Dagger dagger isn’t viable anymore imo, solo for the reason you have to be melee.
Almost every build requires beserker amulet, if you don’t run it then you most likely won’t have enough dps to actually get a target down. Everyone has so much sustain now through differen’t traits, regen, boons and so on.
I actually tried running with valkyrie multiple times on a dagger build or even soldier, not even once I came close to the burst needed to down an experienced player. I’m not saying dagger dagger is bad, I see a lot of potential in it when played right, but right now you can’t put yourself in the middle of a fight cause you die within 3 seconds.
The main reason why I play scepter/dagger is because I can stay at range and some of my skills are instant, which allows me to perform more actions per minute.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
I already said in the past that burning was too strong, along with stealth and other certain conditions like weakness. Burning procs for approximately 600 each time they tick, that’s equivalent to 6/7 stacks of bleeding without making it stacks up first. before you reach 6/7 of bleeding you need to land multiple skills, unlike burning all you need is 1 hit since most of it is applied by a passive proc.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
If you’re having the problem of browsing the net while waiting for queue and miss it is an easy fix. Just download “Over wolf”. It allows you to browse the internet as well as open TS “INGAME”. That’s right people, there’s no excuse for missing queue. You can browse the net without two monitors in game while waiting for your queue to pop.
Pretty cool program, too bad I can’t add my favourite websites nor change my home website whenever I go to the browser, nonetheless helpfull stuff.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
2 days is ridiculous indeed, even I miss out on some matches because I forgot I was que’d, mistakes happen. You should get punished quicker with the dishonour system but only for a couple hours at max.
Your costing 4 other people who ARE sitting around during that same waiting period because you forget? Why should they lose rank over your memory? Not saying that it isn’t human BUT Isnt it a surefire way of stopping you from forgetting with a 2 day ban?
If I have to wait 10 kitten mins for a que pop then yes I will brows some on the internet, If I happen to watch a comedy show and I get lost in track of time then yes I might accidently forget and not enter the que, I shouldn’t be punished 2 freaking days for a mistake like that. If things go this way I guarantee you it will only hurt the game because people are just not able to play. There’s a difference between punishing people for mistakes and almost banning them from the game. Who in the world wouldn’t try out other games and continue playing that game if they had to wait 2 days before they could play again.
Yes you should, it’s YOUR mistake and YOUR mistake alone. Whether or not is intentional is irrelevant. The other four people on your team can do absolutely nothing in that situation.
You seem to make quite a bit of mistakes with your time management, maybe the 2 day ban will make you double check your queue status next time before you decide on watching your next episode of Pretty Little Liars…
True story.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
lol no, there are numerous ways out there how you could prevent a 4v5, like other people mentioned already give a surrender function, or don’t even let a match start when the teams aren’t equal, and I’m sure there are more reasons that I can’t think of right now. Not letting players play for 2 days isn’t the right approach.
Look at it this way: Next time that happens you’ll have two whole days to watch as many comedy shows as you want, and browse the internet to your hearts desires !
If this goes through, and I happen to make 1 lousy mistake, then I’ll have all the time in the world to do whatever the kitten I want since I won’t be playing this game anymore.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
in your first post you wrote 1x DCed – some psots later 2x and now you answer me 3x (1x after rest)
you need to leave 3x in 3 days to get punished
you are an leaver and you get punished for it. fine with me and its how it have to be.
Learn from it and im happy this system is in the works and i dont get punished for YOUR laziness and have to play games with you.
@Bsgapollo
no it will not hurt the game. it hurts more the game people dont join there matches like you say you did from time to time and whine later bout in forum how bad arenanet is to let us play 4v5 matches.
its not arenanets fault its the players and when players cant learn than we need a system like this.
lol no, there are numerous ways out there how you could prevent a 4v5, like other people mentioned already give a surrender function, or don’t even let a match start when the teams aren’t equal, and I’m sure there are more reasons that I can’t think of right now. Not letting players play for 2 days isn’t the right approach.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
2 days is ridiculous indeed, even I miss out on some matches because I forgot I was que’d, mistakes happen. You should get punished quicker with the dishonour system but only for a couple hours at max.
