Guild Wars 2

I love the greatsword but the pet is awesome too. Just keep healing it with your water heals and you can keep it up. great for putting pressure on guardians or bunkers on points if you just keep healing it since they probably cant out damage your heals (and if theyre not that good, probably wont focus the pet either).

Fiery GS though for WvW is awesome. Especially when you are running with a zerg and fighting other zergs since your whirling attack and AOE can tag a lot of people = lots of loot bags.

That, is a well reasoned post right here. Kudos.

I never planned on taking RHS, mainly because a talent that only buffs one type of weapon never suits me. Especially when there is times you need to switch for different weapons like GS/Staff which is mainly what I’ll be running, switching staff for Mace/Focus or a hammer.

My original build came from a guardian I play with and she is pretty unkillable. She does run PVT with clerics though which she told me is necessary for her survival, but she hits like a noodle. I was looking for being tanky but dealing decent damage.

What build/traits then would you recommend with that 0/0/30/30/10?

Something like this comes to mind:
Valor: Purity, Retributive Armor, Altruistic Healing
Honor: Superior Aria, Empowering Might, Writ of the Merciful/Two Handed Mastery
Virtues: Master of Consecrations

With a mix of Knights/Berserkers/PVT and Cavalier gear

Well as I said, this is more for minor dungeon running, more for WvW. I was hoping on using it to give group support/stability a lot and running sigil of energy. Was hoping to be pretty kitten tanky while dishing out “decent” damage.

So, I’m leveling up a guardian and have come up with this build after working with a guardian from my guild:

Zeal: 0
Radiance: 0
Valor: 20 (Retributive Armor, Purity)
Honor: 20 (Superior Aria, Empowering Might)
Virtues: 30 (Vengeful, Indomitable Courage, Absolute Resolution)

I was thinking of running this with a mix of P/V/T and berserkers/cavaliers and go for a tank/DPS kind of mix. I run that kind of mix on my elementalist and was hoping to do the same here. Main use for this would be some minor dungeon running and WvW.

My goal was to hit some 16k health and stack toughness and the rest offensive stats. I plan on using Greatsword and Mace/Focus or staff.

Thanks for any help!

As to whomever said SoR runs from 1v1… I constantly am 1v1’ing people. However a ton of times it gets interrupted. Like this awesome duel I had with this D/D ele from the PVP guild from JQ. And then his whole havok squad hopped on me. Annoying? Yes. Dishonorable? Maybe. Smart thing to do? Yes.

It happens. This is open world PvP. You get jumped. 1v1 quickly has more people jumping in from all servers, unless people have “respect” for it, as I have run by multiple 1v1’s without interfering. However not everyone is like that. Get over it.

Open. World. PvP.

Everyone is a target. Everyone is a potential ally or enemy depending on the situation. None of you are safe. Ever.

To SF – Can I transfer to JQ for like a week and run with you guys? I miss you all! and I’m tired of getting run over by all of you!

To that JQ ele- Awesome duel, I’m sorry that it got interrupted. Hopefully I can find you again.

yakuza snowdragon.4639:

Thanks for the feed back mate. As it stands my system is i7 860 2.8g quad, 120ghz SSHD, 16g ram, and soon to be Gigabyte GV-R797OC-3GD Overclocked HD 7970 3GB video card, so i shouldn’t have too many bottlenecks if any, slowest component is my CPU but its still a very fast CPU despite its age/generation.

I myself have a i5 2500K overclocked at 4.5GHz with a GTX 580 and don’t experience “bottlenecks” per se. Only at certain events where (Fire Elemental when it pops up comes to mind or in WvW with the Veil bombs), but the main issue is the bandwidth the client is getting as well as certain tasks that aren’t being offloaded to the GPU that should be, making teh game less CPU heavy and maybe a bit more streamlined. Again, not something I can prove, or even give a suggestion as I don’t know the workings beghind teh magic so to speak. Just a general feeling of watching how much of my GPU/CPU is being utilized and when changing parts around and noticing no change or a major change in performance.

