Guild Wars 2

Yeap, you can already craft exotics for your alt via crafting, and 50 points is nothing. I hit 80 on monday and i have 144 spare points.

Also Mangarrage, i think hes talking about exotics, not legendaries.

Im going to quote Macduff here;

“I have no words, my voice is in my sword”

This was either a very poor attempt at sarcasm, or an even worse attempt to troll…. well it was successful i guess since people took the bait.

What…. 3 attunement swaps, awful positioning and use of anything but auto attack (and a Rain of Fire at the end when you should have used frozen ground and gtfo of there?)

Ah well. Let him have his moment. If he plays solo for more than 10 seconds he’ll realise how wrong he was.

1. In Earth – Glyph of Storms.
2. Eruption or Churning Earth.
3. Whatever the situation calls for. aka. faceroll?

I think the best solution is to introduce diminishing returns if you do the same event more than 2-3 times per hours, and the diminishing returns is only on that event.

Low level folks will pretty much never get hit by this because you get more exp exploring and doing other events and hearts and POIs and vistas, and high level folks will only get hit by it if they are grinding the same event over and over. if they move about, then come back, its not a problem.

Im gunna sound of on here too, im disappointed and the lack of epicosity.

All of the dragons and screamed and yelped, but pretty much stood there and just died. They are big enough to squash us if they stood on us, why do they just sit in the same place and occasionally do something that tickles me?

I do see what Arc is saying about older computers, but really if your game cant handle lots of stuff going on, then you really shouldnt be there or you need a new computer.
Fights like this shouldnt be about “oh hey lets make this playable for everyone”, it should be “holy kitten a dragon is coming to destroy everything!!! Man the battlestations, get everyone here before we’re all killed!!”

There are some great suggestions in here, and ill throw my own in too.

• I think general attacks need to be less effective, somewhere in the range of 50-75% less effective. Make the turrets and bombs and megalazers matter!!

• Give every fight another secondary damaging mechanic, something like bombs you run to plant at their feet, or another lazer to defend or a hero who you have to safely get in range of the dragon who leaps onto him and stabs his eye.

• Give it more distinct phases and attacks. Right now they feel boring the whole time. Definitive attacks and phases with iconic animations and awesome effects are important.

• GIVE THEM MORE DAMAGE!! Punish people for making mistakes. Yes lag, yes FPS rates, but this is a dragons lieutenant. I get hit for more damage by a risen chicken for gods sake.

• Make the meta events leading up to him matter. Stop people from just running in when he spawns and getting gold. Make the whole event preparing for him count towards the overall rank you get. This will include the setup of turrets. If you dont set up enough, you could fail. Carry supplies or bring an NPC, it doesnt matter. More events happening directly before hand.

• Have the respawn timer random between 6-12 hours. Rather than my clock letting me know when an epic dragon is coming, have NPCs around the zone shudder at an ominous feeling they get running down their spine. Have the first of the meta-events kick off.

• Make the loot better. With the above changes, getting 6-8 blues is pretty silly. 1 Guarenteed Rare for your time and effort if you get a gold (remembering you need to do the metas beforehand to get gold), and more karma. You killed a dragon, your karma should now be epic.

Cheers for reading.

I think that once guy should have to give up his cash, or whatever he’s purchased with that cash, or be banned. There is a difference between accidentally putting a sub 75 rare in and making tons of precursors and playing the market for gold.

Its not really a nerf if its been there the whole time, and it prevents the runes from flooding the market later when people have a gazillion karma.

Its fine as is.

And no, afaik no crafting profession can craft these. i could be wrong though!

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I think it just needs to affect you if you did they same event in a row more than 3 times.
If you did the same even three times in a row, you should get out and go do more, so its perfect.

We shall see, its possible its bugged. just chill out people

Illushia.3721:

Except it’s nearly impossible for any build(other than the Conditionmancer) to hit the 25-stack limit on their own. It -only- limits groups. And it limits groups so bad that condition-damage based builds do next-to-no damage in group fights. Remove the cap for Veteran and Champion mobs, leave it as is for PvP.

So? why do you need to hit the cap on your own? And like i said, as soon as the cap is removed (which i emphasize again, it wont), it’ll be bleed builds or go home.
plus it far more likely the coding is tied into the bleeding itself, not into which mob its hitting, and they’d likely have to recode every vet/champ mob if they did that.

