Guild Wars 2

Galbar.7843:

Daecollo.9578:

The only way to play Ele is to cycle through all 4 attunements and manage them.

A lot of people can’t do that, but as I stress… it is THE ONLY WAY to play Ele right now.

There is no playstyle or other way.

Why would you not want to use all of the attunements?? It’s like underusing the class, it’s like not using the weapon swap with other classes… It is what make the ele unique!

Ask J.Sharp, he said on a live stream that most elementalists only use 1-2 attunements….

Oddly, soloing camps is easy on a D/D Ele.
Pick the right spot behind orchard, up against the wall & fence & whilst keeping target on the main guard, you can take them all on at once.

Admittedly, it gets very close at times.

Mill & Quarry has a spot where you can pull them all too, with the advantage you`re not having to fight things you can`t see due to the stupid trees at orchard

As for fighting players, you can splatter some, but more often then not any half competent player can just stun lock/fear/root you to death in seconds if you`ve no cds to spare.

EDIT: Clerics gear?
HA, you`ll die before you even get to the zerg ;p

WvWs is only easy access to craft stations now.
I did sit in eb jp for couple hours the other night, but seeing as for some kittened reason the buff is in there too, that was mostly me akitteng.

Now I`m alt tabbed sat at the boring world bosses auto attacking to get a months worth of WvWs loot in a few minutes, then alt tabbing until the next one is due.

/boooooooooooooooring!

Carter said they`d wait seven weeks to see how things went.
Don`t expect any sensible hot patches any time soon, or at all..

http://www.ultraimg.com/images/9KU2V.gif

Getting rid of the incompetent devs & hiring some monkeys to take their place would be a great start.

But like the one above said, Warriors cried & got a reply on the same page (within two posts if I recall).

http://taugrim.com/2011/04/07/guide-to-strafing-movement-and-keybindings/

Lordrosicky.5813:

10, Ele burst – too high, should be brought down. Promotes macroing and even more cheese. Solution to making ele viable isnt to give it cheese.

First off, wrong, just wrong.
Even if going GC some other classes/builds can do much more then an Ele & then some.
That combined with you only have to glance at GC ele & it is dead.

Secondly, mention weapon set next time, as I assume you mean S/?, but others may think you mean the lesser weapons.

Faux.1937:

GW1 HUD best Ive seen in any MMO (not game but MMO) and they should have kept it that way, It was the very 1st thing I did when i got the game and I sent 20+ emails to them about it b.c it is a very important feature IMO that should have been added from the start.

^ this a thousand times.
If they remain adamant they don`t want us using mods, they have to make the ui alterable by default.
Every bit of it, not just 1-3 pieces.

Mbelch.9028:

Justin, it’s illegal to link them, however, google “October 15 Leaked Patch notes” you’ll find them.

It isn`t “illegal” in the least.
Sure, it may end up with a thread, post deletion etc because the mods/devs don`t like it, but there is no law against it.

When they tried inviting me into party, it alternated between showing their server & then flashing their character name.

Seriously?
Bad enough you put this kittened thing in the game at all…
/PTR

For some reason, you failed to put a repair vendor inside the jp.

/PTR!

Also make the Stow keybindable.
Just shocking that this isn`t already..

on Underworld gets to golem breaking & bugs out, sod all happens.

Cleansing Fire still doesn`t remove the DoTs.

timidobserver.7925:

There is this one dev on TC that turns on his Anet tag and then rocks people that try to solo him. He plays a thief.

Surprise surprise, they don`t have the balls to play a balanced class ;p

First of many times this firm has kitten ed me off started with…..

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.263475010422947.40701.218705271566588&type=3

If only there was a way to get rid of that crap without me having to do the fight…..

<— Looking for duels also.

Came on tonight but no one in the usual spot on either map.
Will try again tomorrow.

Is there a preference for a set map to make things easier or random?
All in one spot makes for more duels more fun less pvd kittene ;p

Done Fire elemental today & cleansing fire doesn`t remove the burning.

/PTR

GankSinatra.2653:

Useless little laurel on the wall,
Who is the poorest of them all?
I am, I am!

Brilliant, that should be your sig

Ah, wondered why loads did that today & even some mid fight.
Had assumed the lag/server dcs were back en masse.

Either way, it`s an advantage to me as I`m flat against the stupid bloodlust debackle in every form & added bonuses, I get to loot from time to time & quickly get to my next kill/death without having to pratt about downing some nooblet

“Why doesn’t Outnumbered increase stats?”

Because that would take common sense, foresight &/or reading the dozens of threads pointing out how idiotic giving the winning zervers even more of a buff, which the devs have decided to completely ignore.

