Guild Wars 2

Start match, vs premade, lose 3 matches and never play again, gg.

On a serious note, why not just continue the tournament if you win, similar to how HA worked. Fight it up the matches till you lose.

Thief has ambush trap? Its a trap that makes another theif appear.

@yiyojin: "Every class has this…. "
Warrior: ? Banner lol. Nah seriously they all have rock dog runes

I liked my GW1 ranger, no pet, 100% interupts. You could interupt peoples normal attacks if you were fast enough. Instant cast skills that would not stun or daze, just interupt.

Cast bars could be helpfull. But as you said, how much should be skill and how much should be looking at a bar filling up to decide if you should interupt or not.

Also look at the effects on different classes. Ele for example, if the bar is taking a long time to fill its a big fella (churning, meteror shower, dragons tooth etc. just examples you should probably know what these are buy the animation)

This looks interesting, but I don’t have the time lol.

Also I believe to an extent Rank doesn’t matter too much, obviously a rank 10-20 is new and above has played a lot of games. Well not so, I have a second account (brought delux then decieded to get ritlock) so it is rank 1 and just as experienced as my r30 account.

I’m only rank 30. I bunker. My points are maybe, 10-50 per match compaired to those that just run around in hot join tagging kills and thier 300-500 per win. So about 10x more glory per match means they rank up a hell of alot quicker then us guys playing the game.

GL, might see you on the battle field.

Has anyone else noticed that if you are within down range of a downed foe and you use any skills you character will randomly start downing that foe instead of using the skill?

This is quite fustrating when trying to Dragons Tooth, pheonix, fire wall the downed foe to death and deal with thier 100 friends (maybe 4 to 7 friends you know, zvz and all)

Cantrips … cantrips … cantrips. … .. . every build, cantrips.

Come on guys, put some thought into it, do you need cantrips? (probably), can you live with out them? (probably not). Have you even tried? (Definantly not).

I have run a signet only build (cept elite of course FGS FTW). While a stun break would be nice (cleansing fire for cd, or lightning flash for movability) I find that I can live without them. Focus has an alsmot better Cleansing Fire (earth 4, clear 3 conditions and reflect) and a better Mist Form (no stun break but you have 4sec invunerable and can still do other stuff). As well as some control skills.

Currently trying to nut out a S/F dps build. Something like Imobolize into dragons tooth pheonix combo, with the focus for extra defenses.

If you must play the d/d build:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Guide-Mastering-the-D-D-ele-3-29-12/first
Daphoenix’s guide should cover everything.

As for amulet and gear. its a bit spread through the 12 pages. Try Knights, Soldiers or Clerics (clerics is good for hte healing boost+toughness). For armour: 2x Monk, 2x Water, 2x Divinity. Or 6x divinity.

Links with a ‘;’ in them don’t work from this forum (probably to prevent coding within links). Copy and paste the link into the adress bar and it will work.

the ice blast that comes out, in that range, nice and close.

Thats ele lamo. I’m sure there are other multi hit skill that confusion hurt you through but sig doesn’t heal through (looking at scepter air 1) but haven’t tested too much.

@ Whizzy
While the tanky 0 10 0 30 30 doesn’t benifit too much from 10% damage, the build I run does. I see where you are comming from though, and might rethink my traits. 10% extra damage for the whole fight with zerkers is alot of extra damage but there are some air traits I could look at for the extra 5.

0 15 0 25 30 Bezerkers, Divinities, Rest Sig, Cleansing Fire, Frost Bow, Lightning Flash, Fiery Great Sword of Great Justice.

1k on switching to air = 1.1k on switching to air. Thats no much, but my Churning Earth does it for 10k and fire grab is no push over (oh wait it is, just strafe left and right and it will miss).

I have been planing on making a switch from 25 water to 20 water and 20 air (bolt to the heart) which is a good boost for 25% of the fight, but most people are bunkers or die anyway so 10% sustained over the full duration of the fight is fine for me.

