Guild Wars 2

I really think this is a prime example of developers caving in to community complaints. People are frustrated by a single spell (that is neither unique nor op) that represents a build that IS op and call foul.

The 40s cooldown is absurd, there’s no other way to put it. This nerf misses some of the major goals they need to hit with the ele; it —
1) Doesn’t promote build diversity
2) Doesn’t nerf the bunker build
3) Reduces the much-needed survivability of burst/zerker Eles
4) Reduces ele skill cap while not addressing skill floor issues
5) Deeply harms S/D mobility, forcing more players into D/D
6) Hurts the Ele in PvE
I can continue but I’d rather not.

This was a very poor balancing choice, simple and plain. Here’s to hoping in seeking balance for the Elementalist ANet doesn’t destroy the profession altogether.

In reply to Renewing stamina, it only works with crits; so no that’s not viable with a power build / soldier’s amulet. With higher crit chance, i always will recommend that but not with a base of 10%.

But part of the magic of the bunker ele is that it almost always has fury up. Even with no precision, thats 30% crit chance at all time. Couple that with the fact that many of D/D’s attacks hit many times in a quick window — you’ve got a lot of opportunities for crits — or, at least, enough for one every five seconds, as is Renewing Stamina’s ICD.

In reply to your D/D build vs the build I posted: The build I posted wasn’t for a full bunker spec. It was for decent damage with survivability. All 3 variants are valid builds IMO

Therein lies the problem with ele traits at the moment — grab the 10/30/30 build (or a slight variant), throw on your amulet of choice, and you fulfill a completely different role! :P

just for higher level of pvp you’re not going to bring a bunker ele your going to bring a Gaurdian.

I feel you here. However, eles are capable of more sustain against some targets than Guardians. And I think it depends on the map; a bunker ele on some maps will be more successful than a Guardian, especially with mobility — for instance, when needed to move to support at another point.

Sorry it took me so long to respond! Keep up the good work with this thread, it will be pretty cool to have the meta build of each profession in one place.

These are not half bad suggestions. Ele still needs a lot though — 30 in Arcana is not only a ‘requirement’ for Evasive Arcana but for attunement cooldown reduction, as people have noted. Until that is addressed eles will be forced to put 20-30 points in Arcana and builds will continue to be limited.

Again, these are good ideas! Interested to see how this thread continues. It will be quite a challenge to balance the ele without gutting it entirely.

jsu.4370:

Cantrip D/D Ele (Tankier)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmgbzR5gjDAkHn4CLiCPUeMDO2A-ToAA1CnIQShkDJDSSksINgYKC

And… if your’re looking for Aura-share build (I don’t like using it; but it works great for team fights): http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmKbkR5gjDAkHmgSJiCPUeMDP2A-ToAA0CnIQShkDJDSSksINKYKC

A small critique – Renewing Stamina (Arcana VI) will provide much more survivability than either Arcane Energy or Final Shielding.

Also, Cleric’s amulet is generally the way to go for a d/d ele bunker.

THIS is the d/d bunker ele build that should be listed — http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmgbzR5gjDAkHn4CLiCPUeMTO2A-ToAgzCmI8S1lrLjXyas1MgYKC

And (pretty much) the only other viable ele build is the S/D arcane burst build popularized by Phantaram – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArYhImKbkR5gjDAEFmgiQhFOUeETO2A-ToAg0CvI8SVjrGjXyas1MsYKC
^ That’s my variant but there are a couple of interchangeable traits.

I’ll come back with builds for other professions!

I was just curious and searched through the top 1000 NA to see how many were from my server, Darkhaven. Sadly, only ten (10!) of the 1000 are from Darkhaven. Is this solely a result of the majority of the PvP population being focused in Anvil Rock and simply having a higher number of players playing higher level tournaments on this and other similar servers? It seems wild that the populations are so extremely distributed, as I doubt the skill level of the servers differs that dramatically.

Also, plans to separate solo queue from personal rating? I don’t really enjoy hotjoins but definitely don’t want my rating to suffer from solo joining a tournament and entering a bad pug.

To give an example… when I play with my (pseudo)team, we generally faceroll wins. Then they all log and I play a few solo-queues and generally lose miserably, be it a 4v5 or just bad team coordination. I’m certain my rank severely suffers from it but I find it typically more enjoyable than hotjoins in their current state. Are there any plans to address this? I’d like my rank when playing ‘serious’ tournaments to be indicative of my actual tournament abilities.

Finally, are there any plans to reset ranking when some of these other issues are addressed?

Thanks! Happy to see the leaderboards are growing!

1UP!

This is fantastic content that gives players a reason to congregate outside of LA. It is engaging, fun, rewarding, and removing it would really serve no purpose. Why would you showcase such a great addition to the game only to take it away?

There are really only 2 viable spots with which to use RTL as an ele carrying the orb. Use immobilizes at these spots. An ele who is immobilized and in RTL is an easy kill.

It is really that simple.

1. If and how they plan to bring more people to sPvP by offering general rewards such as laurels, unique skins, experience in PvE, gold,; so on and so forth.
2. Visible rating to self-track progress?
3. Alternative game types now that Spirit Watch has had some play?

Thanks Xeph!

Ingame name: Salphir
Main Class / Potential Classes (Incase team requires): Strongest at Ele, Engineer, Mesmer, Necro – love playing and learning all the classes though, so am very flexible.
Region: NA (on Darkhaven)
Practice Times: Most weekday evenings and weekend days
Experience: Years of playing MMO PvP, 100% map completion on Ele, too many hours logged than I’d care to admit and a general understanding of every one of the professions.

Great thread, hope people are finding teams and teammates!

Wanted to bump this and say I was experiencing the same thing. Apparently others can’t see it but it is surprising and makes me a little worried about my account’s security.

Edit to say that it also appears as my email in the startup screen and that some of the previously mentioned fixes don’t seem to work for me.

Would love an invite. My IGN is “Salphir” and my tag is rsq.3581