Guild Wars 2

I don’t normally like ranged combat, but a shortbow would be really cool on an Ele, imo. :>

Sons.5493:

Element bending with no weapons. Thank you very much Arenanet.

And this would be REALLY cool.

WAIT! Even better!

http://www.gameswallz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ninja-gaiden-2-Claws-of-Death.jpg

Fire/ice/electric/earth CLAWS. Awwwww yeeeeah. Make it happen, ANet! >:D

Linguistically Inept.6583:

zTales.4392:

Are you talking about PvE, WvW or sPvP? :o

P.S. I love your signature. I feel that way sometimes. xD
…unless it’s just there to be funny. In which case, I SAID NOTHING. o_o

PvE/WvW… im too lazy to get two different sets for all my characters; and i like playing my ele in both (my current main)… but mainly PvE 0/20/0/30/20

- and i do really do that; i find it helps when conversing with people if i give them an indication of how paranoid/crazy i am xD (and if someone is reading my mind then they might become shocked into not reading my mind… or deter them from doing it in the future >.> <.<)

Oh. Well, I’ve got x2 Superior Rune of the Water, x2 Major Rune of the Water, and x2 Superior Rune of the Monk for the +40% boon duration. My build is one of those auramancer builds. 0/10/10/30/20. That’s why I really want the boon duration. :P

I’m sure there are other good options out there, but I dunno’ what they are.

-Hey, you can’t be that crazy if someone else thinks the same way! xD
Eh, I could be wrong … We’re both crazy, I guess. lol

Are you talking about PvE, WvW or sPvP? :o

P.S. I love your signature. I feel that way sometimes. xD
…unless it’s just there to be funny. In which case, I SAID NOTHING. o_o

-applauds-

Skipped the first half of the video, watched the rest… very cool.

What’s your gear/build like? O.o

“Brony” (Male Human)
“Maguuma Invader” (?)

I’ve also seen a bunch of hilarious sylvari names, but I can’t remember what they were. >.<

I figured I’d just throw in my personal experience, too.

First of all, I hate the staff. I don’t think it’s a bad weapon at all, the problem is that I really enjoy the “all in your face”/“hit and run” melee playstyle. I also enjoy some support. Because of this, the D/D auramancer playstyle definitely suits me the best. It’s what makes the Elementalist my favorite class to play. You gotta’ think about what you’re going to be doing, and what’s fun for you.

Some PvE/WvW advice:

In general…
Think about what weapon set would be best for the situation. Then, ask yourself which weapon set best suits the way you play. Try to make a decision based on that. If you can’t, just go with what best suits the way you play, and/or what is most enjoyable to you.

Consider world PvE.
I don’t bother with the big dragon events, only normal dynamic events. D/D is totally fine when it comes to DEs, as is basically any weapon combination. However, if you do those dragon events a lot, you’ll probably want a long range weapon.

Consider dungeons.
Melee-oriented weapon combinations are viable, and can be very effective. If you play generally well, and have some Toughness/Vitality on your gear, it can be pretty cool. Just yesterday I was running AC, and we almost wiped on Kholer. He was at ~10%, and all of my teammates died. I figured I was done for, considering I’m a D/D Ele, but it didn’t end up that way. I killed him. It may not seem like a huge deal, but I was level 58 with a full set of level 55 blues. If I can do it, so can you! XD

Consider WvW.
I mainly roam in small groups and patrol, defend camps, take camps, sometimes take towers, etc. If a tower or something ever needs defense from a huge group of people, I’m the person who builds stuff, repairs stuff, heals people, gives people buffs, takes a risk and jumps into the middle of the fray, etc. It’s what I enjoy. If you’re like me and do this sort of stuff, melee is great! If you like huge sieges, you’ll probably want long range.

Also, don’t be afraid to take a risk! Whatever the weapon combination is, if you think you’ll enjoy it, try using it in your normal routine and see how it goes.

P.S. I realize most of the discussion here is about sPvP, but some people are talking about dungeons and such, which is why I put this here. :P

Kodiak.3281:

zTales.4392:

So a Staff Elementalist shouldn’t ever switch to water to heal?

Okay.

Say it with me now: It. Depends. On. What. You. Are. Doing.

