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My take on this, I think we gained two builds, gained another option or two with a couple builds, and a couple builds (d/d specifically) will have to adapt.

We’ve had a few awesome tryouts and will probably be making a decision by the end of the week. So, if you’d like to join a great group of four destined for greatness (or somethin like that) talk to me in game!

If I remember correctly, it used to have a shorter cooldown. However, the Earth storm is VERY strong. It basically got the entire spell nerfed.

Aiden Frost
Frostedblaze.9017
Rank 23

And here is how I look normally

I converted the new dragon helm I got into a PvP helm. However, when I put it on, it takes my facial hair away =(

Hey thanks a lot Sky. I had a lot of fun playing with you guys last week. If you ever need another for a scrim or anything, please feel free to hit me up!

Actively Procrastinating [LOST] is looking for a 5th tournament ready member to add to our team. The four of us have been playing for quite a while and have had some success. We’re looking for a mid point bunker to round out our team.

Our preferred class would be a Guardian or an Engineer. However, if you believe that you can bring the control and survivabilty as another class, feel free to let me know.

We usually practice from 9:30 PM to 2 AM EST (roughly).

Teamspeak 3 is required, and you must have and use your mic. Communication is very important. If you’re not good at it, then we will probably look elsewhere.

If you’re interested in trying out for the team, please contact me in game or on the forums.

The wings drop from the world. Enough of them have dropped to push the price down to around 20g on the TP. These aren’t meant to be for EVERYBODY. The shattered wings are. Honestly, you can make 20g pretty quickly farming the coffers for this event

Kjendar.6459:

Now I have played GW2 since beta and it seems that the community has come down to who zergs who. All parts of the game have resorted to this in spvp you get ran down by 8 people or wvw where they have 60 man zergs. In dragon ball I have been spawned camp by people where the other team gets all the buffs then just stand there picking you of as you come out.

You should try to get into tPvP. If you run with a coordinated team, you will not lose to a zerging team.

Also, I agree dragonball is a zerg fest. You could beat it if your team was coordinated, but you can’t even join the matches as a group. What gives?

Naii.9810:

How important is precision if you don’t have a lot of crit dmg? Kind of stuck between knights and soldiers stats.

Precision is less popular in D/D builds because of our near-constant fury uptime.

Hey everyone, I’m Aiden Frost from the SOAC Attunement Swap podcast. Zoose and I are looking for a skilled PvE or WvW focused Elementalist to join us this Friday at 4PM EST (1PM PST).

What exactly are we looking for? A skilled Ele willing to talk with us about PvE or WvW for about an hour or so. If you run high level fractals or have a popular build guide posted on the forums, it’d be a plus. If you’re interested, contact me in game (my ign is over there <<<<)

Are you interested in getting on the podcast but unable to make it this week? Contact me in game, we’re always looking for guests for future shows.

Ptolomy.6984:

well lets hope they’ll make it up with some useful fixes and maybe buffs next patch
altho buffs is a dream that will prob never happen in the near future sigh

What do you think they should buff? We’re already one of the strongest classes in PvP and very solid in WvW and PvE.

If you want, you can contact me in game (ign is on the left <<<) and I’ll give you a hand. There’s just a lot of questions to be asked, and it’d be easier to do it in game.

Theyre trying to farm matches. It’d be real dumb to farm taffy through dragon ball. Either way, it’s annoying as hell to deal with.

In my opinion, mist form is required if you want to be utility. If a player gets downed in a long term aoe field, mist form rez is one of the only ways to keep them alive.

Not entirely related, but just a nice tip that some people may not know. You can switch attunements part way through a casted spell. This not only lets you get through your attunements quicker, but also lets you take advantage of traits (Switch to Air part way through your Fire Grab cast to take advantage of Air Training) and take advantage of fury (granted on attunement switch with 5 points in arcana.)

Are you looking for PvP or PvE?

My biggest problem with conjured weapons right now (in both PvE and PvP) is that when kitten hits the fan, you have to drop the conjured weapon to get most of your control/ healing back. By the time things get settled down again, you see some bully whirling around with the other Fiery Greatsword you conjured.

I think it’d be great if conjured weapons acted as an elementalists second weapon. When the weapon was conjured, you could weapon swap back to your original weapon set. The weapon swap would go on a 9~10 seconds cooldown (like all other classes) before you could swap back to the conjured weapon. The conjured weapon would still stick around for the same amount of time as it did before (roughly 60 seconds I think?)

This would let elementalists keep some of their versatility when using a conjured weapon. It would also let us use our conjured weapons as attack combos. Image being able to throw out a ring of fire, swap back to your greatsword, and use a whirl finisher.

