Guild Wars 2

Catapult didn’t even get built on overflow I was on. Workers was building for over 40 mins and never even completed it, then NPC for LS port popped up and that was that.

Anyways, hope ANet posts a vid of what was supposed to happen.

SarahWitter.2317:

After the weapons were readied, and the karka attack, Captain Magnus and others needed help bringing the battle to the karkas. You should have a piece of mail that helps.

You can also just go near the Sanctum Harbor Waypoint in Lion’s Arch. There is a transporter NPC near the boats/docks that will transport you to Southsun Cove.
Have fun!

Can the team upload a video of what was supposed to happen in LA cus I was there and nothing happened except boat NPC popping up all of a sudden. Thanks!

Yea, we were escorting NPC and then she just disappeared. No one now knows what is going on right now, I don’t think it’s even progressing no more. It just stopped.

Was in overflow, waitied for an hour and nothing happened. Then I used ship NPC to get to LS.

Basically, I was there but no event.

I hope someone can upload good vids of this b/c despite being there; I did not get to participate, evidently.

Here’s the thing…

I don’t want to do this dungeon, period.

Got to 80, MADE my own gear with materials I gained while in the open world, and I was perfectly happy. I could Wv3 to my hearts content and not worry about if the other players out gearing me, no they were the same as me.

Now I have to do this stupid dungeon and worst thing: I have to be in a group to do it. Suddenly a game that can be played solo requires me to have to join a guild too. Seriously? This game turned into that other game over night.

That is total kitten. That is lying to me for FIVE YEARS.

Well after 7+ years of raiding 4+ hours a night, I came here expecting I would not have to go through that again to get gear to compete. I came here to escape this stuff and for a while it was heaven. Now it’s same old group based hampster wheel.

That is kitten. Total kitten.

Well I guess it’s their way or the highway, right? Wait, where have I heard that term before….ah yes, a game where I quit after 7 years of dedication after they too decided to spit in my face.

Oh btw, I had a guild. Guess where they all went back to? It rhymes with cow. And you know why? That game does hampster wheels 10000x better and is that how the game is advertised/designed from the ground up; you know exactly what you are getting into the moment you sign up.

The people you are tryin to please will also eventually follow my guild back to that other game cus they will demolish your content in records time and get bored again. That is not me just sayin that, that is me stating a FACT.

p.s. I severly doubt anyone important is reading this thread. Merged threads = throw any complaints into one spot so it can be ignored. The only people in power that are reading this are the ones who hand out infractions/delete posts/move them into the ‘trashbin’ cunningly named ‘merged threads’. I think I am just about at my limit. Enough is enough. They lied outright; the end.

this is catering to the people who LOVE elitism in all those other MMOs: Gear gaps, forced segregation by mechanics such as the OP stated, and all that is now name of the game. I guess the people that love the “Raid or Die” models are enjoying their new found mountain to stand on too belittle the peons at the base of it for the lols…but I don’t. It’s awful and changed this game for the worse. But that’s just my opinion. Worthless, I know.

Well, there’s my two cents. Now infract me. Delete this post for not exactly being totally on topic and not praising this game and it’s choice in direction; infact I expect it now.

SoR has no largos at all. Cannach is also bugged.

May I ask for rolling restarts every so often so we can get this stuff done before they inevitably bug out again?

Question.

If I go through forums@arena.net via email with complaints about moderators: will I be sending these to their bosses or just to the mods who are infracting/harrasing me?

I will not bother even going through that if it’s not a higher level of power because that would be useless.

Had good fps, more or less. But the input lag, wow…harsh.

As caster I could barely tag anything due to this. None of my skills except Fireball would cast. I got 24 mob kills total in all of that.

Wish I went melee, at least i could like stand there and jam on #1 key and maybe win.

It was OP with ability to proc it more than once under the 10 sec ICD for sure.

But removing it entirely?

Cheaper and easier to wreck it totally than reworking the skill, I guess.

Path of least resistance ftw.

Find it hard to use multi shift set ups, personally. Means I have to use three fingers at once; 2 to combo and one to move. So I try to stay away from that and only use two at once. I can multi shift if I have to but instead I do it with mouse binds. ie. ctrl + middle mouse button. Younger people can do this better though so it’s easy for them.

But yes, like Alex said: you can also use combo binds like he pointed out.

A multi button mouse is fairly mandatory I figure if you are into playing MMOs. GW2 isn’t as bad some where you need 50+ seperate binds, though.

I actually use a multi button mouse, arrow keys, and bind my keys all around it which is NOT normal. Most use WSAD configs. But I am left handed so there is no real choice for me and I have had to play this way for well over 20 years now so I am set in my ways..

