Guild Wars 2

4 in wvw, 4 in sylvari starter area, 3 in Lions Arch and then you need just one more for monthly. Should be able to do that in about 2 hours or less. I wish they’d add more jumping puzzles

The game is to be enjoyed not farmed. Just try and walk around without sticking to one ‘farming-spot’. Made 20 gold in 4 hours doing just that… 3% magic find and understanding the game-mechanics is what you need not a ‘good farming spot’.

for me its just weird, sometimes I get 5 dyes in 5 minutes and other times I go weeks without ever finding one…

‘I rip each day off life’s teeth’ is what made me make a charr warior. But I like my human elementalist more…

Elementalist: use frostbow-no. 5 freeze target, move back a bit trigger mine wait for him to move, do it 6 times and you win…
Seems like rangers had more to think about in this encounter. Might’ve been more of a challenge if it weren’t for my ranger not being lvl 80 yet.

It was a nice change-up in combat but not something I’d be going back to.

Beat both Canach and the golem on my second try with ease.
Not much reward so I went out to kill a reef rider and got a mini reef rider 30 minutes later the price dropped 5 gold….

I don’t know what you talking about. All I do is win. I’m not strong on tourney level yet but decent enough to win the match.

I run a 15/15/15/15/10 build (at first it was just for jokes but it ended up winning me lots and lots of fights). You’ll win most 1v1 fights but 1vx is still a problem. All you can do is get ’m to half health and stall ’m.
Armor is all divinity runes and cleric amulet.
Dagger/Dagger
sigil of force+sigil of hydromancy.

Just give it a try for fun.

that is so funny XD, I guess wariors need sum help or else they won’t be able to stay front-liner forever.

15/15/15/15/10 with sigils that proc damage near you, equip D/D and cleric jewel with rune of rage on y’r armor. That’s how I beat virtually everything I meet. Because of the high number of attacks you use you’ll render the guardians blinds useless. Plus the shatter mesmers clones would get pummeled by all your PBaoE’s but some dodging would help.

Also two very usefull conditions in all three of those match ups would be Chill and poison. Both are very serious debuffs, cover them with some more burns and bleeds preventing them from being able to remove all of the conditions. They’ll panic when they see conditions and damage piling up while all their skills are on cooldown and healing is effectivly halved in usefulness.
Keep the pressure up at all times!
Necro is just trying to focus him down constantly while weaving around him and swapping atunements whenever deemed necessary.

I like it because you can direct your allies to one specific target without having to be in a party and manually select the target. Having a giant line of lightning coming from your hand to a target is pretty obvious enough of a sign to allies to attack that target.

you can get fury from simply swapping atunements and triggering any auras you already have so you really don’t need the extra fury and swiftness since it only stacks in duration and not in intensity.

S/F earth atunement + cond. duration all the way. Glyph of storms or you could do the churning earth+lightning flash combo for 8 stacks of bleed and some high direct damage. +rampager stats and sigil of earth for a few more bleeds.

Honestly condition damage is not the best thing elementalists have to offer.

I would like to see chain lightning giving shocking aura too allies and stunning foes

ThiBash.5634:

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

Or some way in which the signets would give boons like the glyphs do with the trait in 20 air.

There are traits that do exactly that.

I’m not talking about the one with auras, that just requires too many trait points compared to glyphs. Being able to get 1+ minute of swiftness just by casting glyphs in air atunement on a 20ish second CD far out weighs any aura thing you do with signets. Especially since signets have such a long casting time.

1. RTL allows for sooo many shortcuts in jumping puzzles that you just can’t do with any other class.
2. Being able to keep 4 zerkers at full health throughout CoF p1.
3. Being able to do 11k dmg while in a healing build thanks to fiery greatsword and lots of might-stacking.
4. Contrary to some I had wished for the elementalists to be able to swap elements in gw1 and I was thrilled when I heard that that’s what they were doing for gw2. Honestly I don’t need any other game ever again (unless they have the excact same elementalist).
5. When y’r bored of your usual skills its always fun to bring a conjured weapon with you just for the change of pace.

Honestly there are sooo many other things I love about the elementalist like jumping off of cliffs with mistform after being downed just so my armor won’t get damaged that 5 points just aren’t enough to show how much I love this class.

I don’t agree with the signets, would be nicer if Signet of Water would be a stun breaker instead of signet of earth Or some way in which the signets would give boons like the glyphs do with the trait in 20 air.

