TBH I’ve noticed this too. I once tried (in sPvP) a build with over 4k armor and perma protection. I still saw a 7k eviscerate in my combat log. I could have shoved all those stats into vitality and gained ~10k HP and traded that 7k evi for 10-12k and been better off, not to mention more buffer for condis. Toughness is a joke.
You will have more control over cleansing. Purity has to be considered passive because everything you do tends to be a hit, and it becomes a duplicate of the signet. I’d recommend purity for ranger, mesmer, guardian, necro, and cleansing for engi, ele, thief, and warrior. It’s all situational and varies on a build and case by case basis.
I’m not 100% sure about this, but I have a feeling that when I was trying the Lightning rod build, #5 earth – Shockwave procced it too. Can someone try this please? I’m at work now so I can’t confirm…
It shouldn’t. In PvE there are what I call “mini mobs” that can be interrupted by anything. A good example of these mobs are the new menders in Silverwastes. Lightning Rod DESTROYS those little buggers. You may have poped to air and hit your aura out of habit, that may have caused it.
1. Will someone be allowed to win more than 1 ticket?
2. When will the results be determined?
3. I noticed there only seems to be a limited amount of each skin, I assume this is to prevent flooding of a single item for monetary value (Shield). Is this correct?
4. What happens when the tickets are released? Will there be a mad rush to obtain the most valuable skins before everyone else, leaving those who can’t happen to be there at the perfect time in the dust? (This one I would REALLY like to know.)
5. What happens if someone wins, but for some reason (banned maybe) can’t collect?
6. Will there be any consolation prizes for the 10’s of thousands of tickets spent? (more aimed at the gem store purchasers)
1. All 303 heart quests are broken, implying they have been for over 2 years now.
2. You’re unhappy about a something and just want it “better” for you with no regard to anything else effected by your want.
I’d urge you all to consider what your reflects can do with this trait. Ever seen what it can do to a certain candy corn? Just think about it for a while.
Honestly I was expecting a nerf on this amazing trait.
Hi anet, I’d like you to stop giving me free money. Oh and please take back all the money I’ve made since the patch thanks to spoons. Oh don’t worry, my friends and I won’t care about the dozens of gold that are taken from me. Six months from now, if the spoons aren’t removed, we can look back and laugh at how I’ve made hundreds of gold by this time thanks to your silly spoons.
Lore-wise Zhaitan is still the monster and Tequatl is still exactly what he was on release.
Practically speaking, Arah story mode was a joke of an instance that felt thrown together in 5 minutes. I played it today coincidentally to unlock the track for collections and encounter numerous issues. I fell through the deck after being pulled and actually got stuck in the metal floor (had to wp). I also got stuck several times on the turrets saying “You cannot drop a bundle while falling” which kept me on them permanently until I was downed. The concept, as much in this game, was cool but incredibly poorly executed and mired with bugs.
Tequatl received a biweekly updated almost entirely devoted to him. That means at some point an entire team was working on a single event, giving it careful attention, resulting in a now respectable 150 man raid event.
Most groups do stack might if they are semi organized.
This. In the early days when perfection was required, this was the norm. Now it’s simply not needed and though it would indeed speed things up, the average pug simply doesn’t care. They’re there for their karma and .0000001% chance at a hoard and that’s all they care about. It’s an unavoidable fact.
There’s always the minority who give it their all, many of which will likely post in this thread saying “I do my kitten dest to stack might and contribute yada yada therefore your generalization is wrong etc.” and these people tend to do exactly what you suggest, and carry those who don’t.
Suffice to say, your suggestion holds merit but players are simply too lazy to do it since it’s not needed to win.
The build is fleeting imo. While it’s viable, it won’t hold up to the meta 00266 build or other blinding ashes builds (like signets). I recommend the 6/2/6/0/0 build for dueling with staff, especially since you’re able to function without blasting staff. I found I was able to tackle everything with the exception of a -skilled- condi spam engi.
