Guild Wars 2

It all started when our antagonizing protagonist, Justdonny, woke up in a haunted thicket. It was the sixth time it had happened. Feeling abundantly puzzled, Justdonny poked a dangerous oil-soaked rag, thinking it would make him feel better (but as usual, it did not). Like a drunken sailor at happy hour, he realized that his beloved blue armor was missing! Immediately he called his favorite friend, pet bear. Justdonny had known pet bear for (plus or minus) 2,000 years, the majority of which were enchanting ones. pet bear was unique. He was outgoing though sometimes a little… oafish. Justdonny called him anyway, for the situation was urgent.

pet bear peeked up to a very sad Justdonny. pet bear calmly assured him that most spotted SoS player turn red before fleeing, yet the Tarnished Coast hissing sloths usually exotically sigh after engaging. He had no idea what that meant; he was only concerned with distracting Justdonny. Why was pet bear trying to distract Justdonny? Because he had snuck out from Justdonny’s with the blue armor only three days prior. It was a saucy little blue armor… how could he resist?

It’s raining badges, hallelujah.

We are not allowed to run away.
Only the enemy is allowed to run away, (after we spent 30 mins trying to damage them as a bunker).

Ride the lightning is meant to zerg between rabbits like how Metallica had intended.

I’m 41 of 75 in solo. And 2 of 7 in team.

I wrote a little poem.

This is a little story, all about how, my WvW got flip, turned upside-down.

Wait, that’s not it.

Everyone is bad.
I’m so rich.
Thank you very much.

Make a zoo where one team has to cage the animals, and the other tries to release them all. Call the map: Forums.

Go here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Post-Your-Build-Thread/page/1 to view page 1.

There’s really only a handful of people that want to play defense to make sure we have waypoints. Everyone else wants to ignore that to follow the blob. You can only play that way so many times before you become a blobber yourself.

It’s not fun hanging back and refreshing siege that you yourself ran to and from north camp 500 times to build from your own blueprints, while everyone else leaves the map outmanned to go actually kill people.

On Mag we have never not been out-manned during 16 hours of game time. Right now SBI has more players in Oceanic AND NA prime time. WTH? In the middle of the week they have queued maps.

The only way to fix this is to limit the amount allowed players on a map based on how many the other team has. This is what WoW did to an extent, but they buffed the lower populated faction exponentially for each % of out-manned. So instead of 60 vs 10, you have 20 vs 10 until 10 has 20, then the cap increases to 40, then 60, then whatever the actual queue is. Abandoning a map can’t really force people off a map with this method, but that team will get bored there and start trying to queue toward somewhere else. This gives at least some chance for the losing/lower-pop team to keep an interest. This hurts people who transfer-to-win only.

Crystal Desert’s REDT guild is exploiting into west keep inner again. Only now, a mesmer portaled the QQ guild inside now.

We have it frap’s, reported, and screenshotted up the yin-yang. Do not follow exploiter portals or you will get punished along with them.

recent update:

Last 3 pictures are updated with the ranger exploiting into inner west keep. omitted 1 picture as a potential entry point.

I’ll go first:

Ask for timer on a keep you just lost 10s after losing it.

If you review Nut’s post history, you will see that he’s the reason the threads keep getting locked.

This Evan guy seems alright. The season changes look good to me. I only play ele and don’t feel any need for a balance patch. Nerf warriors and condi mes to make my life easier tho. tia.

P.S. Llama tonic pls.

Wow. You’re really bright if you’re thinking I just post that build as my own.

I usually log out every time there’s no one on our team around to rez me, and that’s 99% of the time. Get out of the keep. That arrow cart you just built in aoe range isn’t going to get you any badges. Those trebs hitting the walls down below 50% uncontested while some troll spams repairs after repeatedly telling them not to do it aren’t going to help you hold the keep. I don’t know what game you guys are playing, but mine is all offense. And logging out on down.

Well NA stays up 20 hours at a time, until SoS ddos’s their voice comms 5-6 times in a row in EU hours, making people just go to sleep, while they blob 80 mans at empty maps, and /cheering the whole time.

atheria.2837:

I want to add something to the mix here.

Some of game skills use f4 skills, yes?

Ok, under your left palm on most badly made keyboards is the ALT key.

Many times lately I have palmed over the ALT key while using my f4 skill and VIOLA, game over.

Anet is the issue, their logic about keyboard layout and use is abysmal

If they want people not to seemingly purposefully abuse alt-f4, they should change it immediately to a combination NOT in the rotation of a skill use.

