Guild Wars 2

+17 I’d like to see this implemented

Although props for playing d/d ele it looks like the thief interrupted with steal during the 3/4 second cast time of burning speed

Hey guys, I’m currently specing my Revenant for wvw and I was wondering which would be more rewarding: 2500 power and 220% Crit damage or 2700 power and 200% Crit damage.

Note: both builds have access to 60% Crit chance and high fury uptime

Thank you so much for your help! I had no idea there was a secondary effect on Mesmer shield block

Hi Everyone, how are you doing today?

I have recently been having enormous trouble versing a condi mesmer. I am running near max condi cleanse on my elementalist but no matter how many times i cleanse 9-15 stacks of confusion and torment, condi mesmers always seem to apply even more.

I have tried the class myself and I must say, it is too challenging for myself to understand it. However, I would like to know what are the indications that a big condi spell is coming from the mesmer so I know how to avoid it.

I appreciate the help

So I was selecting the stats from my recently acquired ascended back piece and I came across the Nomad stat combination which was toughness, vitality, and healing power. Although, I didn’t select it, the sadist inside me decided to theory craft an ele build using the Nomad’s stats that’s designed to just…not die.

Here is the build: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYhcMoyhFOwzB8RssBYDPgAQB0dv+XPsErgMwIA-T1xHQBrSPQrU/ZXK/goSwadCAC3+DA4BAEAAB4mtZA8zf+zf+zf2P/5P/5P/ZpAycmF-w

I’m not sure how immortal it would be nor how many people it could actually tank since I haven’t tested it myself but the high amount of defensive stats as well as having up to 60% damage reduction (70% for melee) with traits, frost aura, and food may prove itself to be quite the troll build.

I’d love to here your thoughts on this build despite it obviously being made for the lolz of course

Glad to see another d/d ele roamer! Although I personally run marauder’s armour with crusaders trinkets for d/d roaming, there’s an elementalist by the name of Noble that I am quite a fan of and runs this build
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYhcMoyhFOwzB8RMIAYRAoAUEpuwSoKUvhmYaA-TFCEABap8TQlgurHA+9He4BA0vqKAcCASUtiNDCAjAg///6/JSBk5QL-w Since his build utilizes celestial trinkets, I feel it will be much easier for you to access than my build.

As for your inaccessibility for durability runes, I personally find traveller to be quite useful as they contain a celestial stat spread as well as a nice +25% base movement speed.

Disclaimer: I do not take any credit for Noble’s build and all recognition of it goes to him alone

Though I know everyone has a different idea on balancing this game but would you please explain why you want the damage removed from hammer 4 and 5 on the engi?

Elementalists are in a bit of a weird spot when it comes to dueling. It’s not that they are bad by any means, it is just that it is a very delicate class to build around. You can’t have too much power or you’ll get blown up by thieves and you can’t be too bunkery or you hardly scratch anything. Of course this can be said for all classes but I feel this applies to the elementalist even more so.

Gear wise, other than full zerk/marauder s/f ele, d/d and d/f usually want to maintain 500-1000 regeneration with semi-perma protection while having 200% Crit damage and at least 2100 power and 40% Crit chance, this is generally the sweet spot for a dueling ele. To achieve this, I recommend trying out Noble’s build, using marauder gear with crusader’s trinkets or taking a look at the wet dagger Tempest article on Metabattle.
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Tempest_-_WET_Dagger_Tempest_Roamer

Jski.6180:

Its not a bad build i love the high power dmg you have on it and the super anty condi. It looks like ranged burst will destroy you though.
Have you tryed a group chrn bomb with it yet? I would love to see that.

That would be very interesting to do XD especially by having up to 4 eles channel under a stealth gyro

Hi guys! Just finished my very first guide on Metabattle! The build I’m covering is a more independent elementalist roamer that has no problem fighting thieves or being out numbered due to its high sustain a area damage.

If you guys are curious about this build, here is the article: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Tempest_-_WET_Dagger_Tempest_Roamer

For those wondering what the stat distribution looks like, here is the build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYncMAVOgFOAeOAcYilNAzdv+XPsDPgAQBkYFkBGBA-TxBEQBNU5nGVC+gTAg70D4P1fAwDAAe7PEAAB4mtZA8zf+zf+zfWbezbezbWKAR3ZB-e

Any thoughts or criticism is welcome and I would love to hear your opinion on it!

