Guild Wars 2

Serval.6458:

It might not even be intentional, I recall the attunement buff used to increase damage by something close to doubling it. Maybe when they made you do no damage without it they didn’t increase the damage bonus it offers?

Yeah right,like the loot bug was unintentional-this change makes the events way harder for everyone -zerkers will be pretty much mandatory since cond builds will still do no damage to the knight.

Taygus.4571:

ok stated it…. now actually give your opinion and start a discussion.

(btw the nerf isn’t much and doesnt prevent the knights being beaten with 25-30 people at a knight… Blue is the worst, and so should have/needs the most players.
But it’s not any harder because of the power nerf)

Blue is only hard because of the menders which no one pays attention to

Is this some kind of sick joke?
So you doubled the toughness on the assault knights in an attempt to make condition builds more viable on a boss that reflects conditions in a game that has a condition cap that can be reached by 3 people.
GG WP

edit:changed topic name to something less angry

I will kittening laugh my kitten off when Anet starts removing convenience en mass and all you white knights start to figure out somethings wrong.

Mirta.5029:

if they’re doing something without touching their keyboard, that’s botting. You can report for that.

He is talking about afk people-that’s not a reportable offense.

Elricht Kaltwind.8796:

Windwalker.2047:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Windwalker.2047:

Vilkatis.6495:

Rata Sum ,anyone heard of it?

Do tell me where the mystic forge is located in that midget-populated town?

>implying the mystic forge isn’t really close to the asura gates in Vigil Keep
>implying it takes longer than 1 minute to port to Rata Sum
>implying Lion’s Arch is the only city in the game

I can keep going if you want.

It does take more than 1 min esp for people without SSD-s.
Lion’s Arch is(was) the only city in the game with every service in it-the only way to get that now is to use the gemstore.
Still waiting for that location.

If it takes more than one minute to load one of the lower areas of Rata Sum you do not meet the minimum requirements for this game and therefore really can’t complain, sorry. I don’t have a solid-state drive but it takes 10 seconds or less to load.

I don’t even go to Rata Sum for crafting, I actually go to Claypool, it’s nice and quiet, everything is laid out close together and simple, how can you go wrong? In fact I’ve been going there to do my crafting since the very beginning, so I was not impacted by this change in the slightest.

The pass to the Captain’s airship is really nothing more than a premium. We don’t pay subscription fees to play this game, so it’s sort of just understood that things like this are there to give players the choice to show their support for Anet and actually receive something to show for it. Don’t whine about it. You’re the one who got into a game that was advertised as having an ever-changing world where things might come and go all the time, it makes little sense to complain when it does.

The argument that you’re somehow “forced” to pay $12.50 if you want to do crafting obviously does not hold up to basic scrutiny. You can pay 1-2 silver for that by warping to Claypool or Rata Sum, period. It also makes no sense to bring loading times into the equation because of the simple fact that Lion’s Arch used to take literally five to ten times longer to load than any other place in the game, so why didn’t it bother you then?

FIND ME AN AREA THAT HAS ALL THE SERVICES IN THE GAME THAT CAN BE ACCESSED WITHOUT THE GEM STORE-LIKE THE ONE WE HAD LAST WEEK AND NOT ANYMORE DUE TO A BUNCH OF SUIT-WEARING GREEDY GREMLINS THAT YOU PROBABLY WORK FOR.
Yes the caps were needed,I was yelling.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Windwalker.2047:

Vilkatis.6495:

Rata Sum ,anyone heard of it?

Do tell me where the mystic forge is located in that midget-populated town?

>implying the mystic forge isn’t really close to the asura gates in Vigil Keep
>implying it takes longer than 1 minute to port to Rata Sum
>implying Lion’s Arch is the only city in the game

I can keep going if you want.

It does take more than 1 min esp for people without SSD-s.
Lion’s Arch is(was) the only city in the game with every service in it-the only way to get that now is to use the gemstore.
Still waiting for that location.

Vilkatis.6495:

Rata Sum ,anyone heard of it?

Do tell me where the mystic forge is located in that midget-populated town?

Saint Scarlet.2906:

Astralporing.1957:

laurel vendor is different. There are no dungeon vendors. There’s no Fractals entrance… need i go on?

Well if you go into the fractal entrance you’re leaving the area so has no relevance. As for dungeon vendors, do you really use them that often that you need them right beside everythng else because it’s so difficult to click a button.
You’re complaining just for the sake of complaining. Anet did what they said, they moved everything to the Vigil keep that was unique to LA. Is it their fault you’re too lazy to click a button to go somewhere to get something you need.
Why don’t you stop moaning and start being proactive. Now is your chance to decide where they move everything to, they are letting the players choose where the next hub will be so make a case for somewhere that has everything laid out better.

