Guild Wars 2

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.

For now, Fractals of the Mists call. Reset on Friday should be some awesome action.

The sweet music of Sacrx yelling in my ears about where I should be bombing and how worthless the people dying are.

It’s the best kind of music

What an absolute joke.

If you needed any more confirmation that WvW is far down the list of ArenaNet concerns, this is it.

This is a joke. Could you please give us an update, ArenaNet? Some of us enjoy the reset PvP a lot.

This is a complete and utter joke.

http://i.imgur.com/TkNJI.png

You have efficiently alienated a large portion of your player base with this decision. I was so excited for this update, but this has completely tarnished my experience.

I am truly disappointed in a company I held in very high esteem, ArenaNet. Saddening.

Stay alive, pick off sides slowly. Use the fact that you are mobile and they are not to your advantage. Turtles are fairly easy to deal with unless the lag is extremely heavy, in which case it takes a bit longer.

Really, I don’t understand why everyone simply adapts the ‘turtle strategy’ instead of thinking of ways to counter it. We have had no issue dealing with and we have never turtled in any fighting situation.

Sixpax.8360:

I’ll say it again… siege won’t make much difference vs. a well coordinated turtle group. Well at least a reasonable amount of siege won’t. For those of you who think turtles are easy to beat, just wait. You’ll see.

What exactly are we waiting for? What guild or group does it so well that it will be impossible to beat?

Argadem.6135:

@Intigo you can’t really do anything else cuz so many guilds in all servers are actually doing the turtle tactic…and we are also outnumbered almost full time…so we are looking for the best way to counter them but with the amount of people actually playing WvW in Deso this week…there isn’t alot we can do
We are ofc looking for new strategies

The best counter to the turtle/stack strategy isn’t to do it yourself, but rather to think about ways of exploiting the weaknesses it has. I think a lot of guilds have simply adapted it thinking “hey, those guys beat us with it, we should do it too” when the better way to think of it is “hey, what could we have done differently when engaging that stack?” Just because a lot of other people use it does not mean it’s the best way to handle things – especially not when outnumbered.

I say this simply because I enjoy mixing things up and I think a few people get bogged down trying to perfect ‘the stack’ when it’s really limited in potential.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who keeps coming out in WvW and giving us great fights. Anyone who runs a guild group and tries to mix things up with their approach are awesome – MORT’s little siege stack was very neat the other day.

I didn’t expect IRON to also run with ‘the stack’ strategy like many others. I think you limit the potential you have as a guild group by utilizing these things – there’s only so much you can do in regards to strategy when you are all standing in one place.

RUIN is a bit of a joke, but I don’t think anyone is remotely surprised by that fact. They will simply refer to the fact that they are “just trolling”, I am sure.

Major props to Fëar Morniëo [FM] and [MORT] for running guild groups and playing against the odds.

If this is implemented in a purely higher stat gain fashion then this is an absolutely terrible idea. You better rethink this or clarify, ArenaNet.

A really long and very awesome fight against Vizunah this evening in BT Borderlands. Impressive defense of Hills and great fights in the field, took us a long time to finally break. At one point we were holding back Vizunah at the vista while all of CIR went to Garrison to get supply. Some close moments in that cap.

subversion.3841:

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Please stop making such bad posts in a topic that is (largely) positive.

blackgoat.5172:

JermyZ.3978:

The reason I have 2 daggers with corruption runes is to build condition damage faster, when its close to the 25th stack I usually swap to my battle sigil dagger.

I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure that those Sigils don’t stack. Meaning you’re not building to the max 25 any faster by having two.

You are wrong.

Joriel.1530:

This [RG] guild is insane, they are like a moving turtle, u can see that all members have foods, blooddusts 25 stacks, ofc they wipe every1 in their path.

gz to them ,best fighters i have seen.

some say they might be cheating, well i think not, but if they are… shame on them.

when they are dispersed, they are not that strong tbh,

We fought you guys a bit today! It was fun to see another actual guild group out in Blacktide Borderlands, thanks for bringing it.

No cheating to be had, but many great fights in tier 1. I really hope the matchup stays the same since, with all due respect, fighting Elona is way less interesting than fighting Vizunah Square / Desolation. Vizunah can be extremely aggressive and well played which has caught us off guard a few times, whereas Elona are very passive in their playstyle.

There are still plenty of hackers and since your report tool is so woefully inadequate, many of them go unreported.

What logical reason could you possibly have for removing that option?

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Useful.

