Guild Wars 2

Xbon.9086:

first and foremost, why not dx12? dx12 runs WAY more efficient than dx11 ever could hope.

Well you also have to consider the fact that Dx12 requires windows 10, which many people are not willing to get.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Purple Miku.7032:

If they’re gonna make excuses, then let them do it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ajnso/bad_optimalization_in_gw2/csdnn3n

Quoting me for that is pointless. I read that reddit post the same day he posted it, it still changes nothing about what I said and that’s that all of the people posting saying it’s too much work are making excuses on behalf of them when it’s not their place to do so.

The exact same claim could be made about any other single suggestion for an update because whether or not something is “too much work” is subjective, and it doesn’t even pertain to the people who are making all of the ridiculous posts about it because they don’t even work on the game… they’re merely players.

There are quite lot of people here who don’t even work for anet commenting on how much work it would be to work in adding Dx11 support…

Dx11 is several years old already and many other games out there have been making use of it. It does make a difference, and it’s really tiresome to keep seeing a bunch of people making excuses for anet. If they’re gonna make excuses, then let them do it.

Currently there’s pretty much no way to guarantee a decent framerate in highly-concentrated zerg fights on this game whereas on other game that I’ve tried, XIV, the game runs much smoother in areas with high concentration of players. Sure, this is attributed to a lot more than just Dx11 but the fact remains that we could be getting a lot better performance than we’re getting on here in some scenarios and it’s certainly something worth requesting.

Either way, this topic is always the same thing… a few people claim that they want the game to run on Dx11, and then like 20+ people claiming “they don’t have the resources, stop being self-entitiled!” and it’s getting annoying.

There will be no issue with this come soon when there will be no daily fractal runs and instead will just be roll 1 fractal, get free stuff, then cry/afk in LA till the next day.

And then you will do it again.

Then again.

And again.

Forever.

Invictus.1503:

Ludovicus.7980:

I’m still baffled by how little downtime GW2 has. You guys can even rebuild a whole system without putting down the whole game.

Thanks

I’d imagine it is because they build it separately and then simply upload that copy (with new build) to be live. In this case it is pretty big so will require some additional testing once live. That’s my guess anyway..

That’s true actually.

Their testing server is completely separate and the client that they use for it has a different .dat file. It requires a whole different installation and there are a lot of things that don’t exist in the live game. Pretty nice if you compare it to for example archeage which has like 20-22 hour uptime a day at the very most… lol.

I joined some group that said “p1 experienced” for Arah today with 4 other randoms. They ended up pulling a ton of elites to me while I was finishing ancient ooze, I didn’t die, and they were littered around the floor for like 3 minutes as I spammed stealth kits and ran away to try to deaggro the elite risen without the ooze resetting.

I then turn in the blood of the ancient and start running to the entities. Every single one of them waypoints and dies on the run there, despite one of them being a thief and none of them being squishy classes like ele.

I wait before engaging entities so they can waypoint again, this time 3 of them make it to the end but they pulled all of North Korea to me while I was nearly done finishing the entities. And no I’m not talking some of North Korea, I mean all of it.

I had to jump off the edge and run away to reset them, meanwhile asking them what their logic was for running straight through the middle instead of to the right or left. They were claiming it was my fault for starting without waiting for them, I reply “why do I need to wait for when I’ve already waited for you to waypoint like 8 times already?”

We then went back and forth a little bit about how it’s unkind to lie on the LFG and say that you’re experienced when in reality you have no idea what you’re doing until I decided to leave and let them suffer on their own.

#puglyf

Kraggy.4169:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

it’s already quite visible, some people will always ignore it

People panic because they get a message which sounds a little bit scary. A lot of people unfortunately miss the warning because they’re already busy panicking.

Precisely!

That’s why most phish work, even when the recipient is aware of the risks the natural human ‘panic’ reaction kicks in when they see a threat to something they value and rationality is often an early victim.

So Marcus Greythorne, stop blaming the victim!

