Susimusta

Welcome to the Forums Equus. Glad you found the game again and people who you actually enjoy playing it with! \o/

Welcome to the forums Steki! Indeed it's awesome to hear you've found your place in the community and enjoy it in DV, I suppose that's the thing we all aim for. <3

Welcome to the forums Trinzle! And nice to have you as a commander trainee too. :3 Also food technology sounds very intriguing, are you interested in setting up your own factory of some sort at some point or something? (..some.. thing.) ANYWAY, I digress. Welcome.

Wheeelcome to the Forums Sithicus. :3 Definitely an interesting field of work, and we should all join forces in dismantling patriarchy! And to me, with all love, you will always be the naked-dung-beetle-man. <3

No worries at all, we all are just ourselves and our effort when we are alone, but when we combine our forces, we create something better than either of us on our own could've. That's how communities work.

Thanks Christa. It's my elementalist. The other builds (so far) have pictures of my bf's characters.

Bravo! *claps her hands*

However if you have a lot of the materials required for infusing rings and you just don't seem to get a drop of the one with stats you need (they drop a _lot_ less since the change), you can just buy and infuse one, or infuse an existing one in my opinion. So I wouldn't call it necessarily  

1 hour ago, Arvinthir said:

absolutely is a waste of resources

since you will lose a lot of AR for not having infused rings.

But otherwise very clear and well constructed guide on the basics of Agony resistance.

I will not say welcome because everyone has already, so I'm instead going to saaaay... NICE TO HAVE YOU HERE ON THE FORUMS LARS! ^-^ And happy to hear you've enjoyed your stay with us so far, hope you will for the rest of the eternity too.

And yeah indeed Tharaqon. And I am in no way saying this is the _best_ Egg-blocking build, but this is the one I've been using with being completely able to solo-egg-block so I think it's good enough for everyone.

Incoming character compilations! Starting off with Guardians (I have a sixth one on my another account but left her out) and Necromancers. Starting up from Guardians; Ruska The Veil (bottom left), Susimusta (top left), Stoopeh (middle), Lumeton (top right) and Cpt Susi (bottom left). Necromancers; Sysimusta (top, he has condi and berserker's gear sets) and Lady Poison Ivy (bottom). Lady Poison Ivy was my first character in GW2.  

Ah okay. ^^ I was just wondering because you said "I currently live in Germany" instead of "I'm German". Like if I would move to somewhere else than Finland (like England), I would probably say like "I live in England, but I'm a Finn.". Anyway that's cool. ^^ 

Welcome to the forums indeedo DeW! :3 Happy to have you. And don't worry, short introductions are just fine too. ^-^ Are you originally from somewhere else than Germany?

Welcome to the forums indeed! And also happy to have so many new trainees. :3 I'm bit of an old grump when it comes to music, I should probably try something new every once in a while. That prog-rock-opera caught my eye, maybe you have some specific suggestions for me? ^^

14 minutes ago, Arvinthir said:

It might also be worth mentioning that you can swap "Renewed Focus" with "Feel My Wrath" for more dps during the burn phase.

If you look close enough, it actually is there listed Under "Utility skills" :3

Anyway thank you! ^^

This is a specific Wurm egg-blocker build for Guardians, and the one I have been using on mine (tested and working). You can use the Dragonhunter specialization, but it's not necessary.

Equipment

Stat-wise the equipment in this build doesn't really matter (you can go with the full-berserker's for example), however you want to bring a Sword (main-hand) / Shield (off-hand) combination. For offset you can use for example Greatsword to use in the burn phases and 2nd phase of the Wurm (but don't bring Hammer). The Veteran wurms around the Wurm sometimes like to aggro on characters with high Toughness, however this is not always the case.

Runes / Sigils

Again, you can go with these if you want, but it's not super meaningful:

Armor: [Superior Rune of Scholar] x6 

Weapon: [Superior Sigil of Force] & [Superior Sigil of Air]

Traits

Virtues: Master of Consecrations (Consecrations last longer and have reduced recharge) , Supreme Justice , Indomitable Courage. 

This is the only necessary trait-line because of the first trait and it's effect on the Wall of Reflection. 

(The other trait-lines are by your choosing; I use Dragonhunter and Valor.)

Utility Skills

Healing Skill (6): Shelter Open Utility Skills (7,8,9): Wall of Reflection (a must-have), "Retreat!" (for refreshing aegis) , "Stand your ground!" (for group stability) Elite Skill: Renewed Focus (for blocking husk / aoe if necessary), or "Feel my Wrath!" (for quickness in burnphase)

For Open Utility Skills, with Wall of Reflection, you can also take (8,9): Hallowed Ground (Stability, long firefield, boon duration), Sanctuary (For additional skill to block projectiles, however I think nowadays this is a bit of an overkill), Bane Signed (for dps)

For second phase you should definitely try to switch your Wall of Reflection/Retreat into Hallowed Ground and Bane Signet, and your Elite skill to "Feel my Wrath!". In 2nd phase you're the king/queen of group stability!

