Guild Wars 2

I picked elementalist, but mainly becuase I also wanted to be a scholar profession and wear light armor.

That would be too big of an advantage given to the holder of a legendary weapon. You can bet if they implemented something like that even more people would start complaining that legendary weapons are too hard to get.

skullmount.1758:

Cyrus.8261:

To add to this: It’s advantageous to complete the daily on your highest level character, since the XP and coin reward scales with your current characters level.
Most of the XP you get completing the tiers of the achievements, so even if your highest is already 80 and doesn’t need xp, it’s better to complete the daily on that one.

Note that complete means fill out the last category, not opening the chest. The chest will only be available to the character you were on when it appeared.

Thats not entirely true. The coin doesn’t necessarily scale with your level (unless you mean your adjusted level?), it scales with the level of the zone you’re in when you finish it.
I’ve completed it on a lvl80 in a lower zone and didn’t get the 5s I would have got if I had completed it in one of the high level (70-80) zones.
I’m not sure about the XP though, since I’ve never kept track of that.

I didn’t realize that. Does WvWvW maps count as a level 80 map?

Kite.2510:

I expected of the legendary weapons to at least be stronger than the exotic ones even by a small amount!
Are you really gona make us waste so much time money and effort for a skin?

No, they don’t make you. If it did have better stats then they would be making you.

I’m saving all the free ones I’ve run across for when I really need it. So far I haven’t used any.

I would love to group with people. A lot of time if I find a good player I follow them around and use my attunement switching to give them boons (not that it’s a huge help or needed in open world PvE, but I like to feel like I’m helping others).

It’s hard to find people to do this with though.

It’s so easy to remove those slows though. If you tone down the NPC beasties and their slows then condition removal and a whole slew of utility skills become pointless.

Gab Superstar.4059:

Wasselin.1235:

Then why are trash mobs there? Is it supposed to be some kind of “strategy” to run through them until they reset? From what you describe Kerrigan a dungeon should just be a run from a start line to a finish line. It might be more efficient that way but is it actually fun?

It’s how it has always been since GW1, and I guess a lot of new people caught on to it after running with GW1 players. When there are no world first achievements and no gear progression the only way to tell how good someone is at doing something is how efficient they are at doing it.

The Speed Clearing community was probably the most disliked and misunderstood community in GW1, and it looks like they already are in GW2 with 20 new threads exactly like this popping up on various forums every week.

But guess what? Don’t like it? Don’t do it!

EDIT: And yes people obviously think it’s fun >.<

I get that speed clearing could be fun— I just disagree that it’s fun to run past mobs. Sneaking past a few mob packs can be fun, without aggroing them, but running through them until they reset just seems completely unintended behavior to me.

A group that knows which packs to avoid and has a strategy for killing the mobs they can’t avoid aggroing should be rewarded. A speed clear should be a measure of skill, not a measure of how fast you can run through mobs until they reset.

Then why are trash mobs there? Is it supposed to be some kind of “strategy” to run through them until they reset? From what you describe Kerrigan a dungeon should just be a run from a start line to a finish line. It might be more efficient that way but is it actually fun?

Why does it have to be one time only? I don’t get what is gained by having it only happen once. Is it a technical reason? It just seems like a waste of resources— if its possible why not replay it a couple times at least so more people can experience it.

It’s just a waste not to have a dungeon finder. It’s like making a beautiful house and then requiring that people climb in through a window to get inside.

There really needs to be a dungeon finder. It’s just a necessity in a modern mmo. It turns doing a dungeon from something you have to set aside 2 hours to do into something that you can reasonably get done in under an hour. A lot of gamers now a days just don’t have the free time to commit to setting large chunks of time for a game.

I agree. I don’t want new races or new professions. If they keep the number of races and professions small they can really build those up to be really awesome.

I agree. It’s what is missing from the game for me. Even though they have made it so there is no drawback to playing with others in the open world pve there is also not any reason to really play WITH others either, only alongside them.

For some unknown reason I’ve built myself as a support elementalist who clears conditions, hands out boons, and provides a good burst heal every now and then— but there doesn’t really seem to be a place for that in the open world.

I don’t like it. It’s not fun giving up some of your characters power in order to have a better chance at dropping loot. I think the food buffs are the perfect place for magic find, but not gear.

It’s also kind of weird, since you are usually working towards getting better gear, and so you don your magic find gear to farm mats, golds, exotics, to improve your gear. But once you actually do improve your gear—- you won’t actually wear it most of the time. You’ll still wear your magic find gear to increase drop rates.

It’s bubbles. Rolling in the deep.

I hate getting into the dungeons— it’s so annoying to find a group “the old fashion way.” I still can’t believe they don’t have any plans for a dungeon finder. What kind of modern mmo doesn’t have an easy way to group up and tackle a dungeon?

Well, Leokins, the villagers underneath that castle do seem a little… off. It definitely sounds like something shady is going on.

Another reason I would rather there be an automatic grouping tool.