Eventually I got bored with that though and am back to the standard. You have the skills, but from what I can tell you’re not quite to the point of setting up killzones with your CC’s yet. You make yourself an easy open field target all the time. I never saw you use a wall to your advantage (to increase the chance of them being forced to run into a CC for example). I’d also recommend kiting less in a circle and more in straight lines. Fooling them into thinking you’re easy to predict allows you to make their “prediction” backfire by letting you counter play with stationary fields. While I won’t point to any specific thing, I would encourage you to be more aggressive with your CC’s. Force them to hit them instead of using them as a trap when you’re pressuring. It’s possible to hit them both with wall and static field when they’re not moving.
I know I’m just some random Jack to you, but after 5k hours with staff ele in all areas of gameplay, you can consider my feedback constructive. Keep it up! I often wonder if the amount of skilled staff ele’s is in the single digits.
I’m fairly certain the hitboxes are the same size for everyone. I’ve been able to prove that things hit my human well outside of where I appear to be standing. I imagine this would be even easier to demonstrate with an asura.
I suspect the NPC that spawns has something like 1HP and the fire effect is actually the result of some spell that actually kills the NPC, which then turns into the husk. Though I have no idea why this would be, as the husk might as well just be the same thing as a rock methinks. Someone more versed in meshes/collision/spawning would be more help.
If you have your WvW model limit set to lowest, it may be possible you saw the process used to place the husk while loading in. For instance I can hear the dozens of dead asuran bodies dying repeatedly in CoE on this setting when I swirl my camara.
Props to ^this build, though I can’t use D/D anywhere near the abilities I have with staff. Even with baby fields I can spank people because they’re disabled so hard.
Edit: I probably shouldn’t post this but signet passives are bugged atm, water and earth can have two passives going at a time for a duration. I suspect Anet forgot to update the duration of the special passive they put on using Written in Stone.
The earth ele can be used to tank occasionally in PvE quite surprisingly well (most recently tanked 49 fractal Mossman for full duration, keeping him stationary). The water ele can also provide a wonderful heal for stacks. But yes, I would happily trade these situational elites for something legitimately useful.
This has been suggested in various forms for over a year now, if not since launch. I believe it intrudes upon Engi kit swapping territory, which Anet has stated (at some point) that they want to keep unique to the class.
I’m sure every ele would appreciate this kind of change, though.
If you threw this in with the other two glyph traits you’d have an unstoppable permaboon ele. As funny as it’d be to see 8 minions floating around and the bundle of effects that’d come in glyph of storms, this is a ridiculously OP trait.
I’ve been playing around with this for the past couple days. Unfortunately the Resistance rune set doesn’t seem to be on there, so I stuck on Melandru’s. The build is surprisingly deadly, mixing both raw damage and conditions to really spank lower vitality builds of all armor sizes, thanks to condi ignoring armor. The frequent blinds help you maintain balanced pressure, meaning they have to deal with both a flood of condi’s that aren’t too deadly on their own, but are disastrous to ignore, while at the same time dealing with hits in the same format.
The build’s biggest weakness is heavy condi spam, but it’s very high toughness makes it surprisingly excellent against zerk classes in conjunction with the blind spamming.
I probably wouldn’t take this to TPvP, but it’s fun to muck around in and surprise the crap out of people with something unexpected. I’m pretty sure I can actually see other player’s frustration at the constant blinds, too.
That works, but you need an immense amount of experience and muscle memory, plus knowledge of the enemies abilities to truly make use of your staff toolset properly.
If you’re talking about the best “experience”, as in no hair pulling and what not, you’re probably better off using an easier class to play. You might try bunker guard in this particular case.
If you’re too attached to ele, I recommend sticking to D/D until you have a firm grasp of the other classes and what you’re fighting, then you’ll be able to react appropriately no matter what weapons you’re using, and learn the habits of staff quickly.
Greetings I just wanna ask some professional Ele here if what armor is best for Healing Staff ele? is it Full Celestial or Full Cleric ?
Since everyone else in this thread seems mired in their own opinion instead of trying to help you out with something you’re obviously interested in, I recommend you give Zealot’s a try.
I’m sure some of the people who can’t quite meet the standard of “be perfect zerk at all times” would appreciate a bit of healing pick me up sometimes. Good luck.
