Guild Wars 2

Turin.1024:

Dub.1273:

Done.

Except the group hes crashing is still at tar, how can they be exploiting lupi?

Griefing legit sellers is just as bad as the exploiters themselves, it even makes the situation worse: none of the legit sellers will take the time to go through lupi when theres such a high chance of being griefed, while for the rest its just a 20 minute setback.

I got my (legit) runs crashed like this twice today, not gonna bother with Arah for a while.

Learn to sell

Nice signet of air, and how did they do fine? They were sodding dead. Dead players shouldn’t be awarded completion credit!

plz fix underwater so p2 is at least worth selling thank you – happy train.

Sanderinoa.8065:

Cries Of Sorrow.5864:

Dat dutch accent thou

You actually recognised it? :o that doesn’t happen often, Sharp!

So much for trying to muffle it, muhahaha.

0/10 cause i wiped on howling king whilst waiting for a response. Dat dutch accent thou

blessing nosferatu.3784:

Anet enjoy annoying kitten.

that explains scarlet.

Chaotic Storm.2815:

Erebus.9276:

Chaotic Storm.2815:

Young Somalia.1706:

Chaotic Storm.2815:

I’m completely against the selling. mainly because I’ve had 2 different times now I’ve been suddenly kicked from a dungeon only to find a min later a group with the exact same group design is selling a spot for the final boss.

So you should have a problem with dirtbags.

If someone coughs in your face do you get mad at your flu or the person who was behaving borderline incompetent?

That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout!

short answer. Dirtbag or not. People are creating and endorsing the idea and practice of something that makes others suffer where they shouldn’t.

People who are out to make others suffer will do so regardless.. Punishing people offering a legitimate service is asinine.

I’ll remember to mention that next time I see a chinese farmer.

Except that goldselling is against the rules, pathselling isn’t.

Jamais vu.5284:

Ethics.4519:

However some white knights will make a party with another friend, and merge their party into the sellers. They will then kick the person selling, which means the instance is destroyed.

I saw this happen. I recommended to the seller to report them for griefing. I hope they got their just deserts.

and this is why you should always get fillers.

Brando.3891:

is still possible soloing alphard?

Yep.

Tricare.2946:

The Game Slayer.7632:

You can say whatever you want, but the dev’s certainly disagree.

Not sure why you are using this as a defense of a ‘broken’ trait. The dev’s have never been wrong before? They’ve never made huge mistakes?

I agree with you, Anet made serious balance mistakes their views of the elementalist just dont match the picture. The way gameslayer is trying to justify this is a joke and incredibly childish, why do you want this..? Quite frank i’ve been sick and tired of seeing everyone lame and play pretty much cheese non stop but seriously adding milk to the cheese will make you go through the roof? Ignorance. Just a very bad “loser” the taste of winning will soon backlash and we will be back to square one.

Yeah pretty much the title, gl blasting your underwater fire field.

The Great Al.2546:

Thanks for all of your feedback. I am running 30/0/0/10/30, Berserker gear. In almost every other situation, I run a might stacking + LH build that I have seen on this forum (Neko’s guide, I believe).

I agree that Staff is weak, I just felt like I should be staying as far away as possible. I will try a S/F build.

Staying close to lupicus is the optimal option. If you however choose to range S/F should be a really safe alternative.

pho.9412:

lupi with staff is fine if you know how to use it.

fire 4: free dodge
water fields help your team mate.
earth 3: reflect.

the easiest lupi is x/focus. cos of whirling wind + earth focus.

I want to ask what are your traits? if you have at least 10 in arcane get the trait that gives vigor on crit. then you dont even need to put sigil of energy in your weap. I almost always put that trait on when I know I need alot of endurance.

ps: know lupi’s animation for all phases so you don’t waste your dodge.

Very bold claim, no just no, even with renewing stamina do take a sigil of energy if you’re gonna melee.