Sure you might not play with EVERYTHNG turned on. But you will be quite close to it. I don’t like the post processing the game has, adds this weird lighting effects to everything, so I have it off.

Late in the betas they were still saying that the graphics engine is still running on cpu, and that optimization will be the last step before moving to full version. Then of course they rushed the opening, and since that time there was no mention about engine optimization at all.
It’s no longer 100% cpu, as in the beginning, but the game is still a long way from utilizing GPU to the fullest (not to mention the dx10/11 case).

DX 10/11 won’t help as much as you think. It will somewhat aid in performance, but it wont be a huge boost as people hope. It might streamline performance by a bit, add some FPS here or there to systems that have the proper setup for it, but mainly will add effects to the game (tessellation for one) and that might not be a good thing till they sort out the CPU/GPU usage and task management

The main issue is still not offloading certain tasks to the GPU, that would be better handled by it than the CPU. I’d want a fix to that before adding DX10/11.

Keras.2876:

Amun Ra.6435:

What was the quoted amount? 140k? I would liket point out that 60k+ of those ectos are at buy orders for 3s or less…nothing to do with my point and does kitten to disprove market manipulation. People are going off topic by arguing over the current price, not my point.

Wow. It seems like you didn`t understand Johns post at all or just don`t want to…
150k is the amount of ectos that was SOLD on a single day, not the amount of buy orders. The highest amount a single player sold on that day was 2544 (I`m sure that`s the case there wouldn`t be any other reason to mark that specific point on the graph) which is nothing compared to the total amount traded on that day.
Even if a dozen players worked together they wouldn`t be able to control most of the ecto market.

While you are correct in nearly everything, if you read that graph correctly, the highest amount of ecto sold is right underneath the 354 mark. Look closely at the graph, the line drops to 0 and only bumps up to show a unique player(s) who sold ecto at that amount. After the 250 mark it only bumps up twice at above the 294 mark and below the 354 mark.

Hmm that’s odd. Over on Sanctum of Rall, it’s been very cooperative. Just the other day we had some members of CDS help us kill Tarban, and then me and my co-leader helped them find Tarban all over again. People tag up with commander tags all the time to denote the locations of the bounties and people normally help in map chat (save Fireheart Rise, because we all know why people are over there :P)

Seems like it just might be specific people on your server.

Yes, this game is notably CPU heavy due to all the processing the client needs to do for skills/combos that you/others and NPC’s/enemies use. The amount of data that is created by 100 players (WvW clashes lets say) all using their skills and combo-ing off each other is, well a lot and your computer is processing its effects/damage as well as the visual portion.

It does seem (speculation here I can’t prove it) that some of the processing for the visual effects are being done by the CPU instead of offloading it to the GPU to lighten the load. THis could be due to the “casual” angle that A-net takes, and the casual gamer is using a relatively low end computer with integrated graphics. Still, I would rather that the game offloaded more of the games data to the GPU as high end GPU’s can sometimes process some of this data better than the CPU.

Guild Wars 2 has very nice graphics for an MMO, but they aren’t pushing the envelope with the. While a "good "graphics card would be optimal, the main source of stress on your system would be your CPU and hard drive that the game would be installed on. Also the size of your RAM “could” be a limiting factor, but not something huge.

I play at level 30 right now with D/D mostly. I change to staff or scepter depending on the need for each party/fractal though. I survive well enough with good dodging and skill usage though.

Stats (with food, no fury):
Armor: 2379
Health: 16005
Crit Damage: 72%
Crit: 35%
Attack: 2848

With using the 0/10/0/30/30 spec. I also WvW with this gear set, sometimes switch a berserkers dagger for a knigths dagger.

Completely viable and fun to use in fractals.

That sucks… Well I’m trying with D/D anyway, just was wondering.

haviz.1340:

Magnetic wave doesn’t do anything except damage and removal of 3 conditions.

According to the tooltip it also reflects projectiles…. Is that wrong? I don’t use focus that often, unless its for WvW for Swirling Winds and Obsidian Flesh. I’ll have to test it out.

