Guild Wars 2

I voted for the Witcher 2,not voting anymore /angryface

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Omg, it’s begun, it was backstab, now unicorn, next " omg did you see that thief run around in circles, everyone was confused and just watched him so he took no damage!!"

OMG Thieves have confusion now? :O

BOONS,man boons-it means that phantasms will get retaliation and fury from their respective traits properly.

Try 6 carrion devourers-got kd’d once on my thief,used stunbreaker,got kd’s again in 0.1 sec and stunlocked for the next 10 sec till i died

People please dont confuse others with incorrect info-the Mystic salvage kit has the sam % as the master that you can buy from a merch (25% for rare mats,80% for upgrades)
while the black lion kit has a much higher % (50% for rare mats,100% for upgrades)
Thats why it costs 300 geez at the geez store

More storage is always a good thing,esp for a pack rat such as me.

After 2 hours of fighting with lag and NINJA KARKAS™! i got d/c’d right after we took out the second reinforcement wave and when i tried to log back in i got an error about my account not being verified for the next x hours.After finally logging back in the karka was a pile of meat next to a lava pit.I am seriously angry and upset >:(

I was in the event for 2 hours before getting a d/c and not being able to log in again for several hours,i am seriously upset about not getting anything but a 20 silver repair bill and 2 hours of mind boggling lag.

I have this awesome support build – lots of heals,projectile defense and its very tanky as well,only problem is that you have to roll a Guardian to get it :P
Support ele took an axe (warrior axe with better responsiveness now!) to the face this patch,without the blasts from EA (which you could hit whenever your endurance allowed it) you dont have the healing to matter- i went back to my glass canon,i suggest you do the same

My only problem with the area is that EVERY SINGLE MOB has 3X more HP than any of the other area’s 80’s.It makes combat frustrating and unnecessary long.Its bloody obvious that Anet intended the area to be for people with full ascended armor.

I would be annoyed by that puzzle if i hadn’t spent 9 hours doing clocktower this Halloween.If that raging pile of horse manure spawned from the depths of hell has taught me something its how to jump like a motherkittener, it has made me the perfect jumping puzzle machine.

I would be annoyed by that puzzle if i hadn’t spent 9 hours doing clocktower this Halloween.If that raging pile of horse manure spawned from the depths of hell has taught me something its how to jump like a motherkittener, it has made me the perfect jumping puzzle machine.

Foo!Quaggan can outrun a centaur!

My PC cant handle more than 20 people on the screen at one time

for no 2 i think it would be a much better idea to simply reduce aggro radius of the mobs
since as it is now its kinda silly-aggro from 1k range :S

Healing glyph+quick glyphs trait+glyph mastery trait=perma 33%ms
The passives are crap dont bother with them

Oh god Warriors complaining that they are underpowered-whats next thieves QQ-ing that backstab dmg is too low?
Warriors had 1 role in GW1 and that is to deal heavy dmg in melee or kd with hammers while having heavy armor to take any punishment sent their way.The new warrior has pretty much the same role(and they do both very well-warrior dps is one of the highest in the game) with the added use of dealing ranged dmg(crappy in WvW cause of lack of ranged?you are one of only 3 classes that can have 2 1200 range weapons) and possibly serving as a sort of tank (in PvE,bunker warrs arent really popular nowdays).
If you remember anet stated that the only class they were happy with (trait wise) was
the warrior.‘But our traits and utilities are boooorrrining QQ’what exactly do you expect-create an ilusion on jump?cause burning when you hit a female foe?turn into a pile of goo making you hard to look at?You are a big muscular guy that hits people on the head with large objects and out of all the profs has no magic or special abilities
,so what he does is boring but he bloody well does it good and if you disagree then
L2P,good sir,L2P.

P.S. At least your traits WORK try playing a mes or necro

I would def say vitality-toughness is kinda pointless without the hp to back it up, 2.5k tough wont save you if you only have 11k health (condition dmg alone can ice you super fast)

Tailoring and Jeweling-both give you things you can use and jw doesn’t need fine mats
since you will need a lot of them for tailoring

Shocking aura doesn’t stop any dmg,it just stuns after the damage is dealt,so its kinda useless against BS thiefs or any other kind of thief for that matter.

