Guild Wars 2

Like title says, really like earth and all that but haven’t noticed any builds which benefit it very much, lotsa fire/lightning stuff but no earth.

i think conditions builds r heavy into earth traited not sure

u mean attunements or traits?

staff is a must?

no, just asking for any decent build really lol

for pvp:

00/6/4/4 D/F bunker build.

it works well against conditionmancers. Y’r in luck if the intire opposing team is condition because you can basically sit on a point indefinately without dying.

00644 earth shield build might work for pve. glyph of elemental power while in air atunement will help greatly.

Any heavy earth type build will still need 15 water or 30 arcane for survival. Tested a High armor build before and it works only if you have the healing to back it up. Using a 0-30-25-15-0 S/F build for Spvp atm. High burst, low condition removal, ok recovery, good armor.

Yea I’m trying to figure out if d/d is better or s/d or s/f or what. Wish all attunements had better damage options for them.

This thread has some interesting discussion on 30 Earth.

Diamond Skin is maybe worth a shot again, but things like Cele Eles and Cele Engies will apply their conditions reliably through the skin anyway - and an awful lot of Necromancers run power-based builds now too. Pure condi seems to be (finally) dying down, in sPvP at least.

Check out Broski condition build on youtube, he has some pretty innovating stuff going on there.

I use a 100% in earth condition build. That’s about as much earth as you can possibly be ^^.

I’ve been experimenting a lot lately with 30 earth builds and I think I may have stumbled upon something glorious. <Shifty eyes> If it’s successful, would you like me to pm you what I’ve come up with?

MightyMicah.7451:

I’ve been experimenting a lot lately with 30 earth builds and I think I may have stumbled upon something glorious. <Shifty eyes> If it’s successful, would you like me to pm you what I’ve come up with?

Yes please!

I posted a while back about my Stone Heart build, I recently (last night) picked this back up and was having a blast. Changed a couple traits from the original thread but still mostly the same.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJArdhMMacW4w0Bf0ADAGxrQSIYA4AMuGcDOiA-TFCBABmq+jg7P0wDA4MlgYpEzLlHAcCASRPApAEVYE-w

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/WvW-Elementalist-Stone-Heart-Conjuror/first#post4158230

Sunshine.4680:

MightyMicah.7451:

I’ve been experimenting a lot lately with 30 earth builds and I think I may have stumbled upon something glorious. <Shifty eyes> If it’s successful, would you like me to pm you what I’ve come up with?

Yes please!

Pmed

MightyMicah.7451:

Sunshine.4680:

MightyMicah.7451:

I’ve been experimenting a lot lately with 30 earth builds and I think I may have stumbled upon something glorious. <Shifty eyes> If it’s successful, would you like me to pm you what I’ve come up with?

Yes please!

Pmed

Hey MightyMicah, im interested in your earth builds as well, can u pm me as well?
Thanks a lot.

There are no competitive ones.

Axialbloom.8109:

There are no competitive ones.

False. (And I’m not necessarily referring to my build.)

in pvp i play a Stoneheart Conjure ele,
its not a serious build though, you just stay in earth attunement and nuke people with Lightning Hammer, Frost Bow and Fiery Greatsword :P

it basically plays like a zerker warrior

here is my build incase you’re interested,
once again its not a serious build, just hella fun chasing warriors as a “melee-ele”

Liewec.2896:

in pvp i play a Stoneheart Conjure ele,
its not a serious build though, you just stay in earth attunement and nuke people with Lightning Hammer, Frost Bow and Fiery Greatsword :P

it basically plays like a zerker warrior

here is my build incase you’re interested,
once again its not a serious build, just hella fun chasing warriors as a “melee-ele”

This is how everybody should approach their theory-crafting. “is it fun” rather than ‘does it work in high competitive play’.

I run a similar thing with blinding ashes as a D/F elementalist. with arcane grandmaster trait ya can blind spam alot. Have had warriors whisp me: ‘I miss every hit I take’, 3 matches later ‘Still haven’t hit you with eviscerate, it always misses, aaargh!’
Ofcourse that is combined with the Focus innate defensive abilities and a timely dodge here and there. Add in some perma weakness on foes you hit and ya got y’rself a set-up for zerker gear but I’d bet that going soldiers or clerics could work too.