Your costing 4 other people who ARE sitting around during that same waiting period because you forget? Why should they lose rank over your memory? Not saying that it isn’t human BUT Isnt it a surefire way of stopping you from forgetting with a 2 day ban?
If I have to wait 10 kitten mins for a que pop then yes I will brows some on the internet, If I happen to watch a comedy show and I get lost in track of time then yes I might accidently forget and not enter the que, I shouldn’t be punished 2 freaking days for a mistake like that. If things go this way I guarantee you it will only hurt the game because people are just not able to play. There’s a difference between punishing people for mistakes and almost banning them from the game. Who in the world wouldn’t try out other games and continue playing that game if they had to wait 2 days before they could play again.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
2 days is ridiculous indeed, even I miss out on some matches because I forgot I was que’d, mistakes happen. You should get punished quicker with the dishonour system but only for a couple hours at max.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
Been playing with this for about 3/4 months now, only thing that has changed was I used to run 10 water for the extra condition removal, but since they nerfed that and finally fixed stone with lingering elements I’m running 10 in earth.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
It’s funny cause whenever beginners end up in solo que people tell them to go kitten themselves and that they should play hotjoin first. I’m not saying that’s the case with you but I’m just throwing that out there.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
Inscription is Air 10 and is powerful in a glyph build.
I am yet to see an Elementalist, in any aspect of the game, since release, who is using a glyph build. Taking glyph of storms into AC exp by itself doesn’t count.
been playing pvp with that build for the past 4 months, the only thing that has changed is 10 points from water into earth due the 10th of december patch.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
I believe this was already discussed in the past and if I’m not mistaken Anet said that they willl take it into consideration to let 2h weapons have 2 sigels.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
Which is stupid. Anet should look up the definition of afk. Not every useful activity rewards personal score. If they want to consider 0 points = afk they should give 1 point per tick defending an objective.
dam I’m gonna play guardian then lol
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
Probably divinity would be the best choice but I’m using strenght cause it’s cheaper and I combine it with sigel of battle so I have the 5% extra damage always.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
diamond skin is dogkitten, every ele who is willing to spend 30 points into earth for that trait can have it, one of the worst traits you can possible go imo.
Posted 23 days ago, said from the start that it was a bad trait yet everyone complained about it lol.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
They are still decent imo, some people overreact that they’re super bad, yes you do have to do twice the work compared to other classes and you can barely make any mistakes but hey, that’s what makes playing an ele challenging i’d say.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
Im not django commenting on theif vs ele when he doesn’t even play the professions. Apparently hes taking everything from his 3 ele friends who also says they suck so they might not even play ele either….
I think the different between you and Django is that he play in high rank TPvP and I played against his team and they know what they do. So he also know how easy it is to focus down an Ele. You have a really tough live vs a good team as an Ele in TPvP.
So when I play Solo Q or play vs lower ranked ppl it is easy to kill them fast with a Ele but when the enemy knows how the ele works, how to block attack, how to make pressure on the ele and how to focus targets you need to play you’re Ele really good to get any damage done on the enemy team.
Interesting I got rank 124 team on my ele just before dec 10th ele buffs. When we were just trying out a team. It will be alot easier now with the buffs. So the only difference is I played ele at ranks 100s. and sounds like he hasnt and again his friends think they suck so why would they even try ele in the 100 ranks.
Leaderboards don’t mean a thing, in 2 days I was able to reach the top 50 while not even being tryhard, now I’m probably +500 cause I barely play/care anymore.
And this patch wasn’t a buff to ele’s wtf, yes our elemental attunement cooldown got reduced but we’re still forced into 30 arcane because of certain traits like evasive arcana and renewing stamina, without those we would barely have any survivability except through water, and water even aint that effective anymore since they moved our only condi removal we had to the master tier.