My build is quite an interesting one, it combines the defenses of the traits with the offense of zerkers and the weapons. This forces other bunkers into a defensive position early in the fight (taking half their health before the stand up usually forces them to blow water) then I can hit them with MG into CE for 9-11 k and gg.

@Lavadiel
Have you seen Luilas ingame, the fiery axe build is the one he likes to run. Its always fun to watch him design a build from scratch (takes a good hour or so) then run it once or twice, make a few tweaks and basiclly have something that can beat almost anything I run.

The builds he runs look exactly the same as the ones on the forums. We both made a signet aura build and the next day I was searching around for the forum build to see if I could improve my own and lol and behold it was already pretty much the same.

Me and him worked on a staff heal build before launch, then made it when he started playing. It was bassicly the OP staff build, very strong, till I told him about the EA bug. Then he was undefeatable. He would tank 3-5 people in spvp and only go down to the random theif comming in halfway.

I know that it works with Soothing Mists, all the other 5pt ones seem to bugg or be bugged.

Here is a question … Why does the confusion tick saay it is: On Skill Use. But hang on… the restoration signet is heal .. on skill use.

Don’t see myself getting super healed from tornado
Do see my self getting super confused killed from tornado.

Its one or the other anet.. On skill use or on damage, you cant pick and choose.
Either remove the confusion per second damage on our torndo, or add the healing signets affects to it.

This games pve was designed to be played at casual pace. A pace where you can enjoy the surroundings, explore the map and kill the baddies. Rushing heart to heart is a waist of this game, grinding your face to the finish as early as possible is not how the game was designed.

GW1’s pvp was interesting. You could take your PVE character there and then play PvP with it. The gear differences here though would make that painfull.

1. Yup knew this, used to train with my team before a match started (when ques were terribad)

2. Yup, was complaints about a team rocking up looking like a pug then suddenly its not. Or teams that would change characters to counteract your team

3. You cannot change your traits / utils / weapons during a match … unless you have another character with those changed traits, you can do 2 to rockup ingame as a different traited character (however, login time makes this kinda usless unless you have a ssd)

Glory increases your rank (if you are talking about the purple bar at the bottom where the xp bar ususally is). Glory and rank points are basiclly the same thing. Each rank requires a certain amout of glory. Once the glory goes towards that rank it can’t be taken away. So if you are 1000 glory from a level you and you spend 500, you don’t need to earn 1500 to level, only the 1000 left.

Think of Glory as pvp karma and pvp exp. A glory booster thus boosts your PvP exp and the amount of pvp credit you can spend.

If you are talking about match making rank from tournaments then glory boosters will not affect this.

I used to formulate strat with team. Then found those that don’t, now I don’t even bother starting the convo. If someone else starts up a strat convo I’m all there unless getting a drink or afk for bathroom

s/f with 20 10 30 0 10 using alot of the signet traits and all signets (lacks stunbreak, change 1 signet to cleansing fire, this will reduce the ability to have 100% protection).

I find if you use the focus well you can survive a suprizing amout of damage (almost negates ranged attacks for 20 sec).

Facing your foe is the biggest issue, if someone ‘weaves’ you then most of hte focus skills will go on cd and fail to even try to hit, they cannot be cast backwards.

There is no skill rotation in elementalist, its use what you have when you need it. If you skill rotate you will die a horrible death very quickly.

Thrashbag linked dapheonix’s build, while this is a good 1v1 build you will have a hard time killing things (damage out put is low on start up)

I have run the selfish aura build.
20 10 0 30 0 10

100% fury swiftness and protection.

copy paste:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArdhMmebsR3wjEABFCgw4BIiQiowDlCzA;TgAgyCuo2xsjYH7Oudk7A

OMG a focus you must be noob. Trust me, focus is my favorite weapon right now, rangers basiclly scuicide themselves on you, they can do nothing for a long time (reflect 3 sec, invun 4 sec, swirling 6 sec, a kd for 2 sec and 3 blinds)
Thats about 20 sec of them waisting skills or waiting for you to finish owning them lol.
Edit: unless they are smart enough to swap to sword on swirling and reflect.