If you got 0 points in the Water Line, swapping to Water to heal is a poor choice. Why? Let me elaborate. For one, any regen you do give to others or yourself is going to be substantially weaker than the regen any other class would give. Regen stacks duration, in the sense that it will tick for your (say) 10s of super weak regeneration before getting to say a Guardian’s regeneration who may have a decent chunk of +healing gear on. Wasting time to go to Earth, Eruption, then to Water, then Geyser isn’t going to help anyone if it blast finishers for 500 healing when people got 15,000 hit points.

Again, it all comes down to context of what you’re doing, who you’re with, what weapon you have equipped, what gear you have equipped, what traits you are, etc. Simply telling people to use all their attunements when they scenario may dictate otherwise is simply bad advice.

Yes, it does depend on what you are doing.

If you’re in fire, your heal/cantrips/evades/whatever are on cooldown, and you can’t do s*it, are you going to just stay in fire and die? Why would you? Switch to water and heal. Give yourself a chance to survive.

P.S. It doesn’t have to be complicated. You don’t need to go earth > water, just go straight to water.

I seriously can’t believe that you don’t get this.

Kodiak.3281:

Gaudrath.6725:

Look, it is simple. There is no way an ele who stays in one attunement can top the damage output of an ele who uses all four. Not to mention that you might as well take another warrior then if you are looking for that sort of thing. If you want a force multiplier for your party, then take an ele who knows what they are doing and is using all the tools at their disposal.

The only simple part of this whole conversation is none of you seem to want to provide the context of what you’re doing, what you’re playing or any actual details about what it is you’re talking about. That makes largely what you’re talking about to be completely irrelevant because it all applies to a specific scenario that you won’t state. If you really think your advice applies in all scenarios you’re wrong.

For example, I can tell everything you’ve posted in this thread you’re a D/D Ele. Virtually nothing of what you’ve said applies to a staff ele or S/D Ele. Trying to apply your advice to a Staff just creates useless and largely shoddy game play that people have come to expect out of Elementalists. In fact I’d easily argue that while playing staff I do far better when sticking to Fire both defensively (burning retreat counts as a 3rd dodge) and offensively (Puissance’s might stacks are tough to beat).

So a Staff Elementalist shouldn’t ever switch to water to heal?

Okay.

Kodiak.3281:

I see this all the time out of other Elementalists when I run dungeons who generally spout the same garbage advice about swapping around as the original poster.

If you’ve EVER switched into water attunement to heal, cure a condition, or the like… then you’ve already followed my “garbage” advice.

lothefallen.7081:

Thanks for the advice, Zen.

So for ele i was thinking Power / Precision / Vit (if that even exists) or Power / Vit / Cond Dmg. I’m not sure about anything though at the moment.

Like i said, my objective is to be pretty flexible with traits and weapon options, while still being viable without pigeon-holing myself into a certain combination like D/D which i don’t think is all that fun to play.

Anyone else have any advice to share.

Power/Pre/Vit? Psh, I wish…

I’m going for PVT weapons/armor and Berserker’s trinkets. If I feel like I don’t need as much survivablity, I’ll slowly be switching out PVT stuff for more Berserker’s stuff. That way I can tweak things as I see fit, while noticing increases in damage/decreases in survivability.

Daphoenix has spoken. o.o

I play D/D, and I think I’d have to say that air is my favorite attunement. I love the swiftness, Ride the Lightning, and the zappy sound effects.

kostbabis.8791:

To be honest i dont know with what i d laugh at more..An elementalist staying in 1 attunement doing pitiful damage and dying over and over again ?..
Or an ele in a dungeon spazzing through attunements putting water in cd when nobody needs it,cutting his dps in fire at half,capping the bleed stacks with his pitiful 0 condition damage or using air cc in a boss with infinite defiant stacks ? :P

I’m kind of guilty of that. lol. I mean it’s not HORRIBLE, but there are times when I switch into earth/water when I don’t need to. It’s a habit that I noticed a while ago that I feel like I really need to break. XD It’s definitely getting better as I level, however. I’m level 49 now, and by level 80 I’m pretty sure I won’t be needlessly swapping at all.

Razor.6392:

Kodiak successful troll?

If he’s some sort of elaborate troll, I applaud him. He did a great job at getting me REALLY frustrated. XD

Kodiak.3281:

zTales.4392:

Wow. I’m not being a troll, you just have no idea where I’m coming from. Okay, let me try and make this as clear as I possibly can by using an example…

There’s a level 10 Elementalist fighting in Queensdale. He will not leave fire attunement. Due to the fact that Elementalists are squishy as heck at such low levels, he’s dying ridiculously often. Would it be better to,
A) Suggest that he stay in fire, get better gear, and learn to play.
B) Switch to water attunement, pop Frost Aura, heal.