In the end we got nothing if not a nerf while other classes got buffed, I was playing better on my ele before the 10th of december then now.
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Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
To all the players that say “ele is useless” I say “you play it bad!!!”.
The dps power of the ele is very high and you can survive well.
Try that:
Staff and berserker build.
Foefire map (or Temple map).
Use teleport to go where the enemy can’t hit you melee and you’re hard to hit by ranged (isn’t alla that problem, if you know a little the map and use the teleport to go wherever you want).
Then shoot at the enemy by a safe place where you’re hard to hit.
You can do a very high damage, be unkillable and whit a bunker or a thief you can hold the mid easy just because the enemy don’t hit you.
If you kill ranger and necro first, your work is so easy that a noob can do it. Just kill everything by the distance.
If you don’t find a way to kill the enemy, find a way to make you unkillable!
It’s strategy, no more.
That strategy can’t win always and is weak against ranged, but whit only 2 utility skills (teleport and mistform) you become unkillable and can run away easy if the enemy is near to kill you.
So for how long have you been playing gw2 ?
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
So what if new players are in your team, you started as well as a beginner one day. There’s no better way to learn the game then play it a lot. People need to stop complaining about dumb kitten like this. Sometimes you’re with a good team, sometimes with a bad one, deal with it.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
They buffed every single class but they didn’t give Ele anything to counter those changes. They just made it even harder to play Ele than it was before.
Pretty much this, 30 arcana is still a must if you wanna have any survivability what so ever and they nerfed water by removing our only condi removal to the master tier. In the end you could say we got a nerf while other classes got buffed.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
It shows on the minimap that I can use the treb yet I can’t, I thought it was a graphical bug and I should just get the repair kit but that isn’t the case either. There is no repair kit yet I can’t use the treb anymore.
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I can be wrong about this, I can’t put my finger on it but I seem to die a lot faster then I used to before the patch. Either I have been playing horrible on my ele the past 2 days or they buffed something els in the game.
I’ve checked the patch notes already and I can’t find anything suspicious.
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Ideally, all of our high impact skills should allow for counter-play via a clearly telegraphed attack animation.
I seriously dont understand the thought pattern behind a skill that hits anywhere 8k-10k, can be used every 4 seconds, has no animation and was given to probably the best roamer, disengager, stealth-spammy and spikers in the game…..
It baffles me….
are you really complaining about the worst class in spvp right now?
You kittenting me? Ele got nerfed while other classes got buffed. Try playing one right now, before it was bad but now it seems unplayable.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
Could we perhaps have weaker version of the npc’s that we currently have in the mists? I know we have dummies but there are certain traits and skills where I need to take damage to test it out. The problem is that I die really fast against every one of these fake classes. If it doesn’t take too much time a weaker version of these npc’s would be appreciated.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
The amount of warriors that run greatsword I can probably count on 1 hand. Since everyone almost has at least 1 stunbreaker now due the heavy cc meta I can guarantee you this build won’t even come close to being as good as hambow.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
That’s what I’ve thought from the start, reducing the cooldowns from elementals is indeed a nice buff, but that doesn’t exclude the fact you still need evasive arcana for reasonable survivability, the build I was running is gonna get nerfed by this update.
They’re moving Water V which means we’ll have even less condi removal when conditions can be so easily applied by other classes. in a nutshell, some classes get a couple buffs while we rather get meh if not even a nerf.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
If he comes from a game like dekaron he will have a rough time.
The animations are much quicker here and ofcourse you don’t have the pay 2 win aspect in this game as you do in that game.
Not to mention the balance is absolute kitten at the moment in guild wars 2. So depending on what class he plays I can understand he has a rough time in spvp. I hope for your friend he’s not playing ele cause they pretty much die from a breeze of wind atm. and if he just started playing the game I can only imagine how horrible it is for him. Even me after playing the game for a year and knowing pretty much every skill in the game get killed pretty often by ridiculous cheese builds.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
There will not be a direct glory to gold conversion.