All these guys saying it gets easier as you get higher lvl……yeah it really,really does not-if
anything it gets harder (mobs get more health,more skills and non of the ele traits are groundbreaking or will make things easy for you) the only thing you do get is experience with the class.
As for underwater combat my advice is-DO NOT DO IT.EVER. seriously if any weapon set can be called underpowered without anyone objecting to it – it is the ele’s trident.
Water combat is torture kinda rubbing the inside of your eyelids with sandpaper while someone punches you in the balls repeatedly.
If you truly have to do it water(i know wtf?) has the biggest burst in the set with exploding skills 2 and 3 while 5 is very nice if you can hit it right-after you do that switch to whatever attument you want and mash buttons and stuff then back to water for more wosh and swosh.Things get kinda easier when you get WHOORPOALH as your elite,but that has a sick cd and has been nerfed recently cause ele’s had one useful underwater skill and that is against the design of the class.
Wrote some general pointers for S/D pve in another thread so ill just give em here for you.
CIRCLE KITE ALL THE MOBS.
No,seriously circle kiting and killing it before it kills you,for which the S/D combo is great for.
So in short what you do is-take arcane wave,arcane shield and whatever else you want for the third utility-like sig of water for those annoying conds that the risen have (remember to keybind the first two to something easy to reach-i have them on E and Q) and a flaming greatsword as the elite (best kill them b4 they kill you elite we have)NOTE:if you are fighting an veteran/champ mob take both summon glyphs and cast them in earth attu – gives you two epic tanks that can tank the vet for hours and hours.
So your average fight should go like this:
A-aggro3-5 mobs,stand in one place with the mobs around you (you should be able to take 1-2 hits from them,if you cant you are too low lvl for the content and should get moar lvlz)cast ring of fire,dragons tooth,arcane wave(instant cast ftw) then phoenix so that is hits the mobs with both the travel dmg and the end explosion dmg AND explode in the ring of fire (which is the main reason you are standing still since risen are on crack all the time and the combo is very hard to hit),you should only be standing in spot for the time it takes you to do DT and PHX after which you should dodge and keep kiting (risen are fast but they cannot hit you in melee if you are moving at normal run speed)by that time the mobs should be quite low,so line em up and hit fire grab if its off cooldown(btw you now also have 9 stacks of might for the next 30 secs from the combo so FG should hit like a truck-a very slow truck that can often miss and can only be cast once in a blue moon,but a truck non the less)and with DTooth being only 4,5secs (if traited which you should do) if thing are not dead yet throw another DT on them so they learn their place or
B-you have done everything i just said and the mob isnt dead or you want to move to the next one without waiting for cooldowns that are too long since Anet thinks we would totally be op if fire aura got a 5 sec cd reduction(oh the horror)-so enough QQing and more pew-pewing – switch to air (omg we have other attuments except fire)dont get to excited air is crap for pve-just use ride the lightning
to the next group of mobs and then go earth and start churring some earth,while hitting arcane shield (its instant so it doesnt stop the skill)in the middle of the chanel so you can soak up the hurtful comments about your fashion sense,because face it you are full grown man/norn/charr running around in a dress doing ‘magic’-if the shield explodes YAY more numbers!,after churring earth has finished casting(you should still have the 9 might stacks from the fire combo so it should hit like another truck-this one exploding or something) hit earthquake,pop the scepter skill no2 and run around auto attacking(or not whatever) and wait for them all to bleed to death.
I complain a lot but i still <3 Anet and the mighty master of the elements

The problem lies mostly in the fact that to anyone who sees an ele in spvp the first thought that crosses their mind is OMGOSH FREE KILL-and they will be right most of the time do to the fact that we have the lowest hp and armor in the game-so it doesnt matter how much toughness or health you have -you still have less than lets say warrior has with no clothes on and no one in their right mind will attack a warrior right next to your squishy kitten because almost anyone can kill us in seconds.
You will always,and i mean ALWAYS be the first guy they go for.
Burst build are only viable in a group where you can kill stuff fast without much opposition (although you will still be targeted and killed first) and condi builds are about out-living your opponent which is very hard for an ele since as we already know
we have the constitution of a 4-year girl.
Sorry if i haven’t said anything constructive,but there isn’t much to say-the ele is seriously limping behind the other profs in pvp.

