Guild Wars 2

3% @ 500mb already..
Estimating around 1.5-3gigs of size
I may need coffee

Hope they increase precursor chance….
I got zap yesterday, sold it………
Today i got greedy and have put over 200 great swords into the mystic forge….
Somehow the mystic forge now hates me…..
From 200g to 6g in a matter of minutes…..
Ah well….

Hoping they stop nerfing things..that’s about it

Nuka Cola.8520:

roostapro.9827:

Vapour Form is our downed Skill (#2)
Mist Form is a can trip (Skill utility)

Vapor Form* That thing shouldn’t be restoring downed HP after each use and im surprised that it does after almost 6 months.

I spell it vapour due to my country.

Furthermore, each use of vapour form puts another downed penalty on us, so in case of rally we will have very low HP and easy kills.
Secondly, vapour form has no cool down before use meaning if you press 2 just before being downed you will have wasted our only viable downed skill (shocking spell sucks….bbbbaaadddllyy, i don’t even press it, that bad of a skill……warrior rocks do more damage than it…rocks!?)

Vapour Form is our downed Skill (#2)
Mist Form is a can trip (Skill utility)

I was going through nukas posts….face palm.

Why so much hate nuka? I guess you got killed by the same ele over and over again….

Obviously you didn’t read my post nor even bother look up sources, all you want to do is QQ about a class that you have no knowledge in.

Yes, my ele is my main with 675 hours on it (700hour on whole account).

Anyway, your post refers you to dying so much because of l2p issues…that is what i have gathered from your posts tbh.

Look up sources, information.

Engineer and Grenades…..oh wait
You can never find an engineer anymore, they are myths.

Mobility.

OK….

First of all, watch past streams (check the thread in ele forums for it)
Developer goes D/D glass cannon (sPvP).
He mentions mobility throughout the stream & specifically says “gank” “hit and run” “hitting things from the side”.

That is what a D/D ele is, a gank me mobility set.

It comes down to coordination and catching people off guard.

Now as for mobility…

Warrior Great sword > sword/War horn weapon switch, the mobility is by far higher than a D/D ele and is much longer distance (i am using this set whilst levelling, i am having a MUCH easier time levelling a war than my ele)

As for survivability what’s that?

D/D ele in PvE is superior for levelling if you are new to the class, will take sometime to master but you wont die as often as a GC spec whilst levelling = Slightest breeze wont kill you.

I am more concerned for new players playing an ele, they will more than likely shelf the ele and go for another class as we know every other class has BETTER survivability than the ele.

As for arena net, if they nerf D/D then i will be disappointed that they nerfed it whilst contradicting themselves as well as not known the class AT ALL…even more so, this was their problem from the start and nerfs caused this making the class worse than it should be…

But i then look at the engineer and my hope dies.

I miss RTL end animation…….
I cringe that he hardly used water to heal up, even if a little..
Looking at this stream….I am disappointed on how many nerfs us eles has had to us over the months….
20-30 arcana points…obviously mandatory and won’t change = less builds to choose from.

I like how he says Mobility alot and hitting/running from things alot..maybe people who are complaining about our mobility will look at this stream and know how the D/D ele works…probably not but still.

last thing…

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TEXT? ;-; I like the one in the stream

EDIT: if any necros are looking at the stream, you get mentioned…
all-be-it they say nobody plays it….. >> on part 1 btw xD
Part 2, necro play

Here is mine:

Human Male – 80
Voladeir Roost – Dagger/Dagger Elementalist

Weapons Of Choice – Ghastly Daggers (x2)

Head – Winged Armor (Transmuted onto PvT Gear)
Shoulder – Light Whispering Shoulders (Karma PvT Gear)
Chest – Berserkers Winged Armor (Transmuted onto PvT Gear)
Gloves – Flame Legion Gloves (CoF Glove Transmuted onto PvT Gear)
Pants – Berserkers Winged Armor (Transmuted onto PvT Gear)
Shoes – Ascalon Catacombs Dungeon Shoes

(This still MIGHT be a work in progress for me..thinking of switching the shoulders, chest & pants with the ones from Arah…but I will see, might make a second set to do that…or make a 2nd and then 3rd ele :O lol)

Dyes:

Iron (For blackish/greyish effect) but I have now switched to Midnight Fire Dye (But kept Iron Dye on Gloves, and 1 swatch of Iron on chest piece (Left bottom box))

Blue Ice For the White(Ish) look

EDIT: Yes….I was going for an Assassins Creed style..but it didn’t work out to well
Too many colours in the Assassins Creed armor makes it difficult to recreate

Change boss mechanics.