Would highly recommend an MMO type mouse, it makes things much much easier.

Nothing really to adapt to: stand 1200m back, sling spells, drop combo fields, and then pray other players make use of it which if it’s a PuG or unknowns: it will never happen. Also it might be wise to drop +healing all together since any finishers done by others will go by their healing power and not yours. Then again, personal heals are still a good idea I suppose if you want to live longer than a few seconds.

Also you won’t be interacting with your combo fields no more so its just like any other mage caster from other MMOs when it comes to staff; stand way back and go through a set rotation. ZzzZZzz.

D/D however is still a mobile, in your face spec so at least that weapon load out is still a bit better when it comes to things to do (and KILL!!).

Staff is now seemingly relegated to situational times where you have to use ranged due to melee punishing scenarios, other wise using dual wield weapons sets tends to be the better option now since it is least effected by the nerfs and is capable of dealing much more dps.

I will adapt but sadly Staff will not be my go to first choice weapon no more and that makes me a little depressed. I shall also deeply miss the highly addicting and enjoyable EA dance I used to do which is some the best game play I have had in any MMO I have played (couple dozen or more). Oh well.

My gosh, this build totally rocks. It also confuses people when I drop all these weird weapons and stuff on the ground.

If you are Asuran, replace nado with Summon Power suit.

For extra pwnage, drop all this junk during a DE or Wv3 fortification assault when theres a ton of players around. People will simply adore you for dropping all these toys on the ground and lavish you with praise!

“What teh kitten, all my weapon skillz got replaced by these sucky ones. ARG!”

“WHY AM I A ROBOT, OMG!?!”

Expect these cries of joy frequently! It’s great!

Lol, actually got sum warrior thinking the power suit could take down a keep door. This is epic! Oh and it does take down Wv3 walls and doors /winkwinkgrin honest!

Thank you to the first poster for this OP build. /bow

Hmm have to level my engie then, seems like the last bastion for self combos and fun, complex gameplay that I crave and can’t get with ele no more. Well until they nerf other classes few remaining self combos that is….looks like that is their goal: no self combos ever.

Majority here admits that EA needed fixing, infact I called this nerf a while ago in another forum subsection (resulted in deletion and infraction, btw).

Problem is I thought they would simply fix the multiple procs under 10 secs which was the whole reason why it was OP. Instead, they gutted it completely.

I honestly did not expect them to go this far. But they did!

It’s quite a shock.

Varl.3269:

You know wrong, they will have the same stats as ascended weapons, as stated by the devs already.

I am right because Legendaries has a regular upgrade slot thus can fit any sigil you want into it like say 1 stack of power per kill up to 25.

Ascended only has baked stats with infusion slot.

Whatever, glad they patched this fast. Kinda funny they let it slip through though.

I get 16 dmg with my fire rolls. That’s pretty OP imo; needs more nerfin.

Yea, I will chill out yet I can’t help knowing that at some point legendaries become the best weapons in game with no equal.

“You don’t have to have a legendary since it is merely a status symbol and gives no advantages over any other exotic of it’s type….we promise!”

Wow, those legendaries are way better than exotics.

You be hitting for like 200+ more dmg on a crit than everyone else just with one legendary weapon, not includin legendary gears lol?

Well, I guess you better have one or get owned by those that do.

Unless infusion slots get crazy stats, that is BiS by a noticable margin.

Could do that, have to drop my cantrips though. I love me cantrips. /hugs teleport and wont let go!

Won’t be the same though and on long CDs too.

Sokay, new wonderful gear treadmill now so we have to re-gear anyways. Eh…./shudder.

Uhm, hopefulley someone can figure out a spec that was as fun as the pre-nerf EA staff builds. Daggers are cool and all but I really dug the staff and it’s hard to simply just drop it……but I doubt it though, I been over those traits a buncha times and I can’t see it ever happening.

Yikes, I read through this thread again just now and it makes little sense. It’s like reading 2 pages from one book, then 3 from another, and so on. They are like just randomly shoving in posts in no particular order too. So confusing haha.

I for one would not even bother reading through 9k posts all mushed together. I prefer to find a topic about a particular issue’s nusances and go from there. Uber threads just makes things really confusing. Maybe it’s just me.

Like it could be the title of the thread that starts it all, but it gets merged thus the title is lost. It’s a very strange way to moderate.

Wondering if this is tactic to confuse issues or just simpy trying to save space on a forum. I dunno. That’s why I made this thread…

Moderators are seemingly closing down/merging most threads and now simply shoving them into one giant messy pile.

