Guild Wars 2

Limit 20 players on each side? Sorry this isn’t Counterstrike.

To those who are whining about not being able to finish the 15 achievements — you’re not trying hard enough. I finished on the lowest ranked server – Eredon Terrace — in 9 days. I know people who finished in six. It’s not that hard. If you’re quitting and leaving the game — what a waste, but it’s up to you. It’s your money down the drain, not mine.

possessed.2036:

How are people supposed to get their achievements on red & blue under those circumstances?
Those guys in green, red & blue payed the same for their game as but do they have the same opportunities?
I DONT THINK SO
So before a skill was cast the writing was on the wall, gw2 has server classes & god help you if you landed in a 3rd world server, you will have to pay more to change servers just so you can complete content with reasonable comparison to someone who randomly landed in a good server & gets to spend their hard earned on anything they want but it wont be BS server xfers now will it?

If I, a newbie on Eredon Terrace, the bottom of the barrel server in WvW, can complete the achievement in about 9 days, NOBODY and I mean NOBODY has the right to complain that they can’t do the achievement.

Just go out and freakin’ play, try for Stone Mist yourself if you want the 5 Stone Mist captures, don’t depend on others to solve your problems for you.

Fortus.6175:

I use 30/20/0/0/20 Zerker-Scholar staff build, and as far as pve goes I do fine, most open world mobs dont last more than a rotation for the most part, dungeons are fairly doable, except for Arah which requieres its own build and armor which i have separated, and the other boss you should watchout is the spider in AC, which I drop a coupole of zerkers for 4 PVT pieces. Other than that, zerker staff is probably the most fun and safest thing you can use in PvE

You can survive Spider Queen by changing to Water for stacking. You will typically not die unless the bug doesn’t work and she clears out everyone including your Warrs and Guards.

So anyone figured out how he’s tanking hundred blades?

Yeah that’s normal for Ele. Ele is the busy body class for people who need to constantly do things with pinpoint precision and timing. Failure to do so usually results in death.

Does it grow on you? Hell no. I re-rolled other characters because it was so annoying. I ended up making a “Lazy Ele” build — the DPS Fire Staff build, which isn’t anywhere near as busy, but still busier than most other profession builds.

And no it doesn’t get better at higher levels, it stays the same. You will get better at doing it, but it’s not something I grew to love as I went along. I still hate it to this day.

Kaga.7629:

I come from maguuma, and let me tell you something : it is hardmode. Not only did we have to work, very hard, to earn our place in gold league… but the harshness keeps on going all day every day.

Because every fight against Blackgate/JQ/SoR is essentially a 5to1 fight ( and that’s in good conditions). Because they PvD everything while people are working ( FACT : 100 man just pushed into our garri to retake it against….. 12 ish roamer. At noon eastern on a monday. repeat every day). We start from a “paper position” every day.

Blackgate says they’re the best ? Lies! Anyone can feel invincible in pvt with +4man dps helping against whatever. It’s not like there’s any effort or skill required. Just cruise control to victory. The maguuma way involves becoming tougher and harder to survive against more and more ridiculous odds. No cruise control here.

I vote for the Borlis guys. Out of all the medium tier servers, they are a funhouse mirror of us. Every time we fight them, I get surprises. Their roamers are quite excellent. Like us they have a coverage gap. but they work hard, and I respect them.

High Five! That’s exactly how is on Eredon Terrace, which is at the very bottom of the barrel. I have routinely defended with five men in towers and keeps against 50+ Zergs with Omega Siege golems. I’ve maybe succeeded defending 5 vs. 20 many times in towers, but when they have big siege and 50 or so people attacking it becomes impossible to hold. Still lots of fun, wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Bronze Tier is awesome.

I’d like to see the Commander Tag for outnumbered servers provide the vitality buff Siegegrazer gives in the base camp.

Wvw should allow players from one three way to spill over into another three way battle, for kittens and giggles.

I don’t know about you, I’m on Eredon Terrace, bottom rank server, and I’m having a great time playing. I don’t care how I wake up to a map with none of my color on it every day, the fun is in taking it all back against all odds. Some people are too obsessed with winnings when they should be having fun. It’s just a game, for crying out loud.

This is more like, “which server has more of the players I like a d less of the players I hate.”

