Guild Wars 2

Decoy+dodge roll doens’t do much when you’re immobilised. The times I die to a thief is when I am jumped and I use that tactic to escape (which doesn’t work) – because I’m immobilised. Biggest defence vs a thief is to see them coming so always look around when running. I would almost always blink (if you have staff you could use the teleport) if I am jumped. Decoy is a good choice vs a thief, I wouldn’t be afraid to use it if they stealth (to attack, rather than run), don’t be afraid to mass invis either. Personally I think Cry of Frustration would end up being more effective than Mind Wrack, 8x confusion against a class that hits so fast is going to be very painful, add to that the thing that gives you retaliation when you use it (15 seconds for 3 clones). That’s alot of self inflicted damage for them. Of course you have to be able to survive long enough which is why vit/tough is far better than the old glass cannon armour (I have two armour sets and I always end up using my vit/tough gear).

If you are near water, try luring them in, from my experience it’s almost guaranteed win (those trident clones are awesome).

Some nice tips there. With regard to the attack chain, after ring of fire and switching to earth you could throw in a magnetic grasp for a fire shield (still usually have time for earthquake for that might).

As for the heal – I don’ thtink I could give up glyth of renewal, I can see the benefit of ether renewal but it’s alot of time healing (4s?) and conditions usually aren’t a problem.

What would you suggest for a third utility? (lightning flash, must form already on my bar). I sometimes use earth armour and sometimes the burning cantrip (I forget the name). Are there any better choices?

And a tip of my own: turn off auto targetting! Trying to escape with rtl with auto targetting on is a nightmare (and snow leopard dash). Don’t forget to clear your target before doing it!

I went Norn (female) because I already had a human and wanted to try soemthing different so I made a small norn. I have since found that snow leopard is just awesome. I play D/D in wvw and there are very few times anythign can ever escape me or that I can’t run away. Stealth+Usain Bolt spritning is brilliant, you can be half way across the map before anyone figures out what’s going on.

Why would you NOT kill them? I join wvw to kill people, no other reason. It baffled me when I was fighting 2 people in one of the jumping buzzles and the other people on my side stood around saying “leave them alone”. I killed them anyway (they weren’t naked) because that’s what wvw is about; killing the enemy.

Pretty much default but I also have wep5/heal/unitilies/elite/dodge on my mouse.

I tend not to stay i any attunment long enough to use an auto attack but it would be nice if they were all equally effective in whatever way.

Only way I can see mantras being ok is if they passivly regenerated. E.g. every 5 seconds you gain a charge of mantra of pain. you could then either spam 1 it every 5 seconds or at the begining of a fight you would be able to spam out 2 (or 3). During a fight you might wait 15 seconds (traits) and spam off 3 charges for a quick bit of burst. It gives us some options. Beign able to nonstop spam (without 4 second breaks) mantra of pain in pve would be great, expecially for mantra heal builds.

Obiovusly the rate of recharge for each will be different. I think if it worked liek that I would defiantely start using some mantras. A shatter/mantra nuke build would be awesome.

There is a trait that allows the effects of an attunment to linger for 5 seconds after switching (such as earth giivng toughness, air giving speed). Before it did not show the attunment icon once you switched, you lost it and gained another. Seems now the icon does stay. You can have 3 showing at a time. Cooldowns will not allow you to get all 4 up.

Having perma speed boost is not difficult as an ele. Also having long duraition buffs is easy.

Nothing to see here hackwise.

I’d also go with +conditional damage. You have amply power from all your items, blast finishers on your fire fields, might on weapon switch. As has been said, conditions are not affected by toughness.

I would just love to have pistol main hand. Sceptor is just too poor for me and the lack of a suitable one handed ranged weapon makes all the lovely off hands go to waste. I normally run Sword/Pistol but there are times when using a sword isn’t viable but I still want the offhand skills. If the number 1 skill on scepter didn’t summon a clone I would be a bit happier.

I could think of some interestign main hand pistol skills. Would like to see soemthing like sword 3, summon a clone on the oppsoite side of the enemy that you can swap places with if you want (would go well with the whole confuse the enemy with misdirection thing). That’d be great for confusion. Some kind of charge skill would fit well with pistol 5.

Done it again, seemed easier than usual. Definately don’t think there is a buff.

Did this yesturday (about 8 hours before OP), didn’t have a problem at all, in fact it was easier than usual. Could it have been party make up? I’ve been in some groups which really struggle through lack of damage but last night we killed the boss in record time (as far as my groups go). Can’t recall 5th member but team was Mesmer, Necro, Thief, Guardian and I think it might have been a ranger or warrior too.

It sounds to me like your party will be randomly assigned say 3 (as an example) from a pool of 9 which merge together to give the one dungeon. I Guess it just adds some variety than running the same path over and over. 504 combinations or whatever it is (providing order doesn’t matter).

As utility in pve (dodging mobs in dungones if that’s your thing).
Confusion – I like using decoy mid fight just to confuse people.
Otherwise I wouldn’t use them except to escape or ambush but the nature of mass invisibility (huge shockwave) does give the game away as an ambush.

Pet class, no thank you. Sometimes I do wish you could just summon them without a target but I don’t really want it to work like that.

Are you sure you’re at the right chief? I’m pretty sure I bought peaches there not so long ago. There are 3 chiefs in that area. I believe it was the north west most one.