Guild Wars 2

I’ve tried many builds since the patch but I still find myself gravitating towards the water and arcane lines. I have realized the damage potential of ignoring those lines, but the survivability I get from these lines is like a security blanket.

I’m getting better at building might using S/F, but I still find that D/D is my favorite. D/F is ok, but I find the focus breaks up the flow of combat for me a little bit when used with dagger.

I guess my trouble is that I have no problem building fully offensive on my warrior, but when I try to do it on ele it just doesn’t feel right without EA, healing ripple, elemental attunement, etc.

Everyone agrees, even Anet. However pushing good water/arcane traits higher in the tree only increased water/arcane dependence.

What they should have done is made a solo version of Elemental Attunement baseline, with a trait to restore the AOE version, move cleansing water back where it was, then focus on making some decent traits in fire, earth, and air. Cleansing fire and Diamond skin have both proved to be crap.

You just need to practice without any points in Arcana. You’ll get used to it – and not having any Arcana will make you a better player.

For PvE, use one of the builds shown in the following link (I recommend Build F or G, since those have the most utility):

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/The-Ele-Meta-Dungeon-Speed-Runs-2-0/first#post3112677

It’ll be difficult at first, and you’ll probably die a lot. But stick with it. After a week or two, you’ll get to the point where you can out-survive everything (mainly cause things die so fast, so you don’t need survivability anyway).

I manage to use offensive builds….
Yet without 20 water and evasive arcana i find it too boring….

So i keep 0/20/0/20/30
It also is awesome for pugging challenging content….
But that forces me to use another profession for 80% of PvE