Guild Wars 2

i seriously enjoyed watching your video, when you started killing i was even laughing like some evil genius. 1 question tho, you have this trait in air XII that does 20% more damage if your target is knocked down. but your target is never knocked down. you dont have any utility skills to knock him down, you start in lightning and your only knockdown skill is updraft but ur not using it. how is this trait helping your build?.

lol i was about to make this thread myself. its good to know that there are others who think the same way. this would also be good for engineer.

im playing ele in pve for a while now and i must say that “just playing” isnt as hard anymore as when i started. however if you want to pack a punch you do have to pay attention to what you are doing. getting in and out fights is very easy and also chasing people down is very easy. for example if you are using dagger dagger you will have moving speed in the fire atunement. in the water atunement you have your heals wich you will probably use when you want to move away from others. than there is also a aoe chill and a frost aura wich slows people so you can get away more easy. in air you have a shocking aura that will stun people if they hit you thus slowing them down, also ride the lightning gets you away or up close to your enemy quickly. updraft can push your enemys away from you and it also gives you a swiftness boost. than earth, it has a cripple, it has magnetic grasp wich will immobilize your target and pull yourself towards him, you can also use this skill to get away, for example in WvW just target a bunny. also you have a aoe knockdown. these are all skills to chase, get in-out combat.
the best advise i can give you is: just start playing an ele in pve in lvl 1-15 maps. there you can get used to the skills without worying about dieing to much. also carefully read every skill’s information so you know exactly what they do. i hope you’ll have fun playing

it kinda depends on what you plan to do with your ele, pvp or pve. in pvp you will need to react fast and addapt to the situation or create your own situation so the others will have to addapt to you. on pve you can pick a staff and play the more suportive class while standing in the back not taking any damage. you can throw out aoe heals and put down combo fields for others to use or you could use some amazing blast finishers from your earth atunement for aoe combo’s for your team. i realy want to make my ele to lvl 80 in pve but im having way to much fun in pvp even tho im still a rookie (rank 14). the possebilitys are endless.

srry for my bad english.

wow lol could we lower the IQ on this thread? im only human (and blond) (and dutch)

i believe the new mini gollem from the event also makes a terrible noise. i first noticed this noice today i never heard it before. im not 100% sure if it was that mini gollem tho.

first of all thats totally off topic. 2nd of all i already told that in the specific thread

ive helped out the Charr in the black citadel but i didnt get the achievement for it.
in the screenshot you can see that i have the frame and 500 cogs. (plush + 250 cogs = 500) so i realy did it. is this maybe bugged due to me being a charr? are there more people having this problem?

dagger storm is interupted by level up becouse my charracter will make the “lvl up animation”. ofc im happy that i lvled but dagger storm being interupted is anoying for a 90 sec cd skill. especially when you need that skill to stay alive.

this is my female charr thief named Miss Poes hope u like it

i destroyed everything but there were 2 buildings that just wouldnt break. not even when i casted aoe’s on them.

Dee Jay.2460:

Why can’t we just have a personal instance? Jumping with others really doesn’t add anything to the game.

you should see me laughing when i hear a norn screeming when he didnt make the jump xD

anyway yeah the jumping puzzle was to easy. i made it on the 4th try while the clocktower was like 1-2 hours of trying if it wasnt longer.

the waiting time isnt THAT bad, especially when you can knock your friends in the head with a snowball. would be cool if they gave us slightly more stuff to do there in the waiting room.

also compared to the clocktower this reward was pretty low but than again this puzzle was more easy.

and thats where i disagree, shouldnt it be about what the name actually means? not about what the google search engine tells you it means? i dont know where you are from but if your native language isnt english you will probablly use the translater sometimes “even if it is for fun” to translate your language to english and see what comes out. if you did im sure you also noticed that alot of what it tells you is incorrect.

the reason im even mentioning this on the forum is that i just want to have a chance to get my beloved name back. i dont wanna be looking back someday thinking “GAWD! why didnt i try?”.
as for now, i always pick my names very carefully. i dont want to have an character with a name that i dont like. i deleted my level 39 ranger becouse i didnt like the name and id rather make one with a better name. so now i cant play on my elementalist until i come up with an equaly good name as Toversletje. Im trying to come up with funny names intended to make people laugh abit when they read it. thats what Toversletje always did for me in other games. its a great way to meet new people just becouse they whisper me about how funny my name is

zbrkesbr.4173:

@Toversletje
I think you should be suspended for 72hrs and you account name forcibly changed.
http://i.imgur.com/IoJEc.png
It doesnt matter in what language you write your name. As long as it uses inappropriate or obscene words someone will find it offending and report you.

