Guild Wars 2

sketchy.8193:

Same issue here….
Win 10 64 bit

same specs, same error

I lost about 5 losses in ranked PVP

kitten YOU ANET… oh wait

Thank you for the response, I will contact them again asap

Hello!
same here, all day having lagspikes (some times over 2k ping), I reside at Greece. I attach a pingplotter screenshot (I read about it here) in case someone knows what this means. My internet speed is at 17mbs and have downloaded numerous files (not while playing) without losing connection. I contact my ISP, told me my line is clear. Game is unplayable (PVP wise)

Columbo.5924:

I think most of the Ele community have already seen this video a dozen times over, but it has suddenly become relevant again almost 4 years after it was created:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh5zjK7ITpQ

I laughed so hard! thanks for the link

thank you!
1) I can understand the value of water for +1 fight, but what about opening a mid fight?
2) Nice tip, I’ll watch some thief videos, I guess the skill distance is the same?
3) I have no chance in hell to pull this off, nice tip though

Sunshine.5014:

Tips:

1. Count how many times you use Fire #4 in a match. If it’s less than 5 times, you’re doing it wrong.
2. Always slot LF and Arcane Shield
3. If you ever double dodge, you’re doing it wrong. When you’re under pressure, always use a defensive skill after you dodge before you dodge again.
4. If you cast Air #5 with the enemy in the middle of the circle, you’re doing it wrong. Use it like Earth #4, use the edge.
5. If you don’t know how to use LF well, then you can’t survive well either. Pop quiz: do you know how to teleport directly from the spawn path to inside the clock tower without climbing on any stair?
6. If you can’t time reflect for Rev Sword #2, then you definitely need more practice before you can succeed with a glass staff Ele. Every time you use reflect, it should be timed to reflect a dangerous skill. Like, the keys of switching to Earth and press 3 should be a muscle memory.
7. If you open combat or +1 in Fire attunement, you’re doing it wrong too.

thank you for sharing these.
1) kinda noob with the LF, any tips for more maps?
2) I am always attuned to Air to engage (cause overload), is there something better?

date set?

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/11006/Guild-Wars-2-Living-Story-Season-3-Out-of-the-Shadows-Begins-July-26th.html

It’s worse than ever!!!
Happened 3 times in one PVP match yesterday on my elementalist! And its kinda hard to type /dance in the middle of a fight… And yes, I wasn’t immobilized, I was just stuck.
It happens randomly, must have something to do with knockbacks?
Is this ever going to be addressed?

Tornupto.2304:

If you don’t bother it’s your attitude. I do use them and maybe many others too (who knows).

honestly you must be the only one

the same topic reappears every month or so. The problem exists for years, yet nothing has been done because
1) it may be difficult to program something like that without breaking something else (just speculation, no idea)
2) having trouble with space may drive you to buy more bags, thus spending gems, thus greater probability to use real money (you get my point)

last couple of months I also find myself destroying the small runes cause it is just faster than finding a vendor. Specially in multi-loot Tarir the problem is real, you have to clear inventory at least twice. Oh well…

Thank you ApaWanka, your post was spot on

Thank you so much for your effort emkelly! That was really helpful!

thank you so much for this thread! I also used the boost to create a 80 level warrior and just finished getting my berserker specialization.
I have asc zerk gs, exotic axe/mace zerk, full zerk exotic armor with might runes, asc zerk rings – amulet – backpack and exotic soldier’s asseccories. I really love the damage AND the survivability (I main a tempest…).

Maelwro.7562:

Are there any viable builds with a staff for Ele in PvP?

I was playing staff in PVP for over 6 months (over a year in PVE). Last month I went d/f. Though I am no expert (at Ruby currently), I can say without doubt that d/f is way better for support and survival, with auramancer build. You cannot kill a baby rat though… but at least you stay alive long enough when targeted, with staff you melt in seconds.

same problems here. PVP simply unplayable, ragequit when ping reached something like 4800, goes like this for past 2-3 days

DSL speed locked at 16Mbs, only GW2 has lag issues

Alex Shatter.7956:

UnitedChaos.8364:

Gaile Gray.6029:

A message from the PvP Team:

Hi all,

PvP League Season 3 is just around the corner, and with that we’d like to let you know about a few upcoming PvP amulet changes.

The following changes will take effect on May 17:

• Mercenary Amulet will no longer be available for use.
• The cost for Viper’s Amulet will be eliminated. Anyone who had purchased this amulet prior to May 17 will be refunded the full purchase price via in-game mail.

