Guild Wars 2

i normaly dont play staff and i tried my best with s/s sc/t and also s/p sc/t and couldnt get a real chance

Do you ever played against a P/D thief ?

Everytime you get a Clone: He has another target for C&D
Daze has a high cooldown to interrupt the stealth more than once and is hard to time
You can only try to stay longer in stealth and fully burst him when he comes out. But that shouldnt work if he knows what to do.

After 2 or 3 stealth openers you got nothing to avoid your death.

Iam playing the same build with fully berserk gear.
So what to do against condition thiefs ?

I havent read the whole so maybe someone postet it before.

If you want to insta kill someone you better start in earth:

Earthquate Teleport Combo
airattunement + air2 + arcanes
cleansingfire
firegrab + phoenix.

Imagine 20% damage boost for knockdowned enemys
10% for 90%+ hp
10% for beeing in air
5% on weaoon

Triggering an lightningstrike or flame aoe

and so on....

you can also use arcane mastery to deliver an immobilise or burning.. on arcane skills

Or better use the air attunement at the end of the combo to land firegrab and phoenix with the 10% dps from beeing in air.

covenn.7165:

snizzle.6143:

they improve the tpvp roamer thats all.

In the WvW ill stay at D/F for the highest survivalbility off all and remain on 0 10 0 30 30 with full cantrips and 70 – 90 % boonduration to buff my team and dont go down while fighting in larger groups.

For smaler groups ill wont use a elementalist since mistform nerf and rlt.

D/F ? So basically trying to be a guardian, but not nearly as good? Not sure why you would ever run that combination, ever.

Because Focos got:
1 aura
2 blastfinischers
1 Firefield (might stacking)
Swirling winds for a 6s area Projektieldestruction
4 serconds of invul where you can use all abilitys
magnetic shield = projektiel deflection + dps+ blast
metor = dps + aoe dace

The best things are the invul and projektil protection.
so i can do more for the team as with double dagger.

The other thing is that i can stand in the middel of the fight and buff my team with nearly perma protection, reg, heal, and condition removal.

As I said before the 0 30 0 20 20 will improve burst in Tpvp.
Maybe you can bring it to a smale scale wvw if you ran 1-3 guys and only got the same amount of opponents.

Nothing more will happen. The most wvw player have to stay at there current state of play.
The only other thing that could work is to give 20 points in earth a chance for more stability uptime.

they improve the tpvp roamer thats all.

In the WvW ill stay at D/F for the highest survivalbility off all and remain on 0 10 0 30 30 with full cantrips and 70 - 90 % boonduration to buff my team and dont go down while fighting in larger groups.

For smaler groups ill wont use a elementalist since mistform nerf and rlt.

DiogoSilva.7089:

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Air attunement recharge can be pretty good for the s/d valkyrie burster eles. Imagine making a huge air burst (instant air skills + air 15 trait + fire sigil + arcanes), switching to another attunement, and switching back to air for a huge burst. Usually, this would require investment in arcana so you can switch back to air quickly, but the grandmaster trait would allow you to override the “advantage” of investing in arcane. Yes, it would mean less acess to other attunements, but you would burst (=kill) faster with air, and have vulnerability on critical + more precision and critical damage. Pretty big.

Tempest Defense would become awesome. The shocking aura synergies itself with grounded, it would be a strong trait both offensively and defensively, and synergy well with aura traits. If someone striked you, they would get stunned, and you would get fury, swiftness, protection (maybe) and deal 20% more damage to them. That IS good.

Fire’s grandmaster trait change is awesome, but everything else in that traitlibe is still rather lame and the change to lava tomb is too niche.

You cannot take fresh air and groundet.

I think the new changes will have the biggest advantage in TPVP. And the Elementalist will be a very hard hitter.
So with S/D + arcanes will be a real nuker.
I could imagine something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArYhImIblR5gjDAEFm8i4hFO0QRxM5A-ToAA0CnIqRVjrGTNyas1MoYSA

Grandmaster Air should be the new Fresh Air.
So if you got a good hit there could be 3 lightning strikes every 5 sec possible
and a better hitting phoenix.
only loosing evasive arcana and a little higher rechare for the other attunements.

Can we create a list of skills that get blocked an not ?

