Guild Wars 2

Caithe is the center of the new Twilight Arbor path. These next 4 patches may reveal Caithe’s dark secret even, whatever that’ll be.

And thanks for the bounty mention. That is Trillia Midwell. If only all eles could fend off an entire guild, eh?

Arcturus.8109:

You forgot about epic_scream_guy from fractals http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Urban_Battlegrounds_Fractal#Captain_Ashym

And what do you mean “Zojja (MIA)”?

Zojja is missing in action. She’s the one iconic not to have made an appearance in Living Story yet.

I’d like to see more Elementalist representation in NPCs.
Off the top of my head, we have 3 mesmers in the human political scene, (Jenna, Anise and Kasmeer) two necros (Trahearne and Marjory), two guardians (Logan and Braham), two rangers (Rox and Eir), warrior Rytlock, thief Caithe, and I think we’d call Scarlet an Engineer.

I’ve come to believe we may not see a strong ele character until even Anet is happy with the profession.

Elementalists I can name though:
Sieran (Dead)
Zojja (MIA)
Windcaller Kieldia (gone with Queen’s Gauntlet.)
Euryale (Charr warband member til story level 20)
Aetherblade Strikers

(Going through this exercise, I found I had a harder time thinking up thieves. ^Equal Opportunist.)
But please do add to my list.

I once met a guardian who was passive healing through my damage, and he /laughed at me. -.-

My intent on this post is to make elementalists masters of the elements again.
Ele Burns needs to hurt the most of all professions. Ele Chill needs to last the longest. I hope to do this by making conditions more viable for elementalists. Take all or some suggestions. I’m not saying these are all needed.

I would introduce a ‘sticky’ burn like the Warrior’s Impale. I think ‘Mark of Rodgort’ would be a good name for this. (GW1 skill name.)
Like Impale, the idea is the mark is put on the foe, and it can’t be cleansed. They will reignite like a trick candle when they cleanse the burn until the mark fades.

Rodgort’s Invocation would be a good name for a clone of necro ‘Blood is Power.’ Give self 10 Might, and burn foe. (Burn self for balance?) Fire IX is good for stacking might, and would be OP with this skill, but I feel too much like a wind up toy with this trait, that winds down when I switch to other elements. This skill offers some leading power and might sustainability. It also means Fire XI is not a requirement when building a power spec.

I’d like to see Chill duration increases in Ele traits, and no other profession.
Introduce the new condition Frostbite, which is a frozen/torment combo. This will allow the return of GW1 skill Winter’s Embrace.
Insert additional GW1 skills that have a situational chill, like if a foe’s endurance is less than your own.

I’ve no complaints with Air.

We need a bleed on Earth focus. Perhaps Magnetic Aura causes reflected projectiles to bleed? It’s the one ele weapon that can’t reach the 20 stack bleed other combos make possible. (As situational as the other weapon combos make getting the 20 stack bleed.)
Gain bonuses for comboing one attunement’s conditions with another. See Ash Blast, blind foes that are burning.

-Gushing/Rant Start-
I’ve returned to my ele, my main, for several hours since Dec 10th. It was a lot of fun, and a lot of frustration. I think the change did open up some build diversity. It was the first time I swore about an opposing ele with meteors hitting for 3-5k.
I’ve done 30 fire/air. 30 Fire/Earth. 20/10/10/30 for an aura build. These were all good for a few situations, but they were all so glass.
I think the profession still suffers from being shoehorned into the glass cannon trope though. Some proud eles say they never lose to a thief, but I doubt that was true if the thief snuck up behind them with a s/d. I think my meteor shower did once wipe a whole party in PVP though. I’m sure an ele is devastating when supported in team match ups, but I only ever play quick matches.
I think we need to see Ele with the most scholar health, and necro with least. I think that would force more Necro diversity as well, because I know when I learned necro had death shroud I wouldn’t invest anything in health/toughness.
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I’ve poured through the wiki’s stun break page to give you these numbers, and how eles are really needing some help here.

Across all professions, stun break skill have an average 48 second cooldown. Ele’s average stun break cooldown is 63. Mesmer’s is 31, not factoring in 2 or 3 mantra charges.

Ele Arcane Shield stun break 75 cool down with 3 blocks. Guardian Shield of Wrath, not a stun breaker, 3 blocks, 45 seconds.