It’s the person’s responsibility to know not to carelessly give their account information out as well. There was a very noticeable message at the bottom of the mail, the name for the GM looked conspicuously bot-like, the website was obviously illegitimate…

There’s really no excuse. This message could be made to flash constantly, pop up in your face, and people would still manage to find a way to fall for it. Arenanet is already doing enough to warn people— they can’t completely hold everybody’s hand, because unfortunately the people who fall for these ploys are people who don’t really understand what phishing is so it’ll inevitably happen to them at some point until they learn about it one way or the other.

For some people, all it takes is reading up online what it is or hearing from others but sometimes it takes someone to actually mess up and lose something before it sinks in. Everybody’s different in that regard.

maddoctor.2738:

If they ever do a spin-off of Guild Wars 2 (that’s a huge IF) I’d much more like a standalone Super Adventure Box, with the ability (if you want) to connect with your Guild Wars 2 character to import them in, but can also be played alone.

I think it would be an instant best-seller

Super adventure box on my phone?!

kitten yeah. I’d play that every single time during the breaks between my courses. Who needs lunch!

Well if you phase him before killing all the previous elementals then those ones will stay and new ones will appear, but I’m guessing this isn’t what you mean.

Do you have any video recordings of it happening? Also is it always happening for you or did you only do 1 run of each or something because I haven’t noticed anything like that

Sadly all of your image links are no longer available it says

Sirsquishy’s response stating that something might be utilizing your hard disk/SSD to its maximum capacity would definitely be causing a problem for framerate but I think you’d also notice some other problems in addition to that, so if it’s just GW2 framerate that’s causing you problems then I’m not sure that would be it.

Low framerate is usually gonna be caused by either too much going on in the background, a processor with slow clockspeed (yours is pretty good and shouldn’t have any problems at all) and insufficient RAM. You have sufficient RAM so that can’t be it either.

The only things I can think of off the top of my head would be either windows 10 problems or that you have some other program running that causes system instability somehow, and should this be the case and you find out what it is, it’ll immediately alleviate the problem. I wouldn’t have any way of knowing whether or not it’s true, but try ending as many processes as you can and run GW2 and see if you notice anything.

But yeah, there’s a ton of compatability issues with win10 right now so if you have that then it might be what the problem is. I’ve already known a few people who’ve upgraded and had driver errors with their graphics cards (mostly NVIDIA though) and seen a few posts around here where people had the exact same kind of issue you’re having, and as soon as they got rid of some program that they were used to using on windows 7 before they upgraded to 10 they were able to play again.

Hey,

I’ll post it here on this thread only because I don’t think this is worth making a new thread over:

Ihave 99,250 arah tokens and I think I’ll be doing like a 4k or 5k gem giveaway or something like that for the night I get 100k— probably on stream. It’s probably going to be sometime this weekend, because I’m just assuming I probably will get 250 tokens a day for the next 3 days unless I get lazy and cba to log in. We’ll see!

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Use it at start, usually earth 2, air, storm, fire 2. Then cast fire storm during a fight but if you need to leave fire for some reason, feel free to use storm in air. If ele leaves fire, the dmg goes down a lot so preferably you should stay in fire during a fight.

It’s not worth casting glyph in fire, if you’re gonna cast it at all it should only be in air for damage, water if you need to chill something for some reason or earth for sandstorm. I’ve tested it before and firestorm on glyph doesn’t deal the same kind of damage as the one on fgs and it’s nothing even remotely close to the output of lightning storm.

In addition to that, you can basically maintain the burning rage damage modifier all of the time due to the burning precision trait along with flame burst on staff so there’s literally no use for it in fire. You’d be better off just autoattacking or lava fonting instead.

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

Purple Miku.7032:

Kordash.2197:

Purple Miku.7032:

I’ll keep doing arah to maintain my lead as person with most arah tokens, but I would not be telling the truth to say that I might have a lot lower motivation than I already do. Don’t really care about the gold that much, it’s the tokens that matter the most but still it’s like getting kicked in the groin… we don’t deserve to get treated like this.

