Guild Wars 2

This is NOT really because of harassment, but rather ArenaNet sending a nod to DAoC since it was the same there.

Edit: Forgot the “not”, rather important.

Roamed Blacktide Border a bit this afternoon since I had the day off. Thanks to anyone who gave some great fights – Arborstone Dagger/Focus Elementalist from P R O in particular.

Rednik.3809:

Sad to see the number of WvW participants decreases every week, for example, the number of players on our side was almost halved, and the French servers is clearly experiencing the same problems (we almost do not see a noticeable number of AS players this week). Developers should really pay attention to the state of WvW.

The February update is devoted to WvW and supposedly very big. The entirety of the game is in pretty dire need of work.

Aww, Vohnnyan is in that video – he’s in RG now, pretty boss Warrior.

Keep doing your thing, JDGE!

Nuzt.7894:

Happened a lot in DAoC, but in DAoC you knew the players by name as soon as you targeted them making it easier to figure out who is leading zergs ect so now you have a name to contact instead of random <insert server invader here>.

Mind you, there was no real ranking system so you always fought the same people. By ranking system I mean the ladder system not realm ranks.

Excuse me, what? This is how I remember DAoC RvR: http://www.qwiglee.com/images/daoc/zerg.jpg

There were no names and certainly no way to contact the opposing factions ingame.

There were still alliances, of course, but that was done mostly out of game.

Are you talking about New Frontiers or something later?

LHound.8964:

It’s so funny to see this topic…

I see one topic reading why do they both attack me (BT vs VS(fr) vs AS(fr) ) and i see this one, why don’t they…

This should be a voting topic with the following question :
“Should rank 2 and 3 on a tier, tag team to attack nº1” ???

That thread was thankfully locked. The person who created it is honestly clueless.

You are utterly wrong and this thread is plain silly. Arbor and VS harbor a ton of hatred for each other and they focus every bit as much on each other as they do us, despite us being #1 (and being the logical target).

Grow a spine.

Thaia.5146:

STRanger.5120:

If you think that Ele = D/D, then you´re wrong, the class have also other weapon sets, which are really UP compared to D/D.
Prove me wrong…

I use Staff only and I can solo the whole Grent’s Event in Orr AND I use full Berserker set for that AND I’m the last one who dies on Fractals lvl 12+ AND I can wipe a half of the zerg attacking the gate at my keep… Where’s your Dwayna now?
My build: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Post-Your-Build-Thread/page/2#post910030
Ele – easy to play, hard to master.

Wow, this is one genuinely bad post.

“I’m last to die!”

“I can wipe half a zerg by myself!”

I very rarely, if ever, use my glass cannon gear. Get the 5/6 Karma PVT set and craft some decent jewelry / get Invader’s.

So basically, don’t glass cannon.

theredone.3845:

i musta read something wrong

i would imagine that make auramentalists slightly less viable??? might have to plan to move along a diff trait line

It would be pretty stupid if you could give Shocking Aura + Fury + Swiftness to an unlimited amount of people.

That’s a lot of words to say that underwater PvE is fine. Please, enlighten us with your glorious PvE adventures.

ljaphillips.3497:

Updated with info to this point from peoples posts

Nicely done This is a really useful thread for people who want to get some fancy daggers and aren’t sure where to start.

BlueprintLFE.2358:

Intigo.1653:

I really feel you give up way too much offensive power by running D/D without Zephyr’s Boon, but I suppose that’s a personal preference – it is definitely not advisable to use 10 Earth over 10 Air outside of that specific role (bunker in sPvP). Your build is also not “the most condition removal in the game” seeing as you do not have Cleansing Wave (with that you have 2 conditions removed in an area around you every time you attune to Water, as opposed to 1).

He asked for survivability, hence why I gave him the 10 points in earth…

Of course with cleansing wave you will get another condition removed on attunement there, but with cleansing flame on a 40 second cd intead of 50 it can be used more frequently, as well as used as a stun break. This build isn’t a build I created or anything this is a well known survivability build, so instead of trying to insult me because I am trying to provide the op with what he asked, how bout chime in and help.

Stating facts and opinions = insulting? Your logical reasoning is unparalleled.

I did chime in. If the choice is between Zephyr’s Boon and Earth’s Embrace for an overall D/D build then Zephyr’s Boon is vastly superior.

The generic D/D build that a lot of people use now (copy-paste): http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhEmmbwR5gjDAkHmcCLiCPUeMTO2A;TgAKvM1Iqx2lzLZXDRmQA

I really feel you give up way too much offensive power by running D/D without Zephyr’s Boon, but I suppose that’s a personal preference – it is definitely not advisable to use 10 Earth over 10 Air outside of that specific role (bunker in sPvP). Your build is also not “the most condition removal in the game” seeing as you do not have Cleansing Wave (with that you have 2 conditions removed in an area around you every time you attune to Water, as opposed to 1).