CIRCLE KITE ALL THE MOBS.
No,seriously circle kiting and killing it before it kills you,for which the S/D combo is great for.
So in short what you do is-take arcane wave,arcane shield and whatever else you want for the third utility-like sig of water for those annoying conds that the risen have (remember to keybind the first two to something easy to reach-i have them on E and Q) and a flaming greatsword as the elite (best kill them b4 they kill you elite we have)NOTE:if you are fighting an veteran/champ mob take both summon glyphs and cast them in earth attu – gives you two epic tanks that can tank the vet for hours and hours.
So your average fight should go like this:
A-aggro3-5 mobs,stand in one place with the mobs around you (you should be able to take 1-2 hits from them,if you cant you are too low lvl for the content and should get moar lvlz)cast ring of fire,dragons tooth,arcane wave(instant cast ftw) then phoenix so that is hits the mobs with both the travel dmg and the end explosion dmg AND explode in the ring of fire (which is the main reason you are standing still since risen are on crack all the time and the combo is very hard to hit),you should only be standing in spot for the time it takes you to do DT and PHX after which you should dodge and keep kiting (risen are fast but they cannot hit you in melee if you are moving at normal run speed)by that time the mobs should be quite low,so line em up and hit fire grab if its off cooldown(btw you now also have 9 stacks of might for the next 30 secs from the combo so FG should hit like a truck-a very slow truck that can often miss and can only be cast once in a blue moon,but a truck non the less)and with DTooth being only 4,5secs (if traited which you should do) if thing are not dead yet throw another DT on them so they learn their place or
B-you have done everything i just said and the mob isnt dead or you want to move to the next one without waiting for cooldowns that are too long since Anet thinks we would totally be op if fire aura got a 5 sec cd reduction(oh the horror)-so enough QQing and more pew-pewing – switch to air (omg we have other attuments except fire)dont get to excited air is crap for pve-just use ride the lightning
to the next group of mobs and then go earth and start churring some earth,while hitting arcane shield (its instant so it doesnt stop the skill)in the middle of the chanel so you can soak up the hurtful comments about your fashion sense,because face it you are full grown man/norn/charr running around in a dress doing ‘magic’-if the shield explodes YAY more numbers!,after churring earth has finished casting(you should still have the 9 might stacks from the fire combo so it should hit like another truck-this one exploding or something) hit earthquake,pop the scepter skill no2 and run around auto attacking(or not whatever) and wait for them all to bleed to death.
The hell with CC or crippling/chilling-this is pve and you are an elementalist,just kill
stuff before it kills you.
Still having problems?Pro tip elementals are your best friend for soloing pve- you are like a crappy Minion Master with prettier looking minions.
Edit:holy cow that was a long post

30% fire field duration is bugged – doesn’t work with lava font either

Staff,Staff,Staff,Staff and nothing else,its one of the most boring and mind numbing weapons in the game,but it gets the job done for 90% of PvE content-hell,most mobs you can just circle kite and use air auto-attack.Build for power then vit/tough.
Other than that my suggestion is roll something else-the ele is in a sad,sad place atm and doesn’t look like it will be changing soon.

Seriously low on power-also check that you accesories are up to date

The pack isn’t connected to the guild in any way-it just shows the emblem of the guild you are representing atm.

‘I’ve spent some on crafting’
Found your problem-crafting is a pain and massive gold sink.
I was sitting on about ~9g at 60 just by selling all my mats

Engi mortar can knock you off of walls as well

Account wide karma would be a better solution.

