Guild Wars 2

probably just cap the max crit dmg abit lower and all is well….

thats probably true, still its only 10 seconds its useful either way :P

Thought id make a little instructional about might stacking as its a really useful source of extra condition and power for any elementalist, especially for those who are playing toughness/vit builds

most likely dagger dagger glass cannon build or sceptre dagger glass cannon..

if it looked like a firey rush it was probably dagger dagger, ele’s can seriously put down some pain in very short amount of time if everything is on cooldown, and theres a chance he was sacrificing survivablility in order to make a raw dmg build, which personally i dont belive is worthwhile, that being said a dagger dagger ele using soldiers gear (power/tough/vit) and just abit of buffing of crit chance with perma fury and sigil of minor accuracy can have some pretty formidable stats, though it sounds like if he was using lighning strike he would be using that as a weapon sigil, and probably got some good crits with it, lightning strike is also a spectre skill.

personally on ele, the only vs i struggle with is shortbow ranger, simply because of the dmg output kiting and traps. if i see a good one shortbow ranger.. i pretty much leave him to the rest of the party or take him on where i have a terrain advantage. if you wanna fight a high dmg ele,

Short answer

your best methods are to stay at his back or out of his range, try to surprise them maybe.. (normally wont work if they use cantrips) try to keep moving but keep in their face if your a melee class.

Long answer

go and play an elementalist similar to what you saw, look at how the combos work and how they tie together learn the patterns and basically know how to predict whats likely to be coming a well timed dodge can save you a good 5k dmg from a ele.

i kinda agree and disagree, sure 1vs1 is super annoying with a staff, unless its vs someone with a minion or pet/clone, chain lightning does fairly decent dmg vs 2 opponents when it can bounce between, and yeah all the aoes pretty much are easy to avoid, but in a group fight people dont really avoid them perfectly and your forcing them to move, use it for positional control.. not for flat out fast dps.. that being said maybe the earth auto atk could be made faster/with a bleed stack something more like the sceptres auto atk. either way just stick with the groups go for 2 vs 2 or more, and support and control. for example heres a staff ele vid i did earlier though i even said same thing here, single target dps is crap :P but hey ho thats not what staff is for

plenty of decent builds just make sure you know ur role.. i personally played spvp earlier with a staff build and went 4 games 0 deaths, heres 1 of them, eles always got pretty nice dmg, so focus on survivability or support regardless of ur weapon choice generally i go dagger dagger cantrips build its pretty standard

but use might stacking set up (evasive arcana fire dodge after fire combo fields gives a nice 3 stacks aswell retuning elements with the might on weapon swap sigil often got 15-20 stacks of might since i also use boon duration runes, anyways havent posted any dagger ele vids yet (later i will) heres a staff one from earlier

think not what is wrong with the build but how am i playing it wrongly?
and if anyone has any class/build combinationg you want me to video in spvp please message me because i will take any challenge because its funny, just did a greatsword ranger one.. a truly harrowing experience :P

in case noone else wrote this one

trait rifled barrels

also seems to effect the base dmg on pistols, aswell as the condition duration on the elixir guns auto atk, changing it from 1 sec weakness 4.5 bleed to 3 of each, it also makes the super elixir heal for 60…. which is awful..

oh really empathic bond removes all conditions? i didnt realise that assumed it was 1 a pop… guess means no point me using the curing signet accept emergency active effect

yeah i was using empathic bond, u can see ocasionally i get 2 conditions removed at once, i think its just how unreliable it is, that gets me.. most conditions last less then 10 secs, and sometimes u cant wait that long for removing that 5stack confusion :P and thanks, it was only supposed to be entertaining. i never claim to have any skill as a ranger, though actually i found it really fun to play and will continue to do so :P

hey all you rangers out there!!, i played alot of ranger at the start of the game, but i found as more and more started playing condition builds.. rangers lost alot of options, not only that but some of our weapons are terrible, so i figured for fun! since ranger is the least played class in pvp now, and looking around the forum i see that greatsword is the most “hated” weapon i would make a pvp video using it hopefully after ranger has been sorted out i can compare the difference, and as you can probably tell by the video, although im a fairly good pvper. i actually main other classes (engi,necro) either way i hope you enjoy it!

I dont know how you guys can continue argueing when every other word is changed to “kitten” :P for the record.. i dont actually care if bs is nerfed or whatever. i just dont like the implication that because i decided to play this class im somehow immoral or cheap.

i think next time ill write a song about necros.. that way at least people wont argue on the post :P.. unless its about which minion is prettier

worth mentioning that if you heartseeker through a smoke combo field that will give you a stealth without having to initiate battle, though it does use quite a bit of initiative if you use blinding powder, but if you run dagger main hand, it can be somewhat useful in place of cnd specially considering some of the blind field utilitys have much faster cooldowns then the stealths

its awesome to see so much aurora clans coming forward if we could get some of the pve’ers to just come to experience world vs world for a some events every week that would be awesome, and communication between the guilds, big and small.. dont feel excluded because your only a small group. if we come together and fight with cohesion we can accomplish alot, and have some good fun btw im not a leader of any guild im just a random member of fury. id like to think of myself as the clan jester!