This build also works with zerkers and I have test with knights but prefer the condition damage against some foes and zerker against eles.

There is more then 1 spec for pvp. There are servarl that I have seen used great effect the problem is they all fall under the same catagory: bunker. Most of the good builds I’ve seen tickle the enemies to death. We need move diversity in the builds, the chance to go full glass cannon and not get 2 shot. What I don’t like is that the mesmer has more health then us but can still dish out more damage and have the escapes nessicary to vanish when it fails. The thief has more armour, and can vanish. The warrior need a bandage but perviously finished you or laughed with his higher hp pool and armour, comming close to our max hp with his min.

The several builds:

D/D: 0 10 0 30 30 dapheonix, 0 0 10 30 30 original op staff swapped to daggers, 0 15 0 25 30 my current build with zerkers – very hard to play but can beat the 0 10 0 30 30s

S/F: 20 10 30 0 10 obvious what this is: selfish aura bunker

S/D: 20 10 30 0 10 selfish aura bunker with movement over invunerability, also under this weapons set is the 24sec of burning flame axe build (don’t remember the traits)

Staff: 0 0 10 30 30 original op build now its the not so op build that uses 2 frost eles to apply a lot of frost auras to you and the frost elementals and alot of chill.

BTW eles already have the same health as gaurdians. Gaurdians have the heavy armour though.

I’m still running 0 15 0 25 30 in spvp with divinitys and zerkers. Can beat most 0 10 0 30 30 eles I find. I’ve also ran a selfish aura s/f build that beats 0 10 0 30 30 eles with zerkers but dies with carrions (the one I use to be everything else lol). I have won a few matches v 0 10 0 30 30 with paper cannon build s/d, but it is such a pain in the but, if you miss dragons tooth and phoenix you are dead.

Another good build is the 25 sec burning fiery axe s/d build my friend runs (can’t rememebr the details). It beats my 0 15 0 25 30, 0 10 0 30 30 and original 0 0 10 30 30 builds 100% the time, it utilizes aether heal to full effect.

GW1 had a very customisable UI.

Some of my favorite things about the GW1 were parts of the UI. I could crtl click anything and link it in chat (e.g. crtl click health: “My health is 10 / 55”). I also like the little pictures comming up on the side that showed me a pic of what hit me.

Internal cd would be cool if it could be displayed in some way. Not on enemies of course, don’t want to miss out on your auto abilities procing because an enemy knows they are availible.

“They need to get rid of 1 round 3 rounds and just do a keep going till your team loses type of game, LIKE THEY DID IN GUILD WARS 1.”

This, with message “[losing Team / Guild name]‘s Team has been defeated by [winning Team / Guild name]’s Team, finally falling after a 5 round win streak! How long will [winning Team / Guild name]’s team last in battle?” displayed server wide (similar to GW1).

Yes but the duration of new has could have been increased by an extra second or two. And the negatives (esp. warriors) decreased as well (50% extra damage for 5-6 sec ouchies, drop this to 25% -30% at least)

Scythe, like the ones already ingame?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scythe_Staff_Skin

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Final_Rest

Conjures are good, use them. You can get some interesting builds going on with them. My friend made a Flaming Axe buld that applies 25 sec of burning very quickly. The frost bow offers some good pvp support (high chill and 5sec stun). Finally the FGS is the only elite I use these days (in pvp and pve) damage output on that thing when not using a bunker only build is amazing.

As for weapon swap, in combat is a bit much, out of combat I could live with (many eles change thier weapons around alot). This would have to be disabled in TPvP though.

chronometria.3708:

For Tyria’s sake, I am one of the few staff ele’s left, so please give us something or Gandalf will be getting out his daggers and putting on a ninja costume.