No, it makes far more sense for additional stacks of bleed to deal 50% of the damage they would have done directly or for remaining stacks to do this.

Even at 50%, thats huge damage, considering how much total damage bleeding does.

Okay, here is why the bleed cap will never be lifted.

This would allow the ‘potential damage’ of a condition build to HUGELY outweigh direct damage. Suddenly you’d have everyone going bleed builds for bosses because you can all chain your skill together and reach 50 stacks, and do a bazillion damage while kiting him.

Condition damage is already the strongest form of damage and is totally unmitigated.
PvP’ers have even sometimes asked for the limit to be dropped to 20.

I do see the problem in large scale fights, and i think it certainly is an issue, however raising the cap just makes the problem even worse, and makes a huge nightmare for balancing.

Here is two potential solutions;
*At 25 stacks, any additional bleeds added push off the bottom stack, and the stack that was just pushed of deals 50% of the damage it would have dealt as unmitigated direct damage.

• Each character has his or her own ‘instance’ of bleeds. This is a pretty big change, and obviously would need some changes along with it, and would prevent characters from stacking bleeds together, but would give a fair representation to all.

Asthenea.1546:

@Almond Most annoying thing ever. You sound like a WoW player. Your saying that dungeons and map exploration is boring/grinding? Honestly this grinds my gears so much. A lot of WoW players are complaining that getting gear with looks isn’t enough. I really don’t understand. The stats at 80 are balanced so they don’t matter, and DPS Isn’t a mechanic of the game so stats basically become arbitrary numbers.

QFT.

What people from WoW have yet to understand is that you dont get ‘better’ by increasing your ‘numbers’ again and again and again and again. This leads to where people are getting stupid amounts of health, damage etc etc. This means more balancing and makes the community ‘stat-centric’. that is, if you dont have the required gearscore, you arent going.

Here in GW2, its reasonably easy to get close to ‘max stats’ within a few hours of hitting 80. You wont quite have max stats, but you’ll be close enough to do most of the dungeons.
However, you’re still going to get one shot by abilities in those dungeons. Why? Because this is a skill based game. You need to dodge important abilities, combo with each other, use your heal at the right time etc.

Im level 80 all in rares, and working on exotics, and i went and ran AC with a bunch of my lower level mates, and it was tough, and i loved it.

My version of fun isnt one shotting everything because i grinded out tons of stuff for the uber equipment. Mine is having prettykittengood equipment and having fun with my mates in challenging situations.

2c

cherrie.8907:

GaileGray.9587:

This is a very interesting idea. This isn’t a Suggestions Forum, but in this case I think it would be warranted to share this with the team, so I will do so. There may be very good reasons why this would not be a good idea, but I do agree with you that having the original user name (not a changed one, also agreed) and the serial code could be hard for a hacker to acquire.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Nice idea, however please keep in mind that in e-mail account is compromised and the game is a digital edition, they could have the serial key.

This may be true, but if an account is hacked they will want to use the account, not lock themselves out of using it.
If a hacker has gotten into emails, then its likely he or she will have requested a password reset, put a new password in, and gone into their game and started clearing their stuff.

I personally dont see a hacker getting into your emails, then locking your account until ANet looks into the account. That would be a very dumb hacker.
In that case, the player could request an email change and be playing again very quickly.

I think this is a great idea.

Also – great job all your hard working account restorers! Good friend of mine got his account back in 5 days. Sure its not blazing fast, but you guys are busy has all heck.

Keep up the hard work!

2. No buffs, just bug fixes.

At 80 PvE we’re great, in sPvP we’re great and in WvW were bordering OP.

Sweet gear.

Agree 100% with the OP.

Chill

XodoK.8734:

Heartseeker got toned down. Rejoice, squishy Elementalists

Actually it just became a little bit better.

Yes 100-50% got nerfed. But the 50-25% now does the same damage that you would take from 66-33%, and 25%-0% does 33-0%.
Changes? Its starts doing its damage on LOWER hp than it did before. So instead of having say 7k hp before they start hitting 5k each hit, you’re only going to have 5k.

Once you hit 50% hp, its still gunna be HS spam, only you now have lower HP and they are hitting just as hard.

