Guild Wars 2

Nope. Ele still sucks. Dying every 5s to every class.

I just tested 0/10/0/30/30 with 6 clerics with 6/6 dwayna’s. 3 cantrips. Works decent. My accessories are still pvt/2 zerker tho. All of them with badge/laurel sockets filled.

17k+ hp. 780 healing power.

I just ran into a zerg, finished off a guardian in mist form, then zoomed out. Just running the 1 cond. clear on 30 water, and the one I get from dodging in water.
Game just came down right after. Will need more testing.

D/D is complete and utter dog kitten right now. I can’t get away from anyone. And I’m going from 20k to 0 hp in 3s. Either there’s some massive packet loss, or D/D doesn’t work at all anymore. I can’t tank anything but npcs now. GG patch. Game sucks.

Specs played: 0/10/0/30/30, 0/0/10/30/30, 0/0/20/20/30. 98% pvt in wvw. and divinity/celestial in spvp. I’m running from mesmers and necros nonstop. WTH are we supposed to spec? There’s nothing that can survive the incoming burst now.

I’m going to run around with staff at the back of the group like anet has pigeon-holed us to do now.

More points should go to defending than mere killing.
You could base it off player achievements in WvW.

Things like holding a point without anyone ever attacking it isn’t going to be a good thing. You know, like uber server holds green keep and stonemist forever.

It would have to be more like: [Location] attacked at [time] and was [defended/conqured]. The event log system on mos.millenium could track these things, and the main scoreboard for the matchup could predict the possible reward based on a % before the timer ends.

But I’m not sure what kind of extra rewards can/should be given. The wxp from capturing is already nice. Especially when out-manned. Getting world bonuses are nice, but nobody really seems to pay attention to those. And those who care about farming, are probably the ones on the top WvW servers just to use those without ever even playing WvW. It’s really the extra hp and endurance that make the most different as a world bonus. As a potential idea, you could add a reward system for every home map, that the server’s home map be given special combat-related rewards for defending. And the best reward if you control all three keeps with full upgrades in all of them. Perhaps you could even reward guild xp for defending a keep that is claimed. I think guild claiming is another issue that needs to be addressed first, though. Guilds with no active buffs do not need to hold a keep all week long. That’s just trolling.

If sig o’ air still does the ranged aoe blind, then using it as a stun breaker is decent to use. speed, avoidance, and break in 1.

If it were all a ruse I’d re-roll longbow ranger to unlock true power.

Has daphoenix read the “leaked notes”? What will you (@daphoenix) be trying out after patch if they all go through?

IMO, if you’re a decent ele, you’d be amazing at everything else as an alt. (Give or take a few new keybinds.)

I think we just need to wait and see how much (more) fun staff is in WvW before we tackle the spvp side of things, and if we even need faster fire spells. There’s probably going to be a dozen new builds people come up with.

AIR
Grounded: This trait has been merged into Tempest Defense.
Tempest Defense: Internal cooldown reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds. Damage to stunned and knocked down enemies is increased by 20%. = Sounds good to me. I need to re-read what it does. But I use Grounded in staff already anyway. So it’s probably a big deal. -edit- Well I just read it, and it’ll only work when we get hit, instead of us stunning someone with Static Field? That sound terrible.

New grandmaster trait – Fresh Air: Critical strikes will now recharge Air Attunement. This effect can only occur once every 5 seconds. = So you would take this instead of Tempest Defense. I’m pretty sure everyone will be taking this considering how bad TD is, and how useful air attunement is in every single weapon set.
Windborne Dagger: Movement speed in combat is increased by 15% for the main-hand, 10% for the off-hand, with 25% total for both. = Good if you’re not using Signet of Air’s new stun-breaker. But still, who traits this over the other goodies?

EARTH
Obsidian Focus: Toughness is increased while channeling from 170 at level 80 to 300 at level 80. = Excellent for scepter glass-cannon of air 1 spam. If the earth in scepter is faster, even better.
Salt Stone: This trait has been merged into Stone Splinters.
Stone Splinters: Moved to Adept. This trait now deals 5% bonus damage to bleeding opponents and increases outgoing bleeding duration by 20%. = Good for scepter, again, especially if you crit and can get back into air faster with the Fresh Air trait.
Rock Solid: This trait has been moved to the master tier.
New grandmaster trait – Diamond Skin: 10% of your total toughness is converted into condition damage. = This might be huge for that 1% of eles running Rabid gear. I foolishly bought Carrion first with badges. It sits in the bank forever. lol

FIRE
Lava Tomb: This trait’s internal cooldown has been reduced to 10 seconds, damage from the lava font is increased by 33%. Damage dealt while in the downed state is increased by 33%. = If you’re glass staff, this will be a serious consideration.
Persisting Flame: Updated this trait to also allow Blast finishers you do to give Fury(10s) as well as might. = Tying into the new Arcane abilities above, this will be fun to play with. -edit- I didn’t know this effected Lava Font and Burning Retreat. ARGH. Still 30 points in the Fire tree is usually too much. However, you might get rezzed a lot easier from downed state, save for the fact that you have 10k health and it won’t matter much.

