Guild Wars 2

OP is a dramaqueen. I play on sor and nobody will tell you to play another class bvecause rangers are no good. Because thats not true. I dont know any commander who would shun you based on what class you play. If you joined a very hardcore wvw guild, its only natural that they want enough of each class. If they want you to run a certain class because there is a shortage of them, id fully understand. Setting up groups in wvw is even more important now because buff priority goes to your group first.

Either join a different guild, rethink your build and quit whining.

What happened to the animation of unsteady ground shown on the preview video?

Current animation looks just like the old one.

Not sure what to say after reading your QQ’s about how much you die, but now you still promote a build.

Anyways, staff is like the least viable weapon to use for roaming. It simply doesn’t work well. Anything you do is easily avoided because everything the staff does is slow. AoE’s are easy to avoid etc. You’re almost a free loot bag… Staff shines in zergs, which is the reason i use staff, but if i go roaming, i’d pick up daggers or switch to another class.

Looking forward to your video. And not just show the good moments, I hate vids like that. Show everything.

Im not exactly a good ele. Maybe even a bad ele. Eitherway, i made 2 vids in the near past while in wvw. I often forgot to turn on fraps though, so afterwards i sorta just pasted it together of all i recorded that day. Like i said, im still learning, which is the main reason i recorded myself, still in a learning process so dont expect too much skillwise.

So for those who wanted to see tier 1 vids, here you go….
http://youtube.com/watch?v=38AfWWxMbxY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YC7GWJhPqDI

My build with celestial gear:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQFAWhEmKbyR4wjDAkHv4CLjChUeMzO2A-jUCBoiBhIIIJfFRjtMsIasqaK1abYqYByceIaG0pWKg+FGB-w

It’s not set in stone, and i might change it once ascended armor comes out. It has flaws, like low power, but is somewhat compensated with high crit dmg and some condition damage.

I’m pretty much on staff all the time, supporting the zerg. So i’ve been seriously thinking of increasing my defense. But right now this build seems to work alright. Depending on the changes to staff, i might go into a whole other direction.

Celestial is worth it to me. Ele makes use of all stats pretty much, and it gives a nice combo of survivability and damage dealing thanks to the high crit damage. Reason i use maint oil instead of sharp stones, more crits contributes my damage more instead of higher power.

Treborlavok.3504:

Retsuko.2035:

FrownyClown.8402:

Also things to consider are signets themselves are terrible.

Totally agree with this. Using signets over other utilities is just bad, especially in WvW. Of course, almost anything goes in PvE…

I think it’s to Each their own, but for wvw I’d only recommend using d/f with signets.

And what about staff in WvW?

FrownyClown.8402:

Also things to consider are signets themselves are terrible.

Totally agree with this. Using signets over other utilities is just bad, especially in WvW. Of course, almost anything goes in PvE…

It should be possible to reroll your race. However, it should have some conditions to it. Like, if you reroll, your character’s level is reset to level 1, so you can start over your personal story of the race you changed to from the very beginning. With this change, 1 total makeover kit is given. Gears, items, upgrades to inventory, skill points etc remain.

It should of course have some costs, maybe 800 gems?

Havent been in a fight in a long time that was as intense as the one at SoR garri tonight. The lag was bad though.

If you go scepter/dagger (which does probably do more dps then staff, seeing as you go all offensive) you dont have to worry about blasting staff.

What staff elementalist excels best at is sharing his/her own skills with allies through combo fields.

The staff elementalist has more fields on weapon skills then any other build/class, and has the most variety in different fields (ice, water, fire, lightning) on 1 weapon.

I like WvW a lot, and my combo fields are an important part of my role in WvW. I got no problem in PvE, and by smart use of skills i can make the entire group function more effectively.

Besides the mechanics of combo fields, in general the staff has some neat abilities that lets you control the battle from range while doing damage.

