Guild Wars 2

Mash Hog.5672:

Imagi.4561:

Mash Hog.5672:

#ELEtism

That looks like a new signature, to me.

Ok guys!
Lets make this a thing
#ELEtism

#Eletism

Most of us during SEA/Oceanic timezone are bored. Sometimes we leave the enemies garrison alone so that they will come out and play. And sometimes we just camp their spawn. The only other option os to go to EB which has a ridiculous waiting time , ranging from 30 mins to 90 mins during that time frame.

As far as JQ core players from SEA/Oceanic and the new friends we made are , they are here. Just some are on short break because of lack of players to kill. I will say that the the enemies we faced are good, though they be few, their tenacity is strong.

To SoS [Lion] guild, u folks are really good. Your mesmer and thief deserve a badge. /salute

electriette.8952:

Starting today, Tarnished Coast will be referred to as Mother Russia.

FOR THE MOTHERLAND!

Does that mean TC towers captures you and you no capture towers in Russia?

He said in that link

Devon
“There will not be another season this calendar year. The matchmaking post-season will be back to the system before, with some possible tweaks, but it will be essentially the same system.”

Not really sure. Can we then expect 4 seasons per year, i.e.

7 weeks per season with 6 weeks break inbetween

times 4 to give us 52 weeks which is a year.

With the mid season report out i noticed they used the word “season 1”. Are they hinting that there will be a season 2? Anyone knows?

Todays score update.

SonofNoob.3102:

anet banned a ton of forum accounts over the course of the past few weeks.

#freepot

#freeascii

I laughed so hard when i saw his figures in the post.

If only eles hit that hard, consistently.

Izer.2083:

it’s a sad build for a full pvt. if u want to be tanky. create a warrior… i think the purpose of ele is for the back line aoe damage and support heal in wvw.
ah i’ll give u the easy warrior build if u want

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBhYDbE0p5NGyFiJOggeohfRVoKgHpHoxAmGA-jkxAYfB5kXR0YrsFRjVXjpdTqKWQGA-w

u got more hp and def than full pvt ele
u can escape faster using (gs 5,3) and (sword 2) if u’re in the need of escaping.
u get a 3 condi removal every 10 sec on every brust skill

if u really want to ignore damage. u can use a full pvt on all equip and ignore the crit damage in the warrior.

i’m not saying u can’t be tanky with ele. but the tankiest ele will lose to other due to our less hp pool and def.

That’s my opinion anyway lol.

Not boasting or anything but i have killed a good amount of warriors 1v1. Yes I have to worker twice as them and yes my template needs to have a good mix of bunker and dps but theres just something about stomping on an enemy you know you had to work much harder to kill and its for this reason many play the ele with a mix of bunker and dps.

ykyk.2740:

Chris.3290:

This may just be the most polite thread in the history of Gold League (mentions of a word that begins with ‘T’ and rhymes with piers are now censored?) matchups.
Mutual respect despite massive population differences, polite discussions of GvGs that include compliments from both the losers and winners….

What is happening here? Based upon past-experiences, they will close this thread (my posts get deleted when I speak nice about people).

JQ’s pretty mellow as far as the top 3 goes and I’m pretty sure nobody that’s still playing on SoS and TC are remotely bothered by coverage differences or scores anymore. This one should rightfully be the nicest thread out of the entire gold league.

Plus that weird old church lady thing. Yeah. Cookies and stuff.

As per the tradition #whoiswho

JQ = Lamborghini aventador
TC = Toyota Corolla
SoS = Bicycle

Jedbacca.6297:

Meanwhile in GW1

….Meanwhile in GW1 eles kick kitten

Only 16 Pages and still 3 days to go. Chop chop! Hurry up mates.

Devon told me in a PM that the winning server will get

• A huge chunk of the server side bandwidth from the cloud and a guarantee that your server will be lag free

They are rare, but they do exist.

Yes, very true. The “Maths” cant be viewed in a vacuum.

If your suggestions were implemented i think half the WvW /sPvP players would quit Gw2.

Rainshine.5493:

ThiBash.5634:

Rainshine.5493:

I run with 15 and water and evasive arcana. I like to have a few points in +heal, but that doesn’t change the fact that healing scales the poorest of any stat (though if I recall — and I should really know for certain — healing ripple does scale 1-to-1 ratio) or that you’re going to struggle to kill anybody in full cleric’s. Without some solid offensive punch, anybody can simply run away from you.

And again, you don’t NEED full cleric to survive even on zerg frontlines. Therefore any more stats into survivability is wasted stat allocation, imo.