Lame, so lame.

aspirine.6852:

Mesmer will be a veil bot, or for portal. I refuse to do that but some people aks me to do certain skills.

You know, this is one of the reasons I sometimes hate playing mesmer in dungeons. Some people are so obnoxious, they will ask you to do this and that with portal or feedback or whatever. Thief also has this problem sometimes with SR, but come on we are people to we have feelings! We are not bots. Hahaha!

Ele can do more things in Zerg. Can heal, can kill, can destroy siege, can soften enemy Zerg, etc. Mesmer doesn’t fight well in Zerg, his advantage of clones is negated, his damage potential is much lower, but can focus pull people off battlements, stealth his entire Zerg, insta port them from one place to another. Mesmer has a few key tasks that he and only he can do, but none of these really involve fighting. He’s just “a tool”. Ele will enjoy himself killing things.

In PVP it’s the exact opposite. Mesmer is god, Ele is lower than crud.

In pve, Eles do massive damage at the expense of dying as soon as someone breathes on them. Mesmers are much more survivable and also do great in all other tasks including killing enemies, fighting bosses, utility with portals, etc. bunker Eles don’t really contribute much in dungeons.

Commanders are Commanders. None of this nominate crap. The 100 gold price is there to stop casual people from just picking a tag up.

Well at 25% usually a bleed stack or two is a death sentence if Ether Renewal is on cooldown. This would, like, save our bacon.

That is so true! I never win 1v1 fights. But in a big battle I can turn the tide.

It’s up to you if you want more survivability, but for max damage full zerk is the way to go. Play around if you’re feeling to squishy, but I find if you stick with the full zerk build you’ll get used to it and play better even without the extra survivability.

There are a lot of other tricks you can do to maximize your powers, sometimes I stay in Air to tag with chain lightning. The one thing I just plain suck at is running away from roamers, they kill me every time if they set their eyes on me and I am alone.

Been ting to experiment usi Fire 4 to turn around and run, along with static field or chill earth to get some distance, but I don’t get enough opportunities to practice my escapes so I still get run down.

Come over to tier 3 where everything’s a challenge. On Eredon Terrace. Should be the perfect place for people who have nothing better to do than brag all day about how good they are!

In RPGs, specialization is always the key. The ones who don’t,mend up being middle of the roaders who don’t amount to anything. Isaiah may be a designer, but that doesn’t make him omniscient. A lot of designers never realized what their creation was going to become; look at Richard Garfield and Magic The Gathering. A lot of his assumptions about how the game should work were completely wrong.

You can specialize in being a high stat all around person, but really what role are you going to fill? Even commanders specialize.

Tajz also explains a lot of good things. You don’t need Healing Power at all, as heals should come from blasting water fields. It’s just so much more efficient. The staff healing skills In Water are very weak, the only one worth anything, Healing Rain, has too long a cooldown. Water 3 is a joke, it lasts like, 1 second. Water 2 is where the healing’s at — if you want to heal, keep that up all the time.

Condition — it’s an ok stat but Eles do far more damage with raw power in fire. I’ve played a staff Ele with full carrion and full rabid sets, the damage output just doesn’t compare because our condition skills are very limited (eruption and flame burst being the only ones). And eruption is a pain to get to hit.

Running full berserk gear my power is at 3,400 unbuffed. Goes up to about 3,800 with food, sigil stacks and all. I’d rather hit like a truck than do whatever middling the road role the lead designer wants me to be.

To options: staff combo field support (which uses something like bunker build you have now) or glass cannon nuker, which is what I run.

Go 30/20/10/10/0 or 30/20/0/0/20, full zerk everything. Forget about roaming, you will die. Only go with small groups or Zergs. Just hang in the back, move up to drop your lava font or meteor. Use flame burst to tag quickly, or lava font to tag a lot foes in one spot.

Sequence is Earth->eruption->fire->lava font->flame burst-> then either auto attack and redo lava font, or meteor and glyph if storms.

Stay in fire most of the time. Use water only if you need to drop combo fields. Go earth only to start eruption for a blast finisher. Use air only for swiftness and static field. That’s all.

S/d…. Lt me get back to you on that. Not experienced enough in it to say.

With the update… The only improvement is blasting staff goes down to adept, so I can get vital striking in water for more damage.