WATER
Bountiful Power: Damage increase per boon on the elementalist has been reduced from 2% to 1%. = Don’t care much. I haven’t been running higher than 20 water for D/D in months.

(Edit: Had to use 2 posts to adhere body length. My responses to each thing are after the = equals sign.)

TL;DR In general I have always enjoyed s/d and staff over d/d anyway. But D/D is required for roaming. I will be playing mostly staff after patch, but I’m not sure how tanky we can be with D/D anymore. I’ve never really used healing power gear enough to be a proper tank, but it might be the new (well, new for me) meta.

Skills
Signet of Air: This skill is now a stun breaker. Cooldown increased to 30s. = Might be good.
Lightning Flash: This skill is no longer a stun breaker. Damage increased by 50%. Cooldown reduced to 40s. = Rage at first, but not sure if needed since we have other stun breakers. Damage increase? LOL. CD is good, especially with more reduction in water.
Cleansing Fire: This skill is no longer a stun breaker. Decreased recharge to 40s. = There’s a chance that cleansing will remove the CC anyway.
Glyph of Elemental Power: This skill is now a stun breaker. = Barely ever used this. Now we’re forced to use it?
Gust: This skill now passes through enemies striking multiple foes in a line. = Good. Now if only it will knockback like it’s supposed to and never does.
Windborne speed: Reduced aftercast by .2 seconds. = So 29.8s? lol Why does this matter at all when you can get the extra speed from Glyph of Ele Harmony?
Chain Lightning: Reduced the aftercast by .1 seconds. = This could end up being amazing depending on stacks. Like instant until stopped? I likey.
Static Field: Reduced the aftercast by .3 seconds. = This will also be amazing. This is the best spell we have in staff for pvp.

Earth
Eruption: Reduced the cast time of this skill from 1.8s to 1.2s. = Good. Switching to Earth has always felt slow and clunky.
Unsteady Ground: Increased duration from 9s to 10s. = Good.
Shockwave: Reduced the aftercast by .3 seconds. = Might end up trying to use this more often now since it is an immobilize.
Lava Font: Reduced the cast time from .36 seconds to .2 seconds. Reduced the aftercast from .34 seconds to .2 seconds. = Huge finisher of downed targets, and wall AoEs. Very nice.
Meteor Shower: Reduced the cast time from 4.2 seconds to 3.8 seconds. = Best news so far.

Water
Geyser: Reduced cast time from 1.1 seconds to .6 seconds. Reduced aftercast from .25 seconds to .2 seconds. = Nice. I use this mostly as a self-heal, but it’s used every water swap, too.
Frozen Ground: Reduced the cast time from .36 seconds to .2 seconds. Reduced the aftercast from .34 seconds to .2 seconds. = Huge for CC/ stacks. One of the top buffs for WvW.
Healing Rain: Reduced the aftercast by .3 seconds. = Please make the same change with this as you did with Water Blast so I don’t have to vocally tell people where the heal will be before I drop it. You know, like how visual Mesmer null fields are.

Utility
Tornado: Cooldown reduced to 150 seconds. = Why not 120?
Phoenix: Doubled the velocity. Added an unblockable skill fact. = Nice. Thanks.
Glyph of Elemental Power: Reduced weakness duration to 3 seconds. = I guess needed since weakness condition was buffed.

Misc
Stoning: Reduced weakness duration to 2 seconds. = Not sure if necessary, but you could just spam it regardless.
Lightning Touch: Reduced weakness duration to 3 seconds. = That’s fine.
Meteor Shower: Increased the size of the area that each meteor strikes. = Giggity.

Trident
Magma Orb: Damage increased by 33%. = Good, I guess.
Detonate on ice wall: chill 2s – > 3s = Good. But doesn’t help much.
Forked Lightning improved from .3 -> .4 = All underwater buffs are good.
Electrocute .8 – > 1.2, Recharge 5 s – > 12 s, now applies 5 stacks of vulnerbility for 6 s = This is great since I stay in air most of the time underwater.
Murky water recharge reduced from 45 to 40. = Getting the stealth to work rarely goes off, so I don’t care much about this. I think there’s a blind property to this field, too. I suck at both applications.

