Guild Wars 2

DaRKJaGGeReD.5630:

Zoose when do u stream? Ive seen all of your youtube vids but have yet to see you streaming

Ah sorry. I should really set-up a legit stream schedule. I usually will stream around 5pm eastern – 12am.

At least I try to haha. Sometimes I stream at around 7pm-8pm EST – 2am or so.

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Okamy.8235:

In your combo section, you should mention that evasive arcana in earth atunement is a blast finisher. A very nice might stacking combo i like is this :
- burning speed trough the opponent, but not too far, so he’s still hit by the explosion
- switch to earth (3 might with the superior sigil of battle)
- dodge back in the fire field created by burning speed (4 might cripple the opponent)
- eathquake (4 might + kd)
- churning earth (+4 might at end + cripple + bleed), use lightning flash if needed
- WHILE CASTING CHURNING EARTH, switch to air/water regarding of your health bar and use shocking aura/frost aura, this way you’ll have fury when churning earth deal damages.

It gives you 15 stack of might + fury, paralyze the opponent for 5 to 10 seconds and deal a very nice amount of damage. Plus, 12 of these might stack are area might, your party will love that. And the best part is that every part of the combo are AoE. ;o

I usually don’t use it, but if you’ve arcane wave, it’s +4 mights stack again for you and your party.
If you don’t like burning speed trough the opponent, you can just burning speed to him, then use ring of fire while walking trough him then dodge back while in earth.

EA earth blast finisher can also be used in many situation when you party land some non-fire combo field (my favorites are area healing, frozen and chaos armor). And just with fire combo field/EA and the sigil of battle, you can very easily maintain 12-16 stack of might on yourself and 8-12 stack of might on your party.

Blah. Yeah I forgot to mention the earth dodge roll is a blast finisher so you could get 13 stacks of might. _

zone.1073:

Arheundel.6451:

Pls link this build with endless regeneration,protection, really want to see it.
Despite running with a staff and 20 in fire with 2500 armor, I get called bunker when I use burning retreat-lightning flash-gust to keep the enemy away, I get called bunker simply because they can hit me easily…hilarious.
Regarding updraft as “uncleanable”, maybe if you use stun-break after you land( like a clever player does) updraft “magically” become cleanable, I clean updraft every freaking time with my stun-breaker…because I wait to land first, like for every other knock back ( engy,guardian ect ect) do you know the difference between knock down and knock back?

http://www.twitch.tv/phantaram

Here you go. Near constant up time of regeneration and protection while also dealing extreme AoE spikes. If this doesn’t open your eyes about the state of Eles, then you’re just ignorant.

Another important aspect of the game to discuss:
LAUNCHES BEING UNCLEANSABLE. Is this intended? Launch abilities like from Guardian’s hammer and Elementalist’s Updraft cannot be stun-broken while in the air. Furthermore, stun breakers go on a full cooldown when used in an attempt to cleanse a launch. Intended?

By the way Phanta doesn’t run a 100% up-time protection/regen build at all.

Just had to edit my post to add that if the healing power of ele’s are going to be nerfed that way that I’d also like a better 25 arcana minor trait!

By the way, just to clarify a few things…Ele’s were at one point one of the worst classes (arguably) because of all their bugs. They buffed the ele downstate and a chunk of their bugs (they still have a few), and that’s what made ele really powerful. It wasn’t anything that wasn’t already implemented since release. People are now seeing how good auramancer and scepter sustain is.

No problem. Im glad to help out the community.

This is just going to be me speaking from experience.

I feel there needs to be a few things addressed about the two classes I play the most: Elementalist and Warrior.

Ele:
- Down state mist from should not bring an ele’s life back up to half HP. The vapor form already allows very quick movement, and with the sustain that certain ele builds can provide, an ele should not be able to freely waltz into bad positions and have the possibility of not being punished for it because of their down state.

- Healing power or water traits for an ele needs to be tuned down a bit. Again, if an ele has the ability to have that downed state, they should at least give up something for it, but I would just rather they nerf the down state and work on healing power scaling for Eles. At the moment the heals are a bit too high, maybe reduce the flat healing power of eles by 5-10%? The sustain is a bit overboard. I think ballparking it somewhere between 5-10% seems feasible.

