Guild Wars 2

Herald is sooo good! Pairs very well with Shiro. Glint has some really great and effective mechanics to it on top of the solid group support. I love it.

Here’s some of my PvP gameplay from this weekend:

https://youtu.be/d1smJk12PfA
https://youtu.be/6yRGPGMoZTA

That would make Hardening Persistence strong for tanking while you burst. Granted, you’ll suck your energy dry, but I think it’s a fair limit.

Has anyone else noticed that after using Drop the Hammer, a second hammer slams the ground. The second hammer does nothing, but it can be confusing :P

Several times I’ve swapped out of Shiro then pressed the 7 slot skill and still done the backward evade…

I think for Raiding, a mix of zerk/assassin/valkyrie will be great. With perma fury from Glint being 40% crit chance and any other precision buffs (e.g. Banner of Discipline), you’re gonna cap out crit chance, so some extra health will be nice. Same with WvW. I feel like a Glint hammer build could be great for WvW backlining. I’ve hit 10k Coalescence of Ruins on squishy targets… on a 2s cd.

I noticed this as well. Several auto chains work similarly. For example, with ranger greatsword you can get a double evade frame if the third hit misses.

I’m not sure if this is game breaking, but I wouldn’t mid either way.

Yep, I get this a few times a week. Really frustrating mid-PvP match as I rely on sounds for queues and having 15 fps hurts. I’d like to see some acknowledgement of the bug.

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgYFXAbkA5Q~

sword/axe. It’s pretty solid damage and offensive group support with Glint.

Name: Spectral Legion [SL]
Game Modes: PvE (especially Fractals and soon Raids), PvP, and some WvW
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This has been bugging me a lot lately. Took me a while to realize why my stomps were getting interrupted before I realized it was Desperate Decoy. This trait has gotten me killed or screwed up a team fight more times than I can count. I understand it interrupting combat actions so not to reveal you, but stomping? Thief’s blinding powder doesn’t interrupt stomps.

I’ve just switched to Phantasmal Fury because I can at least rely on that.

Malyx Revenant counters dd ele pretty darn well… just gotta wait a few more months :P

I’m just curious why the guardian is still tagged as the source even though the burn you transfer scales off your own condition damage. Or am I just assuming…?

After a full weekend of both PvE and PvP, I have decided that Tempest is quite fun! I had a good amount of success with a Fresh Air d/w Air/Water/Tempest with cantrips. However, many things feel off.

What I like:
1. Warhorn is great, with some tweaks it’ll be perfect.
2. The concept is nice. I understand people complaining about the 5s requirement to overload, but it never really felt like a problem to me.

Here’s what I feel it needs:

Warhorn:
1. Needs a blast, probably on Sand Squall.
2. What happened to the boon rip on Wildfire? That skill needs a little something more for the slow spread it takes.
3. Casting Lightning Orb is a bit awkward.
4. Dust storm is hard to see and slow to expand.
5. Cyclone could use a slight pull range increase considering the slow cast.

Overloads:
1. Overload radii all need an increase.
2. Consider allowing attunement swapping during overload channel.
3. Water overload heal is weak considering the channel. Compare it to casting Healing Rain and then blasting it. Perhaps makes this overload also a water field that moves with you?
4. Earth overload doesn’t feel tanky like it’s supposed to be. I don’t know if it’s just the small radius though.
5. Air overload lightning field is too short, and why doesn’t it stun? I spend 5s in air and then another 5s cast for a 3s field that I can barely combo once?

Traits:
1. Combine Speedy and Hardy Conduit. Consider making these affect friendly players within the overload radius to give us an alternative to Elemental Attunement.
2. Give us the option to gain stability of quickness on overload.
3. Gale Song is an amazing trait. It seems to let you continue an interrupted overload, though this happened inconsistently for me.
4. Lucid Singularity feels weak for a GM trait. I like that it removes snares, but I’m not going to use my overload just for that purpose and if I’d have to I’d be as good as dead anyway. I think it might be interesting to have this trait convert up to 3 condis to stability or quickness.
5. Unstable conduit needs to provide the aura at the start of the channel.
6. I felt stuck using Cantrips because Shouts could not be traited to add survivability. And please, don’t tell me I can take Soldier Runes. Shouts need something like Soothing Disruption to be usable.

Shouts:
1. I had almost no opportunity to use them because I dies too much when I didn’t run cantrips.
2. Gale Song is the only instance of a shout I used and I love it as a trait, but I would not spend a utility slot for it.

I think that’s it from me.

I’ve been playing cele d/w with Fresh Air. Hoelbrak runes, standard cantrips, Air/Water/Tempest. Not many good traits to take in the Tempest line unfortunately, except for Gale Song. That trait is great. Assuming ANet listens, once the overloads are retuned and if we’re given a GM trait to add stability to overloads, I think I’ll be playing it quite a bit. Warhorn is super fun to play with compared to offhand dagger or focus. Some things are bound to be changed, so I’ll just keep posting on these forums and wait it out.

