Guild Wars 2

I think the cast time for Rite is right where it should be now. You certainly can’t have that effect on a 1/4 or instant cast.

If you wanna talk about shafted, go over to the ele forums. At least necro gets a wicked and useful spec.

Daniel Handler.4816:

Staff and daggers dont work because they restrict moment.

False and false. Eles will continue to be the most busted class post HoT.

I don’t believe might stacking has beven decided as being a problem.

My stance on it is boons are a l2p mechanic. It’s very easy to rip might stacks, lesser skilled players just don’t.

Alright, let’s see.

Eles have already been nerfed into the ground:
Check.
Ele elite spec was knowingly made horrible to give other classes an as asymmetrical buff:
Check.
Recent vigor changes have put eles even more behind in clears:
Check.

And you’re still looking to snipe critical ele mechanics? At this rate, Anet should remove every class other than zerker wars and have damage be decided by an RNG engine.

actarus.8319:

A flatulist lives in my warhorn and it’s NOT funny.

Basically what’s up.

I sure know I’m not. Doesn’t change gameplay at all, just turns d/d into d/w and illusions people into thinking this is the first melee ele that can play seriously. News flash boys, d/d has been here for three years, it’s been fantastic at front lining, and the tempest doesn’t do a thing differently than what it offers.

^ lol at first part. I still don’t get what all the shouting is about. Ele and Cele are fine and necessary parts of the game. When they get nerfed into the ground and the pvp scene degenerates into rubbish I’ll just look the other way.

Wow. This is good. Like reaaally good. I haven’t seen Anet pull off a rework half as beneficial and effective as these changes would be. Keep the dream alive OP, here’s hoping the right person takes a look at this thread.

Quoting Gaile Gray:

“I do not understand these threads. “My family and I have played thousands of hours, but we feel ‘cheated’ because the person who is joining now plays the core game for free or pays just the one fee for Heart of Thorns.”
Let’s consider another type of purchase, that of DVDs. FotR was $30 when it came out on DVD. You now can get all three chapters of LotR for less than $20. But the person who buys now lost years of viewing pleasure because he didn’t own the video at release. LotR is shown for free on television, but that doesn’t negate the value of purchasing the DVDs, for those of us who chose to make those purchases. Imagine showing up at a DVD retailer and saying, “This movie is now free. I want money off another title.”
The hours in Guild Wars 2 that your family has enjoyed—very likely the thousands of accumulated hours—are not without value. They are not, to us, without cost. The 40 major updates we have made to the game that you have been enjoying for three years each add significant value to your purchases: Wintersday festivals that a new player will never be able to attend, major in-game events they’ll never see, drops that were only available to you, as a veteran player, during a limited period.
The position in the first post has been put forth by different people and successfully dispelled time and time again. OP — Please know that we greatly appreciate your support. I encourage you to make whatever purchase decision is best for you and your family. But please never forget that all you have gotten for each of your purchases does have value, in the overall view of things.”

SRoode.7318:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iayLBI7nsE0

If gw2 gold existed like reddit gold, you’d have it for this post.

OP you gotta stop cherrypicking your fights in this post with the worst possible comments. Alot of people here make it known they indeed can chat, and that free accounts indeed need this restriction. It’s logical, it’s correct, and it’s not changing.

Rest In Pepperonis Koss Boss </3

While I share your desire for heroes again OP, this game no longer supports the hench/hero model.

Okay, I think everyone responding to the OP needs to come back down to earth from their utopian world of perfect players and perfect dodges. OP makes several good points regarding this system and why it is flawed; to reiterate, it is.

The argument that rewarding players for ‘wasting’ a dodge is a red herring that linear thinkers use instead of actively trying to think. This ‘wasted’ dodge comes with a cost; it’s not free. As such, good players are more adequately rewarded for using their allowance of endurance as they see fit with a much greater degree of freedom to their play in the effect on dodge model, whether it be to dodge to gain Vigor or what have you. Poor players are still penalized in this model where they are spending their endurance allowance in a sub-optimal manner, where good players can then capitalize from a bad player’s mistakes.

Poor dodge management does not get away with just ‘wasting’ a dodge, and it certainly is not rewarded.

That’s alot of banned amulets lol.

PookieDaWombat.6209:

GUYS! We won’t have the worst name anymore! I’m OK with this.

Nope, we still do >.<

As an ele I feel your pain.

