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razor naga on elementalist.

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I think if you set all your skills to your thumb it’s not going to help you much amd your thumb will get tired of it.

you must have some weak thumbs. hehe.

I have all my skills from 1 to 10 on the G600, I upgraded from the naga and I don’t have any issuse even with the much smaller naga.

I just bought the razor naga ( http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga )
so i have easy access to keys 1-12 and m1-m5. my question is, can i play the game with only this mouse? i have 1-10 as skills, 11 and fire, 12 as water, m4 as air ( key right below the scroll ) , m5 as earth ( key right below m4 ) right mouse button and left mouse button stay the same, but when pressed together act as moving forward. I also have m3 (the scroll button) to use as jump, dodge, or f, but i can only map one to the key. This is where the problem comes in. with ANY other class i could make it work (although engineer might have a similar, but not as difficult problem), but i can only use 1 of those 3 on my mouse, unless i get rid of a different button ( autoattack might give me one more option)
Can I play efficiently with this setup, or is there a different setup you’d recommend?

also on a slightly related topic, anybody know of a good Elementalist guide?

I have a naga as well. Been using mine for three years. Yes, you can use it to play an elementalist, and you won’t have to bind any attacks to your keyboard. My attunements are alt-1-4. Super easy to cycle through all your attacks. I’ve found myself trying to press abilities before the previous one has gone all the way off, haha.

Exactly like me. Only difference i have attunements on Ctrl + 1,2,3,4

Same but mine is with shift +1,2,3,4.

I cant get used alt or control for some reason.

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china launch good for pvp?

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there really isn’t much to say other than more ppl playing = more resources will be dedicated to the overrall game.

The only other effect china will have are the builds they play. From my experience with Aion, the east usually had some of the more unique builds that we in the west could not have thought of. It would be wise to keep an eye out for what builds they run.

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Ascended Crafting & the great Laurel Timegate

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I would argue that they just need to remove the need to actually craft ascended and allow them to be gotten in PvP dungeon quests where you get tickets to get whatever piece you want and drop frequently (again ticket based to get stats you want) far more regularly in WvW.

Crafting should be quite optional OR ascended gear should be salable at quite reasonable prices.

Ideally, both.

Well, Ascended gear is already optional.. so…….

considering he is making those claims, do you really think he cares about the truth? Logic isn’t going to work on him, you might as well leave him to his own devices.

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Bunker comps

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What can you even do to stop bunkers?

Anet for some, I’m sure unforgivable reason, decided to not separate PvE from PvP in the sequel to the only MMORPG to ever do it, and is what made that game so great.

Give it a rest. They could have but they didn’t. Crying about it isn’t going to suddenly change their mind especially now that they have to keep track of PvP, PvE and China. So how about working within the current reality and not living in fantasyland of guild wars 1.

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Professional Flippers: What advice a Noob?

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Without sharing any secrets or markets, since it end up ruining that specific market, what advice would you give to people interested in flipping. Examples would be like the best time to buy/sell, how deep do you go in for high or low volume sales etc. Or how much time you spend each day flipping.

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Chinese Gw2 launch & how it affects us

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A good system would not be ESO or DCUO. ESO especially has a horrible terrible worthless combat system, the fact that you are talking about it invalidates your opinion on good combat but I suppose there is nothign wrong with having bad taste in life. DCUO is kinda nice but still spamming and based on rock paper scissors.

A good combat system would be a game that takes TERA targeting system and combines it with Blade and soul or possibly gw2 but make it more deliberate and remove animation immunity.

I dislike all these MMOs with shooter interfaces. Yes, i am a mouseclicker, and i need the possibility to click on my hotbars. Any game with forced mouselook and unclickable hotbars like DCUO, Vindictus, Neverwinter and Tera were deinstalled after mostly 10-20 minutes of trying to play them.

And i really really feared that GW2 would maybe also go that way, and was very when i finally could play the beta and see that it had MMO and not shooter controls.