Play full glass d/d ele and take a drink every time you die…don’t worry I’ll get the ambulance ready

What if there was a trait that let you cast your overloads from 1200 range, similar to meteor shower. Would this make staff ele potentially viable in pvp? Share your thoughts O_O

For those who actually like tempest I’ve been screwing around with this build for a while: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYncMAVOgFOAeOAcYilNAzdv+XPsErgMwIY4BEAKgA-TBCBQBA4BAAhTAQGV6JJlgCa/htoMQf6BUo6PBAQAuZbGAH9oH9oH9o1m38m38mlCQ0dWA-e
It has decent sustain and damage while having the ability to negate up 60% damage with food and frost armour. Admittedly, the food and oil is a pain to get but it still works fine with generic ferocity nourishment. Let me know what you guys think.

What if glyph of storms (a spell that creates a storm for 10 seconds) created a combo field based on your elemental attunement. Imagine using a waterfield, blasting it with dagger water 2, then switching to earth attunement use dagger earth 4 and 5 (if you still run that kitten) for 2 blast finishers, and finally overloading earth inside the water for 4 more blasts. Additionally if you wanted to use this offensively then you could create a firefield and blast it in earth for might. Would this idea coupled with a reduced casting time and cooldown make this ability viable, overpowered, or still unusable? SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS

Trying to move more than 200 feet without being kittened by thieves o_o

Due to your godlike skills, anet has unfortunately cancelled all future gw2 tournaments and are soon going to delete the game itself since they can barely balance a profession, let alone a player…

And tbf, we deserved those nerfs, what they forgot is to give us something at exchange of those nerfs :c
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I agree the scrapper spec was quite over-tuned XD I guess I’m just still salty about the cast time being added to medic gyro

Scrappers are so good! They get 3 leap finishers on their rocket charge, massive damage on the shock shield, extreme cc on oil boots and did I mention INSTACAST gyros with the ability to daze when instantly destroyed?!?!?! SO GOOD RIGHT Ahahahaha…oh wait “cries”

XD that thief you played one of my friends that I regularly play with on this game

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What if condi cleanse removed the condi with the most stacks currently on you while prioritizing damaging condis so you don’t constantly remove nothing but vulnerability.

All I want is the friggen cast time to be taken off of medic gyro and reconstruction field

Just a fun little idea that I doubt would be implemented but what if when you successfully stomp someone, you go invulnerable and finish them mortal combat style.

For example: Elementalists would go full Avatar Aang and finish them with a massive attack or combo involving all the elements, similar to the series finale if there are any fans here.

Though it would be incredibly awesome killing your foe off in an overdramatized fashion, it would definitely change the down state and rally system for probably the worst.

Though I’ll admit that us elementalists are in a rough state dps wise, I’ve actually had some decent success using the following builds:

WvW Roaming: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYnMMAVOgFOAeOAcYilNAb4BEAKgu71/6hlYFkBGBA-TRCBQBaRpkg2fQhq/IJlgbRZCEOBA6TPAAeAAdRJxmhBghAAzMzMVEREA-e

PvP: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYnMMAVOgFOAeOAcYilNAjYFkBGBDPgAQB0dv+XPsA-TJBFABLcCAqZ/BAeAAiXGAA

These builds excel at dishing out high area damage at close to mid range while containing a decent amount of sustain. It does have an advantage when in a 1v1 against most condition based builds such as condi mesmer and necro due to diamond skin and ether renewal while having decent sustain to fight non-bursty, power based users such as scrappers and druids. However, once the duration on your armor earth ends, you are quite prone to cc and having your overloads as well as your healing skill interrupted can be catastrophic. For this reason I would generally recommend avoiding fights involving thieves as well as warriors. Despite this, due to d/d ele’s superior mobility, you will most likely be able to successfully disengage when fights take a turn for the worst.

Hope this helps!

As a person who enjoys playing an off-meta marauder d/d tempest build:

Elementalist: Usually a stalemate if they’re full bunker healing. However, if they’re a fresh air build or dps oriented, then I just run my defensive rotation to mitigate their damage and follow-up with my burst afterwards.
Final Verdict: Not really a problem.

Engineer: If they’re a scrapper then boy am I in for a fight. Usually my fights with scrappers involve my opponent and myself are relatively even with us constantly fighting with 25% health or less. Though their damage and bunkeryness can be pretty terrifying, I find the victor of the fight is pretty much always determined by who hit more skills in their rotation and if my opponent interrupted my Ether Renewal (heal skill).
Final Verdict: Skill based matchup.

Guardian: When facing guardians I actually feel myself having the upper-hand. Despite their many interrupts, guardians seem to not like to move around in a fight. Usually when I use my Armor Earth (stability spell) and then Overload Air, my opponent seems to just stand in my lightning field and eventually gets downed by it. If I do get caught off guard by a guardian, then I can easily just mist form or lightning flash away from their traps.
Final Verdict: Pretty easy matchup if they don’t move around.