Eventually it becomes really confusing and whatever the OT was about becomes buried. Examples of this is all over the place now in almost all sections of this forum.

These uber threads become so bloated that nothing really comes out of it. It’s like a literay blackhole where all thoughts, complaints, and such are crushed.

When I come to think of it, this is the perfect way to sweep issues under the carpet; posters get so annoyed they might give up eventually.

I have been on many many many forums over the years and I have never seen anything quite like it. I picture a mod with a shovel, digging up all threads with vague similiarities, and effectively burying the issues at hand in one giant pit.

Some of these threads could fill a whole novel, maybe even a trilogy worth of words. It would take you days to go through it, if they actually do read it. But since it’s all these threads merged together, they make absolutely no sense what so ever after a while.

Such an interesting tactic, I must say.

Guess its a great way to clean up a forum but on the other hand its not so good for discussing things.

Thoughts?

Forgive me if I don’t spell to well or use proper punctuation and all that stuff. Not been in school in over 43 odd years. I aint a good typer either. Yes I said aint.

W/e. Magnetic Aura is still bugged so I won’t be tryin that build anyways. Good to know though for the future.

@Ivano if I do even use my elite, I use the ele pet now. Since I am asuran, all I get is junky bots so not much choice. I used to use nado/cancel for the stability but since that got nerfed; not worth a spot on my bar other than annoying the heck out of event farmers by flippin mobs out of thier AoE pile. Oh and btw, I been using staff as main up until today. Todays patch changed all that, so that’s not cool to me.

p.s. I had to type this twice since they decided to merge this thread into what will probably become a massive thread so they can ignore it. lol. It’s actually quite brilliant if you ask me.

I look forward to it.

Tried FGS tonight extensively and frankly I was not impressed.

I got owned so hard too, it was really pathetic.

Went back to D/D modified bunker build and did way way better.

I find it odd that this ‘bug’ has been allowed to exist ever since BWE1 and maybe even before that in closed beta. And now they nerf it into the ground? Again, I totally agree that it needed fixin but gut this trait completely? We are talking like half a year or more that it’s been around…

W/e. They won’t be changin this since obviously they don’t care. The fun has officially ended; adapt or re-roll warrior.

Uh, conjured weapons are still crummy and they require a specific build to even use effectively.

I guess they are marginally ok for OTHER classes not the ele. Going from 20 skills to 5 is actually detremental. You have to buff those things to be totally OP for me to even put one on my bar, personally. This patch didnt do that, not even close.

And EA blast finishers being removed? It’s now pretty terrible; it’s only good for the water heal. Rest the effects are really really trivial. Fire dodge = 16 dmg. Earth dodge = 67. Air dodge = one blind that rarely even hits stuff. Water = a very small heal and cleanse. All these effects are so short range that you have to be right on top of a target to even hit it. Yes, a 30 pt trait is actually WORSE than a 10 pt one….just like all the rest.

Point is that they just out right removed the finishers and didn’t even bother trying to adjust it. The bug that was making it OP was that it could trigger multiple times within the 10 second ICD. I agree it had to be fixed but not ruin it totally like they just did.

New builds might not even bother going 30 pts in any particular trait line: all our 30 pointers are now officially super bad. This is not a good thing imo.

Btw, the actual bunker build people was moaning about was dagger/dagger ones but they were the least effected by this nerf.

Last thing, it’s staff eles that got wrecked pretty much. The most funnest game play ever was remove entirely this patch making staff ele not only the worst ele weapon but also the most boring.

Lichform is still kinda useful still, ya? Nado on the other hand is like totally bad and not even worthy of being called an elite. They made it even worse which is kinda baffling.

Anyways….

Necros, mesmers, and eles should all unite for some after patch comforting.

We can cry on each other’s shoulders and hug one another.

“It jus aint right, man. It jus aint right!”

It took 6 years for them to re-look at eles in GW1, so I guess it will take that long here too.

30 pts arcane is still mandatory to me since swappin elements as fast as possible is still the best way to play for me. Attune swappin is intergal to Ele, period. This patch did nothing other than ruin the funnest MMO mechanic I ever had in a long long time. It was down right extremely enjoyable to play.

They could have adjusted this trait in a number of ways but instead they opted to ruin it. That’s really lame imo and a cop out.

My heals go to pets and turrets first, then players who don’t even need the heals. There is no such thing as ‘smart healing’ in GW2. With EA, at least I had some sort of control over it…now I don’t.

You took quite possibly the funnest most enjoyable game play mechanic (evasive arcana) I have ever seen in an MMO and you ruined it entirely. You could have simply adjusted EA in many other ways but instead you went the easier, cheaper route and gutted it.

Disappointing.

