Guild Wars 2

Hey so I play an elementalist in game as my major character and I was looking a little at possible build options. One thing I decided to try and do was build a chill based elementalist. I don’t know how much this would take effect for pve but I was thinking that for pvp, focusing on chilling foes would probably be a good support option. Does this work or has it been tried and falls? I currently have this build set up that. http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|8.5m.ha.d.5m.h1l.d13.0.d13|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|5c.7u.5c.7u.5c.7u.5c.7u.5c.7u.5c.7u.d16.d16.d16.d16.d16.d16|2u.d13.2u.d13.3u.d16.2u.d13.3u.d16.3u.d16|u128.0.u67b.0.a3|30.1|1l.1y.1s.27.29|e
If you don’t want to look at that, basically the summary is that it is based on condition duration, followed with toughness and vitality which I know are not ideal stats for elementalist.
It uses Ice ruin, Givers weapons, and possibly the ice bow to stack up to condition duration for chill being between 130% to 150% with the ice bow.
With enough defensive stats, it should be possible to land several chill effects on multiple foes, since they stack in duration, this build should slow down the enemies cooldowns to the point that they can easily be taken down by another player. If anyone with more experience has any hints, suggestions, or complaints toward this build, please comment and let me know.

Trying to dissuade you from doing a build based entirely round chill:

It’s generally hard to make builds based entirely on a single condition, because they get cleansed too easily, especially in the current meta where everyone is forced to run multiple sources of removal.
Also, condition duration only stacks up to +100%.
However, the biggest problem with this build is that elementalists on the whole do not have reliable access to a single thing. Generally, you need to be using all of the tools at your disposal almost all of the time. Not to say you are should be spamming off cooldown, but most of the time you are chaining between elements for various combos and maneuvers, because it’s nearly impossible to keep doing the same thing for any length of time with our high cooldowns and the specalization of elements.

It’s perfectly okay to play support, but you have to do it through a combination of buffs, control, and healing because all three are available to us and needed to fully contribute to team, or even to survive. Maybe someday specialized support condition elementalists will be usable, but currently, we need to put effort into other roles to do well.

No longer trying to convince you to not keep chill:

Lose signet of water. You can easily fit something better in that slot even if you are trying to go with the chill theme.
In fact, you would lose nothing and gain quite a bit if you dropped your points in earth for arcane points, and going with your theme took elemental surge and a few arcane utilities, because they would all apply chill on a much shorter cooldown, and deal damage/protect you too, on top of combo-field utility.
Rune of the ice doesn’t work with your build because of the 100% condi duration cap, in addition to all of the other chill bonuses you have on there.
Also, you didn’t do this, but don’t try sigil of ice, it has a 3% chance of activating with your build right now.

Hope this was helpful.

Let me say this for WvW. Three cantrips or GTFO is motto.

when I first started my ele I was chill spec in pve, fun times :P

have d/d on water attunment, elemental surge traited, use arcane power, use GoEP if needed and hydromancy sigil. the rest you could do on your own terms.
I believe you might not need condition duration food or points in fire to maintain chill unless you wish to troll people with more chill given that you could cover it with other conditions.

I haven’t been playing long, only like 3 months, but my main character is an elementalist and i got him to be a pretty brutal contender in pvp using d/d and focusing moderately on chill and healing. Putting 6 traits into water and the rest in fire and arcane. Sigils of water and ice. Boost those canttrips and definitely windborne dagger. Put your traits into regeneration and might. basically i found boosting healing to be way more effective than toughness and the repeated use of chill effects keeps those heavy damage dealers at bay. Also its really easy to drop serious fire attunement combos on a slowed down opponent. Essentially you should be focusing on lots of burns and bleeds while keeping a priority on not getting hit. Its a pretty good character for one on one and the chill is a great way to support your allies too, just don’t get caught outnumbered cuz no matter what the ele is not going to be the most survivable. This build helps you recover from damage fast, not take lots of it.

Before they updated the runes i would use 2 ice 2 svanir and 2 grenth runes = 60% chill duration. It was fun perma chilling everyone and shut down thieves.

dostunuz.3982:

Let me say this for WvW. Three cantrips or GTFO is motto.

kitten please i can run 4 signit 4 glyph 3 cantrip 4 weapon builds in WvW lurn2play brah ele take almost no damage or hard CC due to their positioning

Rangerdeity.5847:

dostunuz.3982:

Let me say this for WvW. Three cantrips or GTFO is motto.

kitten please i can run 4 signit 4 glyph 3 cantrip 4 weapon builds in WvW lurn2play brah ele take almost no damage or hard CC due to their positioning

Indeed! Even solo I run one cantrip (lightning flash) and do just fine.

Necro thread it rises from the dead :P.

0/10 effort guys if you visist the thief forum you’ll see someone necro’d a 2 year old post. truely we have skilled necro players in all parts of the GW2 forum.

sorrychief.2563:

0/10 effort guys if you visist the thief forum you’ll see someone necro’d a 2 year old post. truely we have skilled necro players in all parts of the GW2 forum.

would you rather they necro an old thread to build contribution to it or start a new one? honestly you people whine if people start a new thread without searching for an old one and then whine when they search for the old one and try to talk about it some more