Guild Wars 2

Hm. i am curious how wardrobe will work with eternity, in fact you already have twilight and sunrise, so they must be unlocked

Elementalists have been crying for more survivability for a year. Here they are; Blinding Ashes and Stone Heart. Blinding Ashes gives you a defensive mechanism while going into a full Offensive trait line. Stone Heart rewards skilled elementalists who actually predict their enemy’s moves and manage their attunements properly instead of spamming available skills.

no reason to invest into fire traits. because our “defensive” earth trait line provides more offense than our “offensive” fire trait line.

nothing changes hambow/spirit rangers dont need to make crits, their AA gives them enough damage to kill ele without crits.

are new traits gives us builds diversity? yes, they are
will we have more survivability? no, another way to play, same way to die.

dodge rtl > 40 sec cd, no chance to escape.
classes with low base hp are supposed to play in active defense
guardian > aegis
thief – stealth, ShS
ele > …

incredibly high cd’s for CC and close gaps like rtl/LF

we are not against warrior has 18k hp, we are against same cooldowns. it’s obvious that something wrong if class with 10k has longer cd than 18k class.
lower health – lower cd. thief has initiative, ele – higher cd than warrior.

was quite easy with s/d LH (30/20/0/20/0) up to ~25lvl fotm. than I switched to fire staff (30/20/10/10/0). yesterday in grawl shaman 38fotm live better than 2 clerics guardians and ptv warriors.
full zerk +scholar + arcane brilliance. no break stun, no heal (except grawl shaman fotm) (coz you almost all time use it to blast fire).
Idk about celestial, but bers works good enough

The mist form nerf made the skill almost like a “self stun.”

that’s why i never use it. only 1 way to use it – when you cast icebow aoe to enemy raid full of retaliation. totally useless, when I see ele using it in spvp I think " well, you die 3 sec later, just in time my fresh air icd will be ready"

Water Magic X—Cleansing Wave: Moved to the Master tier.

big nerf to fresh air/EA build, because that was only viable condi clean.

Bountiful Power: Damage increase per boon on the elementalist has been reduced from 2% to 1%.

similar traits was all nerfed, but we have that one in 25 minor GM.

transmute cry + bls kit. you get a lot from dailies.
tr.cry – 20g.

this is only way. but i agree, wvw gear must be salvageble

Gieniusz Krab.8259:

Healix.5819:

If they sold it individually, the chest would cost around 500 gems and buying the entire set individually would cost 2-3x it does now.

Why? If they put price 133 gems per 1 part all will cost 798 gems. Only 2 less.

basic economic rule – you pay less for more. if they start sell pieces they will cost ~400-500. you have a lot examples in gem shop now. like masks/gloves/quiver etc

Carighan.6758:

Elementalists are highly mobile and have teleports and above-average access to area healing.

are you sure about healing? shout warrior heals as good as ele, except they dont have water field, but they dont need them.
high mobility? blink 40 sec, rtl 40 sec. warrior rush 20 sec, whirlwind 10s, bull charge 40.
so dont tell me about mobility, heavy armored warrior with 30kg GS has more mobility than light armor mage with toothpicks.
18k ele counts as heavy bunker, while 18k warrior is just a base health.

lol.

Orangensaft.7139:

yes it will be actually the most deserved legendaries xD

and also…. people get mad at legendaries at rewards…
but at first invitational 10k dollars was rewards…
means 2k per player which is ~10k gold

which is like 4 legendaries AND NOONE COMPLAINED????
AND WHY?
cause people are too stupid to think around the corner xD

but if anet rewards ONE legendary its NOT ACCEPTABLE

just lol

can’t be said better

This means that sigil of fire and of air won’t trigger, vigor on crit won’t trigger, burning and bleeding on crit won’t trigger.

sigils now be on-hit, not on-crit. but yeah, vigor on crit wont trigger, some on-crit traits too.

ooc swapping for ele would be nice. i am tired open my inventory every time I want to swap weapon. sometimes I am swapping weapons 5-7 times in one fotm run. lol

more reasons to make swap for ele:
sigils
combat. now every class can equip range/melee weapons. except ele.
d/d – full melee
s/d/x – semi-range, but all combos in melee, so it’s melee to
staff – range, yes, you can stand in melee with staff. it’s like using rifle/longbow warrior/ranger at point blank, same feelings.

but no way we got it. ppl just say “ooooh you are ele, you have 4 att.’s” . but they dont understand that our 4 att. have x2 cooldowns than any other weapons and 4 ele’s att. is at the same effectiveness lvl as 1 weapon for any other class.

fx. warrior hammer vs ele staff
warr CC 10s (f1), 20s(4), 30s (5) vs 40s (air5), 30s (earth4), 30s (air3).
warr can CC you every ~20s vs ~33s staff ele

let’s make more calc.
warr can trait hammer to reduce cd, and ele can trait only 1 att. if you want more you should trait another trait line, that can be useless for your build.

warr CC with reduced cd:
7,75s (f1), 16s(4), 24s (5) = ~ 15,91 → 1 CC every 16sec
ok. let’s trait ele CC in case we are so kewl we will reducing them all
32s (air5), 24s (earth4), 24s (air3) ~26,6 → 1 CC every 27sec

…ah. no. i don’t want to continue my idea. got bored and depressed.