In this case, I want people to realize that it’s okay to switch to water attunement. Do you understand now?

Actually you’re the one who just doesn’t quite seem to grasp the concept. Until said Ele in your example asks for advice, telling that other person a “better” way to play the character to his makes you no different than the guy telling you to pick 1-2 elements and stick to them (the way he plays the ele).

Maybe that level 10 ele is just unlocking skills with fire? So now you switch up the arguement and say what if it was a level 40 ele sticking in fire and dying? Again, maybe he’s trying out a build for himself and trying to figure out if it’s viable rather than eat the same spoon fed build everyone else talks about? Maybe he’s doing high risk burst play with S/D trying to blow everything up in 2 seconds?

The big concept you seem to be having a problem with is it’s not about the quality of advice here. Even if you tell a player by doing X they will eat thunder and crap lightning the point is you’re still telling them what to do and how to play. It’s identical on every level to another player telling you how to play even if their advice is unbelievably terrible. You’re both telling them how to play the game.

Why doesn’t the advice matter? Because all advice is debatable on the context and scenario it’s being given for. Fire/Air is great for Dynamic Event farming but you probably wouldn’t want to stay in them full time for WvW. Water/Earth has some great support based builds but you probably wouldn’t use them while soloing. D/D is a great, versatile build but you’re still going to want a few Staff eles around for field generation in large group play. Your arguement and message provides NONE of this context and states:

zTales.4392

If you want to be effective, it is best that you use all of your attunements.

… Wow.

First of all, the example I made up is mine to make up. If in MY EXAMPLE, the Ele IS NOT UNLOCKING SKILLS…

Seriously, there’s no point in arguing with you since you’ll never get the point. I understand what you mean as far as ’you’re still telling people how to play’, but here’s the difference:

I’m not being like that guy and telling you that you should stick with a certain thing and roll with it because it’s the best. I’m saying, WATER ATTUNEMENT IS THERE. Earth attunement is there. If you’re in a pinch, why would you stay in fire when you can use what abilities your class offers? YOU WILL DIE QUICKER if you NEVER use water attunement. Don’t quit the class because you die a lot, branch out to other attunements and try them first. I’ve been saying this throughout the whole thread…

If you don’t understand me at this point, I give up.

Razor.6392:

Kodiak.3281:

This entire thread is terrible and pretty much exemplifies the wretched “elite status” that some Elementalists are trying to say they have for playing this class.

I sit in just Fire all the time. It mostly has to deal with 30 points in Fire and Pyromancer’s Puissance. On average just using auto attack (1) you earn around 10 stacks of Might. With Lava Font and Arcane Wave you can stack an extra 3 due to Area Might (hence why you may stick in the melee range). Switching Attunements gives you a 9-12s cool down typically. In that time frame you will loose nearly all your might stacks. So even doing something as simple as swapping to Earth to setup a blast finisher with Eruption will just cost you damage for virtually no net gain. Also because I am not attunement swapping around like a madman I can take Renewing Stamina instead of Elemental Attunement and have permanent Vigor. Permanent Vigor means that I can dodge anything at any time to avoid any boss mechanics as needed.

The guy in question likely was trying to teach you more about Dynamic Events and how at 80 when in Orr you’re going to be mostly in Fire/Air to get tags for events and never use Water/Earth. This is to get the most amount of loot possible because Staff or Dagger primary (most common weapons) Fire/Air tags the most amount of kills for loot. Trying to do Dynamic Events in Water/Earth later on when you have 10-20 people at an event and things are dying before Ice Spike would even fall from the sky would just be an exercise in frustration.

The gear in question was likely one of two reasons. One, “Rampagers” (Prec/Pow/Cond) has the highest +Precision on all the gear for critting. Two, he likely was using Burning Precision which 30% chance to burn on crit. This way on massive Crit bounces of Chain Lightning (Air 1 on Staff) or Lightning Whip (Air 1 on Dagger) you’re spreading burning as well. Also Flame Burst is a relatively decent AOE being fairly spammable (8-10s cool down) and dealing good damage with Condition damage. Is it the most solid build? No. I’d build Pow/Prec/CritDmg as well but give the guy credit for thinking outside the box instead of working towards the cookie cutter, rubber stamped 0/10/0/30/30 build as you clearly seem to be working towards (or some slight variation of it).

