Guild Wars 2

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After 6 hours of testing this is the most viable build I think ele has for d/d. I really wanted to go back to the roots and get rid of tempest since might stacking doesnt work well with overloads.

It suffers from obvious weakness

-massive boon corrupt
-heavy focus/projectiles

Strengths
-Very good burst potential with might stacking (i crit 5-6k fire grabs)
-High condi cleanse
-High healing and protection uptime

You have to be careful in the team fights if there is a dh or necro around. Strafe around the points to do your damage.

You can win or stalemate most 1v1’s

Reasons why it won’t be top tier

-Strong melee burst on point with dh/reaper/warrior
-improper use of cantrips will leave you vulnerable to condi damage
-one stunbreak
-ride the lightning often useless when it comes to running away

I forgot to mention fire grandmaster trait is personal preference. I chose that for fury and fire field uptime for stacking might. Blinding ashes is only useful in 1v1-2v2

After further testing the build is not viable. I am afraid offhand dagger will be just like scepter, buffs that never address the issue with the weapon. Builds too dependent on boons and not enough damage mitigation or condi cleanse. Its pretty ridiculous the amount of condis being kitten out these days.

Sorry anet but I can’t polish a terd

Yes for me leaving out magnetic wave is a big drawback. Its the main skill to either save from a condi bomb or to suddenly reflect a rapid shot or other important bow shot.
And the unblckable knockdown in air is a guardian breaker … I even somtimes miss the interrupt from comet …. I learnd to like it as a backup if i see a rezz attempt.
And obsidian flesh is such a good savestomper or focus emergency ….

Wolfric.9380:

Yes for me leaving out magnetic wave is a big drawback. Its the main skill to either save from a condi bomb or to suddenly reflect a rapid shot or other important bow shot.
And the unblckable knockdown in air is a guardian breaker … I even somtimes miss the interrupt from comet …. I learnd to like it as a backup if i see a rezz attempt.
And obsidian flesh is such a good savestomper or focus emergency ….

I’ve always told that Focus is the reason why Elementalist can’t get nice things. It’s always too good and made Elementalist “viable” for too long. Hell, it even nerfed all other builds to the ground.