Guild Wars 2

That ele was built for burst.

But they drop like flies if you are skilled.

This is why i think hybrid or hybrid-tank based eles are fantastic in wvw. Best of all worlds.

I like some of these changes.

No nerfs to the classic DnD builds. I wonder if water elemental pet will eaither heal or chill on command…

Still being updated

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/September_2014_Feature_Pack/Balance_changes

Skills
Weapon skills

Dagger

• Burning Speed: No longer creates multiple fields at the same location when used against a wall.

Staff

• Burning Retreat: No longer creates multiple fields at the same location when used against a wall.

Utility skills

• Glyph of Lesser Elementals: Now has skill commands when summoned and will be used with the elementals’ next attack.

Glyph of Storms

• Firestorm: Applies 1 second of burning to each struck foe.

• Lightning Storm: Applies 2 stacks of vulnerability for 8 seconds to each struck foe.

Signet

• Signet of Air: Reduced recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.

• Signet of Earth: Applies 5 stacks of bleeding for 7 seconds.

• Signet of Fire: Increased damage by 100%.

• Signet of Water: Reduced recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.

Elite skills

Conjure Fiery Greatsword

• Fiery Rush: Reduced damage by the line of fire by 70%. Increased damage by final strike by 140%. No longer creates multiple fields at the same location when used against a wall.

• Glyph of Elementals: Now has skill commands when summoned and will be used with the elementals’ next attack.

Flame Barrage (Fire Elemental): Burns multiple targets.
Shocking Bolt (Air Elemental): Stuns a target.

Tornado and Whirlpool

• Removed attribute bonus to power. Increased damage for transform skills.

Downed skills

• Vapor Form: Updated visual effects to be different from Mist Form.

Traits

• Fire Magic Blinding Ashes: Applies blind to all foes struck when used with an area of effect burning skill.

• Arcana Elemental Contingency: No longer has a global cooldown and instead split cooldowns depending on attunement.

• Air Magic Lightning Rod: No longer requires an interrupt and instead triggers on any disable effect.

Glyph of Elementals: Now has skill commands when summoned and will be used with the elementals’ next attack.
Flame Barrage (Fire Elemental): Burns multiple targets.
Shocking Bolt (Air Elemental): Stuns a target.

• If shocking bolt actually works and has at max a short CD i think GoE elite got a good buff.

I would swap my elite for a donut or a nice chesseburger

This was discussed in 2012. Nothing has changed.

Zephyron.7081:

What is combat mode?

I believe you can get banned for using the combat mod

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Buy exotic fractal 20 slot bag. Place the bag in your LAST inventory slot. Place all weapons armor pieces there. If you got more then 20 buy two exotics (place both as last bags). Then when you switch weapons/armor, they go straight back to the ‘last part’ of you inventory, not mixing up with the rest. I’ve gotten so used to it that it’s a piece of cake. If i vendor noone of my exotics show in the first part of list cause they are safely at the end.

I can switch very fast with this method too, because the weapons stay in the same slots most of time, so you find them easely.

Yup , its the easiest way.

The problem is anet increased the duration of how long you are now in combat. In early 2013 and late 2012 it was easy to swap.

Staff works well in wvw groups bigger than 5.

Sceptor dagger(SnD) works fine in duos to groups smaller than 10.
For that build , its the fresh air build and very glassy. But it can be very rewarding

DnD is a build for the pros. Works from solo to small roam grps to zergs,etc.
Stay away from DnD in the beginning if you are learning ele.

Most good enemies know to avoid it

Increase it to 33% and also have it work on the user. Its a GM trait after all.

Score updated. Also NSP address has been been added per request.

GL

Even before the transfers from T2 into T1 into BG,TC and JQ, the action is and will be 24/7. Come and have filthy casual 24/7 fun

Velimere.7685:

At the very least, the active abilities of Signet of Earth, Signet of Fire, and Signet of Water should all be 240-radius AoE around the target just like Signet of Air.

Personally, though, I’d like to see Signet of Water become a completely defensive utility skill offering passively increased vitality (180) or regeneration (180 health/second?) with the active removing 2 conditions… Or maybe just change the passive to one of the aforementioned.

Either way, these skills need to have that 240-radius AoE property that Signet of Air has for them to be considered at least somewhat competitive.

No, SoE and SoF are fine being single target 1200 range

Yes, SoW needs buff to vit/healing(either one) to match the other signets.

adozu.6398:

scepter ele will kill us all!

all is vain!!

Yeah i once saw an SnD ele kill 4 rabbits doing 20000million billion damage

Thank gawd they didnt nerf fgs mobility. The saviour in wvw.

However since i i have like a few hours in PvE , i have no clue what to say about the effects on pve.