I think there might be some skills that werent proper discribed as projektiles but behave like that.

Maybe Meteor shower, dragons tooth, phoenix, comet to mention the ele skills.
What about Barrage ? and other skills from diffrent classes.

sweet gameplay. Very defensive.
You picked some targets that never uses immobilise and dont try to dodge the churning earth and also do minor damage.
That might look a bit diffrent if your opponets would know what they are doing.

But over all good use of terrain and well aimed skills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq10myisSU4

This is an example how to use pbaoe and disable the Opponent with enviromental use.

wou want to play GW2 with a Gampad?! Realy?!
Youll be a free kill to everyone

Only a WvW player chooses his gear depending on the stats and doesnt care about the apperiance.

Only a WvW player has 3 diffrent gears with the same model and the standart color.

Only a WvW player knows about Bufffood:
that there are 2 diffrent kinds, that can be used at the same time.

Only a WvW player would consider his dead caused by Bufffood that ran out.

Only a WvW player would pay 7s for a singel bufffood that doesnt give a singel percent of magic find ;P

Isnt Aoe the main thing gw2 is baised on ? target picking is worse duo to ( invisible, line of sight, culling, target tapping, indentying your opponent, memser illusions, pets, speed of the game/damage spikes)

Every class has skills that hits multiple targets.
Every class can hit targets and use skills without having a target selected.

That all sounds to me like building a complete new game.

As jalmood already mentioned. Warhammer online is a good balanced singel target game that also included AOE, PBAOE and Cone AE damage, but you dont automaticaly hit your opponets just because your in range. That where just a few skills that could do so. But that is a completly diffrent game with seperated classes (support, dps, tank).

Riverside and Blacktide have the same issue when we are fighting against Baruch Bay.
For us its the 3th or 4th week in a row.

Blacktide doesnt event take part in the WvW and Baruch Bay has 24/7 full servers an multiple zergs on each map. Thats because they have people from Canada, mexico spain and portugal and Riverside is a pure German server.

So they are capping everything in night while they still have the full amount on people during the day.

Thanks guys. We dont have the nicest enemys either. They are bad players but they are always 3 to 4 times more and mostly focused on damage.

And yeah its right without the terrain i would die very quickly. I hope i can work on hitting the skilles more precisely and wisely and post a few more vids.

@Ultraform.1508:

Full knights + 2*water min + 2*water major 2*monk
Knights juwelery + karka shell with ruby orbs.

Knight dagger + pvt dagger (%5 crit und might stacks)

traits: 0 20(I VI) 0 30(III IX XI?(reg = condiremove) 20 (V VI)

Using 2x Monk 2x Water 2x minor water

So benda.4893 what is wrong. Ill be glad to get some helping tips.

I must admit iam missing too many skills (like in the beginning) but iam working on it.

we dont have many eles on the europe servers and most of them are just runing badges that are waiting to get collected

This is my First Video playing my Elementalist.
In this Video iam testing the 0 20 0 30 20 Build combined with hybrid gear.

http://youtu.be/Yq10myisSU4 ( online now)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq10myisSU4&feature=youtu.be
I spent a lot of time in renderging and recording but i still dont have the right codec and format. So this is like 2,5GB of Data.

I hope somone can PM me some tricks to render or record in the right format or how to install divx (getting critical error during installation)

If i manage that there hopefully will be more videos from me soloplaying or in a group.

Be free to comment!!

not only most. The D/D weapon set has not only 1 singel target spell

Seems like its time to start a Thief of Mesmer ;P

oh yeah read it. If they nerf aoe damage down without giving the ele a hugh amount of singel target damage. Than ill play another class that ist better. It would make the ele not competetive in smalescale or solo play.

What are you talking about ? I havent seen any upcomming patchnotes. If i missed something than plz post it for me.

The ele ist not OP not on paper not even in the game. The defs know that, so why are you affraid? Lowest dps, hp , armor, lowest basic heal. A warriors heal makes more than 8k yours do 5k.

The only thing that beats the Opponet is the palystyle and skill or lets better say the missing skill.

Iam aktually trying the 0 25 0 25 0 20 build or in variation 0 20 0 30 0 20
combined with about 50-60% crit + 20% from aura and 50% critdamage
Thats also working good

I Also recorded a few gbs last night and ill up a vid the next days from it ;P

As Bufffood: My facorite ist the omnomberry Ghost or the currybutternut squash soup.