Even if dungeons aren’t worked on anymore it’s stupid to shun people that play them.

So yeah the dungeons gold nerf does kitten me off, but I can’t say I’m surprised considering the track record here. They have disappointing their playerbase down to a science tbh, they’re like the Comcast of the gaming industry for me right now.

Speaking of that, did you reach 100k ?

Looks like someone is trying to rebuild Zhaitan from its shards, and is getting close to succeeding. I daresay the Priory would repay you handsomely for that collection so that they can display the fully-reformed elder beast.

I bet if there was some never-before-discovered reward after getting an obscene amount of tokens, people would be raging like hell for not telling them because it takes years’ worth of playing this dungeon to get this many tokens… I value them way more than several dozen thousand worth of gold.

Monk Tank.5897:

There is no grind in GW2.

lol

I once was like you too Heithinn and felt that posting my many ideas to make dungeons way better than they are would have a chance of contributing to something instead of falling on deaf ears. This was back in 2013, however, and not once since then has this company shown even the slightest bit of concern over the state of dungeon-related content and the players that love them in over 2 years since.

They literally want to try to get people to stop playing them out of choice, so that they can have an excuse to delete them. Why that is exactly, I don’t fully understand because the excuses given to us don’t really justify their apathy.

It’s all a matter of personal preference.

I personally think medium armor skins overall have the best options and that when playing with heavy/light armor classes, my options are very limited if I don’t want to look hideous.

Stupidest thing I’ve ever seen? There’s been too many that have happened in the past few years but it’s probably going to seem really mean of me to mention the things that have made me facedesk the most, because most of them involve build choices and people being incompetent in dungeons/fractals.

Sometimes I just really don’t get how people think “this is a good idea, I should do this” when deciding to use or do something in group settings…

For example, a warrior not only using rifle in PvE but doing something like volley or kill shot on archdiviner final encounter when he’s reflecting, or mesmers using GS as their primary weapon in dungeons/fractals, especially when they spam the knockback skill on trash mobs… ugh.

For some reason I’m more irritated by seeing the period at the end of every single line that they’re typing to you. It’s like they’re going out of their way to seem as detached from human emotion as they possibly can lol

I don’t get why people care about world firsts on here so much as they are having emotional reactions over it, wtf. It makes no sense to me how someone could possibly care that much about whether or not two guilds they aren’t in are testing the raids.

I can think of a million other things right now that would make me much more upset than that. Meh, trying to make sense of it is pointless I guess.

Fox.3469:

While it’s good they have more testing on the raids, you are seriously overreacting.
Go watch Wp’s video on raids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXf9qlihYoM
Calm the kitten down and be realistic, this idea that some people are beating this is an indicator that it’s to easy is such a stupid argument.

While I agree with you that he’s being too quick to assume the worst here, I feel the need to point out the fact that you’re telling someone not to overreact and calm down, when you are doing the literal exact opposite to him of what you’re demanding of him. This is not how you get people to care about your opinions.

It has the potential to be maximum damage, but it won’t ever be used for that purpose because a warrior using the tactics traitline isn’t ever going to be in scholar runes or taking both signet of might and fury etc.

Also, don’t underestimate the discipline traitline!

Remember that if you’re taking burst mastery due to already getting quickness from a mesmer or a guardian, you’re also getting free adrenaline every time you weapon swap. What this means is that even if you use an eviscerate, by the time you’ve swapped to greatsword you’ll literally be able to use an arcing slice right after doing a whirlwind because your adrenaline will already be full. You can actually spam burst skills with this setup, which is partly why it’s so powerful. The rotations aren’t the same at all.

Theoretically, it could be possible to deal the highest damage with strength/arms/tactics if you were fed a crap ton of boons the entire time and were using full scholar and the rest just whatever was best for personal damage (double signets, power+ferocity food etc) but that still doesn’t really refute the point I was making in the first place, which was that the phalanx builds that we all know and [don’t] love are certainly not the best damage setups for a warrior.

The only class that I’m pretty confident warrior can’t touch for burst and personal DPS is engineer generally speaking, but many cases elementalist has much better, especially on anything with a large enough hitbox for meteor shower/lightning storm.

The thing is, if the hitbox of the boss is small then the elementalist’s damage potential is greatly reduced while the warrior’s isn’t at all. Also depending on how short a fight is, warrior could potentially be better burst than an ele because you have to factor in the fact that warrior can open a fight with an instant vuln spike with high damage coefficients as well. It honestly depends a lot on the encounter and who’s playing the classes.

Thief is still capable of beating warrior in some circumstances, but since the update warrior is capable of matching thief and sometimes doing better a lot of the time. Basically, warriors got buffed a lot more since that patch than thieves did.

The classes like guardian/mesmer/ranger/necro are obviously not better in terms of damage aside from really obscure examples like reflecting Lupicus’s frenzied blast attacks or whatever.

Choppy.4183:

Yup, it’s just you. Our personal dps is middle of the pack but, yes, Phalanx Strength is the reason every dungeon party will pack one warrior. Support wise, you should check out what a support ele can do….

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy warrior quite a lot and it’s by far my main. But you’ve gotta keep it real, ya know?

Actually the june specializations patch put warrior near the top end of the spectrum for damage, just not with phalanx builds. If you actually set yourself up for personal damage, warrior is in some ways stronger than it was pre-ferocity (before april 2014), however in some ways it’s not quite there, depends on the situation.

Basically the point I’m trying to get across is that warriors had sub-average DPS before this year late june, but now it’s actually superb. You just have to spec selfishly for it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNAR3ZnMdA1dg9dAmCCcighig6GjL4n1uo1zCbAegAA-TBBXgAA7PK/C1N0r+zjSQRBERA-e

And now with the elite spec:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNAR3ZnMdA1dg9dAmCCcigliA7YMcB+ZGDgHQA4d4mcnuA-TBBXgAA7PK/C1N0r+zjSQRBERA-e

The first link assumes that you’re already getting fed banners, might, and quickness from another warrior and a guardian/mesmer, so heightened focus can be traded for burst mastery.

The second link I haven’t really gotten a chance to test properly but it appears to be what might be the best setup for personal damage in solo settings, but it seems similar to how it was last year for anybody that might remember the 66002 GS camping vs 65003 GS+axe/mace uncertainty when it came to theoretical highest DPS vs practicality

DutchRiders.2871:

Leaving useless skills ( FGS/Most glyphs) and traits behind and overall making ele alot less fun to play.

Eh… just gonna throw it out there, FGS is not useless. I don’t really use it for mobility in casual runs, I use it for its insanely high burst. Not only is fiery rush actually worth using now, but fiery whirl can theoretically be one of the highest burst skills in the game if you’re fully buffed and can land all 8 hits on a boss if you’re casting it in water attunement. I’ve hit upwards of about 64k with a single fiery whirl, so yeah. It’s a force to be reckoned.

Zention.1849:

It’s an understatement to say that the Elementalist is more than just bad.

Massive overexaggeration. I don’t enjoy playing ele that much anymore and think it needs some improvements, but to go as far as saying the whole class is bad? Eh, no.

Staff ele can still out-DPS many other classes without even using meteor shower— just spamming lava font and fireball. If you take into consideration the fact that you have meteor shower and glyph which both deal a ton of damage themselves, elementalist is capable of achieving higher burst than nearly every other class still and ultimately that’s all that matters in dungeons and fractals because sustained DPS is irrelevant when fights last between 10-30 seconds.

In addition, you can min-max your burst even more by squeezing in as many weapon skills as possible before engaging in combat. Elementalist has a lot of good weapon skills that have high damage coefficients.