Gasoline.2570:

Raif.9507:

22 attempts with the 10x recipe for me yielded 100 mystic clovers…. I wanted less clovers and more mats!

You could have sold those extra ectos and gotten mats with them instead of trying your luck at something you already achieved.

Yep.. I know. I was gambling to get more out of the forge since you can get up to 60 of certain mats…. I even got 60 ectos back one time to keep going. Hindsight is 20/20 though….

haviz.1340:

Dub.1273:

I never did a full Lupi solo on my Ele nor seen a video of it, so i can’t really say “Yes.”

Maybe not a vid but still.

Ahh I see you used focus. I’m trying to do that with D/D. Focus I know it would make it easier with swirling winds/magnetic wave/obsidian flesh.

Eduardo.4675:

randomfightfan.4091:

lol you don’t need to be super fast when you’re planning ahead, you know when you’ll need it. Also remember, the heal dodges/evades… I use it for the evades too and so should you.
Newais ed try doing the content before you have your mini freak outs.

Thats not a freak out, your genuinely bad. And planning ahead doesnt stop you from using kbinds, or, for the lack of better gameplay, better clicking… I dont do pve, just SPVP and WWW, the pve i did was Orr, coz i needed the temples to spend my karma in gear. Also, i use withdraw as well, only i do it a lot better than you, thats beyond belief, the most meritable thing in that skill for me is its insta cast perk, along with immo removal. You completely destroy it with that gameplay. Dont even try to tell me how to play, plz. Your not the example to follow.
@the rocker: Dude, if he tried to solo ME with that amount of clicking, he would die in a flash. Soloing a static monster that doenst know what is a smoke field is quite different from soloing a player, something i do almost everyday. On my thief. And my ele. This is just bad. Ive seen pve players in vids that are a loooooot better than this. This is just bad. Woooooo, he soloed Lupicus. Lulzy.

I’d say before you judge, go solo lupicus, come back and show a video of it before you point fingers, you might find it harder than you think.

sPvP and PvE are different play styles and require different skills to play, you don’t play the same way in PvE and sPvP.

Dub.1273:

Uhm.
If i may quote myself:

“Ele, Nec, other professions: Why shouldn’t it be possible?”

That means: Im pretty sure it is possible. I’ve been duo’ing GL for quite a while with 2 eles, farming path 3.

Well I meant more that it isn’t just “possible”, but definite. I was getting at the fact it should have been with a -yes like the others that’s all :p

Dub.1273:

Admired.7461:

My guess of other possible professions:
Elementalist, Guardian, Mesmer(?)

Warrior: Yes.
Guardian: Yes.
Thief: Yes.
Mesmer: Yes.
Ranger: Uhm, not sure how lupicus will react to the pet.
Ele, Nec, other professions: Why shouldn’t it be possible? This fight is about dodging and evading, not about a dps race or “tanking” ability. It will be harder than with previous mentioned professions, im already struggling alot with warrior, so i won’t try out.

I disagree on the elementalist POV… it’s really not that bad or “impossibly” hard it is a bit difficult. With D/D or S/D there are enough heals and evades that make it quite possible, even focus might be a good idea for the projectile reflect.

I’m working on it with my elementalist, I can get him to stage 2, and I get downed halfway through it due to mistakes in dodging unnecessarily. Need some more practice though… I’ll post a video with a successful kill!

22 attempts with the 10x recipe for me yielded 100 mystic clovers…. I wanted less clovers and more mats!

Winespring Brother.2970:

Raif.9507:

So ever since the new patch I’ve run the Fire Elemental, Jormag, Shatterer, Tequatl and the Shadow Behemoth every day and have gotten a multitude of rares from the chest.

After salvaging 30 rares from these chests I have received no ectoplasm at all from these rares.

I crafted 10 rares, bought another 7 rares from COF and bought another 10 rares from the TP and salvaged them and received 43 ectoplasm from them.

I was wondering if anyone else was noticing not getting ectoplasm from the rares from the chests specifically? Or is this some seriously strange RNG?

