Guild Wars 2

I only played pvp in gw1 so I can’t really relate to DL or any other pve guild.

Forcing people to play “mains” is in my opinion very limiting and unwanted for some people, including me. Of course, playing one profession should make you better utilize tools at your disposal but since gw2 is not exactly a rocket science I’d say that knowledge about encounters should help you utilize different professions at very similiar level even if you play for the first time on those profession.

If I ever tried to recruit people, my only requirement would be to have a functioning brain.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

We’re all happy buddy pals on EU. Only NA hate each other

Big EU family.

Three was enough!

EU is based more around friend list from what I heard. Plus, some guilds like HC have really silly requirements for my taste.

Dub.1273:

Last one has now been done by us (DS) because we saw a lot improvement possible for phase 1. Have been unlucky with RNG though and will improve further later.

Don’t forget about me.

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Name three.

For ~99,9% of gw2 population: Ashyn, 2nd Archdiviner in phase 2, Imbued Shaman.

Tsezar.6950:

what is the reason then to have different races? i think this wont be a solution. which other games have such han option that all players look the same? and you already have normalized models in wvw. but it doesnt change race

and as i said only 0.1% of criyng player can make a benefit of normalized models and maybe 0.001% of all pplayer in gw2.. so why balancing a game for 0.001% players?

@baltzenger who says that not the asura weapons are the normal size and the norn and human weapons have changed the size to fit character size?

Universe ponders.

Unlimited Speedrunning.

Razor.6392:

Are those different? o_O maybe stun breakers don’t work the way I thought they did.

Stun breakers don’t really work well against skills that launches. In other words, if you use them too early, basically before your character touches the ground, they won’t break the knockdown.

My first fractal team was actually 2w/1t/1g/1m.

He asked mostly for dungeon build advice in his opening post and my remark is that there is no sweetspot (not just mine) for harder content unless you could run with tome of courage with 50k hp all the time.

Brutaly.6257:

Since we are talking about OP sweetspot, which is a personal preference, i assume you know him well to make that statement.

You don’t have to know anyone to know that no amount of defense would help him at that high level because mobs attack too fast and some of them can actually cleave.

Stuff like that is usually put on gw2wiki, though sometimes it’s wrong. However, this time it is correct.

Threads like this are always amusing to read.

WarpSpasm.9721:

The whole point of being an Ele is to cycle through your attunements surely? This is the class’s primary attribute and it needs to be utilised to get the maximum benefit.
On DD it’s standard to close on Air, follow up on Fire, shift to Water to negate damage received and then finish off anything left standing in Earth with bleeds. With boons, esp Fury popping like billio, the DPS is through the roof with a crit build. My Ele speed kills as fast as my Warrior easily.
Anyone who can’t/won’t consider attunements whilst attacking needs to roll a different class. Sticking to auto attack is pointless.

Whole point of an elementalist is to use your attunements based on current situation, not to spam every single skill and swap attunements and then complain about 30 arcana being necessary.

Your elementalist can’s speedkill (assuming you’re talking about pve) anything as fast as warrior if you constantly swap attunements.

Just let them look a bit less generic. Copper figures, meh.

Wethospu.6437:

It was a fix not a nerf. Though it feels like a latter.

I tried to tell people that like half a year ago but I got told to just wait 2hrs (and later 30 minutes).

They changed tokens to account bound so it’s natural they would do it as well.

Brutaly.6257:

mix berserker, pvt and valkyrie in your armor to hit you personal sweetspot in HP and toughness.

I have to ask that but what’s the HP/toughness sweetspot for ascalon fractal at level 79?

Brutaly.6257:

Actually its not, its the dps centric build some berserker guardians use since they need a hp cushion from honor. Hence why i think most full berserker are full of it since they dress for dps but do not fully trait for it.

Its infact possible to squeeze out just as much or more dps from a pvt armor and berserker trinkets guardian with a different build.

I see what you did here.

Back to the topic, for dungeons I feel like 10/30/0/5/0 with 25 bonus points is a good starting template for a dps guardian or even you could drop 5 points from honour and radiance if you don’t like 1-h weapons.

I think it’s like 3rd time when people are accusing Guang for being a fairy teller. It’s time you learn the power of the spreadsheet.

swiftpaw.6397:

Speaking of ugly skins.. Aetherblade skins, now those are awful.. and yet people are forking out for those -_-

And now you can buy awesome greatsword.