RTL has a few issues. Rubberbanding, not locking on to targets properly. RTL of the cliff and the damage taken is bugged. You take more damage than just simply jumping down. Fix bugs imo

U need both. Guards complement staff eles in fights with grps larger than 10 to 15 and beyond.

In the early days of gw2 , eles were the kings due to the concept called turtle stacking where healing targets were unlimited.

BlackBeard.2873:

This change makes signet of earth usable….A lot of the buffs to these under-used skills at least make them good enough to try and theorycraft a build around.

These signets have been used with AoE and LF with the 3rd being SoE or SoA with SoW being the least favourite due to ele condi clearing ability.

Eles rely heavily on mobility and positioning. So LF will remain extremly important. Mistform post nerf was not used very much. and i doubt Anet will buff it.

SoF is fantastic if u are in an assist train and out of dnd close range. So when u chuck in SoE now, the effects are going to be really substantial. I would however add that new dnd else practice first with the 3 popular cantrips before migrating to signet. But who knows.

Archage has bad combat mechanics,etc. You cant compare AA to GW2.

GW2 only real competition is Camelot unchained(AKA DAOC2). However
that is far far away. 2017.

King Amadaeus.8619:

http://mos.millenium.org/servers/history/38

Staleness is the biggest killer…Basically the same matchup for 6 months, swapping a DB for an FA here and there, even in leagues it was pretty stale.

Stale is JQ fighting BG for so long everyone knows everyone. But yeah , i think anet just needs to manually adjust matchups every week just for fun and giggles.

They will never merge the servers.

At best they will utilise megaserver tech for the BLS and EB when the time comes.

Interesting.

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Jabberwock.9014:

Signet of air is a more viable stunbreak option now… however, I still will find it hard to ditch any of cleansing fire (needed for immob breaks), armor of earth (needed for stomps), or lightning flash (needed for everything, from mobility and escapes to warping up terrain to pressure and surprise updrafts). Armor of earth is probably what I would consider dropping, just because it has a long cooldown and stability can get stolen/corrupted easily.

Signet of earth is a bit intriguing for a condi build, although it is still hard to cover conditions as ele. Would be nice if it gave poison too.

Signet of water… I just don’t know why it exists. The active is worthless outside of a “written in stone” build. Make it a 10s cooldown and we’ll talk.

Yes, signet of earth is a double CC trait.

Signet of water is pointless given that we can cleanse most condis and add hoelbrak we get -60% condi. 4s chill and its effects are fun to have but require specific builds to get the most of it.

LF is a must have. That is one cantrip no ele, staff,dnd or s/f.d can live without.

Armour of earth is good to have but not a must.

So SoR+LF+SoE+SoF+FGS = good fun when you combine auras for constant fury and protection.

We still have to wait for patch.

scerevisiae.1972:

Devildoc.6721:

4+ water and 4+ arcane are not at all mandatory

mandatory if you want to be good i meant. you can run 1/1/1/1/1 if you like, doesn’t disprove the point.

You are right about water @ 4. Arcana would say its 6 not 4.

Moreover given our boon duration nerfs from gear it has to be made up under arcana tree.

Fellow DnD eles , practice now with 02246 and signets. Its good training when patch day comes out.

Stand The Wall.6987:

Seems like transferring to t1 was a good idea. In a couple of months I wouldnt be surprised if the only active wvw is in t1.
kittening sad.

I wouldnt say a couple of months. Though i think you are correct. Perhaps by 2016~2017.

Previously 02246 with lf and aoe and signet of earth with -60% condi and cantrip regen(III and ix) with celestial and knights. Worked very well. Constant protection,fury and condis dont hurt. Might was high. Good hybrid build

Been practicing without cantrips.
02246
LF + water and earth signet.

Problem is for eles , staff or DnD , LF is very crucial. Positioning is very important. SO now sure how to live without it

Practicing storm today later on.

I see DnD builds will benefit to some extent on this patch , but it will either be earth(due to not only stun but now bleeding effect, fire(not so much as unlike earth , no double CC, and burning damage will be useful if condi), water has one condi and 5sec less on cd is not much of a difference.

I will do somemore testing today.

SO it seems that world ability points are now reset just before a season starts. Anet, please keep this consistent so that your player base can know exactly when the reset will happen.

Jessica Boettiger for Anet chief president!

Thnks for the respone

WHat changes are u making?

I for sure will need LF. AoE is also important. Decisions not easy.

What about yall. ?

No one knows the exact details yet. Secondly, season 3 “Tourney” is only 4 weeks long. Thirdly, whichever server you choose, you are guaranteed a mistforged weapon.

Note: If season 3 is a success, expect season 4 to come much sooner.

It would be fun to have 1month of seasons…… 2 months of “My gun is bigger than yours normal wvw” and then seasons again. This may very well inject fun into the buildup of seasons and after.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I think what’s happening to Maguuma is what happened to Black Gate. They were so good, that other servers started to double team them into oblivion.