I’ve averaged about an ecto per salvage from the world event rares.

Since no one else yet has asked:

1) What level are these rares? (presumably the Jormag rares are high enough level, but the others will scale down to your level so if they are < level 68 they won’t yield ectos-those I throw into the forge or equip on my alts)

2) What kind of salvage kit are you using? RNG is RNG, I use the mystic salvage kit for good odds and low cost per use relatively speaking.

I’m level 80, so all level 80 rares, and I use Mystic Salvage kits and Black Lion kits.

I only found the odd thing to be no ectos from the rares from the events, but rares from everything else… Struck me as odd.

Here’s my stats. I use Master Maintenance Oils and Truffle Ravioli.

First picture is when I’m not commanding, second picture is when I do command. I switch out 2 berserker daggers for 2 knights daggers and swap food from Truffle Ravioli to Loaf of Omnomberry Bread.

Mystic.4805:

It has a 9 seconds cool down.

Thanks for reading…. I’m aware it has a 9 second cooldown, it wasn’t proccing at all.

However it was a bug, after re-equipping it 3 times it worked… But you knew that from reading. Thanks for the help anyway.

Mods close this thread.

So ever since the new patch I’ve run the Fire Elemental, Jormag, Shatterer, Tequatl and the Shadow Behemoth every day and have gotten a multitude of rares from the chest.

After salvaging 30 rares from these chests I have received no ectoplasm at all from these rares.

I crafted 10 rares, bought another 7 rares from COF and bought another 10 rares from the TP and salvaged them and received 43 ectoplasm from them.

I was wondering if anyone else was noticing not getting ectoplasm from the rares from the chests specifically? Or is this some seriously strange RNG?

So I am doing a fractal as I’m posting this, and I noticed that the sigil of battle no longer is proccing in combat on attunement switches… Is this a bug? or a stealth nerf?

Anyone else have this issue?

Nevermind, I re-equipped it 3 times and it started working again…

What is the current highest level of fractals that is playable with the current amount of max AR you can have?

As of today I seem to have run into a major lag issue. Skills are not executing and i am rubberbanding all over the place. I have not been DC’d.

Any advice?

System:
I5 2500k OC’d @ 4.5GHZ
Asus GTX 580
8GB ram
256 GB Crucial M4 SSD – Game drive
128 GB Intel 510 SSD – OS drive

NdranC.5107:

It all depends on what you want to do with your build. Toughness gives you more bang for your buck compared to vitality. Since I have perma fury, i run a mix of valkery/zerk armor sacrificing a little precision for vitality so i can reach the 15k health mark, then i run full cavalier ascended which puts me at 2400ish armor with 72% crit damage 1800 power and 49% crit chance without even counting the average 20 stacks of might that i can keep indefinitely on myself at all times in pve. This is likely to change to something else soon though. Don’t know yet.

That sounds like a good build right there. Mind sending me your gear breakdown?

I managed to get to 1870 power, 27% crit chance, 58% crit damage and 2400 armor with 16k health with 60% boon duration and I know I can get more damage out of it. Now I’m curious.

BTW I used this:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1|8.1n.h1h.8.1n.h4|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.71g.1p.71g.1c.71h.1c.71h.1c.71j.1c.71j|2s.0.2s.d1e.3s.d1e.1i.67.1i.67.2v.d1e|0.a0.0.u35b.u56b|0.0|e

To plan it out.

*edit – Also is that 49% crit chance with or without fury?

The RTL nerf is a bit not necessary as it hurst DPS ele’s now, but the rest is ok. A good buff to quite a few skills, the frost aura is nice.

Still wished there was a DPS change for scepter though…..

I just did fractal 24 and as we were throwing the last crystal, the part where everyone has to have one, I DC. I reconnect and no credit. None.

2 hours it took my group to clear it. 2. And nothing to show for it.

Wow. That Gold Wars 2 is intense. I mean really intense. No wonder people have so much gold. I kept trying to get into the TP with around 200G but I had such a hard time that I gave up. No wonder, if people use these kinds of programs. Maybe I should start as well.

