Guild Wars 2

I would like to re-approach this idea now.

I have already spoken with 2 other people making our roster:

Gasmic: S/D Burst
S/F Frostbow Burst
D/D Elementalist (Not Sure of Role)

It would be nice to have a Staff Bunker.

Last slot could be filled with anything that fits in our group composition.

Jae.5138:

not s ure if gasmic even looked at your build.

condition builds WILL give you hell with that build. I’d suggest either putting in at least 20 into water or drop the fresh air altogether if you want a good fight against condition heavy builds.

Not sure if Jae knows Elementalist at all:

Ether Renewal = -8 Conditions on 12 second timer
Cleansing Fire = – 3 Conditions on a 40 second timer < Waste
Cleansing Wave = -1 Condition on a 40 second timer
Water Attunement Evasive Arcana = – 1 Condition on a 10 second timer
Phoenix = – 1 Condition on a 20 second timer

You DO NOT need to spec into water for Condition Removal; there are MUCH better ways to access it than to waste points into the Water tree.

There is lots of Condition removal in this build especially in Ether Renewal. I use Ether Renewal even when I’m close to full health to keep myself free of conditions because I know it’ll be up again next time I need it. It also keeps me at full health which keeps my Scholar runes proccing.

Hambow Warrior:
Kite and DPS from Range… avoid Earthshaker and take advantage of your blind… it’s as effective as another dodge.

Condi Warrior:
This guy shouldn’t be a problem for you… you have enough condi cleanse as is… just DPS burn him.

P/U Memser:
Tough guy eh?
Single target DPS (Air Attunement Rotation)
Stay AWAY from clones and pop frost aura if they get too close.

Shatter Mesmer:
DPS from range and come in for a final hit.
Stack as much burning as you can on him as well.
Watch for the shatter and dodge (it takes a while to be able to detect a shatter but when you do get it you notice that all of the clones instantly start running towards you. You can dodge into them)

Tip for Mesmer/Thief:
Air Autoattack still hits when the enemy is stealthed. So does Hurl (Earth 2). You can use this to pressure these guys even when they’re stealthed and even determine where they are depending on where the stones are going once you get experienced enough.

Condi Ranger:
Usually they are pretty squishy if you can kite them and keep your condi clears going. They usually stand still while they’re attacking so you might able to pressure them by dropping Dragon’s Tooth on them among other things. For Spirit ranger you can kill the spirits from ranged (Dragontooth/pheonix) and also go in for your full Might Rotation (finishes with Churning Earth) which will probably kill them (but it may leave you vulnerable).

Condi Necro:
I have a rotation which can kill them without them being able to land a single hit on me and I’ve made many necros rage because of it.
Just keep them down: You have 2 skills Earthquake and Updraft use them to keep them unable to move. These necros usually do not take any stunbreakers so they are vulnerable for the entirety of the knockdown. While they’re down… hit them with everything you’ve got. If you time your rotations properly (and with a bit of luck) you can kill them without them even touching you.

More notes…
Don’t take FGS (The LF + FGS 4) combo is nice but it’s very gimicky and it’s not very effective in 1 v 1’s.
The Glyph is a LOT more effective during 1 v 1’s (Fire Ele does a LOT of damage).

Consider taking Armor of Earth instead of Cleansing Fire.
Armor of Earth + Ether Renewal is a much better condi cleanse than Cleansing Fire.
^ It also ensures that you can get your heal off as well…

I hope this helped!
-Gasmic
#ELEtism

I’m thinking of a Tempest Defense/Aurashare Build:

0/30/0/30/10

Or 0/30/10/30/0

I can’t decide whether I want to take the perma-vigor or the AoE Protection.

katniss.6735:

Re: Arcane Abatement
Why do you and daphoenix use this skill?
Most open field fighting there’s no place to drop far enough to use it.
Does it proc when you get hit with hammers or something?

It seems like something that would only be good if you were being zerged in a northern part of a boarderland or jumping off a tower wall/ get pulled off of one.

I love arcane abatement. It is one of those under appreciated gems most people usually look over. The fact of the matter is that Arcane Abatement provides a Fire Field or Static Field or Blast Finisher on demand. Imagine dropping down a small ledge in Air Attunement followed by 4 Warriors with the “Death from Above” Trait. That means 4 Blast Finishers in your Static field which means LOTS of AoE Swiftness.