More games are beginning to ditch the old method of combat and heading into the more action realm. That is just the natural progression, will they still be games that have the old system, maybe but you are going to have to learn not to be a clicker.

Which that said, as a former clicker Have you EVER EVER considered getting a logitech G600 or razer naga? Once I got a gaming mouse my clicking days were over. it was a little hard at first but after that initial week shock it became second nature and possibly the best thing I have bought in terms of gaming.

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Buy outfits with gems then require TC

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You are buying the skin NOT the ability to get infinite reapply. This new system is a significant improvement over the previous system in which you had to buy an armor set for each character.

All I can say is, life isn’t fair. Or you should go do PvP and get free charges or do map completion. And next time do research. Or make support ticket and see if you can get a refund for your mistake.

People really need to LOOK more closely. You need nothing to wear outfits.

Based on his very unclear post, it seems he bought an outfit aka costume and a cash shop armor set.

he seems to be angry about the armor set not being reusable without charges.

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200g/day? You can make more!

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I tried it and with only one account it takes way too long and is boring. The whole MMO should be fun not work yuk yuk yuk we hear it every day, but that is positively work and I stopped after about 1.5 hours total doing that.

There is not such thing as “should” in an MMO. there is no right way to play an MMO short of doing anything that is consider against the rules of the game.

You might not enjoy it but if the person doing is having fun and it is not against the rules you don’t have a say in it. (not directed at you but just in general because that message seems to be lost on these forums).

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More skill shots, less point and click

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Sounds like someone played Wildstar recently.

I think OP probably played TERA.

Wildstar is not the game with anything close to a skill shot.

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6 Signets!

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high quality posts it can be easy to miss a thread or two.

Is that developer for 99.99% of the post in this forum are overly whining and useless, ironically just like this post (my post)?

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Chinese Gw2 launch & how it affects us

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but if this game tends to get more like a korean/chinese mmo means game is being fixed!

based on?

Not being based on anything just stating my opinion, i am a casual player and i always prefered the “asiatic” machanics of mmo’s, i cant imagine chinese players being attracted by the dps blob fest on random overflow system playing with randoms while game was supposed to be divided trough servers (wich atm is how i see this game).

  • Based on? * if i had to choose a game?
    One of the last games i tryed, as Ragnorok online (was on KRo and EuRo betas, and played for several years )
    -Game had huge quest lines do craft exclusive weapon (i imagined precursors would work on this way ).
    -Castles superior design on War of Emperium had several tactical places, inner paths, siege, and reward for holding the keep, and Archers/Snipers worked great lol"
    -No overflow systems :P
    -The game is still alive.

it’s also boring, generic, ugly, has a horrible battle system…..and i can go on.
and yes, i have played the game.

Indeed, thats where gw2 excells combat is pretty good compared with others but lacks on verything else.

We are still yet to experiment a good mmorpg.

actually the battle system of GW2 is horrible too, it uses the targeting system of a dynamic battle system but has a static battle system made for a static targeting system.
a good system would be something like ESO or DCUO, granted that the targeting system needs to fit them better but it’s still better then the mishap we have to deal with here in GW2.

ahahahaha.

A good system would not be ESO or DCUO. ESO especially has a horrible terrible worthless combat system, the fact that you are talking about it invalidates your opinion on good combat but I suppose there is nothign wrong with having bad taste in life. DCUO is kinda nice but still spamming and based on rock paper scissors.

A good combat system would be a game that takes TERA targeting system and combines it with Blade and soul or possibly gw2 but make it more deliberate and remove animation immunity.

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Rune of Strength - Can we expect a nerf?

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Strength does not deserve a nerf. I can only repeat it – it’s the only real challenger of scholar dominance in PvE (aside from ranger, but that’s too niche, even if they bugged it again as a fiend told me). It’s rather the other runes which should get a buff.

The problem with runes and sigils are that a lot of them exist simply for the sake of inflating rune and sigil number and lot of them are so terrible that no one ever uses them. Arenanet should remove a good percentage of them, while at the same time buff the the remaining non-terrible ones.

