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Ancestral Outfit now in the gemstore

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The male charr in that tight suit and little slippers looks like wolf man from Chinatown.
On another note, “boob window” is such a great decription. A window for boobs to be looked at and for the boobs to look back at you.

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[Request] : Human Hairstyle

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Yea not only do they get ponytails but they have full access to all the new hairstyles straight from character creation. Jealousy ensues.

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Please stop advertising gold for gems

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The questions I have are:
Why does the majority of the player base swear by converting their gold to gems for any and every gem purchase? Does spending $10 seriously hurt you? If you love playing a game, why wouldn’t you want to support it by purchasing items?
I personally have never converted gold to gems and purchased all my gems since beta. I have no regrets because I not only don’t mind spending $10 any time but I know that it supports the company since the amount of work they put into the game isn’t free. And even though they would love the money, they still recently reimbursed all my purchases of any multiple gear sets prior to the wardrobe at my request, totaling over 8000 gems. They didn’t need to do that but they did and honestly it’s service like that which bring me back to purchase more.

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Add an Undergarments Layer, Please.

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If anyone ever played vindictus, that game originally started out making underwear purchaseable in their NX shop (‘twas a nexon game, yea them) which actually boosted a magic find stat and also they had the function of armour breaking in combat after a lot of wear and tear so they figured you needed I look good under there. Of course later on they did away with that stat (as did gw2, so many resemblances) but continued to make endless kinds of underwear, even holiday related because people bought all of them to make all their characters sexy (you could of course dye them in any colors you had as well). Now I know for a fact that people on this game love to dress up their characters and the idea of bringing this to the gem shop would blow up their sales in not only NA and EU but definately in China as well.
From what I’ve gathered, Anet’s team that deals with the gem shop is (i believe) from Nexon who of course are the kings of getting the dough through ingame purchases. My only guess is that one day, and I hope soon, that items such as these would be available by the truckload.

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could we change Consume Plasma a bit ?

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Anyone who can honestly tell themselves and swear to others that Mesmers arnt hard countered by thieves and actually for a second believe that it’s vice versa has got their head in the kittenin sand. Theif has been a general counter since kittening launch except it was a bit easier then to fight them bc Mesmer class was broken in multiple ways such as no LoS on phants, shorter CDs etc. still it was a kitten to fight a thief.
Consume plasma has nothing to do with what makes thieves good against them (I find it much more useful in not just mes fights but against other classes so removing aegis and stab will effect gameplay against others more), the general high single and aoe burst potential, easy stealth and evades are allow them to have a field day on their corpse. As a thief, your main goal is to take out Mesmers and of course harrass medium to light classes. The only kitten Mesmer build that can actually be any bit of trouble for a thief is PU condi bullkitten that’s useless in pvp anyways. I’ve played mes since launch as well as thief and I can easily say that when I play thief, I usually don’t think twice about Mesmers, just kitten down their throat and move on bc even if they try to run, they arnt going anywhere regardless. Honestly I have no problem fighting mes regardless of class as Mesmers, especially now are very limited in builds that are somewhat “viable” as everything else sucks. Like I said PU is pure kitten, just random WvW roaming garbage and useless everywhere else.

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Hotjoin Teamstacking : How I would combat it.

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It’s hotjoin, who cares?

That’s usually my view on these issues but to some I guess they like hot joins.

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Devs disappointed by human race bias

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I strictly play humans as I dislike the other races. Always have regardless of the game. Call me racist, I don’t care. Only have 6 characters, 5 female, 1 male and all of them have serious faces and I find the voice acting pretty kitten good for them. Don’t mind it at all.
Humans just look so much better in anything and clearly anet knows this too as all the armor and weapons are modeled for humans first.

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[Request] : Human Hairstyle

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Just putting this out to you all, but China’s release has a couple hairstyles we do not have. One includes a ponytail and I mean a regular one down the back, so possibly that style and the others may come here.