Gandalf also has a sword. I wants a sword. Dual sword and staff of great justice.

I have won a 3v5 before. Me and 2 friends vs 5 pugs.

I don’t take Mist Form. Usually play pvp and mist form negates me from point cap. My must have skills is either the Fiery Great Sword of Justice, or the Frost Bow of Freeze your Face. All of my builds have 1 or the other, sometimes both.

yea twice
/15char

Scepter Focus
Dagger Focus

Aura share build with signets grant auras. 100% Swiftness, Fury, Fire Shield, Protection up time to you and your buddies. Also projectile destroy, so ranged units cant hurt you if you are in it for its duration. Better cleansing fire in earth (magnetic thining earth 4), better mistform in earth (obsidian flesh)

I may have over calculated the traits required here, but you can still get most of those buffs.

Checked, you can get those boons with the aura share aswell but there are better options for those traits.
Would look like:
20, 10, 10, 30, 0.
However, 20 in earth nets you 20% faster signets as well as protection on signet use. And that trait is vital to the 100% uptime on those boons.

My friend doesn’t play this game to much because all you have to do is press 2 buttons(he plays warrior). Then you watch him play wow, all he does is press 2 buttons, yet GW2 is somehow worse. Tell him about the Ele class and how much you have to do to get the same output as those 2 buttons and hes like, thats too much.

Claw weapons:
Skill 1: Brutal Slash. Brutal Bite. Brutal Kick.
Slash your foes with your sharp claws. Bite your foe, poisoning them for 1 sec. Kick your foe.

Skill 2: Savage Attack.
Repeatidly attack your foe with melee attacks, causing bleeding

Skill 3: Improvised Weapon.
Pick up a random weapon of the ground (bar / shovel / wooden stick) and break it on your foe’s head stunning them.

Skill 4: Legionares Call
Roar out to your fellow war band. Gain fury, might and Swiftness (short fury and might, reasonable swiftness)

Skill 5: CHARRGE!!!
Advance quickly toward your foe, performing a jumping slash on arrival.

Just an idea, made up moves on the spot. This could replace the GS or be a new skill

The were the GW1 baddies, slayed so many on that Great Northen Wall mission, with the endless wave.

Now I get to be the baddie MUHHAHAHAHHAH

Seriously the are pretty awesome. I have them as my fighter characters (ranger, warrior and engineer). Wanted to make my Ranger human as a decendent of my GW1 character but decieded to go char instead

I wear the standard town clothes and carry the frying pan to get the skills. Then summon my Sou Chef to be my cook.

Go to the mists and look at the Scale helm. Makes you look like you have 6 horns, pretty cool, got it on my warrior atm. Dunno the PvE equivalant though

Trading post new weapons and Armour every 5-10 levels. Just cheap blues or even greens if they arnt much more.

I leveled my ele with d/d. that was fun … not. Brought new weaps every now and then and it was a blast. If you are doing crafting then you can level your craft and character together to get some cheaper gear.

Female Human, because they looked the coolest in the racial Armour.

Char is also a good choice I believe. But I play my char as my Ranger and Warrior (and newly made Engineer)

There was a bug previously that if someone that pugged left your group it would stop searching for a match but still give you members. The leader of the pugs had to go to the pvp tab and click que in the tourny options. Not sure if this is still around

There are guys that will kill you.
And the lack of mobility is horrid at times

But this build is quite fun and 100% protection time is very good.
I run carrion or rabid. Sometimes rampagers. Since the only real dot is fire unless in earth a lot you could try zerkers or knights.

This build has to be played well. You have 3x blinds (2 instant, sig and air 3). You have a lot of defense against ranged but not so much against melee.

With 4x signet you have 100% fire aura if you time them correctly. 6 fire auras, 4x sig, 1x fire 5 and 1x earth leap finisher through fire field.

