Guild Wars 2

Sera.6539:

It would probably be more informative to say where and how. Not just pictures and via teleport.

1. go to the North-west most outpost.
2. From there go south where the jumping puzzle starts,
3. go into the cave and go left.
4. you will hit a wind wall, use teleport skill like blink or lightning flash to get past it.
5. voila y’r in.

I found the same spot :p was running away from Karkas and hit a wind wall and in the spur of the moment used teleport and got past it. Kinda like how you did it probably. There’s also a hole in the ceiling.

good to know that I don’t need that one

You think we have but 4 atunements? False we also have our conjured weapons. But for some reason people tend to use them till they dissapear. Its the same as when you stay in one atunement. Its not gonna work. But if you swap into an elemental weapon use up a few of its usefull skills, drop it to go back to your own skills or you can even swap to another conjured weapon simply by conjuring it and it’ll over-ride the one you’re currently equiped with.

I’d say you should give it a try and share what you thought of it.

I’ve only recently realized how you ought to work with the conjured weapons, you summon ’m you use ’m you drop ’m and pick up the summoned one when you think the recharges on the useful skills are up again.
Use it like an atunement swap instead of transformation ability.

So I’ve been trying out all these builds and went back to the aurasharing heal D/D build that we all love and man has it gotten weak. I can barely take down a mesmer and mobility is almost non existant.

don’t like the boss mechanic…

Last day of Flame and Frost in the FM dungeon with a 5-man guild party and I get kicked because the party leader is frustrated… seriously…

Duka.1932:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEQQJAoYhEmcbkxywjDAkHtkCKCFPYRRxM5A-jgDBYLJEdBgEBkKIIZPSspPAJQJr4qIasqaDRWZDTVC1qDwIeRzeDoA-e

this is my favorite pve build, using all weapon sets, swapping utilities in dungeons a lot, traits if i really need to but mostly to lazy if it is just for 1 encounter.

if someone posted it already, sorry for double posting.

That is the exact same build I have and the exact reason I run this build
So there are two of me

pretty neat, fought them all many times but still learned new stuff in that guide.

Nay of the Ether.8913:

It’s gonna be a lich Livia wielding the Scepter of Orr here to wreak havoc in Tyria once more mmmwwwhahah!!!!

Thats exactly what I thought it’d be XD

:( had no idea that it was the end of the FM dungeon… Last time I went there I got kicked out of the guild party right at the boss fight… How about that for a dissapointment.
Excuse was that I died too often while I was the only one left standing when the party got wiped…

black hair with orange glow <- ranger with elve ears and squinty eyes
ofcourse its a ranger

XelNigma.6315:

There are (currently) 3 types of sylvari, you have your normal sylvari that are still connected to the dream, and you have the Nightmare court that have been disconnected from the dream and “changed”. and the little talked about soundless sylvari that as far as I know only have a single settlement in Caledon Forest. They neither support or oppose the dream, they simply wish to live there own life without the whispers of the dream in there ear. I guess there are really 4 but the last so far only consists of 1 sylvari and he has memory loss so he might have been connected to the dream but just forgot, or was never connected in the first place. Which brings up more questions about the dream and its origins.

I personally subscribe to the theory that the pale tree is a minion of the currently unnamed/unknown nature elder dragon, plenty of stuff about that on other topics.
From what I know, each elder dragon creates its minions differently, one can corrupt living things to make minions while another might use fire and stone to create a minion.
But when it comes to creating new minions I’m lead to believe that only the dragons and there generals possess the ability to create minions.

So if the pale tree is really a general of at least a minion factory then the sylvari wont beable to reproduce.

The sylvari with memory loss is actually from a different pale tree to the west:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Malyck

They have no ventari tablet so who knows what they’re like.

Why not go 30/20/0/0/20?
Since y’r gonna wanna do dmg with the 30 in fire might as well go all they way, why go for water?

sometimes I use staff but I prefer scepter/focus or scepter/dagger in dungeons. D/D still works in dungeons but in some battles its just better to stay away from the enemies. Just do trial and error and see what works where and what doesn’t.

fire → high dmg
air→ crit and some utility
earth→ cond and some defense (staff as a ranged weapon needs the kiting abilities)
water→ heal and aoe debuff (chill)

Staff also has many sweet skins compared to daggers, I’ve ended up collecting them I don’t care about the stats anymore. Have around 6 exotic unique skin staffs. Emberspire is my favorite. Also have Melandru’s Gaze and the one from CoF.
Dagger skins are just so boring

Crossplay.2067:

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

I do pvp without stunbreakers after 40 some matches I have yet to be stunned.

Either you were very lucky or your opponents sucked hard. I’ve never done pvp but I’ve had duels in wvw where one stun made the difference between winning and losing.