The conjure adjustments however are great ideas

Exenisel.5410:

So I played a little during beta but have a long weekend and decided to spend some time in Tyria! I’m wanting to play an Elementalist and am curious, how are they solo? As a cloth wearing mage, I’m assuming we’re squishy and we don’t have pets like the Ranger or Necro to help with aggro so I’m curious about their survivability rating. I’m looking for a class I can play long term and I play PvE only.

Thanks so much everyone in advance for your replies =)

:D hellow newb, I’m swim and I like shinies and helping newbs

I main elementalist tried all other classes but can’t help but stick to elementalist because its soooo much fun to play. All the other classes seem kinda slow. (except for main-hand sword ranger with quickness, that one is fun too).

As for cloth and pets:
We got elemental summons that go well if you do a long-range glyph build.

We got amazing survivability (almost as good as wariors but thieves and mesmers outwit us in pvp, *when played correctly); but you won’t have to deal with those since you’ll be doing pve.

A safe start would be getting cantrips for utility skills and some water and arcane traits.
most people like having 10 in air, I prefer 20 because of the 20% more dmg on foes with 33% remaining health or the trait that gives boons when you use a glyph.

The mokittenn weapon set is D/D, most effective weapon set in pve at lower lvls would be S/D because you can use 4 blast finishers in the fire field adding up to 12 might which is a very good damage boost since you will most likely not be traited into doing damage.

Another thing that I’ve seen work with the staff is a Glyph AoE build.
20 in arcana for the bigger aoe fields; utilities: glyph of storms, ice bow and a fiery greatsword.
Cast 2 and 5 in fire atunement then ice bow no. 4 followed by fiery greatsword 5, then fire 2, attune to earth for glyph of storms (aoe blind ticks every second) followed by 2 in earth and then water no. 4, air no. 5 to keep enemies inside the AoE spams.

Honestly I’ve never been able to do the full rotation in pve because I have yet to find anything that can survive this onslaught. Get the sigil that gives quickness on crit so you can cast the AoE’s a bit quicker.

Something else that works for D/D in pvp attleast (probably also in pve) is 15/15/15/15/10 + a sigil that procs damage around you on weaponswap. This’ll give you the most PointBlankAreaOfEffect spells possible. Get something like arcanewave and arcane shield and a cantrip in your utilities, Tornado is also a fun PBAOE but not very good at damaging. It sure is a fun build though.

This is all that I’ve researched so far build-wise.

Stat-wise I’ve found that anything works but Condition damage and vitality aren’t near as important to an elementalist as all the other stats. So if you buy or use weapons or armor try to use ones that have anything except those two.
Stats that work well for us are Boon Duration (not really a stat but more of a pre-requisite), healing power, toughness and any power you can get your hands on.

If you do go for arcane utility skills then Crit. Dmg would be a very good choice too.

zengara.8301:

Problem is that i am insecure if I even should even go Cond dmg at all now any names of trinkets i should try?

Apothecary and Rampager (50/50) would be some that come to mind but condition damage is not really one of our better specs. But if you do go down that road use Scepter and condition duration so you can stack up lots of bleeds and burns. Focus in off-hand for some CC.
Rampager is primary precision and apothecary is primay healing so if you use superior sigil of water and some kind of constant sigil plus Rune of the Undead. it should work.

It’d work but there are better options. Still seeing all those 100’s from bleeding stream out of an enemy looks awesome

haha you lindsey stirling fan awesome!, looks like fun. I guess I should get my ranger up to par too soon.

new D/D build would be something like 15/15/15/15/10
If you want to do a D/D build the most common one would be 0/10/0/30/30
If you like swapping weapons and utility skills I advise you to use 0/20/0/30/20 or if you love evasive arcana 0/20/0/20/30.

For lvling it might be better to use some S/D since elementalists have lowest hp and armor having the extra range is often a life saver. Plus the fire and air burst are good enough to take down almost anything.

I use:
soldiers
rampagers
zerker
knights
clerics
apothecary’s

and I match whatever looks best. Doesn’t really matter what set-up I use half of the time though I prefer the direct damage approach and the healing power+toughness.
So no condition damage or vitality if possible. The rest is all up to you.

why fight in jumping puzzle? that’s not nice.

try 2/6 healing, 2/6 soldier and 2/6 zerker or something in that regard. Just keep swapping atunements while running the traits you currently have or you could change ‘m to some other build if you feel the need to. But that’s what works for me.
Full on clerics would give you around 1400-1600 healing power and since most of our healing is AoE you’d be a great asset to your allies even if you aren’t doing much damage or not in water atunement all the time.