Ele Mist Form Stun breaker 3 second invulnerability, movement. Skill lock. 75 second cooldown. Engineer Elixir S 3 second evade, movement. Skill lock. 60 second cooldown. Ranger Protect Me. Stun Breaker 6 Second “no damge” with pet. No Skill Lock. Necro Spectral Walk, 30 second swiftness, 60 second cooldown.

Ele Armor of Earth. Self Stability and Protection for 6 seconds. 90 Second cooldown. Guardian Stand Your Ground 5 second stability to self and allies. 30 second cooldown.
Guardian Hold the Line. Not stun breaker. Protection and Regen to Allies. 4 and 6 seconds respectively. 35 second cool down.

Most professions have a teleport, quickness or dodge roll stun breaker. Since April Ele only has the skill locking mist form. The heal in mistform may have seemed OP, but was it any different than Necro Consume Conditions?

It was a nice try to spread ele stun breakers to other skill types, but the balance was broken. Please fix.

A new article today shows us the elementalist is the 3rd most created profession tied with thief. Mesmer is actually the least. This surprises me because I see a lot more mesmers in game. I think a lot of eles have been benched recently. I hardly see RTL used in WvW since the nerf. No burning speed lines in Clockwork Chaos. Please don’t post why this is. Most of the forum says that. Share your thoughts on the profession distribution.

Mechanically, it is a weapon swap. It’s just we can’t swap to ranged skills with daggers. So my point is why we couldn’t have ranged skills and melee skills in dagger like necro, or focus skills with damage like necro. Or how about off hand scepter. If eles could dual wield scepters it would be a unique flavour for eles. The off hand skills we have are pretty poor besides earthquake and churning earth. Or a ranged attunement.
Say we just wrote off offhand, eles really only have 12 weapons skills, up from 10 for other classes. I’m liking the phrase going around we do double the work for the same (or less) reward.

I’m still against weapon swap. That is what attunement is basically. I think it’s the offhand weapons that needs fixing. Necro dagger and focus have great utility and Mesmer Phantasmal Duelist (and to a lesser extent, warden) are great to drop on foes while staying out of arms reach. I don’t see the synergy with our scepter/dagger combo, and as much as I like focus it’s got no damage.

Thanks to this thread I actually caved and changed my spec to include evasive arcana, and that did make things a lot more fun as an ele. I’m rolling all over the place anyway, might as well get some utility out of it.
I just have never understood the idea we run this glass profession into melee with skills like RTL and burning speed. I mean I love being up there as opposed to playing Simon Says rolling through my skills with staff.
But we are definitely the poorest scholars. Necros have nearly all conditions and a second health bar. Mesmers can stealth and multiply. And I die a little each time I see the 7k backstab from thiefs. That’s about half of the lifepool right there.
Anyway, my opinion shared a thousand times over this forum, but maybe here’s a novel thought.
Why don’t eles have conditions on their autoattacks? Dragon’s Claw. No Burning. Water 2 – Cone of Cold – No Freezing. I know you could add some with that one glyph, and it went from NU to sometimes since it got stun break, but I’d rather have another skill than this one that gives the skills the conditions they should already have. Too OP – See Necro Scepter.
There, yours to enjoy. I now share in your beliefs we need to spread the Arcana trait wealth over at least 2 more traits, and to see some patches that give the ele some new threats.

Are there any other examples of Sylvari being able to root themselves, or is their elite skill ‘Take Root’ an oversight in character design?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/c/cc/Young_Arctodus.jpg/472px-Young_Arctodus.jpg

Can you say no to that face?

I would love to see a Arctodus cub mini. You know how cute you made them.

This is Rory Metalcur. Turret Enthusiast. He loves cannons as well. The Lionguard Shield is ideal for a charr Engineer, and the Norn pistols are nice and large for his claws. He’s a power cleric.

Say right up front this is your first time. People will usually give up the details you need to know.
I had the misfortune of people expecting me to know what I was doing and I gotta say COF Path 1’s brazier bit was not very clear to me. I dunno if I missed some NPC dialogue, or what.
And then the party rushed off to the final boss leaving me in a mob of flame legion. Fortunately I had a shadowstep, roll, and dagger storm free to keep me alive til they gave up.

Just to keep the idea alive, I’ve already suggested it only affect party members to cut down on trolling, and disable it completely in WvW. If you’re going to troll your party in WvW or PvE, well, heaven help you.