Obviously, some balance changes might have to be made to the conjured weapons, and multiple conjured weapons would have to be looked at. I think this would be a fun change for elementalists.

Loyo.8526:

Not having fun, but only because my class gets teh shaft in balance. In competitive PvP, I hardly feel like I have the ability to compete on Necromancer. I loved it when I was playing Mesmer and ranger, but gosh is it too frustrating to play Necromancer to bother.

Necromancer can actually be very useful and viable on a structured team. However, in hot join or solo queue it can be very frustrating right now. I’d suggest looking for a group of players you can play with regularly. It should make things a bit easier for ya until necro gets some things fixed (which should be soon, Anet agrees that they have a slight issue. Also, just be glad your not a warrior =P)

LightningBlaze.4913:

All you need to know is that bunker builds still are the best for spvp/tpvp. Burst builds are more like average dps glass cannon type builds = useless. This feature is completely broken and that’s why you don’t see many true pvpers (other than those that enjoy annoying another player/s with being bunker) participating in spvp/tpvp. You will only find really good players with various type of builds per profession if you roam in wvw.

I’m sorry but statement is completely false. There’s plenty of skilled players running damage builds in tPvP. Elementalists can land a 10k fire grab with the right 0/20/0/20/30 s/d build.

Thieves arent even that good in sPvP. I think thieves stealth needs to be reworked in WvW, however.

ozzero.3892:

Its thief! This class is design to have stealth. In wow rouges have infinite stealth and no one is crying, and this is SPVP forum ye? and all maps are conquest in stealth you can’t cap points so why its OP? if u take away stealth from thief how the hell he can put dmg to you?
one more thing shadow refuge isnt op as long as u have aoe dmg/fear/5 skill on mesmer GS/mele auto attack(watch the animation)

To be fair, in WoW if the stealthed thief was attacked they came out of stealth. And the thief only had one long cooldown spell that put them in stealth while in combat. Not a great example there.

However, i dont think there’s any problem with stealth right now in sPvP. I DO think there’s a problem with stealth in WvW.

Just wanted to pop in and say good luck to you guys. I think your teams going to surprise people in the upcoming SOAC tourney

-Aiden Frost

Razor.6392:

Gotta burst him down, that’s the only way. And that will only work if the thief is average. A good thief is unbelievably hard to fight.

And as a sad PVT hurr durr ele you won’t even dream of killing a thief.

Whats wrong with PVT?

Blaine Tog.8304:

eldain stenlund.4306:

The same Innovative feeling is why they have made DD stronger than staff.

Here’s your false assumption. Anet didn’t do anything of the sort. They tried to make the profession to have as many options as they could, and then the player base discovered that D/D 0/10/0/30/30 was a really really strong way to play the Ele. It wasn’t like that for a really long time. For the first few months of the game, everyone was running Staff or S/D, and then we found the D/D cantrip build. Most professions have a similar thing going on right now, where one apex build is dominating all the others because of what players have discovered.

I think the next few balance patches are going to be very interesting for the Ele. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few new builds become more viable in more places.

And honestly, this is silly. We as a playerbase have chosen to min/max. There’s plenty of other viable builds. But, we all want to use the “best” one. Well, there will ALWAYS be a best build. It’s impossible to completely balance everything.

Chaosky.5276:

Frostedblaze.9017:

Chaosky.5276:

Meh, two are extremely similar, and I know scepter/dagger burst is used in high level play, but as far as burst damage goes, it’s pretty lackluster compared to other classes. (Static Discharge engi, dagger/dagger necro, etc.)

Necros are terrible in PvP. They might have some decent burst, but they have no survivability. A burst ele can still survive very well. A burst s/d ele still has 20 points in water, heals every time they switch to water, 2 healing weapon abilities, PLUS our normal heal. And it’s great burst if you’re able to land it all. fire 2, 4, 3+ Earth Swap Arcane Wave Earth 4+ Air swap Air 2 is pretty much a 1 shot combo that gives your entire party 12 stacks of might for 20 seconds.

Well, if your team can prevent the ele from taking 1325.5 damage, then yes, s/d burst eles are pretty good.
I admit, I don’t know nor care much about tPvP (I’m really only concerned with duels and WvW), so if you say they’re worth taking for burst damage over any other class, I’ll take your word for it. Perhaps the roles in tPvP are why you say aurashare plays so differently from a bunker, as well.

