Guild Wars 2

I love the way the change brings sadness,despair and a urge to stab yourself with a fork when you die and spend the next 15m watching your corpse on the screen while your party kills the boss
Or doing alpha and wiping 10 times with a pug-fun times indeed

3 warrs 1 guard 1 mesmer fun times all around
DPS (which is one of the most,if not the most important aspects of any mmo’s instanced group content) is totally out of whack between the profs that bringing anything else but the highest dps class is silly and serves no purpose. The reason for this is that PvE is currently balanced around PvP (warrs are easy to handle in PvP,thus need the extra damage to compensate).
For instance in another mmo,the devs would check the dps meter of every class with its dps spec and buff the underperfoming ones and nerf the op ones,bringing them to
a sort of equilibrium and avoiding situations like ‘LFM fury warrs only!’,sure it doesnt work all the time,but they at least try to bring some semblance of class balance in PvE.

Vayne.8563:

Underwater combat in some professions is much worse than in others. An engineer underwater, using a grenade kit (which is directly targetable instead of ground target while underwater) is pure win. My warrior does well underwater too, particularly with a spear.

On my mesmer, however, I’m not thrilled with underwater combat and don’t enjoy it nearly as much.

I have found the mesmer uw combat to be the best of them all-seeing as they have the most powerful phantasm on their spear,and illusions work great underwater.
Elementalist however is pure torture-0dmg no cond removal 2 of our 4 autoattacks are only for melee and the other 2 are so weak they aren’t worth casting .

Spiral Architect.6540:

Name: The De-Arr
Type: One-handed sword
Skin: Classic longsword
Effect: A simple bluish glowing effect that stops glowing as soon as a player’s DR kicks in; at that point the sword turns jet black.
Reason: Because that would be about the most useful legendary skin in the game.

I would dual-wield those

Its close to worthless now-if you vapor form at ~20%hp you will def die since it puts your #4 skill on a cooldown.
It was overpowered before now its underpowered.

Gisei.5749:

Just spent 45mins in Orr. Quit when my inventory was full. Ended up with 29 moldy bags, around 8 T6 mats, about 30 T5 mats, neither from bags. Got a Vile Essence, woo. Then made about 60 silver from selling a dye and all the whites, blues, and greens I had.

Oh sweet 60s in 45mins of farming!
You should be able to afford a legendary any day now

So you are complaining about a change that happened months ago?
Ok then i want my DT/Pheonix combo from BWE2 and signets that give you 2,5k prec and toughness in WvW.

Glass cannon staff works if you keep at 1200 range

marnick.4305:

My very first drop in GW1 was a black dye. I distinctly remember it, killing a scale in pre-searing and seeing this black dye drop.

I knew it was expensive so I sold it for 80 gold!

ahahahaha epic

Orr was so much fun yesterday-I actually felt like fighting risen on my way to the next event.
Now,I will never take another step in Orr

Nemui.6753:

one that caught my eye:
“Adjusted Orr Undead loot drops”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-January-28-2013/first#post1326255

Id love to know what exactly does that mean

The porous bone is a most rare and magical piece of loot

It is also totally useless now

I pretty much have perma swiftness on 90% of the time no matter what build im using
but then again im an ele and thats kinda what we do.
I see alot of necros running the move speed signet lately so you could try that

5% dmg in melee range is wasted on staff-take 5% to bleeding foe’s instead since most of the time in a dungeon group they will have bleeding on them,also change the water trait
to cleansing wave since you have no cond removal other than the 45sec cd rain(piercing shards is crap on staff you get 20%increased damage on ice spike and thats it)
I also dont like that you dont have any stunbreakers.
All in all its a nice build

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

“When it’s done.”

:D

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

that is true you should always check on the wiki or something before you go into crafting such rare weapons

Because you need ecto’s for EVERYTHING EVER and the only way to get them is by salvaging rare’s and exotics.
Supply and demand

Because playing an uderpowered prof is not fun,which is what games are supposed to be.
I see no reason not to /ragequit if they take the nerfbat too far

Crappy damage,no base survivability(skills and your personal skill do a lot tho) but very fun to play once you get the hang of it.
Also AOE ALL THE THINGS!