Laurels get you nothing from what I recall, unless you enter the PvE side of things.
Folk want good PvP rewards for doing PvP & some folk, despite its lack of variety/<cough> anything good, still only do spvp & nothing else.

Don`t know about you, but I run my bank alt ranger with shortbow & GS & GS is perfectly fine as it is.
Yes it is easily telegraphed, but you don`t think RTL is? lol
Yes GS you can be chilled/feared/interrupted, so what?

RTL can be mesmer line/guardian wall/ranger longbow knocked back etc etc, but at least when GS is chilled etc, you can still use your utils, main spells.

Ele in RTL can`t do kitten or even cancel it.

kitten, even a pebble on the ground can kitten the Ele over.

Combine that with them being melee only & RTL is the closest to reliable catch up spell they have, ranger definitely has it better.

Feel free to peruse the rest of the Ele forum, it is all listed there in plain sight.

In a game which they advertised for months/years on end of not requiring a healer or tank, sticking ele as support just sucks balls.

Never played healer/tank in any game, didn`t want to in a game that isn`t meant to have them either.

If they really want to make ele only support, they`re kittening the class over enough to make it not even good enough for that.

To go support, you can`t play heal builds/gear, because you`ll still be 1-3 shot by most other classes & having to rely on other players/pugs to keep ressing you is just a waste of time, meaning you`re just as useless as ever & should be using a guardian instead.

Plus they`re page states: “What they lack in physical toughness, they make up in versatility and the ability to inflict massive damage in a single attack.”

We all know that is bullkitten &/or they mistook the class for thief.
So either they up our damage or up our base hp/armours etc.

Also, even if they do that, you`ll still be one of the slowest classes with no weapon swap, which every other class can do much better.

Better idea.

Log in on whatever day is decided, set auto run whilst running into some wall in keep/garrison etc.

Alt tab & play a balanced game where devs aren`t completely clueless.

Ye gads, it just gets worse & worse…..

We can check the map for this, we don`t need the kitten permanently on the screen.

Anets incompetence strikes again.

I remember the good old days of Wintergrasp, where Horde heavily outmanned Alliance on our dead server & ActiBlizz gave the outmanned players the buff, giving them a standing chance whereas they`d of just been white washed before the buffs.

But oh noes, anet decides let the heavily over populated servers have yet another helping hand via a huge buff to kitten over the other servers even more.

Wow, just wow.

Can`t say I`m remotely surprised though.

We all said/warned before release this`d happen, but they happily ignored the obvious, as per usual….

I read the patch ntoes, that didn`t mention sod all about making it scaleable like it used to be.

is now plastered permanently on the screen, regardless of what zone I`m in.

This bullkitten about minimal ui game is beyond a joke & false advertising.

Check sig, we don`t need this bloatware, give us an option to turn it off.

Sheer incompetence strikes again.

Test this kitten, the friends list is now way over sized for what it used to be & lfg isn`t even active for most players.

Revert this crap now!

Well, judging by the Tequatl stuck permanently on the screen now, looks like anets incompetence is going full time.

/facepalmdeskfloor

Pandev.4981:

It’s so annoying to see people playing by clicking. My eyes stay focused on mouse arrow, lol.

btw nice video!

Nice to be able to see the cursor, never get to see mine when I play ;p

If you don`t/can`t play with keyboard, perhaps shrink your UI, it`d help massively seeing as the tooltips block a whole chunk of the screen.

Ranger is ridiculously easy to play, I mean beyond easy & then some.

Sure, ele can be tricky, but only thing that makes it harder is all the stupid nerfs they constantly receive.

According to Sharp on the live stream, most ele only use 1-2 attunements anyway.

Yes, he probably meant PvE ele only & even then a small sub set of the ele players, but I`d guess most do swap & have to to do half as well as every other class.

Leave the attunements as they are (or across the board lower cds).

Dagger & off hand was also best in warcraft, not staff, because the two items gave better stats then a single staff. Used to make me cringe to see others using staff in pvp

Even more so once you add two enchantments.

Completely agree though.
But considering the mindset/state of this games balancing team, it`ll only turn out bad if/when they give us more options…

/places bet

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Forum Buddhist quote of the month.

Same old argument though.

Why should RTL be an extended cd on a miss or block when every other profession can move faster over shorter distance & on a lower cd, with no cd increases when they miss?

Laken.4056:

Uhg. Ok I am sorry but this needs to be said.

Firstly, elementalist is not your typical MMO style mage. I honestly consider it a battle mage of sorts. You will never get away playing a single element as an elementalist. Its just not how the class works. In order to successfully play ele you need to learn to swap and use your combo barriers. If yo want a single element mage; go play rift or wow.