Put three bosses for last boss in p1, all three are immune to something.
You will need to separate all 3 from each other, as when all 3 come together hell is unleashed.

Each boss requires a certain damage class and are immune to certain classes.
No more all warrior groups.

This was just an example of a good boss mechanic.

I don’t think it is about certain classes, its the bosses that are too easy to kill.

Nerfing isn’t a fun mechanic in a game, hence why it worries me.

I bought this game to have fun and “play” the way i want to, not to have my favourite class nerfed/destroyed.

Playing the nerf game isn’t fun, if needs keep happening it just makes this game feel more generic and less unique.

Friendly bump up

I just looked through all your posts infectious. …

Really?

I mean REALLY?

You come here complaining about a class being OP yet you say thieves are balanced and easy to counter….

If a 14k BS is balanced to you, and a bunker is OP, me and you are both playing different games.

I agree, mesmers are fine, warriors are a tad OP (HP + DPS wise… i am levelling an alt warrior…i seem to be having a much easier time levelling that than i did with my ele, i am also building my war to 29k HP with constant dips…not died yet unless you count jumping off cliffs as dying to mobs)

Necros….what?

Engineers got nerfed due to people saying it was OP, now look at it….OVERNERFED.

eles have to deal with BROKEN traits and so many bugs with alot of spells ie RTL, magnetic Grasp, Arc lightning, Fire grab etc

As for sPvP, i don’t do it, too many whiners and repetitive mode makes it dull and not fun.

A net need to separate spvp, wvw & pve builds so to not make a class feel uncomfortable and unfun to play.

I have been saying this for a while now:

Am i having fun with only 1-2 viable builds on my gave class?

NO. I am not having fun whatsoever.

Look at patch history also…every build we have had has been destroyed.

So no, this game isn’t fun anymore.

I +1x9000 this thread.

We at ET have a friendly community both PvE & WvW (not sure about the sPvP though, i only played 37 games and then didn’t enter any map again…gets boring and repetitive IMO)

When asking for help anywhere you will always be answered (very well) no matter the question.

PvE – We have many PvErs (around 1/2 the population maybe?) And you will always find LFGs/Lfms being flung around everywhere, so it wont be hard to find dungeons.
Our starter zones are well populated, although could be better which after 28jan patch hopefully the dailies will have people going to these zones for better incentives.

WvWvW – We have a good population for wvw, but could be better, hence this thread. We are always outnumbered and instead of zerging (we rarely zerg, unless ZvZ/ZvZvZ) we use scouting information and compile that into tactics we can use against our enemy. We have excellent commanders who know the battlefield very well, who also wont bark orders or insult you for doing the wrong thing.
Being outnumbered has its perks, you toughen up, you begin using tactics, using terrain to your advantage and you learn how to kill 30+ zergs either solo or duo.

ET is a friendly server that is in need of transfers without upsetting T8 balance, help us rebuild and restore ET…

Make us whole. (Erm…OK i have been playing dead space….)

^worst. Idea. Ever.

Especially the cleric “Remove toughness” bit…

And then Air trait to GM trait…as if our traits aren’t bad enough….

I must be going insane just reading all these posts, like seriously it is starting to become more and more frustrating..
Buff classes.
Simple

Keep nerfing and this “UNIQUE” (note the "") mmo into a generic mmo that is boring, sluggish and…just not fun.

RTL nerf is…meh i will still be able to outrun the zerg chasing me by using terrain to my advantage (terrain advantages will then become the new thing to nerf).

Not hard.

This is why we cant have nice things.
People will complain just about anything over uniqueness thus making GW2 a generic MMO that isn’t fun…

Just wish the population of gw2 would learn things rather than having stuff handed to them on a plate.

Learn how to counter.

I had to learn to counter you class, learn how to counter my class.

Learn to play better.