Just don’t get greedy. Use fire 4 to get away when the enemy charges on you. They will not risk getting caught up in your Zerg, so your biggest problem are archers in the opposing ranks. Thieves that backstabbing from stealth are also a hard counter, just run away when that happens. Get used to running away, or you’ll die a lot.

I rarely die, usually only when I do something stupid or if my Zerg dies or retreats. Otherwise, you’ll be cleaning house. This is one of the most satisfying
Builds to play in wvw. You get to fry so many enemies, it’s great.

Jasher.6580:

Anierna.6918:

@ Jasher (post 2): In PvE, there is NEVER a range option. It does not exist unless the boss mechanics necessitate it, and the only boss I can think of that requires range is the final boss in Dredge fractal. You MUST stack bosses to benefit from your party’s boons, benefit from reflects, proc your own Earth VI trait, and benefit from group healing.

Okay understandable, with the build I posted though, I should have access to vigor, mistform, arcane shield and armor of earth while still doing way more damage than DPS Guardian, Mesmer, etc…

How do you think they would compare in terms of survivability vs damage output then?

From my understanding the damage difference between the glass DPS Guardian and the Ele is huge?

Note: These are all questions and not statements.

In terms of survivability guards will always outclass you, however as mentioned guards are melee and and you are ranged, so that helpsa bit. However, note that in many situations you will be forced into tight quarters without much space to kite, and there is the real problem.

Dps wise guards can crit for about 9k or so, but this won’t match your meteor showers which can go upwards of 10k, and you will typically hit a boss with 5 or so of them, if not more.

The main problem with zerker staff dps in dungeons is stacking. You will get kitten d when you stack, however having some wars and guards around will help mitigate this. Ironic that you still need guards and warrs to help out huh?

I have no real problems running zerk Ele in dungeons, but when I have to stack I usually switch to water for water fields. Helps keep me alive through the stack.

Other than that the party generally appreciates the damage boost. There was a time we killed GhostnEater with just two traps because I was doing so much damage.

Laundry list of items to do if you don’t want to be in the zerg:

Scout. Perfect for thieves. Keep watching the enemy movements with stealth, or watch key locations like stone must, report things out to map chat. Invaluable for commanders.

Capture supply camps. You can solo supply camps with the right character. This is something every commander needs: dolyaks bringing supplies to their towers and keeps

Hunt Yaks. Enemy commanders hate not having supply.

Capture ruins: can solo too. Bloodlust is nothing to sneeze at.

Capture towers: getting keeps with a small band is tough, but routers with a 3 to 5 man group is easy.

Upgrade your keeps. Thankless job. But someone has to do it. That waypoint in the keep can make the difference in getting reinforcements to your zerg fighting for that last ppt.

WvW: Serious Business.

That’s because you’re fighting front mid line. Try going back to the rear and you’ll be fine as long as your zerg isn’t losing.

Strategy is probably greater than blob, but almost nobody plays on that level of strategy. So blood are still winning.

Swagg, for the sake of technical discussion, I would like to remind you of the meaning of the word “faceroll.” Faceroll means you can use one skill, activated by just one button, such that it will destroy anything you face just by spamming that attack over Nd over. Such that you might as well bind that one attack to all the keys on your keyboard, then roll your face across it, and you would win by faceroll.

That is what we mean by Faceroll, and you can do close enough to this with warriors who can just autoattacj their way to victory. No elementalist can do this.

Chasind.3128:

You should switch to attunements every few seconds for that fury/swiftness boon if you have 10 points in Air trait for Zephyr’s boon.
When I see an ele that stays on fire or air ONLY, I tend to get a little ansty & want to get on my ele & show them how its done. (I use staff for dungeons & WvW & s/d for anything else)

my rotation always begins on Earth, so I can stack might by switching to fire & using lava font; then I switch to air for static field – & switch to water for support & so on

The point with ele is you’re supposed to use all of those attunements; as long as you know what they’re for & how to use them effectively

That’s how I feel anyways.

Totally disagree. That’s fine if that’s what you’re trying to accomplish with your build: be a kitten all trades.

As a staff ele I want to maximize my damage. So I stay in fire all the time: the free seconds of quickness and fury you gain are not made up for by being locked out off fire arrangement for 10 or more seconds. Sadly, the other elements suck at dealing damage compared to fire.

