Guild Wars 2

if you want challenge, you can grind crap from boars in queensdale. kill 10000 boars, sell loot and buy it.

if it would be easy to admit it, you can think you are buying skins for 80 gold. if you think this way your complain makes no sense

I think you was alredy rewarded for playing gw1? so why are you complaining?

maybe he talking about boxes? killed 6 knights. no any loot from 3.

Wintel.4873:

There are Ele’s who use Diamond Skin?

edit: Let me rephrase that, there are Ele’s in PvP?

I saw one yesterday. he was playing all day. oh, wait… that was me.

ds only vs full condi necro 1v1. useless in teamfights, useless other classes. what class can’t bring 2k dmg? even if ele heals it, he will lose them again, because DS not removing any of existing condi.

change your gear, stop mindlessly spam condi’s.

We have bad start, yeah, kitten happens. And he just stand in corner at respawn and spam “go go kill them” “my team kittening noobs” “cmon kill lord”
And there is nothing team can do about this person, nor kick, nor report.
So when AreNaNet you’ll add a report for leeching/afk/abusing q. system?

1. improve difficulty for swamp portal, it’s too easy, at 20+ people always start from it. reduce difficulty for dredge fractal or remove/remake it, add some more waypoints.

2. add items to buy for fractal relics. make fractal skins obtainable throw fractal relics, not just random drop. make 2 version of this weapon skins. 1 version for self use – account bound, another one costs x2 relics and can be sold throw trade post. and price like 2000 for account and 4000 relics for auction. add new upgradable armor with unique skins. costs like 1gold + 250 relics for exotic one, ascended version – 500relics + essense/vials and some gold.

3. improve AI, better AI → less mobs. position/spells/dodge for mobs. for example 10 mobs in pack, let it be 3 mobs, but they will work like mini-bosses. same time to kill them, more challenge.

I have one. good idea, but I dont think AN will change outdated item.

permanent repair kit
permanent trait reset
any good elementalist’s finisher (like spectre for thief)

if you want, you can check notes on reddit. 99% this hs fake, but who cares fake it or not, I just want to ask developers for quetions below.
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well. about patch notes. crap. full crap, nothing to fix our survivabilty.
how bug fixes and tooltip fixes can help us?
why they are buff abilities/traits that don’t needed to be buffed?
ele is a active defence class with lowest hp/armor, why we have the highest cooldowns on CC (updraft 40sec) ? mein Gott
why warrior – heavy armor fighter with freaking greatsword has better mobility then light armor mage using lightning?
why ele’s are not rewarding for being so squishy? we must deal x2 damage before warrior
why ele’s are not rewarding for using multiple attunements/skill combos? why thief 2222 bot can outdamage and kill ppl with 1 button?
why we have long cooldowns for attunements/abilities?
why we have laughable auto atks and our best AA @ conjure LH

if you are have any hope for ele’s – leave it, there is no hope, you still will suck and get 5-10k backstabs while 2222 hero will laugh in your face.
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most fun part in this “patchnotes”
Air Magic IV—One with Air: This trait now applies 2 seconds of Haste, up from 1.5 seconds.
Tool Kit—Super Speed: This skill now applies the haste effect for 5 seconds, up from 2 seconds.

i am done.

trait reset? fotm entrance? craft stations?

better fix all they want before make a huge mistake

phaeris.7604:

That’s pretty lame.

Atunements swaps are weapon swaps. If other classes don’t get weapon swaps effected by chill then why eles.

If you’re saying they’re not weapon swaps then eles only have one weapon set, so give them two to swap around.

Ele’s have huge cooldowns purposely as they can swap around 4 different bars to use. If normal classes had similar cooldowns you’d find you’d be stuck spamming auto attack for 40 seconds at a time at a time.

this ^

Allie Murdock.8152:

Just FYI – We’ll be rolling out another round of Collaborative Development soon. I’ll be working with the balance designers to help get some well-rounded feedback from you all. Start thinking about what 3 things you would change, and keep an eye out for the CDI thread!

so, shell we make a thread “3 most important things you want to change”? to help you?

5. reward for 1/2/3 place, so peaple actually will fight for victory, not just evading another zerg group and capture point after them (karma/wxp train)
6. upgrades for towers/keep, 1000% faster and if enemy conquered enemy base they got bonus wxp for every upgrade done.
7. debuff when you lose your keep to force people defend it, not just “oh,they got it, free 1000 wxp +30 badges after 5 min”
8. special siege that can only be usable on EoTM, like “eotm flame ram” , ofc with discount

when I am playing bunker cantrip d/d ele and have lag spike I think “pff whatever, keep faceroll”
when I am playing fresh air full burst and have lag spike I am pressing alt-tab to read some news/check mail/open new playlist.

there is no skill in bunker/condi play. no. not a little. no skill, just faceroll, unless you are guardian 1v3

Bredin.5368:

OneManArmy.9732:

high skill and active play (much more than other classes).