I see the tears. But my bucket is full

I havent used mt s2 tickets yet because i only play 1 character. SO can i use em in s3?

Updated the score to week 64.

4weeks to league 3

as far as dnd, u could make a kitten condi ele. The fact remains that the ele(as said by the balance team many times) is meant to be a mix. SO as an ele ,when u go very glassy, u die alot faster than when a tank goes glassy spec, when u go condi u are half the condi beast of a condi spec necro/ranger,etc. This is why playing a versatile ele is more important.

Awesome work bro. my update has been delayed due to excel self implosion

Chaba.5410:

Reverence.6915:

Too much GvG, not enough actual WvW, means people on those so called “GvG” servers find it hard to get new blood into their guilds.

I think this is only an NA phenomenon.

The NA servers in T1 consists of a number of countries outside of the NA timezone.

The main issue with GvG is not about if you playing gw2 Eu,China or NA. It is about support for GvG in the game.

Yes 02246 can work. Mobility – You can :

Gain swiftness now with a3 and w4 and also cover
distance with LF and F3 and do an A5 , there is no need
for windborne.

02246 is fun. But lets see what the patch brings to really go further on this spec
if water gms are improved

From what i heard , some folk are happy with the way t2 is panning out and some are unhappy. I shall leave it there.

Well done anet.

WHen i need help i usually just write an SOS msg on a parchment and insert it in a gin bottle which i hope the waves of the ocean will bring to my allies.

Nikkinella.8254:

I’ll be fine with them nerfing the hell out of fgs if it means buffing our weapon skills and base damage. the fact is we’re too reliant on it. You pretty much HAVE to take FGS because mobility is so poor without it as is damage on builds with any kind of survivability. But, this is anet we’re talking about. we won’t get buffs as compensation if they nerf it, they’ll just nerf it and leave it at that then we go back to people not wanting eles and then they come to the forums and ask whats wrong, and we give them tons of idea that they completely ignore and we eventually come up with a new build that gets us back in the meta and they nerf that and the process begins again.

Yes. Anet must conisder really hard before implementing any nerfs.

Why? Because the chance of a re-adjustment upwards following a nerf takes along time.

I wish they would put intended changes for the community to give their thoughts on the matter first before nerfing a class.

I can only hope the changes are not a nerf. FGS nerf should not nerf mobility at the very least. But i fear its easier to change how #4 works by simply adding code that that makes it require a target.

Because the ele is an avatar

http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Wiki

We believe that using all 4 attunements will save the world

Reokie.7809:

> “grandmaster traits that currently don’t have enough of a payoff or are too difficult to use”

“too difficult to use” or “impractical and poorly designed”? They go on about build diversity when at the same time we are forced into go deep into water and arcana since all of the other GMs are so terrible.

• I dont think they will ever allow dnd eles to move away from the classic build. Such is therefore, my hopes that the GM traits in water and arcana buffed. One can only hope.

Cries Of Sorrow.5864:

It’s jimmy’s fault, cause you know… He’s in a wheelchair!

Jokes aside, we used fgs 2 years ago, how is it a problem today o.O.

• Same thoughts. FGS is used alot of the times as escape, catching or for a staff ele, the chance of a win against a glassy enemy in 1v1 situations. It is sad there are changes that will might affect its usage in wvw.

Most decent guilds have atleast 1 or more good eles. However not everyone knows how to play a DnD ele. Daphoenix guide is still there although a little outdated. Most combos and their info can now be found in-game or gw2 wiki combo guides.

I would help you but i have never played PvP ele. Only WvW.

What do you think about it ?

Quoting —>

Elementalist “The elementalist’s cantrips are popular in all parts of the game, and in the interest of promoting build diversity, we’ll be using the feature pack as an opportunity to work on other types of utility skills. For example, the fire and air storms from the Glyph of Storms will now apply conditions of their own. In addition, we’ll rework some of the new grandmaster traits that currently don’t have enough of a payoff or are too difficult to use. Finally, we’ll be addressing the Tornado and Fiery Greatsword elite skills; we’ll make some usability improvements and tone down some of their unintended functionality.”

• If they do not touch my beloved cantrips ,sor healing, but buff arcana and water GMs i dont see real bad news.

• FGS buff/nerf too early to say how it will play out

• If the reverse happens they will push many eles to go bunker

• If they nerf us anymore we will see many dnd speced eles changing class to easy mode classes.
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Is that a storm I see?

Its very good training though. Since staff eles are most good target selectors choice target. You will cry, grind and hate it but trust me it will make u much better when you go for the killer dnd spec.

Consider it training

4 weeks of staff
4weeks of SnF
4 weeks of SnD
Spend the rest of your life as a DnD.

Oh if u want to be the elusive junk bunker build

00446 with 1/3 celestial 2/3 cleric with 2 slots into soldier if u have spare traits.