Guild Wars 2

I just threw in 58 level 80 rare greatswords and I got back 6 exotics. But 5 of them were level 78 and only 1 was level 80. They were all crafted level 80 krait weapons. I thought the forge would always give back an 80. Is It working as intended for it to downgrade the level to level 78 ?

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It’s funny, because ele’s most viable build (huge burst) is essentially a warrior troll build.
Anybody see the killshot builds, that basically do ele burst but in a single projectile that can be used once every 10ish seconds?
Takes a bit longer if you are noticed and is a bit less damage, but it’s all one hit and happens every few seconds as opposed to once a minute, on a super tanky class.

Seriously. Can you imagine the outcry of OPness if Anet were to buff lightning surge on staff to even 75% the damage killshot does. It has a huge wind up , extremely telegraphed just like killshot. I think it did hit hard in closed beta. Thats probably the only reason it has such a unique animation and where the "air deals massive damage in a single attack " BS came from. But being killed in 2-3 hits would be worth it if we could snipe people like War does from across the field with that thing.

Meteor shower on its own is fun , but droppin that ice bow and using #4 on top of the meteor shower , that’s the fun stuff =)

I play ele too, enjoy… kittens

You guys need to get good at switching targets to a little critter mid fight. LOL
5% of one of those 500,000 crits to a rabbit would be a nice little heal =P

powerful auras has “no use to the owner” either if your talking about pure what does it do for me , but I have used it and liked it once in a while.

this trait might be ok if your a damage spec and NOT a healer spec. I guess you could still deal out decent damage and not be dropping completely worthless heals on your party. The old saying a dead ele does no damage holds true with this trait tho, a dead ele doesnt heal his team for jack kitten either

I run 30/20/10/0/10 when I do staff. I take +10% fire ,fire aura on sigil use , and persist flames. Bolt to heart , fury and swiftness on aura, +10% damage within 600’ (or sometimes faster sigil CD , or protection but for all out damage i do the +10%), and blasting staff. For utilities I use , signet of fire , signet of air , and frost bow , Tornado and heal signet. With zerker gear you get up to 73% crit when u use signet of air mid cast while doing meteor , its a nice poor mans tornado trick. signet of fire helps crits but is also low CD signet to use when you want the fury or to finish those kitten thieves off with burn who stealth and run. U can do pretty well with it , your screwed if the other team has a ton of mesmers or thieves tho , because u really just cant deal with that kind of spam damage. but if you show up late to a node party with a bunch of your team and theirs already in battle , your team usually wins =)

my Ele’s new clothes

on the razer I have 1-5 as the skills. Shift 1 for nearest target , Shift2 for fire , shift+3 for water , shift+4 for air , shift 5 for earth. Q is my first utility, shift mouse wheel is my 2nd, and 6 is my 3rd. Heal is the mouse wheel. Shift +6 to switch weapons. X is elite just because I would hit it by accident sometimes with E. Shift4 being air and the movement skills in air usaully being the #4 skills works well. its like switch to air and gas pedal on the same button.

i have been playing a 20/0/30/20/0 build with all signet of fire , earth , air. Settlers trinkets , carrion jewel. S/D condition build. Its kinda fun. I took the fire trait for auras on signet use , and the one that adds 3 sec to fire signet. Earth I took signet mastery , and the protection on aura and written in stone , and in water I took cleansing wave and CD reduction. It does pretty well , fire signet deals 8-9k and you can cover it with bleeds from scepter 1 , also took the doom sigil for poison to cover the conditions. you get almost a full heal from the 2 water skills and healing signet. think you have 13555 hps. its really good 1 v 1. Im not that great with S/D so someone else could probably do alot better with it. I took nightmare runes seems to work ok. Having 5 skills to proc protection off of is nice. I too wish flame aura was adept to pick up the powerful auras , that would really be nice.

I like the mask , you actually look like you could be a thief in that outfit 9/10.
Here is my human ele.

if they reworked the trait lines and got rid of the 20% CD , and 10% damage lines we could have something like : Fire – when bar is full +20% damage with that element , AIR- when bar is full -20% CD for that element ,Water – when bar is full you are immune to that elements conditions ie , if your attuned to fire immune to burning , water immune to chill , earth immune to cripple , and air immune to blind. Earth- when bar is full your conditions of that element last 20% longer. It would make sitting in 1 attunement and only having access to 5 skills give you a nice bonus. maybe make these all the 25 point trait so you cant take too many of them.

it should just replace our non existent 2nd weapon slot and we should use the weapon swap feature on it til our charges run out. and dare i say it should have a trait that makes it a 5 second weapon swap CD to switch back to it just like a warrior =P

that would be a start. since our +10% damage crap and our 20% CD reduction only affect
1/4 of our skills anyway. our skills are already long CD and our weapon swap CD is WAY too long to make up for the fact we have more skills.

STAFF ELE –
please fix how slow our skills are. the only thing i think an ele is fast at doing in pvp is rallying thier downed enemies :P

when your running around with your staff and think your in air attunement and cast windborne speed only to realize you were in fire and go rolling in the opposite direction….