BTW , in GW2 , The warrior is a bad example to compare skills, we know that Warriors are Anet preferred class.

yeah, I know. I should compare ele’s profit from sigil because it’s ele’s utility spell. but i am too lazy to make calculation.
to be effective as ele you need to att. dance, you are staying in 1 att. ~1-4sec.
fx. full d/d combo (air>fire>earth) is around 6-8 sec. so we can’t proc it every 5 sec.
ofc warrior with 5 sec will not swap every 5 sec. 7s is more real number.

what I want to say, even if someone make calculation, arcana will lose by all means.

Kyon.9735:

Can we expect any changes for this?

NO! no more love for ele. we got stone heart, now they are done to us because HoS will solve all our problems!

urdriel.8496:

eles can use both, you can crit with 8 skills….

wow. 8 crits. just wow.
int. sigil – 3 crit 5 sec cd
arcana – 5 crit 40 sec cd
war/engi/ele can have good uptime for this sigil.

let’s take war as an ex.
every 5 sec swap – 3 crit. in 40 sec you make 24 crits
arcana – 5 crit in 40 sec
24 crits sigil >>>>>>> 5 crits UTILITY SLOT SPELL
sigil better x8 than utility spell.

lolwut? devs, are you kidding?

Trixie.7614:

if a warrior gets a FGS and uses Rampage while having 25 stacks of might and banners around him, he will blast anything off the map.

YMMD.

sorudo.9054:

OneManArmy.9732:

Ele’s are highest dps in game. top dps <-> lowest survivability. seems fair

then why is my main, a necro, more powerful in general PvE and survives like mad?

what did you mean by “more powerful”? powerful in what?
damage? no
support? no
buffs? no
survival? yes
necro’s are selfish and useless for party in any pve/wvw/pvp scenario

first in, first out.

/signed
impossible to play LH ele, coz I just can’t see any animation in this rainbow show

Ele’s are highest dps in game. top dps <→ lowest survivability. seems fair

Garrisyl.7402:

Before this change other classes could still use twice as many sigils as engi/ele. Why are you reacting now?

because you can’t re-equip your stacking sigil anymore.
because sigil will have separate cooldowns
it was double, now it’s tripled

ANet encouraging passive game play. why shall I use bers instead of soldier, if there is no big difference in dps, but ptv provides much more survivability, more mistakes, less skill involved.

yeah. condi bunker meta with auto atk spam. i am dissapointed, not because now i need more time to finish dungeon or fotm, but because no more reward for being squishy.now you ll be punished for using bers, well you are was punished using bers, but was rewarded.

and now, no reward , only punishing. i have so much hate on braindead clerics/ptv users with their broken hands growing from kitten . Why are you punishing me ANet, your words “play how you want”, and I want to play bers and be rewarded for being squishy

and definitely its more than 10% dmg loss, huge nerf to elem, thief, mesmer and other crit based classes with duo dps trait (like precision/crit damage in 1 trait line)

GIVE US REWARD for using bers. now you are acting the same with Glory removing. you just remove glory and dont give any reward.

Cush.4063:

I hope to god that these are not the only balance changes.

air new gm trait is just terrible. rly awful. no idea how to use it in any scenario (wvw/pve/pvp). tempest defense is not so good trait x10 better then this trait.
maybe it make sense if we have a lot of interrupts like mesmer. but we have 1-2 interrupts on ~35sec cd. trait it for 5 sec for weakened? pff, no way. its just terrible, even doesnt deserve to be minor trait. maybe 5point maximum.

fire – not so good as i want, but add more diversity for builds, in some scenario can be usefull. good one
earth – hard counter to thief. so we will choose to counter condi’s or bers. very good, now its one of the best ele trait in line with fresh air/EA
water – support, with monk runes good at wvw and teamfights
arcane – no chance to take it over EA or El. surge. I like idea, but need more tweaks. but no idea how to improve it.

i dont care bout this trait. needed high skill for it, you must be enough skillful to use it, not just spam condi with staff or phantasm spam.

you know, countries have different economy and different costs for goods & services.
average wage ~250 $/m in CN Shanghai ->14$ ~5,6% of monthly wage
a. wage in Germany ~3100$ -> 50$ ~1,6% of monthly wage.

