Guild Wars 2

Elementalist needs help.

I haven’t played other professions enough to know whether they need any help.

I miss the huge armor from Kinetic Armor. (as you may know from these forums, ele survivability blah blah). That, coupled with more attunements and mystic regeneration allowed me to tank EVERYTHING, which you can not do as an ele in GW2.

For the most part though, the ele in gw2 is much much better. I always wanted to use Master of Magic, but it never got me viable builds. Now I’m finally an elementalist with control over all of the elements at once!

pmnt.4067:

I’d remove that filler minor traits. Water is the only line where you get 6 meaningful traits for 30 points. Either make Elemental Attunement or that 15-point spells or Elemental Attunement a baseline class mechanic. I’d favour the first one, because it would free 4 trait slots.

Changes in detail:

• The on-attunement spells (15 point minors: Sunspot, Electric Discharge, Earthen Blast, Healing Ripple) are part of the attunement mechanic.

• Lingering Elements and the 5 point minors (Flame Barrier, Zephyr’s Speed, Stoneflesh) are deleted. Soothing Mist is powerful and can be shifted further into the Water tree.

• new 5 Point Traits: Gain <element> aura for 2 seconds (fire: 5s or buff fire aura) when you attune to <element>. Zephyr’s Boon and Elemental Shielding need to be toned down (1-2s fury/swiftness/protection). Arcane Fury can stay.

• new 15 Point Traits: <element> training: Reduce the recharge of <element> weapon skills by 25%. Arcane 15: Elemental Attunement.

• The 25 point traits could stay. I’d shift Bountiful Power from Water to Arcane to make place for Soothing Mist. Bountiful Power makes more sense in the Arcane line, because it’s the boon duration line and already offers Elemental Attunement and Arcane Fury for synergy with Bountiful Power. Also, Arcane Precision is not a loss.

With that changes elementalists could run 30/30/10 specs and choose two of: Persisting Flames, Fresh Air, Diamond Skin, Powerful Auras/Cleansing Water, Evasive Arcana without the cost of wasted minor traits. Or even a 15/15/15/15/15 stance dancer.

I’d say this is very viable. I would also like them to change the traits before anything else. ANet plz

Yeah, I’d also like this. Could be like GW1, were you ahd 2 weapon slots were you stored your weapons. everyone could just put every weapon set in those slots and choose 2 (1 for ele and engi) while in combat, and swap freely between them out of combat.

I like it! +1

The skills don’t have to be specifically the ones you proposed, but could be something more defensive in earth and water, and more offensive in fire and air.

Would make me love Ele even more

Wizzlock.3492:

What part of the second plan is epic? Actually, even if it is odd sock, red herring or whatever you want to call it… “The epic ship has sailed” as Teofa Tsavo said.
Anet put themselfs in hard spot. They are going down, pretending to go up, promising to reach heaven, but hitting ground time after time.
This was supposed to be first of the updates that should bring us on our knees, wasn’kitten Nope. Not even close.

Well, I think it would be quite epic if they come up with the right “force behind Scarlet”. If this “force” (let’s assume elder dragon) is what we have to fight, than the fight could be absolutely epic. I mean, how the Edge of the Mists looks is absolutely cool, which shows they can do it.

Yeah I just saw the letter you get afterward. It’s gone, and we’re not on it.

Edit: but it may still be the characters not knowing that Scarlet will not attack LA

spoilers
So, after the investigation, Marjory and Kasmeer are convinced LA will be attacked. Let them be wrong. For once, let the characters in the game not be omniscient and always have the exact right plan. Scarlet can still be gathering her army to kill the power (elder dragon or not) that tried to possess her (“I’m no longer scared”). We will help her. We will enjoy it. It will be epic. Letting Scarlet attack Lion’s Arch will far too generic and boring.

Please Arenanet,

I beg of you,

make it epic.

Not generic.

Elementalist:
These changes are quite nice, but the regen on trident is really the only significant change to sustain. Burning speed can already be used to get out of the way of many attacks, frozen burst can not be chained with a waterfield on dagger or focus and armor of Earth’s cd was too long anyway.
What I would like to see, which could really help ele’s to survive is a change to the focus skills, especially fire. Flamewall is ok, but hard to use; a quality of life update could fix that. Fire shield is absolutely useless. Absolutely. Useless. It’s important to have access to an aura with focus because of traits, but I think there should be defensive skill in Fire on the focus. So:
-Change fire shield no matter what, to make getting hit while using it actually worth it
-Flamewall QoL update plz (wider field, field shape, etc.)
-Add a good defensive effect (CC, condi removal or boons) to either of these two skills.

I would think Flamewall could be used as an area control ability to deter melee enemies from getting to you.
I would think fire shield could be used to deter melee or ranged enemies form attacking you, like stunning aura does. (and no, the 1 sec burning is not enough).

However, I can understand that you want to wait with such changes until after sigil and rune changes have gone through, as being able to use 2 on-swap sigils might be a major buff to eles.
However, on the same subject, I hope you creat a few viable runes focusing on general boon duration

VOLKON.1290:

People like to poke fun at Logan for running away from the fight with Kralkatorrik, but really, wasn’t it Snaff that didn’t have the guts to finish the fight?

No. It was Logan. Snaff couldn’t finish his job, because he died, s=while Logan should have protected him.

+1
I’ve wanted first-person mode since the beginning of gw2, just to look at the scenery. It would definitely get everyone MORE immersed. And it’d be an OPTION, so anyone against the idea could just not zoom in.

Do it Anet.

Is there any way to know the rotation so I can complete the map? A table or anyone who knows?

PS Do not merge this with the “I hate WvW and don’t want to go in it to explore” -thread, because it is not the same topic, I like WvW.

I’ve been stuck at 99% map completion for more than a month now, because all I need is to explore the green base in Eternal Battlegrounds. Problem is, I haven’t been in WvW when Gunnar’s Hold was green, and it seems we never are green. Is there a list of the WvW colour rotation or can anyone tell me when I will finally be able to get it?

Okay, probably should have mentioned this clearly, but I KNOW what the meta builds are, and that this isn’t the best kind of build in its own right, but I like using it, as it is a lot of fun. So I won’t make major changes. Only would like some feedback on gear

Also, I’ve tested with and without diamond skin, and find myself dying often to condi builds without it, and not dying with it.

Oh well, It didn’t exactly say BUILDS :P I’m not really new to PvP, but I’ve only ever played for a little fun, not very competitively

Where do I find this sticky? link maybe?

So might it be better to get rid of diamond skin in favor of 20 in water with cleansing wave? Also, swapping out signet of air seems like a good idea that I’m certainly going to do

Hello there, I’m Dragonic Elemental. I’ve been running a certain build lately and I would like some help with my equipment and set-up beyond the core of the build.
The build revolves mostly around swapping attunements:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhEmcbsREhjEIkCww4RIMCdoowDUUkDzAA-TgAA0CnI8S1lrLjXjQmOA
With this build, I get a lot of boons and survivability, especially against condition bursts, while doing enough damage to defeat most players if playing correctly due to fury.
I definitely want Air 1, Earth 8 and 11 and Arcana 2 and 8.

I would like feedback on:
-The water trait; I chose it because i couldn’t find any other trait I thought was worth it
-The first trait in Earth; again, are there better options?
-Sigils & my last two runes
-my 8th and 9th skill; I don’t use utility slot 3 that often, but earth shield can be good to control multiple people. firesignet is just for added crit chance, I never activate it.

Edit: I want this trait set-up mostly because I like playing with it, not because it is the best. However, I want to maximize the effectiveness of the parts that I don’t necessarily knew what to do with (listed above)