Guild Wars 2

Have a guardian run into the center of the Lava Elementals – pop the skill that AoE pulls enemies towards him (forget the name). Elementalist drops 2-3 AoE’s on that pack. Lava Elementals are no more

I’ve been running a lot of dungeons this past few days trying to grind some gear.

One thing that has always bothered me, and it’s especially bad in dungeons… I simply cannot see the red ring on the ground when I’m about to be hit by an AoE attack. Something about my old eyes… the dim lighting in most dungeons, or my monitor, whatever. I just can’t do it. Other times I can just barely make it out, but by then it’s too late to dodge the attack.

Is there any way to change this color? So instead of a hazy, dim, red ring of death, I could have a bright, cheery, blue ring of death?

Mirta.5029:

I do agree that that message suppression is annoying. Though for the time being, if this is not fixed, go around it like the rest of us do, by a) changing one word (you can write “LFG” “LF party” “looking for group” “looking for party” “need a party” etc)
b) by doing the way gold sellers do – adding a bunch of letters at the end of your message “LFG AC exp addd” “LFD AC exp qeqwrw” :P

I’ve tried that several times and still get chat suppressed … usually can do a few extra LFG that way, but still not fool proof.

The only times I’ve seen a path bug out are when we skipped mobs. Usually the NPC gets hit by one of the skipped mobs when in a scripted phase and it bugs the script out. Problem is most groups insist on skipping mobs

Completed all 3 paths last night and they all worked fine.

I’m not sure of anything… but I know I have turned auto-targeting off.

I have had random targeting problems my whole time in GW2. Like if a friendly runs close enough in front of me, it will target them instead of what I’m fighting. I usually have right-click down as I’m moving the camera around a lot. Does that target someone?

Oh, another question – in the 3rd part of the video I see you RTL through the center of the camp. How do you keep from targeting a mob and going to them instead of going through? I always seem to get misdirected and stopped.

Same thing happens in large fights or when I’m trying to get away, I end up targeting something and veering off course.

I have auto-targeting off, but it doesn’t seem to help.

Nice guide. I saw your build posted on the YouTube page. What kind of gear you using?

1589 total kills
267 badges (not including badges for map completion)

Hmmm… this may be what hit me last night. I was doing AC runs with guildies and I got low health at one point so I mist-formed to wait for heal to pop up and instantly downed, even though I wasn’t being attacked directly.

Wonder if it’s because I was below 3K health and mist-form stripped that 3K from me? I’ll have to test this out…

That could well be. I’ve focused on armor/weapons pretty much. It may be that my jewelry is lacking. I’ll check that out, thanks!

Albane.8367:

Daecollo.9578:

D/D Elementalist is probably the best tank in the game atm, even more-so then even guardian.

It really depends on the gear and the build, but I tank for all of my groups. Not sure how, but I pull agro over everyone and their dps builds.

Power/Toughness/Vitality gear in every slot. 22,000+ health, 2900+ armor.

Build is 0-10-20-30-10

As for suicide bombing in WvW, this is my favorite aspect of playing an Elementalist. When fighting an open battle, you RTL in, throw up a shocking aura, updraft, Earth Armor Cantrip > Fire Attunement, Burning Speed, Ring of Fire, Fire Grab >Earth Attunement, Earthquake, Churning Earth, Ring of Earth > Water attunement, Frost Aura, dance around as long as possible then Vapor, Ether Renewal, Flash to safety.

I do a similar move when defending a keep by jumping down and forcing 20+ players to chase me. Not sure why, but people always chase way too far and then leave too few on the keep.

Would you mind posting your complete gear? I have all exotic gear: a mix of P/T/V and P/T/Precision gear and I am hovering around 15,500 hp. I am trying to grind out some AC runs to get more Vitality, but even if I swap one of the PTP for another PTV I only gain a couple hundred health. How in the world are you getting 22000?

I’ve never targeted a node with TAB, but I am constantly getting the mob 2000m away rather than the one standing right in front of me hitting me.

Since I mostly seem to run into thieves in WvW… that might be a good place to start

Given that the December event is in the works and tying up a large chunk of the team… and then you have Christmas/New Years holidays… February sounds like a good plan if there’s a significant update to be done to WvW.

Give it time to be tested and tweaked before being released. I’d rather have a solid update come out February 15th than something cobbled together over the holidays when everyone is busy with other things and coming out January 1st.