Wow doom and gloom.

I a pretty decent PvPer, and i have very little problem vs most classes as D/D

A stealth P/P thief is quite hard unless i pick up a focus, and a guardian takes forever, but is never drops me below 50%.
A good warrior can be tough unless i go Scepter, and rangers are much easier with a focus too.

Other than some very niche builds, the ele can handle them all.

Can i do more dps on a thief? sure. But i cant Knockback, knockdown, bleed, chill, apply weakness, and still burst like a crazy person and survive as well as i can on my ele.

We do have some traits and skills that need a balance pass, but we’ll get it in good time. We arent in a bad spot.

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Run around in air and gather 5-8 mobs.
Swap to Earth and Cast Glyph of Storms (on ranged foes if you have any, or behind the object you are going to LoS and bring them to).
Cast Churning Earth.
While its casting swap to Fire.
Ring of Fire
Dragons Tooth
Phoenix

By then everything will be dead. If its not, you can Firegrab.

You almost certainly wont take any damage, and you’ll kill everything in less than 8 seconds.

For items, just grab condi-damage and precision. If you can get the two sigils (Earth and Corruption) then it goes even faster.

For Veteran mobs, open the same way, then swap to air for the blind and knockback after GoS wears out. Swap to Earth again and kite while casting Stone Shards. Once they get close, Earthquake. Continue kiting and stone shards. They’ll die about now usually.

For bosses and other various uber mobs, just rotate the above.

Honestly, this feels a little OP. hehe.

PvE

• Gather 5 mobs → Glyph of Storms is Earth → Churning Earth → any Burning skill → /dance → collect loot

WvW

• Equip Staff → Glyph of Storms in Earth → Eruption → Flame Burst → Collect loot

PvP

• Play lots and learn what to dodge, and what to do when → Get a decent build → ??? → Equip awesome looking Scepter/Dagger.

I think we have a little work to be done, but all in all, we’re in a good spot, and i’ve been playing since BWE #1 and watching the ele since 2009.

Rank is just time spent, not much else.

anyway, rank 19.

I’ve been playing Ele isnce BWE#1, and im a total ele diehard.

Sinsce BWE 1 we’ve had a long series of nerfs and only a few buffs. I think thats fine, because we were too powerful way back when.

There are still things that need work, and im sure they’ll get attention when the devs feel they are the top of the priority list. Things like RtL, the ‘missing’ of skills that shouldnt miss, and various traits and skills that are just bad, such as Fire Shield and Burning Precision.

We are probably the class that is easiest to hard -counter, since we have low toughness and low health. You have to make up for this by using you skills really well and not putting an attunement or ability on CD when you nee it later.
You also need to directly counter skills just right, or its game. For example, if you dont double dodge a haste’ed unload-spam, thats pretty much you done for, even if you manage to drag the fight out a little longer.

I love the ele and for the most part, i have no trouble beating every class.

See the quickness buff.
Stun
Burst
??
Take your free glory.

Shumney.3958:

Knowing how to build is only half of it, you also have to understand attunement juggling, something I believe 75% of current ele players may not quite grasp. They key to any good ele build is getting boons from attunement swapping based on the ever changing battlefield.

Actually is more about accessing the right abilities at the right time and not putting an attunement on CD when you’ll need it later. Taking Elemental Attunement isnt necessary, however it is probably one of the best T1 traits! haha

I have a rather comprehensive guide over on the Guild Wars 2 Guru forums.

Currently im still working on part of it, but hopefully you all find it useful. Im up to 46k views when i write this, so it can’t be all bad :p

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Dabrixmgp.4758:

So when do Eles get the ability to farm as fast and easily as a warrior or guardian and what spec do I need to use?

D/D. Condi Build.
Glyph of Storms in Earth.
Churning Earth.
/dance as mobs die (yes at level 80)

I’ve written a very comprehensive Ele guide Here Duck over and take a look. Its still being worked on, but im sure you’ll find some of it helpful.

Dodge, block, invuln, immobilize, blind, stun, knockdown, launch, LoS, invisibility and weakness all inhibit or prevent Heartseeker.

Do any of these things and you can beat them.

99/100 thieves in sPvP just stand there like a possum in the headlights when you do anything to them. Quite funny.

