Ele & thief main (full ascended)
Down with the braindead faceroll classes.
Warrior stunlock build and any necro build.
Most braindead classes in the game atm
This is the best part: I main an elementalist so I need to max out weaponsmith and artificer.
ascended weapons are account bound right? because if they’re soulbound… lol
I had a decent amount of ingredients. Never once needed to purchase anything other than extra ores / wood from the TP.
But yeah, at 422 craft idk wtf to do now. I’m down to 20g and unwilling to continue lol.
I guess I’ll farm 24/7…
Yeah it came as quite a shock. With only 100~ empyreal thingies to fulfill the requirements I thought it would be time to make it to 500 weaponsmith, simple right?
Then reality slapped me in the face.
Would be doable with 40g. Actually, I thought I had more than enough.
Just how much do you need on average to reach 500? For so long I believed that ascended weapons were just a matter of collecting the materials, but now it seems to out of my reach that it’s just ridiculous.
I’m estimating at least 200g to get 500 weaponcraft? It was going alright until 400ish… (the iron ore part was depressing).
signed, a newbie crafter.
Just did a painful world event (lyssa) where not only I lagged the entire time, reaching unbelievable 20-45 seconds of lag before a skill went through, but also missing the chest in the process.
Yesterday I was able to play just fine, though I didn’t try at this hour (4:30pm CST). Why are your servers so terrible? I can play other games just fine.
I play from south america, a region that also had issues in the past (but according to arenanet, it was every single one of our ISPs, and not on their end).
Fix your cute game, thanks.
I just can’t picture ever being afraid of engaging a condi ele. It’s not a powerful build.
Facing a mesmer, a skilled thief or an engi in wvw? It can be quite tricky. But to say “lol today I lost to a condition ele, that build is just too much”… haha, not in a million years.
I fail to see how it even works. My ether renewal cleanses all your conditions, my anti projectile prevents you from reapplying them, and I can lightning flash out of any immobilize combo if all my other condi removals are down.
Today I lost to a Focus ele. First loss to an ele in a long time
Focus isn’t bad doe
Dagger Focus, even more embarrassing lol.
I have been using S/F for a long time now. The Dagger skills, you think they are buggy under normal situations, try adding 300-500ms to that and see how many work :/
Why is it embarrassing? I use d/f, would like a duel sometime.
The only ele I flat out admit that I can’t beat is lightningblaze. I can’t frankly remember any other ele vs ele duel in spvp or wvw. (surely it happened… but so not often that I already forgot)
1. If I log off while I’m queue’d… does that count as a leave? I’ve never paid too much attention to that.
2. Why are there a ranger, an engi and a necro in every single kittening solo queue game?
I just can’t picture ever being afraid of engaging a condi ele. It’s not a powerful build.
Facing a mesmer, a skilled thief or an engi in wvw? It can be quite tricky. But to say “lol today I lost to a condition ele, that build is just too much”… haha, not in a million years.
I fail to see how it even works. My ether renewal cleanses all your conditions, my anti projectile prevents you from reapplying them, and I can lightning flash out of any immobilize combo if all my other condi removals are down.
Today I lost to a Focus ele. First loss to an ele in a long time
Focus isn’t bad doe
I agree armor of earth does not work like a proper stun breaker.
Pre-change lightning flash would instantly help me recover when I was knocked down, but if I use armor of earth while knocked down? it does nothing, I’m still knocked down.
Launched or kded?
Are those different? o_O maybe stun breakers don’t work the way I thought they did.
I just can’t picture ever being afraid of engaging a condi ele. It’s not a powerful build.
Facing a mesmer, a skilled thief or an engi in wvw? It can be quite tricky. But to say “lol today I lost to a condition ele, that build is just too much”… haha, not in a million years.
I fail to see how it even works. My ether renewal cleanses all your conditions, my anti projectile prevents you from reapplying them, and I can lightning flash out of any immobilize combo if all my other condi removals are down.
I agree armor of earth does not work like a proper stun breaker.
Pre-change lightning flash would instantly help me recover when I was knocked down, but if I use armor of earth while knocked down? it does nothing, I’m still knocked down.
lightning whip can also hit 5 targets, thief cant.
