping attunements just to catch up…?

The crap about “Elementalist does huge damage” joke…
That happened in beta, got nerfed in no time at all, (yet thieves can still do this…)

I assumed at first the RTL was a spvp “fix” but to put it into WvWs & PvE too?
Dumb, just dumb.

An epic fail of a bag slot.
Looted one, used it few days later, got knocked down & that was it.
Hell, could`ve jumped off of a cliff for more excitement.

Only advice I can think of is don`t bother with Staff
Stick with D/D, you`re safer & will live heck of a lot longer.

SQLOwns.7316:

eles have been nerfed into the ground, that’s just the way it is atm. unfortunately, anet doesn’t seem to be changing this anytime soon……….

You think it`s bad now, get ready for Tuesday, when you run up against those with 1-2 legendaries, whilst the rest of us players are forced into time gated crap before we can even make the new higher stat weapons…

I apologise, but how are any of you surprised?
Ele` Lf used to work on the Z axis, just like Mesmer & thief`s still does. Ele` got nerfed, mesmer & thief are still allowed to do this.
Ele` RTL used to work fairly well on crossing ledges, Warrior still works extremely well.
i could go on, but we all know that anet continue to nerf Elementalists just because of the idiots that haven`t put stun/immobilise/etc spells on their bars instead of all of the pewpew spells or haven`t taken all of two seconds to learn how to handle us (aka stun/stun/ele dies).
I`m guessing (& I`d place gold on this) that most Ele` have had to go very towards tanky builds just to survive any of the average day kittene to evne compete with every other class.
All of these nerfs keep happening due to their failing hopes for esport fame & fortune regardless of whether you ever only enter WvWs, PvE, or BGs only.
The sheer fact they even put LF direct damage at 50% on top of enemy is yet even more proof of the sheer cluelessness.
Trust me, watch (if you`re brave enough) any of their streams, you`ll see at the best of times they`re incredibly clueless….

/sigh
Wild Star out yet?
NCSoft can have my money there & then some (depending how stealth works out..)

Only a WvW player rushes to res the champion that just died, only to realise you`re sat in Gandarren fields awaiting the WvvW queue to pop.
Only a WvW player then wonders why when he was spamming F to res, some loot appeared in his bags.

I think Engie has it a little better then Ele`, but it`s hit & miss.

Seconded!

It is already annoying enough trying to click enemy players through friendlies name plates, without yet more junk to block us :$

Just had Scarlet attacking flash on the screen & chat whilst in WvWs.
Totally not required.

Not just ESO, but Wild Star also.

Every time I`ve listened/watched something they`ve released, it is almost as if they`re having a dig at gw2 & then some.

Fully customisable ui (which considering how great Guild Wars ui was, gw2 is a an embarrassing joke.
Completely modable with mods already being created before game is even released.
From the sound of things the pvp is going to be good too, something which anet advertised/promised & has failed to fully accomplish by a long shot.
Arenas, with spectators that not only get to watch, they can join in in some form (someone stealths too long & doesn`t fight, viewers get to throw rotten veggies to kick them out of stsealth haha).
World pvp. /cheers
NPCs/bosses are able to be used/tamed or wtk they called it to help defend your areas in open world pvp.
Housing, farmable plots etc for those farmville fans.
Raids (heard this is some sort of large dungeon, I don`t pve ;p ).
& much more.

With ESO, Wild Star & a few others very close on the horizon, anet have to really get their kitten into gear or they`ll wipe on this boss.

Hanako.1827:

-Fire grab requiring a re-occurrence of the Big Bang to happen to land it on someone who moves an inch.

hahahahaha

It`s been eight months & STILL this happens….

If you can`t handle coding this, will you at least allow the players to make mods to stop this sort of thing from happening?

Aww, look at the furry little….IT BIT ME!

really needs a keybind, I`m quite amazed, albeit not shocked, that it doesn`t have one.

Can we have this please?

Also, option for stow pet to actually work until we activate the pet again, rather then we go down a 1cm bump that puts us in combat for no reason & bang, pet is out yet again.

Sticking with PCs as usual.
My predictions for what the new consoles will be comparable to in a few weeks/months is…..

Agree completely, the spinning camera is beyond irritating!

As for WvWs/PvP, players dead can still move the camera to continue spying, I`d prefer the map just to open instantly when a player is downed as they can still see green dots nearby to know of a possibility of getting a res.

