Guild Wars 2

Im actually finding offhand dagger more useful than i thought.

haviz.1340:

Puandro.3245:

Managed to clear path 2 up to lupi today, having issues with lupi resetting when p2 hits though, bah.

I managed to kill him on guardian, it’s easier to clear path 2 (abom mostly, first boss is afk-able) but I still think it’s easier to kill him on ele. Focus offers tremendous amount of defensive skills, obsidian flesh is few times better than mist form (longer duration, short recharge).

What exactly is happening there that he resets? If you want to get rid of the last grub, you should get away from him, use swirling winds (that will stop him from shadowstep, it’s a projectile) and obsidian flesh (to avoid kd) and nuke the grub asap. And don’t go further than the center of the arena.

I think RTL is taking me too far away, before i used to just lightning flash a bit so that was never causing this issue.

Managed to clear path 2 up to lupi today, having issues with lupi resetting when p2 hits though, bah.

WTB less resets from Lupi when he hits phase 2.

Zenith.7301:

Puandro.3245:

Zenith.7301:

haviz.1340:

Zenith.7301:

What are the times to clear/kill times compared to your warrior.

Puandro was most likely faster considering that weth’s run is made of joint clips. Plus, ele has no issues whatsoever with burrows. Yes, he kills mobs slower but make up in other departments.

In AC, where burrows feature prominently the department may seem important. In dungeons where mobs feature prominently, not so much.

Puandro played flawlessly, but not as a d/d ele clear. He had to use staff most of the time because otherwise he’d be taking many dirtnaps.

You underestimate the power of Lava font on mobs, Lava Font + Fireball > DD in terms of DPS.

I’m talking melee capability; I don’t think anyone questions the efficacy of the fire staff. And lava font works when mobs aren’t moving out of it so often. The Butcher in hotw is a good example of a mob that will be horrible for scepter and staff specs but much better for d/d.

It isn’t that D/D isn’t possible (except for burrows) its that staff is a superior weapon for that moment so there is no point in using D/D. I used D/D on the spider because it was better due to cleansing.

Edit: LW has the strafing bug though.

Zenith.7301:

haviz.1340:

Zenith.7301:

What are the times to clear/kill times compared to your warrior.

Puandro was most likely faster considering that weth’s run is made of joint clips. Plus, ele has no issues whatsoever with burrows. Yes, he kills mobs slower but make up in other departments.

In AC, where burrows feature prominently the department may seem important. In dungeons where mobs feature prominently, not so much.

Puandro played flawlessly, but not as a d/d ele clear. He had to use staff most of the time because otherwise he’d be taking many dirtnaps.

You underestimate the power of Lava font on mobs, Lava Font + Fireball > DD in terms of DPS.

haviz.1340:

Puandro.3245:

I actually have very little experience with Arah TBH since ive only done path 3 a total of 3 times with a group lol. But ill look into Path 2.

I would have showed you some tricks how to do it as fast as possible and maybe some tricks for lupi but I think you’re playing on NA server.

I’m gonna practice for some time today, but unfortunately my pc barely plays gw2 let alone try to fraps it.

Yah NA.

haviz.1340:

Puandro.3245:

Well i wish i could get to lupi solo but i have to drag a friend with me for the light orb part and then make him stay with me while i do attempts.

You can try doing this in p2, the only issue is abomination.

I actually have very little experience with Arah TBH since ive only done path 3 a total of 3 times with a group lol. But ill look into Path 2.

Well i wish i could get to lupi solo but i have to drag a friend with me for the light orb part and then make him stay with me while i do attempts.

haviz.1340:

Puandro.3245:

How do you get around the bubbles, eventually he kills me since my 3 cantrips go on CD and he likes to spam it at times.

I use d/f.

Well maybe he just hates me because i did 1 attempt with D/F and he even went through my Focus CD’s on top of my Cantrip CD’s thats when i called it quits.

haviz.1340:

Puandro.3245:

Yah i was already filled in about EA, would had been good to know when i was attempting him.

Ye, but you don’t need EA. I’m killing him constantly without it.

How do you get around the bubbles, eventually he kills me since my 3 cantrips go on CD and he likes to spam it at times.

haviz.1340:

Puandro.3245:

Eles have to be good at something am i right? BTW i would had posted a Lupicus solo video shortly after yours but with no Reckless dodge my ele eventually dies to his bubble after i use all 3 Cantrips to get out of it, sucks.

