Curse

CKaz · Feb 12, 2006, 07:26 PM // 19:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by kawaii_bat

4. Dull uninventive and repetitive is how I choose to describe a Pyromancer. It's basically a no-brainer Ele where you don't need to worry about tactics and just use any damaging skill against other players in an almost constantly repetitive patterns.

Again I use all of them, but since there seems to be some fire dis'ing lately -

Actually sometimes a best defense is a good offense and where and what you are fighting can change up the configuration quite a bit, even dramatically. If that's your experience to date with them I'd suggest you try mixing it up. Similiarly I find when I play fire I often call targets if not lead the group being more offensively minded than most of the other builds, and often get lack-luster PUGs to get it together and push the mission home.

Also in working with a winter and interrupt ranger we recently wiped out fire island with just henchies for capping and fun, and a lot of tactics were employed - it was hardly a dull, un-inventive and repetitive time

I'm disappointed factions seems to be going the wrong way though, 10 more regular skills, 15 elites (and of course still stuck to 1 on a bar) and with those very few skills and options coming in, concentrating on cross-line (sorry, need a lot more re-work than a few parlor tricks to make that viable) - yikes.

Guess we'll see

Grammar · Feb 12, 2006, 10:00 PM // 22:00

1. Air
2. Earth
3. Fire

I won't rank Water because I have very little experience with the water line. I've tinkered with a few water spells in dual-element builds, but I've never played as a pure hydromancer. I'll get around to it eventually though, it sounds like it could be a lot of fun.

I started out as fire, then switched to air the second I got Lightning Orb in Kryta, and I haven't used fire since.
Now I'm air about 80% of the time and earth the other 20%.

Formina · Feb 13, 2006, 09:50 AM // 09:50

My favourite element is Water, closely followed by Earth.

Water has great control over mobility, which is very effective in PvP - especially against Warriors. (Not so much PvE though, unless you are nuking in tandem with snares). Plus, Water has some nice utility spells that can be very effective.

Earth is my second favourite because I love the high armour boosting enchantments, and it has some great damage skills and wards to top it off. The downside is that if you are using alot of the enchantments, you are a prime target for enchantment removal.

I've never played an Air Elementalist in PvE, and only played Fire in PvE rarely. However, I have played an Air Elementalist quite a few times in PvP - I found the damage quite impressive (especially Lightning Orb's), but overall, I don't like Air much. Just not my style, I think. =/

Fire has some powerful, high damage skills in its line, but many of them rely on targets who are clumped together to deal great damage, which is unreliable in PvP, in my opinion.

~ Formina

FrogDevourer · Feb 13, 2006, 09:56 AM // 09:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bmont3779

Whats everyones favorite type of ele?

Energy Storage elementalist.

isamu kurosawa · Feb 13, 2006, 11:42 AM // 11:42

all these peopel who prefer the other elements over fire yet all you ever see anywhere are echo/renewal nukers

. Everyone should refuse to use such a build so PUGs will have to take a different kind of ele along.

Down with echo nuke!

i play air mostly and earth for ettin farming, ive just started using water.

neoteo · Feb 13, 2006, 12:13 PM // 12:13

1300 hours on fire ele , but i have all skills and armors with sup runes and greens for all kinds of eles

Divinus Stella · Feb 13, 2006, 12:22 PM // 12:22

PvP - Earth
PvE - Fire

Francis Crawford · Feb 13, 2006, 04:19 PM // 16:19

For PvE, which is all I play, I haven't yet seen good reasons to move away from nuking.

Armageddon · Feb 13, 2006, 04:50 PM // 16:50

1. Fire
2. Earth
3. Water
4. Air

quickmonty · Feb 13, 2006, 05:00 PM // 17:00

Still playing around with different combos. Right now I'm having a lot of fun with air/earth.

Bmont3779 · Feb 15, 2006, 01:49 AM // 01:49

?cheer, water is so much fun

Bag-o-Weed · Feb 15, 2006, 03:55 PM // 15:55

air, good for blinding, and pretty good dmg

gordohand · Feb 28, 2006, 10:54 PM // 22:54

two words METEOR SHOWER masive damage

FIRE ROCKS PvE

Kijik Oni Hanryuu · Mar 01, 2006, 05:23 AM // 05:23

fire...everything looks best burning

Noobie Rank Healer · Mar 04, 2006, 04:02 AM // 04:02

1. Water
2. Air
3. Fire
4. Earth.. ~_~

Maedhros · Mar 04, 2006, 08:19 PM // 20:19

Heh... Earth is good with its really powerful defense spells and Enchantements, thought the attack could be better, it is the drawback of Earth Magic. Anyways,
Obsidian Flame ignores armor with 118-124 damage and the Exhaustion is... Negligeable. With 81 Energy, you can easily pass off this weakness even without the Glyph of Energy. They shouldn't put more attack spells on Earth Magic because it'll be too powerful =). The...Guild Wars Team should put more defense for Earth Magic. Even if it's already powerful in that way, i'd prefer having more defense spells. They are only 3-4 really useful defense spells...

~Maedhros