Guild Wars 2

Blessing from norn starter area, can be purchased from the heart vendors.

They give you couple of points in stats.

Shlamorel.8714:

Can anyone confirm that soothing mist can refresh while being attuned to something other than water with LE trait?

I’ve tested this and while I don’t have a problem refreshing soothing mist, I’ve never managed to see it refresh unless I was in water.

Any tips on making this work?

Also, back to the main topic, 7.5% chance to apply conditions is such a weak trait… I would love the extra boon duration and faster attunementa cooldowns but I can’t bring myself to touch more than 20 points in arcane due to the underwhelming trait arcane precision.

I’m not saying its useless.. And I know for some builds 30 In arcane is worth it… Just not for mine. I wish it were

LE is so broken that it´s wonder they even let it go into beta build, much less release build.
Earth toughness doesn´t get any benefits from it.
Air doesn´t seem to get any bonus and even if it does 5 seconds of 10% speed bonus is so small that it´s barely measurable. And with profession that has very easy access to perma swiftness…
Fire i couldn´t test, but bonus you´d get is rather laughable anyway.

Any traits that give damage or other effects while in certain attunement don´t work with it.

only thing it actualy does do is refresh soothing mist…theoreticaly maximum of 2 times which amounts to maximum of 6 seconds (if you swap at perfect time) extra duration or about 480-1000 health (depends on healing power, about 700hp with 700 healing power) over 6 seconds.

Krosan.2890:

genowefapigwa.5769:

Piken community is going to change server at 26-27. I’m going to see the bandwagoners

Is this true?

Community wide transfer has been on the table as a backup plan for worst case scenario ever since they announced the paid transfers. With more and more fairweather players coming in everyday, and queues getting longer and longer, it´s becoming painfully obvious that it´s the only way to salvage atleast small part of the community.
Since there´s so many guilds with different goals, not all of them will end up on the same server in case of transfer i´m afraid, so we will likely never see the piken community as it used to be.

Paid transfers get announced, bandwagoneers flock to servers that seem to have best chance of winning, guilds flock to servers where they deem they can have most fun. In the process servers change radicaly.
But population doesn´t vanish, it just moves, some servers take a hit and will fall lower in the brackets (hurts, i know, i´m in the middle of one of these), some get more population and will start rising. For every server that gets “destroyed” there has to be another that will take it´s place, none of them suddenly vanish after all.
After the initial chaos servers will settle down and become more stable than previously now that there will be no free mass movements to winning servers.

Paid transfers have nothing to do with games overall population dropping.

The animations, they look awesome.

iSmack.1768:

Speaking of Team-working, in WvW there’s no feeling of team-working, it’s just following the herd and attacking what isn’t friendly. You can try doing combos with friends, but it ends up being a kittenstorm of random effects, coupled with the fps slowdown.

When people first reported about gw2 combat, many used words like clusterkitten and spam fest. They didn´t feel like there was any teamwork involved or any kind of depth.
Then they actualy played for a while, learned how it could be played, and now we have people like you who know how to play it.
Wvw though is completely different game compared to pve, so naturaly you can´t know how to play it right away. That´s why you feel it´s such a clusterkitten of zergging. Double so as your pc struggles with the game.

Seek out a good wvw guild, play with them and learn how to play this mode, if it still doesn´t appeal to you, no amount of people telling what draws them to it will ever make it better for you. It´s a matter of taste afterall.

….Are you saying that all those pve players will come and farm….what exactly? You?

You see people come to take your precious achievements, i see walking lootbags.

If you´ve played 1000h of wvw, there´s no way that you´ll start on the same line as someone who hasn´t played a single minute. If you really haven´t learned anyhting and aren´t infinitely more skilled in the game mode than random scrubs then you deserve to be left on the curb.

mjharrison.3209:

Strang.8170:

killcannon.2576:

Look at the racials. Human racials sorta suck, Asura racials suck less.

What are you smoking? because i want that too.
Only remotely useful racial asura have is radiation field, and glyph of storms is a lot better than that.

I really really wish my asura could have the human elite reaper of grenth instead of the useless ele and asura elites.

But skills aside, asura is superior choice, because they are awesome and most importantly their dodges are awesome.

Wth… Pain inverter is excellent…

1 stack of confusion and 5 seconds of retaliation…..? I´m not impressed.

killcannon.2576:

Look at the racials. Human racials sorta suck, Asura racials suck less.