Very disappointing to me that the best way to make gold is to play the TP, and not play the game.

Ah ok then yea it’s game messages or something like that. Thanks!

So I was watching some peoples videos today and noticed you can show people signing in and off. How do I show this?

Kylex.5962:

sorry if you got offended but there is so many stupid comments on this topic which shouldnt even be here, on top of that all people do is completely flame the ele because of the “triple ele” why not disable counter class then you wouldn’t see it as this major.

eles DO need nerfing. but some of these comments in here are trolol. they have no idea what there talking about, or what to nerf. they think if they take away ele heals it will be all ok, that’s like removing a thief’s stealth.

the question i like to ask some people on this topic is.

which situation are you crying about eles over? hotjoin?

I can agree that some of the suggestions show a lack of understanding of how the elementalist works sure. And I’m sure that Anet wont take into account these suggestions of lets remove RTL or EA as that would make the class completely unviable.

Personally I think the best way is to make the Engineer/Mesmer/Necro the counter classes to the bunker elementalist.

Kylex.5962:

kostbabis.8791:

^^i play ele and can counter necro /ranger
I counter them by untabbing switching to air and press 4!They dont know what him em !
but according to people rtl should be removed and i should die a miserable death..cause everyones hate eles these days..its like class racism :P

i will start ignoring comments like that due to not even showing on qp ladder. i honestly don’t take into consideration people who do spvp/free torny since i can tank 5v1 with no Armour if you look at it that way.

im talking about fighting against people with a brain.

harsh way of looking at it ^^ but if you took out all stupid comments like this you would have a much better view on things guts.

Do you show up on the QP boards? Because if you don’t that argument cuts both ways.

Now I know that you are on the QP boards for EU, but his argument is just as legitimate as yours due to the fact that he plays the game and has every right to express his own opinion and experiences.

My own personal experience with playing my bunker ele (now I’m not that awesome at all) is that there are certain specs/classes that can shred me. Now is some of it due to me not being a huge sPvP’er? Sure. But my experiences are legitimate and should be taken into consideration just as much as yours should. The game should be fun for us all and viable for us all.

Now should the elementalist be “nerfed” a bit? Maybe. I do believe that the healing coefficients for the heals need to be tweaked a bit. At the moment we have:

Heal on dodge: 1.0 HP ratio
Dagger #5 (water): 1.0 HP Ratio
Attunement to water: 1.0 HP ratio

And I believe that the GoEH has a 0.75 HP ratio just on the glyph itself (not including the regen scale).

If Anet was to tone down the healing ratio on some of those things then the healing would be brought in line but it has to be done in such a way that bunkering is still an option. No class should beat a bunker on a 1v1 and bringing down those heals needs to be done carefully so that is still true.

Kylex.5962:

No offense here but this topic is getting a complete joke. people giving examples like this is completely a joke. and many more further people above.

eles are overpowered, high end teams will learn to deal with them, there not unbeatable.

obviously since ele is unkillable 1v1 by ANY class (if you die in 1v1 l2p) people just want the class completely nerfing. don’t forget though.. you Nerf this spec and eles aint of much use. since our damage is next to nothing compared to other dps classes.

but with some of the suggestions on this thread why not just delete ele class trololo.
Nerf its heals yes. do you realize it effects EVERY build then? 13k hp ele light Armour walking around with no heals. makes sense.

its not the heals which are overpowered. its everything stacking together, cantrip Regen,signet heal tick, spam evades so much more, becoming more of a joke when this thread is just full of people who don’t know anything about eles and by the looks of it never actually even tried high end tpvp. if your crying about ele in spvp/free torny then gg.

At high end tpvp if you still continue to complain (as short term solution) just send necro + ranger to ele. he will explode in seconds. no ele will counter necro + ranger

Just so were clear… a bunker spec anything shouldn’t die to a 1v1. End of story. That’s the whole point of a bunker.

fishergrip.4082:

MarzAttakz.9608:

@Fishergrip: got a case of class envy? We use the tools at our disposal, yes it’s fun jumping in and tickling the enemy then running away like a little girl. Guards don’t “jump” into a zerg, they plough through them instead.

