Guild Wars 2

hi
can someone refer me to elementalist build that isnt might stacking?
pve.
no pvp

thanks!

Kind of like playing a Guardian without providing Aegis or Projectile control…

so all builds rely on fire circle and finishers for might stacking..?

You’re going to be rotating through your attunements and you have good access to both blasts and fire fields. There is very little reason not to incorporate it into your rotation unless you have a PS Warrior or something in your party.

what other fields are there? for fire? just the dagger 4 no?

its just that by the time i do the 4 and 5 earth dagger. i get beat up so much… i die. so i got 6 stacks from 4,5 earth. but im dead

S/D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ouL6dCXfU
D/F Fire Field (F4 or D3) → Water 5 3 → Earth 4 → Arcane Wave/Blast somewhere in between.

S/D gets 6 blasts, D/F gets 5 blasts.

You might want to practice with S/D as it’s easier even though there’s more. What I tend to do (my Elementalist is only level 35) for practice is to find a random mob to spawn the Dragon’s Tooth (or Comet, if you’re D/F) on. It’s easier than camera aiming, but you eventually want to learn to aim with camera to do OOC blasting.

If you want to know what keys to press for S/D, it’s:
F1
2,4,3,Arcane Wave,F4,4,Arcane Blast,5

However, at this point you’re stuck in Earth with a cooldown on Fire and you want to be in Fire for DPS. If you run D/F, you’re going to be doing a Fresh Air build, meaning you can easily swap back to DPS at any time (the longest you’re out of Air, at least by choice, is 5 seconds).

Hurting your group if you don’t give em some might stacks. If you want minimal Might stacking, best go staff. Then you all you have to do is: Start in Earth Magic>2>Fire Magic>2 where you placed Earth 2>Arcane Brilliance/Wave then pretty much spam Fire 1 2 and 5

Yeah staff ele is the best pve dps when a scepter ele gives you might!

Anyway staff is good dps for pug dungeons even without someone to might you up, although ignorant people assume it had lower dps than dagger since it’s not melee but people can be stupid.

D/F is also good for harder content and you only have to stack might if you want to I guess.

Keep in mind the meta dungeon ele builds spec so that when an ele blasts a fire field, the ele also grants their party fury. So ele→Might and perma fury for the group.

I play a staff Elementalist and I don’t stack might. Don’t really need any special build for it. Zerker is always good for Ele’s since they have high damage, but it’s much to boring for me.

just interrupt your no. 5 halfway and switch to water for no. 3 if you feel uncomfortable about staying still for the duration of churning earth + you’ll heal up, chill foe and have 9 stacks instead of 6 then dodge roll in water for an extra heal/damage mitigation/ condi removal and switch to air to chase ’m down knock ’m down and spam 1.

Cerebi.2738:

hi
can someone refer me to elementalist build that isnt might stacking?
pve.
no pvp

thanks!

Refuse to doing your only job isn’t a good idea imo. Try to reroll to a warrior, but they can might stack too so … i dunno.

Also, read it, love it.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo

ps: Don’t use earth5 (Churning earth) for might stacking with dagger if you die due to it. Obviously.

Ty all for ur helpz

sry another question

ok so i might stacked… prbbly 9. maybe maybe 12 (im only level 34)

what do i do then? whats the rotation?

and whats OOC blasting?

Cerebi.2738:

sry another question

ok so i might stacked… prbbly 9. maybe maybe 12 (im only level 34)

what do i do then? whats the rotation?

Long but worth the watching. It will answer all of your recent and possible future questions. http://youtu.be/m_Lc5jE-ocQ

Cerebi.2738:

and whats OOC blasting?

Out of combat blasting before fights.

are guides for dungeons equivalent to pve?

Cerebi.2738:

sry another question

ok so i might stacked… prbbly 9. maybe maybe 12 (im only level 34)

what do i do then? whats the rotation?

There are no Skill rotations…

Combat is dynamic you need to use what you need depending on the situation of the combat you’re in.

DreamyAbaddon.3265:

Cerebi.2738:

sry another question

ok so i might stacked… prbbly 9. maybe maybe 12 (im only level 34)

what do i do then? whats the rotation?

There are no Skill rotations…

Combat is dynamic you need to use what you need depending on the situation of the combat you’re in.

There are rotations with ele, don’t mislead him even further.

Dalanor.5387:

DreamyAbaddon.3265:

Cerebi.2738:

sry another question

ok so i might stacked… prbbly 9. maybe maybe 12 (im only level 34)

what do i do then? whats the rotation?

There are no Skill rotations…

Combat is dynamic you need to use what you need depending on the situation of the combat you’re in.

There are rotations with ele, don’t mislead him even further.

There are No Skill Rotations in this game… PERIOD.
You’re misleading him with information.

If you’re rotating skills and not using what you need based on the combat situation that changes every second then you’re wasting skills. You cannot anticipate enemy attacks so you need to be prepared for just about anything.

Here is a 30 second video of my Elementalist fighting in a dynamic combat:

Enjoy

i dont really want to use lightning hammer…
ur 30 sec video is nice. but i cant keep up with what you’re doing there
i know that i need to stack might and then use skills according to situation… just assumed there is something that is normal for regular enemies.

Cerebi.2738:

i dont really want to use lightning hammer…
ur 30 sec video is nice. but i cant keep up with what you’re doing there
i know that i need to stack might and then use skills according to situation… just assumed there is something that is normal for regular enemies.

I don’t think I’m using Lightning hammer… lol
That video wasn’t suppose to teach you anything though, just an idea of how you’re expected to fight in general combat and adapting to different situations dynamiclly and swapping attnuments when needed.

If you want to learn about Combat check out my guide:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/GW2-Combat-system-101-Guide/first

That should pretty much cover everything you need to know.

thanks a bunch