Guild Wars 2

I hope the Signet heal is nerfed so the countless Ele rerollers who use that and stack Healing gear will stop playing the Elementalist.

Tired of being a FOTM class.

PS: Ether Renewal is superior~

It is far worse. The least they could do is to once again remove the terrible culling experiment, but leave in the model loading thing (even though it seems to do very little).

It is honestly quite astonishing how much ArenaNet can alienate their WvW playerbase. This is something a large amount of their players play, yet it has mostly gone from bad to worse during the entirety of GW 2’s life span so far.

And now the February update won’t even bring the WvW stuff with it. It is pretty disheartening, as a purely WvW player.

This matchup is not certain yet. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves until the fight actually begins.

I look forward to GvG’s versus some of the stronger SFR guilds if it does happen. You better not disappoint me now, guys.

Wothan.4673:

playandchill.3908:

Maybe you JS guys can go in T1 with vizunah and elona?

So T2 will be piken/sfr/deso.

Our place is in T3 or less not in T2 or T1 atm, but yes, Deso/Piken and Sfr will be a very good match.

This is so very wrong. Jade Sea has an insane amount of people, strong guilds and decent coordination – you’ll easily hold your own in Tier 2 just as you did this week. Don’t be silly.

It should set you to the health you were at before you used the skill. Seems to be working fine for me, even though it’s obviously not as good as it was prior to the patch.

If any Baruch / Augury guys enjoy 1on1’s, let me know. Would love to get some fun 1on1’s versus good players.

maddoctor.2738:

This was fixed I believe or at least I haven’t noticed it ever again since the latest patch

When it happened to me, it was on an Elementalist in Vapor Form. The patch on the 28th had this change:

Vapor Form: This skill will no longer allow players to rally off of kills that grant zero experience. This skill will now also properly restore death state on completion.

So, yeah – unless I see it again, I’m fairly sure it’s been fixed.

Naouvi.2081:

Intigo.1653:

You should really stop clicking your utilities / heals, it’s way too slow. Use your heal far more often, there’s a reason it has a 15s CD.

Encode your video in widescreen so you don’t get black bars.

Also, /laugh is quite a joke when you play that badly.

On the upside, at least you’re not a Signet user.

Just wish we could fight 1v1 you will see that even user my mouse to use my heal utility you whould not win 100% sure about it.

Oh, wow.

0/15/0/25/30 is much more fun.

Khenzy.9348:

SilverWF.4789:

Can’t say much coz I’m always in the kittened and kittening queues! ><

Well, that’s understandable, you guys had lots of transfers just before paid transfers went live. I’m pretty sure you are a T1/T2 server now, where before you were around T3. Very intense fights await you in the future my friend!

Intigo.1653:

Who were they? The guys you dueled from AR.

And was it actually a condition Mesmer as opposed to just another Confusion-stacking baddie?

Woah, that ‘baddie’ word is just out of place, don’t post inflammatory crap here please. He was a full condition mesmer with scepter and staff. I’m sure very, very few people actually beats him 1v1. And I’m sorry to tell you, but I don’t remember who exactly were they, all I know is they are all pretty sick duelers (and very friendly people).

Names? Guild name? Anything?

As for the word I used; there’s a reason Confusion was severely nerfed in sPvP.

Khenzy.9348:

Hey, to those amazing players from Augury Rock that I just dueled (I’m the human blonde masked Ele), man, that was fun! That guild sure has some very skilled players! I specially enjoyed dueling some unconventional ‘non-meta’ builds such as full condi mesmer (who kicked my butt big time), a condi necro teleporting all over the place with Spectral Walk and Flesh Wurm (I didn’t stand a chance with this one either), a full signet Elementalist with dagger/focus, and a d/d tanky thief with imba regen on stealth that a shadow refuge meant coming out with full hp. All very clever, effective and viable builds. Fun times!

Sorry Piken Square guys, all I’ve seen from you is P/D thieves (man, these really are a plague on your server), D/D thieves, and those big stunlocking monsters with hammers from SiN . Nothing that I’d claim any respect just yet!

Who were they? The guys you dueled from AR.

