Guild Wars 2

Yeah, looting is best served for after the fight. GvG battles have been great fun so far, I hope the trend will continue and we’ll see other guilds participating later on.

Video was excellent, as always! Some of the open field fights we had versus SoS were absolutely insane – the numbers they can bring are somewhat scary. While I would have loved for other guilds than just VoTF from SoS to fight us, they certainly brought a lot of action in the battle itself. A very well-organized server in that regard.

Rawnoodles.1398:

Score Update!

I think you need to make sure your guild logo is in that picture a few more times.

:D

Tajz.9826:

VotF is like a big number version of RG.

Haha, no.

No.

Portals are fine, anyone with a clue can easily deal with them.

The culling change on the 28th will be beneficial for everyone.

Stop posting about this.

Galogon.4590:

Just another quick question.

Since gear with power/vit/tough only exists in karma and dungeon sets, in the meantime, what gear should I be using? Berserker’s ? Or maybe a mix of power/tough/healing + power/vit/precis ?

Just use some MF gear while farming the Karma. The Karma needed for the PowerToughVit gear comes very quickly.

It has been confirmed that Golem in a Box will be removed in the next patch. Anyone who uses it after that fact is not exploiting, but should perhaps rethink the legitimacy of their ‘strategy’.

(Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Golem-in-a-Box-Intended-for-WvW-use/page/2#post1290487 )

On another note, here’s a few GvG fights versus VoTF from a D/D Elementalist PoV:

Only 6 out of ~15 fights that we had – some of which were much closer than these, but I didn’t record fully.

Area Might is 3 stacks, not 4.

And yes, he should have mentioned EA in Earth more, but doesn’t seem like he uses it to stack Might from his own footage.

Since Zoose is incapable of linking correctly, this is the video:

Zaeon.3846:

I pretty much lost respect toward PRX guild the other day when I saw their entire zerg using Potion of Ascalonian mages —-- they fully know what it does and yet they choose to take advantage of it.

What does it do, exactly?

Sounds more like an excuse. Culling is the same.

The above builds are fine, but there’s one thing missing: Renewing Stamina > Final Shielding.

Perma-Vigor is far superior to a tiny Arcane Shield proc. I might even use it over Elemental Attunement in the Staff build, depending on how much I expect to need to dodge.

As for gear:

I would only use MF when farming Orr events, nowhere else.

Grab the full (5/6) Karma Power/Tough/Vit set ( http://dulfy.net/2012/09/08/gw2-templegod-karma-armor-sets/ ) or a stat-equivalent dungeon set. Then pick up the Jewelry that you want (I use Invader’s with Berserker Jewels inside, except for 2 Ascended pieces) to go with it. Knight’s is also good, some like Sapphire/Cleric (Healing Power), but I am not a fan of that and the Signet itself.

Here’s some reading for Crit Damage that you should know: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/12dmi5/tip_stat_optimization_with_crit_damage/

Don’t be a Signet user.

Novalight.7568:

Intigo.1653:

http://www.twitch.tv/prydatv

Pryda is live streaming some GvG fights right now.

My kitten still hurts from the involuntary penetration you guys administred last night.

Very good show.

Those were awesome fights! One of the fights was very close, Sacrx rallied twice.

IDarko.4709:

And about GvG. Yeah, it’s fun to watch and i did observe some GvG even today on Gandara (arranged). The thing is, it WILL not work as format in this game. GW1 had an entire different balance. Having GvG in this game with 15+ will result in zergy clashes where dropping AoE and combo fields is more important than anything else. The depth is gone. The fight will take less than a minute, as seen in most arranged “GvG” fights in GW2 so far. The game is not build/balanced/designed for big guild clashes.

Spoken like someone who doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. It is certainly not as deep as GW 1 was (purely from a mechanics standpoint), but GW 2 has potential to be an amazing GvG game in 15-20ish clashes too. There are so many advanced strategies that people can employ which haven’t really been done yet. The movement required from GW 2 is unparalleled.

And we have had quite a few fights that took over 1 minute – I am sure we’ll have even more in the future. Some of our toughest fights were over a minute due to constant regroups and people rallying.

Krakah.3582:

Intigo.1653:

http://www.twitch.tv/prydatv

Pryda is live streaming some GvG fights right now.

What Anet doesn’t provide, the players have set aside a plot of land on their own. Which Mill hill looks to have become the unofficial GvG area.

We’ve done it in other areas too, but yeah – it’s a nice spot.

GvG is really something we need to push for ArenaNet to implement. It would be so great to have it everywhere. GvG is really the most fun we’ve had in the game.

http://www.twitch.tv/prydatv

Pryda is live streaming some GvG fights right now.

Aberrant.6749:

Dawdler… all tier 1 servers have 24/7 max player # coverage… so that wouldn’t happen

This is very wrong. While the high tier servers do have some form of cross-coverage, they do not remotely have 24/7 max player coverage.

