Guild Wars 2

<~~ runs 40s no problems without glitching (our guild is firmly against skipping any content… even trash mobs). I think you just need to re-evaluate how you and your guildmates play. Perhaps start using voice-coms to do things. Coordination is the way to go.

eldain stenlund.4306:

paleeshi.1924:

eldain stenlund.4306:

You dont want to call the elemental a mage class.. so.. what class is it then ?

The class is called… Elementalist. <.< Of the scholar profession.

I don’t know why everyone is so hung up on all those words. You think that by simply calling it an elementalist or mage, it will define the class to its core and what it is and what it’s not. Just do it simple. Read the GW2’s class presentation.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/elementalist/
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Elementalist

Scholars. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scholar

Scholar. synonyms.

teacher, student, wizard. etc.

so we have: warriors, guardians, thieves, engineers, and then 3 students ??

Or do we have warriors, guardians, thieves, engineers, and then 3 wizards focusing on different fields.

I can guarantee you that A-net is not using the name Student, when looking at the class core.

and not matter how “innovative” they want to be, when you create a class wich can controll nature, energies, and dark forces around. they are a mage class in core.

and everyone knows this.. and expects this.
and when we then find the elemental class. (wich is a mage), Is working more like a magic using thief, because A-net decided to feel “innovative”.
then something is wrong.

Dagger/Dagger for all situations.. but keep guarding.. GREAT Innovation A-net…
whats next, innnovation for warrior: Dagger/Dagger. ???

Something along the way from Core —- Finished class, went bad.

I usualy hate when people get nerfed.
But in this case, i hope DD gets a realy strong one.

DD is the innovative way to play a mage.
But it should not dominate as it is now.

QFT

Now that I got that off my chest, there is absolutely no weapon, from a PVE and WvW standpoint, that outclasses every other in EVERY situation. Just carry all your weapons on you, shell out some extra gold to have a staff, scepter, two daggers, and a focus, and just use the right tool for the right job. Big mob pulls use a staff, single target that must remain at a range S/D, close distance fights D/D, heavy group-killing range S/F or D/F. Can just /thread this already? There really isn’t a weapon that is perfect for every situation.

I’m gonna be honest, unless you want the fastest smoothest run in the entire world, run what you’re comfortable in. If you’re a gaming robot and can do these fights without a hitch run full berserker. I myself, am not, so I don’t do it. Run what YOU are comfortable with.

I use unnamed prec > tough/pow and berserker for my base armor… I do mostly PVE though

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I’m gonna guess he served with Commander Shepard

speaking from strictly a PVE standpoint, Staff is just as viable as anything else, however I highly recommend you carry all available weapons into PVE.

On my guy, my kit consists of a Staff, a Scepter, a Focus, and two Daggers (I hardly ever use the second one) for PVE.

Staff is great for trash pulls and mob control in general. There’s plenty of times that the AoE from a staff is needed in big mob pulls.

D/D is usefull on bosses where you HAVE to be in melee range, Test Subject Alpha for instance.

S/D I use a lot for midrange single target fights. It deals a lot of damage and you can get in and out with no problem at all.

S/F I use for fights where you need the utility of ranged canceling move, like say in Harpy fractal.

Point is, don’t think of yourself as a staff ele, or a D/D ele… you’re an ele, to limit the tools you have at your disposal is to limit your potential.

I think what everyone seems to be forgetting is that AC explorable is endgame content, all dungeons are endgame content. It’s not supposed to be hard. Even though the recommended level is 35, it is implied that you need to know EXACTLY what you’re doing to go in. In other words, if it is your first time in there, watch videos, read walkthroughs, ask your party, do your homework before you go in.

Quit trying to maximize damage and you won’t get one-shot.

make this, shut up and take my money. I need an everlasting dancing spirit to take my enjoyment of this game to the next level.

War, support ele is lame.

While I agree with the OP, lets not get carried away here.