Very very…very disappointing.

Perhaps the two people doing balancing could play an ele once or twice one day?

Might give you a perspective on why most of us Eles are so upset.

I aplogize for being blunt and being mad but I really can’t help it. I was not expecting you to nerf it so bad.

edit. I find it depressin that when I dodge in fire attune now it does 16 dmg. Let that sink in….a 30 pt trait that does 16 dmg. Yea…awsome….

p.s. I really don’t expect anyone important to be even reading these feedback threads: it’s just a place to throw all the complaints into one spot so it’s more easily ignored.

Nerf gaurdian self combos then. If we are not allowed to, neither should they nor anyone else for that matter.

teg.1340:

yeah, I’m so overwhelmed by these under water finishers because under water matters so much – so does auto-attack dmg…

I suppose it’s better than having none at all and no combo either under water. Oh and the worst DPS of all classes while submerged I don’t go into water with my ele; I avoid it at all costs.

Show me OP vid of u usin FGS and do it against people who have clue. Thanks.

I am sorry, they nerfed the heck out of eles. Conjure weapons are still trash too.

Grats on your 5 added finishers and increased dmg! At least u got real buffs. Now go out there and 1-2 shot eles for me.

I’d prefer two people that actually play my class as a main to do balancing for it than ones that don’t at all. Maybe it’s just me.

Nothing you will say will convince me that using conjure weapons in PvP is a good idea. You lock out 15 skills for 5 mediocre ones; that is NOT a good trade off unless conjure weapons are so obscenely OP which they are far from being.

Right, I want to use a conjure weapon in Wv3 and get only one bar of limited skills with no ability to swap attunes unless I drop it….

Actually no, that is a bad idea. Infact that will get me killed in record time.

ThiBash.5634:

The aura/signet build still works.

And staffs have auras, riiiight.

Eh D/D and S/D builds still ok. Certainly not as good as before but still does the job….

However, Staff ele is a total write off now. May as well go guardian if you like to support.

Amusingly, they are quick to post in warrior forums.

And to Ivano…what more power? Might stacking got nerfed = less dps. EA blast finishers removed = less dps, utility, and survivability. Skills like mist form and RTL are still buggy as hades despite being fixed (again lol). Tornado which is already garbage got nerfed; that one makes no sense at all btw. And now Staff ele is utter trash! Yay!

Only thing that got buffed is conjure weapons that no one serious is going to use anyways; it’s only really good for players NOT elemenatalists and even then they are going to kitten themselves by picking it up.

Over all this was patch is a total kick in the kittens; the jokes on us. Hahaha, good stuff!

Nothing to do with surviving. It’s all about the play style which was fun and engaging. I agree it needed a fix so you could not proc it multiple times under the 10 sec CD but removing the finishers entirely is simply a knee jerk nerf just because it’s easier to do it that way.

Now I sit in back of a pack and cast like I do on most casters in any other boring MMO.

They took something really unique and fun, then ruined it entirely. I am sorry, it would not be that OP at all if it was only 1 proc per 10 seconds no matter attunement.But no, nerf EA to crap since it’s the path of least resistance.

Removing blast finishers entirely is simply the LAZY way out, straight up.

No, u switch to D/D or S/D.

I drop any AoE field on people and they will automatically all scramble to get out of it; enemies and friends alike. At least with EA I had sum sorta control, now I have none so no point really using a staff. Other weapons sets are superior now.

Ah but don’t touch the guardian and engie bunker builds: those are a-ok.

Just broke all my staffs and got 6 ectos. 1g20s woot!

Think I will do that with all my ele’s gear so I can bling up mah warrior. Mmm, best class in game that always gets buffs. Win win.

So like with my support gear full exo (heal/power/toughness).

Earth roll does: 79 dmg and 19 dmg a tick bleed.
Fire roll does: 16 dmg and 134 dmg a tick fire.

Other than the water heal, EA is absolutely terrible now.

Well at least it’s consistant: all our 30 pt traits are now crappy across the board.

edit. forgot to mention EA still does not work under water. Fun!

Hey, maybe you can group with staff eles and we can corpse flop our way to victory.

More than 1 dodge finisher per 10 sec CD: yes, broken…needed fix.

Instead of adjusting it to only proc every 10 secs, they removed it entirely.

Clear to me, those 2 devs do not even play this class. Rumor has it, they play wars so yea guess who got major buffs this patch? Hint: starts with the letter W.

Guess who got nerfed into the ground? Hint: starts with the letter E.

Whatever, they have not talked to us in the past and will not do so in the future. Just accept that this is a bottom of the barrel class that is used as something to nerf every patch just cus it’s funny.