Good points and I agree with you, as I don’t specialize in healing power myself either. However, when it comes to the worst scaling stat, I’d have to say that’d be Critical Damage. It sounds cool, but the extra dps you get from it is around 1/3 of the actual value.

Math

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Say you have a skill that deals 100 damage. With your inherent +50% critical damage, this means it deals 150 damage when it crits. Now, you get +10% extra critical damage and your skill now does 160 damage. 160/150*100%=6.7% extra damage. This number gets lower the higher your critical damage becomes. If you increase your critical damage by +10% when it’s at 200 already, you get: 210/200*100%= 5% extra damage.

Now assume that you have a 50% chance to cause a critical hit. The extra dps you get from your critical damage is then half of that number, because only half of your hits will crit. This leaves you with roughly +3.4% (or 2.5% for the second example) dps, effectively one third of what you put into it.

Consider also that weapons give much less critical damage per stat point, you’d start to wonder why those zerkers don’t simply get a Soldier’s weapon…they’d get far more out of it than they do from the critical damage.

Hmm, that’s an interesting point about crit damage. I hadn’t ever seen the math!

The question about crit damage and crit % has been debated before. Here are my views

The flaws are threefold, primarily this “maths” views damage output as linear scaling, which is not.

1) The “maths” ignores the extra ingredient of power and might.

2) The theory fails to include fury as a benefactor.

3) If you say 1/3 for 50% crit damage + 50% (30% crit chance+20% fury). Add in base power, power from might stack of 25 , bloodlust sigil, wvw rank bonus, ascended weapons and you easily go from hitting (i.e. A1) like a carebear to hitting like a mactruck.

This topic really has been suggested a bazillion times and now with ascended gear, the min max stats should provide somewhere around 50% crit damage without sacrifice.

tluv.5821:

SFShinigami.2015:

hug time nao?

plz?

Why stop at hugs?

Because anything more will get you a ban. word.

If you are just starting out then yes. When i say just starting out, i mean you have never played gw2 or have less than 100 hours of DnD ele experience.

PVT gear is crutch.

As you progress throw in some cleric , add some zerk

Once you understand how to play a DnD ele in WvW , i.e. Something like 2000kills , start investing in ascended weaps and gear.

This template is something you can modify to suit your needs. Its the general template many use and that many modify for the DnD ele

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|8.5c.h4.8.1c.h1h.d1b.0.0|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.71h.1c.71h.1n.71g.1c.71g.1n.b1m.1c.b1m|211.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.3v.d1b|0.a1.0.u58c.u56b|15.1|1n.1u.25.1v.29|e

Reslinal.2359:

nirvana.8245:

Well this sucks. 400PPT during my prime time and not much opposition apart from turtles inside keeps. Might be time for me to leave BG

Unfortunately SoR seems to have the late NA early oceanic as a really weak spot. I have a feeling next week the table will turned against BG when we are facing JQ at this time zone.

I am looking forward to the BG vs JQ matchup next week as well. Should be an awesome bag fest for both sides

SFShinigami.2015:

This thread needs more hugs.

How about 2 of the cutest asuras

Score ©

SoS hatred was short lived. Today, killing them is just for sport and chuckles.

Anything less than 40 pages for this thread and I will be disappointed.

If its all 24 servers, i guarantee you will make the community very happy. But you may also take away some of the roamers from the low pop maps. On a pro vs con , it would seem the 24 server world would be better.

ykyk.2740:

Fuzzion.2504:

Borefest – Round 3

I think you guys need to recruit more.

I think AWE needs to stop beating me into a pulp 5 v 1(sometimes 2) . Not fair mate. Not fair at all.

Updated. Enjoy.

Updated.

Hey devon, can i get a free gw2 t-shirt

Hey Fannywong , could we get a link to this committee or an email add. Might be helpful

Borefest – Round 3

for your modification

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|8.5c.h4.8.1c.h1h.d1b.0.0|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.71h.1c.71h.1n.71g.1c.71g.1n.b1m.1c.b1m|211.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.3v.d1b|0.a1.0.u58c.u56b|15.1|1n.1u.25.1v.29|e

GW1 ele were gods

GW2 ele are demi-gods

All the answers are good. I believe the consensus is that the classic dnd ele will most likely remain the same.

The league was really exciting and promising in the first 1 to 2 weeks. It has since died down, alot.

The problem is that RNG is actually now a better choice. If RNG is better, that means this league system has failed because RNG was meant to be a solution to stagnant matchups.

The only way now is to ditch the league.