ALT-F4 should never have been used to “end the game” in the first place._*

You replied to a 4 month old thread to say that? “Alt f4” closes every program on your pc. It’s not controlled by anet. If you don’t want it to do that in-game, re-map it yourself. I personally don’t use alt as a modifier. And I don’t use the fuction keys either. My ele attunements are 1234. My g-15 keyboard also lets me disable the left windows key easily.

That’s a hacker guild.

Why are DB still recruiting more players when they have more than 3x as many players as the other people in the tier?

Bunch of America-haters.

I like achievement points.
I love my mini dolyak.
The extra magic find is nice.

I don’t feel I needed anything else.
I heard stories of golden dolyak finishers and stuff like that. /shrug@it.
I make tons of exotics and rares every single day in WvW.
I average 8g a day when karma training, and 5g just doing random stuff.

I had the WvW season title in the first week of the season.

I am the best!

Add an organize/view by (and or search term) item level.
A good example for me would be able to just type “400” in the search bar to show all the top created foods I can make.

I can never remember all the good foods I can make with my chef. Please create this.

Last night we killed 13 of their siege with 2 cats before they were able to use them. Including a golem. And tonight it took them over 2 hours to breach garrison on our last stand. We had 1/3 of their players at best still awake at this hour. lol All of our siege came from puzzles and badges. Maguuma is top tier level of play and the silly rankings won’t ever prove it. You’ll just have to face up against us to know for yourself (if you haven’t yet).

Refuge/timewarp rezzing is still far better than the banner. Add an ele in there sitting in water to heal it up. The Lord loves running away from the heals. Sort of like how players love running out of healing circles.

I have 25k left. Hope to see you soon.

P.S. It’s part of the game and a gold sink. Get over it.
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So many obnoxious holier-than-thou responses. DIAF

Evilek.5690:

katniss.6735:

I don’t think I need to do a write up. The screenshot pretty much sums up the thief class and how OP they are:

Full glass cannon thief 2199 P 14,6kHP
Backstab DMG =(weapon damage 981)power 2199(skill coe. 2,405 on back attack)/enemy armor=518811,695/enemy armor
Enemy armor 1500=3458,74 DMG
Enemy armor 2000=2594,05 DMG
Enemy armor 2200=2358,05 DMG
Enemy armor 2500=2075,22 DMG
Enemy armor 2755=1883,22 DMG
Critikal damage bonus with all CD and traits is 270%

DMG for 9500crit=+-3492DMG non crit = your armor is max 1850—>glass cannon =)

Cool story on math.
You forgot how cloak and dagger applies vulnerability.
And whatever weapon sigils were used. I don’t know that info.

I was only hit with the three abilities in the screenshot. There is no time at all to react to that. That’s why it is overpowered. I have 10 points in earth, not 30. Major trait in earth is Armor of Earth at 50% health. It didn’t proc due to rapid damage. The system is flawed to allow that much damage that rapidly through the gear I’m wearing. I’m not the only target thieves are demolishing people with. You can’t just make a class that gives no reaction time in pvp. That’s just bad design.

“BT”? More like “BTW we’re using gears”.

BTG : Buy Those Gears

They need to resolve culling before this kind of mash-up happens. Because the lag from the region clash will likely make it 10x worse.

I’m sorry, but your rotations are way off, and the first battle made me not want to watch anymore of the video. You are not procing might stacks, and weren’t using your projectile reflects at the right times. The guardian also bowed at one point to call the fight, to which you chased him until he was downed, staked, then jumped away like a proud princess.

Spamming all skills just because they’re up is not how you play this class. kthxbye

Take toughness out of earth and put condition duration in it’s place from fire.

I think this would create better builds for us because fire line fails, outside of extreme zerker spec, and condition ele fails because of the lack of condition uptime (leaving us way behind on other classes condi builds). The extra condition duration on burning still doesn’t last long with staff ele because we use fire/air in the builds, not fire/earth because seeing someone get hit for 10k on a meteor shower trumps 20 people getting a tick of 300 damage for 5s max.

You could be zerker staff ele without the 900 toughness.
You could be a condi d/d ele with longer cripples and immobilizes that are required for churning earth to land, or dragon tooth for s/x.

I feel we are left out on the joys of condition builds that other classes have unlocked. If I could maintain longer burns, bleeds, and even blind as d/d, I would be loving spvp a lot more. I think everyone would. We lost our mobility and some healing, and condi clear from mist form. Let us have a taste of de-stealthing thieves, and slowing warriors. Leave our arch-nemesis the necromancer, not everything on the field.

pet bear felt a stabbing pain in his taint when Justdonny asked this. In a moment of disbelief, he realized that he had hidden the blue armor right by his oscillating fan. ‘Wh-what? I don’t smell anything..!’ A lie. An annoying look started to form on Justdonny’s face. He turned to notice a box that seemed clearly out of place. ‘Th-th-those are just my grandma’s gerbils from when she used to have pet 3-legged wallabies. She, uh…dropped ‘em by here earlier’. Justdonny nodded with fake acknowledgement…then, before pet bear could react, Justdonny fearlessly lunged toward the box and opened it. The blue armor was plainly in view.

