Guild Wars 2

Yes, rune of strength 6th bonus is broken atm.

nvmvoidrays.2158:

@ masshypnosis: the regeneration on dolyak is like 30 health. that’s… really bad.

Protection and Magnetic Aura are just too good.

I don’t like doing commentary but ill think about it since so many people are asking for it, maybe in the future. I have a few s/tPvP vids but they are a bit old when i was still messing with my ele and i didn’t flow from 1 attunement to the next like i do now.

Kuthos.9623:

While I’d love to have some more boon duration, Runes of Earth are a lifesaver. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been under 20% health and escaped because of it. Highly reccomend it.

While you can’t get away with full glass cannon d/d build, I dont believe you have to go full on tankiness build like he does either.

I run about 17.5k health and do well enough. It’s offensive enough that I feel I can burst people down, but defensive enough that I can get away from a lot of things.

While he probably has a better time in 1v2 and 1v3, with a little more offense build you can turn the tide of group fights by teleporting into the middle of them and letting loose a whole bunch of aoes, then zipping out.

The water elemental heals for that much? I may have to test it again. Or maybe I’m just not close enough to it. Seemed like it never healed me at all so I went back to using the fire elemental.

Anyways, good video

Yes the Water Elemental from the Elite heals that much. I do take a bit more time to kill people 1v1 but my whole point is to increase my chance to win 1v2+. You can play this build with almost any gear set and do well.

jlneedham.8219:

Puandro, what would the equivalent of your gear be in SPVP, as in what amulet/jewel combo would i need to recreate this?

Soliders amulet, you can also run Carrion if you want for more damage and still have good health, berserker is also an option. When i play mine with this spec in tPvP i swap amulets depending on what im doing.

20% Reduction to air is very good. It reduces Shocking aura meaning its up almost as soon as i go back into air, 20s vs 25s is a huge difference. It also reduces my #5 and thats my set up to burst. Yah i do skip churning earth if i feel i won’t get it off or i will take too much damage, but when i go for it i rarely fail.. Im not a big fan of commentary TBH but i might throw in some more tips. More boon duration would be good but i really like runes fo earth, not just because the aura procs my traits for auras but it basically makes you immune to range damage, its so great. I listen to many different kind of music so expect a different variety in the future.

Chris.7653:

Hey man, heads up from America. It works perfect and I threw you a like on the vid for going through all the trouble of re-uploading.

Thanks bro, Ill prob do another D/D vid before i switch to another weapon spec.

Water ele AoE heals for about 6-7K but its also good for the chill field, which is awesome. Air elemental is freaking useless. Fire elemental is good damage yes but usually i don’t die because of lack of damage to the enemy. I soak damage because there is only so much you can dodge and with 3 auras i prefer to get hit to apply their effects. You could justify going more offensive but you will be 1v2+ almost always so you need to be able to win the fight by attrition or just GTFO.

Feedback is welcome guys.

This is what i use in WvW and in tPvP when i like to plan tanky D/D Spec.

You need practice, you are basically panicking because you know in PvP a simple mistake can kill you.

New link, hopefully it won;t be blocked…..

Elementalist is about outlasting your opponent so you need to survive burst from multiple classes. You can mess with different gear for sure but there are many times where i soak the hits to get the kill and i have 2-3K left of my 23K HP.

Kat.5982:

Cool. Don’t think we ever fought much if at all, but I remember enjoying your vids. I’ve been roaming wvw on my D/D ele (first char), been fun but things are definitely different when you’re boosted with bad gear. Just hit 80 and am working on gear now though, so it’s nice to see you’ve had a lot of success doing what I hope to do.

Thanks. I only have my 2nd VW video uploaded atm, i should really get around to upload the rest. I suggest you get AC/HoTW Power/Toughness/Vit gear then you have the option for Cond/Pow/Vit Jewelry (What i run), or Heal/Pow/Tough or Power/Preci/Tough. You can watch the first vid to get an idea of what I do.

Kat.5982:

Is this the Puandro from DAoC?

Yes.