Patrikan Habaton.2548:

Shahotinaro.9250:

Had a decent attempt. 4 manned the first 2 (Ascalon and Snowblind) with a Warr/Warr/Ele/Necro, picked up a Warr for 3rd but got Grawl, and w/o reflect we couldn’t finish it. Trying again tomorrow.

why can’t you finish it with war war ele necro … thsi really Points out how meaningless leaderboards are… ppl did 2 man this fractal on 80 … saying you don’t have reflects and can’t finish is not true ele has reflects necro has massive blind ele has blind as well and war enough dps to burst em down…

seeing those threads make me really sad what happened to fractals

lol, typical example of GG or Re-Roll.

Dagger focus for lupicus. Do use a sigil of energy though. If you mean the phase 2 AoE, yes that can be blocked using arcane shield. But focus swirling winds would be more efficient as you can have it up /40%^ of the AoE phases (given you don’t have spastics parading lupicus around that would significantly increase the percentage) and honestly staff is a terrible weapon for dungeons.

No.

Promises weren’t delivered, they also promised to look at lengths which they did not either, enjoy the new dredge bug though. Bump

Vissarion.6509:

My opinion… look at the screenshot

Hahaha well done man, had the exact same idea as you today. Clown car at 39 exploding dredge fun fun fun xD

Hows that toughness build working for you harrharr.

durend.6237:

I just realized. Somewhere in there I remember them saying “agony will now only affect player controlled characters” to assure people their pets are safe.

RIP mesmer mimic/echo

So much for telling us that was something they were 100% cool with us doing.

Its called a technical limitation.

JMar.3254:

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

spoj.9672:

Nah thats just what they said on the stream. So their idea of discouraging ranging could be a really poor instability which doesnt really stop people from ranging.

It might just be: All mobs reflect projectiles.

And then we will cringe when all the bads continously keep killing themselves over and over again. Or we see a reddit thread about how rangers cant complete the fractal with that instability because they cant range

GS mesmer FTW! lawlz

Hush dont give them ideas!

Zaxares.5419:

Makes me wonder who exactly is buying these trinkets though, what with Ascended trinkets having already been in the game for months.

Flippers.

Endgame.

Very rare chance to get a recipe from last chest of a dungeons explorable path to craft special trinkets, got HotW (ring of blood P1) and CoF (ashes of the effigy p1).

Do it, #yolo, like 5 minutes work.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Wethospu.6437:

What was the point of playing Necromancer to begin with? No one told you to do that. And it’s not like it gets any better.

And the mature discussion goes right out the window…. ugh…

Very immature response from a mature person, i think you lack the integrity to judge wether this discussion is mature or not.

I always give my arah paths away for free, its an outrage!! Free progress without playing the game!! Don’t you agree that the pay2win model at least requires you to p0000n it up FGJ! At the champ train420? Making dungeon tokens tradeable will ultimately devalue the paths as most players do it with the compensation of 3G/xp/frags in mind thus only for example actually end up paying 2G, your suggestion kills the sellers business and allows for easy competition. Dismissed

Each morning, a missionary advertises neon sign
He tells the native population that civilization is fine
And three educated savages holler from a bamboo tree
That civilization is a thing for me to see

So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo, oh no no no no no
Bingo, bangle, bungle, I’m so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go
Don’t want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords, I make it clear
That no matter how they coax him, I’ll stay right here

I looked through a magazine the missionary’s wife concealed (Magazine? What happens?)
I see how people who are civilized bung you with automobile (You know you can get hurt that way Daniel?)
At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see (What do they see, Darling?)
Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of me

So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don’t want to leave the Congo, oh no no no no no
Bingo, bangle, bungle, he’s so happy in the jungle, he refuse to go
Don’t want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxis, noise in my ear
So, no matter how they coax him, I’ll stay right here

They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train
And though it’s smokey and it’s crowded, they’re too civilized to complain
When they’ve got two weeks vacation, they hurry to vacation ground (What do they do, Darling?)
They swim and they fish, but that’s what I do all year round

So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo, oh no no no no no
Bingo, bangle, bungle, I’m so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go
Don’t want no jailhouse, shotgun, fish-hooks, golf clubs, I got my spears
So, no matter how they coax him, I’ll stay right here

They have things like the atom bomb so i think i’ll stay where i “om” civilization, i stay right here!

bravo the second time fractals players get shafted, this is for all the survivors of the first quit-wave, who will survive the second tsunami of casualization?

although i don’t think there should be some compensation, i find the whole 180 to be a kitten move they should’ve at least informed everyone one year ago, oh wait… they never had these plans. very very very very amateuristic

Burn go back to the thief boards please, those guys got really mad haha.

