Guild Wars 2

I’m upset about the exchange rate because I’ve been waiting for keys to go on sale for a long time, but the conversion is atrocious now.

That’s ridiculous.
It takes me about 20 mins max (because of loading screens) to farm 1 key on a warrior and complete that level 10 personal story at level 6.
8.3 hours for 25 keys.
Making 119 gold takes forever unless you’re playing the market.
Items in black lion chests are mostly useless unless you’re still leveling crafting, still leveling alts, and actually like the skins you get with scraps. When you can use 119 gold to get a far better looking weapon.
With 8.3 hours of farming keys you could farm dungeons for all kinds of useful drops.
The chance of getting a permanent type item from the chest is less than a 0.00%.

Why are keys still so expensive a year into the game?

Was there an official/unofficial pumpkin carving contest?
I googled gw2 pumpkins yesterday and found a cool charr one.

I use zerkers/ruby in pve and wvw. My setup gives me 18k hp with it, with only 10 in water.

Gold tier is pretty harsh on us, yes. This is geared toward roamers around ruins/ flipping camps. Not sure if it can beat traveler/ melandru in large scale combat. I also have not used the new heal yet.

Superior Rune of Antitoxin

I’m surprised no one posted about this yet. To me this feels better than melandru runes for defense. Torment is annoying as hell to have on you. With the 6th trait combined with the reduction of the debuff, you can continue to burst a necro from D/D spec. My trinkets are usually celestial, which gives me more condition damage. And I’ve recently taken off energy for battle on one of my daggers for bigger burst. Lets just say a 0/10/10/20/30 (fury(i)/shield(v)/cleanse (v), cantrip heals(iii)/v, vi, xi) build would make great use of this with knights/celestial/battle sigil. You’re looking at around 800 (this is a total guess lolcats) condi. damage on average build-up.

Combine this with antitoxin spray for a faster heal than ether renewal (longer cd, but greater chance not to be interrupted), that aoes heals (heal your greater elemental if solo). There are still going to be times when ether renewal is better, as with the other heals. Verses fear/ corrupt boon, you’re going to want to be in air/water to get your shield up (as you can cast these auras while cc’d), have a cantrip like AoE/Mistform/CF up to be able kill off the incoming burst.

The armorsmith version of the recipe is probably easiest to make as you can get orichalcum ore pretty easily from salvaging and node farming.

E P I C D E F E N SE J Q

They need that wxp badly so they can catch up to the ranks we have on mag from “just defending.”

The elementalist is a PVE class.
The devs want you to use a staff in WvW.
The devs look at s/d burst in tpvp and think we’re fine.

S/D = spam everything to get someone to down state. Then try to finish them off or run away while someone else does.
S/D = die in 1 auto-attack from anything because you have 11k health and 900 toughness.

D/D = spam everything. Try to cleanse. Try to cleanse. Try to cleanse. Try to cleanse. Try to run. TRY TO RUN. Release.

Staff = Try to hide. AoE. Try to run. Release.

I sieged the kitten out of ebg keep. Stepped over to the camp for a second. Next thing I hear is "JQ KEEP’ “8 GOLEMS”. 5 minutes prior someone ordered an upgrade, not that it mattered. Yeah. Oceanic is about as fail as the elementalist devs.

What to expect during oceanic times:

JQ roamers in perplexity runes.
JQ roamers spamming laugh emotes.
JQ roamers sitting in every single camp, tower, keep waiting forever. LOL

SoS trying ever-so-hard to 2v1 against mag, and still losing everything they take to JQ anyway.

Mag roaming in solo. OMG UNHEARD OF!
Random people with tags doing pretty much nothing.
People talking about butts.

I would say boon duration if you need to be tanky dd / support staff.
2xTraveler, 2xMonk, 2xWater+30 arcana = 70%. Then battle sigil to bring up the dps loss of pvt as your might and fury uptime will be increased.

Sweet. Now you can delete it and make a warrior.

Thieves have 2 cheese things: Perma-stealth, and backstab burst.
Warriors have a billion cheese things.

Chris.3290:

KH just transferred and already you are discounting them?

