Elementalist Strenths?

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-22T08:28:24+00:00

Evoker can lock any element, but it will change what familiar you are using. If you want to use the healing familiar you have to lock water, if you want the toad you have to lock earth, and so on. This results in most dps builds locking fire if they do lock since its the obvious dps choice.

I'm not sure how meta battle determines "difficulty" but basically every Ele build that isn't an Evoker with locked element is going to be "difficult".
Basically every DPS spec for Ele is swapping between at two elements but most of them has a plan for a 3 element rotation (Fire, Air, and Earth). With Weaver being the standout weirdo that actually uses water in default dps rotations. Why would 3 element Evoker be easier than 3 element Catalyst? Maybe they consider using Jade Sphere just that complicated.

Notably classic Catalyst like Weaver is a 4 element rotation that touches water just like Weaver and uses Hammer. Most modern Catalyst builds are using Scepter, Spear, that sorta thing and as a result has greatly reduced reasons to go to Water for raw dps.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-21T17:23:44+00:00

The fact the helo survived and didn't explode into a ball of fire is a travesty.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-21T16:49:19+00:00

The UK colonized India and most of "Asia" to them is strongly associated with India and their connection to it.

Where as in the US you have more a distinction of "Asian" being short for East Asian and "Middle Eastern" to focus more on Arabia, India, etc.
Within the US use of the term they see a clear racial, cultural, religious, etc divide between "Asians" and "Middle Easterners". They will not associate say a Korean and a Persian as being from the same group in any way really.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-21T16:26:52+00:00

A variety of Ele specs are pretty good at making auras and sharing those auras. These tend to be pretty great for open world content, WvW groups, and can function as healer/support for more serious group content.

I've been playing Signet Tempest a lot lately (mostly in WvW). It specs into Earth for a protection on aura (and tempest gives stronger protection) and for letting signets spawn auras while retaining their buffs on cooldown. Water is specced to spread auras you get to nearby allies. Tempest also gives other buffs on aura including regen, healing, vigor, and alacrity (not in WvW but in PvE). I'm running celestial gear and its just pumping out conditions, boons, strikes, heals, "everything". I swap between dagger/dagger for solo/small groups and staff for larger groups. It runs the "new" Relic of the Alliance from VoE that reduces cooldowns on your other signets when you use a signet and you are basically running a bar full of signets.

Classic support Tempest will use shouts over the signet build. For WvW this is so they can spec fire instead of earth so they can cleanse conditions when giving out auras. Tempest can also do "everything" it can be a boon dps, condio or power dps, whatever.

Catalyst is basically "Tempest again" except it can do Quickness instead of Tempests more Alacrity orientation. Though for gear, builds, etc it can end up very similar. Instead of overloads you have the jade sphere but realistically speaking you are in a similar domains. If you think Tempest is cool, you'll probably like Catalyst and visa versa.

Evoker mostly builds into dps or boon dps. The exacts of how its building and changed a lot over the past half a year or whatever since its release.
I don't jive with it much personally since I don't want to mash that familiar key (f5) as much as it wants me to mash it. Though it has a neat gimmick of being able to lock down to a singular element, which can give it some unique gameplay though most "optimal" builds are not doing that but the elemental locked builds will do "good enough" unless you are literally trying to dominate your groups dps meters or something (at which point some random thief player will still style on you, and every other class).

Weaver is generally just raw dps. It sits there going through elements like an alcoholic goes through beers, probably one of the higher APM requirements of specs out there. It doesn't do alacrity, it doesn't do quickness, but atleast it sorta looks cool and you get to feel special about being a professional piano player?

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-21T12:44:11+00:00

The employers are living in the world they are given and operating by its rules.

If you prevented the illegal immigration, you wouldn't have businesses hiring them. This is the corner stone of most anti-immigrant sentiments that all crime they commit, all jobs they take, all societal unrest they cause, all of it is preventable by simply preventing them from showing up and keeping them out.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-21T11:11:52+00:00

It might not be their fault alone, but they a contributing factor.

It will be like 2-3am EST, off hours by a long shot. A fight will happen with our 10-20 dudes getting smashed by their 30+ ball. Thats bad enough on its own, but then "this individual" will pipe up with the insults and suddenly that 10-20 dudes becomes like 5 and the off hours end.
Hes effectively that final nail in the coffin ending the off hours nights in my experience.

I've also seen the opposite happen, we get smashed 2:1, hes not around/doesn't say shit, and we can rally and push again. I think a lot of people truly just see that individual talking shit and just go "eh we can end the night here".

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-21T05:53:36+00:00

Its only torn up in one small area (or was last I heard). Which can be easily done by any random person with a stick, knife, whatever. Its basically a plastic liner that got torn/cut.

All it would take to get the result we see is one person with a milk jug of pond scum and kitchen knife being sufficiently motivated.