Someone should make a thread discussing all the current good, needs improve/nerf and terrible sigil and runes that literally have no place and will never be good. And offer ways to either improve them or completely remove them.

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Rune of Strength - Can we expect a nerf?

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They will nerf it into the ground once enough players have bought theirs; #goldsinks.

It is a gold sink only because you don’t know what gold sink actually means.

Umm o.k so, please inform me as what a gold sink then…

As it seems to me when you buy something (strength rune) at an increased price, thus removing the gold from the economy, due to a mechanism released by ANET (patch) this just might constitute a gold sink. The only difference is that these runes are a voluntary gold sink as you don’t NEED to use them … just like waypoints.

The only gold sink in selling and acquiring a rune of strength is when the seller puts up the rune and after they get paid. So 5% at sale and 10% later.

Rune of strength can only be acquired from players so it is simply a transfer of currency. A gold sink would be when money is taking out from the economy for example like paying for the TP fees or way points.

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Rune of Strength - Can we expect a nerf?

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They will nerf it into the ground once enough players have bought theirs; #goldsinks.

It is a gold sink only because you don’t know what gold sink actually means.

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The patch is a smashing success

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now spvp is for pve player i’d like to have something as pvp player…

Since you consider spvp to be PvE, why bother anymore? I mean from Anet’s pov there are literal no financial incentive to keep the old guards (veteran PvP as they call themselves) by reverting any of these changes.

Unless you mean balance.

did u play soloq recently? if it is and u are a pvper, you shoudn’t need other explanation…. difference from hot join prepatch and soloq post patch is 0… what shoud i do when i dont have all team online?

for months people like you whine how Arenanet should get rid of 8v8 and now they effectively do that and you are complaining?.

If you want high level PvP form a team and if you can’t form a team don’t go QQing because you got placed in the nosebleed section.

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The patch is a smashing success

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now spvp is for pve player i’d like to have something as pvp player…

Since you consider spvp to be PvE, why bother anymore? I mean from Anet’s pov there are literal no financial incentive to keep the old guards (veteran PvP as they call themselves) by reverting any of these changes.

Unless you mean balance.

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My Celestial Elementalist build for Spvp

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what about 5/0/0/3/6? Get the extra heal from water and the 10% vs burning and since the enemy is constantly burning it should do something good.

the 10% only works when burning but there are no guarantees that your opponents will be in constant burn. Thte extra 1k heal + the health boost is nice though.

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My Celestial Elementalist build for Spvp

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What is the extra 10 points in fire really getting you that an extra 10 points in say water (so you could get the GM trait for cleanse on regen) wouldn’t also get you + extra damage from boons? Once you get to that point it’s essentially a x/x/x/6/6 again? Just curious, I am very much enjoying celestial/might build on my ele. I still don’t feel as useful as my hambow because I lack the skills to play ele well, but I don’t feel like a liability any more.

@Rudy It’s per boon rather than per stack, you correctly identified that if it was per stack it would be ridiculously OP and every single ele build would have 5 in water as mandatory. I can dream at least

the extra 10 means I dont burn my cantrips before engaging the fight like the video shows and whenever I use a any skill while in fire, I get 1 stack of might. with cantrips 4 stacks of might. 6/0/0/2/6. I use signet of fire to force them to use their condition clesnse every 20 and a bonus might while in flames.

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Where Are All The Devs?

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Here’s an idea, perhaps we should start a Kickstarter.
Maybe they can’t afford more employees?

if we are to believe the forums that WvW is dead, then I am nearly certain you wont be able to generate 10 bucks yet alone 100k in salary and benefits for 1 yr.

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Gemstore lack racial diversity

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Personally, I think having more than non-humanoid in this game caused a huge drop in quality armor as compared to gw2.

With that said the reason racial diversity will never improve or really change (unless china proves otherwise) is because the majority of players play human characters. I doubt Anet will put in the work to create specialize armor for charr, asura and sylvari.