A grenade Eng, can pitch nades 1600 range and keep between 20-25 vulnerability on enemies at all times, that’s a 25% damage increase to the whole party, compared to a mesmer’s timewarp which is 27% increase.

Ele has great utilities in scepter/focus for some fights, and decent AoE damage in staff if built correctly.

Thief mass stealth is great utility in a few fights, and they deal single target damage comparable to a warrior.

Necro… ok necro’s useless.

Ranger is good to have in two fights, and essential if you’re going past 40. That pet res crap is pretty much the only way to bypass the agony cap.

There is balance in this game, it needs to be tweeked… but lets not carried away. I’m on fractal 38, and I’ve never turned someone away just cause their class doesn’t make a fight trivial.

Bad Charr are bad. There’s war mongering domination hungry humans too. King Adlebern nuked his own people to kill the Charr, that doesn’t sound heroic to me either.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I’m Designer Hrouda, and this is my favorite thread on the forum.

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That being said, we are always looking at our reward tables. I agree with you that a blue is very unsatisfying of a reward for GL and other instances. Part of our Dungeon work coming down the line is going to involve changing reward tables and whatnot, so please be patient as we work through things as fast as we can.

I’m Commander Greil, and this is my favorite post on the citadel.

I think this is gonna get the kitten nerfed out of it. All this is going to lead to is diminishing returns lasting several hours instead of 30 minutes.

I’ve asked around and I’m apparently not the only one having this problem. Simin seems to be coming out of stealth whenever she wants now. I had a party of 4 dungeon masters (all guildies who have consistently downed her before usually in 10-15 minutes), and she just kept going back into stealth at 25% regardless of how fast we ran the orbs. We’d run them in before she regened up to 40%, and she’d just pop out… we’d hit her for 5-10 seconds, then go right back into stealth at 25%. It’s only been like this since the last patch.

Furthermore, the sparks are still agroing onto summoned creatures, and onto Greyston, the NPC that tags along. Usually not a problem, but we were told that had been fixed.

I’ve seen a lot of hit and miss stories in my forum research since the last patch. @Diviner, that was the problem I was having too.

Cato.3547:

Sanel.5603:

Well, i dont mind boss is not pug friendly, but i do mind that it need specific builds / classes to get her down. Before we could down her with 2 glass canon elems 1 thief glass and guardian + necro. Now with same setup, same group who downed it before patch few times, we failed.

Did it with pug couple days ago took couple tries wasn’t that painful. Had guardian, ele, engi, berserker thief and warrior so nothing special. Stealth’s were mby 15-20 sec apart only had few issues with with sparks deagroing other than that it seemed fine.

did you down it before or after the patch? The question was if she’s been bugged because of the patch.

Sanel.5603:

Since i offered my help concernig path 4, last night some people called me to help them. We finish dwayna before patch few times, its not easy boss but also is not impossible. Last night we failed badly, after 3 hours on Dwayna we couldnt manage to pull sparks fast enough, sparks seems to aggro any other player that is in aggro range and in most of times spark even reset, i find this spark behaviour more confusing then before patch. After 50% Dwayna sometimes hide in next 10 sec, sometimes in next 30 sec, kinda randomly and still dont know why is that…. We had ok dps, 2 elementals glass canon, 1 warrior, 1 ranger, 1 guardian.

This just happened to us right now, she just randomly goes under for no reason and she refuses to go below 25% even if you put the sparks in before she hits 40%

so… I went to go get seer path done for a guildy of mine, my guild runs it consistently we down her pretty much every try before this recent patch. She seems to be transitioning phases whenever she feels like it now, and refuses to go into that final part where you can actually kill her. We got her down to 25%, ran in the sparks before she hit 40% then she’d pop out, we’d hit her twice, and she’d go back in. This didn’t happen just once… it happened 7 times. I’m wondering if anyone has completed it since the patch, or if me and my friends are just getting sloppy.

draxynnic.3719:

sigh

Please give me some credit and assume that I do in fact know things that have been known since 2007, okay? I’ve been following Guild Wars lore since before ArenaNet even started considering Guild Wars 2, you know.