Could you perhaps go more into detail? I’d like to know as well if I should keep my glory or spend it now on skins/chests that I don’t really want but at least it will be better than nothing..
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
Hambow is not easy to play. You have to use your berserker stance wisely and make sure you land your cc’s and attacks well. Mellee class is never easy. People overestimate this class really bad. I hope people will stop calling a class OP just because they don’t know how to counter it.
lol this post would be perfect as a troll, but knowing you, I know you’re 100% serious. God kitten it, you’re gonna get me forum banned again because of all the nonsense you say bro. Stop pls
if you start believing me then your forum stay would be much better. even a noob like me has the right to express his thoughts.
If you call yourself a nub, then why do you keep writing bullkitten and trying to convince people of that knowlegde at the same time?
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
Play something like ele or non bunker multikit engi -> compare it to hambow -> realize that your statement is absurdly far from the truth.
i can play warrior, necro, mesmer and ranger. chasing a foe with a hammer is kinda tricky since its attacks are pretty slow. healing signet active heal is useless. once foes burst you in a team fight, you are dead. necro has spectral form, a ranger has the nature spirit and a mesmer has clones and teleport. go figure which one has better survivability.
So a warrior doesn’t have immunity’s, stuns and condi clears which make him recuperate from that burst ? not to mention they are a heavy class.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
There is no condition meta anymore gasp . In fact that hasnt been one for a while either in team q or solo q.
I think your balance changes with nerfs to necro condis, and incendary ammo/sun spirit are about 3 months out of date anet.
P.S. Diamond skin is going to be the most broken trait ever made. A lot of people I respect in game agree with me on this. You might as well remove necros and engis from the game
Have you actually read what Diamond skin does or do you like to comment first research later? It’s 2,000 damage approx, even condi builds can pull this off in a few seconds. Also, it’s not like its going to be a surprise when you run into this. Your going to know exactly how to counter it..
With insight like this you should be working for anet. I know how much direct damage I do with rabids. I see it every day vs zerker stance (health goes up) and AR engis. It wont be enough to get a signet of restoration ele below 95% health – even a bad 1.
Would I be wrong in saying that if you changed either:
a) 10 trait points
b) 2 runes
c) 1 utility
d) 1 Sigil
You would easily reach the dmg required without much effect to your build.
If an ele has 12k hp on average that means you only need to do 1200 dmg to get them below the threshold.
Dont be a smart kitten and tell me what your idea is and I can respond. Which of each would you suggest.
:) Gnight friend
Aw, the “You dont know what im saying” humilation tactic. How expert of you. You are a brilliant individual. Well played. Brilliant debating. You set it up and then put it away. What a genuis.
I’m pretty sure he could go into detail. And so could I but since I’m lazy to write it all down and look it up I wont. especially to a player who seems to have never played ele before. going 30 into earth is the worst possible trait line you could go, it’s the same as going 30 into death magic for necro. + diamond skin aint a great trait itself, there are plently of ways to deal with it, like usual you are just being in denial and don’t seem to have a clue what’s really balanced and what’s not.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
Sometimes it’s really so frustrating to play this game. Whenever I log in I’m already depressed of the thought facing the cheese specs in tourney’s. A warrior can eat a full churning earth without any problem but I can’t take 3 auto attacks from a kitten hammer. Any CC spec should almost do no damage what so ever. It’s dumb that you get 10k health taken while being CC’d, I’m not taking about warriors alone, necro’s and other classes fall under that category as well.
For an ai spec spirit ranger is extremely effective which is dumb as kitten, engi decap specs can kiss my kitten . Scepter air on ele is broken as well since everything is instant. AND SO ON….
Where is the kitten counterplay?!
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
Do you play any other class than necro lordy? Like have you ever played an ele, mesmer or even a thief perhaps? Cause I feel like always the people complaining about how weak condi’s are have no idea in reality how easy it is to play those compared to other classes and how rewarding as well at the same time.
Level 80 Elementalist, experienced player in pvp, trying out pve for now.