The Burst Ele still has great survivability. We still spec 20 points into water and 30 into arcane, so we have plenty of heals and regen. With good positioning, staying alive isnt a problem. The burst isn’t quite that of a thief or a shatter mesmer, but we really do have a one kitten combo, it’s just tough to land.

Aura share builds generally focus on 100% fury and swiftness uptime for the entire party. To do this, they use the two auras that can be cast, as well as magentic leap through ring of fire. Mixing this with boon uptime runes lead to a very well balanced support build. The build can still put out solid damage, as well as hold down a point until helps arrive. They also have the movement of a typical dagger ele. The d/d aura build is probably the truest jack-of-all-trades build in the game.

Sometimes, I love solo roaming on my Ele. I enjoy taking supply camps, setting up an arrow cart, and messing with the zerg when they try to come by. However, I really struggle with thieves, and I don’t know what to do about it. They come in and harass me 1v1, and if it looks like I’m about to kill them, they stealth and run away. No matter how much control, aoe, etc I put down on where they stealth, they still manage to get away. Then, when they’re healed up, they come back and do it all again.

I really need general tips on how to kill thieves.

Chaosky.5276:

Frostedblaze.9017:

Chaosky.5276:

Frostedblaze.9017:

The Ele probably has more viable builds than any other class. Not sure where you’re coming from with this.

wat

I’d say we have three builds. While they each take similar traits, they’re very fundamentally different.

We have the d/d 0/10/0/30/30 Aura share build which is great for support with decent damage and survivability, the 0/20/0/20/30 s/d burst build, and the 0/0/10/30/30 s/d (or occasionally d/d) back point defense/ bunkery build.

The traits are similar, but the builds play VERY different. And those are just the builds viable at high levels(all of these have been seen in recent tourneys.)

Meh, two are extremely similar, and I know scepter/dagger burst is used in high level play, but as far as burst damage goes, it’s pretty lackluster compared to other classes. (Static Discharge engi, dagger/dagger necro, etc.)

Necros are terrible in PvP. They might have some decent burst, but they have no survivability. A burst ele can still survive very well. A burst s/d ele still has 20 points in water, heals every time they switch to water, 2 healing weapon abilities, PLUS our normal heal. And it’s great burst if you’re able to land it all. fire 2, 4, 3+ Earth Swap Arcane Wave Earth 4+ Air swap Air 2 is pretty much a 1 shot combo that gives your entire party 12 stacks of might for 20 seconds.

Arheundel.6451:

Frostedblaze.9017:

Chaosky.5276:

Frostedblaze.9017:

The Ele probably has more viable builds than any other class. Not sure where you’re coming from with this.

wat

I’d say we have three builds. While they each take similar traits, they’re very fundamentally different.

We have the d/d 0/10/0/30/30 Aura share build which is great for support with decent damage and survivability, the 0/20/0/20/30 s/d burst build, and the 0/0/10/30/30 s/d (or occasionally d/d) back point defense/ bunkery build.

The traits are similar, but the builds play VERY different. And those are just the builds viable at high levels(all of these have been seen in recent tourneys.)

We have loads more options than most other classes just because of the way our class is designed, with versatility in mind.

However, I do agree that our fire trait line is pretty garbage, as well as earth past the original 10 points (though I do think Rock Solid is underrated, but that’s a different story.) But we have a lot more options than most other classes do right now.

No offense but..are you kittening serious?
When it was last time you saw an ele using signet of fire and not laugh your lungs off?

Ele got more options than other classes? Pls dude give me a kittening break..truly I mean no disrespect, but this one of the most absurd things I ever read lately on this forum, I can go now and randomly pick 100 eles and they will all run the same traits and utilities, same exact build and you’re telling us that ele got more options than other profession?!…pls stop with this bullkitten!

P.S pls explain us how a d/d aurashare and “normal” d/d ele differ from each other, a single trait change the whole playstyle? really? no I mean REALLY? or how 0/20/0/20/30 is any different from the normal 0/10/0/30/30..same traits and utilities

I said s/d burst, s/d bunker, and d/d aura share. Three viable builds that all play very differently. The traits may be similar, but the runes/sigils/ weapons create a completely different playstyle.

Here are the builds from the last NA tournament : http://www.reddit.com/r/gw2esports/comments/1f4m43/builds_used_in_mmorpg_guild_wars_2_na_invitational/

Every mesmer ran some variation of 20/20/0/0/30. Every Ranger ran beastmastery. Every Guardian but one ran mid point bunker. They all had the same exact playstyle, just a slightly different way of going around it. We have 3 different pvp playstyles.

oZii.2864:

Well I would put in a vote for Daphoenix as I am sure many others would awesome stuff. I listen to mesmerized as well.