Game skins lack a lot.

  1. Materials are not choseable, not even dye-able… GW1 had w-dyes.
  2. General directions of armor designs are not matching between male and female. GW1 was correct.
  3. We can’t have a charr style on humans, asuran style on sylvari, or else. GW1 had.
  4. Medium armors look light armors / pijamas. GW1 had betters.
  5. Most skins are bulky, way small or big. GW1 had betters.
  6. Most shoulder pieces are not fitting and way oversized. GW1 had betters.
  7. Drop skins are the same. Why they can’t drop special ones, dungeon ones? Guess What 2? GW1 had it…

P.s.: Yes, yes; GW1 was mutch more correct and revolutionary than GW2 is. C’mon!

Obviously the biggest flaw in your argument is that Gw1 only had 1 race and 1 body type to design armors for. (I would have preferred they stuck to 1 race instead of 5 and giving mediocre choices for the other 4 races).

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Solo Q needs major rework/ ideas to fix it.

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I love how you are act like you have a choice in the matter. Also it pays to use dev tracker.

Did I strike a nerve? Are you sensitive to people pointing out bad timeline projections and development habits?

I didn’t see anything in the dev tracker. What post, specifically?

Apparently, directing someone to a where you can find any information about the game is striking a nerve. If you think I am angry about that or something you might be projecting.

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Solo Q needs major rework/ ideas to fix it.

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All those things are nice, but lets wait and see what Anet is cooking because supposedly they are cooking a new system that will make a lot of the things you listed a thing of the past.

Where did you hear this?

Because I really can’t trust their “wait and see what we’re working on!” lines. 8 months down the road, nothing to show for it most of the time.

I love how you are act like you have a choice in the matter. Also it pays to use dev tracker.

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Gold Betting on Tournaments

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for that to work spectator and oh ya balance would have to be better.

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Solo Q needs major rework/ ideas to fix it.

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All those things are nice, but lets wait and see what Anet is cooking because supposedly they are cooking a new system that will make a lot of the things you listed a thing of the past.

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Replace Conjures with Wards

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Without conjures ele will cease to be viable in dungeons. It’s conjured weapons that make ele the top dog in the tough fight for spots in dungeon speedrun parties, and at the moment eles are quite viable in every other area of the game (including PvP thanks to the runes of strength and celestial amulet change last patch).

What you are asking for is the same as killing off this class completely in one area of the game.

Speed runs are not really an issue for the majority just a insignificant few. So we would be fine.

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Courtyard: good for 3v3/5v5 nothing else

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So you are saying that a map design for small combat is terrible for large combat?

Thank you very much for sharing this new insight. Did also know that ice is cold.

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3 steps to keep population up

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all those things are nice to keep the hardcore side of the game.

To keep the casual aka non hardcore side arguably the most important population, all you need are good sPvP exclusive rewards from exclusive skins like armor and backs to significantly better loot. Pretty much waht EverthingEnds said.

All the things you listed don’t really appeal to the average player more so than exclusive kitten. Makes 2 sets of costume (not armor since armor requires 3 sets L, M & H of armor be made vs costumes that only require 1) one for simply playing the game and winning 200+ matches and a nice title, and an exclusive ladder costumes for climbing to the top 100 with progressively better rewards for the closer you are to #1.

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Really have Nothing to Achieve after r80 :(

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For the requests I agree with the OP. I don’t follow his means of progression but if it keeps a healthy population in Spvp then by all means throw some titles out there for r80 and beyond with mini-achievements on their way.

I don’t think it keeps a healthy population it only keeps to the extreme fringe. If you are currently r80 you are probably part of a very small and subset.

With that said, some people want meaningless ranks others want ladders if Anet wants to cater to both good for them, but for the overrall game ladders is better than rank.

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Healing power elementalist

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A full healing ele would have trouble soloing things in PVE like map completion. It would take you so long to kill mobs that they would gang up on you and wear you down. With offensive builds a few aoes and all the trash mobs are dead.