This trait works wonders with the new Arcane Brilliance skill as well. It just has a lot of utility and is one of the reasons I will always take it in WvW.

For two weeks I’ve been trying to find a tournament build which worked with Diamond Skin. So far I have had no luck. I’ve felt as soon as I found myself in a legitimate fight, Diamond Skin would have no effect.

It’s a waste of a Grandmaster trait and should be removed from the game on the grounds that it is a useless trait and not since it is “OP” against a certain type of necromancer which is not able to change play-styles to accommodate their enemy having such a useless trait.

You should put up the build you’re running to get this!

Bump.

It really depends on the build.
My D/D Bunker eats P/D Thieves alive and has a little bit of trouble with S/D thieves but not too much.

My S/D Burst is almost always an extremely close fight usually ends with me surviving with a sliver of health left and the thief downed.

The thief S/D build is made to keep S/D burst elementalist in check and if I do run into a thief who plays at the same skill level I do… I will lose.

I tried running my build with Diamond Skin and it didn’t feel comfortable to play with at all. I found that with a cleric’s amulet (which is what I run for my bunker) I only need to take around 1000-2000 damage for Diamond Skin to be negligible. I’ve played around 20 tPvP matches with it so far and I have found it to be useless in a competitive match.

Bump,
Now that I am back from vacation I will have more time to implement events and engage in discussions.

I can’t believe how much they kitten guilds in this game. It’s incredibly insulting.

This has more views than all of the stickies combined.

With the new changes to PvP, I hope that this is one that we can see in the future.

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

Dean Calaway.9718:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

What I’ve noticed so far is that if you run on low graphic settings the loading time is cut drastically(…)

Well that says it all doesn’kitten Your system is to blame (mostly), not anet.

When you use a WP, even in the same map, all the server has to do is move your position in world, simple as that, x,y,z.

You computer on the other hand has to go on the HDD and load everything that’s needed, if this was poorly programmed you wouldn’t notice much of a difference between high and low, it’s a case of fetching a high res texture instead of a low one for example, the overall speed of your system will determine the length of the loading screen.

As for your suggestion, trust me you wouldn’t like it, immediately load the world in low res and then progressively start loading in high res would be too annoying, all that pop in and all, but I get it why you’d like it, champ train, right?

Now instead of putting anet resources on doing something “useless”, you can try guest on a lower population server so by the time you get to the champ he won’t be down already, look at a swiftness, creat a chat tab where only the links to the WPs show in order. Hope that helps.

You got something wrong here.
First of all, it doesn’t matter on which beast of a computer you play on, your loadingscreen will be reduced if the game loads the low resolution first and “upgrades” itself to high resolution afterwards, you might just not realize it that much.
Take LA as expample. Due to the high amount of character models the loading screen is very long. If you run low settings, including culling, LA will be loaded much faster.
Also, my suggestion isn’t useless, it’s very easy to pull off. ANet just has to combine the low settings with an automatic chance to high settings once the loading screen is finished and for a lot of players the loadingtime will decrease drastically.
Atleast, this idea can be added as an option so you don’t have to use it if you don’t want to.

The issue is that this would be more work for the computer to do.

Instead of taking a few extra seconds to load up the map on high textures, the computer will instead have to first load up the low textures. Once the low textures are loaded up the computer will need to load up the high textures while simultaneously dealing with all of the input which is coming from the game. On top of that changing graphics settings mid-game is not optimal there have been multiple times when I’ve tried changing graphical settings in the middle of a tequatl fight and have gotten disconnected because of it.

All is Vain

Tom.6478:

I really enjoy helping people who need it.

Sometimes, I think they are unsure about my/your intensions.

I understand that but what can you do….

I guess what I’m trying say, how do to offer help without them thinking something other than you just want to help.

I’m a little clueless here, help me be friendly……without being too friendly.

I’m not the best, but I’m decent. I want to help others….I just want to do it in the right way and have them feel good about it.

Join a guild and speak with the guild leader about developing a noobie helping program. As a guild leader I’m actually looking for someone to help me develop this for my guild as well!

They both have very different playstyles.

Mesmer is a little more clutch/skill play whereas necro is more devastating damage and control.

