Guild Wars 2

I hope we have a leap finisher with sword attack \o/

Sadrien.3470:

At supreme, is there not a permanent invincable build? In pretty sure I saw a permanent blocking nomads warrior build!

If you get interrupted by unblockable CC and chained by immob, it’s a pretty sad fate. Not sure if you are mentioning sPvP or WvW.

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

BlackBeard.2873:

The worst part about this change is that the class is about to get hella-passive.

After the change, for pvp you will be stuck in a 1v1 role, which means you don’t really have a role.

People who LOVE the class will keep playing with earth/water/arcana, but will enjoy it way less b/c they have lost 4 skills (either attunement-swap bonus as a skill, or dodge-roll skills). This will be a pretty ez-mode spec, and way boring for most people who love the FEEL of the class now. You will hear lots of qq about this spec b/c it will be strong in 1v1’s.

Air/Water/arcana d/d or d/f eles might creep into the 1v1 scene, as well, but will won’t see high-level usage b/c it will also be lack-luster for actual pvp roles.

Auramancer won’t be as bad as it currently is, but will still be worse than d/d. There isn’t enough active access to auras for this play-style to be truly strong, and fire aura is just bad. If the passive on-crit and on-stun access to auras is frequent enough that could see play as well, but once-again, you are building almost entirely for passives.

Scepter is a dead weapon with fresh air damage reduced unless they actually address all the trash skills weighing it down (especially the auto-attacks outside of air).

Staff support will not be a pvp-thing.

This, very much this.

I am traditionally a support player. I really LOVE timing my water-swap-dodge accurately so that I end up healing and cleansing as many teammates as possible. I find that this is the signature move of the DD ele. This, along with the mobility and the versatility, gives me great satisfaction.

Make me choose between Evasive Arcana and Elemental Attunement = Make me choose between two of the core traits that make me enjoy my support role with this class. It does not matter the new traits, they have very little effect on my active support role, therefore they have very little effect on my fun.

Lol…

In addition to the posted builds, I feel Fire-Air-Earth is pretty strong for a skirmish role (signet/hybrid or condi), Air-Earth-Water for Lightning Rod spike or general support with D/F and Fire-Air-Arcane for super yolo zerker staff ele with earth shield and/or lightning hammer. The last variation has been used by Zeromis and Josh. It feel pretty stupid how they beated up my shoutbow warrior (no stability), kicked me off the point and decapped.

A 15 years old with that heavily makeup face? No no no :‘<
Anyhow, imagining that Eugenie evolves after her education, I’d pick the last picture in your imgur series.

By the ways, does Saoirse remind you of a sylvarie or a Norn? https://youtu.be/t0Ejpl3QFuU

deSade.9437:

She looks like a vampire <.<
… the masquerade, which means yeah, kind of a goth hookah.
Brujahs have the best night clubs ever!!!!

I wanna keep the outfit, it looks whor…. vampire enough and I hate heavy armors on that class for some reason. Just irks me. It should be the 3rd light class.
I mayyyy go some pieces of phalanx because it has that “stony” look and looks ok with fract weapons.
I keep thinking blue should be way too much “in theme”. I want something that breaks the monotony a little…

I like deep blue hair and dark red eyes but I’m more biased to dark red hair and some lighter colored eyes. Are you gonna use the Anise outfit or the phalanx set? What’s about her name?

I honestly think these are serious buffs for WvW guardian and not that much for sPvP. The ridiculous amount of damage modifiers on that elite trait can bring the guard damage to be on par with the second ele in a speed run. The vuln trap can be placed during might stacking and cutscene time so its ramping is not actually that bad. The reveal bonus is a serious counter against Veil at any choke points. With the roling of a new borderland map which has narrow and vertical access, it can be really useful. The only buff i can see for sPvP are the damage modifiers and additional CC.