Few more bosses and you’ll be fightning like a real man.

Alex.9106:

Every class can do p3 solo, since the last update.
Theres this sweet little thing called watchwork portal device.
Every class can do mesmer portals now

Which costs more than you would get reward for the whole path.

Done it on first try, thanks Weth.

Should I have 7 gambits after defeating Liadri?

Broadicea.8294:

I have no argument against elementalist being considered top tier. Have you swapped a warrior for engineer yet?

Where are the engineer-based speed clear videos? How much faster can a team go through, say CoE p3 with an engineer than without? Why has no one shown any actual accomplishments with an engineer? All I see are these arguments based on spreadsheets. But if there’s a discrepancy between the theory and the empirical results, either the theory is wrong or there’s something fundamentally broken about the class.

The excel charts mean kitten-all if you can’t put them into practice.

Why till lately, only ranger clips were parodies?

Broadicea.8294:

I said 4 engineers because you guys did Lupicus with 4 warriors. I know that’s a gimmick fight, but do you really think it would be faster if you subbed out a warrior for an engineer?

My point is playing Excel Wars 2 is only the first part if you’re trying to prove a point like this. The second bit is actually demonstrating, something that as far as I know the Engineer Fan Club hasn’t done.

Brazil demonstrated the validity of swapping a warrior for his Ranger build. Kitsune demonstrated the validity of LH ele. That’s the difference between someone that wants to be taken seriously and someone that’s full of doo-doo.

We swapped one warrior for elementalist. And he did showed solo engineer dps.

Fade.1743:

He’s right. I’m completely and totally mental.

S/F has its uses as a utility…so don’t count it out because it’s not the best. An average player will use a cookie cutter spec and only what is in that spec. A good player will use everything available to him/her.

What utility except 2 blinds (one being single targetted), additional toughness that doesn’t do anything and 2 blast finishers? You’re sustained dps is one of the worst, if not the worst, in the whole game. It doesn’t even cleave.

Assassin X.8573:

Range them. LoL. Its like people don’t think. Those new champs get zergd anyways. So my only conclusion is that you are just very bad at your timing and positioning. Try taking other immobilization skills like bolas or flurry sword f1 burst and Practice practice practice.

Some of them (at least hammer guy) remove immob when doing their signature move.

TGSlasher.1458:

Swirling winds has 6 sec duration @ 30 sec cd
With cd reduction trait 24 Sec
3×6 = 18 seconds + 3 sec of reflect + 2 sec invulnerability = 23 seconds of projectile defence, but only 75% projectile defence for everyone else (not one of those eles) in the group.

So 2x Ele with S/F
2×6 = 12 seconds, 24 sec cd (when traited)
50% uptime for group
12 + 3 + 2 = 17 seconds = 71% for those eles and possible group IF the ele can get in the road of all incoming projectiles to physically block them (almost impossible to do when lagging :/)

Note: I don’t do fractals so I don’t know the specifics of the mobs in question or builds required. This is all theory based stuffs

You can’t get in the road of all incoming projectiles with 20+ grubs and adding obsidian flesh with 50s cd is not really a good metric here.

D/F, no sane person uses S/F in pve.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Only 45 minutes.

Edit: I know because I fell asleep for 30 minutes doing it, and we beat it 15 minutes after I woke up. Party not happy.

Only 30 minutes.
I know because I watched GW2 manifesto 5 times with Colin laughing at us and saying ‘I hit a dredge. I hit a dredge again. Hey! I hit it again. That’s great.’.

Broadicea.8294:

yeah like that time that there was a 17 second lupicus kill with a mesmer and 4 engineers

or wait that 5:23 CoF run with a mesmer, 2 thieves, and 2 engineers

or that arah speedrun with all dem engies

So why eles are in so-called t2?

You’re still saying same silly thing like 4 engineers.

Broadicea.8294:

The funny thing is, there was a video, I don’t think it was Guang playing because he only plays with the Excel client, but it was some engineer back before the Kit Refinement nerf doing a solo DPS demonstration…

…and Strife still smoked it on his warrior.

I think it was him. And if you take those solo dps tests as valid ones, think about it again.

TGSlasher.1458:

You should almost be immune to projectiles with that many focus eles lol

What about war/war/necro/ele/ele with 20+ 84 lvl grubs? “Just” 50% uptime of projectile defense.

