Guild Wars 2

yanoch.7051:

Well Maguuma isn’t one of the potential free transfer servers.

Ah, well I misread that thing. I thought it was free for rank 13+ to transfer up to anything above it. Well, we’ve been helping people come over lately. And 1400 gems is still cheaper than 2400.

When you look at this and last week’s scores for Mag/SoS/Fa, everything looks close. FA has lost too many guilds to get out of 6th now, but they still have more skilled players than SoS does. I’m not trolling when I say that because I personally don’t have anything against any other server, and don’t at all follow the off-site WvW forums. SoS has that ktrain style to it where they don’t mind running with a bunch of uplevels to open-field battles. However they do sport some really large, exclusive guilds that operate independently of each other. That’s what I like to see. In terms of “good fights”, that isn’t always balanced when your guild runs 40-60 deep vs guilds that run an average of 20 like on Mag/Fa.

Open field fights and gvgs are hugely important to us on Mag. We also don’t believe in hammer train or bust. We have multiple different comps we run at any given time that are open to the general pop.

We pay attention to who dies a lot, so if you’re not interested in getting better or following whoever is commanding, feel free to transfer elsewhere. Just being honest here. If you want to run with a pile of uplevels, lag for days, and have everything downed rally, you’re losing loot/ranks and pretty much just wasting your time. If you have spec/gear questions, there’s always going to be someone that will help you figure it out.

Mag also has it’s share of PVE pros that do the daily reset event chain flawlessly everyday.

There are a handful of highly ranked spvp players on Mag.

Whirl goes through the target and applies cripple. That’s not really the damaging attack to gauge numbers with. The auto-attack and teleported fiery rush is the only reason to pull out a FGS vs a warrior.

In your defense, warrior healing is way overpowered. I don’t know if a build exists for ele that can solo warriors right now (namely ham/bow or gs). We can’t negate or out-heal their dps, and we can’t cc/burst them.

@replies: He stated his class already. Saying you can beat them with another class doesn’t help him at all. Also, the only worthwhile condition an ele can use vs a warrior is a chill build. And even then: not good enough.

Maguuma’s the best bang for your buck right now if you’re oceanic/sea. We can handle 100s more players in this time-slot before queue times even register. We actually try to hold our waypoints and home/ebg keeps. Don’t worry, we’ll still let you ktrain the other teams’ stuff with us. I’m telling you right now, if you xfer to the top 3 you’re going to be sitting in queues forever. They are heavily stacked. Even SoS is stacked in 4th place.

I disagree with everything. Boarderland Bloodlust is the thing that’s bad. Not investing in offense/defense ranks is a poor decision.

It should be 3s base, with 4s with full boon duration gear/spec, and shouldn’t stack.

Immobilize is one of the reasons I don’t play as much anymore. It just caries an 1> vs 1 scenario. As it is now I’ll have to have mist form up, at least 1 dodge available, water attunement up, and lightning flash to get away after. Usually swapping into earth for protection, then air for ride the lightning. It’s so much work because the immob is something like 8s. It’s just dumb right now. Almost every warrior is using immob on cripple.

Top 4 OP things in WvW right now:
1. Immobilize stacking
2. Crit damage
3. Movement imbalances (class vs class based)
4. Conditions spamming (for me, this is mostly confusion that gets old fast)

For #3 I’m okay with thief being the fastest class, but they have about an 80% uptime on a 900 range teleport that goes to way more places than blink and lightning flash do. As for warriors, tune it down. Tune everything in warriors down. You’re basically telling everyone to play warriors with how they perform. I don’t play one because 1, I don’t want to be a part of that cheese, and 2, I just play ele’ anyway.

It should be on the 15 point ability imo. I don’t care about healing others right beside me.

Every patch is adding something new, instead of giving us back what was good and taken away.

We need more vitality, more passive healing from signet, warriors need wayyyyyyyy less healing. Ride the lightning needs a shorter cd, and cleansing fire needs to be a stun-breaker again. All of these great things the ele had were taken away. Being able to use ether renewal in mist form was also taken away because they have no clue how to balance anything with this class.

I had to duel two thieves at once to make it fair for SoS.

Nice work. I’ll watch more tomorrow.

A lot of QQ in forums is cause it’s very easy for other classes to do high burst, and get much more survivability alongside it. Also, it’s quite hard to get 1v1s anywhere.

You run 20% more crit damage than I do. Everything else is about the same on stats.

Spvp I’ve been using ogre/zerker ammy, d/d w/ resto/battle. I like it until the other team has multiple engies, or all stealth.