What was wrong with the old statue? I mean it did seem kind of impossible, like it would fall over if it was made in real life but it seemed okay for a video game. I’m not really that attached to it though— I just hope if they really are replacing it they replace it with something cool.

I agree. Either that or design hoods so it doesn’t look like you suddenly joined the monk-hood and shaved your head.

I think the problem with the Prayer to Dwyana isn’t that it needs a buff, but that it’s boring.

I want a strawberry blonde hair.

I like condition damage as an ele, especially because it’s usually very reliable to apply. A lot of our skills are easily dodged, but you can’t dodge flame burst. I think it works well on a bunker elementalist, because while you are dodging, healing, and ccing the conditions are usually ticking away at the player health. I’m not an expert or anything, but it’s worked okay for me.

What about just eating a pizza?

In my healing/toughness/condition damage water/arcane build I had no room for condition duration but then I discovered the veggie pizza food line that gives me quite a bit of condition duration.

It is limiting in that each terrestrial weapon is obviously set up to fulfill a certain role and has a distinct range. Unlike most of the other professions we can’t switch from a full support weapon to a direct damage weapon. With daggers you are also stuck with a very short range.

Arcane Wave isn’t a cantrip but you can use it while cc’d or during other spells. You can do that with all the arcane skills.

It’s kind of strange because in PvP Shaman’s gear provides toughness/condition damage/healing but in PvE it’s vitality/conditon damage/healing.

I almost think this is supposed to be possible right now (at least in arenanet’s mind). I think you are supposed to be able to buff your favorite attunement by going down that trait line OR choose arcane trait line and switch rapidly between them. The problem is that the elemental traits lines don’t really support it because they suck.

Traits like Internal Fire, Pyromancer’s Pussance, One with Air, Piercing Shards, etc… reward you for staying in one attunement. The problem is that no trait line can transform an attunement into a real full-fledged weapon set like what the other professions have access to.

An interesting idea— but why is a huge penalty even necessary? The defining feature of the elementalist is supposed to be versatility. Right now the price we pay for attunement swapping, as you note, actually makes us less versatile NOT more, because all of our skills are half-skills (compared to other classes) and no attunement can really stand on it’s own. Also we are locked into what the developers give us— while other professions have a little bit more flexibility because they get to choose what they swap to.

I get where you are going and do think that increases the cooldown on attunement swapping could give room to the developers to make each attunement more viable all by itself. But it would also require a huge overhaul of the profession. Can you imagine playing staff and being stuck with fire and earth on 1 minute cooldowns?

I think ArenaNet would only do this as a last resort, because it would basically be removing what is supposed to make the elementalist special.

We really need another underwater weapon. It’s just not fair to only have one choice because it doesn’t mesh with all of our possible builds.

Say I’m an arcane staff elementalist with condition damage/healing and I play by giving buffs and loading the enemy with conditions by laying down combo fields. When I go underwater I would suddenly have only 2 heals and no water combo fields, no fire combo fields, a burn on a 40 second cooldown and a bleed that requires me to be in the face of the enemy (and the 1 second lol bleed from rock blade).

I think the trident and lack of choice with underwater weapons really show the price we pay for attunements isn’t MORE versatility but LESS. If each attunement was really able to stand on it’s own and be comparable to the kit other classes have in ONE weapon then maybe we would be more versatile but we would still be locked into what the developers give us.

That last sentence should read “They lack physical toughness. Period.”

I agree. Skipping trash by just running through it all and waiting for it to reset just feels wrong to me. I also see that killing the amount of trash mobs that are in the dungeons is a waste of time and tedious. So I see why people want to skip them.

I can’t believe that is how ArenaNet intended for the dungeon to go down. What is the point of having so many trash mobs? Is it really supposed to be a “run the gauntlet” style of game play? Or is it to make the dungeons way longer than they need to be?

I haven’t noticed a single bug fix so far either. Glyph of Elementals still shows it’s cooldown text instead of it’s duration text in PvP right after summoning it. That seems like a really easy thing to fix.

I really don’t think it’s my hard drive— if anything it might be my internet as my connection is kind of slow. It’s just strange because in bw1 the times were much shorter and it seemed like every weekend added time to my loading screens.

Like I said bw1 it was fairly fast. Other games I have no problem at all. In LoL for instance, I’m almost always the first to load the map.

Why is bountiful power in water though when arcane is the one that gives you tons of boons and + boon duration. Putting it in water makes it incredibly limiting.

Lingering Elements and Arcane Fury need to switch places and durations. 2 seconds of a boon is way too short. The other day I moused over a ranger with fury and it had 20 seconds LEFT. They can give us more than 2 seconds worth of Fury.

Every single staff skill except burning retreat shows a cast bar now. Was it always like this?

Did you ever fix this problem? I have long load times in gw2 as well, and was wondering what the fix is. It didn’t used to be quite so long in the first betas.

I think maybe they forgot a zero in the percent chance? It’s so low that it has to be a bug. Why even have it there?