You’re also wrong on the details, by the way. Ronan planted the seed, Ventari just tended it. But that’s beside the point.

The real question is… where did those seeds come from? Why is there no record of the existence of the sylvari species prior to Ronan finding that cave? Why don’t we see any indications of a previous generation of sylvari, and why did this generation (which, I feel the need to point out before getting trolled with another pat answer, includes more than one Tree, so “because that’s when Ronan planted it” isn’t a complete answer) arise just as the dragons did?

If the sylvari species was created by the Forgotten to produce soldiers for the next arising, that would explain all those questions, as well as the question of why sylvari minds are apparently immune (or at least resistant) to dragon corruption.

because Anet needed to add another race and there isn’t really an explanation needed. Not EVERYTHING has to make sense.

draxynnic.3719:

Yes, but what is the background of that tree?

The sylvari are immune to draconic corruption (they can be killed, but not corrupted); Forgotten artifacts are, likewise, immune, and the Forgotten can even reverse draconic corruption. The sylvari themselves suspect they were birthed to fight the Elder Dragons – what if the Pale Tree species was engineered by the Forgotten, including being granted immunity to corruption, and their life cycle timed that they would appear at the same time as the dragons’ next likely awakening cycle?

ventari planted the tree.

draxynnic.3719:

Leo Paul.1659:

well if I understand it correctly, the forgotten who are linked to the power of the human gods are able to use magic that the elder dragons cannot corrupt so I say it’s an indication that gods cannot be eaten by them.

It’s shown in Orr that Zhaitan can corrupt divine power, though. The Forgotten are allied and possibly to some extent empowered by the gods, but whatever their technique for protecting against and cleansing draconic corruption, it appears to be something connected to them than to the gods as a whole.

Otherwise the gods could have passed it on to humans and Orr’s statues and other defences and saved us all a lot of trouble.

This does make me wonder about the sylvari origins, though…

what about their origins? they grew from a tree.

capuchinseven.8395:

Maximillian Greil.1965:

It’s logical extrapolation. Gods made of magic, Dragons eat magic, ergo: dragons eat gods. Can you think of a better reason for the gods making themselves scarce?

Dude, I eat cows. It doesn’t mean I could kill and eat a rhino with my bare hands, whole. Your logic is flawed.

sure you could. You should go try.

Perhaps it has to do with their creation. The Forgotten come from the mists, they weren’t “born” in tyria.

I’m quite satisfied with it, it is more complex to build, more complex to play, but the rewards are great if you master it.

draxynnic.3719:

We know that the death of a god leads to the creation of an energy vortex, which can be absorbed by a mortal to assume the god’s power. It doesn’t specify that the power is magical power specifically, but ArenaNet doesn’t feel the fanbase needs to be spoonfed information.

I don’t think we need Jeff or Ree to tapdance across the forum singing “If a dragon killed a god they could consume their power, tralalala!” to conclude that a creature that feeds on energy might be able to repeat Kormir’s accomplishment given an opportunity, and that this would be a legitimate fear from the perspective of the gods if the dragons were even close enough in power for this to be a possibility.

can we get a round of applause for this person?

we faught him the other day, he seems nerfed. We used to fight him and he would give us a work out, now he’s just kind of a wimp. I was actually sad to see how easy he’d gotten, and this was 3 days ago, and this is not sarcasm.

I don’t think we’re debating writing as an artform or weather someone took something and added to it (in an awesome way from my point of view btw.) We were talking about who would win in a fight in GW2, elder dragons or Gods. In GW2 the Human Gods are not the strongest creatures in Tyria any more. What they were in GW1 is irrelevant. Furthermore, no one said the Gods ran scared, the silence of the Gods and the withdrawal of the avatars is to protect us from a god powered super dragon.