Lucky, very very lucky :p Just tried to do the same thing today and got stunned a couple times but its only D/D eles, a few wariors and mesmers with swords that stun you. I wouldn’t want to base my intire build around stun breakers if there are only so few that use stuns in the first place.

yes it does. I used to be a D/D healer bunker kinda thing and now completely swapped over to a balanced AoE spam staff build with conjure weapons for more aoe’s and some extra utility. Posted it on the forum already (not the initial post but the 2nd comment contains the updated build; the first one is if you want to be able to swap between staff and D/D healer builds without having to go to the vendor)

I do pvp without stunbreakers after 40 some matches I have yet to be stunned.

swap elements constantly, if you don’t already.

yea I miss this too! Its a bother having to constantly change every trait individually.

I like where you’re going

The trait that gives boons based on atunement when casting a glyph doesn’t proc when casting the elite glyph. Was that intended or an oversight?

In over all gameplay I’ve actually started to think that the elementalist has gotten more fun to play.
Arenanet said that there is no trinity in gw2 and I’ve come to realize that the moment I stopped speccing into one trait completely I’ve become a much more stable elementalist.
running a 20-10-10-10-20 build now in pvp with a staff and 3 different types of runes
2 cleric, 2 pvt and 2 zerker.

I just run my standard healing build and still do around 2-5k dmg with firegrab while healing all allies for 6k health for some seconds. Sharing auras for free chills stuns, fury and swiftness on allies…
I don’t ever get kicked when in pug groups.
0/20/0/30/20
Also sometimes swap to S/F or S/D or Staff with glyphs for AoE spamming.
Glyph of storms is really good!

I use Ice bow and Fiery greatsword in my pvp Aoe spam build and it works just fine.
Ice bow no. 5 is pretty fun to do and no. 3 has a good chill effect.
Fiery greatsword is fun to run away with I mainly use it for the extra aoe (insta cast)

just tested it and it definately doesn’t

aw but I thought atunement swapping counted as weapon swap with sigils why not with runes?

it is an interesting change however the casting time of signets is so horendeuos that the perma swiftness is kinda…. not working well with everything else.
I prefer the 2 air traits that reduce glyph recharge and let glyphs give boons based on atunement (air = swiftness) equip glyph of elemental harmony and you get perma swiftness with low cooldown one spell cast away. You can reïnforce it with any other glyph except for the elite glyph for some reason it doesn’t work.

Another point is why don’t you use Fiery Greatsword? It increases both power and condition damage has ranged attacks and a good burn plus and AoE which you lack when you’re running S/F.

Also why don’t you use Geomancer’s Alacrity for 20% lower CD on earth atunement skills which’ll give you more invulnerability and blinds and reflection… I mean y’r gonna stay in earth atunement anyways.
Also burning precision is better than burning fire since you’ll get off burns consistently proccing the 5% more dmg on burning targets.

Necro minion master with almost the most vitality in the game
versus
Elementalist either spamming aoe’s or just trying to survive with a healing build.

Dungeons are hard but good way to lvl and get lvl 80 gear via tokens easier.

Superior rune of the warior (6)
reduce weapon swap cd -1 second
Does that include Atunement swapping?

Turkashi.4502:

It do look a fun build to me. I’ll give it a try.
But I do not see the advantage of the water trait.

Thx!

Edit:
Just ran this build in 2x Molten Front, 1x COF p1 and FoTm lvl 20
It’s ok, but I do miss my cantrip to escape. And when I change one of the glyph to cantrip, then it’s a bit of waste to put point in Glyphs.

This is pure my own opinion, and preferable playstyle. Nothing wrong with this build

Although what I’ve swicthed is the 30 point in water, I’ve put it 5 more in arcane, for the condition on crit, and 10 in fire for more burning dmg. Which makes it: 10/20/0/15/25

the reason for the 30 in water is for when you feel the need to swap to a different weapon or utility skill set without having to completely redo your traits.

Also I’ve been trying the build out in pvp and after reworking the traits but using the same concept of spamming AoE’s this ended up being the result:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImSb6R0wjFAkCmEUQwAjCZIKURRxM7A-jACBUBAJPhN7JIZRRrkMs1uRT9KxKYBCA-e

it might not seem like much but with pvp being the taking and defending of points I find that this build is very very powerful.
went 3 straight rounds without dying and dishing out awesome damage and support.

You might thing that the red circles make it easy to dodge but when there are 3-4 big red circles appearing all around you from a range of 1200 most people just panick and use up all their dodges until they die.

Note
note that this is probably not the most optimal build but it is quite balanced edit it as you please to fit your playstyle I just gave you a basis to work off of.

PS Turkashi, thanks for trying out my build

So I’ve been messing around alot and found a trait set-up that allowed me to change to weapons or different utility skills without having to completely rework all the traits.