Mesmer: Because of Ether Renewal, the condition builds don’t pose a real threat to my build. However, if they are running the off-meta greatsword power shatter, then 9 times out of 10 I get destroyed.
Final Verdict: Difficulty of matchup depends on if they are condi or power.

Necromancer: Like fighting condition mesmers, ether renewal works wonders against necros as well. With proper evading and condition cleansing, fighting necros isn’t really much of a problem…unless they get a lucky stun or daze off when I’m channeling my ether renewal. If that happens then it’s back to the respawn point for me.
Final Verdict: Easy matchup if I don’t get CCed when channeling a key ability.

Ranger: Like fighting a bunker ele, duels against bunker druids are endless as well. The only difference is those pets hit friggen hard. Though I have been able to stalemate with a couple druids, I’ve never been able to down the smart ones.
Final Verdict: The druid has the upper-hand.

Revenant: I’m going to be to the point on this one, if the rev is running sw/sh and staff then I will probably get rekt. However, if the rev is condi or running hammer then it’s a pretty easy matchup for me.
Final Verdict: Since power shiro is the most common rev build, rev will likely win.

Thief: Now this my friends is when I question my builds viability. Call me a scrub or l2p noob but I honestly can’t fight thieves as an ele. Thieves are able to endlessly interrupt my healing skills and my overloads even when I have stability while utterly deleting half of my health pool instantly. To this day, I still have problems fighting thieves with my build and have yet to figure out a rotation that can deal with them.
Final Verdict: I get rekt…HARD.

Warrior: Fighting a warrior is like fighting a really tanky thief. They too have a lot of stuns and on top of that, lots of sustain. I find warriors will usually win in this matchup since whenever I pop my overload, they’ll just use their resistance and completely negate all of the damage. Despite this, if the warrior is condi, then I don’t really have too much problem stalemating with them.
Final Verdict: Unwinnable for me but possible to stalemate.

Hi there! As a person who started this game as an ele, I would love to be involved in this guild. In the past, I have attempted a number of ele builds including the standard auramancer, bruiser vanilla d/d ele (my favourite), condition stone heart tank, semi glass fire condition based ele (new patch hype), s/f power roaming (I’m awful at this spec XD) and the standard zerg backline staff. My preferred playstyle is typically a utility support that offers some damage, some healing and some cc that is usually on the mid-front-lines. As for role, I would love to be a tester for your guild since I have considerate experience in formulating unexpected/out of the box builds for WvW or PvP. I am currently on Blackgate but I am willing to switch servers if it means that I can join an awesome community that likes to screw around in WvW!

Everyday when I look at my once godly d/d ele that has now been reduced to a crafting bot and a shadow of its former self

Xillllix.3485:

It’s time to fix all of this.

This is pretty much what I want, not an easy class that can kill everything with 2 buttons, not godly buffs to scrapper just a limit to the amount of sheer bullkitten when playing against a certain profession or when I’m playing my profession.

Supreme.3164:

FiveGauge.1357:

Supreme.3164:

So you like to faceroll while randomly pressing buttons, pretending to be “skilled”..then you come here asking to nerf other faceroll builds while keeping your intact?..kk then

Former Clerics Ele salty at current Paladin Scrapper who’s salty at Menders Druid

Why can’t support players love each other /popcorn

It’s just players asking to nerf sustain on other professions so that they can faceroll even harder than now, from 1 to 9..all do that

It’s not that I’m trying to favour my profession, in fact I’d rather see scrappers get the nerf hammer along with all the current meta builds. My point to this thread is that I’m finding this current meta a bit repetitive where most classes can unfairly heal themselves for more than the damage being dealt to them (INCLUDING scrappers). If I had one word to describe this meta, it would be just planning annoying where there is too much cc (I’m looking at you guardian dazes, ranger immobilizes and warrior stuns), too much invulnerability with blocks and evades (I’m looking at you guardians, mesmers and thieves), too much healing (druids, eles and debatable revenants), too much res power (scrappers), too much condition pressure (warriors, necros and mesmers) and too much stability (pretty much every class is guilty here other than thieves).