Im excited on the coming changes (upgrades) to staff :P

Wanted to start up a discussion with the question:

Does Arenanet favor the casual PvE player over the World vs World player? And if yes, how will that effect the game in the long run.

Think about income for arenanet and the build up of WvW server communities.

The ranking system in World vs World is fine and all. And i like how you get a new “higher” title on display for your opponents the higher ranked you are. But it’s only other server’s opponents inside WvW who can see your title.

Wouldn’t it be simple and neat if you can chooce your WvW title among the title list? Everytime you get a new title, it becomes available under your normal titles. That way everyone on your own server can see which titles you’ve acquired.

As long you understand that ele (like all other classes) isn’t all about damage, and you know how to make use of all your utilities that an ele has to offer, then you’re good to go :P

My staff ele can kill just as fast as my warr with the right rotation of skills…

Character bound rank is the reason i don’t play alts in WvW. I stick to one class to progress with.

Treborlavok.3504:

Going to be testing this build in both d/d and d/f.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEQQJAodhMmabvR3wjEAkCmMe0xGkIU8gFlCzA-jUCBYjBk+AkKAI5rIasFSFRjVbDTXKpaXCyuDJVGgixA-w

I’ve always loved our signets. It’s just finding a good build that has the best crit dmg—>dmg ratio. Many ppl seem to shy away from not going 20-30 into arcana. But that’s where I feel like signets make up for that. Well see, testing in progress in wvw soon.

How do you think these signets make up for the lack of boon duration and attunement recharge?
And what about the lack of other useful utilities like mist form, arcane wave, armor of earth, lightning flash, etc. I rather have mist form over a bit of extra toughness from a signet personally.

That’s an awesome change to unsteady ground. Right now i often use it when static field is on cooldown, but it doesn’t really effect much in wvw. This change makes it actually very worth it to use, even when static is not on cooldown.

Hope to see more changes to staff. I’ve heard improvements to water attunement skills and hopefully we’ll see one more blast finisher among the staff skills.

This build works well for me in both WvW and PvE.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQFAWhEmKbyR4wjEAkHn4CLjCdIKYRRxM7A-j0BBoiBhIIIJfFRjtMsIasqaK1abYqYBSKgRFGB-w

Galtrix.7369:

If you’re a glass cannon Elementalist and you travel to Orr, you’re screwed.

Not at all… i used to do daily orr runs on my elementalist there. Moved through the area without problems, and killed hordes of mobs without probs either… I’m also a staff ele…

I do remember at launch when my ele was crappy builded, it was impossible to kill veteran mobs. Orr land nowadays is easy mode.

Ascended armor should be done the same way as the weapons, through crafting. But it would be interesting to involve dungeon tokens as ingredient to make a certain part for the armor.

Depending on which dungeon tokens, you decide the looks of your armor. That would be good, so there’s choice in how your armor will look like.

Your trait’s are exactly the same as mine, except i got 10 in earth instead of fire. In PvE i use stone splinters (in wvw i find armor of earth trait nice). Sure as staff you got 1200 range, but i often find myself in melee range anyway. Plus point of this trait is, it works during any attunement, while fire 10% increase of dmg only works during the fire attunement.

Arcane wave is a must have for staff ele’s in both WvW and PvE. It’s basically your only blast finisher besides eruption which need to be timed and evasive arcana during earth attunement which you dont have traited. So i agree to replace glyph storms with arcane wave. It’s not just useful on lava font’s, but also on water fields, in case you need more healing.

As for earth signet and armor of earth. I’d pick armor of earth any day over signet of earth. Two reasons: Stability and protection. A smart staff ele tries to position him/her self well enough so it won’t take much/any damage. Of course you will get into difficult positions, or situations in which you need stability while having to cast a water field for example. That’s why I think you’ll have more use for armor of earth over signet of earth.

The gem stones in your armor, i would replace them with traveler runes.