Leafy Lass, the Bear
– a fantasy novel
by Bill Murray

In a spvp map there lived an antagonizing, joyfully bear named Leafy Lass. Not a perplexing rancid, unwelcoming spvp map, filled with maps and a numbing smell, nor yet a festering, decrepid, destitute spvp map with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a bear-spvp map, and that means pain.

One day, after a troubling visit from the clone Jasher , Leafy leaves her spvp map and sets out in search of three tiresome red circles. A quest undertaken in the company of people, asuras and flacid sylvari.

In the search for the clone-guarded red circles, Leafy Lass surprises even herself with her stealth and skill as a roamer.

During her travels, Leafy rescues a dagger, an heirloom belonging to Jasher. But when Jasher refuses to try rezzing, their friendship is over.

However, Jasher is wounded at the Battle of skyhammer and the two reconcile just before Leafy engages in some serious rezzing.

Leafy accepts one of the three tiresome red circles and returns home to her spvp map a very wealthy bear.

Hundred blades wasn’t overpowered enough without guaranteeing it can’t be avoided.

It could be worse. You could be this warrior angry at dying to a d/d ele:

Make Arcane Blast pierce. That’s it.
That is a small life change that will help out imo.
Most times when we put this on our bar we’re taking out lightning flash. I figure it should have a little extra gusto to keep it inline with some other long-ranged abilities that other classes get.

On the topic of Arcane, you could add to Arcane Precision’s proc chance with a bump up to 50% chance, upon activating an arcane spell, for 5s. Possibly a bonus of having this proc off of dodging with Evasive Arcana traited.

The upcoming patch about runes and proc chances, with the inclusion of some traits changed, made me wonder more about arcane precision, so I added it to the first idea.

Other than fresh air, are any of the things they added in patches being used by eles?
They definitely don’t make up for what was taken away from the class.

I’ve completely lost faith in patches as a whole. Looks good on paper> Theorycraft new spec> Try it out: Garbage.

Earth 5, water 5 = stealth.
Air 5, water 5 = cleanse + a crapload of damage.
About face, ice wall to propel yourself away.
Fire 5 for vigor dodging away.
Sink/levitate enemy to get more range on them.
I use air 2, water 5, fire 5 for getting through gaps of water. Like from south camp, toward se tower, in WvW. Or descending to the 4th boss in the frostgorge champ chain.

Input the 25 bloodlust stacks. I only play ele. I have numerous ascended trinkets. I’ve tried clerics, hated it. Tried pvt, no damage. Recently dumped celestial for cav, and enjoy it so far. I normally use sharpening stones, but I’m trial-running oils before I invest in different crit-related pieces. I have invested all my time, and numerous laurels to try things out. Correct. I’m always testing different things.

This is my current gear: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmgbyx5gjDAkHucCLiCPUekzM2A-jEDBYgBkgAg+AM1cQsJqJrMsIasabYaXAqYLq2qDwaORG0a1SBwkwI-w

This site does not let you put infusions into armor. It’s +5 vit in each piece.
I miscalculated my healing power. It is under 400. And I do roam with it/ solo camps with FGS or Fire Elemental. The precision is low, but jumps up from auras. Your response doesn’t make any sense to me. You aren’t looking at ascended gear or different runes than boon duration.

S/D is horrible for WvW. S/F is acceptable and can help your team greatly. Thieves and necros will spend all day trying to kill you. You blinded me? Okay. You’re blind. You are ranging me? Nope. You’re throwing conditions? Removed. You’re trying to backstab? They are hitting me for 50% of other squishies. You want to interrupt my stomp? Nope. You want to stop me running through you blocking my path? Nope. 2x immunity + stab + cleanse + dodges + reflect + cripple + teleport + knockdown + whatever else.

For D/D I personally do not want more than 2 pieces of celestial gear with 30 water already. I start with 17k-18k hp, use – condi+vit food, and power stone. Then I eventually get guard offense and defense stacks which drives up vit, and the condi damage that the 2 celestial pieces give. After that I stick with crit damage and toughness.

My next project is to swap out my pvt pieces for a mixture to get the right amount of crit damage and chance, without dropping too much power, like the celestial path does. The only hope vs warrior or guardian is that heavy hitter, that negates burst like hundred blades.

It’s food, 30 water, and signet that allow you to out-live the conditions, with arcana dodges thrown in. It’s gear like cav that lets you put out the pressure.