All that said I do not always just sit in one attunement, but instead play the Elementalist adaptively. If things are going poorly and I need to do CC’s then I do so. I don’t just randomly switch attunements like some schizophrenic moron. However if I’m in a group and I have a Warrior or Guardian clearing conditions and everyone’s generally doing alright there’s no reason NOT to just sit there and do damage.

Finally the “lack of damage” argument is faulty on two fronts. First, you just can’t compare melee of any kind in this game to ranged. They simply won’t be on par, the game is overtuned for melee. Second, without meters there’s no way to actually tell how classes/players are doing. As a person who plays Ele/Mes/Guard/Eng the only one I’ve found better is the Guardian and Mesmer melee (which brings us back to the first point).

You can now go back to your smug superiority and patting yourselves on the back for how much “better” you are at such an “advanced” class.

I think you’re too quick to judge, this thread was just supposed to mock a guy that was trying to show off, nothing more.

Bottom line, no matter how many might stacks you may get from the pyromancer’s puissance trait, an elementalist that doesn’t actively switch attunements is a bad elementalist. Sure when fighting the trashiest mobs you can just afk autoattack with fire 1 until they die, but in pretty much any other situation, be it pve or pvp, you must switch the attunements to get the most out of your class.

…I wasn’t trying to mock somebody, either… -.-

Kodiak.3281:

zTales.4392:

Read the edit, then tell me if you’ve actually read the entire first post. I’m not telling people “LOL Use every attunement exactly at the right time or you’ll suck and die in a hole.” or some kitten like that. I’m saying “it’s best to”, “you may want to”, etc. -_-

I can only assume you’re some some of elaborate troll at this point because:

zTales.4392:

I was taken aback. The way he was wording everything, and the way he was linking me his oh-so l33t exotic Pre/CndDmg/Pow gear… it was like he was trying to mentor me. He acted as if he was entitled to preach about his build, and he seemed like he was trying to convince me to pick one or two attunements to use indefinitely.

and

zTales.4392:

My message to new Elementalists:
Do NOT be fooled by people like that. If you want to be effective, it is best that you use all of your attunements. Sure, you may favor one or two attunement(s) more than the rest, but you should still use the others when needed. It’s not difficult to learn, and you don’t want to get into the habit of only using 1-3 attunements, as it will drastically hinder you. In fact, (and I’ve seen this happen) dungeon groups may kick you out because you’re constantly dying they can clearly tell that you don’t know what you’re doing.

Are the exact same thing. That guy was trying to give you tips on how to play better and here you are trying to give tips to everyone. Your points on how to play are every bit debatable as his given the right context of what we’re talking about. There’s far too many assumptions going on regarding build, weapon and what the person is doing at that time (all of which matters in this game).

Wow. I’m not being a troll, you just have no idea where I’m coming from. Okay, let me try and make this as clear as I possibly can by using an example…

There’s a level 10 Elementalist fighting in Queensdale. He will not leave fire attunement. Due to the fact that Elementalists are squishy as heck at such low levels, he’s dying ridiculously often. Would it be better to,
A) Suggest that he stay in fire, get better gear, and learn to play.
B) Switch to water attunement, pop Frost Aura, heal.

In this case, I want people to realize that it’s okay to switch to water attunement. Do you understand now?

Kodiak.3281:

zTales.4392:

I don’t see what’s so ‘elitist’ about anything that I’ve said. My tone isn’t condescending at all. Your scathing tone, however, makes you sound like a jerk.

Edit: How come you can’t give people advice without getting hate for it? Seriously?

If you can’t see the absurdity of you not liking a person lecturing you and telling you how to play the class and then coming to the forums and making a post telling others how to play the class you’re probably just going to get it.

Read the edit, then tell me if you’ve actually read the entire first post. I’m not telling people “LOL Use every attunement exactly at the right time or you’ll suck and die in a hole.” or some kitten like that. I’m saying “it’s best to”, “you may want to”, etc. -_-

Kodiak.3281:

You can now go back to your smug superiority and patting yourselves on the back for how much “better” you are at such an “advanced” class.

Actually, I’m just shaking my head right now. You completely missed the point. See below.