Traits
Arcane Lightning: This trait now grants a non-stacking 10% bonus critical damage for 15 seconds after using an arcane utility skill. = Maybe I’ll swap Mist Form for Arcane Shield or something for staff. Arcane Wave is still pretty useless unless people are going to stack on you for it, or you’re going to run into danger/ playing support. Trait only worthwhile if you use it every cd. So arcane blast has the lowest cd. What’s the ICD? Because 15s every 20s leaves 5s where you don’t have +10% crit damage. This time can also be reduced with Arcane Mastery. So 100% uptime? INC macroing exploits.

I’ve said my share of things about other servers, and I covered it in the 1st fact. If that’s what you were referring to. Other than that, I don’t believe my forum name is memorable, as I really do not post in these 10 page weekly threads that often. I skim for pictures mostly, or read my own guild’s posts, sometimes.

What if the server with superior numbers were downscaled?

“You greatly out-number your opponent in [map name]. Your effective health and defense has been decreased by [amount].”

But kiting grub into stonemist is fun.

Cannot stealth, portal, or jump with the orb.
The hacks required going under/through the map using a jump mechanic.

Can’t place the orb, can only carry it to buff teammates. Player with orb receives no buffs, and a 10% movement impairment.

If the orb is dropped, it can be “kicked” around. If the orb is not picked up within 30s, it will hatch a dragon and kill everyone.

I don’t know where that information stemmed from, as I don’t often read the forums as a means of WvWing prowess. The only way you could know how we behave is if you’ve played with us and heard how we speak. There’s no black and white answer for every situation.

For factual purposes:

1). Mag is weak in oceanic. Always have been. This is when we complain, do karma trains, don’t play, sleep.

2.) Mag respects individual skill and specific guilds based on our encounters with them from a pug standpoint, and a guild standpoint. I’m sure most everyone on every server responds this way.

3.) The forums are a joke.

Dragonbrand is only good when other players aren’t online.

You’ve not seen emote spam until you’ve played FA.
It has an easy counter, though: Kill the person and watch them log out on down.
’Joke’s on you.

Really though, you might be able to prove skill if you weren’t hitting enter/up arrow nonstop.

60 vs 20 is tryharding. Not complaining about nightcapping. Some people are really spending too much time reading posts to just generalize every response.

I’m not angry about this match. I find it hilarious. And the whole idea about switching the system to create pure garbage is making people play other MMOs right now.

NNK is so try-hard at this game. lmao Sending 40-60 man zergs at a map with less than 20 players on it wherever white swords are. We’re just wxp farming and ducking your stupid zerg ball. Then there’s SONG that stacks in the field and portal bombs the side of a tower and doesn’t accomplish anything but a dead mesmer.

SO GOOD

Swap to a nullification rune or something. They can’t re-apply boons after they’re removed.

What are you doing with the condition build? Solo-roaming?

Your sig states you’re a necro, which means you swap enemy boons into conditions. There’s your burst on down. I know so little about necros other than that, that I have a hard time with them on D/D. A skilled necro just drops me fast if I don’t use the right combinations first. I had one necro I went into, tried to run at half hp, and I was dead from trying to run away. Every time. Corrupt Boon utility is pretty huge. (I’m just reading the commands now. lol)

If you can apply them before-hand, you can apply them after. It’s working as intended. Power specs have to keep damaging or spike, too. I rarely spike unless I can afford to.

Only a WvW player focuses everyone with dragon wings first.

AHAHAHA We took Ebay’s SE tower and there’s nothing they can do about it!!!

Even with 6x our numbers.

People want the dragon wings, or just to try the new content out. Most of the achievements aren’t worth grinding, are bugged, or aren’t available yet. So just do 0-3 a day, and get back in the battle again. Every PVE patch will bring pop down in PVP, but they did give us some things that made WvW better, such as being able to get the coffers there, and the rank reset (this was awesome). Personally, I enjoy having a break from WvW to do something new (since I’ve already had 100% completion for ages, and did all the JPs already). I find the dragon ball arena irritating. Spam 1 and hope to get power ups before the guy who spends 24 hours in there with all the power ups kills you at the entrance as soon as you join. And the food you buy with the candy is useful in PVP, too.

Imagine how good this game would be without the forums.

Only a WvW will stay logged-in doing nothing in-game while waiting forever for WvW to come back up.

I’d like to see a “Number of objectives captured while under the out-manned buff.” achievement with a title such as “Less is More” or “Underdog”.

Only a WvW player continues the fight despite the dumb rank match-ups.