That both boost your crit chance. The ghost brings a little extra damage on crit and a hugh amount of lifereg per crit. the butternut soup brings 100 precision and 10%critdmg.

Thats much better than your on kill thing. This more a pve thing cause your not killing a foe every 30 seconds. If your done with your opponent you have mostly to get of and reg health loosing uptime of your buff or your opponents are simply dead and you cant use it.
As long as your in a smale scale.

If your run with the zerg that would work fine but in a zerg you dont realy need something like that because your in a zerg and only need to get a few hits on your opponents to get your bag.

I also tried a 20 0 20 30 build as dd ele. For the damage the 20% dmg on less than 33% health realy kicks a thiefs kitten But i would only use that build in a more crit focused build.
Bcause crit ist way more effective than pure power.
I played with that for a long time. If you do the Blood sigil compared with the ghost and the water signit brings a hugh amount on life per second . (80% crith chance)

Nice vid and style.
Looks like me a little bit slower but more precise with your hits.
I also like the fast ground targets with lightnig flash ;P.

I have noticed that you dont switch attunemnts while you channel the heal. That wont interrupt. same with churning earth. You can even cast other spells while channeling. Also you can dogerole while in mistform for EA

Ah another thing: You should use some maintance oils or sharpening stones to get an extra 100 power oder precision.
Can you post your overall stats and the bufffood your using ?

For your build with 20 air you could try out the Knights gear for even mor crit

p.s.: can you tell me your record tool and codec? i was trying to film too but i have some issus to install divx and the lossless codec will produce 3gb/min

Convenant.7092:

Please no dragons in WvW. Please no world bosses in WvW. Nobody in the WvW community wants that. That line story event sounds kind of shady. “Escort mob X to position Y” type of thing is always a failure, because it will just turn into a PVE farmfest. It’s always easier to just SvE (Server vs Environment) than to actually fight the opposing faction, and remember, people choose the fastest possible route to their gear. If that route excludes killing players, then they won’t attack each other.

I have 50K kills and over 10K badges. Nobody I’ve ever met wants more PVE in WvW.

signed +1
Dont like PVE, dont like rally, dont like downstate

thats exactly why i hate the aoe limitation but love heal limitation.
The preferences for heal and buffs should be focusing the own group.
Downstate and rally should be removed and culling must be fixed.

I prefer anything that stops or disadvantages the stupid and lag causing zerg play.
Thats ruining the game.

+ for deleting Downed state.

Think of the rally thing in an outnumbered fight.

- fore deleting the normale Ressuration. I think the normal ress is ok to wvw as in any other games.

Yeah thats all right. If the ele can go through the portal non shall do. If thiefs can stealth all should be able to stealth. Its also unfair that warriors can take revenge and stand up again, have more hp than others. Mesmers can still make incredible damage in downstate, Guardians can prevent the frist stomp .....

Also vapor form is not a gurantee to get away. The ele can still be rooted in place while in Vapor so L2P and dont qq so mutch

you see everyclass have pros and cons.

To avoid zergplay

Change: Granting boons to your 5 mann group first (if in range) than on others.
Same with healings. Fist favour your group (if not 4 other in range) than heal others.

Aoe Damage: stop the 5 player limitation but keep the 5 player limitation for boons and heal.

That would lead to a dissadvantage for this gamebraking big zergs, that causses lags and clulling and bring some more skillfull smalescale fights.

Sweet gameplay. Havent seen a ranged group jet.

But how do you found such a big group of idiots as opponents?
Only one d/d elementalist with stability or teleport and a gapcloser could crush your control.

I dont think there are more eles than any other class out there. Its just those few ones that are good and get noticed.

you playing very slow and static for an elementalist. Thats not very effectiv what you do. Keep pushing your enemys harder.

you all should try out a hybrid damge/def build ( 25 air 15 water 30 arcane)
Knight gear + juwelary wv3 wepons ( power, toughness vita)

all ruby orbs
5% crit
might buff sigle on swap

and very importatnt the 66% lifesteal bufffood and presion buffood.