0/20/0/30/20 for sharing auras or removing conditions on giving regen. Get S/D or S/F or D/D or Staff or D/F depending on the upcoming fight.

Use glyphs when you know its gonna be a lot of long ranged fights and you use staff or S/F. Otherwise use cantrips.
Arcane spells could also be used but I would only use them if you’re doing a speedrun.

I’ve used this set-up in all the dungeons and it works pretty well. S/F-cantrip with 0/20/0/30/20 is one of the tankiest builds you can get (full cleric armor and trinkets)

Am now experimenting with a hybrid armor of soldiers, clerics and knights.

try heart of the mists and experiment with different stats on the golem thingies.

As for armor type, I prefer clerics for trinkets and armor. Also you could try and change it up with almost anything because the elementalist is always changing between elements he’s never stuck in one role so you could/should spread your stats around a bit. Since your armor is (I presume) healing power toughness and cond. Dmg you might want to get berserker accessories.

true but shatter stone has a 2 second cooldown, if you got the survivability to boot you can quickly use up opponnents endurance by spamming shatterstone I would think. Even though its a pretty harmless spell.

haviz.1340:

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

:D is there footage of elementalists beating lupicus? I wanna see!!!

I’ve done it in about 15 minutes but only got screenshot from february (don’t worry, it’s legit, at that time you couldn’t even be invited by anyone or invite anyone if you started dungeon solo).
Guy called Pepsi did same feat two weeks ago in about 17 minutes.
And lastly, here’s a clip from Smooth Marc.
Differences in times are results of more or less aggresive approaches.

Awesome! Thanks

haviz.1340:

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

a thief can solo towers in wvw….
a thief can solo giganticus lupicus…

Never seen an elementalist do that but that doesn’t mean they are any less viable. I can solo three big veteran karkas easy (takes some time) But I prefer using S/D against karkas because the ranged gives me more mobility without having to lose out on doing damage. I can switch between mid-range to close-range while D/D is almost completely stuck in melee range. Which isn’t bad since you get to give the wariors and thieves and guardians that fight with you healing and boons. (or other D/D eles for that matter).

Thief is a highly specialized class while the elementalist is more good all-round.

It’s not the issue of being able to solo lupi because it’s been done by at least (confirmed) 3 elementalists but that thief can solo him just by using autoattack and infiltrator’s strike. No other skill is required beside self-heal.

Karka projectiles can be simply strafe’d if you are at about 600 range or interrupted.

:D is there footage of elementalists beating lupicus? I wanna see!!!

didn’t have any problem today for some reason…

I use sentinel/soldiers/rampager/clerics gear with a 0/20/0/30/20 build using cantrips and fiery greatsword. Swap out the cond removal for ice bow in dungeons use aura share just because. Could also use the one that lets you remove a condition upon applying regen on yourself which you’ll be doing every time you use a cantrip. But I find that just a little selfish even if it allows you to remove an extra condition from allies by swapping into water.

With fiery greatsword in a lvl 75 zone I can do tops 11k dmg and still have 600 healing power 18k hp and around 2600 armor, 40ish crit chance with fury and around 20 crit dmg.

Not incredible but it works. Plus if you want to you can swap to any weapon you want or utility skills and adjust your traits without having to retrait.

a thief can solo towers in wvw….
a thief can solo giganticus lupicus…

Never seen an elementalist do that but that doesn’t mean they are any less viable. I can solo three big veteran karkas easy (takes some time) But I prefer using S/D against karkas because the ranged gives me more mobility without having to lose out on doing damage. I can switch between mid-range to close-range while D/D is almost completely stuck in melee range. Which isn’t bad since you get to give the wariors and thieves and guardians that fight with you healing and boons. (or other D/D eles for that matter).

Thief is a highly specialized class while the elementalist is more good all-round.

happens to me alot and a couple other people, the bug has intensified alot last couple days ever since that ‘free trial-crash’.

Same problem as well, no guild members or party members or anything. Not only that but it also occassionally kicks me out of the party which is especially annoying in dungeons. Happens somewhere around 5 times an hour.
Just doing jumping puzzles now since you can’t do much else without a party.

pot.6805:

Nickeloneon.8714:

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

Wariors can bunker too if they wanted to

Lol. Good one.

I know right. You can tell someone never truly played a warrior when they claim warriors can actually bunker.