In Guild Wars, when dead the camera would spin, until you moved the mouse & then that was it, the camera would just sit exactly where you put it.
Why the hell they ever decided on a permanently resetting, re-spinning one is beyond me.

This is especially worse due to playing a huge Charr wherein if I am downed anywhere near a wall, building, blade of grass, the majority of the time I see inside my body until I move the camera, only for it to be reset every other second :$

Woah, paragraph alert!!

So in other words, there will not be a sensible option to disable/enable this?

/sigh

Thief is their golden child, with ginger hair.

Ditto, pet is missing on mine also.
I know they like temporary content, but this is pushing things too far ;p

In a game which they advertised for months/years on end of not requiring a healer or tank, sticking ele as support just sucks balls.

Never played healer/tank in any game, didn`t want to in a game that isn`t meant to have them either.

If they really want to make ele only support, they`re kittening the class over enough to make it not even good enough for that.

To go support, you can`t play heal builds/gear, because you`ll still be 1-3 shot by most other classes & having to rely on other players/pugs to keep ressing you is just a waste of time, meaning you`re just as useless as ever & should be using a guardian instead.

Plus they`re page states: “What they lack in physical toughness, they make up in versatility and the ability to inflict massive damage in a single attack.”

We all know that is bullkitten &/or they mistook the class for thief.
So either they up our damage or up our base hp/armours etc.

Also, even if they do that, you`ll still be one of the slowest classes with no weapon swap, which every other class can do much better.

My first visit to WvWs for over a week (except for easy bank access ;p )
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand….

Defending Briar whilst uw had it, half a dozen enemy glitch in. Not an accident, as they ran straight to lords room /sigh
Thinking, bah, a one off…
Nope. Defending Bay when a thief did the same at north west gate. Glitched, downed a couple & finally died. Got a screenie, but pointless emailing it in as there`s no names shown, except guilds..
Mesmer inside bay, getting res from folk outside.

Nice to see nothing has changed….

If you`re referring to Foolkins, you`re close, but at least Foolkins could do some amazing damage, unlike nerfementalists
Pop star fall (pre crapalysm) see everybody run away.
Turn up with an ele, see everyone hit the floor……
with laughter.

Warrior most definitely has much better damage, even against a “zerker” ele & combine that with ele low hp/survivability, more so when zerker.
P.S. Warrior GS has more mobility then any ele weapon set & they can swap to rifle/bow at press of a button & swap weapons every four seconds.

Expected to wait ages for anything to get done, but seems nobody is getting any fixes any time soon…..

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/101576/GW2_Patch_Info.png

It should be activated when there is some huge gap between scores.
Say 25k (miniscule) or 50k+

Letting this start when they can have as little as 800 points (that`s what we got hit by) or even possibly one point, is just stupid.

Be a while until NPC Wars 2 is uploaded.
I`m downloading Aion again at same time lol

Edit: Just had a thought (ouch)
Costs of upgrades, are these being lowered or removed?
Players pay for these to protect places from other players, not OP guards etc

What it really feels like to play Elementalist…

“Elementalists only use one attunement, fire” J.Sharp 2013

LOL!

In a game where there was meant to be no dedicated healers or tanks, Ele had to strictly go both options just to survive, therefore making killing things a kitten load slower to boot.

A: Nope, I don`t think it`ll ever get fixed & therefore…
B: It is a core problem of this game, not the players.

P.S. I didn`t play tank or healer in Aion, Guild Wars, warcraft or any other game & yet in gw2 we`re forced to & even then, those tank/heal abilities get nerfed whack-a-mole™© style.

I hope they keep it easy so I just don`t have that ui crap on my screen

Prioritise players over yellow mobs/walls/siege etc also.

Sheer incompetence strikes again.

Test this kitten, the friends list is now way over sized for what it used to be & lfg isn`t even active for most players.

Revert this crap now!

Tonight, my first log in for around a week (really can`t be kitten d any more) & duelling in EB jp both enemy servers.

It got to one warrior that could virtually perma stun, over & over.
Armour of earth on its cd is next to kitten all use because they can just stun again 7-15 seconds later.
Switched CF for arcane shield but again, even two stun breaks don`t help against immobs so I`m losing out either way.

Combine that with the insane damage warriors can output because they`re not forced into using 30+ points just to survive a cold…. ;p
Also higher hp (by a hell of a lot), armour etc.

I did vaguely glance at the conjures, but they`re useless (& still we be post patch) because of the crappy mechanic of placing one down for strangers to loot before you can even use your own ;p
Ah, combined also with stunned/immob`d, you`re not going to even be able to use them & lose more important utils just for gimmicks.