And was it actually a condition Mesmer as opposed to just another Confusion-stacking baddie?

Inkubus.7529:

But we don’t have them so much. Organized groups are really scarce on my server.
On Gandara we have server TS and there is one very good commander but he has such British accent that I really can’t understand him

Gandara has pretty decent WvW guilds. Aren’t Yakslappers still around? I am sure you could play Staff in their groups and be a huge benefit. There’s uhh…Semnome or something too.

You should really stop clicking your utilities / heals, it’s way too slow. Use your heal far more often, there’s a reason it has a 15s CD.

Encode your video in widescreen so you don’t get black bars.

Also, /laugh is quite a joke when you play that badly.

On the upside, at least you’re not a Signet user.

Staff Ele is amazing in WvW in an organized guild group.

Yes, it’s not good when the numbers are very low.

Offski.4897:

Wish they put as much effort into replying as they did in deleting posts etc.

I’m sure you know that the people replying are not even remotely the same as the people moderating the forums.

Symon’s History of Ascalon ( http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Symon%27s_History_of_Ascalon ).

Because it gives Crit Damage at a cost of 7 stat points, which is very good. Crystalline Band gives Crit Damage at a cost of 8.5 which is also pretty good, but that’s just because it dropped.

See: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/12dmi5/tip_stat_optimization_with_crit_damage/ (pre-Ascended)

Sure, there’s no skill involved, but being in T1 / T2 has one important aspect to it:

You get to fight some of the other amazing guilds in those brackets. I could not care less about the scores at the end of the week, but the fights you can have versus guilds like KAZ / IRON / OSC / etc. eclipse any of the downsides.

And unfortunately, the lower brackets do not have guilds of quite the same caliber, usually.

Renewing Stamina > *

Oh great, another thread.

This culling is a joke.

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

1. staff for siege and D/D heavy healing build for everything else.
2. it’ll take you a couple of weeks to fully grasp all the things that this class has to offer depends on how much time you spend playing it though.

D/D with a lot of +Healing is for scrubs and bads.

The culling system is beyond trash.

Limey.2769:

Hey guys, I just got dxtory and followed the guide for the x264 codec setup. I’m trying to record at 1080p and it works fine in every other game, but as soon as I press record in GW2, my video driver crashes, or my system reboots.

Any thoughts? I’ve tried using several versions of the software with no luck. Same issues.

Can you give give your versions and configs ?

Are you using the new ATI/AMD Beta Driver? Apparently there’s some issues with it.

…you still didn’t say what you’re using to edit it.

And it’s perfectly possible to fix with any program.

Kelo is a troll. Countless amount of players have issues with culling despite using very powerful PC’s.

I miss the old one for kiting. It was an amazing mobility tool – the new one, much less so.

Kodiak, I give up, you don’t get it. I use balanced gear, of course I do, but staying alive is perfectly doable even in high damage situations when you know what you are doing. And the reason I take no damage is because I know how to position myself. VoTF gets commended all the time by NA T1 players, so they can’t be that bad, surely.

FinalPatriot.8034:

@Intigo,

For group combat in WvW, do you ever change over to staff for the increased ranged DPS or to you always stick with the D/D build? Reason I ask is the other night a 2 D/D Ele’s jumped into our raid group and really screwed things up for us while another stood on some rocks tossing down death with his staff.

Very rarely do I swap to Staff. We have really good Staff Eles that do their job very well in regard to AoE and Healing, so I rarely need to.

If we’re sieging or people run the turtle (ie. 30-40+ bunched up) then I may go Staff, but otherwise not.

The 2 D/D Eles you had join your raid were most likely very inexperienced.

Culling is terrible. Implement the low-res mechanic on the OLD system instead of this horrible system which you already tested and failed with once.

You are alienating core WvW guilds with this.

The culling is horrible. It’s complete and utterly terrible. Why would you implement the “low-res” system on the ‘test-culling’ part of your culling instead of simply putting it on the old system, which is tried and tested?

This patch is horrible for organized WvW. I would much prefer the previous culling in Zerg vs Zerg fights too.

Neil.6138:

The rendering has been done to the same specs as the video capture; widescreen, and with a bunch of other variables. Each time it turns out the same, regrettably.

