Guild Wars 2

Crusic.6531:

sure, I just did a fair amount of solo and group content, and none of this will include the broken bar bonus damage. I have a total of 1 hour of shadow play recording, so it is not a huge sample size but it is ranging from different encounters which I used to get this info. I’ll cover my immediate observations and hope I have time to possibly make a larger post about findings in the future. but here is a general observation

REQUIREMENT-sadly
This build requires Pyromancer’s Training more than any other trait you can possibly take anywhere. IMO this should be a Grandmaster, I have attempted to switch out the fire trait line for air and arcane as they give more versatility but fall very short. This will allow you to pace your cool-downs by inserting a Drake’s breath in-between every fire weapon skill which is required to get the OP 28k group buffed burns.

UTILITY OPTIONS
I find that Signets and Glyphs both work fine, Glyph of Earth helps with breakbars/survivability(plus it synergizes with Strength of Stone) has a low cool-down and is pretty powerful considering it has insane range. I do take this over glyph of storms most of the time but has less use when fighting multiple mobs. so please swap them out when needed. as one is OP in groups(farming/event build up) and the other is OP in single target(bosses/champs/Hero point daily farming).When even more survival/breakbar assistance is needed Aftershock is also very helpful. but I cannot see what to replace it with as the cool-down is a bit much for that role. but I have had to take it for Preservers in Dragon Stand.

DAMAGE
-Average Mob non-veteran only lives 5.2 seconds in a 1v1 situation but only requires 2.5 seconds of animation time. So this is farm friendly considering the cooldowns for the fire skills are actually reasonable if you take the the burns only get to 5k before it stop attacking the 5k burns

-Veterans, I get so many different results on these in the duration of the fight compared to any other mostly because of the wide range of health pools. I can attain burns as high as 14k for 3-4 ticks solo if the RNG gods so desire and go as low as 6k for 1-3 ticks. I find that it can go lower if your Drake’s Breath gets interrupted by having to dodge roll but you will learn when enemies are about to do a telegraph, delay the Drake’s Breath till you are safe then continue.

for maximum constant burns you will have to place a drakes breath inbetween your weapon skills, utilities not included in the rule. as per my testing

Priority for skills is( assuming you are in melee already and are putting a Drakes breath inbetween each of these)
Burning Speed
Wildfire
Heat Syny
Overload Fire

This all concludes to my calculated DPS with conditions and direct damage if you follow what I have laid out above( which is most likely not optimal but just what I have found ATM to be the best output) on champs/bosses

I am showing over 1 minute because that is when all cooldowns reset
and this is not including the break bar bonus
With solo buffing and no vuln/consumables: 13410 DPS
With 25 might consumables, 25 vuln and random quickness+alacrity: 18755 DPS

Heyo.
I’m looking for a PvE Tempest build and I saw yours and this nice commentary.

Did you happen to upload your gameplay video? I’d be interested in seeing the rotations and such.

silviuscr.2185:

My Sylvari Revenant; Ahkan The Noonborn

I gave in and bought the Harbinger outfit, and I do not regret it as it looks awesome!

My Sylvari Revenant; Ahkan The Noonborn

Please, please, please, PLEASE!

Bring back Witch/Wizard’kitten and more magic based costume items. <3

I agree. I love the Reaper, and it might become my main, if they don’t do a great job with Ele’s spec, the Tempest.

Hello everybody.

My main character is an Elementalist, but I’ve always had a special place in my heart for the Guardian, being my 2nd most played character.

As we’ve recently found out, Tomes will be replaced by Signets.

Now, I may be one of the minority (if any, at all) that loved using Tomes because it gave me that classic Wizard-like feeling with the wonderful floating book and blue flames.

Everytime I would use them I’d be freaking excited.

Considering that they’ve said they’d like to return tomes in a future Specialization, I thought I’d pitch in my idea.

How about they transform the Tomes into Kits, of sorts, just like the Engineer?
They’d have to work a bit on the skills cooldown and such, but I’d LOVE it if this’d happen.

What do you all think?

When they release it, I REALLY hope they make a texture update because it looks low quality with the current textures (and no, my game isn’t on low settings).

I absolutely love the new Noble outfit and had to use it on my female Mesmer.
Goes so well with the overall theme of my character.

Freyja Discordia – Noble Human Mesmer

Wizard/Fantasy stuff/capes/Tome as a weapon for Elementalists/Mesmers/Necromancers.

/dreaming

Kasmeer’s Staff, pretty please!

I crafted it for my Guardian, and when the patch hit, it unlocked for every armor type, so it’s safe to say that once you’ve crafted it, it’ll always be there for all of your alts to use it.

I’d say pay attention to their combos, since most of them tend to use the same thing.
Ride The Lightning towards you, then they use Updraft to launch you. Either have stability or dodge.
Afterwards, they tend to use Burning Speed to close the distance, use Earthquake for some more CC (knocks you down), and sometimes even Magnetic Grasp if you happen to escape (that one immobilizes you).
Get a little bit of condition removal, and pay attention to what the player does, because, in the D/D case, it’s almost always the same.

On your end, use CC/blind and make him waste their CD’s, and they have quite a few.

That’s my two cents.

Yeah, the armor choices are a little bit tricky, and I’ll have to look at different racial armor to see how it’ll look, but hopefully I’ll find something good.

As for the build, I believe I’ll be going 25/15/0/0/30.

Thank you all for contributing, it’s helped me and now I know how to trait/gear my Guardian Mage.
Thanks a lot.

Hello, everybody.

I have my usual Guardian with GS/Sword+Focus, but I’m in love with the way Staff/Scepter+Focus resembles a wizard, and I’d like to make a 2nd Guardian with that play style in mind.

I’m not very experienced with the Guardian, so could you please take a look at the build and tell me how I can improve?
By the way, the build is for PvE + Dungeons sometimes.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vUEQNAW7dl0ApVoFCxRI8DNhkpYlQQrHEkBVQYKqoMC-zgyAYrBNTQgJRQUhgl8KiGbboIasqFMVJRUtHHzbQEVTKgIWAA-e

Thanks a lot!

8/10

She looks so carefree.

My Elementalist:

I’m so happy to see the Elementalist get some nice buffs.
Hopefully there’ll be more to come.

Decided to change my Elementalist’s style.
Might need to change the color scheme later on, but this’ll do for now.

Happy New Year from Denmark!

I had this look on my Elementalist, but since I turned her into a guy, I couldn’t just run around in a dress with him, so I’ve decided to put it on my Mesmer; it also goes with her name, “Princess Akana”.

My Guardian

Same login error here.

My first level 80.

Hello everybody.

I, finally, managed to recover my account and now I want to continue leveling/playing my level 63 Elementalist, though I don’t know exactly how to build it.

I’m looking for a build for PvE/Dungeons and sometimes WvW, that combines good damage, while still being survivable.

Thank you.