Guild Wars 2

Alright, so without flaming me as hard as you can for being an unskilled chump, are there any viable playstyles that utilize D/D that don’t have to swap elemental attunement?

I used to play a Warrior in WoW, and it just feels too much like stance dancing to me. I’d be interested in a D/D playstyle that didn’t have to stance dance, but I don’t know if such a thing is viable or if swapping attunements is pretty much mandatory to succeed.

Do you know any viable warrior builds that don’t use their burst skills? Do you know any good guardian build not using virtues? Do you know any good mesmer build without shatters?

If you do not want to use the mechanic of this class you should play an other class.

If you don’t like the “stancedance” playstyle, then D/D is definitely not your weaponset, if Elementalist is even a class you would enjoy. Staff is probably the closest you can get to one static attunement, but even then each attunement has its role and you will need to cycle as necessary.

Ludus Rex.1562:

Alright, so without flaming me as hard as you can for being an unskilled chump, are there any viable playstyles that utilize D/D that don’t have to swap elemental attunement?

I used to play a Warrior in WoW, and it just feels too much like stance dancing to me. I’d be interested in a D/D playstyle that didn’t have to stance dance, but I don’t know if such a thing is viable or if swapping attunements is pretty much mandatory to succeed.

From a PvE perspective…

For any ele weapon set except staff, you’ll need to swap attunements for it to be competitive with the DPS that you’ll see from other classes. For staff, you can pretty much camp fire and do good DPS to a single target or a group of bunched up targets, but the build doesn’t bring much to your party other than a few stacks of might (which, compared to many other ele builds out there, is a DPS leech build).

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ofc you can play in 1 atunement. Just don’t think you gonna have a good time

it’s hard to survive basically

I kinda understand what you want. I have every class except mesmer. Ele is probably the hardest one to play… You need to switch a lot on Engi as well but at least Engi has no CD….

Grab a conjure lightning hammer and you´re good to go…well unless you want to pvp or do anything little bit more challenging…then you´re screwed.

Strang.8170:

Grab a conjure lightning hammer and you´re good to go…well unless you want to pvp or do anything little bit more challenging…then you´re screwed.

This is the only viable build that does not switch often, you just use LH and sit in water.

Overall however I just can’t understand playing ele and not wanting to stance dance… That’s what the class is built around and it was built that way on purpose. I mean engi “can” play without kits (or with only one kit) and there are some good builds but ele literally needs to swap atunements on CD.

I don’t think you will enjoy this class.