Just my opinion

plasmacutter.2709:

and this is how devs get ideas on nerfing elementalists.

thanks braggarts!

No need to nerf Eles because of a handful of really good players. If I was as good as Bit, I’d be posting videos too.

I think I ran across Bit earlier this week… or I should say he ran over me If not him, someone dressed like him anyway.

Bit: I have a request. Would it be possible for you to take one of your duel videos and go through it in some detail, like what tactics you are using because of the class of your opponent, or what you might change against a different class, etc.

If I am a 400 artificer, what’s the cheapest staff I could make that could be used to try this out for my Elementalist’s staff?

There’s a Glyph of Renewal that does some reviving, but not 6 times. If you are in fire attunement, I think it revives you once then there’s a long cooldown

I just did this quest today with my 80 Norn Elementalist (Priory). No problems (other than dying repeatedly to waves of Risen)

hellhound omega.5128:

Anyhow, I have heard that ArenaNet is thinking of implementing a name change option through the in-game store.

Out of curiousity… where’d you hear it?

I’d be interested in this name change option as well.

Great defense on Hills last night in the FA BL. We had the outer gates down several times and I really thought we had succeeded when we managed to get two trebs up on the outer walls and get your treb down, but you guys just kept pushing at us… great job FA! Well fought!

boozer.7815:

I suggest you try this out on some dummies in the Mist with D/D.

How do you do this? I’ve been to the Mists once and didn’t really see how to try out different builds, but I didn’t really know where to look. Also, is there any kind of combat logging so you can try out different builds and analyze them for DPS, etc.?

Having a similar problem on TC, but it’s sporadic. Ever since the November 15th events, it’s been happening to me a couple times a day

Focus ability #4 for the elementalist creates a swirling wind that stops physical projectiles. If you have a treb or cata hitting your wall, put 3 elementalists (to cover cooldowns) on that wall rotating this ability and you’ve neutralized the treb until your team can take it out.

Not sure if this is the case here or not, but I’ve noticed a similar thing in supply camps. Sometimes I don’t even get the green bar, no pop up message about capturing the camp, etc. But I happened to notice my xp bar moved as if I got the reward. So it’s like I got the reward but didn’t get the notification. Could that be the case here?

I’ve seen a lot of people ask for a weapon swap key for Elementalists (out of combat) and I would love such a thing. Have any devs ever commented whether this is something we could get?

I play a lot of WvW and run D/D usually. I hate having to open inventory while running up to a keep we are sieging and find where my staff ended up last time I swapped, then swap it in and hope I don’t sell my daggers accidentally. Just give us a non-combat weapon swap ability so our main weapons are protected and available quickly… Please?

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spif.7580:

As a WvW thief with over 19k kills, D/D elementalists are some of the hardest guys in the game to kill.

You haven’t seen my D/D elementalist then

As far as I can tell, it’s just physical attacks. I’ve tried using it when a trebuchet or other piece of siege is under attack and it looks like magical damage still gets through

I have 3 level 80 characters and none of them have completed the personal story. My guardian is at the last step and every time I’ve been near Arah, there either weren’t enough people to do the events or the events are bugged and can’t be completed.

My other 2 level 80s are working up to that point now, but I figure they’ll get stuck there too.

Yes, I know… killing the world-destroying dragon should be a group thing. And I’d be ok with that, if not for the fact that every single step before that (including some really epic battles) were solo.

Thanks. We had 2 thieves, 2 elementalists and a warrior, so no Guardian.

And when I ran that dungeon with my Guardian a couple months back, I had no idea what I was doing apparently

Just did Cadecus Manor story mode on my elementalist a couple days ago and instantly remembered why I’d never been back after doing this one with my Guardian two months ago.

Is there any way to deal with all the knockbacks/fears in this dungeon? There is one room (with like 10+ saboteurs) that you spend the entire fight on the ground because every single mob is knocking you back over and over and over.

Then you finally regroup and get through them somehow and you run into the packs of dogs that fear you over and over and over.

Is there a trick to handling all this? Or is it just an annoyance to live through that makes it harder to find a group next time because it’s so annoying that nobody wants to do it?