I read the OP’s post as asking for a way to literally spend 100% of his time in water and responded in kind, grouping the same concept with trying to camp other attunements without changing, like many have tried to do with earth and Stone Flesh. This is not justifiable to me, unlike spending 95% of your time in fire and swapping through attunements occasionally for high DPS output, which is indeed an effective fire build.
Though now that I reread the post I suppose he didn’t actually say that.
Your only real choice from a viability standpoint is a conjure build. It’s the only way camping a single attunement is even remotely justifiable. Ele’s are simply built to use all 4 elements together (which is humorous considering the additions to the earth trait line).
The best DPS rotation with Staff is camping fire attunement, so….
For raw damage output, yes. However I’m sure you know there’s far more to DPS than just the pretty pretty numbers. Setting up proper killzones for the AOE fields requires all 4 attunements. You won’t catch even a full 6/6/0/0/2 zerk ele camping fire 100% of the time.
Your only real choice from a viability standpoint is a conjure build. It’s the only way camping a single attunement is even remotely justifiable. Ele’s are simply built to use all 4 elements together (which is humorous considering the additions to the earth trait line).
For PvE/Dungeons. I wouldn’t advise PvP with this kind of mentality.
You’d use hammer for DPS while using staff water skills for support when needed, the arcane skills supplementing your DPS while providing utility and blasts for self and group healing, boosted by the grand master trait and a balanced amount of healing power so nothing is really wasted. Unfortunately camping one attunement is never a good idea, but this is something that you -could- do if you really wanted and still be useful.
From what I can tell there’s a significant movement related issue with everything guild wars does that’s the cause for all the rubber banding for things like blinks and burning speed, sounds like the same issue.
For when I need to carry zerks/pugs through a dungeon. It’s healing is profound, and the damage is still bearable, even respectable with might/fury. It also has great utility (sandstorm is fantastic for stacks). I’ve been thinking about going full Zealot’s recently, but part of the healing role necessitates being able to survive yourself, and we all know how easy it is to be one shot without any defensive attributes.
While it may not be the quickest way through PvE content, I would love for all parties to have a dedicated healer/supporter hybrid like this one. It really just makes the game more enjoyable and introduces some variety so people have some leeway.
The recent nerfs to leveling and zerk have gutted the ease when it comes to ele. Unfortunately I have to agree that you’ll need to invest in more defensive stats, making the experience more drawn out than it has to be. Mixing in a bit of toughness should be all you need.
I would support condi ele ideas if I didn’t think condis were already overextending themselves by a huge margin in this game.
That said, ele can very nearly compete with Engi and Necro with condi application under the right circumstances, but as to be expected it takes 5x more effort to achieve the same result.
Just use the FGS #2 trick with 1k+ condi damage on Subject 7. The skill doesn’t actually hit him so he doesn’t multiply. You can use blinding ashes grandmaster in fire and stay in water attunement for soothing. Be sure to turn of the auto attack and pick up the second sword around 50 seconds in.
Celestial is a good baseline armor set. It enhances all the inherent abilities of ele, allowing you to specialize with trinkets and traits. I like to have a full celestial set for when I go “full bunker” in my term as I would never go full toughness/vitality set on ele. Celestial is more than enough to survive rough situations with Cantrip + trait aid.
Treat the armor set for what it is, a complementary set. The main reason Ele can actually get away with full celestial is due to the fact it can utilize every single stat efficiently, complementing everything ele does. Complementing, but not excelling.
To answer the OP’s question, the armor set is situational just like everything else, but it can indeed be “the best” in certain situations. If you have money to blow on ascended, I’d recommend it as you’ll be able to pack it around and potentially replace other armor sets with it for convenience. You’ll also gain infusion slots, and 300 extra HP is always nice.
This build is incredibly insightful. I was able to bunker 3v1 on a point vs an Engi, Warrior, AND Mesmer by myself by using my Earth elementals to block all the projectiles for me! I’m extremely fond of Guild Wars 2’s impressive AI system. The entire fight they intelligently stood around me to block the shots! I even saw the superior elemental absorb an entire Killshot from the warrior, it was a thing of beauty.
This is also outdated, the symbol change combined with warrior war horn has made this tactic obsolete. Ele’s are now far better off reserving their long CD static for sudden combat situations/opportunities.