I stopped using mist form after nerfs anyways.
I think a detonation would make this skill awesome.
Yes it is very possible, but there are some specs that are just impossible to beat (at least for me) like broken OP stunlock warrs and some cleric gear guardian that I could never whittle down.
I wish I could have played beta ele, sounded fun.
All that I know about is that:
-Staff air #2 = instant
-Staff air #5 = larger and 3 seconds stun
-Lower cooldowns(?)
-Some autoattacks were less underwhelming (?)
Well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.
lol’d +1
for pve:
arcane shield
mist form
arcane wave
glyph of lesser elemental (earth golem is very tanky, helps you against stronger monsters)
signet of fire (try not to use the active)
signet of air (if you need to travel on foot)
and maybe glyph of storms. (used on earth attunement it blinds foes)
everything else is useless early on.
could be nice together with healing ripple.
staff has a role now! team healer.
No lol, I’d rather help fellow eles from wasting their time with useless builds that get severely outclassed by other professions.
No. trying to stack conditions as an ele is as viable as playing bunker thief.
No it’s not viable as glass cannon anymore.
Simple: Too much of an advantage. Being able to instantly clear 900/1200 distance is already one of the best things in the game. If you could clear heights as well it would be far too good a getaway/close in.
Thieves and mesmers can do it tho
I guess that’s fair.
EA is not just used for the water heal. People also use it as a blast finisher for earth and also aoe fire puts out nice direct damage. The only weak one is the air where you have to dodge into the target to blind.
EA heal is huge to survivability. People either need it OR the 15 water trait for extra heals. If they nerf EA heal to a chill effect (it would be a complete nerf) then everyone would just spec 15 water as the new mandatory trait. That would make already crappy build diversity worse.
They need to buff our terrible traits, not nerf our only useful ones.
If Elementalists need Healing Ripple and/or Evasive Arcana to be viable it’s unhealthy for the class as a whole and needs to be fixed. Obviously this would include reworking or buffing other traits to more evenly distribute power across the class’ trait trees.
Go back to LoL please.
1. earth (have earth2 casted)
2. switch to air faceroll arcane blast 123
3. switch to fire before air 1 channel expires (you will crit and air cd will refresh)
4. if you have time cast phoenix, if you dont instantly switch back to air and repeat step 2.
Earthquake, updraft, phoenix, fire grab, churning earth and dragon’s tooth can all be used in creative ways in the middle of that rotation.
The downside is that phantasm mesmers (or mesmers as a whole) can really be hard to manage. Scepter has no reliable AoE abilities or good autoattacks.
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The reason water and arcana feel mandatory are because of the important stats on top of nice traits.
Lowest hp bracket=need more vitality and heals= water
All builds need swapping=intelligence=arcana (except for fresh air and burst builds)The line would still feel as mandetory tbh, this is just nerfing EA, which I feel competes with elemental surge fairly well as it is.
Who in their right mind would take Elemental Surge over Evasive Arcana…?
It’s better than EA when running arcane wave and power.
trying to fit 2 arcanes in your utilities already makes it worse.
OP do you even use evasive arcana..?
or better yet, do you even play an ele?
try something with the new scepter, it’s op.
you can always lightning flash to correct your position.
Yeah, lets waste a utility skill when most of my builds cant fit in a lightning flash.
For anyone else saying theyd rather have it not home in on their target, then you dont understand that if it did home in on your target, you have the option to do BOTH. simply de target your opponent, there you go The fact that it doesnt home in, simply means that you can never play how you want to. I am going to repeat myself. IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT PREFER IT NOT HOME IN, THEN IF THIS WAS IMPLEMENTED YOU CAN DE-TARGET YOUR OPPONENT ive got some experience in the forums, and people tend to not read the first time around. Maybe i should repeat myself again? i will if i have to, however, the problem remains, you are forced to play to a degree of skill which no other class is forced. What if heartseeker didnt home in on a target and you had to line that up? leap of faith? ride the lightning? Of course, if you like to play that way, then you can. if you dont have auto targetting on and you de target your opponent, you can play to such a level which you feel giddy with yourself. And ill repeat once more, the problem remains that burning speed NEVER homes in unlike every other gap closing skill.