Melfice.5091:

You can swap legendaries, transmute it on a white weapon so it becomes account bound and then use a transmutation splitter on the character you want it on

I know you can, but i’m also talking about changing the type of weapon.

For example, i got a warrior who has an axe and shield legendary. Besides my warrior i’m also playing an elementalist lately, but my elementalist can’t use axe or shield. So in that case it would be sweet to change that into a staff legendary. That’s why i’m also talking about a heavy cost.

Even if it would cost about 300g. I’d definitely make use of a service in which you can exchange a legendary weapon for another for another character on your account.

After making one or two legendaries, most people won’t make another since it’s a lot of work. So thought it would be nice if it was possible to switch a legendary over to another character on the same account and change it into another weapon type at the same time, but at high costs.

30 in air isn’t really worth it for staff, since you won’t really benefit from fresh air. Fire attunement is pretty much where most of your damage comes from, but a good staff ele in WvW doesn’t just spam fire skills, but also uses air, water and earth for support etc. In most cases i switch through my attunements pretty fast depending on what needs to be done. Still need practise rotations though.

Blasting staff is a pretty big deal actually, even though you disagreed with it. Personally i find it detrimental for staff ele in WvW. For example, your water fields are bigger, which means you can heal more effectively, static becomes bigger, which makes it easier to stun. And your range is basically a little further thanks to the bigger radius of your aoe’s.

I went with celestial armor and celestial/cavalier mix of trinkets. And trait is 0/10/10/30/20. So you can see i still put a lot of attention to water because of it’s ability to lose conditions quite easily, and at the same time it’s perfect for support.

I vote no. It doesn’t make sense to buff those who already have the advantage. It completely destroys the challenge and competitivity for both ends.

Also, GvG is impossible to do and the lag it brings is a pain.

Anet better swallow their pride and reverse what they did, and come with something decent anytime soon. And hopefully they ask the WvW community next time before they implement something, because it seems they don’t listen or ask for the communities input.

The OP should make his own game, or find a better one (if at all possible).

Power IS the offensive stat. Precision gets more interesting, the more crit dmg you have. If you run PTV gear, you’ll have no use for precision. But if you run cavalier gear, the crit dmg on that gear is sort of wasted without precision.

Or assassins’s if you can use more crit chance.

You’ve decided to make alts. You knew kitten well that having a lot of alts is a disadvantage when you want to gear them all up. It’s only natural that those with 3 characters has to work harder to all gear them to the max compared to someone with 1 character.

These kind of threads is basically full with people begging for free stuff.

Atrophied.8725:

I run this, which has a couple of different trinket choices (full celestial), makes use of all the infusion slots, and changes the sigil on the weapon for a bit more damage, in addition to full divinity runes.

I also have a celestial ascended backpiece, but that site doesn’t offer them in the builder.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQFAWhEmmbwR5wjDAkHvcCLiCWUeMzO2A-jUCBoiAYOIkFAEBIJfFRjtqpIasqaER1KbYmzFRrWKAmEGB-w

Not bad at all.
I wanted to go for either divinity or eagle runes at first. However, i think i’ve chosen for travelers instead. It’s not as good as divinity stat wise, but it does add nice stuff, like 25% movement and the extra boon duration from travelers rune makes sure that my extra fury duration lasts 1 second longer (3 instead of 2 seconds after atunement switch). I’m not there yet, gear wise, but i wonder what 93% of crit dmg is going to be like with crits. That’s 243% vs 100% with non crits.

You make me want to get infusions. But i wonder if those +damage and +defense against WvW npc’s is making any difference…

Rhys.9706:

Without changing your playstyle try this: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQFAWhEmmboR5wjDAkHn4CLiCWUeMzO2A-jECBoiAYLIkIBJ5rIasFOFRjVVTpWbDTFLQSBcxyI-w . Your build is viable in any case

You didn’t press the “get quick link” button is my guess

But you probably meant this build?
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQFAWhEmmbkR5wjDAkHn4CLiCWUeMzO2A-jECBoiAYOIEBBJ5rIaslhFRjVVTpWbDTFLQSBMqwI-w

Which is really nice.