On a related note, the balance team has been keeping an eye on how things have settled after the April 19 release, and you can expect some adjustments to some outlier skills with the launch of PvP League Season 3. More news on that front next week.

Glad to see some balance outside of the patches, but please nerf the overpowered classes…
Everyone knows how overpowered ele is. Ele van outheal druids, immune to crits, near infinite condition cleanses, 50% projectile denial all whIle tanking a team of 4 and out dps every class. It’s totally ridiculous. Necro was the #1 played class last season and all that happened was chill damage was remove and the cooldown on wells were lowered…Revenants are still able to smash relentless assault and do near 100% damage to any classy class while being incredibly mobile. Come on anet.

Looks like i’ve been playing elementalist all wrong

Yeah, the out DPS killed me
Ele meta is the same as last year (at least I think so), cleric auramancer. Which means that we cannot kill a baby hamster (unless we can heal it to death somehow). And it is by far one of the most BORING builds to play. 1 vs 1 it depends who has the node. If I have it, the opponent just leaves. If the opponent has it, I leave… but the best thing is when 2 eles are fighting each other. After a couple of minutes one just /dance or /sleep…

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Jaher Dal.9503:

I miss the moaning lady from DR… lol

I heard some moaning in DR few weeks ago. Like real porn tier moaning added to background sound channel. Shame that I can’t recall where exactly it was.

THIS!!! Omg this!!! I thought I left a browser on a porn site when I heard it! Which could not happen because I never visits those sites… kappa

just my 2 cents here

The pact managed to kill one of the greatest dragons, the dragon of Death, Zhaitan. Not long after that, they attacked an even more powerful dragon, Mordremoth, and though they faced obliteration they managed to win. So we already have 2 of the elder dragons slain and their killers are crippled (lost almost all the fleet). Why would the other Elder dragons just wait to be attacked?
I mean, if they are not total morons, why wouldn’t they make a short alliance and utterly destroy their would-be killers in a few days if not even hours? OK, let us accept that dragons won’t make an alliance because “reasons”. Let’s just speak for Karkal… Krlkaa… the Shatterer’s boss. I mean, HELLO, they are already pwning your lieutenant, probably coming for you afterwards, they are in the brink of annihilation from Mordremoth and you just sit there waiting for them to attack???? Are you the dragon of kitten ness or something?
In all seriousness (lol), Jormag should just make a phone call to the others, even skype them
J : “yo dudes, those lesser races already wtfpwnt two of our kind, I mean we are only 4 left, shouldn’t we, I don’t know, unite and froze them to death or whatever in a single attack?”
K : “Frosty here may have a point, my lieutenant is farmed daily for achievements kitten , I say let’s go for a beer, eat their sheep and blight the hell out of them, in whatever order you want”
P : “I am in for the kill, Jormag just stay away from me during the attack, sorry dude you give me the chills”
J : “Can do that. What do you say Bubbles?”
B : “dooooboooolooooooooo”
J : “I’ll take that as a yes. LETS GO AND DEMOLISH THEM”

Random guard at Claw island : “omg dragons, lets light theAARRRRGHHHHHHH” (dies in moments)
Random guard at Lion’s Arch : “where did the sun go, kitten that tv-tempest who said today will be a sunny day. Wait, the clouds are movAAAAAAAAAAAARGGG” (yeah)
Pact leaders : “OMG we have reports the dragons are attacking, raise the fleet!!! oh wait…”
Commander : “… at last”

you get the point (I am bored) :P

I don’t know if this still valid, but every fort’s first defense (or clearance? can’t remember) for a new cycle has 100% to drop a shovel. This is how we used to start a cf before HoT. The whole zerk run to the forts one by one and got more than 100 shovels in a few minutes.

Faux Play.6104:

Elementalists that try to dps on a heal build are the worst.