And that’s speaking from someone who has played in Tier 1 on both NA and EU.

Tallis.5607:

Tiglie.5834:

So this confirms it. You change is not addressing culling just loading.

<nods>

That is what I thought too: in this patch, nothing gets fixed for people that have fast PCs (with SSD drives, for example).

We can only hope that things gets fixed later for everyone, but this month won’t help me at all.

He says confidently without actually having tested or seen the system in action.

Boon Duration is too strong to give up. What you want to put in the last 2 Rune slots is up to you, I just run Divinity for the raw stats boost.

2/6 Superior Water
2/6 Superior Monk
2/6 Superior Divinity.

Altruism is worth looking in to if you really want to change it up a bit, but it’s not strong enough to warrant using the full set. The Might given is only 10s duration.

Damage-wise, 6/6 Eagle is decent if the 6/6 bonus works, but I would never use it over a Boon Duration or 6/6 Divinity set.

Glavius.4952:

I tested in structured pvp today.
Neither when my elemental was killed, or when the duration ran out, did the enemy player rally.
Hopefully its the same in WvW.

I think the ruleset is just different in WvW or it was changed since last year:

Unless that Elementalist rallied off something else randomly, but no mobs were nearby.

So the 2 Thief fight was ended because of reinforcements on their side and not because you simply died?

Yet another great WvW thread moved to Linksville.

If it times out, it will rally the opponent. I have not tested if it rallies when it is killed.

Hahaha, so good.

KAZ, I love you and your odd little RP parts in each movie, they are a blast. When our paths cross once more we will have some amazing battles.

Why do you cut off fights before they’re even finished? The first one, the 2 Thief one, the one at the hill at Hills – seems a bit silly to include them in the first place if you don’t even want to show the conclusion. Many of them you accomplished nothing at all.

The few fights you had in their entirety were also pretty bad. And the one fight towards the end that seemed decent was also cut.

I am disappointed that the 2 Thief one was cut because it was the most interesting in the bunch.

It’s worthless except for maybe a Keep Lord res in WvW.

You seem very distraught over this, Beyonce.

Food + Oil + Mages are fine. Food & Oil provide additional customization which is something that GW 2 should work hard to keep – you can change your playstyle around quite a bit depending on what food you are using. Don’t disable things, keep them so people can customize their characters further.

The rest are filler and a bit silly, but they are easy and cheap to get. It’s honestly not a big issue.

Red Guard had a pretty crazy evening (UK time) in EB before I had to log. NA has insane action so far, thanks a lot for that!

So many words to say so little, Waraxx.

niedawow.6725:

Intigo.1653:

Symon’s History of Ascalon.

Toughness and Power are both great stats and the Crit Damage from that item is pretty cheap in regards to stat distribution. Many people overlook the correct way to gear for Crit Damage.

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

Having that in mind, do you go for the celestial rings (or some other ascended rings) or those with crit damage (8% per ring)? I am still looking for a good balanced gear that utilizes survivability, but is being able to pack a punch too.

I just use the one ring I got so far which is the one with Berserker stats (Crystalline Band). The rest are the standard Invader’s w/ Berserker Jewels (to utilize low cost of crit damage in trinket upgrades). If it dropped, I would probably use one of the mass-stat rings, but I like my stats as they are now for both solo and group work (40ish crit damage): http://i.imgur.com/sMFa6.jpg

Makes for pretty balanced and offensive stats which works great as a D/D Ele playing in our 15-20 man guild groups. I am very much against the mass Healing Power + Signet builds that people use and hope it will be nerfed eventually so we might lose some of the FOTM rerollers.

What did you post to warrant this? Oh, you silly people.

Symon’s History of Ascalon.

Toughness and Power are both great stats and the Crit Damage from that item is pretty cheap in regards to stat distribution. Many people overlook the correct way to gear for Crit Damage.

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

So it’s a bunch of terrible 1on1 fights with metal music over it where you Mist Form stomp everyone even when you don’t need to?

Oh and, you say you dodged something but didn’t even show it?

siN are awesome. <3 Strong guild, I can’t wait to see you guys rip up Tier 1-2 when we get there.

Rummie.9720:

So – is this now the “post the name of your own guild” thread?

Only for the Americans, apparently.

And how stupidly strong would our class be without the ‘massive damage nerf’?

SirDrygan.1823:

Intigo.1653:

Ya’ll way too doom and gloomy. Elementalists are in a great state right now, see what the changes mean before you get your panties in a twist.

History has proven otherwise. So, we already expected the worst and even more. Patches after patches, it is just nerf,nerf,and more nerf. There was never much buff. Just fixes (not to be mistaken as buff).