So you can beat a thief with a heavy armor class clap clap * clap*.
Normal mmo class balance goes like this thief beats mage,mage beats warrior,warrior beats thief-now granted the situation is kinda different in GW2 but the principle still stands.
Also wariors are OP and you should be ashamed :P

To anyone saying that the shortbow (a weapon that should be 1200 range by default)
shouldnt be longer range because of the ‘bounces’,might i remind you that mesmer staff and ele air staff also have bounces as their auto-attack

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I’m actually on the same boat. I once hit steal and the enemy exploded for something like 300,000 damage against a Mosquito. No one ability should be able to put out that much damage. I didn’t even have 3 Orbs. I agree with this fix.

That Mosquito must have been running a glass cannon spec which is certain death against a well geared/highly skilled thief who knows how to press F1.
Mosquito’s need to L2P

Also if you are doing PvP without condition removal then you deserve to be rooted 24/7

I quite enjoy the moa form-it does much more damage that my elementalist and i dont have to press as many buttons
Seriously tho its an ELITE it has a 3 MINUTE cooldown it only disables a single target from using its skills-you can still run away and even dodge.
Funny thing coming from an necromancer cough lich and plague forms cough

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Substituting level progression with gear progression and call it “endgame” is not really ArenaNet’s style.

But it is rewarding as hell. Think Diablo 2/WoW.
Farming for 2 months just to get a stupid-looking unicorn stuff (well, i kinda like MLP:FiM, but not the point) is useless, tedious and plain dumb. I do get my gear to smash mobs/players more effectively.

This game makes 100% sure that farming equipement AND exp doesn’t give me any plausible advantage.

Farming harpies on lvl 15 event with a 70lvl char with 70lvl equipement? Naah, downscaling, you get as pwned as the 15-lvl’s running around!*
Feeling powerful while mass-killing mobs with your hard-earned legendary? Naah, same stats as craft item costing 5-10 minutes to get!

*The traits DO give something. They are the only reason that leveling up is useful at all. If not for them everyone could stay at lvl 1.

Have you went to a lvl 15 area as an lvl 80?You literally destroy everything-i can aggro 10 mobs and just nuke them in seconds.
Also the legendaries are for people who have too much time on their hands-just pick whatever skin you like and go with it.

There is seriously no reason for the tokens not to be account-bound.
It is very frustrating when i want to do a dungeon with my mesmer,but my ele has most of my tokens and i will end up getting absolutely nothing.

I have a good 90%-110% at all times yet i have only seen about 5 yellows drop in my entire game time-you must have been very lucky to get ~1 yellow per event

An option to make all ground targeted aoe’s cast on target would fix all that-also it would make life much more easier for other classes who have a lot of circle casting stuff.

I found the leveling too slow and i love the food buffs-if you dont like it dont eat food

As the title states it would be an toggle-able option in the general settings that would allow you to cast any ground targeted aoe directly on your target (like in GW1).
Anyone who has ever played an elem,staff necro or the ‘oh god why is my auto-attack a gtaoe grenade engi’ will agree with me.
Please for the love of all the five gods (and Dhum,Abbadon and Menzies) this has to be implemented.

it took me an hour and a half of running with a zerg simply stomping everything to get 50 kills-its by far the easiest monthly.just go do it

Agreed,but it should only apply to expensive karma stuff

GS skill 5 helps with higher lvl DE’s-push them out of any friendly aoe to give yourself time to use 2/3 then switch to sword roll to the enemy and use 2.OR roll a warrior and buy the dumbest monkey you can find to play for you -you’ll get better results

^AHAHAHAAHA the ele one of the highest dps classes AHAHAHAHA……..no.
Go with a warrior they are nice and simple,do a lot of dmg and have decent survivabilty.

We need an option to leave him to die somewhere-have him sacrifice himself instead of the actually interesting people

There is most def an anti-farm system in GW2.You can see it simply by killing mobs in a same area for some time-after a while every 5-6th mob drops anything,and most of the time its junk trophies.I understand that this was put in to combat gold farmers and bots,but it seriously ruins anyone doing legit farming to buy t3 armor or something

Warrior cannot do the same dps as a ranger with a bow-they can however do more aoe dmg.