Practice

The core to learning to egg-block is to learn the animations of the Wurm. Your main egg-blocking skills are Wall of Reflection (utility) and Shield of Absorption (shield 5). Basically whenever you see the Wurm doing the spitting animation, you use one of those skills. If the wurm spat out Husks (they flew right through your shield or wall because Husks can only be blocked with Invulnerabilities), you just simply wait for the Wurm to do a second spitting animation and use the one you didn't use yet.

You're positioned inside the Wurm (so that your whole character model is just inside it, looking from the front of the wurm), so dodging it's spins (AoE or Wide spin) is very important, however as a Guardian, you can cheat around this a bit with your Aegis. Make sure you dodge them if your Aegis isn't on. The Wurm always opens up with a wide spin when the combat begins (Cobalt wurm and Crimson wurm always do a wide spin after a burn phase too, Amber can also spit eggs or husks right after burnphase). From there on, your Egg-blocking begins.

The spit on Eggs has a cooldown-timer of 40 seconds (The husk spit has 90 seconds), so what it means, is that your Wall of Reflection is always off cooldown when the Egg-spit happens, unless you've misused it on some other animation. I like to mouse-klick my Wall of Reflection, if I know that I'm positioned the right way inside the wurm, but you can also ground-target it so that it goes across your position "slicing the wurm" a bit closer to the front than the middle. Shield of Absorption (shield 5) creates a dome around you, just make sure you don't double-tap the skill or it interrupts the dome.

You do still have a few panic buttons if the Wurm starts to spit and you have both your Shield of Absorption and Wall of Reflection on cooldown: Zealot's Defense (sword 3 - 3 second projectile block), Shelter (Heal - 2 second block) or Renewed Focus (Elite - 3 second block) if you want to block the full spit you will probably need to use a combination of two of these. Usually you'll have a second egg-blocker with you though, that can help you out if this happens. 

Also take into consideration that some of your skills (F1, F2, F3 as well if you're a Dragonhunter) have casting times.

For husk / aoe blocking every 90 seconds you can use Renewed Focus (elite), however this requires you to stand in a more specific spot that is a bit trickier to find and varies a bit depending on the Wurm (cobalt, crimson, amber). Don't block husks unless it's necessary because there's a husk-handling team waiting for them.  

When you enter the burnphase, you can switch to Greatsword. Don't use Symbol of wrath (4) in the beginning of the burnphase, since it's a light field. On Amber wurm, when the burn phase is ending, switch immediately back to sword/shield, especially if your Wall of Reflection is on cooldown, since Amber can spit right after the burn. As said before, the other Wurmheads always do a Wide spin after the burnphase, so just remember to dodge if you don't have your Aegis up.

Try it out!

Sadly there's no speedclear way to learning to egg-block, so just go and try it out yourself. A good way is to go to a low-populated TT map and try blocking as many eggs as you can, or you can join an experienced egg-blocker on an organized wurm. In either case, don't worry about not being perfect at it (even the experienced ones do mistakes sometimes, we're human). It's however a completely different aspect to the Triple Trouble event, and at least in my opinion a lot of fun!

Hope this Guide was of useful and clear enough for you. If you have any further questions, or you would like to try egg-blocking out, don't hesitate to contact Susimusta (on TS / Forums) or in-game Ruuti.2073.

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Oooh welcome to the forums Christa and Ridge! ^-^ (*alarm sounds* "I think we have more spies [read: spice]!") Nice to have people from all around the globe. Hope you enjoy our sometimes not far from totally nut-job TeamSpeak conversations.

Aww. <3 Also yeah I will be trying to do another one of those story things at some point.

Welcome to the forums Atreyu and nice to have you as a trainee! As I also said somewhere before already, we don't all need people that talk all the time, we have a couple of those already.  Anyway I hope you enjoy your time as a trainee and find it enjoyable! Also what an adorable kitty you have!! :3

That totally looks like Slay too!

This is damage/support PvE build for Guardians. This build requires the Dragonhunter specialization and is valid also in the current Raid content.

Equipment

Full Berserker's gear (Power/Precision/Ferocity), ascended stat combination name is [Zojja's.. ] 

Berserker's accessories, rings, neck and backpiece

Main-Set: Berserker's Hammer

Off-Set: Sword/X (Shield/Focus/Torch)

[For min-maxing critical chance: Instead use 2 Assassin's Accessories (Arah & Caudecus' manor collections or Raids)]

Runes / Sigils

Armor: [Superior Rune of Scholar] x6 

Weapon(s): [Superior Sigil of Force] & [Superior Sigil of Accuracy]

Traits

1st line: Zeal: Fiery Wrath , Kindled Zeal , Symbolic Avenger

2nd line: Honor: Protective Reviver , Pure of Heart , Writ of Persistence

( Empowering might as the middle trait for more Might )

3rd line: Dragonhunter: Piercing Light , Zealot's Aggression , Big Game Hunter

( Bulwark as the middle trait if you need more blocks )