- I personally feel like healing power itself needs a nerf flat out across the board for all classes. If anything healing power should receive a 5% flat nerf, and for ele’s an additional 5%. These “bunkers” and “bunker s/d” ele’s that everyone is complaining about isn’t because of their toughness. The bunkers that go the toughness route are sacrificing a large chunk of their stats to receive that toughness for the most part. Healing power (since heals are on such a short cooldown) coupled with things such as sigil of energy and invulns are the true reason behind these bunkers lasting so long in fights.

Warrior:
- The warrior Mending skill should scale better with their HP. Heck, all the warrior heals scale very poorly with their base HP. Mending should remove 3 conditions and have a minor buff to the HP heal or the ratio of HP to healing power for warriors should be buffed. Someone mentioned that warriors have to put themselves in too much danger to be effective (given they are melee), and not having the sustain of other classes to back up their risk is a major liability. Not to mention warriors can be kited fairly easily. Conditions are wrecking warriors where they are at a disadvantage vs most condition builds.

That’s about all I can think of to be honest. A matchmaking system would be awesome. It would make a lot of people happy both new and old.

Edit for ele:
I forgot to add that if they are going to nerf all that healing power then we’re gonna need a better 25 arcana trait than the one we currently have. I hardly ever ever ever get a “random condition” applied to an enemy. It’s almost a useless minor trait to spec that far into arcana for.

OMG lol. This was pretty good!

http://tinyurl.com/ahf9rbz

I went fairly in-depth with the dagger/dagger weapon set. Enjoy!

nerva.7940:

faceroll low skillcap build, getting nerfed, etc etc. not clicking.

hair flip I’m fabulous!

Here you go ^^

MarzAttakz.9608:

Team Paradigm – the hands behind the nerf bat since BWE1. Thanks for your contributions, hope you refrain from posting any more videos in future.

I never played the betas for this game, so I wouldn’t know. : ]

But I’m going to still post videos unfortunately

Folly my name changed from Plonks to Zoose.1640!

Edit that when you can please ^^

Lurve yew <3<3<3

Kellnor.5428:

THRILLED to see another Greatstaff Ele out there! So many Ele’s hopped on the “ima be a glasscannon and nuke” bandwagon it almost makes me sad.

Also….you looking for a guild man? Hahahaah, we could use players like you and your friends xD

Nicely done, +Respect.

I can’t believe this thread is still going on haha.

I am a part of Team Paradigm NA in terms of spvp/tpvp wise…hmm…that sounds tempting _, but I may or may not join depending. I enjoy Manvil Rock spvp and wuvwuv xD

RADOM.9634:

Lukin.4061:

Ok I have noticed that there are a lot of people wanting to help new players, now the question: are there any new players that asked for help?

Yes, there are, many of them – EU
I am getting whispers, messages on daily basis.
Keep it up, i hope who is on the list can help and make the community stronger.

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Lol at Helseth’s pet call. Good to see youre doing well Tokyo! Gonna give you a shoutout in my next video. Working on that ele guideeee

Kardiamond.6952:

Like Seed said, Zerg have a hard time pushing because they don’t know how many ennemies there is.

Wonderful job by Zoose and team, I’m so glad some of our PvP population started WvWing. If only more would follow, our roamer would be unstoppable.

Zoose is your engineer Teldo? What kind of build is he running in WvW?

Thanks brochacho! The engineer im playing with is not Teldo. Itbis knockout. I think he runs some sort ofb dps rifle build, but I need to ask him. I’ll let you know what it is exactlywhen I catch him online.

etrigan.4213:

Plonks.6278:

I agree that it’s a two way street, but if the zerg chooses it. We shall punish it

Dude you left FA…and now you are playing against scrubs. :P

Anvil Rock is my original home server. I only moved to FA because of a few friends :P

I agree that it’s a two way street, but if the zerg chooses it. We shall punish it

Xenth.2408:

I’ve got to say I’m very impressed with your teamwork and communication. Very well played

Thank you. The people I play with are to be credited as well

Hello friends! This is the same guy that did the 4v30 video = S

Whoa I got featured already XD

Thanks!

The games were very fun. No offense taken Powerr! Glad you’re trying to break the “meta”. We (Team Paradigm) are going to review some things and see if we can play against this without changing our comp. : ] We also tried to run something interesting for a period of time that I might want to go back to in the future. Watch out ! ; ]

Good luck to the new PZ btw!

Hope to see more good games in the future!