It would be pretty fupsing epic if mobs never leashed, imagine the mosh pit: the wall of death was never that interesting before, imagine just pulling everything to grief pugs that would be so cool! Man time for revenge make it happen gogo

Obtena.7952:

TKiller.6829:

Obtena.7952:

stuff

Every time I see you post, my sight gets locked on the words “PVE Burning Build”.

And I just spend a few moments, looking at them. Thinking.

Those are just there to distract the people that aren’t interested in having a discussion. It helps me figure out who is worth the time responding to.

Congratulations TKiller, he finds you worthy of a discussion what an honorable triumph! Please get more mads in here so i can laugh.

JonPeters.5630:

Summation of high risk concerns for elementalist.

Diamond Skin
We really love this trait as it opens up some very powerful potential in the earth line to run a defensive elementalist without relying on healing power. The strength of this build is going to be the ability to quickly string small heals together to maintain that condition resistance. I think it could see use in both high damage builds looking to avoid weakness and blind, as well as in defensive builds looking to tank condition heavy classes and condition heavy mobs. I think the big question here is the base health/armor of the elementalist. Of course if you are just an elementalist you just want us to raise these, but balance must work around some fixed things and profession health and armor are an important part of defining what a profession is so that we can create powerful tools that players can actively use to circumvent these weaknesses. In this case if this trait is not powerful enough to be a grandmaster, I believe the right answer is going to be to lower the threshold, not to increase elementalist base health.

Aquamancer’s Alacrity
We moved this trait because all profession cooldown traits are in master tier, and because that is a good investment for this type of improvement. That being said, they may all not be powerful enough to warrant a master level triat right now, but I would rather increase the cooldown to 25% to get people to consider them than to have them be adept tier and allow elementalists to run all four of them.

Cleansing Wave
This is the one I am most on the fence about of all of the elementalist changes. It is a borderline master level trait and I think a better solution would be to leave it at adept tier and instead of moving Soothing Wave (which is only moving because it is better to have a 100% worthless trait at adept tier rather than master tier) we would redesign Soothing Wave into something worthy of master level.

Arcane Abatement
This is moving to adept tier because all of the fall damage traits are in that tier and in our opinion it doesn’t feel good to have to spend 20 points in a line for this kind of trait. Alacrity was the first choice to swap with it here because of the reasons stated above.

Soothing Disruption vs Cantrip Mastery
This one was debated internally for a while as well. I think swapping these traits would also help build diversity as it would let you splash 10 points in water to get Cantrip recharge, but would make you really consider going into water magic for the Regen and Vigor which is much more flavorful. I would love to hear some elementalist thoughts on that potential change.

Last but definitely not least.

Arcana
I see the logic in not wanting the two changes in this line to counter each other. Moving good adept traits to master level is contrary to reducing the need to spec into this line. That being said, Elemental Attunement is just a beast of a trait and could honestly be compared with most grandmaster traits. I think a good compromise would be to place Renewing Stamina back in the adept tier, placing is where the other professions get this type of trait, and instead move Final Shielding to the master tier where it could live alongside Arcane Retribution as two good choices in arcane builds that take Arcane Mastery in the adept tier. That could leave some interesting builds such as: 0/30/30/0/10 for fresh air, diamond skin, and renewing stamina. It also still leaves builds that put only 10 points in Arcana a chance to gain Protection by going 30 air for Tempest Defense, and 10 Earth for Elemental Shielding and still have 30 points leftover.

I still believe there is work to be done at the grandmaster tier in Fire at the very minimum and that Air and Water are the only truly good grandmaster choice right now. There are also still a handful of just terrible traits that will still get looked at, but we felt like we were already bordering on changing too much.

