Guild Wars 2

Liadri is all about paying attention to multiple of simultaneous actions for 1-2 minute and retraiting in some cases.

How many people did 8 orbs a week after it’s been released and how many people did solo lupi a year after the game was released?

You added damage modifers to critical damage modifier which is also calculated incorrectly.

What kind of math is this?

Hitman.5829:

Do not even try this build guys, 10k health just sucks, 2 back stabs from a thief and you will die.

Heck, I say you could even die with one backstab or even one eviscerate from warrior.

Sorry to say this, but your class is useless… I only use my elementalist to farm on big mobs or the scarlet events

Reading comprehension! Try it next time.

Once again, I’d like to report that all weapons bought with shards of zhaitan lacks their appropiate icons. However, their pvp counterparts have them assigned correctly. Please fix.

Decent framework for improving overall challenge is FoTM. But instead of increasing hp and damage, they should improve mobs and bosses. And obviously rewards…

But that requires a functional dungeon team.

Also, if I noticed that correctly, riposte won’t block for first 0.25s, just like whirlwind attack.

Poor Jeff. We should support him somehow.

Wait a second, an actual update to fractals?

Sorry for aggressive tone. Zerker equipment was brought only to counter your

ridiculous healing

argument. I’ve done a lot of fractals without them to know how valuable they are (or rather how they trivialize whole thing).

Chi.2943:

The difficulty spike in my experience from 38 to 48 is night and day. There is a larger allowable margin of error in 30 than 40+. Also, agony IS an issue in 48. Agony isn’t an issue at all 38 with 45AR – it just ticks 1%. However in 48 with 45 AR, you will still be hit for 18%. While you should be able to avoid agony on most bosses, maw agony cannot be avoided which is why guardians equip tome and/or you do 99 trick. I’m assuming you have done 48, however, just in case you haven’t and you’re just theorycrafting….maw agony in 48 will down most players with 45AR in one round unless guardians are running tomes or there is some ridiculous healing going on.

Difficulty scaling scales at least hp linearly. Every level it’s 1.25% or 2.5%. It’s been tested using skritt technology.

Personally, I have guardian at lvl 80 and ele at lvl 76, so it’s not just theory but practice. I’ve done levels 48 maw without any guardians, elementalist or rangers. It’s doable with 5 glass cannons – 4 warriors/1 mesmer. You need some coordination or just one human.

85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85
85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85
85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85,85
feeling dizzy.

Good job!

Prepare your armour with fire resistance!

You have no right to say that, you don’t do fractals.

That would be great.

Horrible design, I agree.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Anyone that clicks skills is bad. Anyone that used keybinds is good. That is the line huehuehueuheuhehue

Good one!

I’d also add that getting killed by your own reflected projectiles is a really bad play.

My last 7 hrs long run was very tiring. No clue.

I love those 5 hrs long dungeon runs.

Saucermote.9140:

Have you tried adjusting the wvw/pve quality/culling slider to a higher setting?

It might be connected to this recent change:

All Phantasms: The ghostly effect on phantasms should no longer fail to show up in low graphics settings.

It’s been done by few eles already. It’s slower though.

coronaas.4362:

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHHA anet has no mods

The irony.

I’ll stay with Liadri.
Lupi is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.

So what’s the most challenging aspect of this game, pve-wise? Liadri?

For 5s.

Dub.1273:

Elementalists could do even faster, it’s just a lot harder. Using Fiery GS in Phase 3, rushimg against a wall… ugh.

Ele high dps builds are leecher builds, they are bad for solo.

Crystaline Entities in Arah path 1 are also victims of this nasty bug. I can’t RP properly.

Fuzzion.2504:

Aye, 2 v 1 is getting harder everyday.

For those that think that DnD has lost its touch is mis-informed.

I forgot to mention I meant tpvp not zvz where people play without their brains. If you think you can 2v1 similiarly skilled player in more balanced environment than zvz you are really overestimating their skill level.

Oh, didn’t know you play chronomancer. Official test?

One does not simply speedrun with anchor build.

You mean run.

Also:

Ele is a very high skill celling class, pro’s do extremely well, and new players get destroyed.

Pros rerolled.

That was directed @Heiltdo.