This question is kind of related: What does lingering elements do exactly? I read once that it lets you keep casting a channeled spell from one element if you switch to another mid cast… is that really what it does?

At this point isn’t that the best option an ELEMENTALIST has?

Don’t be naive noobdestroyer, when they say they are watching a specific trait build for a class it isn’t to buff it. He goes on to say that some elementalist survival is too high— that makes me think there vision for this class is for it to only be played as glass cannon. From what I’ve seen and heard elementalist survivability requires giving up almost all offensive power.

It’s not just windborne speed. A ton of abilities and traits that effect “nearby” allies require you to practically be standing on top of allies for them to get the effect. With the nature of the gameplay that makes supporting your team by giving them boons very difficult.

I hate water 5 because of how far you travel. Yes it does great damage when it connects for all the hits, but it also can fling you into even more mobs. My biggest problem underwater is that I feel like I can’t move an inch without aggroing the entire ocean.

The pvp outrider’s set corresponds to the exotic gear you can make through crafting: exalted for tailors, emblazoned for leatherworkers, and draconic for plate.

You probably figured this out, but the pvp outrider’s set corresponds to the exotic gear you can make through crafting: exalted for tailors, emblazoned for leatherworkers, and draconic for plate.

KogarasuMaru.7036:

Wasselin.1235:

KogarasuMaru.7036:

Wasselin.1235:

Is it intended that Gylph of Elementals cooldown to triggers twice? In PvE the cooldown starts counting down right when you summon the elemental, and then starts over again when the elemental dies.

The second cooldown shows how long the elemental lasts.

It doesn’t. I have the trait that reduced the cooldown. The first cooldown starts counting down from 96 seconds. at around 36 seconds the elemental dies, and the cooldown starts counting down again from 96 seconds. If it was displaying the amount of time the elemental lasts the first cooldown should start from 60 seconds.

Now it could be that they mean for the first cooldown to be the duration and it’s a display bug OR prehaps they actually changed the cooldown to start when you summon the elemental (listening to player feedback) and forgot to take the part out where the cooldown stats when the elemental dies.

I just tested it in the mists, the second timer shows how long the elemental lives. Every time I use it, 60 seconds start counting down. The glyph resets and starts the cd of 96/120 after elemental dies.

So it does work in the mists, it doesn’t display correctly in pve.

I just tested it in the mists and in lion’s arch. In the Mists when you summon the elemental it shows 60 seconds. When it dies the 120 second cooldown starts ticking down. In Lion’s Arch it shows the cooldown of 96 seconds instead of the duration when you first summon the elemental.

Anlyon.8375:

So really the CD number should say “However long your elemental lives up to 60 seconds + 96/120”

Yeah so really the cooldown is 3 minutes / 2:36 seconds long. In PvE it just doesn’t display correctly.

KogarasuMaru.7036:

Wasselin.1235:

Is it intended that Gylph of Elementals cooldown to triggers twice? In PvE the cooldown starts counting down right when you summon the elemental, and then starts over again when the elemental dies.

The second cooldown shows how long the elemental lasts.

It doesn’t. I have the trait that reduced the cooldown. The first cooldown starts counting down from 96 seconds. at around 36 seconds the elemental dies, and the cooldown starts counting down again from 96 seconds. If it was displaying the amount of time the elemental lasts the first cooldown should start from 60 seconds.

Now it could be that they mean for the first cooldown to be the duration and it’s a display bug OR prehaps they actually changed the cooldown to start when you summon the elemental (listening to player feedback) and forgot to take the part out where the cooldown stats when the elemental dies.

No it’s only your level. I wanted to do my personal story all at once and stopped doing it around level 30. I always got the mail. Maybe your mailbox is full?

Is it intended that Gylph of Elementals cooldown to triggers twice? In PvE the cooldown starts counting down right when you summon the elemental, and then starts over again when the elemental dies.

I really think a dungeon finder, at least for story mode, would solve this problem. There are probably a lot of people who would run the dungeons in story mode if you make it easy for them. I know when wow implemented their dungeon finder tons of people who had never set foot in a dungeon suddenly started doing them all the time and finding them fun.

krookie.6378:

Personally, I stopped doing dungeons because most people I ran into while doing them were dbags. The dungeons are like an antithesis to the rest of the game. You get kicked for watching cutscenes, people leave if they die and to make things worse, without a dungeon finder tool, you spent 30+ minutes just hanging out in a particular zone spamming /map to find a group.

I agree! They state that their design goals is for the game to be fun moment to moment. No waiting around to have fun. Unfourtantely dungeons couldn’t be further from that. A lot of the dungeon design “undoes” the visceral nature of combat because very often the “best” way to do something is to run past it or cheese it somehow.

I think they need to implement more difficulty modes. Story mode, which you are only supposed to run once, and exploratory mode are not enough.

I also think there needs to be a distinction between difficulty and length. Filling as dungeon with high hp mobs doesn’t make really make it more difficult, just longer.n