Fenghoang.3804:

You can use Boon Duration runes (2x Superior Water & Monk + 2 Major Water or Monk), 30 pts in Arcane Tree (with Elemental Attunement trait), and 10 pts in Lightning Tree (for Zephyr’s Boon). Each time you swap to Lightning, you get 8s of Swiftness by itself (you can attune every 9s with 30 pts in Arcane). Top that off with Shocking Aura (17s of Swiftness) and you’re easily perma-swifted. You can throw in Frost Aura (8s of Swiftness) too if you want, though it’s not really necessary.

Or you can just use Rune of the Centaur. It provides 10s base swiftness on heal that is effected by all Boon Duration buffs, as well as the +20% swiftness duration boost from its 4 pc set bonus.

I personally never use Updraft just to maintain my swiftness while roaming. It slows you down, since you evade backwards, and you could really use it for part of your spell combo.

About Face in Keybinds.

mouse.1689:

Using Dagger/Dagger, you combo Air Trait 1 (Zephyr’s Boon) with Water 4 and Air 3. Each one will give you 12 seconds of Swiftness (assuming you have 30 points in Arcana.)

You can also use 2 each of Superior Rune of Water, Superior Rune of the Monk, and Major Rune of Water or Monk for an additional 45% boon duration.

You’re forgetting Updraft.

The total boon duration from that combination is 40%, not 45%.

Sugram.3106:

ton’t know about Asura but Sylvari is pretty good, better then human ele, 4 more elite skills the human, human has 3 & add 4 to that, so Sylvari has 7 elite skills, Sylvari is different a bit, human is worse choice for ele, u can play but its not as good

The more you post the more I’m convinced you’re really just a troll trying very hard. Everything you post is so random and utterly wrong.

Asura master race. Our elites blow, but the Elemental is honestly fine, don’t listen to people who say otherwise. We also get Radiation Field which is a handy little utility skill in group fights.

The Hounds of Balthazar are pretty strong on Humans if you really want a racial elite.

Pretty basic ones, only 2 mouse binds:

WASD – Movement

1 through 5 – Weapon Skills

< (to the left of Z) – Heal
Q – Utility 1
Z – Utility 2
X – Utility 3
E – Class #1
R – Class #2
F – Class #3
C – Class #4
V – Dodge
G – Interact / Stomp

Side Mouse Button 1 – Toggle Run
Side Mouse Button 2 – Elite

T – Take Target
Alt-T – Call Target (only really used on WvW leader at the time)
Alt-Q – About Face (handy for Burning Retreat and a number of other skills)
Left Shift – Look Behind
Left Ctrl – Push To Talk

After 3½ hours in EB post reset, time to call it quits for me. Thanks a lot for the excellent fights, Elona and Riverside – hopefully some more awesome fights tomorrow.

Yeah, we had a lot of fun after moving to EB in WvW! Some very impressive fights and massive battles, thanks for bringing it. We had a few close calls when coming back for SM defense, but the other BT people in the zone did a good job of buying us some time. It’s a shame if we sometimes had pretty large numbers when fighting you, but we did have people tagging along fairly often.

We fought the massive Elona group a few times as well with just [RG] – some insane fights inside the little Delve dungeon bit to the SW of Anzalia’s Pass. We also had a really great fight near Aldon’s Ledge against some 50+ Elona where we got overrun in the end.

Many thanks for once again giving us some excellent fights.

Gah, I don’t want to see FSP drop to tier 3 after the amazing fights you’ve provided us with so far. While I am certain Riverside are pretty decent, I have no doubt in my mind that FSP provides us with better primetime action than they can.

Oh well, good luck FSP!

With a highly organized WvW group: 30Water/30Arcana/10Air Aura-share D/D.

Excellent fun.

The puzzle was amazing. Get a grip.

RG was on Elona last evening before I logged, had some excellent fights. We ended up fighting in Bluevale Refuge once more at around 20:30 which is where we met our downfall the evening before that, but we stood our ground better this time. It was pretty much a continuous battle over ~20-30 minutes with Far Shiverpeaks pushing us from both the archway and their side-exit from spawn with us coming out on top in the end. I think our group of ~25 pretty much covered that entire supply camp area when we were kiting around.

Props to Za Drots and the rest of the Far Shiverpeaks guys for some excellent fighting. Was also a great fight at Hero’s Lodge against ZDs + GF + extras. Unfortunately, you guys seemed to leave rather early on or we could have had some more fun! I suppose it might have been late for you since there was a decent amount of Russians in that group.

Elona showed yet again why it’s so tough to push Garrison in their home border. The amount of siege and people they have for Keep defense is astonishing, but at least we picked up a nice amount of kills before leaving. It’s no wonder that you are ahead on the scoreboard as no other server is quite so tenacious about defense as you are – I remember that from when I was fighting you on Seafarer’s Rest, too.