I liked your older man look with the white hair matching your outfit. and the daggers look good on you. you look like you belong in that wilderness pic. I’m just gonna take some points off because your not showin enough skin =P
this is my Ele , War , and Mesmer.

every time a d/d or s/d ele does anything worth a dam , the staff ele gets the nerf

Incomming nerfs to staff ele after this video =P

Im not sure but i think the force sigil only applys to the weapon its on. So in main hand only skills 1-3. And 4-5 on offhand. If crit is universal now maybe put force on main hain and crit on offhand if your testing with auto attack

I still run around with 30/30/0/10/0 Zerker staff ele =P I just wish they gave us a downed state ability to explode like a risen chicken does …. that will teach the hundreds of people who have stomped me that staff ele is not just a free kill !

What do you guys think about having a trait in earth that made it so you knocked down an enemy when you apply cripple to them ? It would make things like unsteady ground actually worth using , and even make that grounded trait in air more worthwhile.
Just switching to earth with that would also knockdown in a small area around you , which could be too strong , but if it was a grandmaster trait and had the 2 sec stability trait when attuning to earth moved to a master trait , i think it would be a fair trade off for specing that far into earth. It would also make firegrab much easier to land and justify its long CD. I feel like we must have had knock downs in early beta and they got nerfed or changed because our damage was much higher back then , but since our damage is pretty average now maybe we could get back more stuff like this rather than heals to help us.

I admit gathering the 750 for my bifrost was a pain. I did alot of events in cursed shore and got a few from moldy bags but most of mine came from upgrading the T5 dust. I usually worked on one tier 6 mat at a time , so I would sell everything i got from an event and buy tier 5 dust. The most I ever got from 1 upgrade was 38 I think and the MF screwed me over with 12 a few times.

boralis pass is open now too , dont know how long ago , i just randomly guested there and it was open

Qori.2391
ELe
Have only done Arah 1 time in a pug and wiped at Lupi.
Exotics – all weapons , Zerker gear scholar runes , PVT gear (runes open to what you thinks best) Ascended zerker rings.
Time: varries between 4pm-6am PST.
Need my tokens for bifrost , its all I’m missing atm.

Can anyone who does arah as an ele regularly tell me a good setup and gear selection so i can gather the necessary pieces. thanks a lot ^^

maybe even sell you an extra swing for 100 gems a swing =)

they should give us flame legion piniatas to wack in the major cities filled with precursors RNG based 1 hit only of course…

they couldn’t give us fireworks and confetti as it would have cheapened the experiance of when you finally beat zitaahn in story mode…… some people just want everything =P

even worse is that mesmer can still block treb with sword #2 lol. its harder than SW but still sucks for us.

I finally got the Legend today. I bought 4X of each: silence , sentinels quarterstaff , eched shaman staff of rage , and the cheap ceremonial staff. put one of each in first attempt got deathwish , 2nd i got a knights staff , 3rd got the legend , and 4th got valkeries staff.
good luck to you all , I dont know how many rares i have tried with. I have only tried exotics maybe 2 times before since i am so poor. cost me about 40 gold for the staves and I sold the left overs for 10 gold , so it cost me 30 gold i guess. hope this helps anyone trying to make theirs. =)

I did the 1 clover recipe until i had 7 , then from then on I did the 10. It sucked and I had the pretty standard 33% chance but I actually sold the tier 6 mats from failures to help pay for more attempts. kinda kicking myself now as I got a lot of powerful blood which I am still missing my stack of 250. It just felt better doing the 10 recipe for some reason.
I failed the first 2 times and almost didn’t keep going with the 10 , but I think after trying both out I liked the 10 better.

it’s a unique item in the items description.

- Items of white and blue level rarity have now been merged into 1 category, the brown category to appropriately reflect the steaming pile of crap that they are.

-The sell all junk feature now sells 99.9% of all things found in tyria. the other 0.1% of items have had their drop rates significantly reduced.

-Fixed a bug that was causing many classes to have more than 1 viable build.

- To preserve the “legendary” aspect of creating your legendary weapon a lottery will be held by Zomoros every Friday night and 1 precursor will be awarded to some lucky player across all servers. Buy your ticket in our new and improved gem shop with many features designed to separate you from your real world money !

- All current ways of obtaining precursors have been removed to keep the truely epic feeling of gambling your way into your legendary precursor.

- Added new shopping carts and cardboard boxes to the home district in all major cities in the game to adequately reflect the true economic conditions of being a hero in Tyria.

- “CITIZENS !” rejoice as we have fixed a nasty bug preventing the little asura outside fractals of the mist from speaking ! We have now given him a megaphone so that he can be heard in all zones of the game ! We have even added his script to those pesky loading screens to add more enjoyment in your times of wrist slitting depression !

-Mesmers have had their illusion capacity increased from 4 to 14. This should help keep the “real” mesmer with the big yellow map complete star on their head from being picked out in a crowd. (illusions still display no star unfortunately.)