Edward.7362:

So, I came back after playing other games, let’s try how GW2 is these days. Rolled a dps warrior, went to do a PvP daily.
Got to a 1v1 match.
Spotted a thief a behind a corner, I was expecting him but I had meelee weapons equipped and I didn’t want to switch to avoid the switch cd. I started running towards him to engage in meelee. Then something happened and I was dead. In about a second.
Checked log. Cluster bomb 5k, Backstab 8k, 2x Cloak and dagger 2,5k apiece.
gg

Granted, I was trying out new weapon combinations and I didn’t play (GW2) for quite some time but this is not okay. Having some freaking 1v1 1-second ttk predators is not cool at all.

I am not even going to bother finding out how this is “reasonable” or “doable” according to gear and traits available.

I am moving to next game. Hopefully this will be different when (if ever) I come back… I feel very disappointed.

Clusterbomb has a 1/2 Second Cast-time and the Detonate has a full second cast time.
Backstab has a 1/4th second cast-time but it also requires time for stealthing and positioning (lets say 3/4 second).

Cloak and Dagger has a 1/2 second cast-time. Two of them equal 1 second.

1 1/2 + 1 + 1
3 1/2 seconds.

t2 Cultural gives Pheonix.

This is one of the best things I’ve ever read.

Bump.
15 Charrs.

You need:
Pheonix Token, Arcane Crystal, Sword Token, Arcane Dust.

You are welcome.

This picture speaks for itself.

Most amateurs in solo queues who ruin games for everyone don’t even KNOW about the existence of hotjoins. A simple introduction of the difference between hotjoins and queue will avoid MANY of our issues.

Or even better, keep rank 1-10 OUT of solo queues; it doesn’t take long at all to get to rank 10 and it helps people learn their class, PvP mechanics, character control, and map flow.

And for kitten’s sakes… keep daily farmers OUT of our PvP matches.

Guilds aren’t important to Anet.

Guild upgrades have been discussed and put on the back burner to make room for more important things like Scarlet’s shenanigans.

It’s pretty stupid, people in my guild have even considered switching games just so that we can have better resources as a guild.

Honestly, even Maplestory has better guild features than this game.

Even though I always ignore threads like this and maintain that Anet NEEDS to fix the classes they currently have before adding new ones;

I LOVE this idea.
This sounds epic!

Yes.

Nice job, but you’ve only played 60 Solo Queue matches.

We all know how RNG solo queue is; solo queue ranking means squat.

This doesn’t prove anything.

Keep representing though, you have my support!

All is Vain

Instead of adding more skills or changing any of them they need to balance the ones they have already.

All is Vain

Wintel.4873:

I wouldn’t be surprised if “All is vain” was found scribbled on one of the rocks/walls in one of the PvP maps in a future patch :P

This.
ANet needs to accept the current state of the game.
It might make players feel a little better about it if the devs would be able to laugh at the broken state of the game with the rest of the players and work to make it better instead of putting up a facade that everything is nice and peachy.

When I was a kid and I got bad grades, my mom would frame my report card in my room and I was only able to take it down when I brought good grades again.

This is ANet’s bad report card and Anet needs to sticky this thread until they fix the ridiculous state of PvP in this game.

Remove all rank points that a player has.
Add rank based on hotjoin plays/wins, solo tournament plays/wins, team tournament/wins based on the current formula.

Retroactively reward all of the hotjoin matches that ended normally and ignore all of the ones that ended due to a /command.

This way you can reward “loyal” players while still shutting down Skyhammer farmers.

The majority of players will get a nice boost in glory from this and the only people who will end up with less rank points will be the ones who abused the farming rooms.

If you don’t have that kind of data, award rank points for only those hotjoins which were not private servers. This will still give most people a boost in their rank so they cant complain while shutting down those who rank farmed.

I run public guild missions with around 120+ active members every week.
How do you expect we deal with this condition when all 120 of us are attempting to get our guild missions done?

Ancient Ranger.3276:

Yea the first d/d skeleton isn’t that bad 0/10/10/20/0 with 30 points left for wherever. Personally I’ve been running 2 different builds a 0/10/10/20/30 build and a 0/0/20/20/30(pretty much one of the variants of the classic d/d ele) build thee both run pretty well and aren’t as clunky and can be used with different weapon sets. I know the whole point of the patch was to get us out of arcane and water but for my play style those two trait lines help keep me alive. I just hope they don’t nerf them.