Don’t play CoF, and you’ll be fine with an elementalist because sadly there are still people who hold on to the believe that 4 warr’s and 1 mesmer is the only way CoF should be done.

There are other dungeons that are fun, and where elementalist shines.

So everyone turns a blind eye towards the massive increase of critical damage on celestial gear i guess….

So far i have 250 empyreal fragments without trying. I don’t grind either… All i do is play a bit, do a dungeon, kill a chest boss world event, do a fractal etc etc. I’m working on an ascended staff, but i’m not in a hurry. Seeing me at 250 fragments means that the fragments is the least of my worries.

It would be a good idea to play this game, and explore other features this game has to offer instead of whine here and avoid more difficult content.

Also i hardly doubt that anyone would really feel a disadvantage if you don’t have an ascended weapon. It’s only 1 ascended item out of many. So the points difference is so tiny, it’s neglectable. It’s another story between full exotic armor/weapon/trinkets vs all ascended once armor comes out. But right now, it’s just too tiny, unless you were too lazy to neglect your trinkets and didn’t bother getting ascended.

Coldtart.4785:

You can’t just get better healing or better damage with standard gear, you can get better healing and better damage with standard gear. Healing power is an all-or-nothing stat and since most of ‘your’ healing is from people blasting your water fields it should really lean towards the nothing end of the scale. As far as everything else goes a PVT/knight’s combo does more damage before and after might stacks, has more hp and has more toughness. Overall a small bit of celestial is usually decent but generally any more than 2 pieces and you’re just spreading stats out too much.

It’s true that a combo of soldier/knight armor and trinkets gives you more power. And that healing power is said to be not as important. But with my build i get 85% crit damage instead of the 28% with soldier/knight combination. The amount of toughness i get isn’t a lot more then with celestial either.

I agree that soldier and knight armor are both good choices, but the reason i was attracted to celestial as well was the burst ability with the high amount of crit damage. Sure it’s not as reliable as raw power, but if crits proc, the damage is quite nice.

Karl McLain.5604:

It’s not to say we’re against increasing ele conjured weapon potential in the future.

Interesting statement :P

Glyph of elemental power is not set in stone. I could also use cleansing fire or arcane blast in there. Glyph of elemental power can actually be useful in WvW me thinks, when used with an AoE. I prefer arcane blase or cleansing fire though.

And why do you think that celestial armor is not very good? Sure you can get better healing or better damage with specific gear, but why do you think i should go that way?

It’s alright to give comments, but it would be nice if it was constructive advise, instead of just an opinion.

I’m currently working on an elementalist build, and wondering if this build works for WvW. My intention with this elementalist is to give support to allies in the front, throw out combo fields and aoe the enemies from behind the front line.

I went with a celestial armor build, and a mix of celestial and cavalier trinkets, while keeping the good ol’ 0/10/0/30/30 traits build. I’m still liking the 30 water tree because of how it can lose conditions. I still find it extremely useful. My armor def is a bit on the low side, but the utilities, water tree and vit/health makes up for it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQFAWhEmmboR5wjDAkHn4CLiCWUeMzO2A-jECBoiAYLIkIBJ5rIasFOFRjVVTpWbDTFLQSBcxyI-w

I’d love to hear feedback

Yesterday i made 30g from farming nodes in 2 hours. Today it was about 22g in 2 hours. Love the high price of ancient wood logs!

I’m an experienced gw2 player who’s looking for a WvW active guild that is active in WvW during euro hours or is euro based. I’m in sanctum of rall, and do not intent to move away from this server.

My mains are a Warrior (Shiyori) and Elementalist (Retsu).

Thanks!

24 empyreal fragments from fotm 20 maw bonus chest

Night time is not dark enough in my experience.