I’m currently using 10 air instead of 10 earth, but it’s riskier. I would not use 10 air in a gvg though. I use bloodlust and energy, but I’m not sure how necessary either of those are. However my damage vs anything skyrockets at 25 stacks, and I can keep the stacks up a long time. I have no swap-to-static (ie. force) dagger after that. There are a lot of interesting sigils that could possibly help me more. Like applying a condition suchas torment, or poison, that could help in taking down a beefy runner. But vs 250 power and extra dodges, I don’t really know how practical they become in the long run.

Overall I’d say get 18k hp, 450 healing power, over 50% crit damage, and over 1800 toughness. The game favors damage over defense. For example, a backstab will always hit way harder than you can stack your armor to compensate for, so you need to focus on keeping up the pressure, and negating as much as you can via movement, healing, and out-going damage. You know the damage is coming. Your auras are there for that. You need to use earthquake and updraft to put out as much damage as you can in order to make the attacker either think twice, or die in a barrage of combos. Magnetic grasp is huge vs melee. Tap once. They use some gap-breaker move, hit it again, and they’re stuck in combat still.

When I swap to s/f in my D/D spec, I change zephyr’s boon to zephyr’s focus. This trait is amazing. Your main damage is a channel. And again with d/f it procs in water and fire from cone of cold, and drake’s breath. It’s also a reason to use churning earth vs nothing, whether you port it onto targets or not. I’m going to try running it more often in D/D to see if I can play without energy on off-hand.

If you think keybinding is hard, start off with just a few keys beside your normal movement buttons. It will save you loads of time. I remap all my keys in games. I don’t use F1-F4 for attunements. I use 1-4. Get a mouse with more than 5 buttons.

Also, when someone is running from you, use earth 5.

The devs do not play this class. It’s obvious.

Every single anet dev you see in WvW or Eotm is a warrior.

Sweet. This bug is 8 hours old and unaddressed. I’m glad it’s not just me. Please fix it.

Top 3 reasons to join Maguuma:

1. We have guilds that do everything from solo-five man roaming, scout, people who will actually defend and enjoy doing it, karma trainers, gvgers, NA players that will stay up to Oceanic time to help grind out that PPT.
2. No queues in Oceanic/ Sea.
3. Still better than Lil Wayne. But on a more srs bsns note: We have a great community, with open communication amongst everyone on the server.

Our NA is try-harding right now to get out of this crumby tier (playing long hours). As you can see, the other teams pretty much give up playing unless they can queue a map. This is Maguuma’s first ever fund-raiser to finally give us that night-cap safety buffer that we’ve never had.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

PVE: How would you like to see us evolve Fractals?- Owner- Chris Whiteside

PvP: What would you like to see from a League system? – Owner- John Corpening

WvW: What aspects of Edge of The Mists do you think could carry over to the rest of WvW and how? – Owner- Devon Carver

Bonus: Global: Professions: How would you like to see us evolve (profession: voting is currently underway) balance?- Owner- Allie Murdock

Chris

PVE: I have no real opinion on fractals. Fighting on moving objects or clones of your party members might be cool.

PVP: As in spvp? As in leaderboards? The current leaderboards don’t make any sense. It would be nice if they did, I guess.

WvW/EotM: I would have always thought that those mysterious probes were how you’d access EotM from WvW. It would look cool to see an animation of you porting up through those into the center area of EotM. You have the pads in the center area as if that was already your intention. Secondly, I would like to see guards repair gates and refresh siege automatically. They basically stand there and do nothing now. They should stop draining supply at 500/1700 though.

Global – Professions: I would detract from warriors being the do-everything class. And make stealth less permanent for thieves. Give eles a heal on crit trait somewhere.

When the whole queue moves as one unit in a skill-less, lag-infested, culling-enriched, bag hunt. ie. EotM everyday!

Run around naked for a week spamming airstrikes = Get 2 new WvW skins that you use in Fractals until next season.

Join Maguuma.
Get rich.

Death to WvW!

/rejoice

1. Elementalist:

• Passive healing is too low. Signet of Restoration would be nice to be able to use, but we lose cleanses, or blasts, and that’s too much to lose. This forces us to use blasts in staff to heal up, or more vitality on gear, or attain guard defense stacks in WvW/EotM, or vitality based foods.
• Health pool is too low. What is it, 11k health in zerkers? Does our damage make up for that? Maybe every 180s with tornado it does. Do our cantrips make up for it? If you’re very, very, careful. We are highly dependent on other players keeping ememies away from us, in order to put out the most damage we can. It just happens to be worth it, because it is the most fun.
• Mobility was stripped from us in x/D, and given longer cooldowns. Basically D/D eles were breaking combat to heal up when things were turned against their favor. Yet warriors, thieves, rangers, engineers, mesmers, (whatever else), are still able to do this with the utmost ease. This is probably the most irritating thing to me. I don’t even bother with D/D anymore because of it. And a lot of people don’t even bother with this class because of it. The focus (weapon) desperately needs sprint in it somewhere.
• Our condition uptimes are too low, and lacking in damage types. Longer chills, burns, and cripples would help.