What are you smoking? because i want that too.
Only remotely useful racial asura have is radiation field, and glyph of storms is a lot better than that.

I really really wish my asura could have the human elite reaper of grenth instead of the useless ele and asura elites.

But skills aside, asura is superior choice, because they are awesome and most importantly their dodges are awesome.

Some prefer daugther, some mother and few even the granny apparently…

Only way to handle the skills propably would be to set few keys as a modifiers.
Gound targetting will always be a problem for inferior controllers, you should just test it out untill you find something that´s not utterly horrible.

Pardon my scoffing at controllers, but i will never understand the use of such a limited interface when somtehing better is available.

ketorin.5923:

lots of misinformed or unaware people in here

Random puggies will fall for that, but if they have even a shred of organisation you´ll melt before the transformation finishes.

It´s fun on the ledges, but other than for kittens and giggles, it´s pretty much worthless.

Just find a good guild with nice bunch of players.
Time flies while you play and you´ll rack 100-300 badges a night.
<Edit> and you´ll have something to do once you come to your senses and start pvp

Only WvW player will mail money to a complete stranger for holding a point untill reinforcements arrive.

Combo auras don´t proc powerful auras.
They do however gain the boons from the other aura traits, it´s the blast that applies those auras and boons.
Therefore powerful auras really isnt worth the investment for staff, cleansing water is imho superior.

Aswesome, i can´t expresshow much i love 250 chrage salvage kits.

Nemo.6295:

I doubt this will help, in fact I suspect it will make it worse. This is a gaming community, typically filled with people who enjoy spreading malice.

Not that there is any damage left to be done anyhow.

Server is collapsing and community scouting escape routes.

maddoctor.2738:

When ALL Elementalists would rather use another Utility in their elite slot, it’s a clear indication that something is wrong with the elite skills…

There, fixed it for you.

Not at all strange after you realise it´s orr zone, and if you look up in those zones you see plenty of those flying around.

That´s not culling if there´s only ~10 players

Culling only steps in when there´s considerable amounts of people, 20-40 on each side and it starts to appear.
But client sometimes really is slow on rendering players that suddenly appear from portals or stealth etc.

Though what i gathered from op that´s not the case, as it only takes a second or two to render players even when they pop out of stealth. What might be the case could simply be slow connection or low end computer.

“In PvP and WvW we see people using AOEs on enemy players rezzing other etc”

That´s a quote from a rough livestream transcript, stream which i sadly missed, but can anyone who actualy saw it elaborate on what exactly were they on about with that?

I mean, i´m astonished, flabbergasted even, if that´s one of the reasons for reducing aoe effectiveness. I just can´t see how that would be a bad thing.

If they nerf aoe too much i´ll propably be forced to be a glorified fountain aka. water field spammer.

Anti-recruitment post O_O better not let it collide with the recruitment posts…i wonder how much energy that annihilation would release…

Dodge dodge, mistform, lightining flash, lay down every cc you have and run behind nearest ally or in a tower.

If you have to try and fight, keep laying your aoes, on top of yourself while doing above.

Talindra.4958:

Strang.8170:

Talindra.4958:

just to confirm we are talking about this signet right ? xD
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_air

if so i dont know why it isnt good because i think its great! xD i do use it a lot for when i need it ^^

Blind is on too long cooldown and cast time to be much use in most scenarios, speed boost is redundant as any set except focus can achieve near permanent swiftness and incase you didn´t know, speed boosts don´t stack

5 sec mass blind is very powerful .. i think cd is fine.

Personaly haven´t found it that powerful because 1 attack wears it off. Then again i mostly play in situations where there´s bucketload of people or mobs constantly hitting you, so that would explain.

I´m hoping that they´re not as stupid as to create a class with almost exclusively aoe skills and then blindly nerf each and every aoe.

haviz.1340:

But those people, everyone keeps saying that 0/10/0/30/30 is the only good build and I can’t really disagree with them.

o_O i´ve been just horribly trolled….kudos

haviz.1340:

Well, I’m only seeing this one build. Or 30/30/0/0/10 who dies from a sneeze.

And if you´d pay attention you´d notice that´s as glasscannon as ele can possibly go….i wonder why it´s frail….
But aguess if you´ve seen it, it has to be true, and fotm is only way to go.