I was doing the skipping stones jump puzzle and raged quit before going to a mesmer portal to the end Before that, I saw a thief on the first stop and I just wished his scorpion wire could just pull me up, and to know the devs want some portal mechanics in other professions, I think some of the existing pull skills could be the answer. Scorpion wire, magnet, and spectral grasp make perfect sense to me. I especially like the idea of the latter grabbing you and hoisting you up. Because of the potential for trolling when this is turned on, perhaps give an option in the setup to disable ally pulls, or it only works on party members.

Here is my norn guardian Serrah Pfizer. ’She’ll get you up.’ She’s the only character so far I run two armor sets for, and this is her Cleric – Mercy set. A lovely sight as you are revived, although in this instance, it looks like she’s judging whether someone is worth saving.

Here is my Asura mesmer looking very proud of himself for maintaining 3 illusions without much concentration. His name is Mumpfh and likes to sport some Asura and Priory gear.

This is my necro, Vincent Litch, withering flowers in the graveyard for effect. Centaur weapons are just the best skins for a necro.

I just want to put it out there that Claw Island be made into a PVP map or somewhere for more PvE content. I’d also like to see the lion catapults functional and given a purpose as either gem store stuff or whatever you can come up with. Make use of these underutilized resources.

I’ll answer my own question now that wiki is catching up. Yes, it is a guild mission. It is a guild bounty, and the badge will probably be over all targets, and is visible even without the guild unlocking it.

I found a “Deputy” in Snowden Drifts with a sheriff badge hovering over her head , and to talk to her, you get the impression she isn’t what she seems. Has she always been here, or is this part of Guild Missions?

I agree necros don’t need an escape mechanism. Locust swarm could be that escape mechanism you are looking for. I’ve come here to say I think a cripple trait on entering death shroud would be very cool, seeing everyone hobble around you.

I’m just starting to level a necromancer. I get a great deal of satisfaction corrupting boons. Me <— smug face.
I posted some months ago about necros vs. Zhaitan powers. Recently accepted that necro minions are more a collection of dead body parts pulled from the ground rather than the disrespectful raising of a person’s form. Zhaitan is like an identify thief today.

Anyway, Death Shroud. What do you think Death Shroud is?
I know the mechanic used to be like an out of body experience, complete with a tether to your actual body. You would say the necromancer leaves his body behind and his soul moves on. The screen still takes on its green hue like you are somewhere different. This kind of lives on in Spectral Walk now. It doesn’t seem like that’s the current version of death shroud though. Body and soul move together in this form, and never have to go back.
To me, with it being a shroud, I picture life force is warped into a second skin or barrier to absorb damage. It works visually because you are covered in this black flame.

Let me know how you envision it? Planeswalker or energy armor.

Jabberwock.9014:

So more options = bad? Ok…

But seriously, how can you not see this as a buff? You can now immobilize WITHOUT jumping, or get a finisher when you choose to jump. The animation also seems less prone to getting stuck and ccing yourself.

By this logic then, the mesmer’s phase retreat should let you choose to make a clone and/or teleport, and the thief’s infiltrator’s arrow should let you blind and/or teleport.

I said in PvE. I was running from target to target nice and quick. I had also been using a shortbow at the time.

It was two even if the tool tip didn’t state as much. The wiki also says as much.

I will sometimes use Flame Axe for the burning retreat and you’ll really see the health bar drop with it’s 1 skill.

The two finishers are not new. They were already there on magnetic grasp.

I think Spirits are great in the support role of a longbow ranger. And I was untouchable in PvE with Storm, Stone and Frost

dreztina.4820:

You want to know what kind of freedom the new skill gives us? Well I won’t be pulling myself into HB or guardian bubbles that were started after I cast MG anymore, that’s for sure.

I’m still not decided on whether or not I think the change is good because it’s no longer possible to do the MG-EQ combo, but there are some upsides to it as well. Also found out the delay makes this skill useless as an escape tool which is kind of disappointing. That saved my life a lot of times.

I imagine they could still counter the leap if they saw it coming, but I can see why the option not to pull yourself into a stun would be tempting. I’m mostly PvE/WvW, so that situation rarely comes up, and is why it’s wrecked my style.