Guilty as charged
I tried to open the door to the lord in Foefire, wtf was I thinking… (magi amulet)

I main a staff Tempest. I am not meta material (I mean d/f) and not a very good player (diamond 2nd tier) so I don’t know how much my opinion counts, but I’ve found that many revenants tear me apart in 1 vs 1. Some good necros too. But usually if I cap a point I cannot lose it in 1 vs 1 from other classes. At least staff helps me actually kill some classes

thank you all for your answers!
I am getting so owned with d/f… because ofc I don’t have enough playtime. Still can’t stay alive when focused. With staff I cast earth 2, switch to water, cast 3 and 5. So I am already getting healed by 3 and usually 5 get blasted so even more healing.
And seriously fire 5 OWNS, if you have the time to cast it. It gets all over the capping point, they want it, they have to get inside. I bruise them enough for the teammates to get them down.
But focus earth 5 is probably the best skill there is. Certain stomp. Keep trying to master it, I guess

Don’t let them get you down. Staff Ele rocks in PVP (for me at least, can’t seem to handle d/f)!
you just have to adopt… in PVE you are doing massive damage, in PVP you won’t be able to kill a baby raccoon playing as an auramancer with cleric amulet (current meta).
If you go full zerk in PVP as I did at first, boy you are in for a surprise

please address this issue. Happens to me at almost every game! (elementalist btw)

Thank you for your answers!
so focus 4 is better for the condition cleanse I guess, because the shield can be achieved with staff earth 3 also. Actually, from what I get, focus is preferable mostly for the two earth skills (which are amazing ofc). I’ll try and give it one more shot, I’ll just have to remember to not switch to water :P.

Hello fellow elementalists!
first time I open a topic, sorry in advance if the subject has already been discussed, couldn’t find anything at least for the current pvp meta. So, like almost everyone, I play an auramancer in PVP with cleric runes. I main an ele for more than a year now and I play only staff, fell in love with it at first sight :P.

I see that most people prefer d/f over staff for the job. May I ask the reasons? I tried d/f in PVE just to get the hang of it and I switched to water to get some healing and I was like WTF do I press now? Where are the water fields ZOMG aaaaaand waypoint

I understand that earth 5 is amazing in focus, but can someone please find some time to explain to the noob guy in details why d/f is better than staff in PVP?

thanks in advance and sorry for any mistakes, english is not my first language.

Well, I have the 64bit client
just as we killed Mordy yesterday there was a massive d/c, at least 5 people including me. Reconnected, I was in another instance (empty) of the map. Join squad’s map, there was a new build and the game restarted…

I was actually laughing from anger :P. Couldn’t even get the final chest… Kitten happens I guess, but I had this freaking map reset on me numerous times in the past, always at the dragon fight. Please at least acknowledge the issue.

I started farming the JP some days ago. I don’t have much spare time but I do enjoy jumping puzzles, specially those that last a few minutes. So after a while I kinda mastered it, having 15-16 successes in half an hour. Yesterday I was jumping in auto-braindead-mode for a full hour and then another round started. Got a successful run and afterwards I just jumped from a snowflake into the void. I was like wtf has just happened. Started another run and totally missed a jump, didn’t even press spacebar. My brain send the command, my fingers said HELL NO :P

tl;dr
this is bad for health, go out and spend time with friends and family. Best wishes!

Fix this thing already… for those with slow PCs it takes a couple of minutes for the DR screen to load, its infuriating. And I want to get in so as to fall various times to invisible snowballs and get more infuriated!! :P

Siobhan.5273:

Excelvior.8520:

The master of elemental arts channels the fire element around his hands and releases all the arcane energy in the form of… a tennis ball.

GG!

whenever I use autoattack I expect a mob to wield a racket and return it to me

I gave you a +1, and my heart.

awwwwww thank you so much <3 :P

The master of elemental arts channels the fire element around his hands and releases all the arcane energy in the form of… a tennis ball.

GG!

whenever I use autoattack I expect a mob to wield a racket and return it to me

same here, multiple times, game unplayable

Retsuko.2035:

I fixed my crashing problem so far it seems by updating my computer from vista 32 bit to 8.1 64 bit. It’s even much better then ever before… (made me wish i updated it sooner). Luckily I was able to get a newer windows version, but i’m sure there’s people who are not in a position to do so. So it’s still a shame that the game runs pretty badly on 32 bit OS systems.

Exactly this. For those who are on a 32bit windows system, there is no workaround. I too had to format and reinstall 64bit version of windows 7, now the game does not crash and is WAY better than before. Still there is memory leakage though, something that the devs should look about.

Mizuki Kusanagi.6584:

+1 for regular crashes.

GW2 used to crash intermittently (maybe after 4-5 hours time), now I feel lucky if I can get 30 minutes in HoT

How are we supposed to play group content when we can;’t be sure of remaining in the game?

Not fit for purpose

exactly the same!
the game, specially in HoT maps is unplayable, I am getting crashes every 5 minutes!