Karl McLain, how this trait will work with sigil/rune/food? Will it affect them?

Anyway now we have one more healer. great trait for pvp/wvw

elprimo.4398:

OneManArmy.9732:

i m rly curious about new Air and Arcane gm traits. mmm, shinies?

better than fresh air or EA I do believe in Anet but thats just too much

you post in the same time i was editing my post

i m rly curious about new Air and Arcane gm traits. they are must be rly g1 to beat fresh air/EA or at least be equal.

mmm, shinies?

dont forget about blink on mesmer’s staff. bind key to turn you char and you can blink anywhere you want.

but yeah, 16s traited looks OP. 20s traited is ok. 25s not traited. and ofc it needs to break stun, that was huge nerf when they removed it. lol. nerfing the weakest class while hambow/spirit ranger still OP

=/

aquatic ben. not bad. very useful for wvw, especially in regroup scenario.
don’t complain pls, tomorrow they ll show us other gm traits. judge their work by one example is nonsense

“but holy hell RNG drop”
no rng, you can buy trait books from trainer or finish a challenge (like skillpoints?).

The Art of Combat: sigil/rune. a little chance for new weapon skills /less effects in combat, so i can actually see my target
Critical!: ferocity ofc
A New Way to Explore the Looks of Guild Wars 2: wardrobe, pve<->pvp, little chance all LS skins works like AP skins
A Colorful Outlook: account bound dyes, new ways to obtain dyes
Looking For Group?: lfg now has own icon in left corner, more options for lfg, oh yeah and now if instance owner leaves it no one will be kicked
Removing Restrictions: no idea, maybe transmuting heavy<->light armor, but there is no logic to do this. thief in t3 heavy /o\ add/remove runes from gear without destoying gear/rune. no idea
Account-Bound: crafting proffesions,, wvw ranks merged. no more ideas
A Solid Foundation: no idea

one more idea. make achievement for finishing all traits challenge and reward…title I suppose, class specific that can only be visible on specific prof. like pvp titles (champ.magus , etc), but not so boring like they are

I see, you ll take us a lot of info about new patch, I m rly curious about your new ideas and improvements. GL

Hail Sat…I mean Anet

Great work ANet. If you also add templates/profiles for traits/gear it will be even better!

but it seems unfair for low lvls. I think you should lock traits for all char’s, even for 80.

another “zerker problem” thread

tactic for ele (s/d) and thief (p/p & bow):
1. black powder spam > ele’s blast (~6-8)
2. swap to bow>shadow refuge
3. smoke screen > bow blast
4. swap to p/p > ele’s blast (~6)

cannon phase skipped

active phase:
headshot spam, icebow freeze in electric field > melee faceroll. repeat

rank 39. not even Avenger. because 95% (~650) of my games are s/team arena. that’s awful, that some kind of “skyhammer bot” are ransacker/maradeur etc.

only in gw2 ppl punished for coop play. lol

its a crime for such awesome content not being permanent
/signed

outdated information

never happens. this game is about coop. play. I don’t want to ruin this atmosphere whee everyone helps each other.

grind? in gw2? charge 2000 gems, exchange them for gold, buy ascended gear and forget about grind.

or just spend ~50 gold (1 week max.) for exotic. pff. grind.

notabot.3497:

OneManArmy.9732:

notabot.3497:

Engie can replace the ele for might stacking and the thief for stealth if needed.

so you want to replace best dps in game for mediocre engi? …

bla bla bla

engi? dps? instead of ele/thief? ahahaahaha. why engi or not for examaple necro? power necro is good as engi. ahahaah. i dont want to argue about that. YMMD, ty.

tldr?

notabot.3497:

Engie can replace the ele for might stacking and the thief for stealth if needed.

so you want to replace best dps in game for mediocre engi? …

why ppl don’t like rangers? because 99% of them:
longbow
bear
2-3 signets
spam point blank on cd
not providing buffs/not taking buffs
cleric/ptv gear
dont know how to dodge (cuz they like to stand @1200+)

that’s why ppl don’t like rangers. take sword in mh, summon spirits, make proper build and you are welcomed in almost any party.

normal fights:
base – 2 ele (staff and lh), war (axe?)
ranger/engi/thief, guardian

fgs corner:
3 ele, bers thief/ranger/mesmer, war

/signed
a bit tired using teleport/blink.

pvp guild:
Kill Stomp Repeat

loled

ProtoGunner.4953:

And after a whole 1.5 years we didn’t even get an announcement of an expansion or something in the direction of an expansion.

they’ve start working at it when gw2 was released. separate team work. they mentioned it 1 year ago or something. you can check last interview with devs (2-5 monthes old).

ele /age 1200
483 tournaments @ ele
no. I don’t want to nerf my burst damage. it’s mine, all mine.
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