If you want to deal damage, start in fire. If you want to pop a shot, then do something else, then by all means do your rotation. But it’s not the most effective way to deal damage, unless your using a lightning hammer fresh air build and are just using one weapon with lightning bolts shooting out every now and then.

Regarding Staff DPS build vs. the S/d lightning hammer build, should note that the former is a ranged DPS build, the latter a melee build, so take that into consideration. Lightning Hammer also needs some resource management so it’s a little more work to play.

Boonprot.6274:

I am fairly new to ele and I was thinking of taking full Carrion gear because staff ele has a lot of burn and bleed you should give it a try I really like it so far and it seems like my team is doing better than it does before.

I tried this. Full Rabid is better than Full Carrion in my opinion, because Full Rabid gives you toughness, which currently synergizes with Diamond Skin, giving you a much better condition stat. On paper, it looks great, especially eruption, which can deal a kitten load of damage in one burst.

Then I went Full Zerker, and never looked back. For Elementalist, raw damage is far more powerful than conditions, especially in the current meta where everyone is prepared to deal with conditions.

The main problem with staff condimentalist is that your main bleed option, which is eruption, will almost never hit anyone outside of a big zerg setting, and your burn option while great (Flame Burst) is limited to just one really great staff skill and some utilities. We have no poison, no confusion, no torment so we are a bit lacking in ways to really apply conditions.

Mesmer is the strongest.

Jocksy.3415:

Forgot to mention : They should have made it a real competition where the winning servers keep in the competition, the losing one is eliminated and gets to play normally…

It’s a season, not a playoffs tournament.

No, Season 1 has been a blast. Can’t wait for season 2!

This post assumes a few things, none of which IMO are true:

1. Zergs are bad. They’re not. Zergs are awesome.
2. Zergs exist based on supply constraints. They don’t. Zergs exist to faceroll the opposition — be it towers, keeps or opposing zergs.

Zergs don’t always use all the supply available. I’ve been in 50 man zergs that only use two rams to take a tower or keep’s gate. The rest of the people just twiddle fingers until the gates go down, and don’t even use their supply.

As for Havoc Groups… I’ve flipped towers with just two people. Three is better, so at least default supply capacity can build a ram. But there were times when I had two people with 15 supply take a tower and it works. I gaurantee you, we already do it.

S/d and d/d are much the same. Staff now also has a popular 30/20/10/10/0 build for max dps. It sits in fire attunement all day, has stone splinters, vital striking and Bolt to the Heart to maximize damage. Full zerk.

What pray tell is this Dragon Tooth exploit, and this Meteor Tornado exploit?

sminkiottone.6972:

Latinkuro.9420:

REALLY,
why bother making a competition with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place than ?

Sure, give the first a full ascended set and then whatch everybody transfer to that server

You should remember that this is not the real life.

Exactly. Anet’s design philosophy is so not real life and so “everybody wins.” That’s why everyone gets individual loot bags per tagged kill, why everyone gets the same experience regardless of who landed the last blow on a monster, etc. Guild Wars 2 from the ground up was designed to be a very generous, we all win sort of game.

If you can’t handle that, maybe you should stop playing and find another game, Mr. blackgate.

Hi there Mr. blackgate! Glad to see you talking the talk after your win has been secured!

possessed.2036:

It turns guild type problems into server wide issues. We will end up with a few super servers with most others quitting.Server hopping is turning the whole idea of wvw into a ridiculous farce & servers into the “haves” & the “have not’s”. Big servers make money effortlessly whilst small servers spend their money having to constantly defend even though they have the added bonus of lower bonus stats in every area.

My dollar is worth as much as the next person that bought the game but my game experience is so out of balance with the “haves” I feel like a 3rd class citizen, all because of the server I landed in. Anet has created so much server disparity that I feel I am playing an entirely different game as rewards are not equal for completing identical content & we do not get an equal opportunity to complete said content in WvWvW.

Anet didn’t create that disparity. — you did. If its such a problem why don’t you transfer servers? Stop having a victim complex and go out and do something about your problem. Nobody is gonna be a messiah to save you if you just whine all day.

What I’m seeing though is you’re whining about not population or wvw mechanics or anything, but just making money. If you just want to. As for money, stop playing wvw and do pve in dungeons, it’s far more profitable.