Have either stability, some CC break or learn to dodge the skills. they have a build up animation and can be easily dodged once you learn it.

You can also interrupt it.

JemL.3501:

elementalist is weak, you are in denial and being delusional if you think the opposite or just want to look pro typing something like:

i beat everyone in spvp
i beat every explorer mode dungeon
i pwn 20 people at time in wvw

‘’like if nobody has done that’’

Well thank goodness we’ve got someone like you telling us how it is.

Oooooh wait, you just whine and moan and call other people delusional without offering any real feedback, without giving any facts or numbers or anything other than “I am weak”.

Your opinion is noted and ignored.

My opinion is that its fine and you simply need to play a bit more to learn the ins and out of the class.

Thats just how you roll. You also get huge toughness. I havnt heard anyone complaining before about it.

Siveon.8759:

Anlyon.8375:

Siveon.8759:

I don’t know how they expect to make any money from this because it’s way too easy to get them with gold.

In the beginning I was wondering about getting the extra char slots(800 gems for 10$ or 10€ each), but now I got all 3 extra slots in a few days.

I was expecting the price to be at least 5 times higher, but 25-30 silver per 100 gems you can get 800 gems for a couple of gold, so as much as I want to see GW2 succeed I foresee that no one will ever want to waste real money on that shop.

Also the Gems-to-gold conversion is even worst which unfortunately makes gold sellers more viable way to get gold than with gems through Anet.

Actually it doesnt. You played Eve or heard of the PLEX system? That game has probably the single most successful economy.

If no-one buys any gems with real money, their ingame gold value increases.
Suddenly buying gems with real cash becomes REALLY awesome because you can make heaps of gold doing that.
If things swing the other way (like they are now) then buying with ingame cash is awesome because you can get gems for low cost.

And it kitten the gold sellers because A) you can get cash ingame and support the company buying gold ingame actually INCREASES the cost per gem, meaning you have to buy more and more gold from scammers to get gems, and somewhere someone else just spend half the cash you did, bought a couple gems and sold them to you for tons of ingame cash.

Moreover why would you go through an unsecure website that is liable to steal you account and kitten you totally when you can do it securely and support ANet.

Seriously this is probably the best system in any MMO.

Thank you Eve and thank you ANet!

ROCK ON!

Yes I have played EVE, but that market is different because the value for the Plex was set by the players just like in a auction-house, in GW2 you have no control over it and has it is now even the highest value in the last 5 days is ridiculously cheap.

Like I said I was thinking about spending 30$ for 3 extra char slots but I got them for about 6g, that’s just one person multiply that across the world and see how much money they could have won but didn’t just because their starting values were not the best.

The system is great just like you said but the values have to be at least 2-3 times higher otherwise it won’t stop gold sellers.

Its so cheap at the moment because everyone is doing it. Supply and demand.

You done any of the dungeons? You crafted anything? you explored everything? You dont like sPvP or WvW?

Go roll another character?

remix.9856:

Jay wilson.1702:

they need to buff there hp becuase warriors can kill two people at the same time and caster classes should be ez like rangers

Guardians have 10k base health at lvl 80

Elementalists have 15k

What were you saying about a buff to their health?

This just got troll-ish.

Seriously Eles are fine. Read my guide … its still under construction sorry

We have bugs and some weaker skills, just like everyone else. But our damage is okay, our survivability is great, and our support is awesome.

Keep playing. You arent gunna master the ele in a few days. Heck, i’ve played ~150 hours through the betas and stress tests, and play as much as i can post release (stupid job!), and im still no master.

Siveon.8759:

I don’t know how they expect to make any money from this because it’s way too easy to get them with gold.

In the beginning I was wondering about getting the extra char slots(800 gems for 10$ or 10€ each), but now I got all 3 extra slots in a few days.

I was expecting the price to be at least 5 times higher, but 25-30 silver per 100 gems you can get 800 gems for a couple of gold, so as much as I want to see GW2 succeed I foresee that no one will ever want to waste real money on that shop.

Also the Gems-to-gold conversion is even worst which unfortunately makes gold sellers more viable way to get gold than with gems through Anet.

Actually it doesnt. You played Eve or heard of the PLEX system? That game has probably the single most successful economy.