Kaleban.9834:

I mean, how else to explain the Berserker and probable upcoming Ninja/Daredevil on Thief, and then compare it to the Tempest and Dragonhunter?

I’m with the OP here, DH and Tempest look like specs that should’ve been thrown into the trash when compared to the real specs (reaper/zerker/daredevil).

Welcome to sales. Fear of Loss (even temporary loss) is a strong push tactic.

Rabble rabble rabble let’s force the game to only have berserker’s rabble rabble. There’s more than one play style, Cele is fine. Ele is fine.

It’s not effortless to maintain without slotting it, so a cost is involved. Player speed is not 133% all the time because using swiftness correctly rewards good play.

Only reason is during a fight it renews stacks. No reason ooc.

Well thank god for OP, glad someone said it. Burn is absolutely fine right now.

OP and 2nd poster are on point, the rest I’m pretty sure don’t even have an ele.

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I’ll toss in a yes then.

Disagree. I love the Mai Trin fight. It’s interactive and different, I appreciate that they didn’t just make another cookie cutter champion boss.

Necros are fantastic, if you know how to play it right. Basically the case with every class.

Daishi.6027:

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D/D ele

PU mesmers

Condi Engie

Medi guards

Wilderness/Nature magic/BM
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So meta builds basically?
Alright anet, time for a worldwide rebalance.
/s

Thoughts. My thoughts are that I’m tired of people shouting about how elementalist are overpowered. They’re top tier. Top tier and in need of rebalance are two different things. If you think that eles or Cele are OP, please just go L2P.

A bar would be great, but is it really much different than having your inventory open when you need to? Just resize it.

Eh, I haven’t seen an issue with female sylvari anims yet.

Kewl month ago necro. Yeah, specs are a cog in the great anet machine that is killing diversity.

This is getting as bad as mounts in terms of beating a dead horse. Celestial is fine, it doesn’t need touched. There is a real tradeoff in using celestial that merits the gain of the ‘bonus’ stats. God forbid something that isn’t zerker is being used, let it be.

Generate quickness. Get viable and dynamic specializations.

Tyrannical.9348:

Thieves will probably get shouts too;

“I’m so edgy!” – apply bleed to all nearby foes
“You can’t see me!” – blind foes, go into stealth
“Hidden Ninja Strike!” – stun and crit enemies
“Yatatatatatataaaahh!” – cripple, torment, chill, burn, poison and confuse foes.

Oh god lol, take all of my +1s, you deserve them.

This thread is full of level-headed responses to the livestream. That fight was gross, I’m pretty sure he even had blinding ashes on and he was still getting thrown around. Something needs to change.

Repititious. Impractical. Linear.

3/5, I wasn’t impressed.

Improve character model fluidity while channeling an overcharge. They all seem very cartoonish or cheesy right now.

Effect is too little to matter outside of perfectly synced TS teams. It needs to be ramped up or the Cd brought down.

Kodiak.3281:

I think there’s a disconnect here going on.

See you got a bunch of people who are all like, “Woo Tempest this is so cool, it’s all so cool!” and then you have the more level headed people saying, “None of this stuff is practical.”

Is the Tempest stuff cool? Sure. New stuff. Neat. Any of it particularly useful? Not a bit. PvE players are guessing PvP and PvP is guessing WvW and WvW is guessing PvE cause no one can actually figure out where any of this cool stuff would actually be used over what we already got.

Thanks for saying it for me, this is on point.

My sadness: confirmed.

This is great! Anet should do some more events like this all throughout the game to liven things up.

This 100×. Some classes should be able to cause revealed or some other form of counterplay to stealth. A perfect candidate is the engineer’s utility goggles, just for starters. (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Utility_Goggles)

Staff 2 should not be a skill in our very few weapon skill options. It’s basically an auto with marginal upside. The way it currently is, you could just tack it ( the weakness) onto the chain 3 of the staff auto and that’d be just the same. It either needs to be upgraded to a stun (daze maybe) or over-written with a useful and interesting alternative.

The double heal has been big game in all my pvp encounters so far. You can really maximize heal per second as well with the current heal system.

bearshaman.3421:

I personally would like to see something similar to what the elementalist does, where you get different weapon skills based on your current invocation.

This could be neat. Not happy with 5 wep slots only, at any rate.

Celestial is easy to get, it’s just time gated. Just charge a quartz crystal everyday.

All three points are valid and well put. Nice write up op.