That’s all nice and fluffy but what is their reason for not doing something as simple as putting a couple of objects (crafting stations) and relevant npc’s in vigil keep, a task so basic even their interns could do it?-could it be that it has something to do with the incredibly convenient airship floating above the keep?The issue here is that before la was broke it was the only place with every service there is (i’m not counting wvw since that’s not what it should be used for-taking spots from actual wvw’s to craft is not acceptable) and now the only places that have that are accessible by the gem store!!!
Tell me that doesn’t sound like a kitten move.

-1
It’s not a redo or a reskin the new backpiece has a new model and animation.

Well i sure hope someone died in the attack,for now it seems everyone and their grandmother survived-its kinda silly.

Im not one to say this usually but this time it is an l2p issue-you are gathering heirlooms on a zerker engi (i did the same on a zerker ele but you need to be quite good to pull that off) and you should have ran when the mobs spawned and waited for the inevitable zerg to wipe them out (mob spawn in groups at events) and then help the other guy.

Go outside and play.

OH YAY LETS ARTIFICIALLY MAKE A WAY TO GET A TON OF COGS BECAUSE WE WERE STUPID ENOUGH TO MAKE RECIPES THAT TAKE 500 kittenING COGS
AND THEN LETS PUT IT IN THE kittenING kittenED kitten GEMSTORE!

YES,I AM MAD

Oh good WAY TO MAKE MY 30 STACKS OF COGS WORTHLESS!
GJ anet GOOD kittenING JOB
Why not just give out legendaries in the gem store?

I am still waiting on my air guitar/violin/drums

For solo open world S/D is god-just grab fire cd and persisting flames traits and 1 shot everything with DT/Phoenix while having 20 might + fury.
Zerkers everything ofc-master race the other sets are for little girls.

Staff dps build,stay at 1200 range at ALL times,bring arcane shield and/or mist form
and most importantly learn to dodge.

That would be kinda OP especially for the earth ele that can tank anything in the game.
I’m all for ele buffs but this seems kinda too much-maybe just the manually usable skill .

Half Life 3 confirmed!

JollyDoctor.5738:

Okay, so I’m starting to understand this. I’ll need to buy all the recipes from my respective master, then make the berserker inscription for my items.

Thank you, I’m definitely understanding all the fun stuff now, and it looks like I’ll be in it for a while before I can have all my gear.

One thing I want to clarify, this is the inscription I need for every piece of armor, correct? http://www.gw2db.com/items/81340-zojjas-berserker-inscription-s

That is the weapon inscription.

Googly eyes.
1/10 would fireball in the face.

Very nice video,you explain most of the big combos quite well (flame axe stuff is neat but i find cunjures to be way too clunky for pvp,while something like arcana blast is a 1500 range instant nuke that can also chill or burn if you shoot it through a field)
Still don’t like the lack of damage tho-I get the whole ‘Im going to help my team by sitting in the thick of it taking hits then healing through them’ strategy,but as you said yourself at the end of the video-you should not be taking any hits.
A thief will kill a zerker or celestial ele just the same in a 1v1,meaning your only defense against them is your cc and simply avoiding them (example-when you were racing that thief to the point,even with all my cc blown i would have just followed him and meteor shower-ed the point,since no thief no matter how tanky can live through a full storm,meaning he either has to fight me (which is when i would burning retreat and run away) or sit on the point and die to lava font-m shower-arcane wave-arcane blast combo which can insta gib zerkers,either way the point is saved)
The meteor shower + tornado combo is my favorite in WvW.will have to try it in PvP i have been using the glyph mostly for sweet utility.
Celestial would be nice if it wasn’t so lacking in power-your ~1500 compared to my ~2300,meaning you would need about 20 might stacks to even come close to the base damage of zerkers without might (1k damage meteor shower wont really scare anyone)
edit:scrach that pvp celestial is horrible,i just remembered that zerkers also gives you the same vit as it,meaning you are trading most of your damage for 340 of tough,cond and healing.-so bad-go zerker or go home
All in all,very good guide,thanks for making it. #churrnbomb4life

I only play staff ele in spvp,since maining an ele since launch has made me unable to play any other prof competently while making me a attument swapping monster.
What i do is roll full zerkers (scholar runes) with 30/20/0/10/10 (all the +dmg traits) with ether renewal,arcane blast & wave, sig of fire and glyph of elements.
My playstyle is basically being an extension of my teammates,following one and sitting at 1200 range and just murdering anyone that comes at them (blast + the new wave = ~4k ranged instant damage) then roaming from point to point where my guys are fighting,downing whoever they are dueling (all your aoe on a point means that point is now not safe to be on) and moving on to the next point while running away from any enemy that tries to 1v1 you (on the narrow pvp maps you just cast your aoe cc while running away and they will eat it)
Moral of the story-an epic area denial weapon in a capture the point mode=OP AS ALL KITTEN (if you have someone in front of you that is)
My internet is being an kitten right now will watch the video later to give you my thoughts.

wookiee.4631:

Vick.6805:

I don’t think the seeming randomness disproves a ley line pattern theory.