I used s/d as a primary weapon in BWE 2,but since they nerfed dt/pheonix combo (because it had too much burst lol while thieves do not) i have not picked up scepter again and probably wont until some things change *cough*shaterstone*cough*

Rezzet.3614:

ndrangles.5183:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Natural_Vigor

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adrenal_Implant

I have been confused ever since I found these two.

lets add more to the insult

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Leg_Mods

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Power_Shoes

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Energy_Conversion_Matrix

lol the first 2 are ele minor traits (we get 2%dmg per boon)

Why oh why do the designers know how to make these epic looking female armors,when all of the male ones look like they were taken from a dumpster behind GAP.

Weaving is mostly a pvp technique,you cant use it in pve because the the mobs auto-face
you.

Well seeing that ectos atm are needed for EVERYTHING EVER i would much like to see more ways to get them than just ‘salvage all the yellows’
Almost no one needs obsi shards

Lord Yoshi.6738:

Rhysati.4932:

Lord Yoshi.6738:

-Four players can completely revive a dead person while in combat in around 5 seconds and a downed player with a sliver of hp left in around 2.5 seconds. Pretty sure those numbers are accurate but I haven’t precisely timed it.

Ahh, well then…it’s just fine and dandy right? It’s not like the boss won’t be kind enough to let your whole group stack up in one spot to resurrect someone. He won’t cast some nasty aoe spell that kills everyone in one-hit while they try to resurrect or anything. /rolleyes

You name a boss that does a deadly AoE attack and attacks in intervals faster than 2.5 seconds.

Subject Alpha

I love the way they explained why they are changing it:
‘If your skil does 10 damage to a single target, if you have another skill that have the same opportunity cost but deals 8 damage to 5 targets, the AoE skill is better – we don’t want you to use AoE skills on single target mobs. ’
Pro tip-thats EXACTLY how aoe’s are supposed to work!
If you are fighting 1 mob what skill would you use?-well the single target one ofc since
10dmg > 8dmg,right?now say you are fighting 2 mobs which skill would you use now?
well the aoe skill since 10dmg < 2×8dmg.
However you will till be doing less damage to an individual mob than you do when you use your single target skill.
Its almost like they haven’t been developing mmo’s for the past 8 years

Oh LOOK that boss just just 1-shoted you right at the start of the fight,now you can have the FUN FUN FUN experience of watching your corpse for 15 minutes till your teammates kill the boss.
FUN FUN FUN

Here’s a fun fact-the only (ONLY) weapon set that the ele can take to not have a single aoe is a S/F in air attu.
Its gonna be so much fun to play when they nerf 75% of our skills xD

Welp,looks like we will only be using environmental weaps from now on-now where was that merch who was selling wood planks?

Man i miss the days when i could shadowstep into a group of mobs and use shockwave followed by crystal wave/aftershock and watch everything melt with my E/A.
GW2 fails soooo badly in the viable builds department its just sad.
The question here is do you find it fun to play with conjures/elementals (not that it
would be a very high-functioning build),if so just pick traits that go with such (more charges on conjures,glyph cd reduction) and rock on

Id like 1200 range weapon that works while both you and your target are on the move
Seeing as we are the squishiest class we dont need more ‘in your face weapons’

While they are at it them might as well make cleansing fire break stuns as well,amirite?

I find it only useful in a signet build,but only if you lack perma switness-otherwise there are a lot of much more useful utilities

Mesmer beats the ele in burst hands down,however the ele has bigger aoe potential.

I believe most of the people who have the problem with skipping are the ones who regularly fail at running past mobs (that sometimes has to do with the prof-some have more tools to run trough mobs),and to them i just have to say l2p.
As for the people who have some other problem with it i ask you:why?-do you really want to waste 10 mins of your life killing mobs with an abnormal amount of hp that you have killed 50 times before for no reward whatsoever?