I did probably around 95% of map exploration on my full healing ele solo. I only had to ask for help for around 5 things.

The other remaining parts of that 5% were done when I was with friends doing things like personal story trying to get to Arah so we didn’t have to do that dungeon’s story mode more times than we had to. Or someone else happened to come up.

It just takes more time to kill things and knowing your limits.

I don’t know why people think soloing in PvE is hard. It was only difficult back when Orr was a horrible place to be in.

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My Celestial Elementalist build for Spvp

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Why not go 6 fire, ditching 2 earth and gain 10% bonus damage to burning foes and blinds?

I can’t speak for the OP but I think it is because the the burning damage is not the primary method of dealing damage. Glyph of elemental power only has a 25% chance to proc every 5 seconds so building around it is pointless. most of the dps on this build is from using stacking might via fire shield, cantrips and sigil of battle and not sticking to only one attunement.

I know it’s not a primary method of dealing damage (it plays a big part though), but if you have access to that many sources of burning and aim to apply it constantly for pressure, might as well reap the benefits of 10% bonus damage and blindness every five seconds. Even the notorious Flamewall becomes usable, as it lasts for eight seconds, which means you can dance around it and blind opponents who cross it while having fun with other attunements, if not having the GoEP off CD.

GoEP procs easily if with dagger or scepter mainhand, due to fast attacks.

What are you talking about, silvermember? Why would anyone stay in one attunement? GoEP triggers in all attunements, as long as you activate it in fire. Might stacking will not suddenly be impossible, because a 60 sec CD skill that ONLY triggers when below 50% hp is out of the equation. It’s not a great loss in the might stacking department.

I am saying that the burn up time is not enough to go all in fire for that trait. And yes GoEP triggers in all attunement but it still doesn’t change the fact that there is no guarantee it will proc every 5 seconds since it is a 25% chance ever 5 seconds.

And the reason why you stake Armor of earth is for the 3 might including the extra nice 6 seconds worth of protection because protection is always nice to have especially when your health is at 50%.

With that said, I don’t see why you couldn’t modify the build to suit your needs. If you think that that 10% damage is worth it you could always good all in, into fire for the 100 more power and the 10% boost. I am thinking of replacing GoEP with Signet of Fire for a 10 second burn every 20 seconds and a bonus 10% crit chance. The only thing holding me back is the cast time.

ADDED: take out ten in earth put in fire get pyro puissance, GoEP or signet of fire both give might.

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My Celestial Elementalist build for Spvp

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Why not go 6 fire, ditching 2 earth and gain 10% bonus damage to burning foes and blinds?

I can’t speak for the OP but I think it is because the the burning damage is not the primary method of dealing damage. Glyph of elemental power only has a 25% chance to proc every 5 seconds so building around it is pointless. most of the dps on this build is from using stacking might via fire shield, cantrips and sigil of battle and not sticking to only one attunement.

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Toxic Creep

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The problem occurs when you have a rank 1 person who just bought the game or someone who just decided to click “solo queue” while doing the queensdale champion train wind up in a game with top 100-500 players because Arenanet chooses to start their MMR at an absurdly high level.

The other day in a solo queue game I found myself 3v1ing on a neuted mid point for over a minute and a half. We were two capped on the other nodes. My team apparently lost a 2v4.

The reason why this is happening in my opinion is this: In single player games like chess, you can start out someone’s MMR very high because there is no way that a person with an MMR of 1000 will ever beat someone with a skill level of 2000.
In Guild Wars 2, you have 4 other people on your team, which means with a huge amount of carry, we can see people with an MMR of 1000 winning in games of people say, with MMRs of 1800, because the 1000 newbie has people rated 2000 on his team, or there is just a particularly hard counter comp.

Blame Arenanet for not changing the MMR system, instead of insulting the new players because guess what you need those new players if you want sPvP to keep getting resources.

The older players have to keep pressing until a dev aka Justin comes in and tell us the status of the new MMR or ladder system. Until then, there is no reason to be bashing the PvEers for Anet’s failure.

