Guild Wars 2

In PvP . Yes, thats Elementalist tactics 101, keep moving, dodging and evade all attacks. It does make sense since we are kinda wearing a bathrobe and it does reward people who react faster or can predict enemy moves/actions instead of going guardian style and stand still as a rock which is boring as puppy (<- the new kitten)

Staff is fine as it is right now, if you know what youre doing even 1v1 is easy to put your areas to good use.

Also.. Daggerstorm doesnt even come close to Staff Elementalist areas.. nothing beats Staff Ele in areaspells

anything above 30 fps is more then fine if you have a low latency to support it. Below 30 fps the human eye will see the frames for to long to look fluid in the brain and it will start lagging yeah

I dont really get the fps problem though. got a avarage laptop i bought 2 years ago for about 700 euros. I pvp on 1080p with all the graphical settings on max except for shadows, shaders and post procession settings and have 45-60 fps. In pve i yust put everything on max and still have 40-50 fps

though ofcourse alot of stuff can change the fps, could be a certain gpu not working 100% well together with gw2, a driver interfering or not optimised for the gw2 system, a certain application lowering your performance while playing gw2. Seen people with high-end pcs who still get low fps due to certain cards or drivers.

Kyhlo is the most demanding map due to the rain etc. yes, but if you have anything above the minimal specs and play with everything on the lowest setting, i would surely imagine it should run without real lag. Quite weird youre having problems with it since in my opinion gw2 doesnt even require that much, before the betas i didnt even think my laptop would be able to run GW2 :P

Calle.8746:

These topics are getting so old. If you’re gonna complain about Elementalist being UP or theives being OP please make a more constructive topic. This is just useless.

As most people will see these are comical videos made to entertain people. Some people will try to take this serious, which ruins the whole idea behind the videos.

God.. i did so many tournaments at my US server… this will suck so bad now im at Eu .. /cry

God.. i did so many tournaments at my US server… this will suck so bad now im at Eu .. /crycome on 15th november path, i need you to fix that!

The constant delay is not a problem for people with stronger internet tbh. Been playing on US server since BWE1 and havent had a single problem yet (im EU btw) …
only yesterday switched to an EU server (which i barely noticed the difference) ..

sadly enough tournament chests are bugged with such transfers so now im screwed anyway

What if you could team up with people on a server of a different region
.
Have a hot-join server list of 650 server of which half is EU and half is US. Indicated next to the server.
You would be able to choose if you want to play on a US pvp server or an EU one and at the play now button you would be able to set a preference of what server you want to join.

The free tournament que would only take a few seconds before starting. You could set it to only find tournament que’s based on either US or EU (depending on where you live) or choose to join an international que making it alot easier to find more teams faster. (which is in fact Qing both in US as well as EU Q at the same time)

The paid tournament que would have the same features. and would be wat faster then it is atm.

Even though i understand not everyone has masterfull internet (thats why the stick with your own region buttons) it would make sure the waittimes would be vastly reduced.
Both people with slow internet sticking to their own region, as well as people with strong internet going international connection would profit from this, because the slow people stick with their own region while other players get Qd at both the EU as well the US Q, making it possible for EU people to be placed in an US match and US players to be placed in an EU match.
Helping the people with slow internet by utilising the strong internet from others to the optimal. For exampel a guy in US with slow internet can be placed on a server hosted in US with some EU people who Qd internationally because of their nice internet.
This will also help people playing at for their region, irregular times by putting in people living in other regions for whose standards those times are norma;.

I have alot of friends, in different region and different servers. It pains me to not be able to play with them or to wait 25 mins in paid tournament Q to get enough people.
People tell me to switch to them or they to me. But people have latency problems, their friends on that server to, attachements to certain guilds etc. etc. All that stuff they can not break out of to get together.

Thats why i wanna leave this suggestion here. For people who wants faster PvP, more PvP, more social PvP and above all PvP equal for everyone.

thanks for reading :P

If you did alot of free tournaments and then switched region, will paid tournament chests also not be gained?

John Smith.4610:

Legendaries becoming unreachable.