I don’t like the face. She looks like a hookr. Chili red is a nice color if you can keep the other blue color a bit neutral. I can only pick the hairstyle after I see your armor set though

I’m glad that the bow is not boring For those who missed ReadyUp, you can read and watch it again on Dulfy’s site.

http://dulfy.net/2015/05/08/gw2-dragonhunter-ready-up-livestream-notes/

I can only agree about the part that food isn’t a thing to call people out in AC. Much less talking about being more efficient in a path where 80% of the time your food don’t work and don’t make a difference the rest of the time. The speaking tone could be improved, too

NikeEU.7690:

Iris Ng.9845:

oxtred.7658:

J Eberle.9312:

Actually bothered to mail them. Wow I really annoyed someone XD

You won’t laugh when she brings her esport friends :>

My friends said they don’t want to be involved with PvE people. They even left DnT. /shrugs.

I kicked Backpack out of the guild because he was annoying.

Edit: talked to my friend and I feel it’s not the appropriate place to mention his name and past experience. So yeah, nothing to look at here.

oxtred.7658:

J Eberle.9312:

Actually bothered to mail them. Wow I really annoyed someone XD

You won’t laugh when she brings her esport friends :>

My friends said they don’t want to be involved with PvE people. /shrugs.

Element Two.7316:

J Eberle.9312:

Whole dungeon isn’t burrows. >_>

Well I mean, P3 is pretty much burrows upon burrows upon burrows upon burrows upon burrows upon burrows ._.

It’s the only time gate part if you want to be more efficient. [spoiler]unless wiped at Spider Queen >.> [/spoiler]

Precision and Ferocity is really good for burrows. I stand corrected.

I’m sorry. I can’t try hard enough to figure out food is needed in AC. Moving on.

J Eberle.9312:

Iris Ng.9845:

No problems. It is just how stats gets capped in dungeons. Not surprised you didn’t know.

#Assuming ISentPowerFood
#BackToPvP

<3

Iris Ng.9845:

It’s AC.

Should I assume Precision, Vitality, Healing food and Skale Venom are a thing in AC these days?

Meanwhile, Heitred is still commanding for JQ in EB :s

No problems. It is just how stats gets capped in dungeons. Not surprised you didn’t know.

I feel like ranger will become the new fresh air ele.

It’s A.C. Your power gets capped regardless.

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

why standing in front line when you can heal and support from the back line?

Also good at Grawl.

I foresee the death of staff guard in dungeons and fractals.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/meet-the-dragonhunter-guardians-elite-specialization/

Discuss.

Sigil of bloodlust and sigil of speed for doing heart and exploration.

Obligatory plus one. Jerus is confirmed to have won the internet today.

Edit: He doesn’t seem drunk enough at this late hour either.

By the time you finish a heart, you should have around 3 minutes of speed to move on to the next one. It is really really useful.

Casmurro.9046:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEAUIiD4DHw

This! It speaks louder than any of us. Re-quoted.

OreoWolf.3157:

At least we still have Flame Axe… Right?… RIGHT?!

Lol. Go back to your earth shield and leave my axe alone.

Well, I deleted it because it pretty much demands constant update anyways. With me no longer involved in the guild, it’s better to have others re-write up that part and I can give a hot link in my OP.

Raven.3248:

where do you use it?

Anywhere that I don’t get spoonfed with Stability by my teammate. For once, the laser merry-go-round part in Fractals. In open world, Vine Wrath, in sPvP and in WvW.

NikeEU.7690:

Iris Ng.9845:

Please apply for thst position!

If only the position existed.

He will work for free so it’s only up to Anet to hire him.

The fan syncs well with the animation of a dagger focus elementalist. It is beautiful.

That’s the Game Master job to regulate the game. Game Designers should only focus on bug fix and new content. No use to dive into virtual parenting.

Please apply for thst position!

Need an example? Look at the new pvp leaderboard. They are trying to “fix” it and it is currently worse than it was originally. And it takes such a loooooooong time, too. Half a year and still beta testing.

If I were to fund this project, I would say “Move along. See what was wrong and make sure it will not happen in the upcoming content.”

By the ways, you cannot possibly fix someone else’s work after two years and more. No one has time for it. New developers will just take what they can salvage to build up a new content.

Armor of Earth is wonderful and far from being useless.

I feel like something crawling under my skin thinking of some Mr. or Ms. Developer watching my back “I’m responsible for you, player. Don’t you dare play the game differently from what I created.”