You can solo lupi on ele even without “our” reckless dodge (evasive arcana). Though, I soloed him through whole phase 2 nad 3 once without EA and few times in phase 1 while practising . So it’s doable. If you want to know what I’m using just send a PM or ask here.

Yah i was already filled in about EA, would had been good to know when i was attempting him.

Zenith.7301:

Probably took much longer than the warrior, and as the video displays most of it had to be carried out in range. No melee in full berserker for large parts of the time like with a warrior.

Well done nevertheless. You just can’t conclude that because of this video warriors are not god of damage in PvE.

This ele had 3055 HP, the warrior over 4k plus the armor difference. And in what part of this video, on a character downscaled to lv35, did you ever see this ele hitting with a skill for 9k damage, let alone half of that. Fire Grab is 45 sec cd vs. 6 sec 100b and doesn’t even hit for half the damage 100b does.

Do Wars do more damage than Eles? Totally.
Do Wars have a bigger advantage then Eles due to their 80%~ more base HP and about 10% Armor? Hell yes, its like being able to take about twice as much damage.

But being able to do it at range or melee doesn’t matter, its the fact that its able to be done. Looking back i could had done it with only 20 Arcana but i made the spec on the fly and went for it.

Been playing ele since Beta and i consider myself pretty savvy on the class and game itself. Eles will never be as good as Wars in sustained DPS ATM due to the fact that we have too low base HP, armor doesn’t matter that much (I won;t even get into the lame 10% Damage for each attunement and CD reduction crap we have). But if we would get Base HP at even Mesmer levels which is like 4.2K more, Tanky DPS Eles and Bunker Eles would be so broken in PvP.

If you liked the vid you guys can also check out my WvW D/D Ele vids, im off to bed for now.

Edit: Shameless plug to my Gear Builder (For all Classes) and Elementalist Damage Calculator if you really want to know how much damage Eles can do with certain gear..

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3A3Op-Hj3dOUkJRU0xvcng5ZWc/edit.

Wethospu.6437:

It should. I think haviz has tried it.

Hmmmm, the bad part is trying to convince a friend to come help me again on his mesmer to get past the light part and wait afk there since if he leaves it kicks me. I did try it as a 30 earth condi spec with Stability trait and its a little slower than berserker but then i lacked the burst to kill the grub in the phase 2 transition, sigh.

Wethospu.6437:

Use Evasive Arcana.

Does it work?

Wethospu.6437:

Nice video, bit jealous how easily you can do burrows. :P

Eles have to be good at something am i right? BTW i would had posted a Lupicus solo video shortly after yours but with no Reckless dodge my ele eventually dies to his bubble after i use all 3 Cantrips to get out of it, sucks.

Full Berserker Gear (No Ascended Gear)

Troll is Included :P.

Just did this on my Ele.

Puandro.3245:

Came back from vacation to find this out, 5 FPS up from 60+ in LA with max settings.

Updated my Nvidia to the latest one and its fixed for now… we will see if it goes back down later.

Came back from vacation to find this out, 5 FPS up from 60+ in LA with max settings.

AlexDelux.4053:

William Fairfield.1428:

Braxxis is correct. The Golem boss is more of a “mini-boss” and it is by design that you fight him while the waves are coming.

Really ANet? Really?? I want you to show me how in the world you can fight a boss with 20+ silver mobs around you that kill you in 2 seconds!
I know we should just kill the boss very fast, but I don’t think it’s fun to have to run away because there are too many mobs you just CAN’T kill, no matter how good your party is.

Just because your group can’t it doesn’t mean its impossible. Our group does it in 15 min tops and sometimes we bring a pug for the ride.

Mastazajeb.3019:

actually i dont have problem with lupicus giganticus,i think its a good fight. learned strategy pretty quickly and finished path 2.
and i dont mind challenging dungeons, i actually like that. Arah is done great,i just dont like the longevity of it. Path 2 is ok,but path 1 is really too long. didnt try path 3.

the problem is exp players dont want new people in the group and therefore you cannot get exp from it.
if you make it shorter it doesnt mean its gona be less challenging,it just means people are gonna try it more often then not and will give more chances to newcomers.
otherwise you just get one circle of people doing it with others not getting the chance to even play it and learn something.

on another note,Subject alpha is a terribly designed boss with no imagination at all.
just a guy who farts AoE attacks out of nowhere the whole fight.
Ive played most of the dungeons in game and that is the only boss so far that i find extremely pointless. Im not crying for a nerf, i just think its very weak designed boss fight and would love to see it redesigned.

