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People forget this game is designed to play x class to compliment y and z classes you can pull 10kdps out of a staff ele LH can do 13k plus and fgs on walled targets can be 30k dps if done right. Can an ele do it solo. No but this isn’t a solo game. 2 ele speced one LH and one staff can make 25 might and minutes of fury without trying in pve.
Pve survivabity is dodges and awareness.
The reduction on fire spells makes a near constant fire field that does equal damage and hits at same moment as fire auto attack. 5700 each for 11400 dps plus burning at 25 stacks of might. Pair with a LH ele every 3rd swing is blast finnisher and blind. LH ele if speced will easily maintain 25 stacks of might and minutes of fury with just auto hammer
You can always fire staff 1 2 3 on cool down with timing and 25 stacks of might auto hits for 5700 and each tick of 2 hits for 5700 simultaneously plus burning damage. It’s boring but you can make a permanent fire field.
I never understand why people want dps FT builds and add juggernaut trait. might comes cheaper than a kitten on 7 mile and the toughness gets you threat. Better moving those 5 points to 50 base power (pre might) or the 1% damage per boon trait.
Face it 25 stacks of might are easy to get in a group and the free might from jug is made useless 7 or 70 over the cap of 25 count for 0
Beliefs are myth war has never been highest you can find a vid of a war killing a vet in cursed shore in 25 seconds and an ele with a staff killing the same vet in 11 seconds. But it still doesn’t change the fact that engineers are more fun and kitten ring.
Thanks for this build tried it and def having fun. Never would have guessed bombs could hit so high
Problem with staff is if you want the cool traits they will lower your dps. In fire grab 5% damage to burning and 10% while in fire and for final 20% cool down in fire traits and watch your lava font cool down become near equal it’s duration and creating a permanent fire field. It then ticks at the same instant as your auto attack. Even scaled down in cof being scaled down we can hit for 5700 each once from auto once from lava font each second that’s 11.4k dps and probably sustained infinite 10k plus on a stationary mob.
It just sucks might on fire spell cast sounds cooler as well as fury on ff blast. But those won’t increase your dps nearly as we’ll as fire spell cool down reduction.
The focus is perfect if you use it in a hammer ele build. It still lest you blast 5 blast finishers on shorter cool downs than oh dagger and most importantly. Focus is not a weapon so you can put a ruby orb for more power crit and crit damage.
Hope this helps
The thing is you expect certain things when you play a class. Nobody can out block a guardian. Shouldn’t a war be top Mele damage as well as thief The names scream Mele dps.
Now ranger nobody would expect their ranged dps to suck. And I’m sure no one saw needing to keybind pet commands to have a hope of keeping them alive either. Seeing that the top damage is an auto attack Mele that roots you, so turn auto off that and try to time when to hit so you can still dodge if needed kills even that dps.
Forgive me but its obvious that the guy in charge of this class was passed over when he went for the guardian class designer job. I’d say the same thing I’d tell a sad mc Donald’s worker. Sorry you don’t like your job, but do it right or quit I’m hungry.
The problem is the ranger class designer. He thinks all is well. The real question is how is the community going to remind him that his control freak mind created this class for us to play any play style we choose.
I deleted my ranger while ago when I got tired of hopping around with my sword. No biggie when they fix it it takes 3 hours and some gold in a crafting area to make and gear a new 80 hunter.
Ranger who can’t use a rifle and ranged dps is less than Mele, what a joke
Since combined damage of player and pet put it on par with other classes fixing this is as simple as making your dodges give pet 1sec evade that way player skill dictates pet survivability
After much investigation in this matter I have discovered the problem and can say that these issues won’t be fixed. The problem is that a game developer plays ranger claims to be fotm level 52 playing sword dagger with vit tough cond and power face tanking everything and claims all is well.
In the old days of eq wars had a similar issue, no threat as a tank. A dev saying all is fine cause he had no issues on his toon. Thankfully back then there was player collision. If you stood in front of an object another could not interact with it. An organized game wide warrior transportation lockout by physically blocking every mode of teleport stone broke Sony to their knees and all warriors were given new guaranteed threat tools.
Unfortunately the only remedy I see in gw2 would be for a game wide delete and boycott ranger. I’m sure a net couldn’t ignore that
When a dev plays your toon, you play his way or no way.
Total lies in 30+ fractals I notice on my ele my repair bills are rediculous. I also notice if I’m on my back or dead the boss health stays the same with my remaining 4 group members bating on him. They notice Rez me and we kill. Meanwhile the whole fight he is glued to me. I’m not full zerk but I keep crit damage on every slot and sub in vit instead of crit.
