Guild Wars 2

remember when korra lost all her powers.. for a few minutes..
until she {spoiler} realized she could air bend

gw2 elementalists have been stuck in that few minutes for nearly 12 months

silvermember.8941:

Theoretically, yes.

But in reality more like sokka if you PvP or do anything non AI related.

absolutely ridiculous.. we don’t get a boomerang or a messenger hawk

nice work developers
if there’s anything you are good at, it’s  P R
would you like a cookie? i’ve laced it with money, of course you do..

if time is our only coin, then you’ve sure taxed the —-- out of all of us

first, i don’t trust anything arenanet says
nor do i expect much from them at this point

thought i had 12/13 and hadn’t done any ‘new’ maps today, yet i just completed it
i’m probably just losing my memory
i decided to go back and round up my ‘dive master’ achievement 37/38
i definitely completed all 38 but obviously one bugged out and
i have no idea which one it was.. guess i’ll just do them all over again, all of them

gw2 has been bad decision after bad decision and a lot of little things just add up and i’d be hard pressed to find the good aspects outweighing the bad at this point.. so i get the opening posts sentiment

it seems that the aetherblade strikers are modeled after elementalists
so i should obviously be able to one-shot them

kind of like a guild >_>

skritt have emissaries.. i wonder how smart they are

Kralkatorrik secondary character z_z

why are you playing from birds eye view that you can’t see through the rain cloud ._.

the first thing we notice is
pvp…       meh ._.

i usually only put 10 in arcane..
i’m water and earth heavy, did the entire gauntlet on a condition build {staff}
and switched to scepter to cut liadri down simply because it was the most efficient way {and cheapest for me} to do it.. {could have on staff, got her to about 20% one time}

to be quite honest i didn’t find the liadri encounter very difficult, not as far as skill was concerned.. it was a matter of clockwork {ironically} and you simply couldn’t use certain builds or arcane rhythm for it

if anything i’ve learned it’s that arcane traitline is simply a crutch
and our other traitlines are horribly counterintuitive
it’s not that they are underwhelming, we have our baseline stats to thank for that
i’m fairly certain they all need some rework to accomplish synergistic value toward builds that are less of a headache and Actually Fun to play

that’s amazing
i’ve been running a 5/0/10/20/15 build
and i recommend 6 or at the very least 4 runes of pirate

i highly doubt typing up ideas to improve the class is going to affect the game much.. you could probably type a 20 page award winning report and the people running this game wouldn’t give it the time of day.. you’d have much better luck starting a topic stating how suck the particular class is and how it’s hindering time spent on the game and dulling the incentive to use the gem store.. i’d like to think that’s not the case, but as i previously mentioned, just look at the past years track record

i ish keyboard drooler, i can haz buff, nerf something elz
yep, you get anough players typing that up and you’ll finally be in for some astounding patch notes

my character has a backstory.. in progress, sigh
i can’t write as long as you can, lawl ..
and as an elementalist i can tell you it’s a bit depressing and
easy to throw a story on the backburner zz
but i’m on anvil rock too, so i can answer Some questions iguess

i want my elementalist to have a car
that drives under water, where i can use my ‘stealth’

i respctfully disagree

i was playing with similar traits yesterday
went 15,25,10,10,10 though with arcane power and II in water
forget what i used in fire, i was just goofing off though
it wasn’t all out and my health pool wasn’t 12k low

i tried a new build last night.. was just wandering around and roughing up some npc’s
was actually kinda fun.. i know for a fact if an invader came by or if i tried any of the even somewhat beyond mild game content i’d immediately be having a bad day though

is elementalist worth it
nice rhetorical question

i haven’t gotten through all of clockwork chaos.. but, is that what happens?
she just slithers off?

i actually somewhat enjoyed the scarlet backstory they typed out, of course the in-game presentations of her have been pretty lame.. Actual in-game lore provided through gw2 is little and far between.. and i’m not just talking ‘yeah, there’s lore in the game’ i mean genuinely intriguing moments

scarlet’s actions are more cliché than her backstory now.. though, one could argue a bad person is just going to do bad things.. and in a game it has to look cinematically lame?
i think “what scarlet saw” was just vague enough and interesting enough to get the idea that she has some convoluted idea of balance

if you want to get a glimpse of a good range of writing with surreal yet somewhat believable villains i suggest everyone sit down with a nice japanese light novel, here in america it’s mostly “i’ll get you my pretties, and your little dog too” paired with “oh nos, a time bomb in more than one place”

i do like the large scale invasions, in a broken down place like tyria of the gw2 timeframe, she seems rather formidable.. but if the mmo still gets customers then i’m pretty sure scarlet is out of business because she will be crushed by the playerbase

lastly and personally, i’m just wondering will scarlet cry and will a main character from the series point out that she would have been better as an ally in the battles yet to come

my reason is because her motivation seems to be completely psychological and will there be remorse during her defeat.. i highly doubt we are looking at an anti-villain developement with her as she is Highly damaged and would only be useful in a very ‘isolated-circumstance’ type of way.. but then again, we have heros in this game like Logan and his queen who aren’t good for anything other than getting people killed

and i suppose this isn’t a watchknight?