123111111111111
pff

What ranger builds is this? The spirit build? Not something that works well in WvW…

any rangerss build not workss well in wvw) no offense)

I mean, what types of players?

for me. full zerk staff ele. I want to fight other, not just running around for 1-2 hours in attempt to find any big group.

high skill and active play (much more than other classes).

123111111111111
pff

/signed. amazing map. now i don’t care anymore about running instead of fighting. fight 24/7! thank you so much) great map.

pls remove this stupid heart. and ill buy 2 daggers, gs, pistol, maybe staff, sword. it’s great, but this stupid heart ruining everything

ddos by players)

Immortal.3647:

i hate pay 2 play. it gives you the feeling that you HAVE TO PLAY THE GAME RIGHT NOW otherwise you wasted money… i hate that feeling. i think gw2’s model is perfect as it is

this ^
even if I spend 50$ a week for beer and cigaretes, paying 15$ for game make me feel bad. idk why, it’s irrational and no logic, but it is like that.

+ if they make subscr. fee they need to force ppl to grind and stay in game. i don’t want kittening dailies like in WoW or grind new gear every month, blah

gimme electro guitar (asura invention?) and ill buy it and not only me))
and drums!

so, i am playing ele in pve. almost every direct atk one-shotting me. there is no good ele’s condi spec and you want to nerf zerk builds?
I am trade off risk of oneshot for high damage.

condi? if you nerf zerk stats and make new meta – condi meta. some classes changes their places, but at all nothing change – you can’t make everyone happy.

what about ascended gear? will we get some refunds for all that gear/weapons/upgrades , etc?

35lvl fractal, 1 condi necro, 1 support ele. almost 3 hours to finish it.
/o\

dont make condi meta. I beg you so hard. ele’s already kicked out from spvp, dont kick me out of pve.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Best-PVP-Class-1-January-2014/

subj.

armor value for different types of foes:
normal
veteran
champ
legend

is armor value same for all mobs of the same type? or all types of mobs has the same armor value?

top: warr/thief/guardian
bottom: ele
mid: other

permanent trait reset. ones you use it, you open a new button in traits (like in HofM)

Crujiente.8612:

Bsgapollo.5364:

Lightning flash does dmg, blink doesn’t.

This is also true.

who strikes first wins
dps vs dps

LH build or fire staff. with LH you aare not bored cuz 8-8-12k crits make you feel good. but fire staff…just spam 222222.

Ferik.3127:

WHEN EXACTLY did ele start being weak?

when ele got nerfs by nerfs, every patch anet brake his mechanic, nerf traits/skills/mobility. over a year anet just nerfing ele, breaking his last viable builds.

anet are like a car with broken breaks, they don’t know how to stop nerfing ele, or maybe they are just don’t care about ele, they just want to nerf it to the ground and don’t care about ele’s promblems. no ele – no problem.

every time i am going to the mists i type in chat something like that “ele lf team” but delete it without sending, cuz no one wants ele in their team.

and other classes got buffs and buffs and buffs, while ele got only nerfs

last time, at 10th december, I was waiting this patch with hope that something change, but what I got? 2 broken builds, arcana and water nerf, fire still useless, less diversity for builds.

anet just don’t care and don’t like ele. i got it, and i sumbit it as is.

sometimes I read other classes. My favorite – engi subforum, because engi has similar mechanic to ele. so what i read? “we are so kewl, we have so many builds, we can play whatever we wants”. I am rly glad about it, maybe I’ll think about to reroll engi.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

2014 is going to be an amazing year for GW2 and the community!

Chris

\o/

I dont like this armor idea. it’s hard to balance amonst classes and hard to counter some builds there.

does anyone talked about titles? everybody love titles! titles for everyone!

class specific titles for reaching some real challenge, like personal story but only for class, not race/etc.

for example pve arena like it was when queens jubelee was. you fight mobs. if you achieved victory you get some rank points, when you got enough rank points you can unlock title.

to harder this mode devs can add requisition to kill mob with specific weapon set/using specific utilities/without heal/utilities/withous ultimate
this will grant you more rank points and unlocks some special titles.

cool titles like “the stormbringer” (ele), shadow dancer (thief), the bloodthirsty (warr), iron will (guard), trickster (mes), warmachine (engi), legion (necro)

there are just examples, devs can make a TON of them, with almost zero contribution, they just need to design mobs.

title shows skill of owner, title makes you proud to use it, title can’t be bought, its all about how you are playing your class and how you are skilled with it.