Well, i thought thats why they were called Legendaries -_-

OMG dont forget about those trebuchets, they do more dmg then thieves and have more health to. NERF!
OW god, not to mention those boxes standing on the ground at Kyhlo, its like to hits to destroy them, they seriously need balancing

hehe, nah yust kidding. Yust wait till 15 nov. hopefully they will fix alot of bugs.
I heard someone say a dev said that all the patch notes published during the november 15-18th would be massive with ALOT of stuff. Ofcourse i havent got any proof that its true, but it would explain arenanet being a bit quiet about what they are doing :P
I hope next patchnotes will have some nice fixes, so that we can start balancing professions from a point where almost noone has to struggle with bugs and glitches anymore

PS Elementalist bunkers are NO tanks. Elementalists cant rely on armor or defensive stuff. all they rely on are an bugged evasive arcana, healing amulet and mostly water fields.
Saying they are defensive, no your wrong. Saying they heal much much more then intended, yes

i do not really think anything was really nerfed that much.
There are 2 things i support though:
- Better elementalist elites, not yust summon elemental
- Elemental clickable skill

Yes, i have to agree with your suggestion to change the icon of the elemental after summoning him to a single spell the elemental will use when clicked.
Fire area by fire, healing area by ice etc. etc.

That way it would make elementals more usefull and you could perfectly time the elemental spells to work in your advantage.

Atm its sad elementals are kinda our only good choice for elite because the others suck even worse.

Maybe being able to time the skill of an elemental would be overpowered … but in my opinion its worth a try :P

Together with increasing the health while an tornado by another 200%, making its spells be able to cast them faster after eachother OR stronger and making Fiery Greatsword so that it actually is usefull, perhaps give an immobilise to one of the spells and let the dmg of fiery greatsword increase by 15% if the enemy is burning i would like to see such a thing happen :P

Haha, i bind my #1 and #2 spell to things easily reachable.
So i bound 1 to my toaster and 2 to my cat, since they are far better reachable in the heat of battle then my keyboard

GENIUS!

also everyone taking this serious. come on, its yust a video made for fun

also: MAGE TANKS!

NO, elementalist bunkers do NOT rely on defensive stuff or armor, therefor they are no tanks. What they do is abuse an evasive arcana bug and stacking alot of healing power together with that to freaking overheal everyone

Cultural gear is like obsidian gear in gw1 .. useless and very costly, mostly meant for showoff and golddumpsite

Sprawl.3891:

I thought you were supposed to get items equal to your actual level..

Nope, only exp. you get is upgraded to be usefull for your “normal” level.

Araelen.6374:

Written in stone – Earth XII
When going into mistform and then using Signet of Restoration, you recieve the “use” healing, but the passive effect goes on a full 20 sec CD.

Thats because Mist Form is bugged and treats you as if you have no traits points in anything

Conclusion about all these posts:

Stop asking for nerfs, ask for faster bugfixes instead :P

This suggestion has already been seen and supported by so many people. I have heard an arenanet dev saying ingame that they were working on a system were everyone in the match could see the normal colors, but observers, e-sport viewers etc. would be able to see red-blue colors.
and yeah.. i really hope they implement this soon :P

The only thing i hate about people saying “nerf bunkers” is when they have no clue what makes the bunkers so strong since every single bunker gets his strenght from a different area.
For example if you were to nerf armor, you would not hit a single bunker and only make the squishier professions more squishy.
Instead look at what makes them strong. Fo example an bunker ele. his armor is avarage, nothing to drastic and the dmg reduction isnt that great, it has no obvious shield/block spells that stand out and no way it can get an 100% protection uptime. The escape possiblities are great but still dont explain the bunkerness. Now you will notice there is only one thing left, very obviously the healing gained from evasive arcana being able to activate so many times combined with an amulet wih healing power makes this bunker an effecive one.

If some1 were to do that with all apparently according to you guys “OP” bunkerbuilds, arenanet would get something usefull from these posts.
Atm i feel like its yust randomly trowing rocks at defensive builds in general even though only thing it will do if they follow these posts is nerf the bunker, and 1000 perfectly normal viable builds with it

I know almost noone will read this and even fewer will actually save this in their brains. But being more precise, even if its yust an ragepost, will help you so much more.