all i can say about the title of this thread is
were you not here for the last event they released….

mean! :0                  

introducing the refurbished Dragonspawn’s Destiny   n_n
and a pretty good screenshot of fire and ice

cliché bad guy steps in and blows things up
the in game cinematics weren’t too bad

likewise the ‘cutscenes’ could use some work, but are overall pretty good

let me take this opportunity to say the Marjory Delaqua Diary was possibly the worse game cinematic i’ve ever witnessed.. props to the people who worked on it, but i simply can’t relate to the final product

oh, and is queen jennah good for anything other than getting people killed!

it’s amazing how very few people supported this thread, sad really..
a ‘holographic communicator’ is a nice consolation prize though, i rarely say this
nice work gw2

since they fixed healing rain, staff water line is pretty solid..

what they could do to mildly improve on it: If spellcaster is in blast radius of [ice spike], then player gets 2 seconds of ‘frost aura’

i agree gust is a joke and should simply be scrapped for a skill that actually works..
since they re-worked it, i actually think it fails in More situations than it used to..
and they do need to buff [unsteady ground] or [stoning]

at least in fire attunement [lava font] and [flame burst] make up for [fireball]‘s —— poor damage output.. sadly, because earth attunement has crowd control, combo, and support role capabilities.. they’ll never throw us a bone in that department.. they increased [unsteady ground] duration, yayh?

also, [chain lightning] doesn’t chain enough and needs a range increase.. otherwise, it serves very little purpose

can’t wait until this patch comes around
and there will still be “elementalists are fine” posts

to the players that understand how damaged the profession is, just don’t pay much attention to those who don’t.. they wear their blinders 24/7

got this a few days ago
still stand on the principle that they should have offered more choices
as far as ‘challenges’ go

it’s amazing how some people can be entirely oblivious to the meaning in what other people are typing.. anyway, can we get a torch/shield combo, it’d be spiffy :p

 
i already beat liadri, but i support the club
didn’t mind the ‘glitches’ too much, if there are any.. i mean, it’s a huge game and for the most part i think the game builders do a good job.. they could have smoothed out a few things to make it easier in theory

as for the direction the game is going, i’m simply appalled
every aspect of queen’s gauntlet is a huge red flag stating how ArenaNet doesn’t want to build their customers an enriched gaming environment and how they simply want to corral their cash cows every chance they get

i’d liketo adress the title and then the thread
thread first, yes.. there’s no outstanding reason why elem needed to be nerfed into the ground.. but it was, and also it’s a very needlessly clumsy profession in this game

as for the title, yuh huh elems are interesting
sadly, they are a classic spellcaster
it is a game character that will have variations throughout time
ArenaNet seems to have gotten bored with their version and simply like to —-- all over it
hypothetically, if gw3 came out and they had their way.. elem would be discontinued, if not put in as a laughing stock.. though, it’s well on its way in gw2

you have a point sir
i was hit by 2 thieves the other day.. 22,200 damage in 2 seconds
one did hit me for 9k damage, the other 13k damage
the funny part is i was completely built for toughness, protection, vitality….
50% health gone in 2 seconds from 1 opposing enemy
what a joke

i defeated liadri
also, nerf liadri
the end.. have a nice day

um, the asuran dome? doesn’t a white pool spawn right up against the wall?
i didn’t get killed doing that one, but i’m sure it wasn’t as easy as other matches
try the one over pyroxis, if you haven’t quit already..
i completely understand that ArenaNet offered no outlet on this one.. some consider it a ‘challenge’ but given the opportunity many people would have simply said “give the customers better options because this is stupid”

can’t wait until this patch comes around
and there will still be “elementalists are fine” posts

don’t blame ’em
straw that broke the camels back sort of thing

 
i have 1 main and 1 alt that isn’t even leveled
i beat liadri on my main simply by utilizing a certain strategy, it wasn’t much different from the other matches.. just more, clockwork

was it a challenge? i’m sure there are Many challenges in the game i haven’t even approached
sadly, this was living world content and ArenaNet felt the best way to ‘peak players interest’ was waving a mini in front of their faces..

we aren’t dogs or little children ArenaNet, you don’t need to wave a treat in front of our faces to get us to do something.. or, are your updates simply so devoid of meaning that you have resorted to this?