I think this is a very good compromiss between survivalbility and damage.
As help skills is use:
Acane blast, mistform and teleport or i change blast for rock armor.

have the problem too.

there are a few more instant kill combos + builds out there in the youtube university.
Nice to see something new =).

Nice idear to combine burst and the stealth from you elite.
But a thief is more effektiv than that.

I know your problems. You need to get a feel for the range in any aspact of the game.

i play with fast ground targeting so i dont even see the green/red circle.
Also think of burning speed or magnetic grasp. If you miss the range you miss the skill.

Asura <- Smalest visible Target on the WvW
Faster looking animations
Animations are harder to identify for others

As condition spec -> Paininverter ;P

Why do you all favor vitality + toughness ? hy not spend vitality for precision ?

Can you explain your choice ?

you can do something like that in spvp because of the unique equipment. You can get toughness, vitality, conditiondamage. That is not availeble in wvw.

But i would use some other traits for it. Arcane shield is not that good and the trait for it is badd too. You can better use the shild as an offensive weapon. Also you should take some condition removele

Maybe like this:
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mVsMM9Mz0MbTvmMbmvoa0GGGmcaVsVk8khs7kiO7070c7kGW70V7owZ8ofZ

But the stat calculation is wrong in the editor

Dont fixate on Bleeding. Burning is also very strong. Ether renewable is very strong right. But i woudnt use stability just to bring my heal. The glyth will bring you long durating boons that you can choose by your current attunement.
But you should try out if the channeled skill will work.

The Guy how made the video says :
Veröffentlicht am 12.12.2012

1 second dead. You decide?
1653 - Toughness
2572 - Armor

So you cant proof if he is lying or not but it doesnt look unfamiliar.

snizzle.6143:

What do you think about my WvW Spec ?
[img]http://www.abload.de/thumb/gw001jupgs.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.abload.de/thumb/gw0057np1w.jpg[/img]

This might be very similar to your Build, expect for the equipment.

I use full knight gear + ruby orbs
+5% cirt and sigil of blood (30% lifesteal chance/crit)
Bufffood: 66% lifesteal /crit +70 precision

Btw nice to see someone using the conjured wepons =)

You wrote:
@snizzle
I like defensive stats over offensive tbh

Iam not quite sure what you mean by that tbh. Does somebody else tried the crit and lifesteal thing? I havent tried your gear choice but i think the higher damage potential combinded with the lifesteal could result in a better survivalbility + hight damage output.
At my high crit rates ill get a constant stream of lifesteal just like a very high regen.
But there is one thing that iam not shure about:

How is lifesteal and regen calculated?
I think this could be addicted to the total lifepool in case of lifesteal.
How is regen been calculated?
How is the amount of healing givin by the water signet been calculated ?

So in the case of lifesteal, a bigger lifepool would benefit from that.

I think regeneration should be addicted to healing power. But does it also depends on the maximum lifepool?

The other heal abilitys are based on healpower only i hope. So this will benefit a lower total lifepool and higher defence to give a higher percental healrate.

So i beleve my offence benefits also in strong defence and will stack up with the number of opponents iam fighting against.

In the end: is the lifesteal variation or yours more effektive ?

Phoenix : Can you list your total stats including healing power and crit please?!

rebalance attunement switching time to normal weaponswicht time. So 9sec basic =)

i havend noticed a working fire aura. Also there will be no boon granted for that. Check it out yourself or check the Bugforum.

Semprenaviguare.2936:

on D/D you have not only 2 aura , you have 3 aura .

4 fire + 3 earth = aura fire .

was removed on the last patch

What do you think about my WvW Spec ?
[img]http://www.abload.de/thumb/gw001jupgs.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.abload.de/thumb/gw0057np1w.jpg[/img]

This might be very similar to your Build, expect for the equipment.

I use full knight gear + ruby orbs
+5% cirt and sigil of blood (30% lifesteal chance/crit)
Bufffood: 66% lifesteal /crit +70 precision

Btw nice to see someone using the conjured wepons =)

@muscarine.5136

Than play pistl/pistol + sword dagger with your thief and your on top again until they fix the stealth ;P.

and if you cant teleport than dont teleport ;P
Cause there are people like me playing wiht fast ground targeting. So there wont be a red or green circle