Shimond.2478:

I would definitely suggest trying more than one at least. I made that mistake for 40 levels thinking I was a ‘fire elementalist’ with a staff. God that was painful, I thought the class sucked.

brickforlife.1364:

This sounds like a guy who said I was almost as good as him but I should stick to water for supporting the group. He linked me his awesome condition damage stuff and I said that it was pretty good since you had direct and condis. He then proceeded to lecture me about the elements and his synergy.

If Brickforlife was new to the Ele world, would he have listened to that guy? Maybe, I don’t know. If he would have, he probably would have had a crap time.

I don’t see what’s so ‘elitist’ about anything that I’ve said. My tone isn’t condescending at all. Your scathing tone, however, makes you sound like a jerk.

Edit: How come you can’t give people advice without getting hate for it? Seriously? Did you even read the whole first post?

“… , and he seemed like he was trying to convince me to pick one or two attunements to use indefinitely.

…If you want to be effective, it is best that you use all of your attunements. Sure, you may favor one or two attunement(s) more than the rest, but you should still use the others when needed. It’s not difficult to learn, and you don’t want to get into the habit of only using 1-3 attunements, as it will drastically hinder you."

I just don’t understand what’s so horrible about that.

Shimond.2478:

pdboddy.4162:

I think the best advice is to try all of them, see if you can find a rotation that works for you, and if you decide to only use certain attunements it will at least be your own decision.

I would definitely suggest trying more than one at least. I made that mistake for 40 levels thinking I was a ‘fire elementalist’ with a staff. God that was painful, I thought the class sucked.

This is exactly why I made this post. XD

I think there are two types of Eles. Those who think they need to pick an attunement (or two) and those who feel like they need to use all four. For this reason, it’s never really talked about. People just assume that what they do is what everyone else does. I want to make sure people realize that they can branch out before ditching the class.

Leo G.4501:

zTales.4392:

That’s the point, though. I don’t want people to ragequit and roll something else. That’s why I directed this toward NEW Eles, so that they’re aware. Staying in Fire/Air, for example, can get you killed pretty easily.

I’d say staying in fire/air doesn’t get you killed, taking damage and not doing anything in response gets you killed, obviously.

You can stay in fire/air all day and not get killed…or swap to water/earth and get killed…or dance like a lunatic and still get killed.

Perhaps you should be more specific in your message.

I said that because by not using water/earth you lose out on two heals, slows (chill + cripple), condition removal, regen (if traited/on glyph), protection (if traited/on glyph), an interrupt, a leap, and an immobilize.

Razor.6392:

Probably trying to impress you because he thought you’re a gurl gamer? (reading from other post it turns out that’s the case)

Haha, I have no idea. I doubt it though. After I told him that I had a full set of PVT exotic armor/weapons and Berserker’s trinkets sitting in my bank for level 80, he asked how expensive it all was, then stopped talking and left the party a few minutes later. lol

Razor.6392:

What’s wrong with power / prec … and crit damage? (not cnd dmg that’s worthless)

Glass ele ftw!

Lol, Nothing. He had Precision, Power and Condition Damage. After he linked me literally all of his gear so I could see it, he then proceeded to brag about how great it was, and how expensive it was. Then he told me his build (30/20/0/0/20, I believe). It’s totally okay to play your own way. However, it’s annoying when people try to claim that their builds are the best, especially after they say something like “I only use fire and air.”

Strang.8170:

zTales.4392:

Strang.8170:

Chillax, not everyone is a power gamer.

Just because they´re not doing things optimal way, doesn´t mean they´re doing it wrong. Pve part of the game can be finished with pretty much anything, so let people have fun with their game the way the want.
If they get frustrated with the game, they´ll seek advice, or rage quit and roll a warrior.

That’s the point, though. I don’t want people to ragequit and roll something else. That’s why I directed this toward NEW Eles, so that they’re aware. Staying in Fire/Air, for example, can get you killed pretty easily. A person may then ragequit without bothering to try branching out to other attunements first. For all they know, they could have really enjoyed the class if they tried stance dancing. But nope, they just quit. :|

It´s their personal problem, if they don´t have the common sense to ask guidance and/or think it out, i say good riddance.

/shrugs

I get what you mean. Regardless, I’m just trying to help. :P

Strang.8170:

Chillax, not everyone is a power gamer.