OldRodKS.9758:

I have auto-targeting off, but it doesn’t seem to help.

Never had that issue with auto-targeting off. No issues here at all, are you sure you aren’t using RtL while you already have something targeted?

Good little guide! In case your Elemental is on cooldown or you have issues having it tank all the damage, it’s also doable by swapping to the Signet heal and using that to tank most of the damage (or pulling the guards by themselves without the Lord coming).

That is definitely the right way though

maddoctor.2738:

2 – Lightning Strike
Great damage and it can be used while channeling Arc Lightning! There is no reason not to use this every time is off cd as it will not interrupt the auto-attack. Also usable when using “Ride the Lightning” which is also a plus

This is no longer true. Your action bar is disabled during RtL as of the last patch, not sure why. Maybe they figured it was easier to disable any spells being cast during RtL than to fix the bug with Shocking Aura not giving Boons if used during RtL?

It’s pretty annoying and a small nerf to S/D in general (since both Strike + Flash were usable during RtL).

My pride lies with my guild and the people I play with, not the server I am on.

It could have been handled a lot better, unfortunately.

@Curring, I guess I’ll have to make some more then. Guess I could work on gathering footage a bit longer and create something more of a compilation instead of just random footage.

ThiBash.5634:

Fun times? There was this one time I used a stealth fountain in the EB jumping puzzle, and Gusted a Thief down into a group of my server which he was preventing from going further.

Maybe that wasn’t fun, but it was poetic justice. An ele who stealth ambushed a thief for a change…

Haha, that’s beautiful. Reminded me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3livg-UwU6Y

There are times when things just sorta align and you get away / get a kill in a hilarious fashion. Random rallies are also on that list – I remember rallying off an Arborstone guy that I had given up on killing because he got killed by Vizunah. That rally allowed me to get away from the other Vizunah group who had me downed.

I prefer to stay well clear of all the whiny threads and simply enjoy my Elementalist in solo and guild WvW. If fun footage is what you want, my channel has a decent amount of it.

I couldn’t be happier about how the Elementalist performs and the challenges it has, to be honest. It’s refreshing that it’s a class that takes quite a bit of finesse to play well.

Pact Dirk + Corrupted Shard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep9wwWge5VA

(or any other video on my channel from the last month or so)

Here’s a quick pic of Peacemaker: http://i.imgur.com/v0OEw.png

Have bought way too much siege to have an accurate number, but a ballpark figure:

1750 in bank, 50 in inventory when I logged last night: 1800
Invader Pants: 370
Full set of Jewelry: 528 + (330 * 2) + (396 * 2) = 1980
~4 Golems = 400
~40 Rams = 240
~5 Catapults = 60

1800 + 370 + 1980 + 400 + 240 + 60 = ~4850, I could have bought more siege that I forgot about though. That’s with around ~25k kills.

Heh, I suggested this, but I suppose others did as well.

This is a good change. It’s not needed now, but fairly well balanced.

Let’s see if it Blasts even when the spell itself is on CD, because then it’s OP again.

I think the “doom and gloom” is a bit over the top, but it would be nice if EA was a little more useful.

I love my Elementalist and do very well with it, to be honest.

Gaudrath.6725:

I don’t get all this “we suck at underwater combat” complaining. We have so much choice… just move, don’t stand there like a log. Move and use those kitten spells and you will melt stuff. I mean, if I have a complaint about underwater combat is that NPC pathing is so sluggish, you can literally circle-strafe them to death without even getting hit once.

It’s so easy you can drop all your armor even. It doesn’t matter, few things can actually hit you if you do it right. Combine that with our AoE spells and what’s there to complain about? That you can’t nuke a single target real quick? No, but you can destroy a whole bunch of them at once. Just like on land, in fact.

He’s talking about PvP, not you circle-strafing mobs in PvE. No one really cares how easily you can kill mobs in PvE.

http://gamingbolt.com/guild-wars-2-interview-we-talk-to-areanet-about-how-the-mmorpg-has-been-doing-post-launch

“January and February are actually the biggest updates to date.”

“And actually, in February, we’re going to do a whole bunch of expansions on top of that world vs world area, to make that experience even more uniquely Guild Wars. But that’s something where we took a lot of inspiration from a previous game, and take that and then build on it and make it something even more.”

Sounds good.

Played around on Arborstone Border for a little while solo, thanks to the Arbor guys in there for all the good fights and fun chats – Hexa Midne from The Clan is one nasty Mesmer!

Majax.3549:

Cyril.1486:

Here’s a Red Guard video from last week, enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy9Zd4zkj1w
Looking for more of the same this week gonna be a good week.