If no-one buys any gems with real money, their ingame gold value increases.
Suddenly buying gems with real cash becomes REALLY awesome because you can make heaps of gold doing that.
If things swing the other way (like they are now) then buying with ingame cash is awesome because you can get gems for low cost.

And it kitten the gold sellers because A) you can get cash ingame and support the company buying gold ingame actually INCREASES the cost per gem, meaning you have to buy more and more gold from scammers to get gems, and somewhere someone else just spend half the cash you did, bought a couple gems and sold them to you for tons of ingame cash.

Moreover why would you go through an unsecure website that is liable to steal you account and kitten you totally when you can do it securely and support ANet.

Seriously this is probably the best system in any MMO.

Thank you Eve and thank you ANet!

ROCK ON!

Compared to other classes? Is this in PvE? You have 1 of every class at 80?
Or is this PvP where your build and how well you play actually matters?

We’re fine. At level 60 i can take 5-6 mobs my level. Condi damage ftw.

Sandstorm+Eruption with a smattering of condi damage and its GG mobs.

Often i dont even take a single hit.

Its a little tricker in sPvP, but we’re still in a good spot.

Lanvall.9157:

Vexus.5423:

You’re not the only one getting upset. But, you’re only getting upset because you think in terms of old style gaming. Health bar goes down and you win, gg. But GW2 has expanded that.

Why fix something that isn’t broken? Why expand it when it doesnt need expanding?
When you die, you die. Downed state is ruining the “flow” in pvp.

The only “good” thing about downed state is in WvW… when the unorganized zerg enemy is trying to ress their downed players while you are pounding them..

Actually Guild Wars 2 has no-one EVER dying. You are downed and then defeated. There is no ‘Death’.

Finishing is awesome.

Poor thieves. Must be hard to Heartseeker spam and then have to deal with someone in downed state.

1) you start from 1 exp every time you are Defeated
2) Downed is not Defeated, so no.
3) Any death Resets it, however the experience is compunded through characters, so you can get 50k exp on one, and 50k exp on another, and you’l get the reward on whichever character you are on when you complete it. Dying will set the counter back to 0
4) answered above, yes.
5) no, sPvP is separate from everything, however WvW DOES reset it.

on an aside, it records the highest you’ve got to. So if you get to 60k and die, it’ll show 60k till you pass 60k. If you pass it and get to 99k it’ll say 99k until you get 100.

It tricky at low levels, but i did it in about 3 hours at level 60, I started with the 59 story quest, which gave me 20k, then just did events for like 2.5 hours.
Its easy.

However, the reward is rather bland apparently. I’ll know in 60 salvages.

Its not complete yet, but my Ele Guide is a pretty good place to start.

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PvE&WvW have been keep separate from sPvP for a variety of reasons.

Primarily however this is to do with that way that sPvP works.
Since levels are purely ‘cosmetic’, and you get virtually nothing else in sPvP (save for dyes and bags), the ‘look’ of a character in sPvP is its only reward.

If you were to start being able to wear you sPvP gear in PvE/WvW, then there would be plenty of people arguing for the same in reverse, being able to wear their PvE gear into sPvP. And that would remove the whole purpose of levels and gear in sPvP, since you could look fantabulous in sPvP without having actually done any sPvP.

If you agree that you should have to do sPvP to look good in it, then you should also be able to see the reverse: You should have to do PvE to look awesome in it.

So here is a link to my Ele guide on the Guild Wars 2 Guru forums.

Its still very much a work in progress, and I dont get heaps of time to play, but hopefully all those Eles out there who need a hand find it helpful.

Anlyon’s Elementalist Guide – WIP

Here is a link to my Ele guide. Its still very much a work in progress, but hopefully you find what is there so far helpful

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I’ve noticed this with Firegrab and Shocking Touch mostly, but also heard other people have experiences with this,
If you are moving, and holding down the RMB, skills like Firegrab and Shocking Touch miss far more often.

I’ve tested this with a rooted target, and even with training dummies. I can be moving around, aiming directly at my target, be right in their face and miss for no reason at all.

This is pretty important in sPvP, since Firegrab is a high CD moderate damage skill, and if it misses because of a bug, im kinda jibbed.

Cheers.

Tried and confirmed, this works. Though its not exactly gamebreaking.