Indeed, this trait looks promising at first glance, but the cool down makes this a master worthy trait at best. 30 fire is simply too much of a sacrifice for a single blind every 5 seconds.
If you could better control when it was used, maybe, but Ele simply has too many unintentional ways of spamming burning for this to be reliable for big hits you see coming.
I would guesstimate roughly 10-15k gold, including gem store armor sets. This includes a fully omni-power infused ascended zerk set (excluding offensive slots, WvW>Omni ), Bifrost, and Xanthium. You can imagine how well I took the zerk nerf resetting all that money’s worth of effectiveness.
Then there’s at least 1-2k gold in simply trashed items, such as an entire rune of divinity set I replaced with traveler when they were new, thanks to them being on very expensive pieces of armor. I’ve also built and trashed exotic armor sets (such as clerics) back in the day when I made builds to experiment with that didn’t pan out.
I don’t even want to think of the amount of money I’ve spent on food.
1.5 years of income, 95% of which has gone to ele. I think I’m going to stop thinking about these numbers now.
I know people hate hearing this, including myself, but L2P issue. It’s true you can output substantial stationary DPS, but that’s supposed to rely on the combination of your other attunements just like above water. Frankly I think Ele is one of the most powerful underwater classes. All attunements have a quick hard hitter ( 2 skill ), with exceptional control and diversity, it’s simply another weapon to learn like everything else.
That said, I do have a couple tips. The 5 on water (Tidal Wave) is a channeled damage charge. Used against a wall, or more specifically the floor of the body of water, will do a ludicrous amount of damage. I’ve seen 10+ hits over 2k in SPvP. You also have 2 sinks to get them there, one even conveniently in water attunement.
Despite how it may feel at first, trident is a control based weapon with precision hits, much like staff. You’ll find yourself a very powerful underwater profession, especially since most people don’t give a kitten about underwater combat.
While the changes stated are indeed a buff of sorts, all I see is us being forced more and more into cantrips and water. I would have rather seen alternatives to cantrips and regen cleansing brought out. I’ll reserve judgement for the complete list though.
My suggestion would be to up the weapon in the ele’s hand’s charges to 30 stock, and leave the one casted at 15. Change the conjurer trait to have 10 additional stacks and 20% cool down reduction in the same.
This would eliminate the ele’s reliance on picking up another weapon, and the need for conjurer trait as a requirement. Instead the trait would be a boon to the build instead of a necessity. Additionally, 30 charges is just enough for someone who is careful and deliberate in their attacks, while 40 charges would allow for more Rambo style auto attack spamming (lightning hammer chain).
IMO this wouldn’t trend into copying engineer style kits but would allow these weapons to be used more as a primary weapon instead of more like a boulder you picked up.
Also I feel compelled to point out that having your mouse over your skill bars when activating a ground targeting skills sets the radius to it’s default position. In this case directly under where you’re standing, which essentially makes it exactly what you guys want. That trick is also great for ensuring you spin forward on fiery whirl.
I sincerely hope these complaint threads don’t attract anet’s attention and actually cause a revert on this great gift.
I’ll take some screenshots/make small videos of what MS does to groups in WvW when used properly tomorrow if there’s still doubt in this thread.
As far as the original post in this thread goes, every class has it’s strengths in some role over others. Ele simply fills the role of both DPS and heals in the form of combo’s the strongest out of the 8 classes. Anet felt the Support side of Ele’s could use some attention in line with quality of life improvements and, frankly, they’re right. If you see a few minor changes as a decision being made for you, you need to get more perspective on how this game works.
I’d personally use them after fighting has begun. Any seconds out of combat is wasted efficiency of the outbound damage being dealt, in order to ensure you get the full bang for your boon, you’d want all receiving it to be using it’s effects for its full duration (dps speaking). Also, you’d have the benefit of other boons being given by your teammates, increasing the effectiveness of the boons you’re dishing out at the same time.
The only counter argument I can think of is if some kitten in your party blows his load immediately at the beginning of the fight, before checking to see he’s buffed, in which case you’re only helping that guy be luggage.