Still solo roaming. Still not giving AF.

Over-populated servers vs un-populated servers (due to quitting) are not going to give you any realistic data now, or in 3 more weeks.

Only the last couple of days have I noticed this happening:

The tp will work for awhile, then I’ll open it again and I won’t be able to view stats on any items, or make any purchases. It will list my gems as “…”.

Reloading from character screen doesn’t help. I have to exit game completely.

As an aside: I have 0 gems, but I can entry 9999 gems in the gems to gold, even though it doesn’t do anything. I was able to see that you can get 230g for that many gems. What a bargain!

So far Ebay has better roamers/ duels.

Tornado needs to enable faster.
Most summon weapons are useless to most people. Lose those and buff glyphs, which could be so much better than they are now.
Have elementals last until they die.
The entire fire trait line is worthless unless you’re a glass staff ele.
I would love to be able to play a signet ele, but I can’t because there’d be no chance to get away from any CC when water is down. And most of the procs on signets are single target except for air.
Get rid of backwards ride-the-lightning’s when you still have a target, but aren’t facing them.
The beam tech in air one for sceptre is way worse than it was after the beam tech patch first hit. To be good with sceptre you need high crit chance, but then you have less mobility, so it needs to do more damage imo. It is a lot of fun to play in zerkers, but not in anything else. Water and Fire 2 miss too much. Put vulnerability on water 1, and chill on water 2.

Somebody post some new ele roamer vids. I’m bored.

Also, did anyone mention or suggest: Nulling?

Out of curiosity, if you spammed blind during your opening burst, would that negate all of the incoming retaliation/confusion?

edit. This isn’t directed at rangers.

Steel guarantees an exotic?
Because for wood (chests) I’ve gotten between nothing and an exotic. Maybe I wasn’t really paying attention to what it was I got the exotic from. I thought it was in a loot bag. I had 0 magic find at the time.

You could add the ability to fire a larger, flaming rock into the catapult with mastery.
0 damage to walls. AoE fire damage to players. Rolls on impact of flat surface based on power used. Bounces back, and rolls, if it hits a wall/ structure.

The weather node is interesting. They could change the current ones in the borderlands to at least warn when the storm is approaching overhead.

I like spikes, but as a trap you buy with the other traps available. Cripple traps would be fun.

I think a sinkhole would be another nice way to slow the enemy. You could make little mini moats near a wall. Allow only certain terrain to be dug. Sell shovels that have 1-5 charges each to create a sinkhole. The hole would make the player fall into it, effectively acting as a knockdown, only you fall forward to knees before getting back up. You could chain them in rows. This would be over-powered if implemented wrong. But if each sinkhole counted as a piece of siege for the area, and was only available off of roads, hills, away from npcs, and only have 1 available active per person, with a huge radius before another can be placed nearby, it could work. The way I see it to be used is to slow a zerg running toward a breached wall so you can get more ballista damage in.

Greed wars is risky, but no one can see your damage or loot bags, so who cares!

I often run backwards away from pushes to loot before the end of a fight. This doesn’t make for good pvp, and it’d be nice if we didn’t have to click anything to take the bags. Maybe just walk within 5 yards of them or something to autoloot until full.

Choosing not to play WvW is the most logical thing one can do right now.

We desperately need to tie World Experience into the jumping puzzle rewards chest now that it is a once per day/per account aspect.

I would also like to see kittens jump out and thank me for rescuing them.

Why do you need to dodge more in staff when fire gives you a third dodge?
I still use three cantrips. Arcane blast when not near the enemy for might stacking or swiftness. But mostly it’s not worth using at all. I have energy sigil on my off-hand in d/d.
If anything needs to be changed in staff, it should be the speed of auto-attacks, or increased aoe caps. But neither are necessary.
You need to remember all of the combos that can come from various fields.

Off-Topic:
Scepter does even higher burst than staff, but is equally dangerous, if not more dangerous to play in WvW. S/F has high survivability vs a lot of things. But the mobility is minimal. It’s not impossible to be full zerkers. My mf set for PVE is S/D, 3 cantrips, D/D build 0/0/20/20/30, zerker/pvt jewellery for southsun shore, because the mobs can do a ton of damage, and have a ton of projectiles that need to be dodged.

You guys are coming off very aggressive, and making it sound like I came here to brag while having no actual knowledge of my class.

I can play glass staff with my guildies who I know are using their own class skills defensively to keep people away from me. I use all of my CC’s and heals as well as drop bombs. Staff puts out more damage than D/D. It’s just that D/D can spread it out more. I play every weapon set in spvp and wvw. I swap weapons in WvW more often.
We call the eles and necros back-liners. And we’re all on voice comms.