Do you honestly think I am having fun playing the nerf game?
NO.

so i enjoy my ele that is full of bugs?
No.

Do i enjoy having my class nerfed every time someone has a l2p issue?
NO.

do i enjoy my class minus all the bugs?
Yes.

Why?

Because it gives me a challenge and lets me develop my skills so i can crush my opponent to make them cry for a nerf.

Class spells is not the thing that is “OP”.

Player Skill is “OP”.

I hope arena net care not to cater for those who don’t know what it takes to play an ele.

FYI, gear stats & Runes, those 2 words.

RNG and luck based.

3% MF (Karka Shell) yeilded me a vial of condensed mists on my 6th run of level 1.

Eredon Terrace balth uncontested as of 1836 GMT

Hi there Ski.

If you are looking for a server that rarely runs as a zerg and uses tactics to take over a borderland then I suggest Eredon Terrace.

Eredon Terrace is a tier 8 server, we don’t care if we win or lose as long as people enjoy the WvW. We actually get our “Kicks” and fun from being out manned all the time.
Solo/Duo roamers can make all the difference in a T8 server, instead of running around as a face rolling zerg we split our force and do multiple things at once whilst at the same time distracting our enemy on their own borderland.

ET has took a heavy loss over the months and by being out manned every match-up it has brought our community closer together.
We have several excellent commanders who know the battlefield & our community very well and they wont “Bark” orders or QQ at you for solo roaming (as said, solo roaming can make a huge difference).
Our PvE on our server is good, not all the zones are empty, we have a regular PvE population and it isn’t hard to find dungeons (we also have very little elitists who wont kick you for not knowing what to do or dying).

We at ET would love for you and your friend to join and help us out, within time we will get more players into WvW and start winning match ups, but for now losing and putting up one heck of a fight is the most fun i have had in a game to date.

Winning isn’t everything, having fun is everything.

Seems warrior/guardians are favoured more than other classes (uhhhh…….oh wait other classes like ele have been broken & nerfed to oblivion since release, add on top of that a expecting nerf to our only viable d/d build that helps us survive without the slightest of breezes 1 shotting us)

Overall, I am fed up with the elitism that alot of people have…

Gw2lfg is just full off “warriors/guardian only, if you join as any other class you will be reported to be banned” (obviously people who say that BS want to be carried with minimum effort and will rage quit 1/2 way through and say this and that towards the party…he/she is just bad at the game and should be ashamed…)

Funny story time – CoF path 1 group consisted of all wars and myself as an ele…they died several times to something that shouldn’t have killed them (last boss) so i was stuck soloing it. . ..ok next path i died once and got kicked for dying……..

Eles need a serious buff for pve…
Just think, the fractal checkpoint system will be implemented very soon in dungeons and us eles will never see a dungeon again as this system only enforces elitism.

@Andromeda – PRIVATE MESSAGE me with everything you know (guild, level, class etc.) And I will look into it for you, I assure you i don’t like anyone hacking, it should not be in a AAA title.
And when i mean pm i mean don’t openly accuse on the forums.

I will look into this over the next few days for you.

[Edited by Moderator]

Dante.1508:

How about buff the other classes to match Warrior, sick of nerfs..

+1

Nerfing wont get this game far nor be balanced….

People complained about D/D ele and now we are getting yet another one of our builds nerfed (Reason to go d/d build is arena net nerfed all other builds that ele had because we were supposedly op …warriors get buffed……)

What i am saying is, nerfing wont do anyone good.

Wont buy gems until i have fun playing this game.

Not looking too good.

I have seen these tactics take place right before my eyes, Allods Online, a p2w game that made you grind until you gave up and bought gems..£10 for 1 item, £500+ for a combat mount which was 0.0000001% RNG of dropping.

Either way I am not enjoying the game and not liking the direction of the game.

I already feel as though i paid £49.99 for a beta.

I will stick with my D/D Ele build no matter the nerf.
Even if they nerf all the abilities I will still play the D/D build to show Arenanet, polity, that it isn’t OP but player Skill is OP.
you cannot change players skill by nerfing.

AoE Nerf, stupidest Idea someone has had, if there was an award for it it would go to arenanet.