I didn’t mean to imply that there wasn’t a possibility they have to do with ley lines, I was referring to posts that say there is a specific pattern with the location of the Thumpers. Not saying there can’t be, but I don’t think if there is a pattern, it’ll look like this: https://d1ej19d7kwigfi.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/7129/zusammen.jpg

So if the deep sea dragon is under southsun,does that mean that the karka are his minions :O

30/25/0/15/0-you lose the 10% dmg and 100 toughness and cond dmg (useless) and gain
perma fury,heal on water and 50 power/vit/healing.Boon duration/scholar runes,full zerkers (ptv or valk/kng armor if you want to face tank) s/d for an extra blast or s/f for the defense, utilities-hammer(duh),arcane wave and sig of fire/mist form or another panic button,arcane brilliance for the heal and more blasts and GS to exploit till it gets the banhammer.

For the season 1 achievements nowdays.
Used to play it for fun.

MithranArkanere.8957:

Moshari.8570:

You know….I think I might actually laugh out loud if it turns out that Scarlet accidentally woke up the elder dragons, and that she was responsible for Zhaitan raising Orr, and that these “thumpers” are her attempt to bring Primordius up….and that it really has been her all along, it never had anything to do with the dragons at all. GW2 is the story of Scarlett.

And then she built a time machine and went back in time to release Abaddon.

Heh.

Well obv Scarlet created the Gods they are holograms or some such kitten.

I read this what’s the fractal of the mists class for PvP now?

Ahlen.7591:

Thieves have many different forms of evasion, blind, and repositions – that’s why their health is low.

Guardians/Elementalists have access to many, many different skills with protection or block or regen – that’s why their health is low.

Honestly, having 2k more health would be much worse than the obvious nerfs they would need to their other utilities.

Oh do we?
Eles have 2 protection skills built in (armor of earth and the healing glyph in earth),1 block skill (arcane shield) and 3 skills that give regen (healing rain,?undercurent? and healing glyph in water)every skill i have listed here has an insane cooldown (90,75,40) except for the glyph-so you sit there and tell me i have to have 10k hp while a warrior with a signet that heals for 400 (four hundred!) every second can have 20k in the same gear.
Yeah………..no

Elementalists have bad heals?
HAH
The skill is as all the racials more of a flavor move than a replacment.

The same reason you cant toilet exotic runes and sigils-everyone would do it to get divinities/bloodlust/etc expensive ones.

Im pretty sure that berzerkers is the only set in the game-don’t think the other ones work.

Well played,however Warriors.
Do this with 2 eles and i will give you a big high five.
This video should be sent to the balance team along with a petition to make the balance team contain people who play other classes than war.
GG

What? nonononono staff is for group play it sucks for leveling (crap damage).
Best weapon for leveling is the lightning hammer-blinds make you pretty much invulnerable against most mobs.
For offense you should go s/d in melee range-start in fire,aggro ~5 mobs use ring of fire,dragons tooth,pheonix targeted just behind the mobs (and inside the ring of fire)
If they aren’t dead switch to earth and hit earthquake and churning earth (bring arcane shield or armor of earth or lighning flash for when you start chaneling churning)-not dead yet? switch to air and mash buttons or switch to water to heal (you have 2 pretty good heals and an aura there),rinse repeat.
Or just grab Conjurer trait and LH everything to death.
Do NOT think that spamming 1# on scepter earth is an efficient way to level.

Someone doesn’t play any other class.

Ok build,but whyyyyyyyyyy would you take conjurer????
Is anyone going to spam the auto-attack with the frost bow?
For FGS you barely have time to spend all the 25 charges before it runs out,making the trait pointless for anything but the hammer.

kaid.7695:

The only saving grace of tornado for me is it works underwater. Given pretty much none of our other elites is usable underwater it is at least something.

Yeah but then its not tornado,but actually something usefull.

silvermember.8941:

if money is an issue, hide behind a zerg in WvW and get badges to buy gear with it.

Personally, the best stat of an elementalist is rerolling to almost any class.

LOL
Its funny cause its true.

Just go full ’zerkers on everything like real men do.

If you are planning to craft for profit you can stop right now,and most of the rare items are crafted on the mystic forge with no crafting req.
Oh and i like jewlercraft since it doesn’t require an a absurd amount of fine mats.

Wanze.8410:

So how do you plan to obtain Dark Matter without the involvement of RNG?

K.O. by reasonable argument.

He was an Charr in disguise :O

Elementalist doing damage? – must be a bug.
What they meant by unintended damage is that they buffed them to asscended level.

Gotta change that to some zerkers and stick some ruby orbs up in that…armor.
Or go with divinity runes if you are like little girl.

We are the flying lemur thing.
Without the flying.

Acotje.5689:

Takes a while to get all this, but the dmg doesnt disappoint

Burning speed 3-6K
Churning 6-10K
Lightning Wip 1,5-2K

Dont get why people complain about the ele.
Yes, we got alot of nerfs, but if you know the class you can still do alot of dmg and survive.

You don’t play a lot of other classes do you?

I was expecting a sarcastic complaint thread about the newest gear treadmill :O