My point Is I ask my group and they are all pvt. So that explains a lot to me. Is the current trend to blow kisses at these bosses until they die.
Also explains why it’s tough to to a full 30+ daily in under an hour. When did it become common practice to sub in tough and vit for player skill.
As an ele you can out dps a war you just need his banner to do it. But don’t expect to keep your control and healing spec 30/20/10/10/0 grab all the +damage traits and swing the LH in water. It’s boring but so is playing a zerk war. Most I’ve had aa hit for with all might and criteria met looks like. 13k 13k 16k. But that’s max not average.
Point is if you want to be damage your going to have to sacrifice
With summoned weapons and the right build we out damage wars now
If traited 30/25/0/0/15 swords offhand instant ranged 15second bleed on a 15 second cool down and can rip it for 10k+ crits. Seems better dps than offhand mace and the bleed keeps the 10% dammage from precision tree. Keeping in mind it’s more important to not interrupt the axe auto
11k is pretty weak I’ve had it hit for 15k on cof last boss. Players with full toughness have less ac than monsters. And in cof your scaled down to 75. 10k+ with rip. still I think axe is better as a main hand for dps but sword beats mace for an offhand
Try axe sword 30/25/0/0/15 dps seems better than before the patch. Lose the tunnle vision and stop chasing traits you think you need and use what your given.
Staff auto attack heal 450 per swing works thru hammer auto attack plus the 100 ish from soothing mist to group xtra 200 to self from signet. It may not sound like much but it can make or break some fights like fire fractal where warriors self healing often isn’t enough. In the 30+
I just tested this nonsense in-game and the results say it’s a nonsense and doesn’t work. You can’t heal with staff when you have hammer equipped, sorry. Plus, even if it had healed, it’s 395. I won’t comment part about fractals because I’d be probably infracted or yet again banned.
Yes I kinda feel dumb the heal on hammer swing isn’t there anymore. I know it use to be at some point and I guess I never noticed when they changed or fixed it. My ele is just a cof alt, but still I usually don’t speak about things unless I have first hand knowledge and proof. Thank you for correcting me
Staff auto attack heal 450 per swing works thru hammer auto attack plus the 100 ish from soothing mist to group xtra 200 to self from signet. It may not sound like much but it can make or break some fights like fire fractal where warriors self healing often isn’t enough. In the 30+
Well properly traited hammer elementalist will always be welcome in my warriors groups because I don’t mid them out damaging means I’m glad for their heals. Maybe after all these posts some people won’t either.
In my opinion war dps is the standard to shoot for in all classes. I’ve found a guard build that’s close or equal and an ele build that surpasses it.
I’ll post again somewhere when I figure out how to make a rangers damage equal to or greater than a war.
He could be hitting 4x harder healing with each hit adding vuln. And blinding every 3rd hit
I’ve ran both ways being on war and being on my ele with 2war mes and guard. All I can say is the wars fall down less with my ele in grp and my ele just hits even harder. Unfortunately only in cof. Arah elite groups won’t let an ele in to speed kill lupicus.
I bet auto attack in that group would break 15k on third swing. At this point I’ve chosen to educate players, the more they know about other classes the more willing they will be to take them.
I do understand that the trinity of guard mes war groups exist because with other classes you don’t know what your getting. A staff fire ele buffing himself with might and hitting like 3k a pop is useless and make me cry when I’m playing my war and get one in my group
I love this game because of its vast situational options and classes. I also prefer my war as it is my main. The game lets you be creative. I didn’t post here to say one class is better but to inform. Stacking the same classes together isn’t optimal ever.
Here’s some fun info. In cof path 2 first pull is 3 guys each with a flame thrower. On a guard with sword focus. Rush them alone to be sure they all 3 focus on you. Pop 5 on focus f1 to burn them then #3 on sword. You will effectively hit one for 7k dammage and reflect all 3 of their flame throwers back onto them depending on your dammage in traits they will either be dead or under 10 % health
Every class has a use in this game
i play both, and theres no contest a dps meter isnt even required. ele 25/20/0/25/0 top dps by far in the game and it has as more grp healing than an altruistic guard. dont be a sad panda because you rolled a war cause a forum said its the best dps lol
Show me an elementalist lupicus solo without fgs in less than 7 minutes. Then i believe you.
And even if you could, warriors would still increase party’s damage output much more through banners and fgj than an elementalist ever could.