Nah, don’t think it’s meant to be like that. Too creepy. GW2 is like a sandbox game where players probably discover many different ways to enjoy it. Your responsible feeling should be put into the improvement of the future content instead.

Signet of Water – still hasn’t found any worthy use.

Sigil of Speed.

Make a Melandru outfit. Problem solved?

Then turn your map chat off.

Jelle.2807:

My warrior. Tried to go for a scantily clad fierce look, without being too sexualizing. Well, maybe a little. :p

Head: Mask of the Wanderer
Shoulder chest and boots: norn t2
Gauntlets: norn t1
Leggings: norn t3

Very well done. She looks like an original character.

If you have an organized group with portal play, an ele can round up the NPC by los and face tank them with LH/iB while the group finish off the Lord. Our group record for Strong hold was less than 1 minute 20 second. I used Lightning Storm instead of Sand Storm.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

@ Pink

How to identify rabbits, deer and daily AP farmers:

• no titles
• smell of the fields of queensdale
• wearing worn chain from queensdale
• don’t cap home point on initial split
• rushes lord on initial split
• zergs svanir
• not using any build relative to pvp what so ever

How to identify players who are here for the competitive scene:

• wearing pvp titles, most do
• visible understanding of conquest rotations and combat
• using pvp builds
• very rarely ever makes gross errors in rotations or tactics

It is not difficult to identify the separation between competitive players and casual AP farming players. It becomes apparent in a match on the initial split and their first combat engagement.

Lux.7169:

Actually, my understanding and experience is significantly different:

Novice players in PvP:
-When confronted with obviously bad players, these players rage at them in map chat
-Post on forums about how they get randomly paired with bad players
-Pretend like they’re competitive when they don’t compete in tournaments on a regular basis
-Rant when players don’t rotate according to how they think players should be rotating
-Ostracize people who don’t copy and paste their build off of metabattle

Seasoned Players in PvP:
-Realize that people of varying skill levels yolo Q and don’t rage at them.
-Realize that raging at newer players is pointless and usually say nothing
-Recognize that yolo Q’ing runs the risk of being paired with baddies
-Does not post about the bad Q because it’s pointless
-Realizes that players do not need to run meta builds to gain experience PvP and improve

LOL, the irony !!!

Jerus.4350:

deSade.9437:

Wow, Jesus, you sound more of a downer than me on a mildly bad day – that’s saying a lot. Stop stealing my role, will ya? I deleted an entire wall of text of whining just so the world wouldn’t implode from our combined pessimism.
(It just annoys me when people drag out the “setting an example” card, or the “I’m telling you what x and y words mean, gonna decide for you” deck. kitten that….)

You shouldn’t think that every class specialisation will get fun mechanics like the mesmer, b.t.w… mes has always been pretty special. Keep your expectations low. No, not that low. Lower. Right-here-in-the-mock low.

P.S. How inappropriate would the Flameseeker be on a mesmer fashion-wise, from 1 to 10? I want it ç_ç

:D I’m good at pessimism, though I usually try not to show it outside of the forums.

As far as Flameseeker, it all depends on the overall style IMO. My Ele uses The Crossing with a green outfit, total “necro” look but I like it, so whatever, it all looks good together, just surprises people when fire comes out of the staff instead of marks. Not sure what I’ll use on my Mesmer, probably the guild one that looks like a tower shield… my mesmer is not your typical mesmer look either… more like Sons of Anarchy or Snake Plisskin.

Maybe Rivetwall?

PHIW detected!

:p

And you haven’t seen other elite specialization yet. It’s still too soon to say anything.

PvP determines the threshold of how much buff a class will get.

Does dungeon ever need balance? I hope it gets a buff in terms of content.

@Spoj: Pin Down is OP as hell. You could also Blade Trail. Or with more finery, Reckless Dodge on swap to proc Hydromancy and the Whirlwind Attack.

wauwi.9162:

Windsagio.1340:

There is the use of PHIW as a perjorative, of course.

Yeah, they’re kind of the exact opposite, of what’s know as the “elitist”.

How would you call an awfully geared player, who’s still knowledgable in the ways of the dungeon runner?

Balthasar M