I’m on Eredon Terrace, the absolute bottom of the barrel server in Gw2. You know what? I’m having a blast in WvW.. It’s actually fun to play, and look ma no queues! Further, I am just 2 keeps away from finishing my season achievement. I have enough “opportunity” to complete any content I want in WvW, it seems.

The problem isn’t some perceived “class imbalance” between the haves and have nots, the problem is you and your rotten mindset that must blame something other than yourself for your problems with the game. If you just went out and did stuff and had fun, you would probably have finished whatever content it is you are trying to experience.

The reward for winning your tier is a Free Server Transfer Pass.

There’s too much whining from the “core” wvw players about PvE and PUGs. You guys act as if you’re special or something. I started playing two months ago, was mostly PvE as I was still learning the game and levelling my characters. I went into WvW not because of some tick box in living story, but because I wanted to try it out now that I had two level 80s and had done dungeons and zone completion, and just finished my personal story.

I fell in love with the game mechanics and even bought a commander tag after a week of play, it was awesome! While there I realized I could complete a series of achievements for season 1. Do I feel I am “part of the wvw core” now? Yes, because I’ve spent a lot of time loving the format in the past week.

But I do not want to identify myself with people whining over the “PvE Invasion” and looking at PvErs with scorn, as if they were some second class citizen or some alien invader come to ruin their beloved home. That’s nonsense.

If the problem is queues, don’t blame PvE, blame Anet for having sub optimal servers.
If the problem is “People stealing supplies from siege to repair” then stop whining about people not defending points, that’s what this guys is doing you know!
If the problem is people getting on the ram instead of you who have ram mastery, then put up your own ram or just chill, watch for enemies and let him do the work. Shouldn’t you be thankful to catch a breather?

Seriously what’s with all this pent up frustration, have some fun it’s a game you know!

I’m just happy to get my Veteran of the Mists title and Dolyak. I am so not looking forward to the rest of the chest, well maybe because my server is frickkin dead last!

I must learn these mad dueling skills!

zitounae.4803:

Thats quite an easy one padawan, swap to more ranged weap set, like any other class would do.

Well remember to party your opponent and ask him if its ok to let you get out of combat.

Sigh, must you rub it in? Eles can’t swap weapons in combat, unlike all the other classes would do.

Glad someone picked up on it! Because I didn’t!

Had my second run earlier tonight as commander. Raided my home borderlands with four people, until nothing was left to raid. The broke off to GoM BL and took 3 supply camps, two towers and one keep. Then the GoM float team probably decided enough was enough and came back, I knew as soon as the Outnumbered icon came up I was in for a fight. By this time my war band had grown to ten people, but my scout just informed me there were 30-40 of them. This was gonna be a blood bath.

We retreated to the keep we took and fortified up, ran for additional supplies, but when they came in they just demolished us. Haha. Well surprisingly, I didn’t die once. Even when the keep fell I was able to mistform away and even revived two of my fallen band to escape to safety.

So much for Glass Cannon Ele commanders sucking and not being able to stay alive! Throughout the major Zerg battle at the end and the skirmishes we had taking all the points, I never died once and even rezzed my team. It was great! Pretty happy with how tonight went. I’ll be back tomorrow again, naturally.

If you are looking for “easy mode” Ele my recommendation is go staff, DPS build, and sit in Fire attunemeant mostly. This is a relatively easy to play build that has you sitting in Fire mostly the time, swapping only to earth and air in certain situations.

It’s an effective, powerful build, start early but gets stronger once you get more traits to Up your damage. It plays pretty much the same from level 1 to level 80 and the traits don’t really change your style (aside from blasting staff) so you can get used to this from the start up until you reach 80.

Playing scepter or dagger is much more complicated and requires a lot do attune,net swapping; you’ll pick it up as you go along.

Unleashed.6195:

Trahearne is awful, but he’s just a victim of the writing that is almost universally bad in the game. Someone else pointed out the “Show, don’t tell” rule. Except, they don’t just tell you something. They yell it at you, send you a letter to confirm it, and then tattoo it onto their forehead so you can’t even look at them without being told once more.

Is true, we shouldn’t play favorites. The writing in this game is just laughably bad all around, so we shouldn’t be too kitten Trahearne. That said, he was just the icing on the cake. At least early on you were the star of the bad story. With Trahearne you don’t even get the pleasure of being the star.