Thanks anyone for reading and cya later flies away

:D

doubt they will do alo about elementalist bunkers.. atm aside from surviving there is no advantage and they die against 2-3 skilled people easily.
They will change out hard burst professions though so backstab thiefs, 100b warriors etc. will feel it, though arenanet already said they will get improvements in other areas.

and yes, phoenix, dragons tooth etc. are like Engineers elixers atm. totally random and more based on luck and dumb enemies then on skill

Norn rules, who cares about racials anyway.. they suck :P

though elementalist elites arent great either..

also

Sylvari has more elite skills then human

depends. if by elite you mean usefull. yes
if you mean elite as in the elite skillslot you get at level 30.your trolling

since both human as well as sylvari have 3 elite racials

Downed state is an addition.. a new feature. In my opinion when balanced a bit better its really cool and handy.
No complaints here and i hope they never even think about removing downed state

btw arenanet announced they will be changing high burst dmg next patch (i think 15th nov that is)

What people will do: yeey nerfs inc. !
what people should do: … ow god, if arenanet lowers burst dmg, what else will those classes get in return :O

I like gw2 pvp and together with some friends in TS i seriously enjoy every second of it.

I couldnt care less about people whining about anything

Atm GW2 only has conquest mode.. therefor you cannot rely on 1v1 to bring anything but sadness atm because its mostly based around.. you guess it.. conquest

P.S. Never agreed with those pesky posts saying “this class is OP, and this one to” … everyone knows 50% of the people arent even above rank 5 and mostly those are the guys who make that stuff .. i mean, come on

Most of the people complain about pvp, dungeons never are hard with any profession :P

stun is not a cndition, neither is daze so signet of water wont remove them.
anything else from immobilze till fear should be removed by the signet though

Elemenetalist is fun if you have the right mindset, if not it will never work. Glass cannons are rare simply because thiefs do more burst. Commonly used are things like scepter/dagger using defensivelike builds and staff bunkers.
I didnt wanted to become bunker, i hate dealing zero damage even though it survives better, so i choose to abbandon the idea of tank-only ele and i really enjoy my staff elementalist atm.
Having ALOT of power, massive areadmg and alot of mobility is very awesome even though i might not be as tanky as bunker specced ones. (who cares about bunkering anyway. that aint fun). Elementalist does take alot of micromanagement, special computermouse might be recommended :P

You could take a small look at http://epic-timeraider.weebly.com/my-elementalist-build--guide.html if your interested in elementalist. I do not encourage you to copy the build though since i have had alot of people telling me they failed with it :P
But some of the general guidelines etc. are in there

Mesmers. Well, they are fun. Even if they go full glass cannon they still have nice survivability since mostly the only dmg they get really affected by is areadmg.
Mostly common nowadays are people who spec some stuff into some defensive part, to make sure they can withstand some of the burstdmg done nowadays and then go fully for shattering their illusions/phantasms. Shattering is a great way to apply real heavy dmg to an enemy combined with conditions and it makes sure you can cover their view with alot of particle effects and clones etc. making it easier to survive together with blink/stealth etc.

Both classes have a general amount of different builds, i know i only mentioned the ones i think are major atm and derived the professions from that, but still should give you a general outlining.

in general Mesmer is one who stays out of the fight, letting conditions, clones/phantasms and such things take care of the enemies and survives because of that. Elementalists run into an fight, usually get involved in everything and therefor rely more on their movement skills and avoidance.

Though both gain alot of complaints. 1 for being OP, 1 for being UP, neither of them deserves that status. They are both viable, both good to be build to the role you want them to be.

The only thing is they have a MAJOR difference in feel. In my opinion you can see a clear difference between Mesmer players and Elementalist players.

After all thise nonsense i would yust advise you to take 2 days. 1 day you play elementalist for a day, the other day you play Mesmer for a day.
Best is if you combine that with some small advice/recommendations from players who play those classes in PvP.

If you have any questions about Elementalists in general or with a Staff build, yust ask Warmage Timeraider :P
I do have slight knowledge of the other elementalist weapons, but since i have not mastered anything aside from my Staff build i wont be able to give stable advice about that

No matter how good the community is, there always are rotten apples.

Though i hope they take the rotten apples, slice them in little pieces and feed them to the birds.