They probably don’t feel bad to you because they still have 30 in Arcana. I actually meant if there were any builds which didn’t go all the way into Arcana which have been effective.

I like this!
I ONLY play my Elementalist and I want to be recognized for the time and experience I have on him.

Unfortunately due to unforseen circumstances I have not been able to do these yet.

I hope to keep you guys updated on this thread.

I have tried all of these builds and most of them have just felt clunky to me…
Has anyone else had any success using these builds?

I like pain too much.
I’m not going to stop playing my elementalist.

I feel like Elementalist can do whatever they want to do.

If we want to be a DPS class, we can do that.
If we want to be support, we can do that.
If we want to be mobile, we can do that.
If we want to be a nerf-goat, we can do that.

I feel like I can provide just as much support as a guardian in a dungeon but provide more might while maintaining a high DPS and mobility as an elementalist.

This is hilarious, this is but one example of how fast ANet deals with the Elementalist class.
They want to get in make the change and get out as fast as possible because they feel uncomfortable working with a class they they have NO idea how to deal with.

I love how the glyph problem has been there since the last balance patch and has not even been addressed yet.

My next ELEtism discussion will be about how to help ANet deal with Elementalists. I plan on introducing ideas which haven’t really been covered yet.

It is quite frustrating that one of my guildies could be trying to show off his random new build that he came up with on his mesmer and face me with screwed up traits and unpolished runes/sigil choices and I would have to play to the best of my ability merely not to get facerolled.
He would have no experience with the build and very little experience with the class itself.
I would consider myself to be a pretty experienced Elementalist (4000 hours) and it is very embarrassing being in matches like that.

Pyrite.9641:

Mash Hog.5672:

Pyrite.9641:

Austin Kootz is my character name.

• I use a mental D/D burst build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoIhMmMbsR3IACKOgghCN6QowCHKFyB-TsAg0CnIoSRljKDVSqsUNq4UxsCA

The +5 from the runes is always active, tested to confirm. I could go slightly higher damage if I needed to, but only for a loss in survive-ability, and massive amounts of dodging to avoid damage. I may need to make some adjustments after the patch, we’ll see.

I’m game. let’s do this.
There’s also a staff build I’ve been wanting to try, I wonder….

How exactly do you do your damage with that build?

Arcane Power
Burning Speed
Ring of Fire
Fire Grab
(dodge sideways to evade opponents return stroke)
“air attunement” (gives lightning strike)(gives fury)
Updraft (knocks down long enough to hit with..)
Ride the lightning.
Shocking Aura
Lightning Whip
(dodge sideways to evade)
Lightning Whip
If the bad guy isn’t dead by this point, I will be.

Perma vigor helps keep the evades going, and the white damage is high. I have a variant with greater crit chance/damage but less toughness, and that’s too glassy.

It’s great as part of a team, I’m mobile and can nuke the beginning of a cap point and bugger out, leaving a severely weakened group to be taken out by someone with more staying power. Also works great on mesmers, one shots all the clones/phantasms (on the LW chain) so they never get the benefit from them.

I’m not saying it’s pretty, but it works well, and I am open to suggestions.

The bleed sigils help bury the burning and when both conditions are on, I have an additional 10% damage.

Since the patch, I’m considering a change to:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmMbsR3wjEAhHHIABjCdIUYhDlC5A-TsAg0CnIoSRljKDVSqsUNI4QwkAA

Whats with the sigils though?

Lets see how these builds pan out now.

Pyrite.9641:

Austin Kootz is my character name.

• I use a mental D/D burst build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoIhMmMbsR3IACKOgghCN6QowCHKFyB-TsAg0CnIoSRljKDVSqsUNq4UxsCA

The +5 from the runes is always active, tested to confirm. I could go slightly higher damage if I needed to, but only for a loss in survive-ability, and massive amounts of dodging to avoid damage. I may need to make some adjustments after the patch, we’ll see.

I’m game. let’s do this.
There’s also a staff build I’ve been wanting to try, I wonder….

How exactly do you do your damage with that build?

I should have sent everyone invites now.
:)

I will try to record…
I have filled a few slots…
I need another few Elementalists still!

Conncept.7638:

Strang.8170:

the hardest part was actualy make it go off without dying.

Is it sad that I find this an accurate summation of our entire class?

This