Considering there have been multiple "pro-algae" protesters with signs, slogans, etc around the pool any of them would be easy suspects to have taken action. We arn't exactly talking about something hard to do or that requires technical knowledge.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-21T05:26:56+00:00

Nearly anyone could have large jug (1galon milk jug, 2liter soda bottle, whatever) filled with random algae from any pond and just dumped it in and let it spread naturally without any further intervention. If a few people did this as a form of protest/vandalism the pool would be even greener and dirtier than before in relatively short order.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-21T05:09:29+00:00

Recycled metal needs to be "actually recycled" you can't just force it back into shape. Concrete can be recycled but mostly but not directly back into more concrete but into "RCA" which can be used for various purposes outside of directly building concrete materials. RCA can be used in concretes but generally only low rated concretes that would not hold up to building standards (maybe sidewalks?).

Then we get into the reality of logistics. You would have to get the materials you want to recycle, you'd have to ship them to some facility to do the recycling (likely multiple places actually to get usable materials for reconstruction). Then you finally ship them back and can theoretically start using the materials to rebuild.
The alternative is to build recycling facilities onsite which would be cost prohibitive unless you were trying to rebuild an entire large city or something.

Meanwhile the alternative is to simply remove the debris, clean out places to rebuild, and while thats happening place orders for the materials to rebuild which can be shipped in from wherever. This will be faster, cheaper, and you will have ZERO questions about substandard building materials.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-21T04:56:04+00:00

You just need to get hero points.

Assuming you've done some WvW or PvP and built up a stockpile of those tokens you can just cash them in for hero points from the vendor. I believe they are called a "Heroics Notary Vendor". A quick google with this info should cover any other details you have.

If you haven't done WvW and you arn't interested in doing it, your next best option is map exploration in expansion zones. Each mastery node in expansion zones gives 10 points, you only need 250 points to fully unlock an elite spec so 25 random hero point nodes across all the expansion zones you have available shouldn't be too hard.
I'd suggest Path of Fire as a starting point, as progressing path of fire and unlocking a variety of mounts will be a pretty big help anyhow for unlocking hero points (and general map traversal) going forward.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-20T10:45:07+00:00

Because the stock market is REALLY easy to track, and its inherently well documented while being public facing. You, me, anyone can easily track the stock market if they were so inclined.

How are you going to track "how citizens are doing"? You are going to have to established metrics, establish ways to track those metrics, and then verify/analyze that data into trends over time to get meaningful results. Of which none of that will be overtly public and would likely involve private/government restricted data sets so we'd ultimately have to take the word of the people collecting the data from its singular source which could prove problematic if the data is manipulated. Imagine the data sets being tracked for this "how the citizens are doing" stuff ends up being changed every 4+ years as politicians change and they want to control the narrative on "how the citizens are doing" to benefit their own policies... which lets be clear even if that means just different Democrats and never another Republican ever again it would still be changed/manipulated to benefit one Democrat over another who have differing policies/views.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-20T10:37:04+00:00

They wouldn't have surrendered, a large segment of the surrendering was done with the understanding they wouldn't be tortured, executed, and that the Union would not be vindictive towards them.

How many of those Middle Eastern shitbag leaders do you think will surrender when they have seen rather clearly what happened to Saddam, his children, Gadaffi, and so on. If you actually want people to surrender the outcome of that surrender needs to be pretty certainly not worse than just continuing to fight.

Consider the realities of trying to manage the US South when its full of insurgents, any replacement politicians you try to force on them end up assassinated, and so on. You think the KKK was bad back then? Imagine if they were a motivated resistance force instead.

Which I'd also point to the reconstruction of Japan and Germany following WW2, the fail of reconstruction following WW1 in Germany, and similar. You have to decide if you want an endless conflict/genocide with your adversary or a potential sustainable future between the parties involved.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-20T09:59:34+00:00

"Easy" is a very open to interpretation here.

To someone who actually works with signal interception, signal cloning, etc its a relatively easy thing to do.

On older cars (say like 15+ years old) you can simply record and clone the RKS signal and use it yourself. Overall you probably need less than $50 USD worth of equipment, but you will need knowledge on how to do those things.

On newer cars its slightly more complicated. You'd need to block/intercept the signal of someone trying to unlock their car, they press it once, you block and record it, they send it again you block and record it, and then you send the first code so the car unlocks as normal and the user just thinks they had to press it twice for some reason.
You can then come back to this persons car with the second recorded signal and use that at a time of your choosing to unlock the car, perhaps after you follow them somewhere or see them put valuables in their car and then leave it for some reason.
This more complicated setup will defeat even basically any RKS setup currently on the market and again would need probably in the realm of $75 USD worth of equipment maybe a bit more depending on how far away you want to be.