Armor of Earth
Protect yourself with earth armor and gain protection and stability.
Duration: 8 s
Stability: 8 s
Protection: 8 s
Breaks stun
90 seconds cooldown, 72 with traits

VS

Mist form
Morph into an invulnerable, vaporous mist for a brief time.
Duration: 3 s
Breaks stun
75 seconds cooldown, 60 with traits (IF it would work, which it doesnt since it stays 75)

Advantages mostly used by other people:
Mist form has less cooldown
Mist forms invulnerability makes it an “OW kitten” button
Armor of Earths protection makes for major dmg reduction
Stability is great

Things i thought of:
Lesser cooldown on Mist form does not matter (aside from the fact that the CD doesnt get reduced by the trait .. Mist Form itself is to blame for this.. Mist form disables all traits while in that form) because you only use Mist Form if you are almost dying. Armor of Earth can be used at the start of a fight, making better use of the cooldown because you activate it way more.
Protection is only 33% dmg reduction.. yes its nice, but is it worth the long cooldown.

So… who do you think should be the winner of the “most usefull” contest :P
(talking about general usefullness… ofcourse there will always be certain scenarios where one works way better then the other)

so.. Mist Form or Armor of Earth?

so.. Mist Form or Armor of Earth?

I wish elementalists could be like that

dmg underwater compared to other professions is utterly sad.

the only spells that are strong enough to compete with other professions auto-attack are either elite or have massive cooldowns.

The big nerf was at the end of BWE1, the one some weeks before release was nothing compared to that.
The nerf at the end of BWE1 was equal to a general damage reduction of 75%

i would vote for this, hope devs perhaps change this to the suggestion part of the forums

though it probably will get covered by useless threads there making it unfindable :P

Well, bunkerbuilds arent that great any more. Nowadays i dont see alot of bunkers that could survive as well as before halloween. Now that they are slightly adjusting armor, no its not in the patchnotes, yes arenanet is allowed to make such changes as testing without notifying anyone. Its only slightly though.
What i totally agree with are the dmg suggestions, also i have to agree that some spells might need a slight revamp instead of yust buffing dmg in general.
What i do have to add is next to the sceptre/dagger/focus builds, staff builds more focussed on avoidance and going for dmg might need some changes to.
Yes, on targetdummies staff elementalists seems to do great dmg and are on par with other professions
In pvp though. Where an warrior pulls off 50% of the dmg he does on a targetdummy, as staff elementalist it already takes skills to pull 15% of his practise dmg.

Not saying non-bunker staff eles are bad atm, not at all. I play a non-bunker staff ele myself and adore every little part of it.
But the fact that 50% of the spells require the enemies to be morons is a bit sad.

For staffs for example i would think of some small revamps making it more easier to hit, even if its yust a tiny effect.

Lets say.. For example:

Static field dazes everyone who crosses the fieldlines and the field lasts 4 seconds. Now the problem is if an spellcaster is in it, t can be quite useless. So what if for example the static field after being up for 2 second applied 10 stacks of vulnerability (5 seconds duration) on everyone inside the field.
Such a change is very small, but then it feels as if even if noone gets dazed by the walls, it really did something

Let geyser aside from the heal apply 1 stack of vulnerability every 0.5 seconds to enemies

Let eruption cripple people for 1 second if they enter the field where eruption is churning

Let lava font give 1 second of burning to everyone who walks over it.

Such small changes, such little effects that barely change anything. But by that the staff would feel so much more dynamic and more then only usable when hiding somewhere to rain areas only when there are more then 4 people in a small cirkle

I say.. If other professions miscoordinates or misses an attack its usually something they can restore
If an elementalist does that, we lost so much.
With all weapons i would say, add a slight featere that if our spell doesnt work out it is not entirely lost. I think we deserve that for having such a demanding class

(aside from bunkers eles ofc. But if they like doing nothing aside from running around and prefer dealing 400 dmg with meteor shower. Not my problem )

I like my ele, i didnt make it a bunker neither its fully defensive. I yust made sure i have enough defense to be able survive for a while against 2 people and from there on all went into damage. Especially toughness builds using cantrips combined with
Might stacking because of the cantrip trait in fire and then for example siil of battle really makes you feel like a jack-of-all trades which is great in any role you want to be

Beware.. Good eles require micromanagent.. ALOT and with quick reflexes

Some guy some comments above said that bunkers arent by design because with no trinity everyone must be dps.