That’s too bad that you do not put the 2 or 3 last fight of the evening where we emerged victorious after having adapted our strategy against you.
But it is normal that your video’s …. but yeah there is a lack of victory actually to make a MOS video against RG lol: p
Keenly our next battle!

While the video does not show that we did lose quite a few fights versus you guys, I don’t think fights like that are as entertaining for the viewer. This is not really meant to be an accurate account of all fights between MoS and RG, but rather meant to be as entertaining as possible.

You have to think about it from the viewpoint of someone who doesn’t know either of our guilds and just wants to watch some great WvW. For that person, fights that are won are more entertaining to view seeing as it showcases the PoV (Warrior) far better. And it did show one wipe initially, which served to set up the rest of the movie pretty well.

Hope to see you for more fights soon

As I said earlier: The Churning Earth dodge roll from EA should be a Blast Finisher. Then reevaluate if the trait is strong enough after that.

TheGuy.3568:

Sigh

Here’s the simple truth if you know what your doing you never need to cast an actual heal with SoR. The last time I used my healing skill on ele was like a month ago. SoR plus water makes up the gaps. I have no written in stone no signet reduction and only 816 in healing. Learn to kite and never look back. Kiting no matter the class will make passive healing look insane.

Sigh

Here’s the simple truth: All 3 heals are good and worth using depending on preference, playstyle and build.

I’m running Ether Renewal with D/D lately and I love it.

Miporin, please cease posting so badly.

Zap.6459:

I thank Vizunah for allowing us to raise our stacks 25 of runes in plain when the need is felt between 2 meetings with RG ( joke ).

Haha! I was actually joking in guild chat a few days ago that after we wipe, the VS blob is an excellent way to get the 25 Sigil stack up before meeting Arborstone. I love how you guys thought the same thing.

I hope reset will be fun again, had a few nice fights this afternoon when running solo.

Lingering Elements is bugged to hell and back again. It’s supposed to work for the 5pt Minor Trait bonus on each line, but it doesn’t work for Earth.

At least, it did not work last time I bothered to check it.

Since forever? And yes, you need to initiate the cast before the field disappears, but the effect is not applied until the channeling finishes.

No. The system is great as it is right now.

I love the Elementalist. I think ArenaNet has done an amazing job on it.

Aura Share is awesome. I don’t like the 10 Arcana variation though – I roll with nothing in Earth (the Protection buff is too low duration, even with gear & food) and 30 Arcana.

I much prefer the versatility that high Arcana brings than the 20 Earth variant, but if it works for you, then go for it.

Option / MM / whoever else was in Arborstone Borderlands: Those were amazing fights, thanks a lot for that. All those crazy fights and then WvW restart in the middle of the Hills one, heh. Last frame before it reset: http://i.imgur.com/czusp.jpg

Wothan.4673:

Yep an Asura, i just look and laugh, very funny ( except for AS unfortunately )

Haha, I didn’t even notice you there – guess I was too busy. Thanks for letting the fight play out.

Wothan.4673:

Love the works of the RG elem near Redlake <3.
How shameful for AS this 4/5 vs one with some many losses… :/

Was it an Asura in Blacktide Border? Probably me then, was a really fun fight.

Unfortunately didn’t have HDD space for recording it, but was really enjoyable – thanks for the kind words!

Serp.3264:

Aether McLoud.1975:

Serp.3264:

Why do you have a weapon swap sigil on an elementalist? They can’t swap weapons.

Hurp a durp.

Maybe I am missing something? Care to explain? I’d honestly like to know. Does swapping items from your pack activate these sigils or something? I thought they only worked in combat.

Attunement swapping triggers it. This has been covered many, many times by now.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

How do you guys get on swap sigils to work on a class that cant swap weapons?

Attunement swapping counts as weapon swapping. That should be fairly obvious.

Aether McLoud.1975:

The crit sigils do NOT share cooldown with weaponswap sigils.

You are wrong. I’ll upload a video to show you.

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jncAIlBbNk

That was with Air & Battle Sigils. When I swapped to Air in the end I got the 3 stacks.

MindlessRuff.1948:

Well I DO know that if you have a sigil of Fire and a sigil of Battle, they will not proc at the same time, since they share internal cooldowns, so maybe switch to 5% damage or 5% critical chance sigil after getting 25 stacks?

This is correct. Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jncAIlBbNk

Hjulstad.6317:

Edit: My 2nd dagger has the 7 power / kill sigil and seems that ruins te might on swap aswell?!

No, it doesn’t. Remember that the Sigil itself has a cooldown of approximately ~9s which is why you’re not seeing it go off on each Attunement swap.

Caffynated.5713:

I use Bloodlust + energy, and then swap out the BL sigil with a 5% damage sigil when I have 25 stacks.