I wanted Phenomenal Cosmic Powers

Dragons were there before the Gods, that’s been confirmed already.

I hope this nerf won’t mess with PVE so much. My biggest scare is how this AoE nerf will effect PVE for elementalists. There’s already a sort of stigma towards taking eles into encounters just because we’re eles.

I’m in agreement with Draxynnic. The Gods are helping us by not being here. A dragon eating a God would be WAY to much for us to deal with.

I LOVE power > tough/vit gear. I run staff though.

5 spirits of the wild battled Jormag, Ox, Owl, Wolverine, and Eagle fought Jormag and lost. One of them got absorbed. It’s fair to say a spirit of the wild is less powerful than a human God… but 4 spirits? I dunno, lets put a theory to fit the evidence. Why else would the human gods stop sending their avatars? Why have they gone silent? The only major event to change the face of Tyria since the silence of the Gods is the awakening of the Elder Dragons. I think playing the safety and hiding is probably the best theory to fit the evidence. The Gods have always been there when we needed them, and we definitely need them now but they are no where to be found.

Like everything in this game it’s just practice. I had a pretty good arah group going, we did 2-3 paths a day and we all got our full arah armor no problem. Hell, I soloed him past phase 1 just cause I was sitting there talking kitten with my team and said I could do it.

I think we’re jumping the gun. It looks like they’re just reworking the AoE mechanic, and they’re no where near done with it yet.

And Jormag ate one of the spirits, ergo Dragons eat Gods

God vs an Elder Dragon? Lets recap some history shall we?

The 5 gods couldn’t kill abadon, they stuffed him in another dimension to imprison him. We killed abadon in about 20 minutes with 8 dudes. It took an army of airships, the unity of all the nations in Kryta, the greatest heroes Tyria has ever seen AND Mr Sparkles to take down Zhaitan. I think a dragon would kick the kitten out of a human God.

Ok let me reiterate. The Gods have power. Power that can be absorbed by the dragons. We’ve seen the mouth of zhaitan an eat plenty of “relics” in the past. It’s pretty logical to extrapolate that the Gods could be absorbed by a dragon and the dragon would be… well… as doctor mordun solus would say, it would be problematic.

This game is about survival. When bosses/mobs can down you in one or two hits when you go glass cannon, you need a more robust build. Can’t do damage if you’re dead, and you hurt your whole party when you’re downed.

For the love of god, quit making munchkins in PVE. You don’t want to make a “supporter” “glass cannon” or “tank”. In PVE your character should be able to deal damage, survive, and contribute something to the party all at the same time. Dungeons are more like doing your own thing with 4 other people than a mechanic where you NEED one other guy for you to do anything.

Try a more balanced approach that does everything or you’re gonna have a bad time.

I get some use out of prayer of dwayna on my elementalist in my specific build. Hounds of balthazar is also pretty nice on classes with weak elites (example: guardians, engineers in certain builds)

who uses auto attacks on a staff? Just switch atunements and keep casting spells.

Check that out I had a better screenshot but it was kind of more about the scenery than my toon

I was looking on the BLT and I noticed that all the exotic amulet variations are on there except the soldier’s amulet. As a matter of fact, there isn’t a soldier’s (stat or prefix) exotic accessory anywhere other than the WvW ones that isn’t soulbound.

There’s a whole other continent full of Humans called Cantha. HUGE human city there.

If you’re looking for 10-25-40 man raids, I recomend you try another game. Guildwars is about small groups coordination.

Progressivly more difficult dungeon, with infinite levels of difficulty, a number of changes to all dungeons, and more changes soon to come.

7/10 not very original and the last name in there sorta ruined it for me, but still a cool name for a pistol/explosive wielding character.

Maximillian Greil is my elementalist…

Well the Foefire didn’t occur during GW1, it occured a short while after. Maybe times changed while we were frozen in a hunk of ice in the hall of monuments (that’s what happened to me anyway)