That kind of stuff makes people commit suicide over the idiocy of that comment. I would watch out before you hurt some1 with that non-logical nonesense

@Monkeymoo
every tried Sigil of Battle? I liked Sigil of bloodlust but i tried combining Sigil of Battle with the firetrait giving 3 stacks of might per cantrip and that works like a charm to :P

What i always say about people critising a normal mechanic:

Moa + being able to run away = Moa fail, mesmer wasted his elite.. (still makes sure you cant do anything for the coming 10 seconds, which is insane)
Moa + being immobilised or stunned by some1 = say bye bye to your life

they need to revamp the spell

the title:
Eles , harder to beat than warrior and thief combined!

ofcourse warriors are easy kills and thief has 13k health

its hard not to be more tankier than that.. jeez

:P

Razer Naga Hex
shift = dodge
Q-E-R-F – all 4 attunements
mousebutton 1-5 are spells 1-5
mousebutton 6 is teleport (smart ha, fast targetting makes this a reflex :P)
1-3 are utility skills 1-2 (teleport is on utilityskill 3/mousebutton6)
2 is heal

for your D/D. Well, tbh both condition as well as power works fine for D/D, both great stats. But if you are also stacking toughness and vitality and are all about survivability, condition might work out better.

But again, its about “what do you want to kill”.
You want to kill warriors, guardians,thiefs,rangers… condition works better
you want to kill mesmer,elementalist,necromancer,engineer … direct dmg usually works better.

I would yust get your pvp gear ready and try both kinds out do a match of 5 and see what stuff you find more suitable for your goal

Wish i could say more, but im a staff user :P

Well. Bunker teams did get a nice buff recently. I’m talking about ele downstate buff. It means if you run against ele/guardian on the same point you can’t go after ele. You have to take down guardian first. Otherwise ele just jumps next to guardian/far away teammate and gets easy revive.

bunker eles is one of the professions who also got nerfed in our armor effectiveness lately though not announced and they are still working/changing it …
people who run one feel the difference atm

i dont like bunker though, rather play hybrid.. survival combined with high dmg always is fun

Asmodean.7123:
Noctred.6732:
It’s programmatically possible to make it so that observers see solid colors for both teams, while the players themselves have a toggle to either see solid colors or custom dyes.
Everybody wins.
Just quoting this again because there is no reason this should not be a feature in this game. If the devs really listen to the players, let them see this 100 times a day.

Due to the long cooldown we can only use it once and vapor form ends ALOT quicker then 3 seconds. At least before the buff we could chain vapor forms together making kt REALLY annoying… If we made it past the first stomp.
OP must be mad eles now can survive 2 more seconds will downed… Thats a serious threat to the balance :O

-_-

After more then 30 ranks of pvp, many won wvw battles and a number of dungeons i can say this about my elementalist..

Yes i am worthless, i can never deal as much dmg as a thief, i can never tank as well as a guardian and i can never have as much distraction skills as a Mesmer….
But god, if Elementalist is the profession for you, you cant do all those things… While having a ton of fun and enjoying it every second.

I say Amen to the profession which i think needs some revamps, alot of bugfixes and balancing at some areas… But also the profession which if someone gave me the chance to exchange my character for any other profession, i would gladly tell him to get the kitten out of my sight

Yeah dmg difference between lesser and greater is not that big… Health/defense difference at the other side….

In fact lately i have been feeling changes in effectiveness in armor. Bunkers are getting harder to play and it feel easier to deal dmg to them compared to before halloween.
I dont like Arenanet screwing with armor though because armor wasnt the thing that made some bunkers so strong and they are really hurting hybrid people atm. People who dont wanna play bunker, but also not a glass cannon. People who rely on armor and power instead of the armor/avoidance/massive healing of bunkers or the power/precision and 0 armor of glass cannons.

Bunker are fine now in my opinion, but as i see it some other viable hybrid builds took an unnecary beating for it to, innocent casualties

Vapor form has a chance to revive you. If you spam #2 yust before dying it sometimes brings you in Vapor form before you got really downed.
The moment he Vapor form ends, you are still alive and have 50% of your health

Happened 4 times today

Ps.. To above.. The heal heals me while in mistform.. Always.

Elementalist finally gets something thats on par with all other professions and the whinig begins.
God, i usually play the weaker classes to avoid the whining and raging of people with personal problems or a grudge against the profession. I have been doing pvp since that patch but till now he Mist form has been handy and better to stall the stomp. But it never saved me nonetheless

our bugs fixed.. thats all i want atm