1st of all i wouldnt mind at all to change my acount name. 2nd as you may have found out its alot worse when you try to translate it to english. also the translation that google is showing isnt 100% correct.

click the link and look at example 8… that should clear it up abit.
(Naughty words in the link!)
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/10-google-translate-fails.html

i kinda got the same problem, my acount name and character name is “Toversletje” now when i try to log in on the charracter it gives me the option to change the name and it sais Toversletje is not allowed. Toversletje is a dutch name and unless they have a dutch person working at arenanet who decided about my name i dont see why they decided i should change my name. This name sounds so much worse when you try to translate it to english. Im using this name in every other game i play and i have never had any problems with it. alot of dutch people talk to me saying, haha nice name and stuff but thats about it. In dutch its more laughable and enjoyable than when u try to translate it. im not being suspended or anything and i think its strange im not getting any notification or something since my acount name is the same. i would love to see some1 from arenanet reply to me. if not im thinking of writing a ticket since i would realy like to keep this awesome name.

best regards, Toversletje

im not realy sure if i should mention this becouse i will probablly regret it.

i was there at the karka event and i also got the rewards that day, yay 20 slot karka box, ancient karka shell, 2x exotic, 2x rare, yippie kaye!

i got a chest by mail containing all these items again xD

salvaged the rare’s didnt even get ecto’s -.- the 2 ancient karka shells are on the bank becouse they dont meat my build, im using 2x 20 slot karka boxes and i sold the 2 exotics. zho’s coat and a bow with their value together about 2-3 gold.

Kindread.9481:

Toversletje.9345:

i can do 25 stacks of bleeding sometimes and i dont use any caltrops for that ive had times when i could do even more stacks but it just wont go higher than 25 :p

I would love to hear how you accomplish this!

I have a pretty hard time getting up into the 20 stack range and that is with the trait: Uncatchable, and the skill: Caltrops.

Burst damage on a stationary mob I can pretty easily reach 21-22 and maintain it for a few seconds, then keep it steady in the teens. I would love to hear how you do this!

the way I do it:
20 points in deadly arts to get VII Improvisation and condition duration
20 points in critical strikes to get VIII Signet Use
15 points in trickery for Preparedness

you can spend the rest of the points as you like, i prefer 30 deadly arts just for the condition duration. I have a full exotic set named: Reyna’s with superior rune of the grove. the sigils that im using are Agony and Corruption.

hope this helped

anyway lets keep talking on the trait uncatchable since thats what its about here :p

Stin.9781:

Daecollo.9578:

Toversletje.9345:

improvisation works in pve…
stealing recharges all skills of ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! type. venoms, signets, traps, tricks, decceptions.

this means that if you have a full signet build… lets say:
signet of malice,
signet of shadows,
signet of agillity,
infiltrator’s signet
and they are all on cooldown, you have a 20% chance to reset them all if you steal.

you could also use a different utillity settup lets say:
signet of malice(signet),
scorpion wire(trick),
ambush(trap),
shadow refuge(deception).
now there is a 80% chance that one of these skills will reset if you steal.

if you use the last example and add basilisk venom as your elite there is a 100% chance one of those 5 skills is going to reset if you steal.

hope this made it more clear. this is the behavour in pve i dont know if its any different in pvp.

And it has a chance to do absolutely nothing.
20% Chance to reset Venoms? (Nope, next one!)
20% Chance to reset Deceptions? (Nope, didn’t proc, next one!)
20% Chance to reset Traps? (LOL Nope, didn’t proc, try again!)
20% Chance to reset Signets… (AND ITS OUT OF THE PARK, NONE OF EM PROCCED, TRY AGAIN NEXT TIME SUCKA!)

You forgot tricks, haste,roll for innitiative and such. If you play realy mixed build you will have 100% chance to recharge something…. but there is chance that lets say 2/5 your abilites arent even on CD as you mostly start battles with steal. or use it early battle most of time.

thanks for telling him. there are 5 different things you can use
Venom
Deception
Traps
Tricks
Signet
so if you make a build with Signet of malice for your heal, basilisk venom for elite, and use a trap, deception and a trick as your 7,8 and 9 utillity skill than there will always be one to recharge when you steal.

ive noticed this yesterday so its still not fixed, i dont know if its the utillity skill or elite skill or maybe both but it was a fire elemental from a elementalist with who i was doing fractals lvl 11 dredge.

hehe i like your name and ill give it an 8

my charr is a female thief named Miss Poes. Most dutch people realy like my name since it has 4 different meanings. Miss becouse im female, also Miss becouse as a thief you will probably miss me, Poes is a cat and Charr ar big cats. and here in holland when little children play with each other and one of them tries to hit the other with “something” and he misses, than the other one says “mis poes!!!” meaning: haha you missed me!