We didn’t need buffs and many of those ‘nerfs’ were also fixes (EA blasting every time even when the spell didn’t go off was idiotic, it’s balanced now).

Jeknar.6184:

Ruprect.7260:

I got a Zap last week. Since then I get nothing but badges and claws.

Precursor from WvW? Sry bro, but i don’t belive you… SS or it never happened…

It’s perfectly possible, please stop writing things so silly on the forum.

Such a joke.

Message Body length must at least be 15.

Nope. How do you play that it bothers you so much?

It can be super annoying on Thief, though.

It should be a toggle or an option (ie. allow us to customize the delay for spell queue and turn it off entirely).

Good points of Elementalist:

• Amazing mobility for the most popular specs (and perma-Swiftness for all specs).
• Amazing sustainability through a large amount of near-passive heals (Water attunement, Water dodge with EA, multiple forms of Regeneration)
• Strong damage even when defensively traited if played correctly.
• Excellent group support from a large variety of means.

The Elementalist is fairly hard to play to its full potential, that may be why you are confused.

10 Earth over 10 Air is a really horrible trait choice.

I like the 2/6 Water, 2/6 Monk, 2/6 Divinity split. Healing Power is a pretty bad stat, but it’s not useless. 4/6 Altruism with 2/6 Water or 2/6 Monk is good too, but it requires you to finish casting the entirety of Ether Renewal which isn’t always the best (and Glyph has a 25s CD, which is pretty long for a bonus focused around your heal). It’s also only 10s of Might IIRC and I’m already pushing ~22 stacks just from my normal play.

If this is for WvW, then Boon Duration is so good that it’s worth getting the mediocre Healing Power bonuses. There’s a reason these Runes were nerfed to 10% in sPvP.

Ya’ll way too doom and gloomy. Elementalists are in a great state right now, see what the changes mean before you get your panties in a twist.

I am pretty sure any guild on Piken would gladly accept equal number fights, I know RG does.

Remember to encode your video for widescreen so you don’t get double black bars. Cute little portal trap at the 4m mark!

mickers.2715:

Intigo.1653:

Oh deary, you’re so confused. /me doesn’t work, all you did to them were “gestures”.

Use Invite / Join when you have them targeted from the Party Window on the top left.

oh that wasnt me saying that, but ill keep that join party thing in mind for next time.

My bad, sorry for assuming – didn’t check the 2nd screenshot enough to see he was in it.

Oh deary, you’re so confused. /me doesn’t work, all you did to them were “gestures”.

Use Invite / Join when you have them targeted from the Party Window on the top left.

Staff is horrendous in 1on1’s. The damage is simple to dodge and avoid, the only chance you have of winning is by outlasting.

Don’t play Staff for 1on1’s. Really, it’s nothing short of horrible and will cripple you immensely in Thief fights (which is one of the hardest matchups we have).

Some Gandara folks are really awesome guys:

They cancel out the A N K L E B I T E Rs and Illusion Lies of your server.

Sludge Pump.3804:

It’s kind of sad that it’s so hard to find good players who are public. I hope that the addition of a solid leaderboard/ranking system will bring things back.

How is it hard? There are loads of good players on YouTube and/or streams. I said there wasn’t anyone I particularly followed, but that’s more related to the fact that I just don’t bother to do that any more and I’ve gotten good enough to not enjoy less than stellar play.

Still plenty of good Elementalists to learn from around.

The Borderlands on Gandara server are significantly more filled when you are holding your own than when you are not.

And yes, that goes for every server, but even more so for you guys. That’s definitely the impression I’ve gotten from playing on and against your server for the last 2 weeks.

Exarthious.5792:

Intigo.1653:

…what…

Exarthious, you’re full of it. Please do provide proof of you killing ~55 players with your 1 group.

Neves.2905:

Intigo.1653:

…what…

Exarthious, you’re full of it. Please do provide proof of you killing ~55 players with your 1 group.

Ya, I gotta kinda call BS on this one, too. I can see 1:3 odds, so if you had a group of like 15-20, you could take down a ball that big, if you and your team are so dang good or have mad siege up.

We don’t make videos, but we do fight against these guys once in awhile.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Video-7vs50

AoEs in this game are stronger than single target damage, against a single target. That is absurd brother.

But if I have to, I’ll talk the gang into making videos, so you can see the full potential of AEs in this game.

That video is nothing like 7v50, much like his earlier video was nothing like 4v30. He’s a good player, but you’re still full of it.

And please, do “talk your gang” into that – until you do, stop spreading blatant misinformation.

…what…

Exarthious, you’re full of it. Please do provide proof of you killing ~55 players with your 1 group.

Every single change ArenaNet introduces only caters further and further to the zerg playstyle. They don’t want guilds or smaller groups trying to take on higher numbers, they want massively culled zergs fighting blindly.