Just because they´re not doing things optimal way, doesn´t mean they´re doing it wrong. Pve part of the game can be finished with pretty much anything, so let people have fun with their game the way the want.
If they get frustrated with the game, they´ll seek advice, or rage quit and roll a warrior.

That’s the point, though. I don’t want people to ragequit and roll something else. That’s why I directed this toward NEW Eles, so that they’re aware. Staying in Fire/Air, for example, can get you killed pretty easily. A person may then ragequit without bothering to try branching out to other attunements first. For all they know, they could have really enjoyed the class if they tried stance dancing. But nope, they just quit. :|

Yesterday, I was doing my daily in Queensdale and someone invited me to a party. I accepted the invite, and I noticed that the party leader was a level 80 Ele. Being a level 46 Ele, I decided to ask what his build was out of curiosity. Before I could, however, he asked me what MY build was.

I told him about my current 0/10/0/15/10 build, to which he responded, “What attunements do you use?”
Me: “Uhm, all of them?”
Him: “I stay in fire and air for more damage. You play balanced?”
Me: “Well, you’re really supposed to use all four, no? Don’t you die a lot?”
Him: “Well yea I die a lot. Eles are squishy. lol”
Me: “That’s what the other attunements are for…”

I was taken aback. The way he was wording everything, and the way he was linking me his oh-so l33t exotic Pre/CndDmg/Pow gear… it was like he was trying to mentor me. He acted as if he was entitled to preach about his build, and he seemed like he was trying to convince me to pick one or two attunements to use indefinitely.

My message to new Elementalists:
Do NOT be fooled by people like that. If you want to be effective, it is best that you use all of your attunements. Sure, you may favor one or two attunement(s) more than the rest, but you should still use the others when needed. It’s not difficult to learn, and you don’t want to get into the habit of only using 1-3 attunements, as it will drastically hinder you. In fact, (and I’ve seen this happen) dungeon groups may kick you out because you’re constantly dying they can clearly tell that you don’t know what you’re doing.

Edit for clarity: For example, if you consider yourself a “fire elementalist”, and you find that your health is low and you used your heal… don’t be afraid to switch to water and heal, or earth to cripple your opponent! Use the other elements when you need to.

This has been a public service announcement. lol

Intigo.1653:

True Elementalists don’t use Signet in WvW! And no, I’m sure both of you are excellent!

Woo! XD

I wouldn’t use it in WvW. Sometimes you’re running or supporting more than you are attacking. :/ PvE is what I’m confused about.

P.S. I didn’t take what you said as an insult anyway. :>

Intigo.1653:

zTales.4392:

Reading this discussion is just making me even more indecisive. lol

True men don’t use Signet in WvW.

Like Paleeshi, I am also a female. Therefore your statement does not help my decision. XD

Reading this discussion is just making me even more indecisive. lol

Heck no. More content? AWESOME! More levels? Meaning I have to start working on new gear? I’m not even done with my current gear…

Berengar.6951:

The sigils would share a cooldown, meaning if your battle proc’d from attunement swap, you wouldn’t get a might stack on crit for 9 seconds.

Well, looks like that ends that. xD

Thanks.

Akbaroth.2861:

ah, my bad, i only skimmed the end of your post

honestly i agree it would be better than sigil of force, but i think that part of it is that if you max out might on your own you wont gain any from allies (ever been in a group of 4 d/d eles? it a lot of might from combos)

That IS true …

LOL. Instead of having 3 daggers, I could carry 4 around. One main-hand with Sigil of Battle, one off-hand with Sigil of Bloodlust, one off-hand with Sigil of Force for groups, one off-hand with Sigil of Battle for soloing. xD

Someone needs to test this. I’m not even level 80 yet so I can’t do anything in PvE, but I guess I could do some testing in The Mists. :o

Akbaroth.2861:

Sigil of Superior Battle provides 3 stacks of might for 20 seconds on a 9 second cooldown so you can more-or-less maintain 6-9 stacks of might with it on an ele.

Sigil of Superior Might provides 1 stack for 10 seconds on a 2 second (wiki seems uncertain, might be 1 second) so you can more-or-less maintain 5 stacks of might with a high-crit build.

Even if it is 1 second cooldown you’d need both fast attacks (so you are attacking often enough to trigger it) and a very high crit build, to maintain 9-10 stacks of might with it you’d basically have to crit 3+ times per second on average.

Boon duration affects both sigils equally and was therefore ignored.