I’ve been hit by this as well. LFG 3 times in too short a time and can’t talk any more. And yet, gold spammers go on for hours…

They.9516:

You can solo that fractal. ^ ^

Not sure if it’s the same one or not… but the Charr one I was just in (level 1) was full of dozens of Veterans you had to get through to get to the first gate. No way it could be solo’d. In fact, a group of 5 level 80s had trouble with it, with all the siege equipment firing on you from every angle. Are the NPC Charr supposed to help you? Because they weren’t in the times I’ve tried this one, unless you could get one to get injured by a projectile, then they would.

Do you get skill points for leveling pre-80? I know after 80 each “level” is a skill point, but I seem to be having skill points pop up more than the ones I run get in PvE zones

My latest character I started with the intention of only doing WvW.

In reality, I have been in WvW since level 10. I decided to unlock all my weapon skills before going in, and since this char is an elementalist, I had all the weapon skills in 4 different attunements. I played through events in the Norn starting area and by the time everything was unlocked, I was level 10 LOL

Since then all but about 5 levels have been in WvW (got those 5 through crafting) and I hit 63 yesterday. I’ve been upgrading my armor/weapons about every 5 levels and if you only buy Mastercraft items, it’s really cheap. Rares would be better, but I’m leveling so fast I just can’t justify spending the gold on the Rare.

edit I should mention, I just created this character last week, so leveling is quite fast in WvW. I mainly run in a camp capping group or if there’s a zerg I join it. Experience rolls in

It’s a finishing move. You raise your hand high above your head and plant a flag in your enemy’s chest.

At least that’s the theory. In WvW, so many people have downed abilities that seek to prevent you from finishing them, that it’s difficult (especially mesmers…)

But it does work

Latest update – TC has fought long and hard and taken over the lead. Epic matchup so far. Keep up the fight everyone!

Tyr.2489:

This is Henge of D LA overflow 45 minutes after the slated start of the event. No event but access to new island…

That’s all we got on the TC Overflow as well

Everyone ran off to the new cove… I think I am the only one left on my overflow server LOL

Still no event

CC Dalmarus.8397:

Thanks for the feedback and patience everyone. The team is investigating these issues as we speak. Please continue to let us know if the event has not kicked off on your server (overflow servers too). Also, let us know if you are in an overflow server and the event did kick off. Thanks!

Tarnished Coast overflow server: no cata being built, no mobs to kill, nothing. Suddenly the quest text changed and there’s a guy that’ll port us to the Cove now.

Jink Bonestealer.9274:

Event never happened on our Tarnished Coast overflow.

Yeah, that’s where I am as well. We got absolutely nothing. Just a new NPC appeared to port us to the Cove

Well, now our quest text updated telling us to board a ship… we still have no Treb/Cata and no ships

On the overflow I am in, there is a pile of wood and parts near the Zaishen Engineers… is that the place? Nothing being built yet.

Doggie.3184:

It’s started. Just no cutscene and progressing slowly. .-. NPCs are building a weapon.

Where at?

Is the event still on for Noon PST? It’s after Noon now and no event…

You have all 4 attunements from the start. F1-F4 switches you between all 4 attunements.

buki.3108:

I wanna see the Workers in keeps/towers pushing around a wheelbarrow collecting corpses. Would be epic lul

“Bring out yer dead!”
“Here’s one…”
“I’m not dead yet!”
“Hey, he says he’s not dead yet”
“He is”
“I’m not!”
“He isn’t”
“He will be soon, he’s very ill”

On a more serious note… just give the attacking player an option to burn the corpse after killing it. Automatically send it back to spawn. That also removes the desire for players to try and revive dead comrades, which usually ends up in more dead players

Zynthetic.2954:

Ok so, right now, if you’re in TC borderlands you’ll see a 40 man zerg PvDooring. Want to know why?

We just defended the garrison with a skeleton crew from both CD and Yak’s trebbing it at the same time, with breaches, and fending them off to the point where they completely gave up.

So we just get to karma train around our own borderlands, reclaiming what is rightfully ours.

Brilliant job to everyone defending, and a perfectly close matchup so far.

TC wins NA, Yaks wins Oceanic, and CD wins Euro.

That was an amazing fight. An opposing army at both the NE and NW walls, with breaches in both walls, and we held them both off! Very well done Coast!

This is an amazing matchup so far. Well fought Yaks/CD!

Dutch Master.7208:

Just wanted to add another WvW party bug to the list:

3 – NO OPTION TO KICK OFFLINE PLAYERS FROM YOUR PARTY

Oh, yeah, I forgot that one! That is majorly annoying.

Ah, so there is. Can’t believe I missed that when I looked earlier