His moves on path 1 where much better designed. Not here when he fills whole room with that awful AoE crap. Rezzing downed players is a nightmare. Ive tried 3 times rezzing one guy at same spot far away from boss but his AoE attacks kept hitting that spot with about 1 sec break in between 2 AoE attacks. Its an awful design.

Learn to dodge.

I love GW2 and will continue to be my game of choice in the foreseeable future BUT if you want RAID content GW2 is not it. I suggest Rift or WoW.

Karaad.7930:

No tanky, dodgy and damage. You can choose to have 30k hp and be able to take a couple of hits but it still pales in comparison to the fact that a glass cannon warrior will kill things 300% faster than any defensible warrior.

In WvW, I mow down defensive warriors with ease, that should be proof enough that either 1. It’s pointless to be tanky. or 2. Those players just really suck.

Players suck.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

I would hope they don’t play WvW. If you’re an ele in WvW and you don’t have a focus in your inventory for swirling winds, you’re wrong.

Not if your soloing.

Need more eles plz, specially D/D, so easy to kill.

Very good discussion guys. Axe AA one of many AA chains that do less damage if you let them complete. I dont know why but thats the way it is.

Same, this is total crap and i have an extremely good connection.

Got to phase 2 on my ele solo on Lupi today. I cant retain the mitigation to live against lupi and burst down the last grug.

Takes 15 mins. How is it a waste of time.

Also all my friends are stuck.

This would be great imho.

Reacting.6180:

Are you meant to have 20+ mobs + boss on you? Because thats what i was having…
Besides, online guides suggest you to keep 1 mob from each wave alive to prevent a new wave from spawning… how is this not broken?

Thats the old strat when the mobs had insane Health. The way i do is pull the boss and AoE everything down a long with the boss.

It is not broken, waves are meant to come non stop until the 2nd boss. Its a bit hard but i managed to do it in 15 mins. Pretty quick run.

elderan.2638:

I have 9 rings that I don’t want :\ How about instead of MF, you can salvage the rings and it gives you Pristine Relics?

This plz

If its a tanky D/D ele then you won’t kill it. Glass eles you will.

This fight kittening sucks, its boring.

Thiefs havent been nerfed enough, but they need buffing in other areas.

ashleydoll.8563:

But why did you put sounds of people farting in the video?

Im 3 years old and find it funny.

Jefzor.7145:

So, would you recommend thieves to try out an ele or are thieves easier AND more effective?

No i recommend people to try different classes so they get to know how their opponents class works and thus have an easier time countering it.

Bumping this again.

Coffeebot.3921:

Well I found that to be pretty boring, nothing against your skills or anything but roaming while solo in WvW as a condition thief is just… boring to watch. Mostly because your fights are just the same thing over and over again; acquire stealth, use pistol stealth attack, avoid getting hit… not to mention many of your displayed opponents were pretty mediocre in their usage of skills and play style.

Think about it for a moment, if a PvP game is pretty balanced (which GW is) and 2+ enemies lose to 1 enemy are they ever good? You can’t really flip your statement and say “those enemies were good/great” when they are losing while having a number advantage.

Thanks, I aim to entertain.

Our group wants to run Arah, which paths aren’t broken since we dont want to waste our time.

Heliox.8632:

Puandro.3245:

I want a dev answer if this is going to be changed to no affect running different paths too fast.

ive personally talked to a dev and the reason behind such a DR is to combat the fact that people can hack and incredibly do fast speed runs of the dungeon without having to manually tweak each and every dungeon so that its unhackable.

So im being punished because people can hack instead of just banning the people who are hacking, they should have a system in place to see how fast people are clearing dungeons and see something abnormal and ban those. If this is true i am disappointed.

For doing Dungeons i would stack Duration over Condition stat, very rarely do they get removed.

I main an Ele (i have 2 videos on Youtube if you guys are interested), but i decided to finish leveling my Thief and made a condi spec, threw some Carrion gear on it and did some WvW.

I want a dev answer if this is going to be changed to no affect running different paths too fast.

I did CoF path 1 and 2 then SE path 1 and 3 we took a 20 min break and did path 1, 2 and 3 and got 45 tokens on all AC paths. Why is our group getting punished for being too fast. This is bullkitten.

Why is there a DR on running DIFFERENT paths too fast, why are you punishing good players?

You say its so if people find an exploit on running a path too fast its a buffer but that would only make sense if the DR would apply to the SAME path not a different one, or even a different dungeon this is BS.