I know it may seem that I’m bashing everything about pvp and admittedly, I am. However, that does not mean I still don’t get the same old nostalgia from close games, amazing 1v1s and great teamplay, it just means that the CURRENT meta that we are in has a tendency to get a bit repetitive (with the same old builds/same old skills/same old people qqing about everything like me. But qqing aside, I am not strictly asking for everything to be nerfed except the classes I play because I’m not facerolling enough, what I want is something new and fresh in pvp without expecting to be trap spammed, endlessly kited by druids, healed to 100% by eles, rezzed by a function gyros, have a constant 10 stacks of confusion and torment on me, be condi bombed by necros and warriors beyond cleansing capabilities, have thieves evade every single skill I use and to see the same old staff and sw/sh revenants. I don’t want everything that makes a class viable, I just want to see SOMETHING change

While I am not a big fan of “press all your buttons as soon as possible and win” builds, I do prefer the tankier/more forgiving specs in this game rather than the current state of thieves or s/f elementalists that require near perfect skill management to excel in the meta

Supreme.3164:

This coming from a scrapper…it’s rather ugly, you’re just the first who should be destroyed alongside dragon hunters, druids & CO

Yes it’s true that I am a scrapper main (GASP) but I only play it because I like the kitten deep play style with good sustain (or in a scrapper’s case, really really good sustain) and if an old bruiser build such as d/d ele were to get buffed at the expense of my “precious” scrapper being nerfed then I wouldn’t even grieve.

I am quite eager to see the end of this state of pvp we’re currently in (traps, traps and unkillable rangers everywhere -_-) and I’m just wondering if anyone has an idea of when the next balance patch is.

Get rid of the cast time and the initial heal

Since the Mist Form Cantrip is completely outclassed by other invulnerable spells such as Elixir S where it has a shorter cool down AND you can begin a stomp or revive within it’s duration, not to mention it comes with a secondary tool belt skill. What if A-Net changed Mist Form to be an alternate Obsidian Flesh where you can cast spells too (kind of like the DH bullkitten we’ve been dealing with this season). Also, to maybe give this spell some flavor, what if it also gave you a couple seconds of quickness and made your attacks unblockable as well (I’m not sure how overpowered this ability would be, but it’d definitely be a nice counter to the current guardian meta).

This suggestion may even promote more dps builds out of the elementalist (such as d/d and s/d) rather than the traditional heal bot we’ve been pigeon holed into. The invulnerability would allow the elementalist to successfully land their rotation without fear of dying within a couple nanoseconds due to our low armor and health.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always imagined d/d ele and s/d ele as a thief alternative where you jump in, execute your target with your rotation and escape successfully and I believe this change may create a new meta for the elementalist all together!

Please tell me what you think of this/post your own ideas of how to direct the elementalist away from it’s current meta build !

I wouldn’t even consider the elementalist to be the jack of all trades anymore, it’s more like the peasant of all trades at this point…

Full glass d\d ele $_$

I’ve reported this too and it seems to only do it for certain notes for me

Well said +1

Remove the cast time on medic gyro and its tool belt skill and give it to function gyro instead.

Whenever I try to play my mariner’s horn some of the notes I use play twice for some reason regardless if I’m holding the note or just pressing it

I recommend trying condition hammer scrapper due to the ridiculous condition pressure it places on its enemies!
#condihammerscrapperbestmeta

Block, block, 0 damage, miss, evade, miss, glancing blow, invulnerable, invulnerable, invulnerable, miss, evade, miss, evade, block, miss, evade, miss, glancing blow, invulnerable, invulnerable, invulnerable, miss, evade, miss, evade, block, miss, evade, miss, glancing blow, 0 damage, invulnerable, invulnerable, 0 damage, invulnerable, miss, evade, miss, evade and then die from condition damage… Although this is probably a learn to play issue (since I’m relatively new to PvP) and there are probably ways to actually land your skills but I feel like the amount of ways to avoid damage in this game is quite excessive

When should we expect to hear back from you once we’ve applied

Hi there! I would love to join your guild! (Be warned though, my voice can be pretty annoying) XD

Hi guys, I’ve been playing a lot of GW2 lately (doing pvp, wvw, world bosses, etc.) and I noticed that there isn’t a “target nearest downed ally” or “target nearest downed enemy” key binding. Now as a person who primarily uses the scrapper and the druid, I believe having such a key binding would make it easier to use the function gyro and “search and rescue” to its fullest potential.

How do you guys feel about this?

Jaken.6801:

It’s the Pact Fleet Hammer, that was available through the Black Lion Chests.
There might be one on the Tradingpost, but you might have to wait till they are back through the BLC.

Thank you!

Hi guys, I’m just wondering if anyone knows if this chick’s hammer is available for us to use through crafting or as a skin.

Hi guys, I’m trying to match my character’s PVE stats to its PVP stats. However, I’m not sure what the stat values of the PVP equipment are. Does anyone know what they are?