My suggestion would be to let nature take its course, so loser goes down one rank in the rank rank of 24 and the winner goes up. That way losing would mean something and winning would mean you are either top in t1 or going down one tier. Not hard to implement.

Mitsubishi Eclipsed.6732:

Can the Leader or an Officer of [GF] Good Fight(s) (Not sure if it’s Fight or Fights) please pm? I have something I’d like to discuss…

Does it involve cookies. Cause i digg cookies. Space ones are awesome

Can someone ask this question

• Can we select which overflow map we want so that we can group with friends and rule the map?

Zephyrus.9680:

dreztina.4820:

Fighting JQ necro and warrior 1v2, they run to the nearest tower where a third is waiting with a superior ballista, just to be safe. GG CNM, SF, and SOL. You guys are amply demonstrating why JQ has the lowest individual skill of any server I’ve fought.

Similar encounters from about an hour of roaming on ele…

An impromptu duel between a JQ and Mag with 4 other Mag waiting in line…

3 separate ‘1v1s’ with either a JQ or TC running (and dying) without a single offensive skill being cast.

A 10v1 chase (ruins ‘roaming’ group).

A ~5v1 stomp by SF. Might have happened twice.

A condition engi running and hiding in a buffed camp…

A fun 1v1 vs warrior that turned into a 1v2 when I was close to downing him, and then a 1v3 at which point I ran.

Rambo into a 1v2 which immediately became a 1v3 and down.

BP and DR (during bandwagons) tied for the absolute worst skilled players in memory for me. I honestly don’t know about this match because an even fight just never happens. JQ doesn’t even show at FC. The only good individual players I’ve seen this whole week were GF and it was all mesmers. Oh and 1 HzH thief but that was last week.

Have you tried behind the windmill. Its the official fight club.

Holy mother of gawd. How did yall reach 35 pages????

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

lordkrall.7241:

Why do people keep assuming that ArenaNet is not doing all they can to fix the lag?

Because they work on a budget that they’re not allocating to fix the lag.

You guys are very close to the truth.

You can research the company the cloud is in and discover the costs and methods used.

The bottomline is $$$, streamlining the server side code and client side code and lastly $$$. There are also plans for an xbox/ps4 based GW2 which is exciting

GN folks.

Score update with JQ friends

Zephyrus.9680:

Tarkus.4109:

40 is not a blob[…]

40 in T1 is something like a mid-size roaming group. Definitely not a blob.

T1 groups of this size are usually suitable for a wide range of smaller scale activities including:
PVD on paper towers
Flipping camps
Taking Buttlust points (1 at a time)
Engaging solo roamers head on
Chasing down solo roamers
Grub
Tree grub

I LOLed at that

For the one running the usual classic 0/10/0/30/30 what will you be changing and why.
Your thoughts are appreciated

Folks, you play the ele cause u like challenges and dont like easy mode. The ele is the hardest class to play so its not surprising that every other class seems OPed or easier or both.

Will there be an oceanic/SEA timezone one again? Last time we planned for 9 but it started at 10. Would be good to have one

I think Season 2 should continue to have

*3 Categories
*1st Matchup should be random for each league
*The winner of each round goes up and the loser goes down
*This way it will work like a game of football where losing will really be painful

A glass ele thinking his a tank

Snafu.7412:

DKNS.2135:

Wow, this thread is dead as kitten.

Yea all need to learn something from the BG/SoR/SoS thread.

This thread got purged to hell, who knew people could get so upset.

To be honest theres nothing really exciting to do. COuld be time to cut down from 24 servers into 12 servers. Just like DAoC did.

Chill folks.

League Season 1 is in Beta mode

They may very well take the bottom 2 in the gold league and chuck them into
the Silver league with the top 2 going into the gold league. And may very well take the bottom 3 servers in the silver league and chuck them into bronze league with the top 3 in the bronze league going to silver league.

Anet will not admit, may deny and even evidence t the contrary. But it was only in Q3 of 2013 when for once, Anet shifted their focus to PvE,GvG and WvWvW. PvP,sPVP,tPvP are no longer the interest of Anet so expect even bigger changes to WvW.

So, folks, chill and give Anet some time.

Lauren.3061:

Looking forward to some fun fights this week Mags!

Good luck all.

I saw many Stun members as of recent. Can you tell us more about yourselves

Even though the results are a given, TC is a Tier 1.5 server. So this will mean for Oceanics/SEA timezone players , there will be more fun and fights, and so will TC and Maggumie Bears.

Plus cant wait for Thursday SEA/OCEANIC Yak Run with TC.