Utility Skills

Healing Skill (6): Shelter. Situationally: "Receive the light!" (for party healing), Signet of Resolve (for passive condition removal)  

Open Utility Skills (7,8,9): Procession of Blades , Test of Faith , Bane Signet. Situationally: Wall of Reflection (for reflecting projectiles), Hallowed Ground (Stability, combo fire-field, Boon duration), "Stand your Ground!" (Stability), Purging Flames (Condition removal), "Retreat!" (Aegis, Swiftness)

Elite Skill: "Feel my Wrath!". Situationally: Dragon Maw (Crowd control)

Food & Consumables

Seaweed Salad (+10% Damage while moving)

Toxic Maintenance Oil (+100 Precision, +10 % Condition duration) OR budget option: Superior Sharpening stone

Practice

In the beginning of combat, cast Symbol of Blades (Sword 2) > Switch to Hammer > Hammer auto-attack (1). "Feel my wrath!" on cooldown. DON'T INTERRUPT AUTO-ATTACK CHAIN (dodging/shouts don't interrupt the chain)! Cast Spear of Justice (F1) and Traps (Procession of Blades & Test of Faith) always on cooldown after a full auto-attack chain. Remember to keep moving for your Seaweed salad buff.

 If possible, drop your traps before the fight begins (they're off cooldown quicker = more dps).

Hope this was useful for you! And thanks to Akke.8502 for helping out!  You can also contact him in-game for any questions about this spec.

Awwwww! ^ ________________ ^ So cute!

This is the very basic all-around PvE damage spec for Elementalists. This build requires the Tempest specialization. This build is valid also in the current Raid content.

Equipment

Full Berserker's gear (Power/Precision/Ferocity), ascended stat combination name is [Zojja's.. ] 

Berserker's accessories, rings, neck and backpiece

Berserker's Staff

[For min-maxing critical chance instead use 2 Assassin's Accessories (Arah & Caudecus' manor collections or Raids)]

Runes / Sigils

Armor: [Superior Rune of Scholar] x6 

Weapon: [Superior Sigil of Force] & [Superior Sigil of Air]

Traits

1st line: Fire: Burning Precision , Pyromancer's Training , Persisting Flames

2nd line: Air: Ferocious Winds , Inscription , Bolt to the Heart

( For special occasions, like Keep Construct (2nd boss in Stronghold of the Faithful), use Tempest Defence as the middle trait )

3rd line: Tempest: Unstable Conduit , Harmonious Conduit , Elemental Bastion

( For stun-break for yourself and your party, use Gale song as the first trait )

Utility Skills

Healing Skill (6): "Wash the Pain Away!"  

Open Utility Skills (7,8,9): "Feel the Burn!", Glyph of Storms, Signet of Fire. Situationally you might want to use Conjure Frost Bow (For Crowd control, damage on big targets or Triple Trouble event), Conjure Lightning Hammer (Triple Trouble) or Lightning Flash (for mobility, for example Sabetha cannon running).

Elite Skill: Glyph of Elementals (for normal DPS rotation), "Rebound!" (for Raid survivability) or Conjure Fiery Greatsword (for mobility). 

Food & Consumables

[Plate of Truffle Steak] (+100 Power, +70 Precision) OR [Seaweed salad], but if you want to use Seaweed salad as food, you need to have [Superior Sigil of Accuracy] on your staff and no Assassin's accessories!

[Superior Sharpening Stone] (+Power equal of 6 % of your Toughness, +Power equal of 4 % of your Vitality) OR if you want to invest, [Toxic Sharpening Stone] (+100 Power, +10 % Condition duration) gives you a minor dps increase, by increasing your burning duration.

Practice

Begin the combat in Air (F2), so that you have Air Overload ready. While running to your target, cast Glyph of Storms (Lightning Storm) and immediately after that, begin to Overload in Air (it has fairly short range, so make sure you're close enough). After that, switch to Fire (F1) and shout "Feel the Burn!" while casting your Glyph of Elementals. From here on you will be using those two Glyphs and "Feel the Burn!" on cooldown. Cast Lava Font (2) and Meteor Shower (5) on your target on cooldown, in between auto-attacking (1). Overloading (Fire) is always your first priority, so whenever it is off cooldown, use it, keeping in mind that it is melee-range. You can use Burning Retreat (4) for quick movement. 

Skill priority

Overloading (Fire) > Glyph of Elementals / Storm > Meteor Shower > Lava Font > Auto-attack 

"Feel the Burn!" always on cooldown, it's a shout so it doesn't interrupt your casts.

Attributes (if you want to compare yours for example)

This is what your Attributes should look like with full Ascended Berserker's gear (not min-maxed with Assassins' pieces).

Hope this was useful for you! And thanks to Akke.8502 for helping out!  You can also contact him in-game for any questions about this spec.

(Ha, HE wrote OpenCommunity wrong  too SLAAAYYY!) Hello Sourunji, and welcome. I personally prefer your voice when you're not yelling. ;p But that's your style so be it so. Hope to see you around for eternity. ^-^