When you down a warrior you can use swirling winds to stop his interrupt. You can use your 2 blinds to down and you can use your reflect against thieves with the downed damage boost to get then to finish themselves.

Putting the fire wall on a downed foe is quite good as well.

You also have chill up-time a lot. With enough toughness you have a lot of burning (just left the enemies hit you with their autos and dodge / interrupt their heavies)

I use the FGS, personal choice. Cleansing fire if I need a stun break. Although earth 4 is a much better skill without a stun break. Earth 5 is also better then mistform.

Premades smash pugs.
Me and 2 of my friends puged it up. We got put against another pug and one of our team members left. Its was 4 of us v 5 of them. We won.

3 Premade + 1 Pug better then 5 pugs. The main reason is … communication.

Got stuck in the ground with Ele water 5. Got stuck in wall with ele teleport and RTL. You can still use skills but cannot move or use movement skills. You can only get out with teleport or death

I am lvl 1 in sPvP on 1 of my accounts
and lvl 30ish on my other.

Does that mean that if I want to make another character on my second account I have to regrind to victory just to play tourney with that character?

Sorry Ling, I mean … Greed (see what I did there?)
Guess my answer is: Yes if they keep adding cool secondary objectives

Calcifire.1864:

state of the game interview with GW2guru

to point out the relevant bit:

spatial surge and other beam skills will pierce, instead of just clipping through enemies

in other words, when scepter 1A zaps an enemy, any enemies between you and the target will also be zapped.

the OriginalPoster (screw you forum software) is suggesting that water blast should be turned into a beam like water spraying from a hose, that way it would heal people around the enemy, and in the path of the beam

(seriously, “the” “OP” “is” “suggesting” is kittened out >_<)

looks something like “the okittenugesting?”

For some reason the forum pics up words with spaces, so it sees a swear word across your 3 words and kittens it. I had one once where I said something about someone targeting something and it pulled a swear word out of the 2 words and kitened it

DiogoSilva.7089:

There will exist more means to counter boons, which should make it eaiser to counter dd bunker eles.

This is what should have happened in the first place instead of just nerfing eles.

Skill: 1234
Attunement: Shift 1234
Heal: 6
Util: 789
Elite: 0 or R

6789 bound mouse.
6 is the big button. 7 Is my stunbreak/condition clear and is the next easiest. Teleport is next after that. Finally the least used utility is the final button at the top.
Back button on mouse is Auto run, but thinking of free it up for a skill

Shift 1234 also bout to mouse but in annoying places so I usually use shift 1234.

Mouse is the Corsair Vengeance M90

S/F bunker with 100% protection, 100% swiftness, 100% fury, a large invunerable time, reflect and projectile destroy.

from memory:
20, 10, 30, 0, 10
Grab all signet related traits and the other obvious ones. 4 signets (3 if you want a stun break) and whatever elite you want.

Armour and weap and amulet, you can work these out. Either full defensive or conditions.

Hotjoin: no (its TDM zerg matches anyways so midas well have a TDM mode)

Tourneys: fence sitting, would like some other modes but they would need to be tested so that they aren’t chosen over conquest

So …
Friends and SPvP.

When you hotjoin a game you can only join solo .. Check.

You can join your friend by right clicking and clicking on Join Friend in PvP .. Check

You might be on the opposite team as your friend and need to team change .. Check – thats fine.

You can stay with your friend into the next match until you give up .. Check

Back to you might be on the opposite team. Its not really a you might. It is an over 20 games in a row on 5 differernt nights (so around 100 matches) we were on the same team once and had to change the 99 other matches.

I understand why we get thrown around. But seriously is there code built in to make you on opposite teams when you are in a party or are we just very annoyed and unlucky?

Before you say Go to TPvP, we do TPvP with our guild. But sometimes you just want to play together, try out combos etc etc and you cant do that easily. Trying to get another friend into pvp and his reponse is, no point, no character reward, cant be on same team in hot join, not going to happen.