Aura sharing builds 0/10/10/30/0 as a basis, then rest according to ones own playstyle, even 10 in earth can be swapped.
Signet aura build with 20/10/10/0/0, rest are optional.
Different spikers, stacking damage can be done through grounded in air line, vulnerability traits + dmg against vulnerable foes in water line, heavy investment in fire or might stacking through traits and equipment.
Support staff builds, 30 in water and rest is up to you. Perfectly playable even with 0 investment in arcana, though points there do help at times.
Do i need to continue?

Well, all in all it´s rather pointless to keep arguing about how many points to spend in what line. Apart from arcana, every line can be compenstated with equipment choice, so passive bonuses aren´t necessary from them. What one should look for are the traits themselves. Even if you have standard 0/0/0/30/30 the traits you choose make the build and how you play it, not the amount of points in each line.

Talindra.4958:

just to confirm we are talking about this signet right ? xD
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_air

if so i dont know why it isnt good because i think its great! xD i do use it a lot for when i need it ^^

Blind is on too long cooldown and cast time to be much use in most scenarios, speed boost is redundant as any set except focus can achieve near permanent swiftness and incase you didn´t know, speed boosts don´t stack

Nice in water if i haven´t run on land long enough to build above minute of swiftness.

haviz.1340:

The only good enough build for every elementalist out there. Get as much as cleric’s and soldier’s pieces and runes with boon durations. Traits are 0/10/0/30/30. Don’t even try other set ups. You gonna die from a sneeze.

http://www.intothemists.com/calc/?build=-k33;0J0BJ-V015wM-Z0;9;59-TT;10;328A45A6o0;0R;0qNnCrgk16Na

Sorry to say sir, but you´re what´s wrong about fotm.

There´s plenty of builds, bunker, spike and support, that dont run standard 0/10/0/30/30.

Many bunker build use that build as a basis, true, but you can hardly expect to be a bunker without using the most defensive line available to us.
Spike builds are fragile, more so than spike builds of other professions, but they still do their job.
There´s even many variations of that said build, with different sets of gear and traits to accomplish different things.

Ezrael.6859:

‘Most every’ has to be one of the most annoying Americanisms in English.

Such a lazy language across the pond.

mjharrison.3209:

Strang.8170:

Most every effect received a downscaling

“Most every” should be “Almost every”. Compare “most dead”, “almost dead”; “most gone”, “almost gone”.

Thank you kind sirs, my life has never been better and i think that the act of you correcting my grammar mistakes might have cured cancer and brought world peace. I´m waiting call from noble prize committee.

Fotm.
Be happy that bad ele is free points where bad thief could still kill you if someone else had forced you to burn your cooldowns.

They´ll find another class soon enough.

On a side note, thief and d/d ele are “better” professions only in smallscale.

I doubt there´s THE build for it…well apart from the fotm wannabees who faithfully copycat anything you say is good.
Most d/d players just take the basic build of 30 arcana and water and start modifying it to their liking.

Personaly i run 0/10/10/30/20 aura sharing build.

Same as with all big effects.

Back in beta people noticed that when we have all the big and sparkly effects constantly pumping out and covering every inch of the screen, nobody could tell what was going on.
Most every effect received a downscaling, and now we can actualy see a kitten thing when playing.

Karma, gold, crafting, badges or dungeon tokens. Check wiki for details.
If you want to avoid pve, do it with badges, gold or karma from wvw.

Or stick to spvp.

No, and long asnwer nooo (15char limit)