You’re talking about a guild I never heard of before, until I logged in today. They went to bed. We went back to our 20 people 4 map defense. Which means ebg was gone even while they were on. And our garry was lost just a few moments ago. JQ doesn’t seem to know what they’re supposed to do. And SoS… no comment. It’s pretty much apathy hour every morning, only hour = 6+ hours.

I just woke up. I’m here for the 20 player oceanic coverage.

Mag used to be able to hold keeps longer than anyone we fought. Now, no one even refreshes siege. Who wants to defend when you can follow 30-40 green dots and get an orange bag, karma, etc. These guys we try to coax out of L.A. to get our numbers up don’t put in any effort.

Blehwars. 14/15 on my cheeve. Going to bed.

BUG: I can’t remove conditions. I can’t heal. I can’t damage anything. I can’t move.

Just yonder, Justdonny was struggling to make his way through the secret vineyard behind pet bear’s place. Justdonny had severely hurt his kidney during the window incident, and was starting to lose strength. Another pack of feral bears suddenly appeared, having caught wind of the blue armor. One by one they latched on to Justdonny. Already weakened from his injury, Justdonny yielded to the furry onslaught and collapsed. The last thing he saw before losing consciousness was a buzzing horde of bears running off with his blue armor.

But then Maguuma came down with Their outgoing smile and restored Justdonny’s blue armor. Feeling relieved, Maguuma smote the bears for their injustice. Then they got in their curb-jumping ghetto sled (Impala) and jettisoned away with the fortitude of 200,000 long-haired sea monkeys running from a big pack of albino cats. Justdonny skipped with joy when he saw this. His blue armor was safe. It was a good thing, too, because in six minutes his favorite TV show, Jersey Shore, was going to come on (followed immediately by ‘When 3-legged wallabies meet hand grenade’). Justdonny was contented. And so, everyone except pet bear and a few malaria-toting long-haired sea monkeys lived blissfully happy, forever after.

pet bear felt a stabbing pain in his taint when Justdonny asked this. In a moment of disbelief, he realized that he had hidden the blue armor right by his oscillating fan. ‘Wh-what? I don’t smell anything..!’ A lie. An annoying look started to form on Justdonny’s face. He turned to notice a box that seemed clearly out of place. ‘Th-th-those are just my grandma’s gerbils from when she used to have pet 3-legged wallabies. She, uh…dropped ‘em by here earlier’. Justdonny nodded with fake acknowledgement…then, before pet bear could react, Justdonny fearlessly lunged toward the box and opened it. The blue armor was plainly in view.

Justdonny stared at pet bear for what what must’ve been eleven microseconds. Suddenly inspired by the wise teachings of Confuscious, pet bear groped explosively in Justdonny’s direction, clearly desperate. Justdonny grabbed the blue armor and bolted for the door. It was locked. pet bear let out an enchanting chuckle. ‘If only you hadn’t been so protective of that thing, none of this would have happened, Justdonny,’ he rebuked. pet bear always had been a little dimwitted, so Justdonny knew that reconciliation was not an option; he needed to escape before pet bear did something crazy, like… start chucking potatos at him or something. In a blinding moment of misguided bravado, he gripped his blue armor tightly and made a dash toward the window, diving headlong through the glass panels.

pet bear looked on, blankly. ‘What the hell? That seemed excessive. The other door was open, you know.’ Silence from Justdonny. ‘And to think, I varnished that window frame seven days ago…it never ends!’ Suddenly he felt a tinge of concern for Justdonny. ‘Oh. You ..okay?’ Still silence. pet bear walked over to the window and looked down. Justdonny was gone.

BUG: My skills were all given to the warrior class. Mobility. Healing. Well, they already had highest burst, highest health, lets give them everything else, too.

Guardian Judge’s Intervention = Teleport and still a stun breaker. 1200 range. Applies burning. kitten cd. (can be reduce with a 10 point trait to 36s).
Mesmer’s Blink = Teleport and still a stub breaker. 1200 range with trait. Doesn’t put you in combat. 30s cd. (can be reduce to 24s with a 10 point trait.)
If you’re going to take stun break off of Lightning Flash, take it off those. 900 range, and cures a condition with trait, and/or vigor/regen with trait. Both of these traits lock you into a bunker build. 40s cd. (can be reduce to 32s via a 20 point trait, which a lot don’t take unless they’re running 30 water, because we lose regen/vigor and/or a cleanse. Bunker is commonly either 20-30 water. Some might even do 10-15 water).

