Guild Wars 2

I stopped playing my ele a while back even before the RTL nerf. I experimented with other classes and learned all I could about them. After months I decided ele was the truest love to my play style so I decided to play it again.

My old build didn’t work and I worked on making it more flexible. It’s a solid mix between CON/Direct dmg with some survival tossed in.

Gear:
Weapons – 2 Soldier Daggers (Superior Sigil of Corruption/Doom)
Rampager – Hat/Shoulders/Glove/Boots (Crest of the Soldier)
Berserker – Chest/Pants (Crest of the Soldier)
Rabid – Accessories (Coral Orb)

Traits:
Fire – 10 (III)
Air – 0
Earth – 30 (III / VI / XI)
Water – 20 (III / V)
Arcane – 10 (V)

It’s just a first run on it, but with the mix of survival/damage I’ve been doing extremely well in 1v1 and 2v1 situations. Swapping to staff in zerg fights for obvious reasons, but yeah, I’ll be mixing it a little since this is based on consistant damage and not spike. I may be removing the Berserker gear and swapping it out for something else but we’ll see. I may end up changing my accessories to cavalier’s to make the berserker worth while.

Typical stats float 1,800-2,200 power, 1700-1800 toughness, 1000-1400 conditional with a 41-61% crit chance based on might/food/aura

What good is crit chance to your build if you have no crit damage?

Even without EXTRA critical damage, critting still ups your damage 150% so even though you’re not massive crit damage, you’re still getting a massive boost to your overall damage. Again though, I did say was considering swapping a few accessories to crit damage.

The general consensus of the Ele community is that our condition damage is too marginal to focus stats on it. You should go for crit damage over condition damage on an Elementalist.

I have a guide in my sig that talks about Eles in dungeons. You can take a look at that if you want a good guide of various Ele builds in PvE. For WvW look at Daphoenix’s guide and for sPvP look at anything by Zoose as well as a new guide posted by Blinx.

If I was to go with a condition build for fun it would be d/f with apoth everywhere and signets with fire/earth investment. Offhand dagger has churning earth but thats almost negligible unless you run stability and blink to make sure it lands. Otherwise, listen to Neko.