We would love to get Daphoenix on the podcast, and I’m sure we will (if he’s interested of course) very soon. I use a slightly tweaked version of his d/d build in PVE and WvW.

Chaosky.5276:

Frostedblaze.9017:

The Ele probably has more viable builds than any other class. Not sure where you’re coming from with this.

wat

I’d say we have three builds. While they each take similar traits, they’re very fundamentally different.

We have the d/d 0/10/0/30/30 Aura share build which is great for support with decent damage and survivability, the 0/20/0/20/30 s/d burst build, and the 0/0/10/30/30 s/d (or occasionally d/d) back point defense/ bunkery build.

The traits are similar, but the builds play VERY different. And those are just the builds viable at high levels(all of these have been seen in recent tourneys.)

We have loads more options than most other classes just because of the way our class is designed, with versatility in mind.

However, I do agree that our fire trait line is pretty garbage, as well as earth past the original 10 points (though I do think Rock Solid is underrated, but that’s a different story.) But we have a lot more options than most other classes do right now.

Solo.9027:

Passive: 15% boon duration
Active: All attunements are recharged
60 second cooldown, instant cast

or

Passive: 30% attunement recharge
Active: Grant all boons for 5 seconds
75 second cooldown, 1 second cast

Seems balanced to me and it would free elementalists from being forced into heavy arcane investment depending on how it is implemented. I wanted to include a stun break but I highly doubt we will ever see those on non-cantrips at this point.

What do you think?

I swear I came up with this exact concept on Reddit ( http://www.reddit.com/r/gw2esports/comments/1fab39/daily_discussion_529_viability_of_elites_in/ca8cd8m) a few days ago =P

“Finally, I think it’d be neat if a future Elementalist Elite was made based around attunement swapping. The passive would decrease the attunement recharge rate, and the active would take all your attunements off cooldowns. This would give Eles the option NOT to spec deep into Arcane for the (essentially) required cooldown reduction.”

I have to say, I think it’d be great. The only problem is that it’d be very tough to balance. It’d also make that trait just as essential as 30 arcane is now. (But it would give us more options, which is always nice.) Also, I think the recharge rate on the signet would have to be lower. Like 30 seconds max. And the Earth Trait Written in Stone would have to be considered as well.

PinCushion.7390:

Fishbait.6723:

Yeah, only time Ele` got a mention was Zoosee saying they have really good heals over ten seconds.

Shame that a thief can remove your hp in 1-3 ;p

Yeah, I LOLed. Ele is fine because we have great heals in one build. Ah, well. I guess having one viable build in tPvP is better than having zero (Warrior).

The Ele probably has more viable builds than any other class. Not sure where you’re coming from with this.

I like AOE the way it is. It keeps every player from stacking on the point, making it slightly easier to decap.

Ezrael.6859:

When I read about this in the patch notes I thought it would make all the characters on the winning team do the cheering animation.

I think that would be much better, for them all to become immune to damage and do the cheering animation upon victory in a match.

Rather than the PvE quest completion shield appearing across our screens.

I want an ending animation like Team Fortress 2 where you become Overcharged and run around and roflstomp everyone you just beat.

Player looking for a team

Ingame name: Aiden Frost

Main Class / Potential Classes (Incase team requires): Elementalist. I’m best with 0/20/0/20/30 S/D damage dealer, 0/10/0/30/30 D/D Aura share, and a couple defensive back point-defense builds. However, I have a great understanding of the class, and can step into any role/ play any build well.

Region: NA

Practice Times: Sun- Thurs 9:30 PM – 4 AM EST

Experience: Played in the SOAC profession tournament. Have played free tourney matches with some pro players.

Other (Anything else that you would like to add): I know the Elementalist class as well as anyone out there. I enjoy theorycrafting new builds to fit specific situations. I’m a great communicator in matches. I’m looking for a team that wants to put in some time to be solid performers and compete in some upcoming tournaments.

If you want to try me out/ talk/ whatever, please contact me in game.

New team looking for players

Team name: to be decided

Region: US

Classes I’m looking for:

Bunker Guardian- Unless you believe you can bunker better than a guardian

Someone who excels as a far point assaulter- could be a thief, ele, ranger, whatever. If you feel you can harass the far point and pull people away from the mid fight, then I want you.

Our point defender- Would prefer a mesmer, engi, or ranger. However, if you love locking down the near point, then let me know

Roamer/ team fighter- Pretty self explanatory, either someone comfortable roaming or someone with heavy team fight support.