Make Ele builds more viable and you will see less QQ about bunker builds (We chose D/D…because arenanet nerfed all other builds) and maybe then you will see it comes down to player skill & having more options open to others.

“Play the game your style” nope.

-A D/D Ele who will show Player skill is OP and not spells that are OP, while polity asking anet to stop nerfing stupidly (D/D Ele movement…)

Popcorn, i need more.

As i have said I am on kaineng for a week doing literally nothing useful.

but seriously guys?

Saying that someone is bad only makes yourself look worse.

Instead of actually trollling each other on the forums, head just below Victors Lodge or somewhere and vent out your frustration at each other in a duel.
no need to bring stupid drama into the forum post, already enough of that as there is…..

(Odd moment when your smartphone only posts 1/2 of what you said)
(Also, I know i am on ET and im not “Privileged” to reply in this post….but i am on kaineng for a week taking advantage of free transfers to 100% my wvw EB map completion)

@Arenanet – Just to prove to you that D/D eles aren’t OP i will be sticking with my D/D build no matter the nerf, you need to realise that nerfing skills doesn’t change player skill.
We need to work 4x as hard to achieve anywhere near what other classes do, add player skill & Knowledge and you have an OP Player not class.
Being a d/d build it gives me a challenge, something that lacks in this game, and an adrenaline rush.
D/D is also good for soloing thing in PvE when 1/2 of your servers population upped and left due to a faulty tiering system that has no use in a video game.

So go ahead, nerf all the abilities and i can still solo/duo unorganised zergs.

Warrior build……
We all know what’s going to happen.

But i will stick with my D/D ele to show that player skill is more OP than spells.

What i believe in ftw.

Anyone seen that post about a warrior soloing path1 ?

Designer mentions skill, knowledge dodge timing etc…

Isn’t that what D/D eles do but are much more complicated to do and requires more skill than spamming 1-2 buttons?

Huh….

Reroll warrior/quit game or stick with my D/D ele after all the nerfs it gets to show a net it requires skill rather than anything else….

I like the 3rd option, to stand up for what i believe in…or i can just quit for a game that is f2p and is more balanced with less bugs……….

Think i will stand for what i believe in because by god i love my elementalist play style (nerf play style all you want) and will stick with it through thick and thin.

Some people may say to me (and people have pm me this already) “Go away qqer, nobody wants you” all that rubbish, but i will say i will stand for what i enjoy!

D/D ele requires alot of skill, people like myself enjoy the challenge and adrenaline it gives, it is not a real image…but that’s the beauty of it.

(Smartphone auto correct, sorry)

/signed a mage fan.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

If you watch the gameplay closely, he’s swapping utilities and weapons frequently, and to serve different purposes. He has a knowledge of the bosses and event mechanics, and mitigates what risk he can through smart play and knowledge. His dodges and blocks are well timed, and rarely are they unnecessary when he uses them. He knows which attacks he can soak, and which attacks he needs to avoid.

And a net and others think d/d else are OP……

I know AC very well, tried soloing, died several times.

At least i know warriors are the future while other classes are nerfed………

Sorry for derailing the thread but this has been bugging me recently….you say he switches alot of stuff out etc. Look at ele we need to switch 4 attunements, have player skill, Dodge alot and have good timing yet a warrior can fly through this SOLO especially on p1….

Pass this onto class balancers please, i am tired of people saying we are OP (when it could.es down to player skill instead) which leads to overnerfing.

Sorry again, good video and would like to see more.

“Play the style you want to play” (or however it was put)

That’s just gone out the window.

I get a feeling a net don’t even play their own kitten game…

AoE was a counter to thieves…oh but we aren’t allowed counters and instead get 14k hits by a thief when having 2k+ toughness/Vit….

Warrior or nothing i guess, as i am not allowed to aoe single targets with a aoe build.

The most stupidest of ideas and a net fell into it.

Tera online going f2p looks like ill give that a try until Eso comes out.

Simply put a net i have lost all my faith in you guys, your mentality is “Nerf first, ask later”

Grevender.9235:

they may as well remove daggers from ours weapon set, as they will become utterly useless after the nerf; and get rid of the staff too, while you are at it.
Well, at least give us a sniper rifle…

May as well just remove the class from the game if we are just going to keep getting nerfed ..