The extra dodges you get from the sigil of energy will win a lot more fights than a couple of stacks of might.

Energy isn’t bad, but with Renewing Stamina trait you already have perma-Vigor. Energy has an internal cooldown which you need to keep track of. You need to ensure that your Endurance is below 50% to gain the full effect as it does not proc on each Attunement swap (since it will be on cooldown).

I much prefer the “passive” effect of Battle which does not require me to micromanage additionally, especially as I already have perma-Vigor by itself.

Phoebe Poison.4875:

Nidhogg.2950:

its not Cir btw but CiR

It’s CIR, not CiR.

On topic, need more inventory space!

[17 Black Lion Merchant Expresses] – they were on sale yesterday, 50 Gems for 5! Should have picked some up. :p

silvos.3092:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Vizunah square has weak pvp skilled players, but only win because they are groupies.

Wrong, at least for a half…Yes we have weak pvp players…but we also have great pvp players…It’s just you don’t see them…And why? Well some of them left the WvW when you made it a Zerg vs Zerg, others are in the zerg for the loot not using their talent anymore since it’s not needed, and the last part of them left GW2 because WvW was their only interest in this game and it has become so boring…

But you can’t blame VS for that…you can only blame yourselves…you made that situation by fighting only in zergs destroying the little groups, using the clipping issue and inciting people from our server to play the same way…You only have the WvW you wished for… I told you that this WvW would be boring but as usual nobody listened (fortunately for me I loooove to say “I told you so”)…

I was fighting in little groups, having great fights in WvW…now I only go there for the tokens and the monthly achievement…But trust me if I could get good fights once again I would come back…So don’t blame us for the consequences of your choices…

Enjoy the WvW you created…

I see plenty of people having awesome fights when fighting outnumbered (myself included), perhaps you need to rethink the way you are trying to fight WvW when the game changes?

I, and many others, do miss the old DAoC 8v8’s, but you can’t expect the same from GW 2.

There are many issues with utilities, traits and overall skills on the Elementalist, but our heals are actually quite well balanced. All 3 of them are worth using at different points which is quite a feat.

The introduction of gear with stats 5-10% higher than Exotics is the worst thing to happen to the game yet, yes. If you don’t see how this is something ArenaNet will continuously build upon to create a large, necessary (if you like doing high level content, WvW and similar) item grind then you are incredibly narrow-sighted.

I will continue to play the game all the same, but it’s a truly unfortunate road that ArenaNet has taken.

Use your Auras when you’re cycling through attunements. You leave them off cooldown for considerable amounts of time which is just a waste when they’re instant casts.

Toughness/Power/Vitality (in that order, you only need enough Vitality to not get bursted)

Learn to keep yourself healed up and play a fairly defensive spec (ie. 20+ Water, 20+ Arcana).

Portals are fine. They’re pretty easy to counter and they are not remotely as strong as you make them out to be.

The turtle strategy will be phased out as it’s easy to beat when you’re fighting them efficiently.

MoonSpell.4512:

Give us the rg back! They don’t have the right to stop fighting !!

We were around a bit last night – we had an excellent fight taking back Garrison from water gate on BT Borderlands around ~11PM CET. A fairly long door melee to get it down, a portal to get us into position and a long, hard-fought battle for the lord room where we managed to win in the end.

Thanks a lot to the VS guys who provided an excellent fight there. The siege and defending was all top-notch, we just came out ahead this time.

As for fighting, I think you will find us very, very active come reset. Many of us are itching to fight Arborstone (Sacrx and Cyril in particular, as far as I know) and will be fighting many, many hours come weekend. I’m sure we’ll see you all there.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

I use the ability often to move about and when mobs are about when i use it, the skill will attack the mob even when i am NOT targeting the mob this is VERY, VERY annoying

Turn off auto-targeting in the Options. The others are legitimate issues, but I find it’s much better since the patch than it used to be.

I especially like the little “curving” or “homing” that it does onto the target.

You get plenty of money running FOTM. Sell stuff, buy mats. Easy.

The Churning Earth dodge roll (when it triggers, not like it used to be) should be a Blast Finisher, the rest not.

That way the trait would be fairly well balanced – in its current state it’s near useless and only the Water roll is remotely useful.

It’s quite simple.

Wothan.4673:

I can’t wait for Arbor to move up so we can fight both Vizunah Square and Arborstone. Should be some truly excellent fights as Arborstone has some very strong WvW guilds, as far as I know.

We can make good fight in prime time( LNM vs RG remake <3 ) , but don’t do not expect somethings in the night or off prime more generally.

Nah, I have no doubt that Xaoc alone will keep us in the top spot – the points are not my focus at all. I just look forward to the excellent fights we’ll be having. You guys better bring it all, we’ll look forward to it.