Comparing a bunker guardian vs. a bunker ele the only difference is ele’s have more mobility and comparable damage.

No, I don’t get class envy because I play all classes. I have leveled 4 chars to 80, have 67 ele, 10k wvw kills, so I’ve played enough to know a bit about the game and not be extremely biased in my views as most people seem to be on class forums. The ele is simply a bit too good right now and the fact that Anet is talking about nerfing them proves that point. If you think guards plow through zergs you haven’t played one. Guards get killed by zergs more than any other class because they can’t run away. They might be able to survive a bit longer than most while being focus fired, but they can’t do much to escape being focused. If your allies aren’t close by, a guard in a zerg is dead.

Then your doing it wrong? Really this can go both ways. I do have a guardian and quite a few guardian friends who do this all the time. They don’t need anyones help whatsoever to do that. And they can get out of that zerg just fine. And last longer than I can.

Sure an elementalist can do it. Yes I do it all the time. On both my elementalist AND my guardian. But if the zerg was smart (which more often than not t hey aren’t) they would immobilize me… gasp. shocker. you can immobilize an elementalist who is using RTL. Who knew.

Don’t assume please.

*edit – And before you accuse me of believing nothing is wrong with the elementalist let me correct you. A small tone down on the healing for sPvP is in order. The scaling for the elementalist heals are a bit too high with most of them having a 1 to 1 ratio. If that was scaled down for some of them that would do just the trick. Don’t need to touch anything else at all, save buff the other trait lines to make other builds viable. The class is built around boons to support it, it’s how it can have a bunker spec at all. Just need to bring the healing scale just a tad and it wont be so OP.

Guardians do less damage and have less mobility for increased defenses. It’s the trade off. Elementalists have more damage and mobility in turn.

Nikkle.4013:

plasmacutter.2709:

If they only remove regen from soothing disruption, the 0/10/0/30/30 build will still be quite viable, just not immortal.

It will now be vulnerable to properly timed bursts and boon removals by skilled players.

This is much better than nikkle’s suggestion, which would pidgeon-hole eles into builds that survive less, do less damage than a single stack of bleeding, and provide almost no group support.

Except, SD is really only used on full bunker spec’s and really isn’t the root of the problem.
The casted heals need adjustment because it allows a dodge+water#5 to heal for 5k on top of SoR added 700 plus the ticking of soothing mists and regen from water attunement. If anyone looks at the math I posted above and says bunkers won’t be viable I don’t think I’ll ever persuade you. Still no one has mentioned the attunement changes. I was honestly expecting people to say that was too much of a buff.

Can you stop with the over exaggeration? Buffing out dps tree’s while freeing up trait points = more damage. I looked over that video I posted. I would hardly say my damage was just above a single stack of bleeds. I’m currently playing around with S/D, which probably explains why i’m not attached to ZB.

I’m just curious as to how your getting 5K out of a dodge + water#5.

With just 30 in water its only 3.2K…. You only add another 180 points of healing if you use a clerics amulet (90 per heal) bringing that heal to 3380. Anymore clerics gear and you hit for a wet noodle.

They can nerf us. I’ll still play my elementalist. However I don’t (at least I hope ) it wont be as bad as people make it out to be. For all we know the changes they do can be sPvP only so hold off on the doomsday and enjoy the great guide.

Yes because guardians running in and out of zergs by themselves and living is totally ok.

Just so people are aware, the ability that elementalists have to crit on the next 5 abilities? It’s not the next 5 abilities actually its the next 5 hits after you activate it. So if you RTL and you hit 3 people with that RTL explosion at the end, 3 charges are used. If arcane wave hits 5 people, all 5 charges are used. It isn’t per ability it’s per hit.

And to whomever asked if he cant burning speed away, no he can’t. He’s using a scepter, thats a dagger mainhand ability.