2. Ranger – I don’t know much about this class. The common theme is that everyone else can do it better than whatever the ranger can do.

3. Downscaling other classes. Take a hard look at the mobility of warrior and thief, and weigh those against what those classes are already able to do attack-wise, and defense-wise. Then scale them down to match what other classes have to endure. These 2 classes break the balance of the game. Look at how many other classes are using 6/6 travelers to make up for their slowness.

WvW = buy expensive food, and spend all your money on upgrades. Refresh siege/ and guard structures 24/7.

EotM = Put on magic find/karma/gather boosters, and get rich.

I want a target over my head that I can see when someone is aiming a killshot at me. Thanks in advance.

Rank 11 servers don’t see elementalists, I guess.

I could give more advice, but my coin purse won’t let me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZXLHfV070M

You can hear and see the meteor falling. What is the problem with just dodging/ moving?

How about give me an aoe circle that tells me where hammer leaps are going to land if they’re coming toward me? This is what Wildstar is doing, and I’m not sure I like that everything is telegraphed for you.

Both skills are based on positioning. Getting caught in either is death.

^54% with tornado. Yeah, kinda low. 66% or better would be nice. And out of ’nado is a mere 10%. But the trade off is near 5k attack in ’nado with 25 bloodlust. Then over that if you have guard killer. If the target(s) have vulnerability, no pvt gear is going to save them when you bomb.

I tested it in actual spvp, but that was a horrible idea, as I had no front line to support it. Everything feels slow without 20 in arcana, too.

I don’t have a spreadsheet to run lava fonts and auto attacks through to see how much crit chance effects overall dps.

A small tweak of maint oil, zerker+valk ammy, and 2 prec. infusions will bump base chance to 22% (67% in ’nado) from 10%. I would not want to shake the trav runes. They are just too good imo.

More testing showed that it was a 900 damage difference when vulnerability wore off, and that the 5500+ numbers were because the dummy was in the 33% threshold, where it wasn’t during some of the shorter tests. To get to the threshold I had to start in air, switch to earth, erruption, swap to water, chill, spike, swap to fire, font, meteor, tornado. This guaranteed the top numbers.

Merlinios.3946:

Is this your build?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWnEEFcY6BKHQlgAgyIlTmM0oDRBLKF2B-jECBYjAEEAJfFRjtqpIasabYqYER1WzC1G0KaSB8wwI-w

Also i agree with valkyrie instead of celestial if the change of crit dmg comes out…

I would use power stones with this. Try it, then click “show action” under tornado. It will boost your crit chance to 66%. This way the build pumps out 4700 attack instead of 4483. The food stays the same, though. Power and Crit damage are the 2 important stats. That’s why I use more cav now instead of celestial because I get more power, toughness that becomes power from the stones, and crit damage.

To me, this looks like an amazing build: valk/cav w/ 25 stacks
Tons of health, above average toughness, and a metric ton of power.

Edit: The cantrips I run are AW or AE, MF, LF.

My testing in spvp: if you’re not the one applying the vulnerability before every tornado/meteor, you’re losing 1000s of damage on each hit. You need someone else to do it for you. I tried using arcane to stack vuln before doing erruption, lava font, meteor + arcane power, tornado with zerker ammy and boon duration (since the spec you have banks on more damage per boon on you), +2 divinity runes, and the meteors were doing 5455 each, which is a lot in spvp.

I then switched to a full bunker spec, which doesn’t utilize vulnerability, or endurance, bolt to the heart, and the meteors were a horrid 3433.

The original spec with the max damage requires you to land ice spike, or hit 1 person with the 2 on ice bow, or that someone else applies the vulnerability for maximum damage. I don’t know how easily this is applied. I know engies can do it with bombs.

Also, serrated stones doesn’t show an increase on timer for the bleed applied with ice bow’s ice storm. I don’t understand the trait. Does it increase your damage by 5% if someone else has a bleed on the target, too? If not, I would take armor of earth at 50% health for defense, plus the vigor you need to support the high damage numbers.

You have to finish in water after meteor before tornado, too. But most people should be doing this for defensive reasons, and supportive team regen. Meteor shower, ice spike, tornado does 4482, but has less uptime on meteors, as the spike is a 1s cast.

