Guild Wars 2

Stronghold.8450:

I have played an elle since beta and while it can be a fun class to play with the amount of spells you do have and the support you can give to a group, you do have to work 3 times harder then any other class just to kill a two standard mobs.
I remember my level 10 story mission as a human..I died 5 times lol

I guess it is just the way our class is designed. We seemingly have the most skills at one time. 20 skills! Woohoo! We can do everything from dps, heal, defense and cc! It is a lot of work to switch attunements, but yet at the same time, neither of them are truly strong because of traits focus.

I was 30 Fire, 20 Air and 20 Arcane. It felt like your standard mage, not bad dps. But the survivability is totally crap. I switched to 30 Fire, 25 Earth, 15 Water. Slight survivability, but I still die fast. My DPS drop was very noticeable. A lot of earth’s spells has long CD and takes long to cast too. And at L80 Cursed Shores, mobs that DoTs, pull and do massive damage to you, your have endless fight, kiting etc. So much work to kill a standard mob.

Then a Warrior comes along … you know the rest of the story.

I actually tried 25 Earth and 15 water to improve my survivability. Yes, slightly better survivability, but I still die fast. DPS drop is quite noticeable though. Not sure how much total trinkets the jewels have, but if you think that you have decent dps with your set, maybe your jewels can be somewhat more defensive.

Depends on your playstyle. Most dungeons, WvW you are in a party you can just hang back and DPS away. But if you solo a lot, I think it is tough to solo in areas like Cursed Shores.

cardsinhand.9170:

You can make a super tanky ele for spvp with a toughness/healing water/earth focused staff build. Basically unkillable 1v1 even through quickness burst, assuming you manage your cds properly. The build puts out basically no damage and is really only good for holding a point vs 1-2, but still….

Precisely this.

We are already a glass. If we go full power/crit, we are somewhat glass cannon. We want survivability that is nowhere near other classes, we pour full Earth and Water, but has DPS of a kitten.

What’s the point? We still die somewhat slower, but we still cannot do enough dps worth anything. So survivability built is neither glass cannon nor hard tank rock either.

Other class can have somewhat both, decent survivability without sacrificing much dps. Don’t go telling me, then go play other class. I want to play mage style profession. This class is broke is you have to sacrifice much dps just to survive.

Vaerah.4907:

Ethrin.6287:

Honestly, I wholeheartedly disagree that the Elementalists require TOO much effort to play. I actually do enjoy the challenge of taking on 3 foes at a time and having to switch between my attunements/conjured weapons. I like this class the best out of all the others BECAUSE of the effort that it takes. I am not experiencing the issue where the OT talks about a standard wolf equating to a boss monster at all. Perhaps it is because I am only level 30 with my Elementalist and I have been purchasing decent gear off the trading post.

Past 70 it gets exponentially harder. Mobs are 50% of the times grouped, well packed so when you kite it’s very easy to pull 5-6 more. Plus they come with a number of cripples, DoTs, heal debuffs and nasty long knockdowns.

You’ll see Rangers and warriors still zipping thru mobs like butter, while you’ll take 2-3 minutes to clear the two risen blocking your way.

There are non elite mobs like risen gorillas that can kill your 15k health in 2-3 seconds if you are super tank geared and specced (not talking of people in full exotic).
At the same time your autoattack hits them for 150…

End result: enter the waypoint all to the SW of Cursed Shore (the one on the SW isle).

You will probably NOT be able to get out alive. The ultra-low Ele DPS won’t kill the 5-6 mobs per room before they begin to repop in your face and you die.

In the mean time, while laying dead on the floor, you’ll see rangers, warriors and necros kill everything and come ress you and then go ahead before the mobs respawned…

This ^

Elementalist pre-70 is fine. Some work. Lots of kiting and dodging still.

Post-70 esp in Cursed Shores are nightmare. With packed mobs, not much areas to move around, soloing in L80 is not my definition of fun.

Diogo can’t put it better. Our everyday mobs are like our greatest challenges each time. I play this game to have fun. GW2 combat itself is already challenging. Having to do too much work to kill some random enemy is getting very tiring.

Yes I have this issue too. I heard that it was issues happening a lot with onboard realtek sounds.

Circle of Kakis on Darkhaven server.

We have 3 members ranked Leader. One of the leaders had his account hacked. We cannot demote nor kick him from guild.

The issue is same ranking members cannot do anything to each other. This might post some issue if there are needs to remove leader.

Thank you. My friend got back his account.

The correct step is to remove ability to change accout email address. If one really needs to change it, it would have to go through tight verification.

On another note, all his items and gold are gone. Any possibility of those being rerolled for him?

FYI, the hacker managed to hack my friend’s account in guildwars2.com and actually change the email/account address.

There should be no way to change email address. My friend’s email and GW2 password is different. He did not receive any email of asking of email/account change. There should be no way to change the account name.

Bump on this thread. I have also posted similar ticket:
Guild leader account hacked [Incident:120913-001854]

Currently the guild leader has access to guild features including guild bank. The other guild leaders do not have the ability to kick other guild leaders or demote him.