Guild Wars 2

I’ve started playing 2 weeks ago and I’m loving the dd ele build. I like how you can bunker with it till support arrives and most importantly you can beat almost every class by outlasting them in a 1v1. Now that they’re removing the cele amulet, is it still worth to continue playing DD ele, I’m currently at 15% progress on Incinerator, or reroll to another class, perhaps thief? Any class Suggest will be much appreciated. Thank you.

I’m not legendary or anything, but cleric’s is working well for me. only issue is 13k hp means I explode under heavy focus, like from 3 people. occasionally even 1v2s, but usually ok there

Reroll…elementalist is so inherently flawed that it doesn’t work at all without the cele crutch, especially after all the power-creep that HoT and specialization patch brought. Ele has only ever worked by taking every shred of defense possible, which are all soft-mitigation and healing that requires a sturdy-ish body to allow you to survive and heal through everything. The last time they tried to fix ele by nerfing defense, it was complete garbage-tier for over a year. In that time, they made exactly ZERO substantive changes that could open up a new play-style. Finally, after over a year, they just buffed cele and rebuilt the bruiser that they first tried to nerf.

DPS ele has never worked because ele has inferior mobility to thief, mes, + rev; has way worse hard-mitigation (mechanics that avoid damage) than thief/mes/rev; and has no mechanics like stealth that allows a burst builds to get the first hit in the fight (which determines who wins most of the time). The class doesn’t have the tools to play a dps build in pvp, and requires all the defensive stats to make its soft mitigation relevant as a bruiser.

When you do the math, you realize that ele is left with no role it can fulfill. It can’t trade blows with a bruiser like scapper, druid, or reaper; it can’t bunker and support like mesmer (currently) or guardian (classically) because the support is close-range and no hard mitigation; it can’t play dps as described.

History is repeating itself…don’t expect any different results.

For classic D/D hijinks in Hot join you can use Crusader’s Amulet mix with Rune of the wurm to give you some hp and extra crit. Use sigil of leeching and Sigil of intelligence to give some more damage since you lose hp and lots of condi damage. MEh! T.T

Good old Fire, water and arcane and lots of pew pew.. Good luck might stacking to 25

with the removal of celestial your best options might be the new sage or crusader amulet. you will basically be less sustain with more condi and power. try builds with decent fury uptime or runes that help with crit damage or toughness. healing power is not worth investing if your aim is to kill opponents. try arcane water fire or arcane earth fire when the update goes live

You would hate your life as thief, roll a scrapper or a druid theyre not really getting changed much from the looks of it. And they can both tank and 1v1 pretty kitten well

I stick to my ele and will try to make my build and myself better.
But i am tempted to roll a reaper.