Hey, this will be the 3rd game I’ve played that mages got overnerfed and population of which died.

So much for gw2 and “play your own style” (more like “play the nerf man”)

Say goodbye to the elementalist population….again.

IF they bring our UP builds up to par i wouldn’t be so kittened about the D/D eleven….

Obviously a net listen more to “cry for nerf” people rather than people who play that class….

Unsure whether i should reroll or quit for another game…

Another nerf another day.

(I am seriously losing hope with game developers…)

Vayra.3290:

Dulfys transcript

we don’t want you to use AoE skills on single target mobs.

How do you propose I deal with single enemies as a D/D ele then? 18 out of 20 skills are AOE effects. Spam earth #1 until it dies?

Don’t forget staff aoes……

I guess it is either time to reroll or nothing.

This AoE nerf was a bad decision from the start and should not have been brought up in the dev meetings. /sigh

Instead of needing, start buffing.

No point on nerfing the D/D eleven (which is challenging and takes player skill to do) and stop reading feedback from people who cry nerf because they got outplayed and died, if you are bringing our underpowered builds up to par (if you do, less bunkers, less qq) with other builds….
As for necros…..

Pretty much through the stream all i seen was “We are going to nerf d/d eleven in the future so you can get easy badges from elves”

That’s all i heard, nothing particularly interested me except ascended gear with tokens.

I say this again, stop needing start buffing, games have overnerfed classes before and makes that class….nothing.

Fix engineer.
Lol.

(Smartphone….i hate auto correct)

Ele bunkers are on “Arenanets watch list”. (Twitch livestream btw)
incoming Nerf fairly soon I suspect
Well, I enjoy the challenge I face as a D/D ele and will stick with it…for now.
maybe make our other UP builds more viable and you will see less bunkers? (People go bunker builds as ele as..well our builds aren’t all that great blahblah etc. You would see less QQ about our bunker if our other builds actually worked and weren’t underpowered.)

I feel as though my D/D Elementalist is “Just” Right for me, I have a challenge in front of me that requires skill, Coordination & outplaying my enemy instead of just sitting at the back of everything and spamming AoE attacks until one of my AoE hits someone.

I am sad there will be a nerf to our D/D build in the near future, maybe not January, but when a Dev says “Watch List” it usually means Nerf and not a buff.

Edit: btw, I created this post, not to QQ, but to make a discussion of expected/speculated nerfs/buffs.

IMHO Arenanet has to start buffing everything so not to lead classes to become overnerfed and become an engineer sadly

StormWolf.7645:

Wait…Meow didn’t leave NSP did it?! O.o

Yes they did leave.
(I’m on Kaineng for a week to complete WvW map completion, Figured I’d take advantage of free transfers and get it done before paid transfers, FYI you guys have so much PvE bots it is unbelievable, been PvE’ing whilst on kaineng while not helping out in WvW as it isn’t my server to do so, I will take 1 spot to do the jps i do daily though.)

sitting in the EB jumping puzzle autocasting my heal whilst waiting for chest reset and seen the guild tag [Meow] next to me.
ET also took yet another hit as 1 or 2 guilds bandwagoned off into Kaineng also.

Questions (probably already asked)

Q1 – Will the items from the “Achievement Token Vendor” be account bound or Soulbound? (I assume either one to stop inflations)

Q2 – Southsun Cove? What happened to it? Its a dead zone

Q3 – AoE nerf is a bad idea, especially for staff elementalists who rely on heavy AoE, can we get more details on this?

Q4 – Will engineers ever be…..playable?

Q5 – Will Magic find gear ever be brought together with other gear? (For example ascended items & the “Infusion” Slots – Exotic PvT Gear with an unused upgrade Magic Find slot (Runes still work whilst having a “Magic Find Stone/gem” in the MF slot) grants 0% Magic find.
- Exotic PvT gear with a used magic find slot grants x% of whichever stone you choose (3 Tiers of Magic Find Stone, 1%, 3%, 4%)

LQ – Not really a question, but I hope you all know about D/D Eles and the amount of skill/timing/coordinating it takes to become a good D/D ele, not only that but people enjoy the “Challenge” that D/D ele gives to people and helps people understand the class alot more. (Basically, don’t nerf it, but instead fix the rest of our class & other classes, over-nerfing classes can cause problems for everything in my opinion, learned from a previous game…where no mages were ever played due to an overnerf )

Nananana Arenaman Nananana……..

