Guild Wars 2

Is there any sense of transforming your elementalist into necromancer? Not if you’re doing dungeons but for pvp and open world? Why not Zoidberg?

Long story short: Earth/signet condition tanker
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFUQJArdlcMoth1NwsB0zNgBgEeQgCjzFrXpzA-TxRAABKcCAA4BAw0+DIp+zkKBzRPwYK/IEwi5A-e
The idea was to combine 2 most powerful condition damagers (bleed+fire) with survivability.
For pvp encounters best way is to use scepter+focus (magnetic wave and obsidian are great for finishing oponents on the ground) while on pve it is a matter of choice between S/D, D/F, D/D (S/F lacks AoE unfortunately).
It is a really simple build, for those who dont like swapping attunements (from time to time you can swap to fire and put some blast finishers to stack might).

I don’t want to judge if this build is viable or not, but the thing that I noticed is that it doesn’t have enough on-demand condition cleanse. Against condition engineers, for example, your cleansing fire will be triggered by him within 3 seconds infight by just autoattacking you and then the only thing thats left is your signet that removes 1 condition every 10 seconds. Yes, there is phoenix, but thats not really an option when your fire attunement is on cooldown.

Edit: Ok there is magnetic wave but still.. I don’t think this is enough to stand a solid chance in the current condition meta.

It won’t work in pvp or WvW, sorry dude.

Reasons being : No healing and no multiple condition clears means you just won’t stand up to any damage. Also you have 0 stability and no arcane shield/lightning flash so no getting out of a sticky situation.

If you want burning to work, you need to be able to apply 4 more conditions on top of it to stop it being cleared. Undead runes just don’t work.

In my opinion, This will not work. No healing Power, no points in Water at all is pretty much a death sentence on its own. No boons on attunement swap from Arcane is also not a good idea.

Weapons: Could work.
Utilities: No defensive options. Not a good idea
Elite: Not a fan of it myself, easily able to move out of its range.

Traits: Fire line is rather poor, The burning is nice but that is it. 3 conditions every 40 seconds would be death against condition builds in WvW, maybe in any mode. No points in Water, not enough in Arcane makes you weaker.

Stats: Solid stats. No Healing Power is very worrying. No traits in Water means pretty much all you have for heals is Restro Signet. Toughness is solid, Power is reasonable

Gear: Runeset is meh. Sigils are rather poor as well. I would swap out the sigils, the runes and some of the gear into other options.

Thanks for opinions, i did some changes to the build and hopefully getting close to making this build useful.

First i decided to change wep set for D/D simply because i always like more AoE attacks. Also it provides some nice utility like frost and shock aura, earthquake and of course cleansing wave.
After that i changed traits and gear a bit. Added some healing power to the build and went 4 into water magic for all-favourite heal. I really liked obsidian flesh on previous configuration (becoming invulnerable while finishing oponents was delightful) so i changed signet of water with mist form and added reduced cantrips cd (it can be changed with armor of earth- i see no problem).

Finally i decided to roll sigil of battle and sigil of doom for might and poison (since we swap attunements on this one more often) and if playing pve in open world, it is good to keep 1 dagger with sigil of corruption instead of one with doom.
I also replaced runeset of the undead with scavenging- we’ve lost around 100 toughness but gained nice life steal on it. If any1 doesnt like it, change it to whatever suits you.

As for the elite- It is really a matter of taste. I choosed sylvari’s turrets to boost bleeding damage but human’s Reaper of Grenth is also very nice (since we’re into close combat). From non-racial skills i think only elemental is worth the slot. Or maybe FGS if only its useful with no-power/crit focused spec.

Final stats look like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFEQJAoYncMcMoyhth1N0NwshsB8rdJOwBgQ85vgBGM+2rdA-TBSFwAGUC6e/BAm/KpnYoyvGPAAaq/g4EAQIgFzBA-e

Awaiting opinions in order to perform better ^^

In my opinion you are still making a mistake putting any puts in Fire. The offense you gain simply is not worth the huge defensive loss. I would move points into Arcane. In my opinion nothing less than 2 but 4 would be better to gain Elemental Attunement. Everything else traits wise seems solid.

Armor wise, pretty good. Only weakness i really see is the runeset. Maybe give Balt set a try? Perplexity is also every strong but gets you a LOT of hate. If you are aiming for Hybrid. I would be dropping Condition Damage stats and going for more Power.

Just curious, what race are you?

Cleansing fire trait would be better than the fire aura on signet use. Another idea, would be to use: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glyph_of_Elemental_Power and drop signet of fire. Your enemy will have condi cleanse, so a balance between reapplication and duration is ideal. Most of your condi’s already last a pretty long time so that insanely long burn from fire signet isn’t worth it imo. Also, cleansing fire trait also burns for like 7s with your build. The glyph can be used to help cover your condi’s or add more damage.