Ok im going to re upload it and it will hopefully fix the problem, ATM the current vid won’t be available sorry.

Ill try to find a workaround.

I suggest you run Scepter/Dagger or Dagger/Dagger. Staff is a range weapon so it will have less damage output then melee weapons. While eles aren’t as hardy as guardians we can still take some punishment. I posted my 2nd Video today and you can see we can take a lot of damage and dish it out.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Puandro-WvW-Elementalist-PvP-2/first#post616566

If you are in Germany you are screwed.

http://youtu.be/3rHXZ2VjKBs (should work now)

Spec/songs ect in the YouTube link. With the Orbs being gone I decided to put the clips I had together for a 2nd video, Enjoy!

old bug is old, along with many others.

1 Guardian is hard enough to deal with rotating their blocks as they sit their kitten on the point but 2 rotating their blocks where you have 5-6 seconds of no damage coming to them is stupid. I throw Lava font and they sit on the point take 0 damage.

They need to fix the block bug.
They need to nerf guardians access to easy stability.

Ive won paid tournies in all 3 matches for QP’s so it isn’t like we are losing in the first map every match but this double guard + bug is kittening BS.

Yes its pretty sad. ATM i run AC daggers with Blood Sigils to get 25 stacks of power.
2 Corrupted for P/T/V Stats. 2 CoF with Berserker stats. 2 Verdant (leafy daggers, look bigger than normal) with C/P/V, lastly i want to get 2 more daggers for my magic find set but im still looking at what skins to get. Might get Ebonhawke ones.

I have all the values complete and then some.

I like what my female human says but i lol at Asura sentences.

This was supposed to be fixed in yesterdays patch. It heals for 150 with WiS passive because thats the old value when it was 40 sec CD.

Taynavaro.5607:

Awesome skills. May i ask what’s your trait build?

Its in the video link.

Inconceivable.7823:

Did you have all 3 orbs? Your hp is 24k….so Im assuming that is the case or you have 0 toughenss. With my ele I can beat two opponents with 80% health without using a heal or any utility skills with 3 orbs.

Go to sPvP and try it out..I’m not saying you wont do well, I do quite alright but this isn’t anything that impressive because of the orbs and the fact your opponents didn’t seem leveled/skilled. At one point you down a guy and stomp him and the other guy starts rezzing him mid fight? That’s not a level 80 player.

To the people trying to roll an ele, you should try it, it’s a great profession and if the dev address the downed state and give the Dd a little more love and I say just little, it’ll be very fun to play.

OP, if you ever want to really test your build, PM and we can set up a 1on1 pvp match….not because I think you’re no good, but because it might be a good test of our builds and I’m always looking to learn something new.

I have 22K HP with food. I actually do tPvP plenty and when im not playing Staff i do D/D for roaming and it works very well. I do 1v1 plenty with my guildies and they wonder why someone would go S/D for roaming when they see that D/D is far superior.

People will always find a reason as to why something is not possible under normal means.
D/D Eles arent are squishy as people think or as bad. Played DAoC Solo for many years and had multiple Lone Enforcers, fighting multiple people at once and walking away consistently while people make excuses is normal.
Instead of trying go find excuses you guys should be trying to find advantages for yourself.
Orbs are nothing compared to fighting the other realm with 4 relics and walking away with RPs like in DAoC.

@ Pinkerton

1) Actually Burning speed applies 1 second of burning which is long enough to do Firegrab, try it out for yourself.

2) Yes the Updraft trick is something i learned while playing staff since you can use burning retreat the same way, problem is, updraft is such a great move to set up kills and most of the time im just trying to split up people then go back in for the kill so i just use my auras for swiftness since i have the trait for it.

Levian.6742:

Wow. I am literally stunned. I’m not very far with my ele (level 15) but I’ve been discouraged to level it. I’m getting two or 3 shotted by enemies my level, but yes the damage I do IS very high.

I saw you multiple times in a crowd of enemies, and hardly dropping in health. I saw you as you were running from a few people, then, at half health turn around and absolutely, perfectly destroy all of them. How is this possible? How do you not die nearly instantly, while also dealing some very high damage?