Discussion Time:

Q; What are your expectations for the January patch on elementalist, Nerfs, Buffs or fixes?

What i expect:

Nerfs to D/D builds due to the amount of people crying for nerfs due to their L2P issues (I am hoping A net overlook these “Issues” and know that to play an ele it requires skill, coordination & movement)

I am also expecting significant buffs to staff & scepters and minor fixes to our bugs.

So what are you expecting?

:)

£1 fish dance is better >_>

But seriouy?

No.

Sorry to rain down on your parade here but i dislike this idea.

Simply put taking out any attunement makes elementalists….well not really elementalists.

The whole concept behind the elementalist is the 4 elements;

Fire, Earth, Water, Air.

Take any of them away and we will be fractured and the concept destroyed making eles feel….well fell non-attuned to the nature.

I agree we need weapon swapping, but not your idea.

Weapon swap out of combat would be more efficient and life quality will rise.

Sorry to disagree with your idea, a good idea, but not for the game i feel.

Kalkin.5293:

>Keep it clean
Too late for that now, already mesmers in ET are exploiting inside keeps with gates/walls intact and porting in everyone to instagib everything

Ever heard of doing a Mesmer sweep?

No?

Well don’t try and make it as though the server is exploiting when you failed to do a good Mesmer sweep and then blame exploiting for your poor sweeps.

No matter though, I will ask around and check the mesmers and have a talk to them if they were indeed exploiting (unlikely) and ask them to not do it again.

But please instead of calling out a few people and making it look like the server is doing it, just report it and take SS, ok?

Now let us keep it clean.

Great minds think alike lol.

Been spending a few days writing out tips and tricks on defeating a did ele…but you beat me to it rofl (might post mine in the wvw section)

1more small tip, people need to realise that most eles are running in PvT ( power, vitality, toughness) armor and cleric Jewellery (power toughness healing) making our survivability a bit better (Gear choices are there for a reason)…

Anyway, i +1 this thread, great work on it

ET is certainly NOT dead, we may lack the high-end population but as time goes on our population will grow larger, for example these past few weeks I have been seeing a massive amount of players in all sorts of areas, Lions Arch being the main city we have begun to hit overflow in LA at random times and a small WvW queue for certain maps.

Also, our server has gained a huge amount of new players over the Christmas and New Year period, giving our server even more morale and is making us fight even harder and become tougher in WvWvW granting everyone on our server bonuses (Most people don’t know about this sadly).

If you are in need of a dungeon run hop into Lions Arch and LFG in map chat, I can assure you that you will find a group in no time…

Or use the 3rd Party “Dungeon Finder, or LFG Finder” at gw2lfg.com (it has saved me several times and finding a group is easier…even gets you invited to a group within 10minutes if other people from other servers are looking for the same dungeon)

I can assure you ET is far from dead, we are just getting started

Quick Score update below:

(Been having a blast this week, seen alot of activity on every map, ET has really picked up and is Hitting LA Overflow at random times, maybe even some EB Queue Time, I thank fergs & SF for such a great battle, but we aren’t out of it yet, you can count on it )

Edit: 1 POI & Vista left in EB so I can get 100% WvW Map completion (Not the Full Map completion) without having to transfer servers in order to get it…been a while to get but well worth sticking with ET for….now if only fergs gave us their keep :\ lol

Been happening to me also..

It also happens the exact same time as the forums go down with a 502 – error..

getting really frustrated by it now :\

I have pretty much tried every class……..

Ran back to my Main and that is Elementalist….

After playing ele and being my 1st Character other classes just seem meh to me…..

But right now, i am….trying …to level a warrior which gets boring very quickly and within 30minutes or so i am back on my ele XD

All the ET commanders, they have put tremendous efforts into our wvw day and night, they know WvW very well and communicate with each other, and their efforts among our population has really paid of, they deserve their recognition IMO.

100%

An ET person here for you, PM me or reply to this topic with your question. I will try to answer it ASAP (4am atm for me….pretty much roaming the forums until i fall asleep CD)

Edit – check your PM