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Asuran Mating Habits

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Wow this discussion exists ahaha. Reminds me of a similar discussion that happened on my teamspeak late one night which prompted a friend who doesn’t even play the game to google images of it and got some hilarious stuff. Even resulted in him recreating the image on the whiteboard in the room of another from teamspeak while on a visit. Great stuff.

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Hotjoin Teamstacking : How I would combat it.

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Friends or guilds also stack teams, as well as level stacking since high level players usually gravitate to the side with other players of their calibre. Because of this, one side is going to be much more aggressive than the other and easy dominate them on the field (even leading to spawn camping). This then leads to the players trying to stack one team since they would rather be with them than against in the current game as well as any games after since they quickly realize the better players in the room. This happens in many of my games when I go in hot joins between ques. I’ll hit random at the beginning of a match and players will try to stack my team as I’m 80, usually other occasional 80s or anything close. Of course no one wants to join the opposite team and it will be a while before a match even starts because no one is even on the opposing team yet to start it. This has always been happening since I’ve played pvp in beta and to be honest I really just see it as just hot join and not a huge deal but I can defiately see how it can be a real issue to some as getting rolled by much higher calibre players all on one team can ruin the game mode and pvp in general.
The poor match making system is an issue and definately needs to be addressed as it’s also hurting the solo ques as well especially now with the new influx of many pve oriented players.
As for your ideas, I absolutely agree that players shouldn’t be able to swap teams mid game. This shouldn’t have been allowed possible since the start.

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GS/Staff still Viable for WvW/Pve?

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Gs/staff does fine in wvw and in pvp works great for cleave, aoe support and damage and ranged dps all while packing superior map control though portal. You run null field for condi and boon removal and blink for mobile breaker. Great off point roamer.

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Shatter weapon sets, sigils/runes !?!?

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For shatter I usually run strengths or travelers and staff/great sword. I do love the sword/x combo as well but staff provides some good survival, team support, tons of clones and phase retreat is too good.

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Xontoss' mantra build

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4 mantras and Moa? I have never seen anyone run this seriously.
+1 for man mode to you.

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Skoteinos, your build would suit better in just wvw, leave the pve dungeon related content out.
As for arguing with pyro, don’t bother he’s just a egotistical toxic part of this community who is going to make you feel stupid regardless. You want to play what you want? Go right ahead, no one here is stopping you.

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So does this happen to you?

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Stomps have a fairly large radius and Mesmers are always in that radius even after doing the their #2 downstate. The trick to stomping a mes 100% of the time is to wait for the hand to go up as they invis. Even though the function key for the stomp image won’t show on your screen, if you time it, you can start the stomp while they are invis and finish it right as they appear once again. This will complete even though on your screen you might still seem invisible. I do this all the time in pvp to guarantee a stomp on Mesmers the first time around.
Edit: this is due to the fact that stomps are a channeled action and all channeled actions maintain their target even after they go into stealth.

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PvP ranks shown at end of match

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Half the community is r80 now anyways, what does it matter? So we can all high five each other after a game for our ranks? “Woahhhh dude sweet dragon bro!” “Dude man, thanks bro, you tooo!”

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Who has biggest burst ?

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In wvw ele staff is better as it’s aoe is good, but regardless eles are paper thin and die if you spit at them. Mes is a duelist so much more ideal for small scale roaming. In pvp both solo and team Mesmer is much better over ele. Even with celestial d/d or scepter burst, eles have some decent team support but staff is mediocre since pvp is small scale and the rest are mostly greed builds with little team support. And if you boon strip them they will go down 100%. Most eles faceroll their keyboard and attunement swap with little thought as they always have with d/d ever since they were godly easy to play and win since November 2012 but that was due to triple cantrips being all stun breaks, bountiful power being 2%, rtl on 15 sec cd and water on evasive arcana procing big heals with signet heal. With the recent changes and “unnerfs” to the signets base passive heal and the internal cd on cleansing water that mindless ele d/d spam has somewhat returned though still easily countered. I would easily take a mes over an ele in team comp as they have slot more to offer in both team fights and point holds with lockdowns/boonstrips/ cleansing and even multiple condition spam in a ever increasing condi meta.