JonPeters.5630:

Can I start? Icy Mist. This trait is really bad and should be merged with Soothing Wave to make room for a fall damage reduction trait.

this skill was sooooo much better in the beta. anyway mistform is primarely used to avoid damage so why would you stay close to the damage source? its useless yes

signet of malice, go to the trading post. search for “reyna’s” buy that armor set, dagger storm for elite (if there is only one boss that doesnt summon adds you could use thiefs guild to kill the boss abit quicker). and be sure to have a shortbow. also buy some peach cookies

ive had several times where my whole party whiped and than they start crying that i should kill myself since thats faster than reviving them all -.-

i can do 25 stacks of bleeding sometimes and i dont use any caltrops for that ive had times when i could do even more stacks but it just wont go higher than 25 :p

improvisation works in pve…
stealing recharges all skills of ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! type. venoms, signets, traps, tricks, decceptions.

this means that if you have a full signet build… lets say:
signet of malice,
signet of shadows,
signet of agillity,
infiltrator’s signet
and they are all on cooldown, you have a 20% chance to reset them all if you steal.

you could also use a different utillity settup lets say:
signet of malice(signet),
scorpion wire(trick),
ambush(trap),
shadow refuge(deception).
now there is a 80% chance that one of these skills will reset if you steal.

if you use the last example and add basilisk venom as your elite there is a 100% chance one of those 5 skills is going to reset if you steal.

hope this made it more clear. this is the behavour in pve i dont know if its any different in pvp.

ele is strong yes but ikittennow how to play one you know how to counter it, i have so many kills becouse the 99% does not even have 1 stunbreaker in their build. thats becouse many people take the burst damage build, they want their quickness utillity, few sec immortal utillity and other stuff that wont help you if your the one being targeted. people need to start mastering their profession before they start crying about others.

i think that this wont happen becouse Arena net makes their money on selling the game and selling gems. if the price for gems are to cheap ingame than every1 is going to buy them ingame instead of buying them with real money.

Paul.4081:

I don’t ever bother taking my HoM ones around anymore. Constantly having to re-enable and without invisible bags (afaik) I always send them back with my materials, why oh why? If I had a right click option to lock them enabled and to stay in my bag I might actually use them and buy some too. I don’t know how much invisible bags are but I’m not buying one just so that I don’t keep posting my minis back to my bank. Would be nice to have two mini slots on our character screen at the trinkets (like the weapon swap and selected mini is always following the player).

yeah i kinda agree on this one. its very anoying that your mini will always disapear if you use the quick option to deposit all collectables. would probbably better if there was a way to actually equip it so it would take a spot in your hero pannel and that way it wouldnt be send away each time. also everytime i enter a new area i need to re-equip it wich is also anoying. for my very small asura its awesome to have an almost as tall “chainsaw the skelleton” standing next to me. for me this has more priority than actually making the mini “usefull”. but yes it would be cool if your mini could do something. and with that i dont mean it has to fight in combat. being able to hold a few items would already be realy cool. maybe its an idea to give it the same effect as an invissible bag, so i could put my other exotic weapon set in there. or if you give him a stack of food he would make sure there will always be one activated. i gues picking up loot will never make it in the game since this makes it abit to easy for bots. but maybe it could run over to the mobs where there is still some loot and stand there with an big red ! over his head to indicate it. in huge fights with lots of mobs there is always 1 that you miss and i bet thats the mob that had my precurser shortbow!

another idea is to give him some items and he will sell those for you at the npc, when he’s back he will than automatically hand you over the money.

i would appreciate it if the would be a search function in the trading post for light, medium or heavy armor. also a search function for specific stats would be very usefull. if my main stat for my character is healing power, i dont even want to see all the other options that are availeble. im only interested in those items that actually have healing power. id like to see “advanced search” earn its name by implementing these options thank you.

how do you recognize those bots? i believe i saw 5 bots (all names looked alot alike each other). they were in queensdale at the garrison, all ranger’s throwing axes in the length of the bridge, also the 5 axes and healing skill was done alot when there wasnt even a mob nearby, this happened on all 5 charracters. i know that a event takes place there wich causes centours to storm the garrison. but with those people there its just a deathtrap! poor centours i reported them all for botting.

im not 100% sure if this is a bug, but its very anoying.

the thief elite skill dagger storm grants you 8 secconds of stability so you cant get knocked down, pushed back etc… but when for example a Risen Putrifier uses his pull on me, the skill stops.