I really hope Far Shiverpeaks stays with it because I don’t believe at all that they should be transfering to Blacktide or similar. We want a spread of high-level international WvW servers, not only 2. The skill Far Shiverpeaks has (or had, if people have already begun leaving) is overall higher than any other, I think.

Thanks for the fun yet again! http://i.imgur.com/kEnf4.jpg

It’s a random craft in the Mystic Forge, there is no (known) recipe.

Here’s a bit of a list: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/69479-unique-exotics-database/

jroekke.7210:

@ Intigo.1653 I remember you guys from yesterday on ER BL, good fights, one of the better guilds Ive faced! Cheers from FSP.

Good times! Hopefully we’ll get to meet you and other strong guilds from FSP many times in the future.

The Clocktower was amazing. Anyone complaining about it is clearly not aware that they don’t need to finish every single thing in the game.

It also wasn’t that hard.

After moving to Blacktide yesterday with Red Guard I have had some pretty amazing fights. Thanks a lot to everyone who brought the good times against us on the Elona Borderlands (EB later) yesterday evening.

Elona kept at it and took back their Garrison despite wiping a few times, their numbers are very impressive.
Far Shiverpeaks actually did an excellent job of spreading out and diminishing our damage fairly often – the fight we had at their supply camp where they slowly dwindled our numbers was a wake up call. There’s no denying you guys have some great guilds, hopefully you’ll keep at it and get a little help with coverage in additional time zones. I personally think you should stick with it and get a little help in extra time zones, I don’t want to see you splitting off because it’s more fun when there’s a fairly wide range of high-level WvW servers.

Most of Red Guard had an amazing time yesterday, I look forward to more action tonight. Random screenshot while channeling Churning Earth: http://i.imgur.com/0Ct6v.jpg

Naurgalen.2374:

I think fixing the bugs on the CDs will be enough (the one that makes the cd start when the elemental dies + the cd reduction trait which works partially )

How is that a bug? If it didn’t start when the Elemental died then you would only have 36s downtime when traited.

Also, they fixed the cooldown reduction?

No. We’re not a pet class and I don’t want to be a pet class.

And Necromancers are not “nearly impossible to kill”.

Zenyatoo.4059:

I must be the only ele who runs crest of the soldier.
20 power/14vit/14 toughness * 6 is good guys :<

You’re not the only one at all. I used Crest of the Soldier until I upgraded to full Divinity as well.

Elementalist is fine in WvW. Not sure what you’re on about.

Doesn’t work here, probably still a bit shaky while he gets it up to date.

The best Rune: Divinity. Hands down, unless you really want that triple Boon duration bonus.

As for the blue text it’s probably because the Elementalist Rune set is the default one in sPvP and the UI bugs out. You are not getting the bonus even though the game says you already have 6/6. I had 11/6 for a while when I was running Dolyak.

daphoenix, obviously Zephyr’s Boon is terrible for S/D. I never suggested that, just saying it makes for a better sustained damage running 20 Air and you can still have 30 Arcana without giving up Arcane Wave as you would for the Signet build.

Also, Final Shielding is better than a low crit chance Vifor regen, even in its buggy state~

Anyway, both are good.

Webley, you don’t need to mention how Seafarer’s Rest is medium pop in every single post you make to this forum.

It’s getting a bit tiresome.

Chill is strong and the Elementalist is better off than you make it seem.

The description of Air may be wrong, but it doesn’t really matter. Sure, they can change that one description and you can play another class that would appeal to your lower skill level?

Pingu.2963:

begining of this vid i did actually fraps what you guys are talking about xD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r05ax04K9Tw
Should learn not to go into big blobs of enemies but its kinda like seeing a big red button that says do not press. xD

Wow. I’m amazed you would post a video like that.

Heh.

daphoenix.4283:

@Fannon
Yea there is always those consumables :P
I also like using mango pies for +70 hp /sec

@Mike
S/D should probably focus more on fire bursting, so I would recommend altering it into some of the fire tree traits (10% more dmg under fire attunement). There also tends to be less mobility as well, so zephys boon from air isn’t really needed either. For S/D, I would probably use an entirely different build.

Try something like this for S/D
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.1.1.0.13.0.16.0.34.0.3.14.10.9.24.8.7.7.6.0.0.0.0.0.33.32.42.50.0.0.65.0.0.10.0.30.15.15

While that is certainly an awesome Signet/bursty build, for anyone who wants to run the usual 30 Arcana & 15+ Water, I actually feel Air is a better thing to pick up. When it comes to sustained and reliable damage, Air is superior to Fire versus anyone with the slightest clue. The instant damage you get from switching + #2 nuke + RtL as you cycle through attunements is actually really high. That’s why I run 20Air/20Water/30Arcana right now whereas I used to run 10Fire/10Earth/20Water/30Arcana.