Example: https://youtu.be/ds6-tlmZ0eo?t=4s

Amurond.4590:

So do you not use Glyph of Storms at all or do you use it at the start/end of a fight?

It really depends on the situation but most of the time you should be opening an encounter with it because it not only deals damage but it instanly spikes a boss to 25 vuln, making everyone’s opening burst much more potent.

ualgh.1832:

[comment declaring reasons of being thoroughly upset with DnT]

Do you actually care about the fact that they violated the terms of service?

Just curious because I personally don’t give a frosty fist of a kitten about it at all, not really sure what the big deal is. It’s not like they’re getting any rewards for being able to play the content on the internal testing servers. You can’t even use a trading post or your own characters on them and it requires a different client as well.

Bump, Sanderinoa needs a new housemaid — preferably one that is good at warrior and have read my guides on the forum here and on dulfy.

Valik Shin.9027:

Warrior dps is kinda meh compared to a lot of others but when u can put out mass team dps buff u don’t really need top personal dps

Actually not quite true unless you’re talking about a phalanx strength warrior. If you run a build that actually strives to maximise personal damage, warrior has extremely high burst and very high sustained damage.

Kordash.2197:

Purple Miku.7032:

I’ll keep doing arah to maintain my lead as person with most arah tokens, but I would not be telling the truth to say that I might have a lot lower motivation than I already do. Don’t really care about the gold that much, it’s the tokens that matter the most but still it’s like getting kicked in the groin… we don’t deserve to get treated like this.

Even if dungeons aren’t worked on anymore it’s stupid to shun people that play them.

So yeah the dungeons gold nerf does kitten me off, but I can’t say I’m surprised considering the track record here. They have disappointing their playerbase down to a science tbh, they’re like the Comcast of the gaming industry for me right now.

Speaking of that, did you reach 100k ?

To be honest, I just play ele a lot less.

Ice bow isn’t worth it in most encounters now honestly, and arcane wave is only chosen because there’s hardly anything else worth taking.

Ele really needs some improvements right now, it’s had too much taken away from it in the past year without being actually given anything good.

Not saying that the nerfs weren’t justified, I’m saying that the fact that D/F and scepter+LH builds in PvE are both completely trash and obsolete and staff’s playstyle is really lousy when conjures aren’t added to the situation. It’s just not very fun in PvE anymore for me, nor does it seem worth playing. :x

I think ele was in a great spot before the june specializations update. It had the most trait diversity, it didn’t deal a broken amount of damage, and required a decent amount of micromanagement (arcane lightning and the lack of burning precision meant you had to care about when using flame burst on staff to make sure you had the 10% damage modifier up before a meteor shower/ice storm).

Azure.8670:

Purple Miku.7032:

Gamgee.8612:

Feels like they made all the cool kitten for all the other classes and then just gave warrior stunbreakers to deal with it all…

Have you seen tempest and dragonhunter?

to be fair, post BWE3 dragonhunter is looking good. Now, it isnt cool at all, but its pretty good.

Tempest? I love tempest! Its one of the “coolest” specs out there. Is it good? nah, not so much for the most part, but it will be eventually

Dragonhunter might be improved since the last time but I can’t find any purpose for it. It just looks like a for-fun thing for PvP. Same thing with tempest honestly, both are just incredibly underwhelming elite specializations that I can’t find any proper use for.

That said, Berserker is by no means perfect but I can definitely see it being best to use in some situations in PvE based off of what I’ve tried so far. https://youtu.be/W1sJwIs7ze0

Win10 is a load of crap, at least at the moment.

It offers absolutely no performance increase for gaming whatsoever unless the game offers dx12 support, which none do at the moment.

Not only that but there’s a ton of compatibility problems and driver issues and bugs that haven’t been worked out yet, so you’re basically going for an upgrade that forces you into making a microsoft account and offers you more modernized UIs on your OS. That’s pretty much it, nothing really special about it unless you liked the tablet-appeal win8.1 had to it and want to combine it with stuff that you liked from win7.

As far as performance is concerned, win7 and win10 are almost totally even and win8.1 is technically the most efficient of the windows operating systems atm.

Check the many benchmark tests available to the public on google and you’ll see for yourself, no point in using windows 10 for gaming.

Valento.9852:

Well… I’ve been hearing some guild talks from Sickest Guild (World First Kill for Vale Guardian), and EG. It looks like our squishy nature, and unstable/inconsistent design won’t help with dynamic raids, only same stationary ones. Not sure if Tempest will have a truly WORTH place in raids. I’m gearing my Engineer.. I’m kinda too sad about Tempest and Ele.

Caring about their opinions will do you no good, there haven’t been enough people trying out the boss to guarantee that we have efficient strategies nailed down and know what the best comps to take are. It doesn’t exactly mean anything when “World’s first kill” means “World’s first kill due to no competition, as nobody else was able toattempt it yet.”

Anyways, Tempest is low damage low utility and overall pretty pointless for raids. It’s not like it can’t be put to use but it’s not better than other choices, so there’s no point in taking it.

I’ll keep doing arah to maintain my lead as person with most arah tokens, but I would not be telling the truth to say that I might have a lot lower motivation than I already do. Don’t really care about the gold that much, it’s the tokens that matter the most but still it’s like getting kicked in the groin… we don’t deserve to get treated like this.

Even if dungeons aren’t worked on anymore it’s stupid to shun people that play them.

So yeah the dungeons gold nerf does kitten me off, but I can’t say I’m surprised considering the track record here. They have disappointing their playerbase down to a science tbh, they’re like the Comcast of the gaming industry for me right now.

True this happens nonstop to me too

Rednik.3809:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

The most difficult about Trin is people who don’t know how it works tbh

Killed her hundreds of times and know how to solokite her. Still sometimes dying from barrage because of awesome tellings. Geee, surely this is l2p issue.

I used to have the same complaints, but it really is a hardware-related issue. :/

Eight Samurai.6840:

BINGO! And if the dev, John Smith was smart enough he would have explained why.

We’re all frustrated with this announcement, but you’re doing yourself a disservice by making really ignorant claims like this.

He’s doing his job. Consider the possibility that maybe he’d put himself in jeopardy by disclosing information that he’s not supposed to.

Because 180 power and 180 precision are valuable attribute increases and if you don’t need to make use of active effects, then there’s no point in activating them.

Well I gave a few minutes of my time and spoke my mind, but I doubt it will be cared about by him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ogusa/the_guild_wars_2_heart_of_thorns_economy/cvxhw1w

Gamgee.8612:

Feels like they made all the cool kitten for all the other classes and then just gave warrior stunbreakers to deal with it all…

Have you seen tempest and dragonhunter?

This is why I never look forward to changes on this game. There are always strings attached.

It’s more complex than the way you’ve worded it but since you’re starting with the basics, yes go with what you’ve just posted. You won’t be able to fully understand the class mechanics without practicing a lot more.

You don’t manually activate signet of fury during fights unless you need to to fill adrenaline, which can be at the start of a fight. You however will never need to do this with trash mobs in open world and stuff like that. Signet of might shouldn’t ever be activated unless an enemy is blocking your attacks which very very rarely happens.

But, yes the one on your skill bar is the same as the one from the trait

The build uses screenshots of what it used to provide. Signet of Rage was nerfed from 30 to 25 seconds of might and fury in September 2014, it’s just that these websites never bothered to update that.

And you stack might with this trait: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Forceful_Greatsword

And no, you should be caring about might, adrenaline and endurance. All of these things are important when trying to maximise your output. Might caps at 25 but is intensity-stacking and gives you an additional 30 power each stack, so it’s important up until you hit the limit. In a solo setting, you’ll never maintain that with only strength runes + the trait unless you’re fighting more than 1 enemy at a time.

You’re noticing a signet of might activation because of this trait: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_Mastery

It’s not using the one on your utility bar, it’s using a separate one in the trait. That’s why.

Amineo.8951:

Shadelang.3012:

@ Amineo Or learn how to do the fight and bring a build that can cleanse itself and doesn’t get one shot by cannons. Cause ya know. Thats a thing.

Sometimes the AOE’s are invisible and you die of nothing, it’s apparently a CPU problem so… Yeah people should learn about building a better PC…

Yeah to confirm this I just thought I’d let everybody know that the cannon phase aoes literally NEVER get rendered improperly for me anymore.

It actually has nothing to do with connection like I thought. It’s 100% hardware related.

Since I’ve gotten my new laptop I’ve actually discovered that every single aoe and boss attack is synced perfectly now.

It amazes me, but the only solution to the cannon phase and everything else in this game not being bullkitten and having the aoe range indicators actually display properly is to simply upgrade your system. :x

EDIT: Just to add to this, I’ve also noticed that all mobs on this game (i.e. elite deadeyes/sentinels in Arah p2) seem to aggro on me ~1 second earlier than usual, and I no longer need to preemptively dodge mage crusher or lupicus autoattacks etc. Also when I kite mai trin around, she follows me in a perfect circle now instead of going in seemingly random directions. This same thing applies to mossman— he stops running behind me constantly every time I move and try to 100b him on warrior.

It’s astonishing to find out that for what, 2.5 years on this game I knew nothing different other than what it’s like to play with every single thing displayed on this game being at minimum 1 second delayed from realtime. WTF.

What I meant was I just use versatile agony infusions to have enough AR, I don’t bother with the extremely expensive infusions that add attributes.

Either way, there are versatile attribute infusions and regular attribute infusions and the versatile ones will work for both defensive and offensive infusion slots whereas the regular ones will only work on the slot corresponding to the type of attribute. For example a precision infusion would only work in an offensive infusion slot but a versatile precision infusion would work for both offensive and defensive slots.

Well I personally just use versatile infusions for AR, but if you wanted to you could do either power or precision infusions and it wouldn’t be bad either way. The difference in DPS that they provide is less than 1% and you won’t notice it either way.

Ultimately I don’t suggest bothering with infusions unless you’re super rich and have nothing else to care about, but generally speaking precision would be better in lower level dungeons due to the downscaled crit chance and power would probably be best in higher level ones. Like I said though… less than 1%.

You can do that but it’s drastically weaker than with GS + axe/X.

The reason I don’t recommend it is because there isn’t really any situation in which it’s better. Of course that doesn’t mean you can’t do it, but pure axe builds were worse DPS than greatsword builds even before the june specializations update and that update widened the gap even more.

Remember this trait?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Empowered

This is a pretty large personal DPS increase in groups too. You’ll pretty much have swiftness, fury, might, and regen at all times and occasionally will be maintaining other boons as well such as retal, stability, quickness, protection… etc.

Also keep in mind that EA also affects the player, so that 150 power applies to the warrior providing it for allies as well.

I don’t see it worth dropping tactics. I don’t like the traitline itself and I’d prefer to not take it but it’s too good to pass up.

Aside from the exaggerations I agree with Evapor that ele deserves to be capable of producing the highest damage output. However, I don’t feel like enough effort had to be put into it in order to achieve it prior to the ice bow nerf. I want more than just a conjure rework.

Ele is pretty unfulfilling now with ice bow out of the rotation most of the time, ngl. I wish tempest wasn’t rubbish so that there’d be something new to use on the class, but it’s just a lot more bland comparatively to how it used to feel months ago whereas other classes are becoming more and more fun.

I think I enjoyed elementalist the most before the specializations update where we had to worry about maintaining arcane lightning in addition to having ice bow in our rotations. We also had the most trait variations for staff builds too.

Arcane wave and brilliance are pretty useful in PvE, but they are fairly lackluster.