I personally (with 20 water) usually take regen/vigor over reduced cantrip timers, because the timer is not a big difference. You might think you get more cantrips used this way, but more dodge and healing is far better. I run dodge from this, from 20 point trait in arcana, and energy on weapon sigil, so that I can get the most out of evasive arcana. It’s when you start getting CC spammed by necro that you start to hate your life. And the 8+s of immobilize that prevents all dodging. If your cantrips are down, and you lack ether renewal, you’re boned. You can maybe remove it while attuning to water. This is the time when you’re being chased by a zerg and die. This is why 20 in earth is so great over 30 water, because you can summon fiery greatsword while switching to earth for stability on earth attunement, and sail away. Hopefully not getting boon stripped and immobilized again in the process. Also, with the might stacking we can put out in d/d, it boosts the condition damage we get from having 20 earth. I use celestial trinkets which boosts it again. It’s hard to guage if I do more damage with 10 in air, because I’m running knights with heal on crit food. My main goal is I want to roam and win 1v1s/ clear camps easily/ out-pace group vs me. This is not asking too much, because obviously we, and other classes do this already. This class is about making choices based on survivability vs most classes, and right now that is cleanse first, stability second, mobility third.

P.S. It’s very disrespectful when you don’t play the class this forum is designated to, and come in here and tell people to “stop crying”. If you review several of the last patches you will see the devs have continually made changes to pretty conjury weapons, and not addressed anything the players were talking about. One with Air is a joke of a talent. It does absolutely nothing.

As he pulled up, he felt a sense of urgency. He had had to make an unscheduled stop at

Overlook’s to pick up a 12-pack of ninja stars, so he knew he was running late. With a deft

leap, Justdonny was out on the feet, and went flamboyantly jaunting toward pet bear’s front

door. Meanwhile inside, pet bear was panicking. Not thinking, he tossed the blue armor into

a box of gerbils and then slid the box behind his refrigerator. pet bear was concerned but at

least the blue armor was concealed. The doorbell rang.

‘Come in,’ pet bear explosively purred. With a deft push, Justdonny opened the door.

’Sorry for being late, but I was being chased by some stupid self-righteous TCer in a

zergship,’ he lied. ’It’s fine,’ pet bear assured him. Justdonny took a seat RIGHT next to

where pet bear had hidden the blue armor. pet bear cringed trying unsuccessfully to hide his

nervousness. ‘Uhh, can I get you anything?’ he blurted. But Justdonny was distracted. A few

freaknasty minutes later, pet bear noticed a funny-smelling look on Justdonny’s face.

Justdonny slowly opened his mouth to speak.

‘…What’s that smell?’

Am I quitting playing elementalist like some of the others? No. But I barely play much WvW anymore, and it’s the main interest for me. I used to play it all day. Now I find I need to get my ascended daggers to have that extra bit of survivability. I’ve also been looking at other games off and on. They don’t seem to be out yet. I also find myself missing old games because the classes weren’t pidgeon-holed into a single role in pvp.

It didn’t take long before Justdonny got back to the subject at hand: his blue armor. pet bear cringed. Relunctantly, pet bear invited him over, assuring him they’d find the blue armor. Justdonny grabbed his time machine and disembarked immediately. After hanging up the phone, pet bear realized that he was in trouble. He had to find a place to hide the blue armor and he had to do it carefully. He figured that if Justdonny took the amphibious vehicle, he had to take at least four minutes before Justdonny would get there. But if he took the feet? Then pet bear would be alarmingly screwed.

Before he could come up with any reasonable ideas, pet bear was interrupted by seven stupid bears that were lured by his blue armor. pet bear turned red; ‘Not again’, he thought. Feeling angered, he deftly reached for his ninja star and recklessly groped every last one of them. Apparently this was an adequate deterrent—the discouraged critters began to scurry back toward the foxy forest, squealing with discontent. He exhaled with relief. That’s when he heard the feet rolling up. It was Justdonny.

The real question: Why doesn’t anet want us to be able to play bunker D/D elementalist anymore?