Speedy and Hardy Conduit should just be combined and something else added in the GM minor slot that is NOT related to overloads. Many of the major slot traits are strange too. I’d love to see a stacking buff for eles. If you want to stick with the theme, maybe add a stacking buff for each second you stay in an attunement, stat bonus depends on the attunement.

The Great Al.2546:

I agree with pretty much everything you posted. It’s funny, a few others (myself included) actually feel the that the water field moved too quickly. But besides that I agree with you. It’s worth mentioning at every opportunity that Rebound is just awful.

Not to mention that Rebound works with almost none of an ele’s skills. The water field moves at about the right rate. I can cast it as I’m moving forward and immediately blast with Frozen Burst, but I’ve never seen anyone else actually blast it.

d/f FA was fun before the spec patch. After I heard FA was losing the icd, I was excited to pull it back out. Now that the icd is ACTUALLY removed, I’ll be playing this build a bit more. Fire/Air/Arcane with Arcane shield, air sig, and LF. This build has loads of stomp support with Swirling Winds, earth focus, air sig, and shield. It is much more of a team fight build as it plays a lot like a thief (damage and reset). The superspeed is very important for catching up or resetting and really makes FA shine. It certainly isn’t meta, but if you are an experienced ele, it’s a solid build.

That said, I agree with a lot of the input in this thread. Earth doesn’t seem to do much. It feels like it’s meant for sustain builds, not burst builds. Water is kind of in the same boat (hehe… boat). Water signet especially doesn’t seem worthwhile as it will have almost no impact in any battle. People do underestimate the power of Air signet though. It’s a stunbreak and can be used as an insta-blind against things like Earthshaker and downed cc’s of some classes.

Enko.6123:

Here’s my hoard.

So organized. My horde is a massive mess across several bank toons :P

So you want your minions to reappear after the transformation is over? You want them to be completely immune to damage for 10 seconds? You want them to continue to attack while you have been completely disabled? Not sure how any of these issues could get solved without setting your minions on cooldown. Possibly they could start recharging when you get moa’d (maybe they already do?) or be back up for you to summon immediately. That’s a lot of casting to resummon them though >.< I’d be fine with that though.

These just sound like Spectral skills.

That’s not to say that these sound better. I’d much prefer these versions. People would argue about them being uncounterable though, though you could just tell them “Don’t get hit by me while my stance is up.”

I’m not really sure what ANet’s thing is about Shouts. Do they want everyone to run trooper runes or something?

Xillllix.3485:

Arcane will impact overload recharge, so most probably we will be forced to go Water/Arcane/Tempest.

But that’s why you’d take Fresh Air instead of Arcane. Arcane won’t affect the overload I believe, just the attunement recharge. Maybe I read it wrong, but the two are still separate cooldowns. I’d also like to try this out. There’s also the option to take a conjure to fill in any gaps… though the thought of that scares me a bit. I really have no idea, but I will certainly be trying out Tempest/Air/X for a bit.

The ranger trait Quick Draw only affects non-auto attacks, so I don’t see how this would affect autos. However, it would be kinda neat if it lowered cooldown for all skills used for like 2-3 seconds. THAT would be an elite. That, or it’s on a low cd… like 30s.

It’s because the game registers YOU as the source of the chill. This used to work the same way with engi’s Sitting Duck trait when you immobilize yourself in places like the Thaumanova Fractal, though that trait is no longer in the game.

I feel like the skills that turn you into mist should have evade frames (i.e. hammer 3 and staff 5). And I definitely agree that staff needs better power scaling. It’s a super fun weapon to use but even in zerker gear crits are weaker than cleric guardian staff.

In regard to weapon swap: Engi has 15 skills even without a kit equipped, and he gets to customize his bar; This goes up to 19 with one kit and 23 with 2 kits, which are common situations. Ele has 25 skills. Revenant has 15 and cannot customize outside of choosing his legends (also can’t chose which skills to bind to which keys). Adding a weapon swap would bring this number up to 20 skills… still with the lack of customization of skills. Ele and engi also have flexibility to include both ranged and melee attacks, whereas Rev can choose only one. Even necro has 20 skills when you consider deathshroud, so why should Rev be limited to only 15?

Rev needs at the least either weapon swap or more skills tied to each legend for us to choose from.

Also, whatever happened to this supposed strong in-combat mobility?

Yep, especially noticeable on gates.

I’d like to have a low cd elite that isn’t a kitten minion. Like a signet that causes you to lifesteal when struck as passive and has a strong immobilize+grants boons (perhaps resistance and might?) when activated.

It’s annoying until I pull 20+ stacks of burning and send it to the flippin’ guardian or ele. Then I’m happy to have the passive ;D

They could at least add the piercing ability to Reaper’s Might. But yes, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be baseline seeing how much other classes received as baseline.

I’m curious of anyone else’s thoughts on this matter. All classes are capable of soloing him with little trouble now quite quickly. I think killing the lord should be a very difficult feat that requires most of the team and good coordination/timing.

