how is she keeping all those boons up on going, I can see them ticking away but then they all get renewed.
How do ele’s do that?
Traits and combo fields would be my guess. A fair few ele traits proc when shifting to different attunements (fire water lightning earth). I have an ele but it’s only around lvl 30 so I don’t fully understand it all.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
how is she keeping all those boons up on going, I can see them ticking away but then they all get renewed.
How do ele’s do that?
One trait line, Arcane, increases boon duration
Also, in the Arcane trait line, is a skill that grants boons based on attunement at time of switching. For example, switch to Fire, get Might
Arcane also reduces attunement switching cooldown time (starting to get the picture?)
Also, that build recommends use of runes that increase the duration of certain boons
Also, you can have sigils that grant boons on weapon (or attunement) swap
Finally, elementalists can trigger combos which further grant and increase duration of existing boons
Basically, that build will give you boons on attunement switch, faster attunement switch, longer boon duration, and is further enhanced by triggered combos.
The flipside is that the particular build has almost nothing in offensive trait lines. 0 in Fire traitline – which is +Pow, and only 10 in Air +Prec. So what you gain in boons, you lose in power/prec.
In order to keep all that going, there’s a ridiculous amount of keyboard juggling, not to mention situational awareness of when to run, when to switch to a specific attunement, etc. Think of it like trying to keep plates spinning in the air.
There’s a few good counters for D/D elementalists, but I’m not going to say it here.
Confusion can be gotten rid of easily with water attument. Moa does suck, but I’ve never seen a mesmer be able to kill me in the time that it takes to wear off, then you just turn around and kill them, assuming they dont have back-up.
There’s one guardian build that will own you if you’re not careful. It has average dps, but high healing. However, there is a counter to that. If you’re a human you can use Reaper of Grenth (about the only time it’s good) for the -33% healing and that pretty much shuts it down.
Thieves are only annoying because of rendering issues.
I’ve met two engineers that had some scary burst with rifle, but it was something I wasn’t expecting so it kind of caught me off guard because most engineers are a free kill.
I’d change runes for the Boon Duration ones, mostly because Divinity are the ‘I can’t make up my mind’ runes and IMO there should never be more than 2 used at any time.
Rest looks fine, though I’d probably go Armor of Earth instead of Cleansing Fire since you’re already running the condi clearing insanity that is Ether Renewal (since I assume you’re not an E/Me unless you’ve somehow discovered a MF recipe or some mechanic that lets you equip a secondary profession and use the heal you mentioned).
I’d change runes for the Boon Duration ones, mostly because Divinity are the ‘I can’t make up my mind’ runes and IMO there should never be more than 2 used at any time.
Rest looks fine, though I’d probably go Armor of Earth instead of Cleansing Fire since you’re already running the condi clearing insanity that is Ether Renewal (since I assume you’re not an E/Me unless you’ve somehow discovered a MF recipe or some mechanic that lets you equip a secondary profession and use the heal you mentioned).
2 each of Superior Water and Monk
and then you can either go 2 Major Water (or other Major runes with boon duration), but my personal preference is 2x Hoelbrak (because cheap) for 20% Might Duration since you can stack it like it’s hot (aha fire attunement joke) from combos and Sigil of Battle.
Also, after looking back up you should have sigils in your weapons, not orbs.
I suggest Battle since it will give you stacks of might when you swap attunements and is just way too strong to not have as an ele.
Second I’d go Bloodlust for power stacks because it’s reasonably easy to keep stacks as an ele and I like hitting like a truck. Option to go for precision stacks here too, but we have great fury uptime so imo not needed.
If you want to go the extra mile, have a 3rd dagger with Sigil of Force or Accuracy (toss up, same as above, but I’d still go Force due to same Fury reasoning) to switch with your Stack Sigil dagger after getting 25 stacks, since then it’s just a wasted space.
Be aware that if you do use Accuracy the 5% will NOT be added to the amount shown in your character screen but it IS working properly. So if you normally have 40%, and then equip it and it’ll say 40% still, but it’s actually 45%.
Explaining it that way makes sense, still doesn’t change the fact i loathe AC…LOL i might have 240 tears, i got the orbs because well thats what i use on my Mezzie, and they were good, but i like the idea of stacking might and bloodlust, and will consider a third for force. Thanks