Thanks,

Jon

P.S. bug fix for Lingering Elements is coming on Nov. 26th as well.

really disagree with elemental attunement since its basically the CORE of the arcana line. but thanks for at least considering cleansing wave and renewing stamina.

dreztina.4820:

It’s hard to really say for sure with such a big list of changes, but this looks more like an overall nerf than a buff. They pretty much gutted arcane and water, and certainly didn’t make up for it with the buffs to the other lines. Losing both cleansing wave and elemental attunement/renewing stamina is such a massive hit to survivability.

These guys don’t understand elementalists at all, and it’s a kitten ed shame. Just gotta wait for a mmo that’s more serious about its pvp to come out.

Looks more like a nerf to me aswell, harakiri to sustain rather. However i’m gonna let it sink in for a while, will arenanet be naive enough to pull these changes through is the question… Such a shame that this class is becoming rather stale it used to be so flashy.. Good thing christmas is on the horizon so we can trim the tree again.

guanlongwucaii.3162:

gotta love me more braindead 1 spam $$zerkfarm$$

Or dat low tier ¥farm¥ harrharr roBOTS 3rdworld.

Quinti.5204:

Cries Of Sorrow.5864:

Gesamtkunstwerk.6590:

Cries Of Sorrow.5864:

Quinti.5204:

Side-note: Just vs’d a Thief in wvw. 1v1. I went looking for one, we played a while and I noticed that the Thief had a shiet ton of Teleportation/Shadowstep, w/e you peeps call it.

I was just a normal bunker Ele (d/d – 3 cantrip build) with pvt looking to play 1v1… the battle lasted a while, but I couldn’t kill the thief. I’d get him to low hp, then he’d just reset. I mean QTF is this?!?

Thieves have tons of Teleport/Shadowstep/QTFstep~~~

Conclusion, you’re just mad that you couldn’t pin him down and finish him off, instead of coming up with a plan to trap and kill him you came to this terrible thread to feed it’s walls. Clap clap

What have you contributed to these forums? Besides arrogant commentary?

direction, balance, etc etc. it’s hard to disagree when everyone agrees.

It was an Open field fight, the thief was equipped with a Shortbow, Sword/Pistol. I was a d/d Ele, once the thief changed to Shortbow there is a range difference, especially since it was open field, the thief was kiting, while I was a sitting duck. I wanted a 1v1 but d/d Ele’s aren’t the “best” are ranged dps. As soon as I get close, the thief would Teleport away.

So whatever you said is invalid.

I’m just saying some of my experience with thieves, be it pro-thieves, shiet-thieves, whatever you want to call it. They do have much, much more teleports than an Ele does.

Reposition.

Gesamtkunstwerk.6590:

Cries Of Sorrow.5864:

Quinti.5204:

Side-note: Just vs’d a Thief in wvw. 1v1. I went looking for one, we played a while and I noticed that the Thief had a shiet ton of Teleportation/Shadowstep, w/e you peeps call it.

I was just a normal bunker Ele (d/d – 3 cantrip build) with pvt looking to play 1v1… the battle lasted a while, but I couldn’t kill the thief. I’d get him to low hp, then he’d just reset. I mean QTF is this?!?

Thieves have tons of Teleport/Shadowstep/QTFstep~~~

Conclusion, you’re just mad that you couldn’t pin him down and finish him off, instead of coming up with a plan to trap and kill him you came to this terrible thread to feed it’s walls. Clap clap

What have you contributed to these forums? Besides arrogant commentary?

direction, balance, etc etc. it’s hard to disagree when everyone agrees.

if they were to buff flamewall, a buff like this is gonna be so insiginificant that i would rather have Anet spend their resources on a useful buff instead. buffing for the sake of buffing isn’t gonna work.

and CMSTORM the wall would get the same treatment as the Mesmer curtain whereas it’s a Independent 3 stacks of might that can’t be stacked on top of, to make it even worse and more undesireable.

