Guild Wars 2

Hello. What’s the best burst pvp build for ele. To have fun in hot joins and stuff :P

please define “fun” in sPvP as an ele?

edit: I mean in this current meta obviously

talife.5927:

please define “fun” in sPvP as an ele?

edit: I mean in this current meta obviously

Eh you play to have fun ele is fun right now. I’m seeing people run outa spawn do massive damange and die. I WANA DO THAT Raises hands

I’m guessing the Fresh Air scepter build is the best ‘burst’ we have at the moment.

Tempest Defense is more fun.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArYhImIblx5gjDAkCoMK0h4hFOIBA-ToAg0CnI4SxljLDXSuscNsYWA

Hurl+Earthquake+Lightning Flash -> Air Attune+Lighting Strike+RtL+Arcane Wave+Arcane Blast is instant kill but you have to rebind your keys so you can press 5 buttons at the same time. You still have time to Phoenix under the same knockdown if the target somehow manages to survive but if they stunbreak+stability e.g. Dolyak’s Signet, turn 180 degrees and run for abit using Blinding Flash to avoid possible Earthshaker/Shield Bash and then Updraft -> Phoenix, Ring and Grab.

If they dodge the quakeflash, RtL away and hopefully lose aggro and wait for cooldowns.

20 points usually go into 10 Fire for Spell Slinger and 10 into Arcane for Elemental Attunement or Renewing Stamina. This is also more convenient for switching to Fresh Air/SF on the fly.

If you’re really confident and can rack-up bloodlust/stay alive, put 10 each into Earth and Water instead for Geomancer’s Aclarity and Cantrip Mastery instead so you spike more often.

Once the patch hits one of the Arcanes can be swapped for Frost Bow for the improved frost bow 5 for the 5 seconds un-stunbreakable tanky Ice Shard that’ll let you spike more frequently.

Play warrior, it has burst, survivability and it requires less effort unlike the ele that requires 3 times the effort for 1/2 the result.

But eles fights are the most awesome ones (at least when they last more than 10s)

Ele has best burst in the game. This burst is actually strong enough to 1shot warriors.

dante.2864:

Ele has best burst in the game. This burst is actually strong enough to 1shot warriors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdBJw9cBuEo

And you have now downed one player, but you have no stability to finish him, EVERYTHING is on cooldown and you are paper. Its a gimmick build that is no different from the bursty gimmick builds like a Thief has. Of course a Thief can actually finish someone off when someone else is around and actually be able to get away.

Bhima.9518:

dante.2864:

Ele has best burst in the game. This burst is actually strong enough to 1shot warriors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdBJw9cBuEo

And you have now downed one player, but you have no stability to finish him, EVERYTHING is on cooldown and you are paper. Its a gimmick build that is no different from the bursty gimmick builds like a Thief has. Of course a Thief can actually finish someone off when someone else is around and actually be able to get away.

If u talking about tpvp eles should never go for stomps, ever. Your job is do aoe cleave on the corpse and all fireskills are ready after the burst.

In a duel or any 1v1 u dont need stability to stomp, just time your air3 blind right and also your on full hp so no worries:)

Ye ofc its a gimmick build.

Reading the “Lava Tomb best traid” or something like that thread here,

I tried something I did about one year ago when I had no Idea about the Elementalist again:

I call it the: " I die, so what , I’m gonna take you with me!!!" – build :
30/30/10/0/0 D/D Zerker Gear ,
Traits:
1)Fire: Lava Tomb, Internal Fire, Persisting Flames
2) Bolt to the heart, arcane lightning , …. take what ever you want their maybe fresh air
3)Stone Splitters

Most of the Elementalists use a bunker spec right now, cause else you die very fast, but the problem is, that with bunker spec the conditions often melt them harder than they can do dmg in return resulting in death anyway.

So I thought give it a try, cause right now A LOT OF PPL are running condition builds, in fact that many that bunker ele is a pain in the kitten to play.

In terms of DPS a full launched Elementalist still outdamages conditions, especially if you manage to kill your opponent before he can fill your condition stacks.

So the basic idea is use burning speed => ring of fire => arcane wave => whateva does DMG,
if youre enemy is downed but you’ll get downed do it directly next to your downed oppnenent cause u have lava front and +33% dmg in downed state
=> rally

I used play now, and believe me I was amazed how outrageous ridicolously well that plain stupid build works right now that over 50% of the ppl run heavy condition based builds.

Havent used it in tpvp so far(dont dare to ruin my stats ;-) )

Best burst build for “fun”?

Probably 30/30/10/0/0. Lava tomb, internal fire and persisting flames; bolt to the heart, air training and fresh air (tempest defense if not scepter), and stone splinters. Berserker amulet/jewel with scholar runes.

Enjoy the instagibs.