The only parts of the story I’ve found interesting is the constant bickering between Logan and Rytlock. Which also became bland after a while, and good thing it "evolved into something else in COF, but it was definitely the best part of the entire thing.

I hate Trahearne, and its good to know everyone else does, too.

Amazing, you solo’d the hybrid and the other champions in there? That I could not do, not the Black Widow or the Giant Wurm. Were you using D/D Bunker? I can’t fathom anyone soloing those bosses.

feliscatus.1430:

Used to laugh at staff ele, but rolled one up today and went fire, 4.6k fireball in spvp… I think I’ll tough it out and learn how to survive o.O

Wow, that’s strong, I should check out what the stats look like in sPVP with the PVP gear. I only do 3k tops with Fireball in WvW with Exotics. I should get Ascended Gear.

Swagg.9236:

Mochann.5298:

When you take into consideration that we have lousy armor, whereas Warriors/Guardians have great armor and thus can afford to melee without much problems, and then take into consideration that their melee attacks cleave and serve as AOEs, then you see that there’s little point to really stick to Ele and tought it out, other than wanting to roleplay as a mage. But most of us are role players so that floats our boat, no matter how crappy the class is.

I like to roleplay as the guy that wins team-fights for his friends at the mid point in pvp.

The more that I read your thoughts on elementalist (staff specifically), the more that I think that your train of thought is focused on 1v1s and/or roaming tactics. Staff is not a roaming weapon. It’s a team-player weapon. I keep seeing people asking for staff buffs that would make them more viable as a 1v1 weapon-set, but that’s just not necessary. While it’s possible to kill opponents in 1v1 scenarios with staff with clever use of terrain and control/movement skills, it’s not optimized for that—nor should it be. It’s a very unique weapon in that it isn’t necessarily geared for a strong 1v1 showing.

Mochann.5298:

That’s well and good, but the thing is, every other class has weapon sets that are “Face roll” and Eles are the only class without one. I mean, we only have 3 weapon sets — Staff, Scepter and Dagger. If none of our weapon sets are “face roll” that really puts us at a disadvantage.

This is the most depressing thing I’ve read so far. This is such the defeatist attitude. You’re completely giving up on what could be a good design paradigm for ranged abilities in this game just because it’s too hard or because other classes have it easier/are imbalanced. Ele staff has a great thing going for it. I don’t think it would be fair to ruin it because “We want face-roll burst too!!” Also, I can’t believe that you don’t think that ele scepter is face-roll. That weapon set is pretty horrid balance-wise, which explains my suggested changes.

The solution isn’t more buffs, it’s mostly functionality changes and nerfs at this point. Combat is fast and unpredictable enough in this game.

Functionality Changes I’m for. Nerfs I’m not. Ele doesn’t need any more nerfs. And what’s wrong with wanting a faceroll burst? I don’t think Scepter is faceroll though. At least not in the same sense as Warrior face roll. You don’t just walk into a fight, spam a button, and auto-win with Scepter like you would with a Warrior. There’s a lot of switching and timing involved. That’s not face roll.

As for 1v1 and that, while I am thinking of some of the limitations of staff along those lines, I am not a Roamer by any stretch. I can’t survive in roaming, which is why I specialize in zerg vs. zerg destruction. Staff is very good at that… but only mostly in Fire. Air is pretty useless in this regard. I only use air when I’m lazy to switch to fire and just want to tag targets, and let my zerg do the rest.

Otherwise, if I switch to fire I get much better results all round whether I’m tagging players, killing them, or finishing off downed opponents.

Eruption is indeed good for finishing off downed opponents, but I prefer to just use Lava Font. Reason being that switching to Earth locks me out of Fire for a good 10 seconds — and those are seconds I could better be spending using Fireball or Flame Burst or another Lava Font, than waiting in Earth for Fire to cool off.

If Elementalist Cooldowns were much faster (Warriors get Fast Hands to weapon switch in like 5 seconds) things would go a lot smoother and we’d be able to do more combos. As it stands, the prohibitively long cooldown (even with Arcana traitline) limits our options and forces us to do a lot of button pressing and mental math that distracts us away from focusing on the battle at hand.

Maybe that’s why a lot of Ele’s can’t survive as glass cannons. Me, I keep it simple and go Air when I’m not in combat, go Fire when I’m in combat. Simple. So I can dodge and most importantly position myself properly, where a lot of other eles are saying they go down.