Guild Wars 2

After 1,5 year break i started playing again. I only play with elementalist, as i fell in love with D/D [PvE / WvW / PvP] that worked pretty much everywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O6iaQmMJaA that same build.
I think that the D/D is outdated anyway, but is there any effective D/D build nowdays?
As the old one had really good self healing, and kinda good dmg.
I really like to keep it that way.
I only play PvE, as my PC cannot handle massive WvW battles.
Im really bad at creating my own builds, i just get too confused
Any ideas?

I prefer D/D as weapons, but i don’t mind others as well. Just up to learning

There was just a massive overhaul of the traits and stats yesterday, it might be a few days or more before people have any set builds. Everything is kind of up in the air right now.

if you want to try D/D you can go for a stat mix with 10011 as your traits
the stats i finally reach are about (only food)
2000 power (little bit less, lots of might stacking)
36% crit chance (perma fury)
193% crit damage (or thereabouts)
2700ish armor (close to perma protection)
16-17.000 health (boosted by wvw stacks)
600ish condition damage
430ish healing power

Im sorry, what is that 10011 thingie?
I watched some other topics as well, with those weird numbers.
Kinda awkward, but i really don’t know

thats the new trait system :D
you take the order that was normal pre patch (for ele Fire, Air, Earth, Water, Arcana) and each line you use gets a 1, the other two lines a zero

why 1? because you can only choose full lines now, so using 60066 is just unecessary you could also use 80088 but well 1 fits the best :p

Thank You, this clears things up for me

Having good results in Ranked with this (Phoenix Rank) :

http://intothemists.com/guides/5552-dd_truely_fresh_air

I put this fairly nice spec together after messing around with various builds. It revolves around putting out some rather respectable dps while still managing to be extremely tanky.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-o;4B2kU0A5oN-Z0;9;4021;0247048256;4Oo0;3t_MTt_MTn-FSF6;4V1-60B1G2LZR_6uVIF31W8q

It has so many things going for it. It generates a huge amount of might from all of the fire line. I’m almost always refreshing auras which in turn keep me with almost 100% uptime on protection. That and I’m not pigeonholed to any one weapon. I can use any weapon set with this build.

The soothing mist keeps my health up there which means it’s really hard for any enemy (pve) to apply any conditions at all to me. There’s a huge amount of customization too. I dont need to worry about conditions well I can drop
diamond skin and pick up written in stone. I can change burning fire to burning precision.

I do have to complain about one thing but it’ll be brief. I so love Evasive arcana and it was so hard for me to give up the arcane line. However it lost almost all synergy with being an elementalist. With the removal of lingering elements that line feels so clunky and out of place.

I feel switching to an element should feel meaty and worthwhile. With Arcana i’m stuck with two lines that i’ve built into and two rather worthless lines that dont benefit me except to use the abilities and get out as soon as possible.

With the way I specced the only thing i’m missing is some additional precision from air a little bit of additional damage (lightning strikes) and of course Evasive Arcana which I feel is the only reason to go arcane.

Rant over.

Aidan Eighthrain.8612:

Having good results in Ranked with this (Phoenix Rank) :

http://intothemists.com/guides/5552-dd_truely_fresh_air

The sigil on intelligence is a nice touch. I dropped my battle sigil for energy and I still have doom, but I was looking for another alternative.

00111 signet of heal, earth and air, flash. Cele energy doom hoelbrak.
Managed to beat some brokenenenened war, few ultra shatter mesmer. Roll on everything else (exept the very rare full signet necromancer, but any ele spec would die to this bullkitten XD )

Tarkan.5609:

thats the new trait system
you take the order that was normal pre patch (for ele Fire, Air, Earth, Water, Arcana) and each line you use gets a 1, the other two lines a zero

why 1? because you can only choose full lines now, so using 60066 is just unecessary you could also use 80088 but well 1 fits the best :p

so why use old system of describing traits in a new system? when it could be like 2/0/4/2/6, it had a reason for numbers, but now? why don’t you just say fire/water/arcane? or even f/w/ar if you want it as short as possible?

cause f/r/w imply you know all spec names. Its quite easy for ele, but a bit less for other class. + it can collide some time: for instance Air and Arcana starting both with A

MaXi.3642:

Tarkan.5609:

thats the new trait system
you take the order that was normal pre patch (for ele Fire, Air, Earth, Water, Arcana) and each line you use gets a 1, the other two lines a zero

why 1? because you can only choose full lines now, so using 60066 is just unecessary you could also use 80088 but well 1 fits the best :p

so why use old system of describing traits in a new system? when it could be like 2/0/4/2/6, it had a reason for numbers, but now? why don’t you just say fire/water/arcane? or even f/w/ar if you want it as short as possible?

Using 1,1,1,0,0 Is more universal and actually more reasonable than using F/W/A since it isn’t applicably to other classes. Having an unnecessarily complicated system just for its own sake is silly.

oZii.2864:

Aidan Eighthrain.8612:

Having good results in Ranked with this (Phoenix Rank) :

http://intothemists.com/guides/5552-dd_truely_fresh_air

The sigil on intelligence is a nice touch. I dropped my battle sigil for energy and I still have doom, but I was looking for another alternative.

It’s sad that Energy Sigil is now always a better option than perma-Vigor.

PlatinumMember.5274:

MaXi.3642:

Tarkan.5609:

thats the new trait system
you take the order that was normal pre patch (for ele Fire, Air, Earth, Water, Arcana) and each line you use gets a 1, the other two lines a zero

why 1? because you can only choose full lines now, so using 60066 is just unecessary you could also use 80088 but well 1 fits the best :p

so why use old system of describing traits in a new system? when it could be like 2/0/4/2/6, it had a reason for numbers, but now? why don’t you just say fire/water/arcane? or even f/w/ar if you want it as short as possible?

Using 1,1,1,0,0 Is more universal and actually more reasonable than using F/W/A since it isn’t applicably to other classes. Having an unnecessarily complicated system just for its own sake is silly.

But for future new players who have no knowledge of the old trait system, is 1/1/1/0/0 easier to understand for them than calling them by names?

And why does it have to be applicable to other classes? Stats aren’t attached to the trait lines and different classes have different builds.

I also don’t see what’s more complicated about calling the trait lines by their names and not a number. A number that future new players may not be able to easily understand since they’ve never seen the old system.

spec are still sorted the same way than before, a new player can still understand 10101