Snowball.3497:

But I have yet to see any place in PvE that my ele can’t handle. I’ve even soloed multiple dungeons, beaten liadri and done the 5-gamkittenallange with an ele . If now the elementalist were that bad on damage and died so easily, the class would get kicked out of a dungeon-group more than the former ranger. Which is simply not the case, excluding CoF p1 speedfarm (when that existed) I’ve never gotten kicked out of a group for being an elementalist.

Me too but it doesn’t mean the class is okay. Compare lupi solos for instance, my best one is ~14 minutes while on warrior its been done in <6 minutes.

Bringing up conjures isn’t valid for argumentations sake. Most of us didn’t pick supposedly flexible and high-skill cap profession to spam autoattacks from lh. I want normal weapon sets like d/d or s/d to be more valid. Conjures were supposed to bring more flexibility, not just damage.

And last thing, some speedrunners are actually using rangers, engineers and thieves now.

3v1 against scrubs who prefer to pewpew with shortbow instead of rezzing. Winning 2v1 is extremely hard against people similiary skilled.

And right now I miss gw1 and its ability to play cross-region. If you say necros are the easiest profession to dealt with I dare to say you played against bads, real bads. Death shroud + spectral armour and you take 20% of their life force. There’s no lemongrass or other gimmicks like sigil of generosity to help you even a little with typical burst. You also have to stay on the point and eat his spam or you’ll run out of endurance for more dangerous spam. Stop this 1v1 dueling bs, game is more about playing objective.

And 60 tokens (more with bags) are equal to ~1.66g. So you can actually get almost 5g.

Hyperbole, like saying you can get 40s of retalation through blast finishers. Don’t be meticulous.

New content and you complain?

Only cowards attack others from behind.

Oh, and thieves as well.

LightningBlaze.4913:

Lol this video made my night. Even though the ele current spvp/tpvp state was exaggerated, the thief version wasn’t.

Keep in mind that this video is from September 2012.

It’s not like other classes got any other changes beside few very minor ones like signet of restoration.

Yes, better by 1% if you don’t run with bads. Still, the best build would be one warrior with empower allies+scholar runes and rest with desperate power+ruby orbs or maybe ogre runes.

Before last boss there are 2 champion spiders, really fast to kill if you have any reflections. Hence running with your team makes sense.

I guarantee top QoS.

I can sell my spot for 15g.

Olba.5376:

Please explain.

I thought that would be obvious.

spoj.9672:

Casuals that dont agree are very quick to report posts. I got reported multiple times on the necro forums for telling someone they were wrong politely, after they full on insulted me. I can take an insult so I didnt bother to report them back. I just find it amusing that mods have no issue infracting the player who gets reported but they fail to check the other posts.

That’s just kitten.

colesy.8490:

The reason there is “not zerk = bad” stigma is because the learning curve for using berserker basically involves avoiding heavily choreographed OHKO attacks and against mobs just grouping, cleaving and spamming blinds. Of course it’s a lot more forgiving on say a mesmer with our fat 19k HP pool rather than a thief or elementalist.

It’s also about running in more faceroll-ish team composition with lots of defense which certain classes provide. Zerker is good when there’s no constant pressure. Otherwise you might need sustainability which, again, certain professions grant.

DiogoSilva.7089:

Elementalists have always been an excellent profession in pvp. The only exception was for the last patch, not because we were nerfed, but because some builds were overbuffed and can counter our best builds. Once the nerfs for other professions come in, we should see play again in pvp.

Out of my head:
- D/D cleric bunker eles (countered by current thief’s boon-stealing meta)
- S/D valkyrie instant burst eles (countered by current high condition + high defense meta)
- S/D berserker dps variation (decent versus current meta with the right traits and utilities)

For pve, there’s only a single good profession. Warrior. With Guardians and Mesmers filling in a niche. This has nothing to do with balance. It’s purely the fault of pve’s content design. To make elementalists, and most other professions, more useful in pve, the encounter design needs to be improved. Still, you can always go for a Lightning Hammer build, and deal high damage while spread plenty of might and fury to your warriors.

PvP agree.

For PvE, typical W/G/M meta moved to more variations. Speed runners are using rangers, engineers, elementalist and they stopped using mesmers. I don’t particularly agree with everything they do but saying it’s just W/G/M is too stretched out.

Abuse Infiltrator’s Strike → Shadow Return for very easy solo on a thief.