Quinti.5204:

Side-note: Just vs’d a Thief in wvw. 1v1. I went looking for one, we played a while and I noticed that the Thief had a shiet ton of Teleportation/Shadowstep, w/e you peeps call it.

I was just a normal bunker Ele (d/d – 3 cantrip build) with pvt looking to play 1v1… the battle lasted a while, but I couldn’t kill the thief. I’d get him to low hp, then he’d just reset. I mean QTF is this?!?

Thieves have tons of Teleport/Shadowstep/QTFstep~~~

Conclusion, you’re just mad that you couldn’t pin him down and finish him off, instead of coming up with a plan to trap and kill him you came to this terrible thread to feed it’s walls. Clap clap

oh look it’s this thread again. lets also totally forget about the travel time of Infiltrators arrow while the user is under swiftness.

Did you re equip your weapon with the sigil? And off cooldown? And no other sigil with an ICD interrupting it?

I see you talk about kits and i suppose you were talking about the engineer, cause in none of those videos i saw an ele being played. Man i suppose you messed up on the translation or something no worries mate, it’s engineer! Very nice videos too some real meta stuff. If these videos are true zen kitten you’re the supreme shogun. BUSHIDO

I personally think in the labyrinth MH dagger is best for tagging. Burning speeds and lightning whips. But please teach me very wrong DO IT!! -Close quartercombat. -Staff downtime. -Next to no risk. I personally don’t farm at all, just my theoretical thinking.

Just revert the bloody’thang und begone! Aa12secAigurl. If only they learned there is no shame in reverting or changing course, the wind did but the ship is sailing against it.

Thats rhetorical, was it worth a thread? But the problem is: how does it detect the skill was evaded or blinded or blocked? The game has no way of telling, my thoughts on the matter are: they failed to implement the way it was written on the paper. Don’t take my words as doom and gloom, they’re jokes.

Got 2 fractal daggers, they’re good skins, easily one of the best dagger skin in the game in my opinion.

Wanze.8410:

Jerry Attrick.5963:

What makes Celestial so special of an exotic that they had to make it different? I can understand if it was for Ascended or a Legendary precursor…

Sorry, I’m just mad I wasted time with different crap trying to figure out why I couldn’t create it like I could create others.

I think they made special recipes for each weapon and armor piece because those recipes were introduced to suck some oversupplied mats out of the market.

You had to exchange hard leather or silk scraps, for example. to get zephyr boxes, which mostly dropped those recipes.

If it was just the inscription, the insignia and the quartz crystal recipe, not much mats would have sinked in.

Thanks for explaining it to him, too lazy to write it down. Anyhow: Np sir have a wonderful Present Time Stay classy.

The Game Slayer.7632:

Guys I’m just talking about Ride The Lightning, not anything else about the elementalist. Chill with the doom and gloom O_O

Bro, chilling would overkill our abyssmal cooldowns and you know it, We are the void!

The Game Slayer.7632:

Cries Of Sorrow.5864:

BlackBeard.2873:

The problem with RTL was that ele had really high sustain to stick in a fight, then had mobility to get out then come right back.

They nerfed the sustain significantly, and eles mostly just melt, much faster than a real bunker: like guardian. After that, they nerfed the mobility too.

X/D ele can’t stick in the fight, and can’t get out, so they are just useless. This is why you see kamikaze burst eles see play: x/d can’t do anything else better than another class. Even general utility/support is better achieved with a guard or engie.

This won’t be fixed.

Tbh i don’t think a Rtl nerf revert would do much at this point. It’s the bigger picture that took the hit.

I’m not looking for a class revamp. Yeah, we did get nerfed. Oh well. I’m just here to express a certain concern I had for Ride The Lightning, and you read what my concern was. I certainly hope this atleast gets some attention.

Attention of the players won’t do much though. Player above me states why which is another indication they simply don’t care. But here you go! Bumpercar

You need the celestial recipe for the conch. Celestial isn’t discovered like traditional pearl junk. The recipe can be bought from the TP for a premium price these days by a hauled market, once you learned the recipe the conch is automatically discovered. you’re welcome friend cheers!