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Daze duration results

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Paralyzation sigil increases stun duration not daze. Mesmer runes increase daze duration. Both work as intended. I don’t notice any increases in dazes with para

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Best Rune for condition mesmer.

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I personally don’t see the point in shattering with a condi build even if you do run zerk jewelry. That would also make illusionary defense not as useful. In the illusions line I’d prob run Adept III instead of I. Also give Balthazar a try with the burn procs on staff and would allow another burn every time you heal.

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The new Grandmaster traits and torment builds

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If you can supply some more info on your proposed build such as the exact traits I’d be more than happy to test it out. I ran a torment shatter on patch release with scepter/sword and staff and it isn’t all that bad.

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Mesmer's clones doesn't wear the outfit

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Yea one would think this would be a issue in spvp or wvw just like how the map completion star on your nameplate doesn’t show on your clones either, making it easier for your opponents but regardless they still can’t tell which is the real one. Sad

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Thief Matchups

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Oh and as powerful as steal is now, hey at least it doesn’t crit anymore right?

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Thief Matchups

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I personally like how you keep the same steal abilities from underwater when you leave the water. All the underwater steals are different and quite effective on land. Take the stick for example aka Branch Bash. This hits like a truck and will crit and proc the fire sigil as well. I’ve practically ohk’ed light classes and even mediums while doing a number on tankier players. Another one was like Throw rock which had one of the craziest knockbacks. Though the only maps you could do this in was Capricorn and the old ToTSS before the water at Tranq was removed. Was somewhat fun while it lasted
But you still have WvW I guess

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[OMFG] Official Mesmer Forum Guild

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Mes name: Xethr
Dragonbrand
Pvp r54 (soon to be 80, thanks Anet)
PvE/WvW
Tester
Played mes since beta
Eastern time: afternoons and evenings and weekends could be anytime.

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What Food Do You Eat?

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I had shrimp scampi this evening with a side of jasmine rice. It was delicious

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What you do when you see

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I have never in the time that this game has been out have I seen any of this.The only hack you will see players using occasionally are speed hacks. I have called some out on it and they would leave the room quickly. Currently there are no hacks that involve permanent stability or immunity to anything as the coding for that would easily be detected.

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New Turret Grandmaster Trait

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ohh turrets….. n o b o d y is using turrets. Not in WvW not in sPvP and not in PvE.

I use turrets but not usually more than one. Thumper/net/rifle are good stuff. Can’t wait to try out this trait.

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Thank you grouch! decap nerf incoming

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I don’t use AR as I find a it plague in the engi community and I have done fine without it. So I think people who dislike this change are just too used to crutches and when that crutch is removed they flounder. People are just going to figure out how to play their class instead of relying heavily on something to do everything for them.

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Possible Engi weapons (JFF)

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I just want Overcharged shot on rifle to hit multiple targets like updraft. Idc if it goes on a longer cool down. Oh and that idea for the power gloves kit is hot, id take that too.

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How do you hit people with Bombs?

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Bombs are great in fights where the odds are not in your favor. They provide some great aoe damage and control that would require many melee classes pain as they need to be on you to deal damage. They also provide support when you are pursued and the combo fields with fire and smoke are great for might or stealth stacking before fights. Just remember that you should always trait Forceful explosives in the explosives trait line for the larger explosion radius. Oh and never forget the BoB, he is your greatest friend.

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Why Play Engineer After Patch?

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I will still play my engineer after the patch as I never swapped sigils, never used nasty AR, and usually ran whole rune sets like noble for HGH builds as they are much more ideal.
I hate gimmicky garbage and if you play with it a lot then you hurt yourself as the player since your relying on crutches left and right. Personally I am glad they are doing this. The more they get rid of this the better.