As luck would have it, the game just kept crashing after an hour+ of duels.
Guess the pc heard about me uninstalling gw2 soon lol

Except RTL could be stopped. Guardian 3 ball chain thing, Mesmer line pull, ranger knockback & probably more I`ve not noticed.
Worse, in RTL we`re a useless ball of sparks, at least those chilled can still fight/heal etc. Also they have higher hp/armour to boot.
Warriors can trait for any movement skill to remove immobilising effects, fairly sure both cna still move whilst using their copious amount of movement spells, even if a little slower.
Ranger pets can remove conditions, combined with they also get higher damage output as standard, due to ele having to go into 30 arcane/30water just to survive average goings on.

We get stunned, we can`t do kitten & we die.

The main problem is that we`re still either okayish melee only or feeble staff ranged.
Every other profession can do both at press of a button, Warriors traited weapon swap every 4 seconds.

Gimme that, you can keep your RTL..

Caffynated.5713:

Hint: we recently uncovered a trend about them being mostly clueless newbs.

<puts thinking cap on>
Erm, the devs? ;p

Next patch: Due to all Elementalists killing bunnies just to cross a map at the same speed as every other class, all skills will be turned permanently into town clothes skills for 60 seconds when you enter combat & you will be in the disguise of a carrot.

& yet they still let:
Engies rocket boot across gaps.
Rangers leap across gaps.
Warriors charge (or wtk that spell is called) across gaps.
Double standards in this game….

lindstroem.3601:

Cause we used the catas to get the outer wall down aswell? But hey, next time we just will throw our heads against the gate.

Throw Asurats instead, more of them about….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SWCTlxEp6Ds#t=106s

The trade off is the collective IQ at anet.
All of these things were pointed out during the stream pre nerf, it has been mentioned continuously since the nerf & not once have they had the balls to reply.

Predictions of sodding awful camera positioning for large charr…

Hands up anybody who wants them to be shared items?
Nope, nobody?
We already have to kitten about four times more then anybody to survive/fight etc.
If someone else wants a fire axe, frost bow or whatever, tell them to make an ele.

I`m so kittening sick of being forced into helping others more then myself.

“Why doesn’t Outnumbered increase stats?”

Because that would take common sense, foresight &/or reading the dozens of threads pointing out how idiotic giving the winning zervers even more of a buff, which the devs have decided to completely ignore.

Stormcrow.7513:

CONGRATS ANET!!! on reaching 16000 views for a 9 month old issue that hasn’t been addressed in over 6 months!
Keep up the great work!!!

As a reward for this I sent them a box of clues & a nice big cake.
Unfortunately when I went to right click send, I think it clicked screw with our game play instead

Guns and Giblets.9308:

Fishbait.6723:

Just got on to hear that RTL is being nerfed yet again, 20 second if used & don`t hit anything, 40 seconds if you hit something. Really hope I heard this wrong as is one of the most kitten things they`ve said to date.

Which reminds me…

Mist form, you can no longer use your heal.

Feck my old boots.

Oh dear—if true. Where did you hear this?

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2guru/old

They`re still live now

cheshirefox.7026:

Damage builds = die easily. Survivability builds = die easily.
i commend you for your skill in computation, as i’ve double checked your equations and have come to the conclusion that they are absolutely correct

Corrected that image for you

A true warrior needs the BIS weapons today, not months down the road.

An anet PvDer came to the place where folk PvP, & it expected to live?
lol, just goes to show how clueless they really are

Looking forward to seeing the footage

Fyrebrand.4859:

An option to toggle various pieces on/off would be a good idea, though I have to say the GW2 interface is pretty minimal for an MMORPG. There’s not a lot I would want to take away for any significant length of time, but UI customization options is always a good idea.

Also, just going to leave image here for no reason…

lol yerp, I used to play that game & some of my first attempts at addon mixes were terribad.
But that was the advantage, we got used to them & could remove the ridiculously dumb things that ActiBlizz` used to add in (& add our own ;p).

Mine looked like the following in the end, along with a couple more for bgs
Two full bars of spells to right were perma-hidden.
Another bar at top similarly so.

I slogged through the daily post patch & am now stuck with the “You haven`t done Fractals for you monthly” constant reminder.
PvE, never have, never will.

Cluster I`m reminded of when trying to camera angle for that sneaky arrow cart