Guild Wars 2

You do get the mad king back thing that is rather unique, no?

If it helps, I get this quite often: 42:0:9001:3968:101

I crash all the time now, and I got no authenticator. “lost connection to this or that” sometimes log server, or sometimes something else.

I come form EVE-Online, and using a logistic ship (playing a healer) there is always a team effort with all the other team mates. Everyone needs resistance (toughness) for the repair (heal) to be really effective. As such most ships are balanced in terms of tank and dps in group efforts including support. So I only find it natural to include some tanking on all my builds (except pure PvE in open world).

I have yet to run my Guardian (0 0 30 30 10, crit hammer specced with lots of nice support an AH) in a dungeon as she is only levle 65 atm (so technically I don’t have all the traits, yet). I wonder how I will do in a random group with her. I know if I get my friends along it will be totally fine, since they all play EVE as well, and at least I can explain to those who do not.

gkrit.9416:

Attunement swapping should NOT have to be a must to be an effective elementalist.

As opportunistic as it seems, it can carry some severe disadvantages. One of the more obvious disadvantages is linear strategies (if you can call it strategy).

If you want to play as a support, you should NOT have to sift through your elements to do so.

If you want to play tanky, you should NOT have to sift through all 4 elements to achieve maximum effectiveness.

Its a fact, Elementalists just play off cooldowns due to how many skills there are at our disposal. Elementalists mentality — Blow all your skills as often as you can.

Should spam = reward?
Should skill = reward?

The fix is simple… the skills within each element are not sufficient and do not fulfill their purpose to play a role(s) effectively.

ANSWER: Skill re-work. Keep the same visuals. Just change what they do.

Elementalist is probably the least straight forward profession in the game due to their mechanics. So, achieving a satisfactory standard for them will take longer.

I rather like the attunement swapping, makes the class more unique. Just as my shatters and my virtues makes my mesmer and guardian unique. One can build around itt, but using the inherent abilities of the professions can yield good results.

Sure, one get a long cool down on the attunement last used, but then again you got 4 attunements in total that you are free to swap to fairly directly.

That said, some rework on the skills of each attunement might be OK, but I still like it that in order to be even more effective one should have to switch attunement, just as I need to shatter with my memser, or pop virtures on my guardian, and swap weapons (!) on both of them, to achieve full potential.

Finally able to get on the forums, after over a month getting the error accepting the terms! So first thing first, thanks Brutality! You showed me a very nice way to play my guardian!

I started out with the greatsword, but not used it in a long time after I got the hammer. In fact, I think I will continue to use Hammer / Staff instead of the greatsword, just to have that ranged capability and still take advantage of two hand mastery. Plus the staff symbol is rather handy when out and about.

Now, I am only level 65 so far, but I got the most critical traits already, and just started saving for my exotic hammer and still trying to decide on my Runes (going 0 0 30 30 10 I think). So far torn between 3 Rune of the Monk and 3 Rune of the Water for that nice 30% boon duration and some extra healing stats freeing my jewelry for more power/precision/toughness, or 6 Rune of Dwayna. Tough decision, though I am leaning towards the boons, since I got a lot of them in my shouts and virtues.

Nonetheless, great guide, and great inspiration!