Justdonny stared at pet bear for what what must’ve been eleven microseconds. Suddenly inspired by the wise teachings of Confuscious, pet bear groped explosively in Justdonny’s direction, clearly desperate. Justdonny grabbed the blue armor and bolted for the door. It was locked. pet bear let out an enchanting chuckle. ‘If only you hadn’t been so protective of that thing, none of this would have happened, Justdonny,’ he rebuked. pet bear always had been a little dimwitted, so Justdonny knew that reconciliation was not an option; he needed to escape before pet bear did something crazy, like… start chucking potatos at him or something. In a blinding moment of misguided bravado, he gripped his blue armor tightly and made a dash toward the window, diving headlong through the glass panels.

pet bear looked on, blankly. ‘What the hell? That seemed excessive. The other door was open, you know.’ Silence from Justdonny. ‘And to think, I varnished that window frame seven days ago…it never ends!’ Suddenly he felt a tinge of concern for Justdonny. ‘Oh. You ..okay?’ Still silence. pet bear walked over to the window and looked down. Justdonny was gone.

The infamous orbs roll around the map, ominously, trying to chase after people. They are also 100x their original size.

That is all .

Wei-wei, a 15-year old circus ringmaster of a falling troupe in China, is left behind an insurmountable debt when her grandfather dies in the Great Sichuan Earthquake. The only family/friend she can depend on is a forty-five year old “baseball playing gorilla” named Ling-ling. When a loan shark threatens to sell Ling-ling and the circus kids to cover the debt, Wei-wei has no choice but to allow Ling-ling to be scouted by the materialistic sports agent Sung Chung-su to play in the Korean Baseball League. Despite the skeptical of the professional baseball society, Sung Chung-su successfully signs Ling-ling with a professional team with his calculated plan and sweet talks. Ling-ling, now dubbed “Mr. Go,” hits consecutive home runs and brings victories to his team Doosan. His popularity grows so immensely that even the fans of his opposing teams cheer for him. Mr.Go’s successful home-run parade continues, but Wei-wei and Sung, stunned and blinded by the sudden success, neglect to detect …

Replace “Blasting Staff” with “Blast Radius” to improve aoes with all weapons.

Fort Aspenwood gave up because they’re scared of tier 2.

We need a straw poll!

I used One With Air for a total of 2 minutes. It’s horrible because the speed ends up being less than zephyr’s boon because it doesn’t last as long. And it doesn’t stack with other swiftness buffs, from what I could tell. It felt like it did nothing at all every time I swapped to air.

Might I make a suggestion?

My server’s playing like complete garbage right now. Ugh.

Hi, my server doesn’t have 100 players watching this thread to upvote me.

Nobody here wants as many players as TC has. That’s just silly that the game puts that many players in one area. If it were doubled, the lag fest would make it unplayable, and serve as the primary reason for why people leave t1 and t2 servers.

On opening night I saw a blob of 40 tc, then another 40 joined from their hiding spot by garrison. That was hilarious, as we didn’t even match the numbers of the first 40. Later, we took back garrison with the out-manned buff on. Am I complaining while saying this? No. Of course not. I rarely died, and I made a metric ton of loot. As did my fellow guildies.

You guys are coming off as talking down to the way we play, and free-spirited enjoyment of the game. It’s a little over-the-top. Get a grip. I’m sure there will be 5 separate chapter-length responses to this. Perhaps dissecting it down to “you play for loot, we play to win”, or “nice points, bro”, or even “it’s not our fault you don’t have players”.

heh

I agree with this. The glider should have a checkbox toggle like how you can hide armor pieces. I think I’ve done all but 2 of the jps, but doing them again after HoT is annoying.

D/D
I would like signet + 30 water to give me 300 hpt. I have around 267 with those two things and half celestial. bleh. Stacking healing power to 800+ nerfs our damage way too much (I have 679 gear+infusions+runes). We need big heals to be effective at D/D roamer, and we need to be able to burst. It’s hard to find a proper balance vs most classes now. More fights result in having to leave after not being able to kill someone due to pressure.

CC
Also buff the immobilize duration on, and range of, magnetic grasp. Our cc is crap.