I don’t understand any of your play styles to think this is a welcome change. I want to be pulled to my target. I’d like it more if I had the option to set magnetic leap to auto-complete, because having to tap the skill twice wrecks my style. And ele is my main since launch.
It needs some serious polish because it looks and sounds awful. I miss the shoulder rush. The leap looks like you were catapulted against your will. It sounds pitiful hearing that tink of the single dagger hit and then you’re back to the earth crunching of Impale. This change just seems like scrapping the original idea because they couldn’t fix the bugs.
If you wanted a long distance immobilize, I’d recommend signet of earth. It’s got 1200 range, and no projectile to reflect.
Those talking about getting a projectile and leap finisher now must not have been aware of how it worked before, so I have to discredit those opinions.
And for those talking about having more freedom and tactics, I want to hear them. I can see why you’d be happy for the ranged immobilize, but then you’re gonna be switching to another attunement I’d imagine and waste magnetic leap. Or maybe you use flash for a closer making the leap wasted again.

In the patch notes, does it mean they fixed the downed penalty when using Vapor Form, or does it end in death like Vengence?

Yes, please distinguish the hawk and eagle a bit more. One of their F2 abilities could perhaps cause weakness or vulnerability. It could be called shred/shred armor perhaps.

I’ve seen the past two days a rare, or yellow item with a gear icon in my bag of loot, but I’m so quick to collect all when I see that window, I don’t take notice. Only I don’t see anything in my inventory after that’s the rare yellow. Is it something to do with coins?

I agree after dropping a gold on various upgrades last night I’d like to think it was a good investment, but supply camps turn over so quick. The guards do at least protect the dolyak from spawned creatures on their route.

My Sylvari Ranger, decked out in mostly personal story gear.

My Ele is very much human. 2 Cultural pieces in Divinity’s Reach.

Then I should specify it was most of the UI and world completion sound effects. The swoosh of the map, and the Hero Panel; reaching a waypoint and lands discovered. My battle sounds were fine. Also, it seems after an hour of play they were not disappearing any more.

I keep losing sound effects in game. It was fine a week ago, but I have since moved my home, not that should matter.
If I make any adjustment to the sound quality or individual volumes, they return but only for a couple minutes.
Great sounding game, hope this is an easy fix.

I’m not usually very quick on the print screen but I knew I had to have this.

The ranger whirling defense states it blocks projectiles, but I have seen it reflect a couple, but I can’t say it’s 100% all the time. I think this should be a reflect as this is what was shown in the reveal video, and seems fair for a stationary skill.
Yesterday however I had a couple fireballs reflect back on me because of an ele’s swirling winds. I’ve not known this to reflect before. I’m not sure if something changed.
Will all projectile blocking become reflect? Can tooltips be updated please?

Thanks. Totally missed the Lore section. I’d move it if I could.

What exactly is the GW2 Necromancer lore? How is their power different than Zhaitan’s, other than Zhaitan’s power to raise leagues of undead.
I remember Trehearne says at one point that his minions were never actually alive, so where does he get the flesh for his flesh golems? In GW, the minions came from corpses. Are necromancers more of a cross-dimensional summoner now?

Speaking of GW, necros had one spell to take control of undead minions. How was this lost? Are the risen different than undead? Would the lore go that necros can’t break Zhaitan’s influence I wonder.

Just looking for plugs in the story holes. That’s what makes a good game great.

I’ve finished the storyline, so fire all the spoilers you want. I do recall the Eye saying that now. Still, wasted opportunity?

Your mentor dies, yes? So how is it they didn’t turn into the Risen? I don’t think this was answered outright.
I speculate they destroyed themselves so utterly they couldn’t come back, or perhaps they didn’t actually die. (GW2 – Jormag edition spoiler?)

Also, if Zhaitan learns everything his minions knows, wouldn’t the mentor dying just blow a hole right through the plans? In the Orders storyline, the Risen didn’t act on the password Tybalt knew, though it was easy to guess.

Thoughts?

Any ex-TRIG members here now that the guild has been deleted? I was wondering if we get any compensation after spending letters of recommendation on a guild that doesn’t stay around.

Do invaders get a bonus to range when attacking? I just can’t figure how the ele on the ground hits my ele on the wall and my blasting staff aoe marker is red over them.

I tried throw wrench on a line of turrets out of combat and I saw no change in their health despite being damaged.