0-fire
20-air for zephyrs boon when using D/D cantrip build. and for glyphs if I want to use those instead.
0-earth
30-water for support and healing whenever you use cantrips or auras for aurasharing. Also great condition removal. Works for any build.
20-arcana because swapping elements is at the core of any good elementalist build.

So nowadays I run with a balanced build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImSb6R0wjDAkHmgCMCFVQRRxM7A-jADBUBAJPhN7JIZRRr2Nalkitten8KIqaoqGYqXJWBLQuEYA-e

Nothing spectacular but it gets the job done by killing everything with AoE’s.

How do you use this build you may ask…

first you cast fire 2 (low CD), then 5, then use fiery greatsword and cast no. 5 and 3 if you’re in a tight spot followed by 2 for some more fire dmg and its a fast cast. Then drop fiery greatsword cast 2 of staff again or 4 if you’re still in tight spot cast glyph of storms while in earth atunement for a 10 sec continuous aoe blind. Then get y’r ice bow out and use no. 4… no.5, 3 and 2 when combatting a boss. Once they’re all on CD drop the icebow and cast all available AoE’s while making your way to the fiery greatsword you planted not too long ago and cast no. 5 again. By then you’ll be able to cast another meteorshower and pick up the ice bow again and use its aoe ability.

Result is continuous mostly overlapping aoe’s that kill everything very very fast.

Be warned!!!
This is not a build that works always everywhere you go, not a build you can abuse its just another half decent build I came up with and you don’t need to have the armor that is shown in the link anything goes just make sure you can survive long enough to cast all those aoe’s.

Kontrolle.3514:

I switched to D/D ele from engineer because compared to the laughable D/D Ele nerf engineers got literally kitten by the nerfbat. Meanwhile i laugh at all the tears here…

Imagine they would have deleted evaisive arcane, elemental attunement got a 20 icd and 30% of your dmg abillitys got cut in half. Thats just half of the treatment engineers got since release. So your crying looks a little bit ridiculous.

I made just 1 little adaption, i change the elite to fiery greatsword, thats it.
And lol this is one powerful elite.

indeed it is
I now swapped to a Staff aoe build and it kills everything in sight very quickly. Is fun to do but it won’t work for pvp I think…. Haven’t actually tried it yet

crit/precision is better for D/D. Definately! If you had different weapons then I wouldn’t be so sure but for D/D its no question.

Whine whine whine…. you don’t need stunbreakers….

KARKA DUNGEON!!!!! With a new dungeon merchant with all new karka armor and weapons featuring the new Sentinel weapon and armor stats.

Why not have it be an explorable dungeon that gets harder the further you travel into it (one in the open world not instanced)

maybe if we got the choice to:
say that we want the gauntlets to be worn over the sleeves of the chest armor?

or something like that… and I mean it as an option just like the dyes and all

I take out my guilds for trips to all the jumping puzzles several times a week but we’ve slowly but surely done all of ‘m already. Really need to add new jumping puzzles soon!!! PLEASE! I’ve done some of the jumping puzzles over 30 times already.

It would be sweet if the ancient dragons would each drop a specific ascended weapon unique to them that would only drop very very rarely.
But I still prefer the way it is set up right now. I like being like the skritt hogging all the shiny exotics in my inventory. Now have 46 shiny exotics. Gotta buy bigger bags soon.

What I would want to see is a dungeon out in the open world that get more challenging the further you go in them and its without any waypoints in them.

Ofcourse the rewards at the furthest lvl in the dungeon should be better than at the first few lvls/floors of the dungeon. Maybe a huge hole in the ground or a tall tower. That way you can work together with the people in the open world to try and get as far into the dungeon as possible all the while trying to keep everyone alive.

It’d be awesome.

Side-note:
Giant skritt protecting the shinies at the end

no
you should get the air trait that gives boons when you use glyphs not 5% pre→healing unless you’re going healing build with no glyphs.

doing jumping puzzles… did 12 yesterday…. and I swapped to S/D healing build for dungeons. Seems to give me survivability, decent damage output and better controlled support compared to D/D Also swapped to glyphs instead of cantrips except for when there are scary boss-fights.

clerics S/D because the trident is a good guided heal and 5 is a cleanse heal pbaoe. Add some cond. dmg trinkets for earth 1 and 5 and some prec thingies for air and waters fast attacks. Plus use glyphs for the elementals and storm that all got buffed recently. and y’r set.

0/20/0/30/20
With this build you can go for any weapon; you can go for arcana, glyphs or cantrips and some aura-love.
Gives you average dmg, good healing sustain and some boon stuff thingy something.

I think what you said should work. But maybe add in some cleric instead of PVT since elementalists need the healing more than vitality. You need some vitality like 20% vit and 80 % healing power combo.

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-NOOOO don’t want teamspeak

I agree that scepter fire and earth auto attack does way too little direct damage. The condition damage is decent though.