You’re messing something up. What program are you using? If it’s Windows Live Movie Maker (which is horrible) then you need to ensure that Widescreen is selected under “Project”.

Kodiak.3281:

Anyone want to link a D/D video in normal WvW scale PvP lol…

Your post is silly. D/D does not get weaker except perhaps in very laggy situations – it’s still extremely viable in 30v30+ engagements.

Here’s some 20v20 GvG fights versus VoTF:

It’s much the same in all the WvW scenarios I have with my guild; the D/D Ele always shines. Not to mention the countless 1vX fights I’ve had.

Inkubus.7529:

Knox.3748:

well, the build is bad. Dont take it so personally, its just a bad build

I am not taking personal “Hey your build is bad” line itself, but I take it if you don’t say what is bad and why is bad and what is your proposal, why is your better proposal and so on. Right now it looks like trolling and then I do take it personal.

Good example is Jornophelanthas.1475 and I respect that he gave his idea of good build.

Having perma-Fury (and Swiftness, but less significant in the fight itself) from both your Auras is far more valuable than an uncontrolled 50% Armor of Earth buff. You likely already have perma-Vigor and perma-Regen (for the duration of the fight) due to other traits, so the only thing it gives you is a tiny boost to Protection & Stability (which you do not control and do not need). The 5pt Earth trait also does not seem to work with Lingering Elements from Arcana, unless they fixed it (but Air 5pt is worthless too, so it doesn’t matter as much).

I personally find Renewing Stamina superior to Final Shielding, but that’s more of a taste thing, I’ll admit. In that build it makes some sense with the high amount of Vigor you would get from Cantrips (I prefer having perma-Vigor even without my Cantrips so I know I have it for a sustained period of time even when Cantrips aren’t up).

Dolyak Runes are weak because the 6th bonus is bad (30hp/s) and the bonuses it gives overall are somewhat lackluster. Using the 4/6 Boon Duration (Sup Water + Monk) and 2/6 Divinity mix or simply 6/6 Divinity is overall far better for any Elementalist. If you want to get some of the lost Toughness back then slot some more Knight’s gear.

If it’s not your Healing Power then I would be really surprised. It really wouldn’t make sense.

The same applies to Boon Duration. Boons you grant (to others and yourself) are affected by your own Boon Duration and not theirs. Just as Boons granted to you from others will not be affected by your own.

Any time!

I’m going to keep looking around for decent settings for Dxtory that allow me to capture at a decent size ratio without suffering (slight) quality loss when uploading to YouTube.

http://thenightcrowtribe.com/index.php?topic=463.0 seems promising, but Lagarith Lossless takes up way too much space for my puny little HDD.

Few quick tips before I gotta go:

Having tested quite a few, how I would list recording programs: Dxtory > Bandicam > Playclaw > Fraps – MSI Afterburner is in there somewhere close to Bandicam. Dxtory requires quite a bit of fiddling, but it’s very powerful. Here’s a good guide: http://www.thecgl.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=178

1: Include the finishing moves if it’s not obvious that you would easily win.

2: I would prefer seeing proper opponents and proper teamplay. A ‘frag compilation’ is boring and does not interest me.

3: Either or, just make sure it’s valuable footage. I would much prefer a slower paced video with strategy/good play/good fights than a ramped up video showing a bunch of quick frags on terrible players. Voice comms are also great.

I think WvW movies are more fun, but the solo Elementalist stuff has been mostly played out by now. I recently did a GvG video of Red Guard vs Vengeance Of The Fallen (VoTF) which was pretty decent – anything group/guild play is very fun to watch and not outdone yet. Bonus if it’s objective-based (ie. you’re holding a Tower or a Keep, or ninja’ing it in a fashion which also gives you a hard fight).

NOTE: The only issue with Dxtory & x264vfw is that YouTube doesn’t like that format too much, which makes the video a little bit smushed. I haven’t had quality complainst, but my 1080p could be a lot crisper. If you find another good Dxtory guide, then feel free to share it.

Just fight each other in a BO7 format with equal number instead of being forum warriors. You still have 2 more days to settle the score before the match-up changes.