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On: The Mortar

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It needs crazy range, absurd damage, and a lower cd so I can post up on hills and cliff sides lying in wait for passerby’s to rain hellfire upon.
\o/

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Possible Engi weapons (JFF)

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  • I want a hammer and a mace for my engi.
  • I also want some kind of battle tank or suit as elite, wich does not change skills but increase kit effectiveness.
  • And I want actually useful turrets
  • A mine kit would be amazing too, like a bomb kit, but just with invisible dura mines<3

Once upon a time in the days of old, when knights were bold and toilets were yet invented, we used to have mine kits. Then Anet got rid of them. We have “Throw Mine” now. The end
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mine_Kit

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Why are kits so huge on females?

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poor scaling with those models.

look at pitols on a human female they look like hand cannons

One of the reason I like it, is the hand cannons. The pistol size is great.

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Are we still Rare?

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Engineers are a just a slight bit more popular than they have been but only in the pvp community due to certain builds making a rise. Whether the engineer is good or not is another story. Otherwise it’s still sporadic outside the pvp scene.

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here's what will get me to play again

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The idea of “instant kill” with no downed state would definitely be interesting in custom arenas. The game-play would be faster for one. But I still agree with Dahkeus in the fact that downed state in actual tourney play and ques is a core part and one I personally enjoy as it keeps a team on its toes to get the teammate/s up in mid-combat and allows for prolonged amazing fights.

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(Player vs Player) we don't want to fight AI

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I agree that AI can be stressful in hot join where to be honest is mainly a large cluster of crap for substitution of a another term. Otherwise, in team ques and even solo ques, where players are of some better caliber, the builds (Minion Master to be specific) would get destroyed, especially by cc heavy builds i.e. warriors, engineers, etc.
MM build replaces all your much needed utilities (extremely necessary in necro gameplay) with useless minions that will eventually get killed and to be honest have pretty useless abilities.
You also are pretty much useless in team fights other than being a temporary meat shield. So all in all, AI can get messy at times but as many state, they are easy builds that casual players of lower caliber can easily feel somewhat useful in pvp hot join matches, which is really all they care about. As for the time being, like ronpierce states in his sig, just uncheck “show enemy names” and only check “show player names”
The AI will seem a bit more manageable.

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Anet should have a "Year in review" sale

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Yes like the anniversary sale and of course they should keep the typo, its not like they haven’t done that before.

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Anet should have a "Year in review" sale

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Just as the title says, I think Anet should have a large sale on the gem market reselling everything that was released during the past year such as skins, items, etc.
Bring back oldies like Rox’s quiver, Braham’s items, old and recent permanent gathering tools, Marjorie and Kasmeer’s weapons, and more. This could give many players that may have missed the events or the items to get another chance to snag a couple.
This could be a decent tribute to the passing year of Gw2 as a new year arrives.

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Partial lags

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Your not the only one with this latency issue:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Constant-disconnecting-2/first#post3242875
It seems to happen recently after the last couple patches.

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Constant disconnecting!!

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Same. I wont get sent to the character select as much but I do get constant latency sometimes and blips of disconnection where I’m able to move yet everyone is running into the walls and skills are unusable. Then if it doesn’t fully disconnect me, it comes back to normal but everything that happened in that window of time happens all at once to catch up. Its absolutely ridiculous in dungeons and even more of a pain in pvp. This never used to happen until the recent patches.

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What to do about Warriors in WvW

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He’s a hammer warrior as usual and his only condi block is zerk stance as usual. If he prematurely pops zerk stance, kite him while keeping pressure. If he doesn’t then well he will eat condis. His hammer skills have the easiest tells ever so dodging it is a cake walk. With that perma vigor uptime prepatch you have no problem. Then when zerk stance is down (7 seconds total or 10 with trait) apply the full pressure. Blinds and poison are key, keep a blind field up and stand in it while he’s hammering and always pistol 2 and nade 5 for that poison. This severely counters that healing signet. Burning as usual will do its thing in the background and sooner or later he will hit the ground like a sack of potatoes. Or run, they love to do this as well.

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My Hammer skills Idea for engi's

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Why would the engineer have hammers? We are alchemist, explosives experts, and inventors, not railroad workers, mountain barbarians, or farriers. To this day it baffles me how anyone could come to the conclusion that hammers fir with engineers thematically.