:|
If all else fails then you can try to get better at this game.
ele used to be 2x more fun
edit: literally.
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Why would anyone run corruption lol, I would personally focus fire that person every time if I ever saw one.
you can always lightning flash to correct your position.
Staff works. Try casting frozen ground, shockwave, unsteady ground or static field before you lay down your aoes in pve.
Or you can just use glyph of elemental power in earth attunement to cripple things left and right? It’s very easy to keep monsters in your aoes.
That damage is so low… like really really low.
arcane wave = blast finisher
arcane blast = projectile finisher.
more than one person messed it up in this thread…
I know you used to be a fellow glass d/d Razor, how does the d/f compare? I’ve messed around with focus a little bit but never seriously tried it.
I feel more durable and useful without losing so much damage.
Mobility is another subject. Current D/F would be inferior to pre-nerf RtL, but now that it doesn’t exist anymore…
you people are freaks (please post vids!)
This ^
Also, I have tried d/f and s/f in spvp, It just doesn’t compare to offhand dagger, I wish it did, but it doesnt. I hope they overhaul focus soon, but keep earth the same.
Why not? what does it lack? Is it damage? I do plenty of damage lol, and my added survivability and pretty much projectile immunity makes up for the lack of RoF / fire grab.
I prefer trading away some damage to get in return a ton of utility and survivability.
I tried berserker D/F in PvP once. Fire was junk, water was nice, air was disappointing and earth was good. The gap closers are kinda unreliable and there isn’t a lot of hard CC on focus.
gap closers unreliable = lack of your only overnerfed gap closer (RtL)?
not a lot of hard cc = 1 knockdown instead of 2? I admit they’re not AoE but you also get 1 extra chill / cripple and an aoe daze.
Topic .
30 air
20 water
10 arcana
10 points missing
??
You don’t even have that much crit dmg yet you nuke incredibly hard…
Even though D/D bunker build has seen some nerfs and isn’t as strong as it used to be, it’s still borderline OP. I can still charge head first into a 30 man zerg, blow all my cooldowns, mist form, RTL, heal up, and run. The survivability is ridiculous. Scepter dagger is also a very viable option, best ranged damage in the game in a PvP environment. The only weapon set that still sucks is x/focus. Hopefully that will change soon.
I can burning speed in, do ridic aoe damage, obsidian flesh, lightning flash out heal up and run.
I find d/d very lacking tbh.
full berserker all day
…who are you talking to?
why do you have all your points in water and arcana LOL
don’t be afraid to build damage. Ele is extremely easy to level up provided that you know anything other than rolling your face in the keyboard.
Let me guess your other professions: Warrior guardian ranger mesmer and thief?
I can solo any zone with a glass build -_- stop talking like pve is any challenge at all.
Solo champs even…
11k damage on my ele is not a rare thing while using S/D 30/30/0/10 build, I also have almost permanent fury, and the 180cd and cloth armor is a major problem, there is also the fact that eles don’t have offensive support, basically, we’ll need someone to carry us, like a guardian. 3 eles, 1 guard and a mesmer run… there is also the fact that we can;t quickly defeat the effigy or the gate
That ability has a 5 secs cd though.
Game works flawlessly early in the morning when few people are online. At around 8 – 9 a.m server time the game becomes unplayable again.
This ^
Are you reading ANet? from 1 am to 5 am central the game works PERFECTLY. Zero lag, zero skill delay.
Any other time of the day it lags.
hey guys, I found a temporary fix.
a friend of mine recomended me to download a program named wtfast
Sadly, I already went through the 30 days trial and I have no idea of how to reset it (checked regedit and couldn’t find a way to remove the traces).
it appears to be affecting multiple games and multiple ISP’s within this region.
No, just GW2.
At least as of right now.
When it happened with LoL it also had a massive lack of communication, and only 1 random staff member posting an update every 5 days or more.
Awfully similar, huh? Treat latin america like the 3rd world countries they are!
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Ok this is seriously getting old. When this also happened in LoL it was also kittening ignored as if they didn’t care at all. How many more days? Will you come out and say with a straight face that if this happened to the players in NA you would take this long to fix it?
kittening pathetic.
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