Practice Times: Probably later in the evening/night US time. Let me know what works for you.

Other: I’m looking for a group of four skilled players willing to dedicate some time to playing together. It would be ideal to practice together 3 nights a week, for 2+ hours a night. Some sort of voice chat is required. Be skilled, be dedicated, but be ready to have a lot of fun as well. Please contact me via in game mail (my name is on the side over there <<<<< ) if you’re interested.

Ashley Segovia.8276:

Hi Frostedblaze – It looks like you have quite a bit of packet loss en route to our game servers. Because of this, I’d recommend getting into contact with your ISP to see if they can help you out. Aside from this, you can try a proxy service to see if this improves your connection at all. Keep in mind though that the use of proxies are not supported, though they’re certainly allowed for player use.

Lastly, I might also suggest Msconfig to cut down on some of your background apps. If anything this should improve performance for you at least a little.

Would the problem be fixed if I switched to a wired connection? Because that would be a possibly for a small fee.

Here’s my game adviser file:

I just moved to a new apartment for the summer, and the internet here isn’t letting me play Guild Wars 2 adequately. Fairly occasionally I’ll get a heavy amount of input lag. Unfortunately, there’s no way for me to improve the internet speed. The connection is wireless, and I had to buy this (http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Wireless-N-300-Adapter-WNA3100/dp/B003G2Z1M6) to use the wireless on my desktop. I ran a speedtest, and it came back with a ping of 68, 3.65Mbps down and .83Mbps up. These are the same speeds my roommate got with his laptop, so I don’t think getting a better adapter would do anything?

Are there any tips/tricks for making my computer run GW2 with less lag? Any settings changes either in game or through my pc? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

I got called into work, and I will no longer be able to make it tomorrow. I apologize. Just wanted to let ya know I had a lot of fun on Thursday, and I’l love to see this become a regular thing.

Good luck fellow ele’s! Use staffs against the Guardians because theyre kitten.

Looking forward to it. I don’t know what time team elementalist is supposed to meet online by, but I’ll be on around 30 minutes before the scheduled tourney start time

Bas.7406:

Fantastic work so far Elementalist! We are going to be shoutcasting and streaming will any of the Elementalists be streaming?

I’ll be streaming on Thursday for sure. Possibly on Saturday as well.

How exactly does this work? Is it a team of ele’s vs a team of (insert other class here)?

I’ll do it. Character name is Aiden Frost

Same problem on Isle of Janthir

<Player looking for a team>
Ingame name: Aiden Frost/ Frostedblaze.9017
Main Class / Potential Classes (Incase team requires): Elementalist. I’ve been playing a staff bunker build, but I also have experience with a scepter/dagger and dagger/dagger damage build. I am willing to change my build to fit what the team needs.
Region: CST US
Practice Times: Preferably later on in the evening. After 7PM CST and before 2AM CST would probably be ideal. However, I have a lot of free time.
Experience: I’m level 13 glory, with 108 tournament games played and 60 tournament wins.
Other (Anything else that you would like to add): I was a pretty heavy arena player in WoW and had some decent success. I’m great at listening, leading, and adapting to the situation. I am really skilled with my elementalist, and I’d make a great addition to your tournament team.

Still looking for a nice new guild

I think the even that locks you out of CoF happens too often. I don’t feel like I should have to do the dang even before every explorer mode path I do. I just cleared the event, ran path 1 of CoF, and the event had triggered again, so I had to do the entire thing again before path 2. I feel like this even happens way too much.

I play on Isle of Janthir as a level 80 d/d ele. I’m looking for a guild that get’s together and runs some tPvP. I haven’t tPvPed much in live (real life had me busy for a couple weeks) but did it a lot in beta. I have some good success running a damage d/d build, but I’m also solid with a support staff build if that is needed instead.

I’m available to play almost every day after 7 PM. I also have a lot of free time through out the week, but that’s a little more random.

I’d really prefer that the guild has a voice chat service (Mumble/Vent is what I’m familiar with.)

I just recently hit level 80 and I’m looking for a tanky/support d/d build.

So far, I’ve come up with something like this: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#ccszz9mMxvLMo0xLMGa0xacszVRbV

I’m goin for a aura-based build. I’d try to generate a lot of auras for my group and I, granting everyone fury and swiftness while doing so. I’d look for toughness on my gear (I have no idea what other stats I’d want) to help increase my survivability.

Any advice on this build? Anything you’d change? Any other tanky D/D builds you’d suggest?

Just a sidenote, since there’s no duel spec, I’d use this build while in Orr as well. Will this work for soloing in Orr?