Guild Wars 2

So I was fighting a dagger/dagger ele (standard build with Mist Form, Lightning Flash, and Signet of Air) in the dark room of the Obsidian Sanctum jumping puzzle, and was rather irked at how easy it was for my enemy to dodge my scepter’s primary hard-hitting fire attack, while they suffered no such difficulty.

I lost in the end (after about 5 minutes) because I dodged too many times attempting to avoid Burning Speed and didn’t have the endurance to avoid their next Churning Earth. (I was running 0/20/0/30/20 with Arcane Wave and Arcane Blast, so I took Arcane Mastery instead of Renewing Stamina.)

Anyway, I just made this thread to once again whine about how ask why the scepter’s offensive fire, water, and earth skills are so… bleh. I want this issue to be more widely recognized, dagnabbit!

I am not very good at ele, but did you try to Air skill 4, then 5, then switch to fire, cast number 2 or smthn? I do that in spvp when i run scepter.

bombula.2940:

I am not very good at ele, but did you try to Air skill 4, then 5, then switch to fire, cast number 2 or smthn? I do that in spvp when i run scepter.

You mean Blowout (dagger air #4 oops #5) followed by Dragon’s Tooth? Doesn’t knock the target down long enough, and even if it did, Burning Speed doesn’t need a CC to hit its target.

Chaosky.5276:

bombula.2940:

I am not very good at ele, but did you try to Air skill 4, then 5, then switch to fire, cast number 2 or smthn? I do that in spvp when i run scepter.

You mean Blowout (dagger air #4) followed by Dragon’s Tooth? Doesn’t knock the target down long enough, and even if it did, Burning Speed doesn’t need a CC to hit its target.

yes, i mean blowout(air 5). And yes i think Burning speed is superior. But scepter can hit multiple targets with air auto attack, that’s cool imo.

D/D mainhand has faster attacks generally while being mostly in “melee” range while sceptor has ranged attacks that are slower it’s meant as a form of compensation. However I will say that sceptor needs some love and even more so the focus.

Sceptor is still capable of incredible burst if you check out this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Elementalist-Scepter-Dagger-WvW-1-Vid-4-1-13/first

I personally rarely use sceptor in pvp but that could be taken as more of a personal taste I like getting up close and personal.

Serephen.3420:

Sceptor is still capable of incredible burst if you check out this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Elementalist-Scepter-Dagger-WvW-1-Vid-4-1-13/first

Eh, that build is extremely gear-dependent, and doesn’t even exist in SPvP.