Hate to dissapoint you. Flameseeker prophecies hasn’t been touched if we have to believe this video on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsjhbHQEzDQ (18m 55sec)

I read there’s some sort of report option in case someone is being an kitten I could be wrong, but it would be great if it’s true.

I’m somewhat in the middle with flameseeker and it’s lack of effects. I also own one, but i also wield frostfang in my mainhand, which kinda compensates for the lack of effects from the shield. However, before i had frostfang, i wasn’t too content with the shield.

Even though it has a really nice skin, and a very nice aura effect glowing from the shield and a shiny book that has it’s pages turn. It’s still limited to the shield alone.

Other weapons, including other shields also have an aura or some sort of glowing effect. For example, volcanus and flameseeker prophecies could be said to be on the same level, but volcanus is not a legendary.

The turning page animation doesn’t really show when you’re in combat, too much is going on to even notice that small detail.

I agree that flameseeker is great as is, but imo i think it still misses something. Maybe a footprint or a tiny effect. Let your characters eyes faintly glow in sync when your shield turns a page or something like that. Something that won’t interfere with other mainhand effects and still obvious enough.

Always said that all legendaries should have footprints, since it’s some sort of trademark of a legendary.

Bad example perhaps, but shows what i meant.

As long arenanet has to live of the gemshop, items won’t be made account bound from soulbound.

One of the things i’ve enjoyed in previous mmo’s are fashion or armor that you can customize your character with. One of the most important things with it was the ability to change it around and use it wherever you go. I rarely ever see people in towns clothing right now in guild wars 2. Which isn’t strange, because there is really no reason to be in it. You can only show it off in town (which is why it’s called towns clothing i guess) and the lack of towns clothing in the boutique doesn’t help much either.

In these previous mmo’s, it didn’t matter if you were in combat or not while wearing fashion clothing. In a game I won’t mention, they made big bucks with fashion where you could chooce between fashion or armor appearance at any time. That game is still the best game when it comes to fashion, with the best possible fashion clothing available with a huge amount of fashion to chooce from AND a huge fashion inventory. My character there had over 60 fashion items (pants, boots, gloves, dresses, tops, hair etc).

It’s personal for everyone when it comes to the importance of “aesthetics”. It’s the biggest reason to make a legendary imo. There is a lot of interest when it comes to aesthetics, especially from female players. A friend of mine is still playing an old game instead of gw2, because the old game has a lot more to offer on the fashion area.

If guild wars 2 wants to utilize towns clothing fully, two things need to happen. First of all, there should be more choices so people can actually pick out something they actually like. Second, somehow towns clothing should be available during normal gameplay instead of sitting idle doing nothing. That means that ideally it should be possible to wear it during combat.

Suggestion:
Right now you can already turn of your helmet, shoulders, wrists and backpiece in your armor window. My suggestion is to give the towns clothing the same feature, except, clicking the boxes on your towns clothing turns on/off that piece of clothing. So turning on a certain piece of towns clothing, will overwrite the appearance of the normal armor your character is wearing. That means you can mix and match armor pieces with towns clothing pieces and have more variability on how you make your character look fashion wise and possibly be more unique.

A light armor and heavy armor can now have the same appearance. I know some people wouldn’t like it. But if i encounter enemies in pvp/wvw. I don’t recognize them by what they wear. But on how they stand and the skills they use. And other mmo’s are allowing fashion in combat as well, proving that it causes no problem.

It’s a somewhat crazy suggestion, but I honestly feel that gw2 would benefit from more variability when it comes to the use of armor skins and town clothing, especially when gw2 has to earn from their gemshop. But that is IF arenanet wants to go this way with towns clothing and pay more attention to this area.

Honestly i think there are enough people with commander tags running around. Making it account bound or cheaper will only make it accessible to way more people, making it more annoying then helpful.

I’d rather have them implement a feature that allows you to turn of people’s commander tag without having to join one. Like some sort of blacklist, but for commanders.