\o/

ATC Alpha.4098:

Didn’t it use to lose a charge after every 3 swings like after the blinding strike? Now it consumes 1 charge each swing. Even with the trait, it runs out in a few seconds. Q_Q

works as intended. every AA consumes 1 charge.
0,5sec AA = 12,5 sec AA

underworld – pure pve
desolation – pvp,pve, mid wvw
gandara – low pvp, mid pve, low wvw
piken/seafarer – highest wvw (but loooooooong queues), low pve, idk bout pvp
idk about “national” servers like de/fr

finished 19 fotm with 2 rangers, that was alot faster then with warr’s/guard’s party.

there are some good rangers, but no one see them

pve/wvw – ele
spvp – engi

Cloudwalkernz.1328:

lol I often wonder if Anet ever play their games.

Look at the Upgrade extractor for example. It costs 250 gems to purchase. This means 17 golds. The most expensive upgrade is about 5 golds.

So who will use an extractor unless you got one free from an lion chest?!

the most expensive upgrade about 100-300 gold. check agony infusions

target destroyed
the best quote ever!

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1ojgdr/what_class_should_i_play_a_summary_of_each/

using LH means that you need high crit chance. bolt to the heart (air VI) must have for any dps build. mist form/A shield must have to avoid some melee damage.
glyph of harmony pretty useless, cuz it dosnt remove conditions.
no fury for party, makes 30 in fire useless.
condi food? you dont have condi dmg with cavalier eq. you dont have 30 earth to boost yo condi dmg

bad build.

press dodge/decoy. gg bb.

if target dodge/block your burst, well, farewall blue sky/mother-earth.

playing this 1shot ele is a gambling.

this is extremely zerk build:
bs+hs=dead
any stun = dead
root = well…you know…dead
shatter = dead
axe eviscerate = dead (yes, warr can one shot you just by 1 button press. 10k evi withoout might, 9-12 might stacked enough to one shot glassy ele)
even bunker guardian can kill it = root->whirl on gs = dead

updraft/LF/RTL on cd = dead

well. summary:
lowest defence, lowest HP pool, cutted mobility, 70% of utilities useless, all ultimates – useless.
traits supports more bunker play style (fire traits – useless), arcane – disbalance
there is no focus traits, focus skills designed awful

idk what to say, just try to play ele and you’ll understand why ele’s on the bottom.

only 1 pros – extreme burst that can “one shot”, just make a comparison for example with warrior
also there is no reward for skill play. 2 button warrior can outshine ele with all his combos. lol. or you deal same damage as mesmer, but you need to press 10 buttons, when mesmer can just dodge>blurred>shatter. pff

also I was kicked from my team cuz “sorry mate, you are playing only ele. yeah, we know, ele is interesting and fun class, but we want to progress, nothing personal”

also 2 my friends playing ele’s in pvp just rolled another class to play pvp – one for guardian, another for spirit ranger /o\

playing ele in pvp is like playing necro/engi/ranger in pve. yes, you can do something, but hey, mate, just take warr and go go 100B

btw sorry for wall of text.

Anierna.6918:

Saraphina.6930:

She prefers staff and fire

Staff + Fire = Build A (click the link then scroll down a bit. The trait distribution is shown both in the guide and in the attached pic)

/EasyButton

lol) nice picture) reminds me feral dps from wow

http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100314061657/wowwiki/images/5/54/FeralCatDPSRotation.jpg

http://coldbear.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/catdps.jpg

Talyn Sneider.1825:

To OneManArmy.: I understand that you might be able to perform with the pro builds of D/D unfortunately not all of us are able to do so, this thread is oriented to help players like me…a bit clumsy and casual, that love the class and don’t want to be frustrated with it You’re welcome to help us out.

i am not against d/d. just don’t call bunker d/d skill based build. it’s great build for newbies to start. i’ve started my pvp with the similar build (0/10/0/30/30), it was fun, until I realize that zero damage don’t help team, playing this build is being ballast. sad, but true.

go play zerk staff, even if you die faster then can imagine, you’ll bring more for your team than playing bunker d/d.

I am playing 95% of time as ele. s/d d/d staff.
d/d – faceroll braindead machine with zero skill. don’t tell me d/d require skill, because it’s not.
yes – with d/d you’ll get fun and adrenaline, but it still no brain faceroll.

Xunleashed.5271:

I’m joining the conversation too if u don’t mind
D/D Ele damage is something not easy to learn, as it comes 80% from the player and 20% from the gear.

d/d ele is faceroll machine with zero punishment for mistakes. deal with it.

also condi ele must be s/d, but it still sux cuz all ele’s abilities shares direct damage and condi, there is no pure condi dmg ability. that’s why condi ele sux.

fgj all ele’s builds sux

lol. almost old school d/d cantrip build.

about zero crit chance, low power. pff. booooring.

wall of text without sense.