With that said, it is better to be nice to the new players because by the time Arenanet hopeful decides to introduce a new MMR system which wont happen until May 27. the initial excite over the new changes in sPvP would have died down and You (veteran PvP) better hope as many new players stuck to it as possible.

tl;dr
Don’t get mad at the new players get mad at Arenanet for not having the foresight to see the MMR system being bad for both new and old players.

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SoloQ team with most thiefs loses

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What I really think the issue is here is balance. The matchmaking system doesn’t balance the game very well even with the increase of players. Any time the other team is more balanced then you they have better odds at wining. When you have 2 thief’s you can usually rack up 5 points per kill but 99% of Thief players regardless of experience don’t hold points or assist in holding points. Lets face it the mode in pvp right now is about holding those points.

Considering that matchmaker hasn’t changed in months, the influx of new players isn’t going to suddenly make it better. Right now the equation doesn’t take into account classes etc.

It seems we wont be getting any changes until possibly when Anet starts up content patches.

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Is it worth crafting anything?

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silvermember.8941

If your gathering all your materials, then your not really ‘profiting’ right? Your just converting self harvested raw materials into T7 dowels to get the max reward from all that farming right?

If you where to pay others to farm with buy orders on the raw materials, then spend your daily craft allotment on refining them into dowels, then you are making some profit as well as selling your daily craft time.

Some people will argue that there is an opportunity cost involved in farming your own materials. Were this the real world, I would agree, but since every second spent in a video game is your recreational time, I’m inclined to leave opportunity costs out of the equation when discussing “profit”.

You can’t really leave it out. You need to consider what else you could have been doing to make gold that could have been an even better investment of time.

And if you are not having fund doing what you “could” be doing then it cost more.

If you are having fun gathering the mats, I am more incline to believe there is no opportunity cost because the profit you are gaining is simply the result of having fun.

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why 7k health + 600 toughness lower in PVP ?

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Because the PvE gear you spent all your time grinding for means nothing in SPvP. If you want your gear to count there is WvW for that.

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Separate key-binds for stomping and ressing

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silvermember.8941

-1

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RED AZURE GOLD

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

silvermember.8941

If you are smart you would save them for the possibility that Anet actually goes through with precursor crafting because I get the feeling it will be a huge dragonite ore drain. Like vision crystals off the ying yang.

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In my opinion, PvP isn't good

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P.S Weird that Gareth hasn’t dropped in to give the usual play by play on how guild wars 2 is the worst thing in the history of all MMORPG PvP.

Well, it’s become quite na axiom by now, so there’s no need to reiterate it anymore.
I thought that much was obvious.

If you have to convince people that guild wars 2 PvP is dat bad, then the PvP can’t really be that bad because they either be not playing the game or simply playing another game. You don’t stick with something you think is worst unless the other options are far worst.

Good, bad it’s all relative to something.

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This is fantastic, thank you anet!

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silvermember.8941

The OP is worthy of an official Karla stamp of approval (I believe my +1 even gave you the thumb up icon!), and will be saved for future reference.
You are always welcome on the dark side~

Does it come with the amazing ability to complain about a 60 dollar product for nearly a year and a half?

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What r you supposed to do with this class?

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silvermember.8941

You could either give up and fold your hands Or

Try this new build https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/My-Celestial-Elementalist-build-for-Spvp/first#post3940776

Or fresh air.

I am not sure how effective the build I posted is since the meta is still changing.

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Skin Imbalance - Too much cash shop.

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silvermember.8941

What you said would be true if the game barely had any skins but it has over a 500+ skins. The issue seems to be more like you feel entitled to more skins even though you do not.

They are lot of skins, if those are not enough, nothing will be enough. Arenanet biggest problem at least for the longest time was not having any decent looking armor skins on the cash shop and that was a little sad.

In any case they wont be any new armor until the living story at BEST.

But there is no skin imbalance. Why don’t you compare the amount of possible skins vs the amount of skins in the cash shop before making a comment.