Eastevil.1534:

MarzAttakz.9608:

So where’s the synergy? I saw one gank, one “churning earth bomb”, plenty of backsides and a final gank. Clap Clap.

Nope only that one gank. The rest was just stroking his kitten. Congrats you did what any half decent player can do on flanking a group. But all in all, nice synergy on that 1 guy running away.

Thanks br0

Transferred back to Manvil Rock cause FA heart of the mists is boringggg

Meep. _

Oh add me to Overall Strategy as well.

P.S. Mandatory fun!!!!

Aww Follaidus <3
Add Zoose to Ele and everything Ele…maybe even warrior

Shoutouts to my partner in crime Sean “Skovos”!
Poor Isle of Janthir xD

BTW, I’m back on Manvil Rock! YEAHHHH

Magnetic Grasp for Dagger/Dagger is still so shadyyyyyyy on terrain that blocks it _
On Clocktower it’s really bad if you try to grasp someone that’s on point with you even. Makes you go back and forth about 10 times haha XD

Sansarah.3076:

This game doesn’t encourage this nearly enough, for a lot of us, this is the type of game style we want when playing pvp, it’s a well performed job taking that zerg out, but as stated, a lot of those people in that zerg had no clue what the hell they were doing. All it would have taken was one or two people in that zerg that can do pvp well with gap closers and you would have had a much harder time.

Which is sad really, this game doesn’t encourage small scale at all in wvw usually, it encourages zergs.

Something a lot of us hates. Arenanet really should try and make small scale more optimal in wvw.

Hmm…I think it should be something like 10-15 people AOE max. Because if it was unlimited it would just be an AOE fest on which team has more AOE rather than who has the better focus and coordination. This is a given it’s a 20vs20 or something like that.

“I’m too black for this” – Saatarcoeny 2013

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Here’s another little highlight reel for you gentlefolk of WvW. This was 6am in the morning after paid tournament queues stopped popping on NA.

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MikeFerguson.8921:

I love videos like this. I don’t care if it was against 20 or 30, that’s still impressive control of a fight by using terrain and your combos effectively.

Great teamwork!

Oh I’ll keep them coming ; ]

Just to clear this up, Follidus is my teammate and he’s just a big troll <3

Love him

fenim.2395:

Knockout.4530:

IS THERE NO ONE ELSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCcvdrhn3M

These are the best two posts in this thread lol

Thanks for all the great feedback guys : ]

I’ll keep them coming in time!

Follidus is such a troll <3

Thanks for all the feedback guys. If you want to watch more of this stuff, Skovos, Knockout, and myself pretty much do this every night on my stream. It doesn’t ALWAYS turn out this well, but for the most part we take on zergs and get outmanned in many many of our battles. I’ll post more stuff like this, but if you just check the other video on my youtube channel you can see a more legit 3v10+.

Cheers!

If one of us goes in then we alllll go through itttt

leman.7682:

NaturalPortman.9562:

wvw looks kind of fun. maybe ill make a level 80

It is super fun, and think of it, you’d be the best ranger in WvW.

This video proves that WvW is more like PvE though, taken the skill of average player.

Yeah WvW is great fun. If you’re a fairly good Spvp player with decent gear you should have some fun in WvW. Just be careful of those guys that are fully speced with items that are just insane haha

Thanks boys : ] that mesmer portal was clutch indeed

NaturalPortman.9562:

Too bad Natural Zoo Keeper is number 1 ranger and engi in NA AUS CH kitten AND GER.

You forgot ANTarctica, bro :O

I say nice a lot…wow : \

Sprawl.3891:

why do you why do you, say everything say everything, twice twice

For emphasis, emphasis. Sorry this was at 4am and I drank an energy drink prior.

Shoutouts to Hiba for blowing me up the first time I played vs his Engi build. wp
Shoutouts to SAtaa for capitalization.

Powerr.3649:

hey nice one guys! you ripped them up haha.

here’s my version of some ele play with kaypud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K73kbUdqwI

Haven’t seen you on in forever _! Hijacking my thread?!?!

http://youtu.be/ba8u9PBcdmo

I felt like this needed to be here. ; ]

Shoutouts to that random mesmer with us for that portal play!

http://youtu.be/ba8u9PBcdmo

Shoutouts to our random mesmer friend for that portal play!

How do I donate?

These drawings are spot on! If I get one I’m going to use it for my stream : ]

This thread is so troll LOL. +1 good stuff