what’s further saddening is the fact that so many have failed to recognize ArenaNet’s failed ‘pacify the high-end gear’ crowd agenda.. they were simply too lazy to provide varied difficulties and award accordingly.. Hard Liadri, gold medel; Easy Liadri, silver medal

as it currently stands: Get Gold or Go Home
absolutely absurd.. that simply translates to losing customers

as for the chest thumping nine year olds
i did ‘conquer the challenge’ and if they nerfed liadri i wouldn’t feel cheated
the only people who have been cheated here are the gw2 customers who were simply Excluded
no choice, no respect
simply cheated

the sad part is one of the best arenas to do this is over pyroxis spot
try doing liadri with no stamina z_z

you consider this drool fest ‘new content’ ?
oo kk

not a guild wars veteran, someone recommended gw2
so i’ve been here since early start.. love ArenaNet’s un-balance patches..
thought the overall basis for this game was kinda dorky, but i gave it breathing room. eventually, liked my character, kinda wanted to get into it.. sadly though, i agree with the OpeningPost.. Anet seems to think one wrong turn deserves another, deserves another, etc.. until this game becomes an abysmal downward spiral.. i was considering a gw1 account, and i’m a bit of a norn fan.. but, because of gw2 shortcomings, i decided to pass.. so that is a 40$ loss on their part right there

the only living world i remember are mad king and dragon bash.. it seemed “real”
yeah, adventure box had a neat 8-bit theme song and xmas had fun things {i mostly disregard it though, because xmas is xmas} erm wintersday.. aside from that, what do we get? sci fi channel crab attacks? annoying election? and now Drool On My Keyboard gauntlet arena.. also, let me thow in zephyr sanctum was mildly interesting, and aetherblade pirates are just dumb and someone needs to put a potato in their exhaust…

Anyway, i’m just being hypercritical.. but, the point is there have been some good things and some Really, Really bad things. Like, squandered potential bad.. So, i completely agree with the opening post… I really wanted to delve into Guild Wars, but as it stands

 
oh, and here is {after playing 2400+ hours of gw2} my very own depiction of tyria

let me throw in that there are 6 mini chests in the arena that you can run through
so that’s 6 tickets there, i think they might only spawn once a day though

i wonder what game Ukyo is playing
not to mention tl,dr

i beat liadri yesterday, i still think it’s junk
short of a dragon showing up and blasting the arena back into a sink hole
also opening up tons of Actual content and lore, i wouldn’t be surprised if more people left the game

also, i agree with the sentiment that if they nerfed liadri so others can get their mini
i wouldn’t argue with that

noticed that too, huh?
the ringmasters of this game couldn’t balance their way out of a paper bag
this has been apparent for quite awhile now, they’ll be in that bag for a very.. very
long time

the achievements i got on my way to the mini are the only ones i’m doing
the mini doesn’t count toward mini achievement by the way >_>

my strategy for mostly all the matches was bleed them to death ._.
except the ones that had a gimmick, still used conditions though

got it, ironically the achievement chest put me at the 5,500 tier
so was it worth it? nooooo
plenty of people are still frustrated with this
oh, and i cheated
ok, not really.. but, i’m a staff elementalist and i used my non-usual weapon set
using staff i’ve gotten it to about 20%, i know i could probably get it.. i’ve already wasted enough time on this as it is though
it’s good to stress your character out and try new builds etc..
but the sad fact remains, they failed to provide varied difficulties and award accordingly

i certainly don’t feel more skilled than the next person for getting this
if they decided to offer a nerfed version for people who are stressed out on it
i’m totally cool with that

i would have posted this topic a long time ago
sadly, i don’t think the ringmasters of this game are up to the challenge
a mistfire fox would be great though :p

they probably wouldn’t put enough time or detail into them
we’d end up getting generic looking geodulfs z_z
if foxes ever do make it into the game i hope they are unkillable :\
or at least formidable

wolfs summon other wolves, if foxes are defeatable they should transform into kitsune spirits with torment and dazes ^^ or chill breathe or random boonz

i’ve already played mmo’s where your own character can transform into a fox, and another one where there were 3tailed bloodwolves.. probably wouldn’t need any fox bosses as there is already a gianticus lupicus or whatever.. haven’t done it yet, i thought those were extinct.. is it a risen?

anyway, foxes have pretty diversified habitation on planet earth, i don’t see how they’re completely absent in tyria

lawl, nice signature

the one boss didn’t have a very good tell, and i decided i didn’t care anymore
i said to myself “i’ll just dodge right now, before i get 1-shotted”

initiated my dodge roll, BooM x_x dead

so apparently it’s my fault for not having esp

provide nerfed liadri, as well as current liadri

achievements are as follows:

mediocre liadri = regular liadri mini {with shadow effects}
difficult liadri = blood red liadri mini {with shadow effects}

there, fixed was that so hard to comprehend ArenaNet ?

or was it worth polarizing and aggravating thousands of people..