Guild Wars 2

How does everyone feel about the d/d elementalist? It is a fun build but since Heart of Thorn’s release, it has seen its fair share of the muck.

I love running d/d on my elementalist in pve and have years of experience with it but lately it’s been feeling extremely weak. It has potential to burst, but even with a marauder’s build for that tiny bit of vitality for survivabilty, sigil of force and bloodlust or battle and superior rune of durability, i don’t feel like my damage can keep up with the staff and i still feel extremely squishy.

I’ve had some luck with my fire/arcane zealot build. Using might stacking to make up for dps loss and elemental bastion for more sustain. I mostly only use d/d for ride the lightning, sadly. I’d love to see it get some buffs to make it more viable for less casual play.

Who wouldn’t want to see a comeback? I always wanted to be daphoenix when I grew up.

I use to run soldiers armor with berserker weapons because it still did a decent amount of dps while giving the insta splat ele some survivability because you know, they’re MELEE, but they nerfed toughness and vitality to kingdom come which is almost a necessity on d/d.

D/D has potential to burst but because elementalists are required to run zerkers to even see those red numbers, it isn’t practical as they’re busy being smeared away like a poop stain on a door mat. Also, the staff brings everything d/d can WITH AOE, crowd control and did I mention more crowd control and an escape, believe it or not. D/D has 1 potentially 2 escapes and 1 of them can be interrupted, WHAAAAAAT?!