Tim.6450:

Question is that not going to be necessairy for reaper who chill on applying fear? If it is negated by stab/break bar then it will be a very weak trait.

I personally feel that this trait needs something else added to it anyway. Reaper only has one way to apply fear on a 20s cd (DS#3), maybe two if they bring a staff. Any decent necro would already have chill on their target when they fear them anyway. To me, it seems like a wasted trait and should certainly not be a minor that you’re forced to take.

My issue with Rampage is that it doesn’t actually function like a transform. Lich and Tornado can’t stomp, rez, proc things like defy pain, or utilize skills like healing signet’s resistance boon prior to activating. In fact, lich form REMOVES spectral effects. The cooldown is also quite low compared to the other two. And an engi can potentially have it on an 84 second cooldown, though it’s rng. Damage and CC are fine as that’s the point of using it.

Question: does the Analyze from the Lock On trait trigger Static Discharge?

1. 6/30/15 about 7pm MST
2. My friend, Windler.4815
3. Volcanic Fractal
4. Standing on the walkway before jumping down to the final boss.
5. Sorry :P
6. He had the lava debuff as though he had fallen down into the lava.
7. Perhaps the game thought he fell below his position through the terrain?

I’ve heard that it tries to charge the mantra when you heal or something, so it take like 3 sec to actually cleanse. That’s just hearsay though. It’s kinda silly if that’s the case.

Vuvuzela Vortex

It’s not forcing me to attack :P Only tested on golems in hotm. I know the skill queue is screwy, so maybe your auto attack is queued when you use the tuft?

edit: damaging stolen item force auto attack, but I think that’s normal.

This is what I’ve been running too, except Stop, Drop, and Roll rather than Soothing Ice. Soothing Ice icd is 20sec :P, so not that good imo.

Just ran into a condi mesmer who was convinced I was running diamond skin. This build is so good with cele Was running d/f as well. Will have to see if that ends up being better than offhand dagger.

All the celes are running earth, but I agree that fire has great potential. I actually ran the exact build you linked with cele amulet and it was quite effective. Haven’t had time to play with it much, but the trait spread is strong.

+1 to this. The tooltip reads that it should trigger Berserker’s Power, but it never does, whether it hits an enemy or not. I think that’s might be the issue. Kind of like how cleansing ire works with it even if you hit nothing.

Cele HGH is so strong right now. Agreed.

Just a shower thought: Alchemist specialization where the f1-4 abilities and some weapon skiolsmdeal with converting friendly and enemy combo fields.

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Acolytes is a multi-game guild, of which GW2 is one of several chapters that include Wildstar, Rift, ESO, and EQNL. The GW2 chapter has been active since launch. We were world first to complete both Guild Puzzle and Guild Challenge, as well as server first Guild Rush and Trek. We are based on the Sanctum of Rall server, though we are now recruiting from any server because megaservers and guesting have made home server in PvE obsolete. Also, if you tweet, follow our twitter page.

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Impact.2780:

What if up time on player-summoned NPCs was reduced for other classes rather than increased for those with less up time so that PvP could become less of a wannabee PvE zone as opposed to the current map composition of 75% NPCs and 25% players, and the future composition of 90% NPCs and 10% players should player-summoned NPCs be made more permanent.

Agreed. I’m trying to picture an ele surrounded by four elementals that don’t automatically die after 60 seconds and just imagining the amount of QQ that would cause. But then I think about MM necros and how often I just turn away from them because my time is spent better elsewhere on the map. As much as I want build diversity, I’m just sick of all the passive AI damage. If minions did much less damage but offered more utility that required active use, I’d maybe change my mind. But my main issue is that in order to weaken the necro, you need to kill its minions, but by the time you’ve killed the bloodfiend and maybe the flesh golem, it’s gonna be off cd :P

Wow sorry, this floated off topic. /endrant

I will preface this with saying a healer ele is not “optimized” so it’s a play-how-you-want build. I have a guildie friend who made an ele healer for when she wants to play more relaxed (most of her other toons are zerker). I believe her build is 0/10/0/30/30 with magi’s gear and staff. Her water staff auto-attack heals melee players for almost 1k, and swapping to water attune heals aoe for about 3k. She does kitten for damage but she drops frost bow and FGS. Our guild is not always about being fully optimized, and this type of build is fine as long as you aren’t expecting to impress any pugs with your dps.

That said, I much prefer dps ele because it’s an insane amount of damage while still giving some solid offensive support (so much might and fury).

Fresh Air doesn’t reset the skill recharges, it resets the atunement recharge so you can swap to air every 5 seconds. This allows you to pull off the burst of a double lightning strike every 5-ish seconds. I’m assuming you plan to use your ele for PvE based on your description. I played s/d ele for a while but switched to mainhand dagger (staff if I need range) because the sustained dps of scepter is pretty poor. People often use scepter for might stacking then swap to lightning hammer for damage. I have seen some eles mainly using s/d, and that’s fine—it’s fun, but I wouldn’t base a PvE build around it just for Fresh Air.