My Ele couldn’t survive without changing attunements reguarly, guardian needs to swap to be effective, and if a thief didn’t swap out to shortbow regardless of build then he’d also be royally screwed.
People who don’t see the value of swapping won’t swap, and you get a lot of these players in hot join. However, youa re halfing your dps/efficiency in most cases. Plus weapon swap sigils are decent when you know what you’re doing with them.
I can confirm this build does work well in spvp also, well I use a bit more of a 10 0 0 30 30, it still relies on bleeds and poison as it’s main source of damage, and plus the 30 in both the final two trees help heavily on initiative regen without the need for using signets.
No one likes exploits. On that note, no one from TL etc would bother as most of the guys are streaming/recording and no one wants to see themselves exploiting over the interwebs :P
If people do use dirty stuff then that’s their issue, but any known exploits now will be cleared up come tourny time so there’s not much gain doing it anyway.
I did read the post but disagree with most of it, I’ll just answer the tldr.
1) Having fun, maybe? People enjoy pvp, and some people enjoy team pvp. Some people also want to get better for the pending changes Arena net will be adding. So there’s more than just grindfest. Have fun, you know?
2) I play tpvp/spvp, and it makes no difference what you are as no 2 people sit capping a point.
3) Disagree. If you have a good enough team it doesn’t matter anyway.
4) Individual players can easily carry teams. Also, individual actions can carry teams. Perfect example would be on kylo where a roamer killing a player on treb, then killing enemy treb, taking mansion and coming back to the repaired treb to kill the player again, all whilst your treb has been trebbing away like the happy treb it is.
Downed state in small scale spvp makes sense. It does add more dynamics to the game and another element to think of, and it’s why a lot of people, especailly in tournaments, and making builds in line with stomping/rezzing etc. This isn’t including in 8v8 as no one is really thinking of anything there other than “kill kill kill”, not “this guy is almost dead, but they have 2 guardians and a warrior here, which stability utility do I have/can I save to finish him without being interupted”.
A lot of the skills you see today created by the anet devs in thier internal testing, they already had a meta there, and they created skills around finishing/revivng. I wouldn’t expect any huge changes happening to this mechanic, otherwise you’d see a complete overhaul of skills for a lot of weapon sets.
I do see them balancing downed state as I mentioned in a lot of threads. They already changed the mesmers from bw1 + 2, and I forsee potentially more changes, but for spvp, mainly tournament play, it adds more skill and team play to the match.
If you’re 5v5ing a team spec with stability/invluns/interupts vs 5 individual 1v1 specs with purely offensive utilities, it doesn’t matter how many times the 1v1 specs kill anyone, no one will ever die.
Happy with downed state, happy about bleed out levels, but if I could change one thing (and it wasn’t something obvious like spectator mode) then I would say
Balancing Downed States.
Guardian, Mesmer, Thief I’m looking at you.
Horribly diplomatic but I’d take any class as long as the roles are filled:
Point Holder x2: Guardian, Necro, Engineer, Mesmer, Ele, Def Warrior
Roamer x2: Ele, Warrior, Thief, Mesmer, Ranger
Conditons/support x1: Thief, Necro, Engineer, Mesmer, Ranger, Ele
Bearing in mind the “support role” can be shared, synergy.
As long as the players are decent and roles are filled, I’d take anything. There’s not an order at the moment, but there is a big difference between good builds, bad builds, and how people use the builds.
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Ahh yeah Phantaram, core member of our US team, I’m a fan of him also!! ;D
Thanks Mister, yeah more liberal useage on my elite I agree with, I’m a bit stingy with it :P Saving it for more tricky moments. Armour of Earth for stamps and revives! So useful.
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A lot of Team Paradigm members have given guides, stream, youtube vids to the community which I’m sure a lot of people on this forum have looked at and enjoyed.
Without teams like TP, Super Squad, Team Synergy, Team Legacy just to name a few (I know there’s a lot more of you guys out there but there’s too many to name!) putting out this sort of material then I can say these forums, gw2guru etc would be a lot less fun for the gw2 geek, which I also admit to be.
The main reason why people look at this part of the forum is that in an ideal world we would all LOVE gw2 to become an esport, and all these bits of material just help keep the game in sight, and also a different perspective on how people play.
I think any of us putting out gw2 material is proud at what we do, so yeah, we do take pride in what we do because we all love gaming, don’t we?
My stream will be up at around 20:30 gmt+1 for a few hours – hope to see some of you there.
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@Arcane – yeah it’s something that could potentially be done, but using Valkyrie’s amulet loses 569 precision which is a lot of potential crit damage lost, but would make a nice sustained healing type build.
Right now I’m messing around with the sigils of hydromancy for helping kiting pesky melees and also increasing everyone’s healing time. I may use a power type build incpororating valkyrie amulet, hydromancer sigils and runes ov svanir for extra freeze duration + invuln at 20% health.
That would be just for funzies though ;D I do prefer the creative builds as opposed to cookie cutter.
Ello guys, Godmóde from Team Paradigm here.
Being one of the few eles who has faith in our profession, feel free to have a watch of my stream.
Streaming weekends and most week day evenings.
Had two games this morn finishing 495 – 500 on khlyo with pugs, if I’m not streaming this is defo worth a watch under videos/highlights.
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@Anylon – yeah I agree with lightening strike on that, personal preference on having cleansing flames as an “oh crap” button and it just ensures that vs condition builds/classes that I have an advatnage with removal. But yes it could easily be swapped out.
The Heal signet is personal preference and arguable whether traiting glymphs is better. I used glymphs in beta until it was nerfed by 4 seconds(ish) and switched to this as I think over a 20 second period (glphyms traited down to) I still do more healing over that 20 seconds + I have the signet heal for 3-4k if I really need it. better IMO but either works fine.
@DiogoSilva – Although the community morale is down regarding the elementalist, it’s definitely one of the hardest classes to play well compared to certain builds/classes everyone has grown to hate. I would say that we’re not in a terrible place, and although I feel we may be a little bit below average and due some sort of a slight buff, it’s classes which have been buffed a lot since beta (aka mesmers/thiefs) who need the slight nerf. I’m probably biased to saying we need a slight buff, but in all honesty, as long as certain classes get slight changes, you’ll see a change in the community and we may all see light at the end of the tunnel.
Attunement by attunement the highest dps for this build, as sceptor being the only dps weapon I use, untraited is in air. Having this maxed out just means I crit more, get more crit damage % (which with the divinity runes makes the build playable, otherwise I’d do no dps), have lower cd on my air cd’s (air 2 hurts) and also have perma swiftness with the “One with Air” trait.
No reason for me to spec this into fire as I’m only in fire to use phoenix and Dragon tooth after my knock down from air and auto swap out, even then the +power and +condition duration is terrible for me as a passive from maxing out fire.
You can however spec this a bit more into earth, as the traits in there are pretty nice, but I like having the utility of both the water tree and +10 in Arcane tree.
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Ello guys, Godmóde from Team Paradigm here.
Being one of the few eles who has faith in our ability without a staff (kinda) feel free to have a watch of my stream.
Streaming weekends and most week day evenings.
Had two games this morn finishing 495 – 500 on khlyo with pugs, if I’m not streaming this is defo worth a watch under videos/highlights.
Thanks for those who have tuned in and follow if you like it!