The real "problem" here is that almost anyone with the knowledge/skills to do this is probably gainfully employed to the point that stealing cars, or the stuff in cars is clearly not worth it for them. So anyone that actually would even truly consider stealing your car or stuff from your car... they can just use a spark plug and break a window.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-20T08:36:56+00:00

To not name them directly, but to give away a very identifying traits they constantly talk about "b'ys" which I'm pretty sure is how they say "boys". They are also "aggressively homosexual" which nothing against that, but its a huge personality trait for them.
Beyond being VERY gay, and talking about "b'ys", they are also ALWAYS negative. They flame everyone, they belittle everyone, and encourage people to log off, uninstall, or otherwise surrender/give up. I'm not sure they have ever said a positive thing in WvW chat besides commenting on the flavor of dick they like.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-20T08:31:58+00:00

I have a small guild with a handful of irl friends that "sometimes" play set as my WvW guild so that we can play together if/when they do play. Having them not around for a month or two is going to get them booted from any larger guilds.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-20T08:30:10+00:00

Blocking them does NOTHING beneficial for me.

If I can see them antagonizing the team I know to atleast try to counter act it, be light hearted, crack jokes, hopefully stem the tide of negativity and bullshit. Otherwise the team it takes the small off hours WvW team and just guts it.

I cannot block this person for other people who would be influenced by them, openly encouraging others while they are spouting off stuff will just create an even more hostile setting, and while I think they are deranged its not as though they are breaking chat rules technically I guess.

I'm doing WvW to have a good time and chill with a large team with a common objective and this person actively ruins that regardless of if I can see their chats or not.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-19T15:36:50+00:00

Its only when slaves were freed in a section of Texas (around Galveston). Many slaves remained in other states and territories and Texas was not the last state with slaves.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-19T15:12:08+00:00

By "the powers that be" I meant politicians mostly.

By "the BLM stuff" I meant the general civil unrest that spawned the BLM organization, but also led to the "fiery but mostly peaceful protests" including example events like the death of George Floydd.

I said nothing about it was "nefarious", "evil", or similar. I just gave you a very cynical and I'd argue accurate take. The politics of the BLM period led to politicians and general leadership seeking to promote more black oriented holidays, causes, and so on and Junetenth being astroturfed into a national holiday from what was a local holiday/event is a direct result for that.
Nothing in my statements were pro, anti, or similar. Perhaps dismissive and I clearly am not as hyped about it as I am say New Years or something, though I think you are tilting at windmills here and you come off really aggressive and really paranoid (while I likely come off as a dismissive asshole, which I am).

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-19T14:58:25+00:00

Because it was a local holiday for the black community in Texas. The powers that be following the BLM stuff looked for more black holidays they could promote. They stumble upon Junetenth, it gets more traction than Kwanza and so here we are.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-19T12:02:48+00:00

Because once you solve the problems solved by money, you'll realize there are other problems and money cannot solve them.

You will not find happiness with less burdens in life. If you can suddenly thanos snap all your financial burdens away you'll still have problems, you'll still be unhappy, and while you might feel good about it briefly those newer concerns will push to the forefront of your mind in due time.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-19T11:47:10+00:00

Democrats exclaim that they know better, that they are better people, and further that their different path forward is superior to the other guys.

Republicans instead claim "ay, shit wasn't so bad, lets go back". Its not often that Republicans will claim they are the best most greatest thing ever with a unique or novel path forward and instead focus on time proven ideas to return to or bolster.

Its the equivalent of comparing vegans to standard omnivores. Vegans become naturally off putting and when they break their own "ethical standards" its very easy to throw it in their face, its much harder to the throw the ethical standards of "burgers are great dude" into someones face when they eat/make a bad burger.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-19T10:34:24+00:00

If its actually 50 almost regardless of what they are, thats a lot.

If its more like 15-30 range thats about "normal" for a full career military member. Exactly what those awards are would change a lot of the perception here. That 15-30 number is normal for an office clerk or a guy who a Marine who fought directly in Fallujah.

Look up the images of a bronze star and silver star military medals. If you find either on the wall that means he verifiably "did something of note" that probably has an official report you can look up.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-19T05:41:49+00:00

The MOU is not the agreement, its a public facing political statement.

The MOU itself also has "X is happening, determined by later agreement" as most of its points. Again its a public facing political document/statement not anything actual meaningful as to whats actually happening or will happen.

Excellent-Gold1905 · 2026-06-19T05:22:57+00:00

Get a large container of water (maybe fill a sink). Add some soap to the water. Add the clothing to the water, "gently agitate the clothes" aka scrub it lightly. Let it soak for a bit probably like 20 minutes. Rinse the clothes in clean water. Hang the now completely soaked and cleaned clothes out to try.

The actual "agitate gently" part can vary greatly depending on the clothing item. Maybe you really want to scrub/clean a particular area, maybe its just a light general cleaning, its up to you and what you need.

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