T´was in the dark of the night, on that reset eve. I heard a sad little sound coming from tower of longview, so sad it made my heart ache. Closer i moved, as close as i dared, for the evil had claimed it, and red banners flew over. There, i heard it again, undoubtedly it was the feline in distress, the cat had been sighted.
I gathered my wits and courage, i could not let the evil have it´s way with our precious friend. Alone i took my tools and started to build in the black of the night, hammering away, running for more supplies, hammering away. After a while the engine of war was ready. Out of wood, rope and metal it was created, and could fling stones size of myself. One stone, then another, they came crashing towards the tower wall, i feared i may bring the wrath of evil men upon me, but thank the eternal alchemy they slumbered.
My deed was halfway done, but then i heard the sound of the horn, calling me to keep our forces held, besieged by forces of evil. I had to head there, lest my friends be overwhelmed, but first i had to dispatch evil man out for my blood. I arrived to besieged keep, sneaked in and joined my brothers in the fight. Situation seemed grim, but we held on and as we were despairing, help arrived. The keep was saved.
After i was released from defence duty, i immediately headed back for the tower i had bravely sought to bring down, for i had not forgotten the cat, it´s shiny fur, and gracious gait. Misfortune had come to greet me when i arrived there though. Through some foul sorcery the adversary i had previously beaten, had revived and destroyed my catapult. BUT, i was not going to yield, bravely i took up my tools again, hammering, running and hammering i built another, and started to pelt the walls with rocks. This time there was nobody to stop me, and the wall came crashing down.
As i stormed the crumbling wall, i was joined by an ally, and we rushed to search for the cat. Evil men inside the tower tried to stop us, but soon they fell to our blades and spells. As we were fighting, a slowly moving host had also appeared, lords of sIN came in walking, and claimed the tower, i humbly handed it over to them.
And there we were, we sought the cat and heavens behold, there it was, in all of it´s glory. We basked in the radiance of it´s being, but as we were cheering, crying and kneeling, something vile happened. In a poof of smoke the cat vanished. No doubt spirited away by evil. And therefore my guest continues, i will seek our cat, and will knock down any wall or foe that seeks to hinder me.
I will save our feline friend!

Just sayin, one asura was enough to bring down a tower, but aguess that´s zerging too.

Maintenance oil, and stacking sigil i would think. Maybe sigil of accuracy for offhand.

Links seem to have changed o_O? I could swear they used to be 0/10/10/30/20 build.

Well anyway that´s what i roll with it, givers armor, valkyries chest and accessories.

From wiki:

“Sigils will enter cooldown even if they have no actual effect. For example, a Sigil of Purity will trigger and enter the 10s cooldown even when the wearer has no conditions. "

Slamz.5376:

Aeolus.3615:

Build siege…

5 coordinated elementalists within the zerg running this: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Swirling_Winds

Your siege is 100% useless. It blocks trebuchets, catapults, ballistas, arrow carts, everything.

Arrow cart is ground targeted, doesn´t get blocked.

Aether McLoud.1975:

Does this happen in sPVP too? I’ve seen some strange selfrallies there too and never knew where they came from?

Mechanics of the skills are the same the too, so it should do that yea.

Does killing it rally foes?

I fought once and my enemy apparently rallied off of my elemental (rallied immediately as it died). Can´t say for certain, might have been coincidence, but i haven´t bothered to test it out as the skill flew out of my hotbar so fast it died of acceleration.

Choose an utility instead of an elite.

Who´s with me?

Correct me if i´m wrong, but powerful auras atleast used to work only on auras that you actualy cast. In other words it dind´t work with combo auras or those gained from traits.

rhodoc.2381:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Soothing_Mist

Soothing mist is a lot weaker than actual regen buff, but it does stack with it.

Ele after vapor form = free stomp
Thief after stealth = propably a free stomp, most thieves use blink first/during stealth

Warrior as you say is already dead.
Simple logic.

As to question of ele having get out of jailcard handy near tower…well that will propably be fixed with not being able to go through gates.
Thieves are just annoying, just like mesmers, but won´t get nerfed imho.

Tortun.5946:

Piken isn’t the only server to celebrate the holidays I get the feeling these commanders thought Santa was only out on Christmas to visit them.

What they are trying to say is that Pikens guilds were not active because of holidays.
Piken without guilds is like a fish out of water, and about as threathening too.

Other servers generaly don´t rely on their guilds as much, so they usualy will have easier time even when most of the guilds go inactive.

Mobs are stupid and predictable, therefore every class has one optimal rotation to deal with them.
Play against a human opponent, watch your pretty little chains fall apart magnificently and enjoy the ensuing chaos.

What you describe is fault of lacking ai, not the profession itself. All professions suffer it to some decree, but on elementalist it´s most obvious since there´s such a bug gap between good and bad rotations.

“do not feel like spamming even more keys to do the same damage”

Stay as far away from ele as humanely possible if you don´t want to spam more buttons than necessary.

GC staff is viable, but support staff is far better.
You´ll propably be looking for a s/d build if you want damage, i don´t have one but you could do a search here for few.