I agree-add to that that cond damage builds cant do any damage to some mobs (like the
ice elemental boss in the fractals) and that you can have a max of 1 person with cond damage in a party just makes it so much more pointless to use in pve.
This is a very serious issue because it makes a large number of builds (from the already very limited number of builds) unusable.

you could also:
1.roll a necro
2.equip corupt boons
3.???
4.Profit!

As a ele i find the karka shell to be the BiS since i get use of every single stat on pretty much every single weapon set.
I guess it comes down to what your prof is and what are you using it for.

I dislike doing dungeons with sub-lvl80 chars because
a)they aren’t always very knowledgeable about their class (I once had a lvl 40 ele who had no defensive utilities whatsoever)
b)they do MUCH less damage then a lvl80 making the dungeons a lot longer then they should be.
c)they are super squishy (partly because of gear and partly because most people are running leveling specs which are more often then not glass-canony (yes that is a word, i just made it up)).
Do they fail-no,not really,most of the time we manage to finish the dungeon,even if takes longer.
Is it fun to have undergeared,low level chars who do sad damage and die all the time?-
no,it is not (at least not for me).I play this game for fun and what is fun for me is doing a super-fast,super-smooth 20 min run with a full(or near full) lvl80 party.
What is not fun is taking 2hrs to finish ac path 1 in a group where i am the only person above level 60 and the only person not getting downed every 5 seconds.
Does this make me elitist?No idea.I just want to have fun.

I second equalizing the health pools,because as it stands now warriors and necros have a huge survival advantage compared to the lowest hp classes who HAVE to gear for at least some +vit gear to even get to a level where you don’t melt in 2 hits(also you can barely get to the base warriors hp even with full vit gear).
As for armor rating i think its good as it is the heavy armor classes are the ones getting hit the most atm,so they need the slight advantage.

Its bugged
15chars

Oglaf.1074:

stof.9341:

You can bleed rocks but you cannot set fire to a trebuchet.

Btw, dragons are NOT immune to conditions.

Yes, they are…. somewhat. They get affected by Vulnerability, but I’ve never ever seen any damage numbers for either Poison nor Bleed despite these conditions being inflicted.

They do take dmg from all conditions but the numbers are hard to see

What they arent saying that the elementalists sacrifice survivability (a lot) and high single target damage for all that versatility-we cant out-burst a thief or a warrior,don’t have the tankines of guardians mesmers or necros or the ability to swap from short range to long and vice versa.What we do have is a metric ton of skills,sweet aoe’s and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Your call.

Please do share your exalted ele build that does so much damage i would love to see it.

They had to do it now to keep the gem prices high so people would buy gems for real moneyz.
My guess is the meeting went something like this:‘The price for 100 gems dropped below 2gold,and we have reports of some players actually wanting to trade some gold for gems’-‘OMG :O quickly!We must think of another gem sink fast!’

Shadowdawn.7946:

Surbrus.6942:

All the High Legions have strayed from their path. Iron is too concerned with peace, and using propaganda to confuse the past (Flame Legion called “traitors”, when they are responsible for turning the Charr into a force to be reckoned with and the retaking of Ascalon). The Flame Legion is too busy with their search for false gods. Ash and Blood simply lack the initiative.

Ash are busy stopping Flame trying to kill everyone, and making sure assassins and spies die before they can get anywhere. I agree, Blood are idiots who lack initiative. I find it amusing that you called the one legion with the most thieves, lacking initiative. I think that’s the one thing they don’t lack.

My Charr thief is always lacking initiative

What happened to our def stats?
My dear boy,we never even had them.

Gisei.5749:

and D/D Ele.

HAAHAHAHAAHAH xDDD took you seriously till i read that
OP and ele cant go in the same sentence together-its in anets manifesto

Ooh nice ty,was looking for a ele wielding this one