Chill, ice spike, lava font, meteor, tornado is a nice combo and was doing 5549 without even finishing in water, which confused me, given that piercing shards was one of the traits being used. I tried it again without piercing shards used, and the damage dropped to 4375. You don’t need the lava font, because you want the meteor hitting with the most uptime of vulnerability as possible with piercing shards.

All of my tests were done vs indestructable dummy with 0 stacks of bloodlust, and 0 might.

Overall this has been a fun test for me. :0)

I generally spam as much might as I can when fighting on a point.
Verses anything I know will break distance from me with stealth, leap, etc, I hit grasp once, wait for them to move, then use it again. It will leap a lot farther, and track people in stealth.

P.S. I stopped playing D/D in spvp awhile ago. Prefer s/f these days.

Dragon’s tooth should turn horizontal vs moving targets and home in on them. Unlimited range.

Your face .

Wads! I’ve had 4 invaders daggers sitting in my bank for half a year now. They won’t go in the forge, even after putting a sigil in them. They have a red border to show that it’s impossible when you try.

Edit: I just tried and they don’t even show up in the list of things I can put in the forge while they’re in my inventory.

Sometimes I don’t know if I buy new shoes for myself, or so that I have a new box house for my cat.

I’ve always found that condition duration was what made our condition builds bad. I mean, this is probably wrong, but when I read each time on each skill, it appears that way. You’ve got decent all-around stats. If you add in guild killer for more attack and cond. dam. then everything looks really good. If I had all that gear I would definitely try out that build.

Without lightning flash, you’re banking on churning earth/ signet of earth combo to work every time, I take it.

You still have 2 ways to cleanse, and a stun breaker. One of the cleanses can also be used as a burst.

I originally thought you were asking if it were viable, but then re-read and noticed you are telling us about it. I’m going to wait to see what the difference with ferocity is before deciding between cav and dire as my next ascended 6 pc. The only condition set I’ve ever used was carrion for staff. And it ended up being something I used with siege after, as I hated it. It’s been sitting in my bank for months. They said they’re going to change the 5 and 6 on rune sets, too. So maybe your build will be even better after.

The ele is the class where you have to pace out every decision. With arcane, you pretty much just spam it all.

Cantrip offers you damage reduction, regen, vigor, and mobility (LF). Mist Form can be used early to help get distance from being chased down while other things come off cd. I have no problem using it early because it’s one of those skills that will eat up burst, where you can’t fight back while it’s in use, then you can setup whatever you want. I really wish that cleansing flame was still a stun breaker, as I would be using mist form 5% of the time after, instead of 90% like now.

I’m not into dungeons, and thus never use LH unless I’m stacking swiftness for s/f.
I use FGS every single day. That’s our biggest burst and escape. Cripple runners. It’s amazing. It’s the best chance at killing max mobility warriors and thieves. Well, maybe tornado/ meteor shower on thieves is the best most of the time.

I’ve never used a signet build for more than an hour at a time. I find the activations very slow; and what they do is lackluster. Signet of Restoration and Air are relatively common in WvW. Signet of Fire for zeles is fairly common.

I use glyphs rarely in WvW such as something for guards to attack while I contest a keep, or fight a fully upgraded camp. I have used greater and lesser fire eles when using full pvt before, and the damage is pretty good if you kite all the npcs to one spot. But having crit damage with FGS is much faster for this scenario. You can rez a claimer with glyph of renewal, but I’ve never actually done this. I don’t know what anyone’s success rate with this is.

When they break combat, that’s when you log out/ waypoint. They get really mad.
Edit: I also like doing /wave before taking a queue for another map. Harder to pull off, so wait until you have the queue available before engaging.

Conditions are out of control in this game, and only diminishing returns have any measure of counter to them in their current state. It works in other MMOs, it will work here, despite your reluctancy.

I did, and you started posting a bunch of stuff about gameplay contrived from your own imagination.

Having at least 1 wp per map is going to help you get the bags faster. So you have to PPT a bit to get the bags. Everyone wants loot. If you know your server is weak at a particular time, then having those keeps/towers to siege yourself toward bags is crucial. Throw even 1 cow at a stack and you get credit for any of them that die. So farming SBI morning blob with 8 people for 6 hours straight is more fun than running around taking camps, etc.

Diminishing returns on all cc effects. After the max application of a condition, no more pushing it to max duration again with new incoming. Then have a coasting period where you’re immune to that effect for 3s. This could apply to damage conditions as well. That will reduce the OP-ness of +duration items.

I smell people trying to sell runes.
P.S. They’re selling like hotcakes now!

Drop an arrow cart.