I bought full zerkers specifically for my WvW staff build and s/d. I don’t PVE. I have 10% of the dungeon master achievement done, and 32k kills (not a lot) in WvW. As for spvp, I’m only rank 13 because I queue solo, and find it boring. I just test specs there and that’s it. My server is rank 7 NA. I firmly believe my guild to be the best WvW guild on the server.

In a lot of times when a zerg has over 40 people, I probably am not going to be playing staff unless I’m with at least 8 guildies or I won’t be able to rely on the extra CC going out. Staff’s main goal above damage is CC, then heals, then damage. You see enemy drop veil, you have 3 different CC’s you can drop there. With 20 in arcana for increased radii, you can start with frozen ground. Then go to static when you see the clump, then earth for unsteady ground. Then hit magnetic shield if you are taking ranged damage, and drop an eruption, or switch to fire for group might and begin your fire on a cluster.

In spvp as staff I hang back, or try to get to high ground where I can play pretty much the same way as I do in WvW. I use zerkers there as well, otherwise what’s the point of playing staff at all?

Why are people stating pve when clearly my targets are players in WvW?
The link to this post was in the Elementalist sub-forums. I wasn’t specifically talking about spvp at all, but in WvW. I have no earth or water in my staff spec. If I get downed, I rally instantly. Every single time.

Shaka post your in-game pic so we know who to hug when we see you.
Are you a cuddly charr?

D/D is doing all the damage?
wat?

Someone told me it was 1800 gems to transfer. And 100 gems is 3g. So 54g per person to transfer x 350 players = 18900g, right?

If there were excessive bots before the patch, then why aren’t they still there?
There’s literally no one farming anymore with the wraiths having no loot table.

A lot of people were being falsely reported as bots while guesting on another server that had the event up. Either from a disagreement, language barrier, or unknown reasons. I think the majority of the bots were probably guardians since they could just target the wall with staff and aoe everything without damaging the wall.

If the bots don’t exist, why can’t you reset the wraiths to have loot again? And work on a better system for bot detection, because mass-reporting from trolls, on people they don’t like, isn’t a good method. (And no, it didn’t happen to me. I barely even went there.)

Grinding/ farming is not fun. I got a mf set after learning about malchor’s leap. I farmed there maybe six hours total, because it’s boring, but easy, and the loot was decent. Found out today it was nerfed into the ground.

Nobody is there anymore. That’s no way to do it. Just destroy it completely as a potential farm, because the wraith mob no longer drops loot. We were using guild MF, MF gear, MF banners, and MF boosters to help us. And because of people abusing it with bot programs they decide to ruin the game for those of us that can actually use the items, and tolerate low-maintenance farming.

Personally, I don’t sell mats until I already have 250 of them in my bank. I farm so that I can eventually make something decent. And hopefully get an exotic that’s worth something on the TP. I am horrible and making money in this game. I have no idea how to make money playing the market. I have zero interest in farming dungeons.

I’m a WvW player, but I play during the day, which means the other team has 60 players while the rest of NA is asleep on my team. So I’m trying to do some things solo to get some enjoyment out of the game, but it seems impossible with these kinds of nerfs out of the blue.

And Southsun is supposed to be fun? Going back and forth between 2 instigators? No thanks. I’ve gotten 2 boxes as drops that aren’t worth getting. I was getting oodles of rares the first few days, and then suddenly blues and greens with 400%+ MF. Awesome!

Is anyone else bored of the game? I am. There’s very little to do as a solo player after you’ve gotten world completion. Especially during the day on NA. The world dragon hitbox animations are horrendous.

I still roam on my d/d ele. But I can’t catch warriors anymore. Even with signet of air.
You will want to carry pvt and crit gear based on how much pop the other team has in the area. 0/0/20/20/30 seems to be the best right now with geomancer’s freedom. Ele is the most out-last class there is for roaming.

I got a thief to 80, but I never got into it to the point where I enjoyed playing it.

It is possible to roam with guardian/warrior/ranger quite easily with high damage and regen. I see very bunkery guardians. Very bursty warriors and rangers.

I figure the thief will have the highest kill ratio if they know how to pick their targets, and use their escapes properly. I’ve seen some very boring thieves that will just run forever until someone is under 50% before jumping in. That’s not how you roam, unless trolling people with jabs is fun for you.

Ranger kiting is the best imo. And play near water and you can pretty much get to full health forever vs multiple enemies.

Mesmer is good if you stick around ruins to gank, because their mobility is crap to fully roam.