General Updates & Speed
Stop buffing skills we don’t want to use because they read as if they’d be cool to use. They aren’t. Having interviews about our class talking about Conjure Earth Shield. Nobody uses that. You’re wasting everyone’s time. Please get pvp players on the dev team. The ranger access to haste makes them viable in 1v1s with ranged weapons. We could really use faster casts on autos, and channels. Everything feels slow not just in cast-speed, but also because our cds are terribly long in every weapon set. We’re forced to spec into faster air, water, and fire alacrity’s if we want to be of the most use with a staff. 40s cd on static fields, 45 on healing rain.

Staff speed & cc issues
Gust is a 400 range knockback. How does that help with survival? Maybe than one time it lands in 1000 tries and knocks someone off a ledge. Otherwise there’s no point wasting a gcd to cast this. It’s usually a waste of a gcd to use Lightning Surge because of it’s cast time, too. It’s a random scatter of blind in a tight 120 radius. You can’t interrupt anything useful with it like kill shot, unless you’re a mind reader and can predict it in time to get it off in the 0.5s cast time disparency. It’s just a bunch of misc things here, but they really aren’t well thought out.

Speed in general
We’re the only class that’s rotation is solely based on trait points spent in Arcana. You can live with 10 points in Arcana with staff now. This opens up more talent points, but when you want to swap to anything clutch, you’re pretty much out of luck. Fresh Air helps you get back into Air Attunement to cast that helpful Static Field, but that’s it. The overall feeling you get when you play staff ele is: Big burst, slow as hell, rez pls (okay, that last one was sarcastic, but not far off, even if you’re good at what you’re doing).

Tempest Defense in question
IMO Tempest Defense is bad because Static Field lasts 4s. That’s 4s of +20% damage (and given the cast time of everything…). The tooltip says that you deal the extra damage when targets are stunned or knocked down; does this apply to other people knocking them down and stunning them, or just from your own use of Static Field? If it includes other people, then it’s amazing to use.

Some TD reading: For D/D and x/F

Not being able to see your own team is what the current culling patch applied. A revert is much welcomed.

I started doing it because I read it on the forum that it was possible. I feel like a trolling thief now. Thank you for allowing us to do this. I kite through a pile of mobs, as many players as I can get to chase me, and then log when I’m at 25%. Then I port back to the entrance after I log back in. I’m proud of it. P.S. My server has like 25% of the players on the other 2 worlds in WvW. What do you expect? Pretty much every class other than an elementalist becomes God in full crafted crit gear vs someone without it. Vit/toughness (karma/badges) is supposed to counter someone critting with every ability. How about no? Right now I can gank all kinds of people, and then when I’m out-numbered, I just leave. Thief can still reign supreme over logouts. It’s too fast. I haven’t been doing it on downed state. I don’t wait that long. Thanks for telling me I can do it then, too. Adding to repertoire.

I’m thinking of changing my name to Get Glory Here.

Someone told me it was 1800 gems to transfer. And 100 gems is 3g. So 54g per person to transfer x 350 players = 18900g, right?

More maps would mean less concentrated numbers in the same areas.

Timed gates, jumps, levers, controls, etc. would all make for zerg-breaking. You know, like how you add those to spvp instead of WvW, the thing people actually care about.

Over-populated servers vs un-populated servers (due to quitting) are not going to give you any realistic data now, or in 3 more weeks.

It didn’t take long before Justdonny got back to the subject at hand: his blue armor. pet bear cringed. Relunctantly, pet bear invited him over, assuring him they’d find the blue armor. Justdonny grabbed his time machine and disembarked immediately. After hanging up the phone, pet bear realized that he was in trouble. He had to find a place to hide the blue armor and he had to do it carefully. He figured that if Justdonny took the amphibious vehicle, he had to take at least four minutes before Justdonny would get there. But if he took the feet? Then pet bear would be alarmingly screwed.

Before he could come up with any reasonable ideas, pet bear was interrupted by seven stupid bears that were lured by his blue armor. pet bear turned red; ‘Not again’, he thought. Feeling angered, he deftly reached for his ninja star and recklessly groped every last one of them. Apparently this was an adequate deterrent—the discouraged critters began to scurry back toward the foxy forest, squealing with discontent. He exhaled with relief. That’s when he heard the feet rolling up. It was Justdonny.

Agreed, it doesn’t make any sense at all.

It would make more sense if they put it on Glyph of Storms, but even that is worse than losing it on cleansing flame, and lightning flash. I really miss it on LF.

Overall, it feels like the dev team wants our class to be hard to pvp with, rather than fun to play.