I’m in awe not just as a noob elementalist, but also as a necromancer who still drops in health faster than you, while having a difficult time dealing more than 1500 damage, and that only to one enemy.

I run Power/Toughness/Vit armor/weapons with Cond/Power/Vit jewelry. Helps a lot in taking damage. I also run 10 Points in Earth to get 3 seconds of protection when i gain an aura. Runes of Earth also make a difference. Shocking Aura helps stop a lot of the burst damage people like to blow on Inc.

hakurface.2619:

Anyone can look good when you’ve got 3 orbs and a highly populated server vs a lower pop’d one. Don’t even think those guys were geared. Show me a s/tPvP where the challenge is. Nothing special here.

Pop server means nothing, I was by myself in pretty much all but the last fight. Can’t say if they were geared or not, but people are dumb if they can’t spend even 3-4 gold to get full Rares or run dungeons (like i did) and get Exotics. I had 1-3 orbs, never had 3 all the time.

Masternewbz.4953:

Really?

Stopped watching at the first fight.

3v1 and u were taking no DMG.

those guys werent even lvl 80….

jesus christ…

1 wasn’t 80, everyone else was. Protection and Shocking Aura goes a long way to stop damage.

Levian.6742:

Just curious, with the traits to give you boons on auras, what auras do you have at your disposal? There’s one in Air and Water that I can see

10 Air for Fury/Swiftness when using an aura and 10 earth for protection.

IAmHam.9856:

As someone who never had any intention to rolling an ele (80 guard, 80, thief), this is definitely making me feel like I’ve been missing out. You make it seem so fluid. I was just browsing class forums to figure out what other class I should get to 80 while D.R. are active from farming. I’m a sucker for mobility, and I think I may have figured out my cloth class (I could care less if they are UP or OP… I play what’s fun.)

Thanks,, Eles are indeed very mobile and fun. Other classes seem dull after playing 1 for so long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8EPGRudqkeI

I hear a lot of complaining about Elementalist, sure they aren’t as easy to play as other classes and I hope they keep it that way and they could use a few buffs here and there (Conjures!) but its still a very fun class to play and very viable.

I have played all classes to some extent and nothing comes as close to being fun as Ele.

As a D/D ele i never even go down against Alpha, bros need to learn to dodge.

This is pretty much the build i run when i play Staff.

I run a mostly air D/D Spec for Tournys and i do well.

Use Air to get traits that you like, use Fire for damage. Depending if you are Staff go 20 Arcana otherwise go 10. Air for damage isn’t really worth it unless you run high crit gear.

I run a 30/10/0/10/20 build with staff (i run it in dungeons) with Rare Magic Find gear and can kill those giants NP, its really not difficult.

Can I get a reply from Arenanet, im 99% sure i am not wrong.

Test were done with Steady weapons and naked while messing with Power # with Amulets.

Took the liberty of finding the Skill Modifier for each attack for the Elementalist. Along the way i found that a few skills doing less damage than the listed Tooltip.

Dagger
Fire #4 (Doing less)
Water #3 (Doing less)
Earth #2 (Doing less)
Earth #3 (Doing less)

Scepter
Water #1 (Doing less)
Water #2 (Severely less damage than tooltip)

Focus
Fire #4 (Doing less)
Water #4 (Doing less)
Water #5 (Doing less)

Staff
Water #2 (Doing more)
Air #1 (Doing more)
Earth #5 (Doing less)

Excel sheet is here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnA3Op-Hj3dOdEhobXlpaUVPZERLVHR3aFNvUzZkNUE

Formula is
Skill Modifier * Weapon Damage * Power / 2600(Heavy Dummy!) = Damage

Make sure to use Steady Weapons, if done correctly you should hit for tooltip damage or 1 less. The reason 1 less is because Tooltip rounds up but actual damage rounds down.

Anything considered a Boon.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Boon

Conjures still useless in tPvP

Awesome stuff here guys.

What if we made conjures like engineer kits, you can use them and get rid of them with a 1 sec CD, then it would be worth using them.