Guild Wars 2

dukevonart.2691:

Scorael.8952:

The Lava Font Chills!
Or immobilises or blinds. You will need a staff, the Elemental Surge trait and Arcane Power for this.

1. While in fire, use Arcane Power and cast Lava Font
2. Quickly switch to Water and watch as your target gets chilled

You can modify this with different combinations and weapons. For example, Arcane Power a Shatterstone and switching to fire will cause enemy’s to burn! Feel free to try out other different combos. The alternative is to use Glyph of Elemental Power but this will give different set of conditions.

Sorry to rain on your parade perhaps, but Elemental Surge doesn’t quite work how you describe. The particular condition that Elemental Surge causes is actually set when you use the ability, so if you are in fire attunement when you finish casting Arcane Power it will cause burning whenever you use the Arcane Power charges, no matter what attunement you are in when you use them. The same applies to the other conditions that Elemental Surge applies as well as the conditions from Glyph of Elemental Power.

This is wrong thankfully! Elemental surge causes a condition according to what attunment u are in when the cast time of the skill is over. Meaning that if you start to cast Lava font and before it finishes switch to water, it will cause freeze.

I use this trick all the time! Do this:

Arcane power +Phoenix behind target + blink + switch to earth ! the phoenix will hit target and immobilize him for 3 sec instantly

Since you arrive at the same time as you are finished casting phoenix you can do earthquake REALLY fast and lands about 1 sec after the teleport (whilst the enemy is still immobilized) and then switch to lightning for the burst, like this:

Earthquake + Lightning attunment + lightning Strike + RTL

Since phoenix immobilizes the first sec (out of three) on its way out you are ensured all 3 times will hit if the first do. Also it leaves the 2 sec immobilize for earthquake wich is will require an extremely good reaction time for the enemy to avoid. So by using Elemental Surge and Arcane power the burst combo with blink and phoenix is MUCH more reliable! as is the knockdown and air burst!

Also a good way to use this is simply if u have the opportunity to open with churning earth, your blink will immobilize them making it so the cannot dodge at the last second!

:)

Nice guide, i’ve always liked the focus and played alot with it and several builds using the ice block in the bow aswell. Always played it very aggresivly with the bow to secure the kill when ice block hits and never tried playing it this way as a bunker/support. I’m going to try this out and see what i think but you really should include a video of you playing the build when u post something like this! just go in and play a rated game and record it so we can see the rotations in action!

peace

From a strictly sPvP tournamnet perspective.

Downed State needs to change to immobilize to an interupt. The downed state should not be in any way be different between classes actually.

these are the general changes to skills i see needed:

1. Focus fire aura 20sec cd (40 sec is just random) Bigger area on daze.

2. Dragon tooth instant cast! animation time should be there still. Why is the heavy hit combo for elementalist the ONLY ONE that can be dodged EVEN when chained with a launch?! that is ridiculus and this change would not be inbalanced if you compare the dmg to abilitys as Granade Barrage or hundred blades or the sword thing for mesmers! having to use stun breakers and stability and condition removal and dodges to get out of the big attacks is what this game is all about. That is a requierment when facing every other class than elementalist. The AOE factor is unrelevant since most heavy hitters for other classes are also AOE. Also the Dragon should be instant cast and ground target! (prehapskitten longer cd).

3. Staff just need shorter cast times in earth2 and lightning2, pushback in lighting should be same as lichform! then it would be balanced!

but most of all i just want the old Meteor shower back!!!! it was so awesome!!! just look how beautiful it is!! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNAITjKJusw&feature=relmfu