I’m sorry if your confused by the purpose of my post. My main is a warrior and I don’t think anyone can dispute how great an asset to a group we are with our high dps and banners. I’m merely trying to educate that 4 wars in a group is not beneficial. I’d never reccomend 4 hammer ele either.
Just educating that war dps is not best dps. In game as popular opinion believes. Like I stated in prior post anyone who plays both knows its fact.
Hammer ele auto attack is greater than hundred blades and it unfortunately has a cool down and breaks if you move. Auto attack on ele has no such restrictions
i think my point is being missed, my point is the group make up of all wars and mesmers is a myth created by popular opinion rather than fact, truly creating false elitism.
on a fight like lupicus i would have to replace a war in the magic group structure to make a vid and prove it. in the common situation where people believe that war stacking is optimal it would be nearly impossible because groups think ele’s cannot handle that role because with thier equipable weapons thier dps is rather sad. its only with the mele summoned hammer that they can outshine.
this problem doesnt bother me. what does is that the masses are lead to think war’s are top and they clearly arent and anyone who happens to play both knows a well played hammer ele does 1.5 to 2x war damage while giving support.
i have a guard build i play that appears to be equal dps as a war but would require a dps meter to prove because it “seems” the same or equal the ele tho the damage is so much higher its obvious.
guard builds is sword/ focus and staff for might stacking and utility
build is 10/30/5/0/25
tough challenging build based on keeping your aegis for max damage output
with all bells and whistles fast auto attacking for 6k 6k and 3 × 4500
i play both, and theres no contest a dps meter isnt even required. ele 25/20/0/25/0 top dps by far in the game and it has as more grp healing than an altruistic guard. dont be a sad panda because you rolled a war cause a forum said its the best dps lol
btw some other hammer ele’s that play zerk war’s should back me up so people can learn the truth. war’s arent the only dps class, fact is they cant out dps a hammer/support ele until they can learn to perma spam hundredblades without cooldown while walking.
the main problem is that people arent educated. vast majority of players believe that war’s are the best dps.. sad truth that any zerker war that has a hammer/support ele knows that you dont even need a dps meter to know your ele does about double the dps as your war. whats better than auto attacking for up to 11k a second and having each swing heal your group for 550 and yourself for 750.
people just think war’s are better
also people think “heavy” are more likely to stay alive
people also think they need to run pvt gear in high level fractals instead of learning to survive and do damage and healing.
most people dont play the classes and learn what they can do. they find a forum and do what someone else says to do.
tops dps class is hammer elementalist, support. you dont even need a dps meter because its that plain. its alot more than my glass cannon war or guard.
auto attack once the target has 1 vulnerability and is burning looks like 6k, 6k 9k when all mods are met and 25 stacks of might its 9k, 9k, 12k. one hit per second and each hit heals your group for 550 ish and yourself for 750 when staff equiped.
and no restrictions you can run circles and hit for that, and its all ae dammage as well.
half berserker half valk and end up with stats
health 17.5k
armor 1836
attack 3430
crit 33%
crit dammage 98%
numbers are 25/20/0/25/0
it adds a possible 75% base damage
stay in water permanent, theres a bout 6 seconds you will be without a hammer in a stationary burn fight like cof last boss, usually not an issue. use staff 2 hits for 8 to 11k or throw a heal or 2 or ae chill depending on whats needed.
use signet of restoration, (you’ll never have to hit it for a heal) arcare shield(adds 3% crit dammage) and arcane power( adds another 3% crit dammage) hammer of course, and elite that meets the demand.
play it and theres truly no need for any meter, it would be compared to a war with full time hundred blades that didnt break when he walked arround.
best part it isnt glass cannon its actually massive support
it is viable, in pve at 80 in full zerk gearyour looking at a near 20k headshot and 15k volley. and your hundred blades drops to arround 15k, instead of the normal 25k ish .
at ranged you spend less time on your back, and when you can be in mele range you just hundred blades to build adrenaline, swap to rifle headshot, brutal shot, volley, swap to gs for hundred blades.
it cycles thru flawlessly as if designed to be done like that
i play a full zerk gs war and a full zerk ele with the lightning hammer.
common full zerk builds.
i swear my ele severly out dammages my war, the hammers #1 ability is like full time hundred blades and it doesnt break if i move.
has anyone else checked this out
Most people want things made easy. If you had all the best gear why would you continue playing? I remember in eq1 it took me a month to get 4 shards from a random zone drop and 2 years to get my epic weapon. Never was there an option to buy it lol. Quit crying and be happy all the mobs you kill have other drops to vendor ect and hit the trading post