Guild Wars 2

Finally broke away from the cookie cutter 0/10/0/30/30 build and am loving fresh air even with d/d setup. Im using zephery’s boon of course and the 20% cd reduction on air skills so i can RTL more often. I mostly do PVE and eventually will get into WvW and PVP. Is anyone else running this build? What gear do you prefer for this build? Thoughts from my fellow ele’s

No because you die like a kitten in pvp with such a D/D build.

i figured that for pvp but im mostly concerned with PVE so any advice would by greatly appreciated

Maybe if you offer some more insight about your other traits, chosen skills, gear and chosen playstyle, people can give you some more advices. As it is, I am afraid Aether McLoud comment is just perfectly true.

Friendly hint: people are quite nervous on this forum about the latest changes and their impact on D/D. Be prepared for some harsh statement. What works in PvE doesn’t “get into” PvP and WvW that easily.

I run this setup, but with d/f.

It’s a lot of fun indeed, sadly I had to take off fresh air since it was messing up my rotation and I just couldn’t do without the 20% cooldown reduction.

0/30/0/20/20 S/D zerker+cleric trinkets (some rampager if you want more damage).
Get every single trait that increases your damage output. Good now you die fast but attleast you’ll do enough damage to burst people down pbaoe with the fire burst and air aftermath.

I’ve been doing D/D 0/30/0/10/30 myself (PvE) and having a lot of fun with it. Soldier/Cleric gear (zerker weapons). It’s got solid survivability thx to all that Toughness and destroys kitten compared to pre-patch D/D Ele.

You’ll be perfectly fine if you go with full zrker gears and traits for pve as long as you know every dungeon/bosses mechanics. Pve is easy.

Im running 0/20/0/20/30 right now, not motivated enough to have long cooldowns on my attunements. I will say now that staff works awesome now with this build since they made aftercast much better. I can actually keep up good buffs in staff, where as before it was harder. I took the 20% cantrip and glyph cooldown since thats all I use. (heal and elite for glyphs, and two cantrips) along with auras giving fury. The 5 into water now is not worth it for 5 to 7% more damage.

How much you want to bet that this is the only thread that will get a dev response?

Thanks for the advice. Currently i have all Knights armor with Beserker daggers. I use LF, armor of earth, and arcane shield. Im just getting started towards gearing my ele with full exotic gear so hopefully i am going in the right direction with this build setup.