considering that your crit chance is probably 50% + i wouldnt personally bother with 100% crit while in stealth. if your gearing for crit, you can easily get 60% ish base crit chance, +12% with a full sigil of accuracy, +7% more from the side or behind, +10% more vs 50% hp opponents :P +20% for fury. you can also use “next hit on this weapon will always crit” sigil if your looking for the occasional massive backstab while not investing in a massive crit chance build. if you went 30 into the crit tree id assume your already high crit chance, those traits like 100% chance while in stealth or for next atk etc are most useful for no crit chance high power builds :P in my opinion.

thanks for the feedback lol, and yeah the crit dmg is pretty harsh, since wvw is hardly competitive or fair pvp, i suggest just playing something you enjoy that maybe isnt all that viable for tourney play, i sometimes like to play double pistol/shortbow wvw cos its really fun… :P personally i think shortbow is thiefs best and most fun weapon.. clusterbomb combos so nicely with auto atks and the poison thingy.

anyways dont take my opinion seriously.. im hardly an authority on the matter, but i can certainly make amusing rhymes to trivialise the issues :P

was it in wvw? i have had problems with the backstabs there.. but in spvp thiefs are not the most powerful class by any means.. they are just amoungst the most annoying.. and yeah personally i dont main thief either.. i main necro and engineer, i just happen to play almost all classes, to get a good idea of all their abilities and usage so i know how to best deal with them.

and to be honest the point of the song was that you shouldnt paint us all with the same brush. not all thiefs run lame spammy builds.. i run pure condition dmg build and people still shout abuse at me when i kill them..

ive already apoligised for my gay voice :P but female vocals not on the cards :P

as an engineer i beat thieves 95% of the time.. because engineers have a massive advantage. dont get scared by stealth.. u can pretyt much completely kitten a thief with concussion bomb. enough said. confusion is a thieves worst enemy and well most condition builds.. my engineer runs bomb kit,elixir gun,the retaliation fury elixir forget name, and condition build with pistol pistol, just stack those bleeds and other conditions, then when they stealth switch to those aoes, and dont stand still. just cos u cant see them doesnt mean you cant hit them.

also try playing thief for a couple of days (as well as all other classes) ignorance breeds hate afterall, once you know how to deal with other classes it dont seem so unbalanced..

already posted this in the thief discussion just a little comedy song i wrote hope you enjoy

no problem.. im ashamed to say, i self skittened at some of my own lyrics, and my extremely gay singing :P

pistol dagger, for the sneak atk does 5bleeds per pop, and some npcs are pretty easy to combo that with cloak and dagger

so instead of arguing with you guys, i thought id write a song about it, hope you enjoy it :P

personally i love pistol pistol engineer condition dmg build.

i use rabid amulet and runes of undead, 1 pistol has sigil of earth for bleeds, and 1 sigil of minor precision for that 0-12% crit chance buff depending on how many people u killed (those type of sigils work even with kits)

for utilitys i use bomb kit, elixir gun and the elixir with fury/ret/swiftness i think its r? but i dunno without looking, anyways… is a great 1vs1/supporter and pointdefender, using pistols for getting bleeds,burns, poisons and the bouncing confusion.. then using bombs for bigger groups or to drop while running away or circling etc.. elixir gun can be used for applying weakness, really good retreat and a nice cure condition combo field, fire bomb and smoke bomb also work like this nice combo fields, shame about lack of finishers as projectile finishers are abit unrelyable.. anyways i can post a vid of my build in play. sorry about the loud music.. i noticed after i posted but it took 2hrs to render the vid.. so i didnt have patience to do it again!

all this being said, there are certainly alot of annoying bugs on engineer that need to be addressed but using kits and pistols i find engineer to be both fun and effective, not too mention that kit swaps take 1 second..

the engineer trait rifled barrels, the one that increases range for pistol/rifle/elixir and harpoon gun. does increase range but causes some skills to significantly change. the pistols base dmg seems to get increased slightly, but the main problem is what happens to the elixir gun.

the elixir guns no1 skill normally has 1 second weakness and 4 sec bleeding? i think might be less base, because of my traits, anyways when you apply rifled barrels the bleeding shortens dramatically, and the weakness lasts longer. it also changes the elixir gun 5 heal skill from doing about 400 impact and 120 sustained heal, to doing 60 and 12 which is terrible

ive personally never encountered such behavior, i assume it does happen from time 2 time, but to be honest he sounds like a bit of a “too big for his boots” kinda guy who takes the game way too seriar.. dont listen to him and keep having fun. you may want to remind him that you also payed for this game.. if he dont shut up….. then conjecture that his mother may do questionable deeds for money!

Basically as you can see fissure of woe and, ruins of surmia are the lowest ranked servers, if you try log wvw right now or anytime really you will us with literally nothing maybe 1 tower or supply camp. even the other low servers vastly outnumber us, ruins of surmia are almost as bad as us, but no other server as low, if we merged servers that would work but then.. not enough servers for matchups.. so basically people from the large servers, if just one or 2 active clans switch to a small server.. it could make a huge difference.. its really frustrating to see your world never do well in wvw.. it takes a huge part of the game from us. sure we do small raids on towers/keeps even occasionally but we cant hold.. and we are always vastly outnumbered on all maps.. i kinda feel bad for the servers which just cap our points and have noone to fight.. its boring for them too.. think about it. if your clan moves here, you will be a big fish in a small pond. theres nothing wrong with our server.. apart from the population! please! something must be done!!