Guild Wars 2

Inspired by my urge to shine bright like a diamond and my undeniable need for fresh air, I came up with a few builds that are really working for me, and are quite fun, but I call them the lazyboy’s fresh air.

The first is more offensive than the second,
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArdhEmIbzR3gjDIjHhQH0hiHWgDwhlC4AA-ToAg0CnIqRVjrGTNyas1MoYWA

the second is a little bit more survivability, but still shines bright like a diamond and rocks like a hurricane,

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArdhEmIbzxzgjDIjHhQH0hiHWgDwhlC4AA-ToAg0CnIYSxkjJDTSmsMNoYWA

Diamond skin is really, really awesome, last night I was running through the graveyard, and there was only a bunker warrior, and he tried to impale me, but I got not one stack of torment, being full hp on this spec is awesome, cuz u can run straight over ranger traps and avoid necro deathshroud and all sorts of great stuff, so u gotta make maintaining your hp a priority

this is not a 1v1 fighter, unless u r forced too, this is a group fighter, and if u play right u will be smokin any fool who doesnt pay attention to you

I also call this the lazyboy, because i love armor of earth and arcane shield, but find their cooldowns to be WAY too long, so instead of taking them as utilities I take them as traits, and let my own fluctuating HP take care of it.

Diamond skin is very gimmicky, but if u can keep moving and keep your hp up U can really make the most of the trait, and when it does work it will bring a smile to ur face

and the burst of air 1+2+arcance blast+lightning flash, u can really hurt someone

and, I know some people hate divinity, thats fine, I took it for more hp, but ogre or scholar would probably be pretty sweet too

the thing with ele is, if u get jumped or teamed up on, u dont have many options but to run for help,

and and and and…focus earth 4 and 5 can get u some reliable stomps, especially earth focus 5, used at the right time=guaranteed stomps,

this is a super fun build, total glass, but I can assure u, it really does hit HARD

The first build is kind of doody. You get so much more out of valk amulet since you scale tremendously with healing power up until around 600. Final Shielding is a horrible trait. It still suffers from the mechanic which if you’re bursted down from 26%-0% it’ll never proc. Renewing Stamina is much better. Drop the move speed signet for cleansing fire/armor of earth and pick up some runes that actually give you something decent. You’re not running enough toughness/vitality/healing power to take full advantage of diamond skin on that build. You’re relying on your opponent to just make a mistake and blow cooldowns on you before just auto attacking you a few times, and you have almost zero ways to enter/leave/disengage fights because of the focus offhand, you have no way to get your health back above that threshold. Dagger offhand would even serve you better in this regard, because you could save your RTL and lightning flash to disengage to full heal.

Second build same thing. I’m not sure why you’re chosing focus unless you’re opting for the comet daze to put out more fresh air damage. Without evasive arcana or DOH cleansing wave, you just have zero staying power or ways to fully utilize diamond skin. The 30 in earth is giving you nothing for the build or the idea. If you want to go full gimmick, take 20 out of earth, put it into water, take vital striking, something else, and pick up valk amulet with berskerer jewel and some other kind of runes. You’d have around 450 healing power, do just as much damage above 90% hp, and have more options.

all that stuff u bring up is irrelevant,

because, actually the best way to utilize the cheese of diamond skin is to take as little damage as possible, and the best way to do that is to remain far away from ur enemy

s/f

also, focus, earth 5 is something every ele should love and hold dear to their heart, and if u dont, then u dunno what is up in pvp

I’m doing very well in tPvP having never touched focus for more than luls in sPvP.

And how is it irrelevant? If you’re saying you aren’t 1v1ing but team fighting and trying not to take 1400ish damage because you have focus-earth-5 to best utilize the cheese of diamond skin is… the best way to use the trait, then I’m not sure you know what is up in PvP. Even though you clearly say you want to team fight but if you get “jumped on by mutliple people” when you have no escapes or sustain, you will die, but you still want to teamfight… I just don’t know.

My apologies for trying to get this idea more foundation. Best of luck in hotjoins.

Not to mention your fresh air burst rotation is really suboptimal. Hurl + Lightning Flash + Air 15, Air 2 + Comet + Arcane Blast + Air 15, Air 4 for the KD+ Fire anything(landing a phoenix behind them before they get up is max damage) is much more damage and the daze prevents any retaliation minus dodging. With enough practice you can pull it off in around 2 seconds.

biggest problem with this build is that you’ll literally melt to any good mesmer/thief in 2 seconds if they’re not condi spec

I’m running same trait points but different traits and weapons. D/F is a lot better imo since you can burst and then lightning whip away while invulnerable from obsidian flesh. And projectiles are no concern. But earth I feel is way better for defense and as good or better than fire line for offense, due to all the %damage steroid traits.

I use geomancer’s alicrity to take advantage of focus earth skills and renewing stamina so that you can take advantage of 10% damage increase from earth grandmaster minor far more often (and just increase survivability a ton from dodges). I do also take diamond skin just because it helps with necromancers and engis and honestly it’s not hard to keep up hp since ether renewal heals over half your health bar with a burst build.

Jae.5138:

biggest problem with this build is that you’ll literally melt to any good mesmer/thief in 2 seconds if they’re not condi spec

i think that to correct this, is any ele build is going to literally melt to any good (fill in the blank) in a matter of seconds if their not careful…

so, I made my build with even less survivability and more damage

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArdhEmIbzR3wjDIhHEgBkAjCdg4hF4AcIA-ToAg0CnIqRVjrGTNyas1MoYWA

the truth is, only way to make ele work is keep movin and hit them before they hit u, it is very team dependent on your team giving you room to breathe

But if u can, they can blow someone up harder than a thief