Or you can keep throwing thinly-veiled insults at each other, that works too.

Encode it in widescreen so you don’t have black bars. It looks silly.

GvG is not what TSYM is about. We will not use WvW as our own personal kitten fencing ground. Taking up 30+ slots in a WvW match for a “come at me bro” chest bump is not playing for SoS, its playing for our own personal ego.

We will no longer be participating in these activities, do not bother messaging us on it, and mind your own house. TSYM plays for Sea of Sorrows first, and ourselves second. Letting our ego take the wheel is not how we do business, and we will refrain from it in the future.

Seems like the stance on GvG changed in TSYM.

Oh dear, yet again.

Muppet.6485:

I like to run Emerald Jewelry with my PVT, and though the main stat changes for the Item itself and the Gem that comes inserted in it, I find this works in our favor anyways.

Item has main Toughness with Power/Prec minors
Gem has Prec main with Power/Tough minors

You lose the extra crit damage from berzerkers, but you keep most of the Power and Precision. Then the Toughness furthers your EHP a great deal, resulting in a really well balanced offensive build with more than respectable damage potential while still being able to take hits

You should try changing the Gems into Berserker (Ruby) or Valkyrie (Beryl) since Crit Damage is really good in that slot.

More reading: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/12dmi5/tip_stat_optimization_with_crit_damage/

Less water.

Actually, no water.

Desert map, please.

TheDevilWithinU.7092:

Awesome video as always. You have changed how quite a few guilds roll tactic/build wise. Hope to get a few fights against you guys! (If you are staying in JQ… I have heard that you are though.)

We’re no longer on JQ, I’m afraid.

Dolyak Runes are terrible and your build has 10 Earth over 10 Air which is also terrible. The “standard” D/D build has always been 10 Air. The Fury & Swiftness from Aura use is incredible, only people with no clue use 10 Earth over it (see: Bit).

You are going to knock people out of your Portal area immediately, dealing mediocre damage.

They are then going to move away from your little Tornado ball and kill you from range quite easily as you sit there.

Tornado is too terrible for this to work versus anyone with the slightest of clues (and sufficiently large zergs will kill you anyway).

Probably Ether Renewal? Wait no, Ether doesn’t make you float, I think. Unless it’s different when you use it standing still or as another race.

What was the interval?

teg.1340:

I can live with it. But what really annoys me is the sound effect of shocking aura. It sounds bad when used on your own, but its even more horrible when used with powerful auras on multiple allies.

Holy moly, so true. It’s the single-most annoying sound ingame. We run a few D/D Eles in our guild groups and when we’re constantly spamming Shocking Aura to keep Swiftness up the sound is absolutely horrible.

More like, brought to us by quaggan! Thanks to all the great guilds and players we fought during our US stay, hope you guys keep having some awesome fights.

Hecksa already addressed the silly posts.

Mona.4576:

Was a very good week, thanks to all involved.

Your videos are stronk, why didn’t you make any US footage?

PS: Ghost > creepy faceless Doll.

Vodka.3958:

Intigo.1653:

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.

You really weren’t lieing when you said this lol

Our stay in US was always most likely to be temporary – seems like you guys are doing just fine without us now. As far as I know, a lot of people were thankful we came over and showed you what was doable with a bit of organized fighting.

Ruprect.7260:

Pannonica.5378:

Our guild leader is sitting at about 133k kills at the moment, and the game wasn’t released 10 years ago, so titles are not unreachable.

LOL, your guild leader has gotten 900 kills a day every day since launch.

Screen shot please

This is from December 21: http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/289/sacrx.jpg (you can see the references to the end of the world in chat)

You can easily enough guess that the number has gone up since then.

Smokee.1754:

It was awesome to have you on the NA side, and it was great to fight you guys again. There is no doubt that you owned our kitten in gvg, where as the open fight fights were a bit more even.

Id really love to see more NA guilds getting into gvg. So far its only been TW from SoR that has showed any interest in it.

Good luck RG. !

You should totally set up some fights versus VoTF, I bet they’d be up for fighting you lot. I would be very interested in seeing how those fights turn out!