Plus, that elementalist is out of luck. He used every single escape mechanism he has in his arsenal plus all of his utilities to kill one person. He’s a free kill now. Sneeze on him to make him go away. That’s a gimmick build that has no real purpose but to be a gimmick and point and laugh at.

Nvm Delete this. It isn’t a discovery.

JJBigs.8456:

its more due to if melee falls downed, i am 1 inch from them to pick them up. when i start kiting around the whole map for casters, im open to more damage and i just spend time running around like a headless chicken instead of dpsing

Ranged can be at 0 range…… There are only a few weapons for classes that get penalized for being at that range like mesmer greatsword. Doesn’t matter if an elementalist is using a staff and is at 0 range or at 1200…. And said mesmer can and would normally switch to another weapon set for being in melee. But I’m sure you knew that too.

And the light armor professions have options to, I dunno heal that 15% damage up or straight up avoid the damage…. but hey your choice. Have fun with that.

Staff is still superior than D/D in dungeons to an extent. If your running with a decent group water fields + blast fields from your teammates would be good for healing.

Now if your not in a good group, I STILL would suggest staff as its a lot more forgiving than D/D.

Now, I personally run D/D in dungeons cause it’s more fun. But staff is definitely the superior choice for group support and AOE damage and crowd control.

And the EA in earth is still a blast finisher, so you can use that too.

I wouldn’t say for more advanced players, but more geared towards players who have played the elementalist for a bit. There is nothing more teaching than actually going out and PLAYING the class. Reading about it can only help so much.

Go play the class, get a feel for it, learn what the abilities look like and so on. What this guide said at the beginning is also a good idea, go read dapheonix’s guide as he breaks quite a few of the “tips and tricks” of the class that you might not be able to pick up by just playing if your not really into exploring the class and trying to push it to its limits.

daphoenix.4283:

@Raffoo
I personally just buy knights accessories right off the auction house and use valkyrie orbs at the moment. Sometimes I use clerics accessories with those valkyrie orbs too.

@Scarn
Its definitely a matter of choice, personally you can use PVT armor, clerics, or knights. Usually I run knights most of the time because I do not need the extra healing power, and am used to avoiding damage whenever possible. You do get much more damage using valkyrie or berserker jewels as someone had mentioned earlier in this thread.

@tisme
I use primarily knights accessories, and sometimes clerics\

@Ozymandias
Try placing valkyries or berserker rings in the accessories, it really helps alot with damage.

@Zartheon
I prefer the ascended items that have critical damage on them first off, since critical damage is hard to come by.

As to stats, and what options are available, I prefer either:
Power, toughness, critical damage
All stats, + critical damage
Power, precision, critical damage

Personally I like power,toughness, crit damage rings and the new ascended all+ stats and crit damage (triforge pendant).

Backpack I use power, toughness, crit damage

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I also made an elementalist guild if you guys wanna join =p. Pm me on forum or in game and I’ll send you an invite

Seems like you joined me in using knights and crit damage gear instead of the clerics I see! Welcome to the darkside!

I’d be very interested in seeing your gear breakdown and see how similar it is to the one I posted in your thread earlier, a full breakdown I mean with a list of stats/which pieces are what. Something along the lines of this (and yea that’s my gear breakdown currently):

Berserker pieces:
shoulder, gloves, boots, daggers and the jewels in my accessories.

P/V/T:
chest, pants, headpiece, ascended ring

Knights:
amulet, earrings (just a reminder all the jewels are berserkers)

P/T/Crit damage:
ascended ring and backpiece

this results in the following stats:
health – 16375
armor – 2400
attack – 2800
crit – 27%
crit damage – 49%

Yea I’m serious. It’s not too terrible as it takes a month to get it (1 per day) for doing something relatively easy. I’m more annoyed at the fact that there are STILL some stat combos missing.

Umm where is that daily located? I don’t have that.

You get 10 laurels for the monthly if I remember correctly. Still not having Knights stats is getting a little annoying.

30 laurels. Annoyed that I have to rework all my pieces again. For 1 single amulet.

I am looking for one, but can’t find it. Is this again like the rings where there is no knights stats on the gear?