Revert the stunbreak on our cantrips nerf. Nobody is using the new stunbreakers you added to other garbage spells for pvp/wvw. Except maybe people new to the class. Nobody is using One With Air either.

Why can we be CC’d in mistform? It says invulnerable right on the spell. Fix this.

Yes. Perplexity runes are extremely cheese. It’s like fighting 5 mesmers at once. We have a bunch of things that remove conditions, but the cds are extremely far apart. These runes apply confusion every couple of seconds.

In WvW if you take off signet of restoration, you can barely stay healed. If you don’t use Ether Renewal, you are going to be cc’d forever. Where is the balance here? There’s no real bunker spec anymore for eles. You ruined it. I’m about as bunker as I can possibly be: stab on earth attunement, remove cond on cantrip and water attunement. Stab, Invuln, port cantrips (If i get rid of any of those for another condi clear I can’t get away from anything.) Fiery Greatsword HAS to be the elite or I can’t get away/catch anything.

What are our options here? Full PVT and do no damage while our enemies laugh at us? Full clerics and still do no damage? Then get spiked by a thief with bloodlust stacks hitting our low vitality? Can we make good use of perplexity runes? No. I use knights with travelers runes for more mobility, more boon duration, more stats. I use Celestial trinkets because clerics lack vitality, and everything else lacks healing power. And yet still I get chain CC’d, and dominated by conditions. Which leads me to…

Why on earth did you incorporate the stacking of immobilization?

How to win as a necro: Corrupt boon/ Fear spam.
How to win as a thief: perma stealth/Backstab.
How to win as a warrior: Heal through everything/Outrun everything.
How to win as a guardian/mesmer/lbow ranger: Zerker gear.
How to win as an anything but ele: perplexity runes. I mean, how do you even damage an engineer running these now?

Does anet even play this game? Do you roam, bro? People complained about our class for so long that the only result is to break it instead of balance it. Then the other classes get buffed, and we get nonsense. Yeah, staff is great. I want to roam. Not with a staff. D/D is fastest mobility, great 1v1, but the bunker aspect took a huge nosedive. I think I covered most of the reason why.

Been getting 20v1’d all night on Mag BL. When I turn to flee, I notice the green dots I saw on my minimap have all waypointed when they saw a battle taking place. Good ol’ fairweathers. Grats TC. You have quite a challenge presented to you.

It all started when our antagonizing protagonist, Justdonny, woke up in a haunted thicket. It was the sixth time it had happened. Feeling abundantly puzzled, Justdonny poked a dangerous oil-soaked rag, thinking it would make him feel better (but as usual, it did not). Like a drunken sailor at happy hour, he realized that his beloved blue armor was missing! Immediately he called his favorite friend, pet bear. Justdonny had known pet bear for (plus or minus) 2,000 years, the majority of which were enchanting ones. pet bear was unique. He was outgoing though sometimes a little… oafish. Justdonny called him anyway, for the situation was urgent.

pet bear peeked up to a very sad Justdonny. pet bear calmly assured him that most spotted SoS player turn red before fleeing, yet the Tarnished Coast hissing sloths usually exotically sigh after engaging. He had no idea what that meant; he was only concerned with distracting Justdonny. Why was pet bear trying to distract Justdonny? Because he had snuck out from Justdonny’s with the blue armor only three days prior. It was a saucy little blue armor… how could he resist?

This thread is all fine and dandy, but Mag’s been waiting forever to fight the top 3, not these run-of-the-mill t2 scraps.

I just find it hilarious that any class has to call for backup vs an elementalist.

I can hear the thief now: “Guys, it’s an elementalist, we need 1 of every class to take it down.”
“HELP! Over here! It’s the E L E M E N T A L I S T!”

Re: argument further up page:
If you have 20 in earth you will always be able to take out FGS and get away clean
swap to water if you’re too slow, and dodge in it again if you are chain cc’d.

FGS is the only way you’ll ever catch a warrior.

P.S. I don’t really care what Daphoenix does. I’ve read his page a bit, but I prefer 0/0/20/20/30 for d/d, and 0/30/0/10/30 for staff dps.