Wethospu.6437:

Wait till you try level 79 clown car. It literally takes an hour.

‘I hit a dredge. I hit a dredge again. Hey! I hit it again.’ That’s great.

Shaman <3.

Eulolia.2467:

20 slot bags. You seen how much they are on trading post? I’m not sure what the point in getting up to level 50 is though, other than to be able to get 20 slot bags faster. But you could have just spent your tokens on 20 slot bags before then instead of getting more agony resist.

You can buy 18 slots bags for free in heart of the mists.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Still a skill-clicker, though.

Small hands.

zerotwo.4731:

Its suppose to be end game content. After doing it so many times you end up finding it easier then Arah.

Yep, fotm at lvl 10 is easier than Arah.

Fade.1743:

I have to disagree that Aurashare is weak in PvE. It’s a good jack of all trades build for the jack of all trades class. It’s good for starting out as an Ele and I wish that the radius for the share was larger…and hopefully that will change.

Fresh Air (S/?) has a higher skill floor but lower skill ceiling than a D/D build, imo, in PvE anyway. I would recommend it once you get some practice with Ele in a D/D Aurashare build then switch to a FA one with 0/30/0/10/30 set up.

Fresh air is not scepter specific trait at all. It’s used in pvp because it synergizes well with cooldown on lightning strike.

Aura share is pretty much useless and d/d builds in fotm are even more useless.

LightningBlaze.4913:

We can pass lvl 50+ fractal now without having someone with higher lvl from early release to do only odd lvl numbers? I haven’t done fractal in so many months.

Nope, only odd levels.

Baladir.2736:

You are running with enough condition removal? Ive been running with x-x-x-15-30 builds for awhile now to get condition removal with Evasive Arcanca and Water Attunement and still find myself carrying Cleansing Fire to have enough.

Condition removal and fotm in one sentence?

Since we’re getting 2nd fractal with our favourite theme (cute dredges), I see no reason why we shouldn’t get another asuran fractal. The first one is already awesome!

7. S/F elementalist*

Those tiers change really fast.

bravoart.5308:

Pugs won’t take people without certain AR. Also, the people that still run fractals don’t want to go below their effective reward level, which is usually 40 or so.

AR is unobtainable/unusable without rng drops/laurels or excessive amounts of mats for recipes. It’s just not worth the time and loss of materials to make if you’re not lucky.

You have very negative view on that.

bravoart.5308:

Fractals are terrible. The rewards are dismal and the character progression path via agony resistance is horrible.

As a player that gave up after Fractal 10, I know I’m subject to the “shut up, you’re just bad” prejudice, but I don’t have friends/guildies interested in putting in the time to get the gear necessary to delve further in fractals for their paltry rewards.

The methods of obtaining agony resist are horrible and ultimately limited by rng and how lucky you are. The alternative non-rng methods are so grindy that who the kitten would even attempt making these kittening items just to go and enjoy more kittenty rng?

I have like 2 vials and over 200 fractal runs if I remember right, it’s not fair that players can just be locked out by bad rng when the only alternative is to offer up your life savings.

You really need 45AR on lvl 10?

Chryzo.8906:

Alphard is a girl’s name ?
Dub, i know, i just consider doing that an exploit and not doing it legit

Check other features than the name.

Dub.1273:

No, why? Just range him where he doesn’t daggerstorm and none of his clones will aggro you.

How many times should this be repeated? It’s she, not he. -.-

Celly.5912:

I’d like to see you do that on level 79 :p

I was actually talking about 79.

Celly.5912:

Yes please. The rewards for Fractals are just stupidly terrible. CoF p1 gives you 1g+ a run, taking 10 mins, while on Fractals 79, in a veeeeeeeeery quick run taking 1h15mins you get a bunch of garbage greens. Just implement everything OP mentioned + new fractals!

Veeeeeeeeery quick run takes about 40 minutes if you get short fractals like snowblind and volcanic.

oZii.2864:

Or dhuumfire should move to a adept trait since engineers have it at adept also and it reads the exact same.

Maybe ele should have burning precision changed as well because it’s very similiar to earlier version of incendiary powder?

Or natural vigor being moved to grand master major because of adrenal implant?

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Bottle tested?

Bottle couldn’t test anything. Though my short test told me those sigils stack.

Konu.1826:

Invisible frontal cone and visible projectiles.

Just like bloomhunger.