Second, if you are specing into full assault. Yes, you will be squishy beyond reason in pvp. Its the sacrifice for maxing out burst to be so high. Cantrip builds are absolutley superior survivability in this game as an ele. The healing power we are cabable of is nuts. Which really goes back into my first point of attun swapping. Simply swapping to water is a 2.5k heal+another 2k regen. Not counting all the defensive 33% shields we get. You can even spec into an additional arcane shield that auto procs at25%…

Third, do research before making false claims. If I had come to the forums first to check the state on elementalist. I would have never rolled one with the amount of crying on how bad they are. Luckily, I youtubed videos and came upon a player named “excala” who is absolutley amazing. Even gives guides along with high quality WvW and Spvp (non zerg)

Finally, learn your class. Stop being scrubby and constantly crying. Ele does fine when played properly. Its about managing all the stuff you get as an ele and using it at the right times. High skill ceiling is fun, ele is where its at.

Did you see their latest youtube post?

It is just the same as the ones before all the nerfs, they were running around winding up the enemy, but not doing much else.

The thing anet seem to forget is that these clips they are running against noobs & ye gads, the ones in the latest clip were the worst.

How many times did they get stunned, immob`d etc?
tbh that clip almost looked like a set up to me lol

“Cantrip builds are absolutley superior survivability in this game as an ele”

As an ele cantrip builds may be good, but they are still sod all compared to what other tanky builds can bring.
Also the other classes are inherently better dps then ele, even more so when to survive an ele has to put full arcane & water, leaving sod all else points wise just about.

As for saying about swapping attunements, all those in pvp do, or those that don`t constantly die & re roll, the only ones that don`t are those in pve that the devs watch & comment about that.

I stick them all on the TP.
If I delete them, nothing happens.
If I open them (via the rare key drops), I get crap.
If I TP them, it wastes anets storage having to keep them logged on there for eternity, as a reminder of how crap these are >;p

Did you see the last SOTG?
Made me /facepalm at one point.

They said they thought Ele were in an okay state, & at another they said Guardians struggle to survive.

Point blank proof of sheer cluelessness lol

Along with that melee instant speed (as opposed to Ele slowly building speed up) you can also trait for speed on crits, so when you have ranged weapon equipped, added instant speed, courtesy of critters etc which they can hit from range, whereas we have to RTL/melee into them.

Another bonus, they can trait (bottom line) to weapon swap every four seconds, also boosting their damage bar even faster.

Remind me, why do we even bother?…..

Senjun.8149:

I almost wonder if its a tactic. They nerf one profession to the ground to make players feel forced to raise another one.

They make more money the more you play.

Does that work though?

Personally, I can`t stand playing alts (gw2 is the only game I`ve felt forced to) yet I still main my Ele. but because of the nerfs/awful bgs etc it just makes me realise the firm is at best bad/clueless & won`t improve, therefore I refuse to give them any monies.

As luck would have it, what they would of gained if they had done things right is sitting in the bank awating Wild Star release & possibly EQ, along with some good single & co-op games

In a game where there was meant to be no dedicated healers or tanks, Ele had to strictly go both options just to survive, therefore making killing things a kitten load slower to boot.

A: Nope, I don`t think it`ll ever get fixed & therefore…
B: It is a core problem of this game, not the players.

P.S. I didn`t play tank or healer in Aion, Guild Wars, warcraft or any other game & yet in gw2 we`re forced to & even then, those tank/heal abilities get nerfed whack-a-mole™© style.

silvermember.8941:

Obviously, the OP is assuming Anet deleted the Elementalist.

Shh, don`t give them any ideas (although they probably half way to it anyway…)

in WvWs, seen a few folk with tags, but myself & lot of others aren`t being tag/displayed (on Underworld borders)

P.S. Lag is brokenly awful, any fixes inc?

jportell.2197:

Ranger is still on more teams than mes/ele. The game has 8 classes nt 6

^ This.

Whilst I think all the maps are tedious small rats mazes, I`d like to do some pvp some time this year on my Ele & not be just a waste of a player slot.

What use is the trap when thief has highest mobility in the game.
Gets stuck with stealth debuff, just IA or 2 spam out of range & /laugh

P.S. Got one of those in bag, random drop (wouldn`t waste my time/coins to buy one) & I know it`s still a waste of a bag slot.

Well, finally managed to get a dagger for my ele ttoday, celestial wupwup (Three Stooges anyone) & holy crap, the damage done is easily noticeable.

True, I`m not doing kittened damage like thief scum can, but compared to my bog standard celestial 2*daggers it is huge.

I`d look forward to a second dagger, but with the crap loot rates in wvws & time gating…..