-Added a feature to dye your legendary items ! Have you ever wished you could have a hot pink twilight , or a cotton candy meteorlogicus ?! Well now you can Every shade of pink is available with many pastel and easter colors coming in april !

-We are trying to shed the poor image problems we have had for months on these forums so we have decided to drop the company name Arena-Net and settle on the name Arena-Nerf , we hope this will add better transparency to our players on any and all decisions we make from here on out.

risen rirate mob is up for the bloodtide coast event that leads to the hydra queen , need help , there is only 2 of us. on maguuma server.

i did singles at first , and failed a couple of 10’s and swore I wouldn’t do the 10’s anymore , then I got 7 clovers from singles and did the final 70 with 10’s. I still needed alot of the tier 6 mats and the 10 recipe gives back the most of those. I also sold alot of the tier 6 mats to buy more ectos. If you get lucky and get a lot of blood it can help pay for more attempts. I wish I had just saved alot of those mats now but I was just rushing to get it done. Patience is probably one of the best things to have working on a legendary , unfortunately I have little =P

the Catacombs event is up on Maguuma server , its at the defeat the risen noble stage. Im trying to low man it but would love for more people to loot the chest send me a message and I will invite you

Can you mix both weapons and armor in the forge ? I thought you could , maybe I am remembering wrong. It isnt letting me put 4 exotics ( level 76-79) into the forge , 2 are weapos and 2 are armor . the weapons will only mix with eachother and same with armor. is that new or bugged or has it always been that way ?

I am trying to combine 4 items , all level 76-79 exotic in the forge , 2 weapons and 2 armors and it wont take them , it will only let me mix weapons with weapons and armor with armor. I I seem to remember throwing both in before . Did that change in the patch or is it bugged ?

Genie of the mystic toilet ! May the flush be ever in your favor !

its on the ground , its a small little wooden chest . was suposed to let you know you got a rare quality item or higher from the mob.

I found one of these chests in orr , was much smaller than i thought it would be, mine had a green weapon in it , not rare or exotic.

I be that if any normal person did find it and knew what it was , they are probably trying to save up enough money to post it on the tp and keeping their mouth shut about where it drops and just farming that spot. Lets face it the majority of players probably have less than 50 gold to their names. I know if I found it and was gonna sell it , I would have trouble getting enough money to list the kitten thing.

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aww I found this place in cursed shores and thought I might have found the bosses lair…. sadly no.

I also found that place. Actually there is an event near that area where u have to escort a small party, but never tried it. Also it appears a champion, maybe it drops a chest or something.

Its actually the top of the dome where that skillpoint is with the giant eye, its sticking out of the ground above it. you have to do some crazy jumping to get behind the mountain. the green mist is from the statues in there. I didnt see any mobs , it looks very unfinished like they never thought you would be back there. there is also a spot kinda west of the arah steps hidden in the back with strange glowing lights. Im not on now or i would take a screeny. But they look like they are sticking out the the top in a similar way. I wonder if here is anything beneath there. same with the way that dome is sticking out the top there. they are like long moving beams of light with sparkles. Would look like they are highlightning something if you saw it from below where they are but they just go down into the rock for no reason.

aww I found this place in cursed shores and thought I might have found the bosses lair…. sadly no.

I love playing glass cannon in WvW with staff for all the obvious reasons , but I hate thieves , 1 v 1 etc because I die in a few hits. So i have been trying a new build that has pretty much all the damage of a GC but way more survival. I wear zerkers gear ruby orbs , (probably would like scholar but dont have them , and use bloodlust staff with a force sigil staff for when my bloodlust is full. I do 10 fire with the 10% fire damage, 25 air with blot to the heart , and +10% air damage (this one can probably be swapped out , I just love the air proc when im in 1 v1 and need quick damage.) 25 in earth for +%5 to bleeding foes and armor of earth the 25 gives 10% damage when your end is full , wich is nice when dropping meteor from saftey at range.
And then 10 water for the +10% damage when health is 90%. , The idea is when your end is full and your hps is full you hit like a glass cannon , in 1 v 1 you will shock people that you dont go down like a glass cannon in 2 hits because of all the earth you have , even if you have to dodge or your hps go down , cances are they are close to 33% life and bolt to the heart kicks in. I still do 6-7k crits with meteor. my crit is 53% , power without bloodlust charged up is 3,245. and i have 1,166 toughness.
you will notice how much better you survive against a thief when they initally burst you from stealth , and even tho the damage is a little bit less than full air / fire crit build , a dead ele = 0 dps so im ok with it. the loss of Arcane V is the hardest part , but really a few days without it and you get used to it. I use mistform , arcane shield , and arcane power ( for when I need meteor to crit on big groups) lemme know what you think and tweek it a bit. =)

Yes the real Jormag would have a chest full of greens , none of this blue bs =P He might even drop a RARE once a year !

does it only come from the gem shop boxes ? or can the giant gift boxes have it too ?

they probably had this event and halloween event committed even before launch , I doubt they had time to rework everything in a month and a half.

Look at the bright side Anet just free’d up 10 trait points for us since there is no reason to go 30 arcane anymore lol !

So anyone know any other mmos comming out soon ?