Of course, that changes somewhat when you have Signet of Earth, but for the most part it holds true. Especially as smart opponents will blow their immunity when they see you line up the Signet Dragon’s Tooth combo.

Also, makes more sense to get 20 Water 10 Arcana in that build so you pick up the Cantrip trait. You have 3 of them, after all. I don’t know if I can ever play with 10/15 Arcana again after rolling with 30 for so long.

Eruption is the Blast Finisher you’re thinking of, but it’s delayed. So if you wish to use it, you need to remember to cast it first and then cast your Water Field or Static Field (Swiftness) on top of it.

The best way to get lots of Blast Finishers is knowing how to use Evasive Arcana.

As for the thread itself, while +Healing is not bad, the most vital part of any Elementalist build that wants to have a decent amount of sustain comes from 2 things:

1) A minimum of 15 in Water. This gives you an instant heal every time you attune to Water which is extremely powerful. When you couple that with…

2) A decent amount of points in Arcana to keep the attunement recharges low. If you’re attuning to Water every ~10s then you have a stupid amount of self-healing before we even factor in your weapon skills!

Evasive Arcana (30 Arcana) Water dodge roll also plays a pretty big part. It has an internal cooldown of 5-7s, so it should be used every time you attune to Water as well.

All good Elementalist builds incorporate most of this now. Evasive Arcana is obviously not a necessity, but I enjoy playing with it.

I personally play 20Air/20Water/30Arcana with S/D as the largest amount of your damage vs good players will come from Air as you constantly swap attunements.

You mean to tell me I can’t do this now:

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It is easy to solo a supply camp as an Elementalist. Earth Elemental speeds it up a bit, but is not necessary. It can be quite fun to defend supply camps solo, I do that on a regular basis.

S/D with 20Air/20Water/30Arcana.

Scribbles.7493:

Spoiler: It’s a trick question. No sane person solos in WvW.

What an idiotic comment. I solo a lot in WvW and I do very well.

Yeah, it’s a bug since the last patch. Hopefully they will fix it because a lot of people use both “<” and “½” (on a Scandinavian keyboard, between Shift and Z) for different things.

It screws over a lot of bind layouts.

Dredj, you babby, game is fine.

Snort.3698:

Dredj.4025:

I would say it’s a combination of things that has killed Seafarer’s.

Hacking during the Deso/Kodash match up culled a lot of WvW presence. Before that the hours upon hours of queueing culled guilds, my guild fell victim to this. Oct 7th patch also culled guilds from doing WvW. And of course getting higher in the ranks means we face more Nightcapping servers which cannot be competed against, so people again don’t WvW due to it being pointless.. we all know the Nightcapping song and dance routine. And lastly the free transfers means that those who still want to WvW will move to a server still capable.

Seafarer’s may be the pioneering server in what happens if GW2 doesn’t get fast changes. Time will tell, just watch each week as Seafarer’s fall further down the rankings, where she stops nobody knows!

Is That Dredj from Warhammer?

Come over to Blacktide man we moved here with the Unnamed and CIR.

Its awesome.

Here are some of our experiences of it.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post490828

Haha, wow.

Yoke.4671:

^^
Not true at all mate, alot of the guilds on SFR esp the pvp ones just left for higher tier/ busier servers. They jumped ship to winning and bigger zerg servers, bugs had nothing to do with it bar a few days after the oct7th patch till it was hotfixed where alot didnt bother to play

What are you even talking about? If “a lot of the guilds” left, then you should easily be able to say which ones?

Zero.8590:

We have enough ru plaayers on BT) I really want to see only 1 guild – [OSC]. They are really the strongest guild of SR.

Heh. Xaoc saying something like that is nothing short of hilarious.

This has been a confirmed bug for 8-9 days and still not fixed? Considering the exploitative nature of this, this is pretty disappointing.

Seriously.

Yeah, Divinity is insanely good. Dolyak’s last bonus is worthless, which is really a shame. They should really have tinkered with the scaling aspect of Healing Power and that bonus instead of simply disabling it.

Vaerah.4907:

They discussed 1 build and the developer at his first next post stated he’s watching it closely (to nerf it).

Lesson learned, mouths shut.

Seems like an odd attitude to have when it helps people improve. :p

Here’s some random fight I had versus some Arborstone people over a supply camp with the new build: