First of all, this is a build that a build i theorycrafted (so i haven’t tested it yet). Anyways, i was debating between making this a D/D build or an S/D build, i chose SD because i like the skills better, and the fire auto attack does condi dmg (unlikes D/D’s fire auto attack). This build and plenty of condition clear, vigor, and condition damage, of course. Also if you’re wondering why i chose conjure earth shield, this is a perplexity build, and conjure earth shield has a few knockdown skills, as well as condition damage skills/survival skills. The reason i chose lightning flash was so it would be easier to land an churning earth, and the reason i took cleansing fire instead of signet of fire was because even though it’s 20kish fire dmg is nice, it’s precision is useless for this build and i liked the condition clears on cleansing fire. Lastly i chose congure fgs instead of gylph of elementals (for its stun which is useful for perplexity) is because i’d gladly sacrifice it for a way to escape from fights, but i’d probably use glyph of elementals in a duel.
I’d ove to hear some feedback, i haven’t even tested this build so i don’t know if it’s even good.
This is currently my build. It works well. If i am lucky enough to know that i will be fighting a Condi build i normally swap to Ether Renewal. Most helpful against Necro and Engineer i find. Mesmer you can use it but SoR works as well depending on the skill level as they can’t really spam you full of conditions from the get go.
I have been thinking about a possible change to 0/0/30/20/20 build that would increase my condition damage (currently around 2k when fully buffed) and increase my toughness to around 2100-2200 but also trying to see if i can cut down on the condition damage a little to grab some more healing power.
personally i don’t think Scepter is worth it in a condition build. I would take Dagger/Dagger instead. Has better access to Burning which is a key condition. The sigils arent the best either. Bleeding though decent won’t be your key condition, Burning will. I would go with Doom and Tormenting that would add 2 new conditions to your kitten nal that would need to be removed.
30 into Fire is a waste. You only need the +40% from food. All else while nice could be better elsewhere. The traits you picked while decent are not worth the loss of health, healing power, boon duration and attunement swap recharge.
I would go 0/0/20/20/30 myself its a solid basis, decent healing options and EA can be very good.
Not too sure about the earth shield as I haven’t used it much but it’s nice condition damage overall. I’d swap in a sigil of doom though for an extra condition and prevent enemies from healing too much.
With Eles a lot of builds should work on paper, but reality is a bit different so, it’s best to go out and test it out. And if you wanna push it, find a good necro to fight against to see how you can measure up.
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Versus good enemy you might be in trouble. I would take 1 stunbreaker at least, Lightning flash helps to keep the distance but not for long most of the times. I tried scepter but it’s not working well against thieves/mesmers who can stealth a lot and for scepter you need the target.
thanks for the responses, and why are do you guys recommend sigil of doom in place of any other condi dmg sigil?
Its a condition that you don’t have access to and it helps a LOT against Warriors and any other class with high regen. Those would be the key reasons why i use it.