I’m not sure if I’m not understanding you or if I wasn’t clear enough…

I mean Sigil of Battle on main-hand, Sigil of Strength on off-hand. Do “on crit” sigils not work with “swap” sigils? I just want to know if it’s better to use sigil of FORCE or sigil of STRENGTH on the off-hand. >.<

LieutenantGoogle.7326:

Lysico.4906:

Nerf what? Ride the lighting and mist form is all we have.. Two things

Thieves have shortbow and about 6 stealths to use.

My warrior has a ton of mobility with sig rage, warhorn and GS.

Sorry Galrukh but D/D is not unkillable. They might be able to disengage and run but they are not the only class that can do it.

only 2?
RTL, MIstform, Lightning flash
over a dozen condition removals?

Depending on your elite fiery greatsword that easily has the greatest mobility of all items in the game surpassing the thief teleport or warrior gs o_o
Have you been playing the class right?

So you’re saying that all Elementalists should always have Fiery GS as their elite? Is that how you play the class right?

Uh… I lack speakers… would someone be kind enough to sum up what he said? lol

30% Chance on Critical: Gain Might (10 seconds) [2 second internal cooldown]

How come it doesn’t seem like any Eles are using this? I’ve noticed that most people running D/D go for Superior Sigil of Battle on the main hand, and swap between a Sigil of Force dagger and a Sigil of Bloodlust dagger on the off-hand.

Assuming your crit chance is around 25%, 45% with Fury, wouldn’t it make more sense just to go with Sigil of Strength instead of Sigil of Force? My Ele is only level 45 so I’m not really experienced… could anyone explain this to me? :|

Still can’t choose between 0/10/0/30/30, 0/10/10/30/20, and 0/10/10/20/30…

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhImkbwx5gjDAkHn4CLiCPUeMTO2A (Maybe switch between Cleansing Water and Powerful Aura.)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhImkbwx5gjEAkHn4CLjCiIK8QRxM5A (Maybe switch between Cleansing Water and Powerful Aura.)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhImkbwx5gjEAEFn4yogIiCPUeMTO2A

If anyone has any feedback, feel free to post/PM me. I love constructive criticism. :>

Unfortunately, someone keeps spamming the survey with bogus results, and it can’t be fixed. I’ll be deleting the survey and I’ll post the results minus the bogus results soon.

Does anyone know how to permanently delete bogus data from a Google Docs spreadsheet? Someone entered the same thing 20+ times and screwed everything up. -.-

Someone completely screwed up the data by entering “Female Female Charr Warrior WvW” like 10 times… trying to fix it. -.-

Poledo.3256:

zTales.4392:

According to the data, the Elementalist and Engineer are still the most popular professions for girls to play. ._. Ah well, I love my Ele anyway. XD

But wow, still no girl Necromancers? I’m surprised. :|

My wife plays a Necro

Haha, I know they’re out there, it’s just that nobody answered that yet. xD

Whoever keeps entering “Female Female Charr WvW”, stop that… >.>

According to the data, the Elementalist and Engineer are still the most popular professions for girls to play. ._. Ah well, I love my Ele anyway. XD

But wow, still no girl Necromancers? I’m surprised. :|

Added the question. Shoulda’ done that from the beginning…

Fyrebrand.4859:

The only real surprise is the player genders. Are there really so few females playing this game? Maybe they just didn’t want to specify their gender, or maybe they just tend not to visit the forums.

I’ve no idea, but it does seem odd. I meet a lot of other girls in-game.

Fun Fact: According to the current data, most females play Elementalists (25%) and Engineers (25%). Though that’s probably inaccurate due to the fact that we have such a small sample size.

I posted it in the WvW and PvP forums as well. If that’s against the rules for some reason, I apologize. >.>

Closed. Someone tampered with the results, and now it’s all whacked up. I’m trying to fix it, but I can’t promise anything. I’ll post the valid results in a spreadsheet if I can.

Closed. Someone tampered with the results, and now it’s all whacked up. I’m trying to fix it, but I can’t promise anything. I’ll post the valid results in a spreadsheet if I can.

That’s a good idea. I’ll do that. :>
I just hope I’m allowed to. lol

Recycle.5493:

lol, no wonder Anet never publish another in-game data after BWEs. What’s surprising to me is the number of engi’s and thieves, thought their numbers would be reversed.

Yea, that’s surprising to me too. I think we need to wait for more people to fill out the form… the sample size is still pretty small.