Who built those massive Char tanks? Char engineers.. I would assume you’d need a big hammer, welder and wrench to get the job done. We already have the wrench…

Maybe they should change Mortar to CNC..

So if the tank itself is large then therefore the tools to make it must be too? Last time I checked, normal tools are used no matter what size the project. Also hammers are usually used to secure nails in place, I don’t believe you would want to be putting a tank together with nails. This is all logically speaking of course.

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Ride the lightning needs revert...

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Can we all take second to recognize that the 20 second cool down was the first nerf to Rtl and that if they truely reverted it to its original form, it would be 15 seconds. Personally I would want this but I would settle for the 20 second cool down and 15 seconds if you hit your target as well.

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Last Minute Wish List for Dec 10th

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Agreed focus needs changes on cd’s and effects. Focus fire 4/5 need to be completely changed. As for dagger, bring Rtl to its former glory even if it’s 1st nerf stage with 20 sec cd and 15 on hit.

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Ride the lightning

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Fact: the changes to Rtl were the start of a long spiraling road that left a bad taste in all our mouths. It is a symbol to the elementalist community of what has been done to us almost like a brand on our bodies. What anet should do is revert it, even if it’s to the first nerf stage where it was a 20 second cd and 15 on hit. Yes it may still rubberband but the range has already been fixed from its former glory so I see no reason to keep a massive cd on it anymore.

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Eles belong in a beat'm'up game not ...

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Just another reason why I love playing ele is the fact that I could set up combos like in SF, Tekken or MvsC. I absolutely loved fighting games. High risk:High reward

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Engi, the Ele alternative

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Here’s your sign. Both untraited with Steady weapons.

Hey now, that ele has a zerk jewel and the engi is running soldiers. Harder to compare the two with pvp “over the top” stat boosting trinkets.

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Scepter Autoattacks

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scepter is ele’s best burst weapon.

dat fresh air

air auto attack does passable damage if it channels the whole time, and will continue to channel when you switch attunements until you use another skill.

Yup. Scepter is the burst wep. Basically you want to set up combos for maximized burst and when your leveling to 80 always go zerkers power based gear since power scales rediculously. Don’t bother with gearing for condi damage/ toughness / healing power builds etc till 80. Also just my 2 cents but the dagger offhand is horrid outside of lvling (and even during). Focus will be much more useful whether your in dungeons or if you decide to wvw or pvp.
Idk how many trait points you have yet but I highly suggest running a fresh air type build with 30 in air and then placing some in arcana and wherever else. Personally the fire line is trash but if you like it, by all means I’m not stopping you.

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Why is the female Phalanx helmet so TERRIBLE?

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I won’t bother complaining about how the female version of the armor has ridiculous gaps on the breasts/thighs because clearly Arenanet doesn’t intend to stop overly sexualizing our female characters, but for what purpose are females given that utterly ridiculous, trashy looking open helm when the male version is unquestionably so much more impressive? Having supported this game for a year I’m finding these sorts of letdowns continually disappointing.

Reference:
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/gw2-phalanx-heavy-armor-skin1.jpg
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/gw2-phalanx-heavy-armor-skin-male-2.jpg

I completely agree with almost everything. The helmet for the male is actually what the “picture” of the helmet depicts. As for the female..its a completely different helmet design altogether. Why change it for the female? The armor set is awesome on both genders and I feel the male version of the helmet would still look absolutely gorgeous on the female.
As for the idea of Anet over sexualizing females in this game, I disagree. Most heavy armor in this game covers the female and there is very limited gear that is considered “revealing” for the heavy class, (the other classes have more to work with). I have played multiple other games and in Tera for example, all the armor in general is close to naked. But then again most other games go by the general rule of thumb that the better the gear, the less there needs to be. This is the first armor piece that is a bit more “revealing” than most and I gladly welcome it. All I ask is that the helmet should be a universal design between the genders.

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