XD I have a lvl 80 warior and I do sometimes take ‘m to pvp.
The warior can most certainly become a front-line tanker but you need to trait and spec for it something warior generally don’t do because they can face-tank anything in pve without having to do that.
Highest hp pool- highest base armor
Somehow he forgot to put that in his list.

you could also run with a 15/15/15/15/10 build :p just for fun. Then get some sigils that proc when you weaponswap like chilling nearby enemies get some runes of divinity. Its fun since you proc soooo many pbaoe’s maybe not as many as with evasiva arcana but still…

I remember a couple months ago that the ranger was seen as being one of the weakest classes but just last week there was a post on the elementalist forum asking what you should do when you see a ranger in wvw.
Some people answered ‘RUN!!!’
In other words you guys overcame y’r weaknesses and became a truly strong class.

side-note:
Just made a ranger lvl 35 and its sooo much fun!

elementalists give aura when reviving ally with the trait plus any boons associated with the aura (fury-swiftness-protection)

Daecollo.9578:

Class Description.
As a heavily armored soldier profession, warriors are only second to guardians in terms of enduring punishment.

Classes that are good at Enduring Punishment by List:
- Ranger. (Evade Spam/Mobility/Protection/Vigor/High Regeneration/Takes considerably less damage when almost dead.)
- Guardian. (Constant Protection/Vigor/High Regeneration.)
- Elementalist. (Constant Protection/Vigor/Regeneration.)
- Engineer. (Constant Protection/Vigor/Regeneration.)
- Mesmer. (Evades/Invuln Spam/Blinks.)
- Thief. (Evade Spam/Stealth Spam/Teleports.)
- Necromancer. (Bad Traits, Life-force doesn’t trait well with other skills.)
- Warrior. (No protection/Poor Condition Removal/Bad Traits.)

Something is wrong.

indeed something is wrong and that is your list XD.
Wariors can bunker too if they wanted to but they don’t feel the need to. All the other classes do. Even guardians because they have very low base hp. Stat wise the warior far out classes all the other professions in armor and hp. Why else are wariors always requested in dungeon runs?

Ranger doesn’t have protection
Elementalist doesn’t have perma protection and there’s stuff wrong with the rest of your list too. I may not have played warior much in pvp but I have played elementalists, guardians and rangers.

I do accessories Vitality/power/toughness+some cleric and zerker.
armor 2 zerker, 2 soldier and 2 cleric.
Decent power some crit and crit damage, decent healing power and toughness.
Just not gonna outspec anyone in one particular area anyways as an elementalist so might as well keep the stats balanced.

try S/D and concentrate on pulling off blast finishers in your fire field they’ll give you a nice temporary stat boost through the might boon plus its a good burst.

Merlin Murchadh.4730:

My Dual Legendary Ele I Love Dagger/Dagger. Merlin

That’s pretty awesome

fire:
3-4-5
or
3-4-2-5
Auto attack does decent damage so you could just use that in pve.

Earth
4-5 <- when fire field is still active. -2
When 4 and/or 5 are on cd and you got a fire field use 3-3
Auto attack is crappy but you can hit people that are behind a structure and such.

Water:
12345 or something. 1 give vulnerability, 2 heals, 3 chills, 4=aura and 5 is aoe heal/cond removal.

Air:
4-5 <- good for initial attack.
3 aura keep it up as much as possible.
2 gives weakness but is hard to land.
1 auto-attack is pretty powerful.

Those are the basics and you should have cantrips in your utility bar, use those when you need ‘m. For example when you’re using churning earth and the mob moves out of range you can use lightning flash to close the gap even when you’re still casting churning earth.

So I started experimenting a bit in pvp and accidentally ended up with a build that allowed me to be 1st place on the winning team 3 times in a row. Something I had never achieved before.
Interested?

The only safe build would be 0/10/0/30/30 for D/D but it has been heavily nerfed especially in pvp. Its still worth a try and nobody has yet found another decent pvp build for elementalists so if this don’t work for you you could try variations of it or just start from scratch and experiment a bit.

Rtl cooldown nerf too…

mjhungness.8059:

Wow! Cool! All that was missing was fireworks!

there’s a firework launcher to the left.

So first there was the whining about the jetpack being hard to get and now there’s whining about fervid censer and scerlite back packs of being too easy to get.

I am sad though that I didn’t end up getting the jetpack.

that is pretty awesome

I thought it was my backpiece because it only showed up for me when I had my tentacle backpack equiped but now that I ascended it I don’t see it anymore so I guess I was being to presumptuous.

played in southsun cove for well over 20 hours and only found one crate.