This whole thread just reeks of QQ, I am entitled to more skins.

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Lightning Heart Elementalist

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You can take my comment as negative if you want, but it doesn’t change the simple fact that this build would be terrible for staff. It makes no sense for a staff, it seems you are taking a bunch of things to make a Frankenstein monster type of build.

Also your OP did not make any mention on what you intended to do with your build, it was only in your response that it became apparent you wanted to use it for havoc or small squad, which makes it worst.

Lightning rod is only really effective when they are too many people to notice your interrupts on the staff. In a small group all your interrupts become obvious and easily avoidable. Also lighting rod doesn’t do enough damage to make a build based entirely on it.

The lightning hammer you lose all your skills for only 5 mediocre ones while doing mediocre damage. and the potential stun on it is on a long CD.

The point being you are better off going the usual fresh air ele because most of the weakness aka being defenseless if you miss your rotation can be covered by the other players with you. This build doesn’t do anything better that other builds don’t already do.

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Lightning Heart Elementalist

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

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Is this for staff and what are you trying to accomplish with it?

Assuming it is for staff, they are more effective ways to do what you are doing. I can understand lightning rod but there is no reason to get stone heart when you are using a staff.

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Almost OP they said

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As a staff player, a dev said staff ele got stronk. But there was nothing about staff in patch notes. I might be missing a batch of notes.

And you believed in that? Also where is that “staff ele will be OP” thread now? I still haven’t seen any “OP” staff ele.

Talking about fresh air – yes, it is cheesy. Not because of macroses or damage directionality, but because it relies solely on one feature – Teh Burst. Fresh air’s s/x arcana burst is pretty much instant and untelegraphed so it is very cheap but powerful move. You either hit with pressallthebuttons move and win or miss and lose. Basically this is a definition of “cheese” as it used in games.

Powerr never said it was OP, just that it was strong internally. Whether or not that is true depends on whether you were thinking dps or bunkering.

The thing I have notice is that a lot of elementalist are not really deviating from the usual and so we can’t say if there is a strong build without actually bothering to change what we are doing.

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In my opinion, PvP isn't good

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In your opinion PvP isn’t good, I suppose that is good to know.

With that said, whether guild wars 2 becomes an esportz (it might have a chance in china) or not doesn’t really impact me in any meaningful way.

I was never going to be part of the esport and I don’t really care about watching other players play a game I could be playing myself.

so if guild wars 2 never becomes an esport, I most likely wont lose sleep over it since I have no real stake in the outcome.

P.S Weird that Gareth hasn’t dropped in to give the usual play by play on how guild wars 2 is the worst thing in the history of all MMORPG PvP.

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How to achieve balance.

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

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That’s a horrible way to achive balance. that balance chart is responsible for some of the messed up state we are in.

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Considering Quiting after this Patch

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

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MrKing don’t let any of these guys stop you from quiting if you want to quit do it. You don’t need any justification, any justification you can think of works, even one that is completely wrong works.

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Now that Dumbfire is gone....

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Maybe necro’s can get some of their bleeds back? I’m not a fan of condition builds in anyway but I seem to remember grasping dead and mark of blood having their bleeding reduced in sPvP I think that this was directly related to dumbfire and at the time Anet seemed so hellbent on keeping that stupid trait on a class that never needed it.

Well now that dumbfire is essentially gone from any decent necromancer build…. Can they get some of their bleeds back?

LoL no

wow thats some great feedback…

anyway to answer op I do thing they should Un-nerf the loss of bleeds on some of the necro skills.

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New lvl 80

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

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How you gear an ele depends on what game mode you play (WvW or PvE), what type of PvE and WvW specifically. PvE: open world (anything goes), dungeons or fractures, WvW: solo or hide behind a zerg and pew pew.

what is your playstile. What weapons do you prefer to use (it doesn’t really matter since you should have most of them, but still).

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esports? pull/knock someone off the edge?

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

silvermember.8941

Do you just create topics for whenever you have a thought?

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