I use:
1234 for attunements
T(which is my mouse thumbbutton)QWER
AD strafe
S backup
both mouse buttons to move forward
shift-S dodge
B (mouse button) heal
mousebutton for autorun
f AoE loot, shift+f interact
m and mousebutton for map
~ weapon swap (for various items)
right alt for sheath weapon (to cancel build process animation)
space is jump
shift 2, shift 3 for first 2 utilities, mouse button for last
shift w for elite
c char panel
h scoreboard
z call target

i use wow cata mouse and use 5 mousebuttons: autorun, heal, map, autoattack, lightning flash

these binds are all easy for me as i don’t really play other classes, cept to get them to 80 or max another profession. i mess up dodge direction at times with these dodge bind, but whatever.

I used One With Air for a total of 2 minutes. It’s horrible because the speed ends up being less than zephyr’s boon because it doesn’t last as long. And it doesn’t stack with other swiftness buffs, from what I could tell. It felt like it did nothing at all every time I swapped to air.

I’ve always wanted to do about face > burning retreat/updraft > about face on 1 key, but that’s illegal. Also my about face keybind is on a crap key still. It would probably have to be on the mouse to time it right.

Deleting my level 20 mesmer now that I made with scrolls.
Record hit: 75k on 80 warrior from FA.

I made a new guild: One With Nerfs [ELES]

One with Air makes it viable to play without “V” in arcana line when swapping attunements, as you will still get the swiftness boost. But having them both gives an over-ride of each other, or a stack effect? The tooltip says haste (which makes me think I can stomp someone faster :p), but then it relates to speed under that, which makes it seem like it’s swiftness and not haste as we know it.

One with Air mentioned at 8:20

The ground targeting change (Fast Cast With Ground Targeting) in staff, and with lightning flash are truly great, mentioned before this part listed above. No more double-clicking. This is huge.

I wouldn’t take surge over arcana, just like I won’t be using shield still.

I can’t wait to throw a crippling shield at a thief, and miss, while he immobilizes me.

I’ve decided that if there’s a thief on my team, I’m just going to help the other team win.
And if there’s a thief on the other team, I’m going to log out on down.
I have 8 hours of free time today to do this. See you in tpvp!

I was testing it for use in WvW. I don’t care about spvp at all. The cooldown on heartseeker is stupid. The fact that it doesn’t take any effort at all is why thieves are a BS class overall, and the patches never address this issue whatsoever. It’s a troll class.

Yeah. I wanted to test a staff spec. But since you’re not allowed to survive in that mode, then I need to create threads like this.

Thief spamming 2 for two minutes straight, then saying “don’t run” over your corpse.
Logged out before stomp.
I win.

Add the downed penalty to npcs, too. So the lord rezzes with less stats each time until it’s finally completely dead, at which point only manual rezzing can get them back up again.

Gold: high coverage – blobs, lag, good/horrible skill. Never fought any of the top 3. Can’t gauge if it’s fun. I just know that skill lag fights aren’t worth the effort.

Silver: med-high coverage – good fights on occasion, still imbalanced NA vs Oceanic.

Bronze: low-medium coverage – Never been in that league. Though I would say far less skill as a majority because of all of the transfers. Youtube videos I see from these servers are usually of someone destroying mass baddies to show how their class is good/op, and ruining the game for everyone else when the nerfs come.

IMO 60 enemy players should be the cut-off point for the average computer before it gets too laggy to be considered a fair fight. The average 3 way in stonemist with 3 queues, you are lagging from the spawn area and this lasts until over 100 players have left the center of the map, either from death, or SM capping and they retreat. From silver up you will often see 80+ of enemy players on top of your own players. This results in no actual skill taking place, just luck, or greater numbers triumphing 90% of the time.

These things have been mentioned countless times, and the only thing I’ve heard so far to address this is overflow in WvW, but apparently that was just a bug.

I would like to know whether Anet has decided they want to have 300 people fighting each other at the same time be possible, or if they are going to work on a change so that there’s more skill involved, making the GPU load, and server lag easier to manage?

HAIKU (6-5):
I rolled an elementalist for wvw.
I bought a programmable mouse.
I programmed alt+f4 into the mouse.
I die in the ruins.
They cry on forums about me.
I laugh to no end.

Account-wide magic find is amazing. Account-wide ranks would be equally so.
Just have it scale down the ranks on your non-80s the same way it does up-scales the level.
Also, keep the bonus chests on alts. :p