Guild Wars 2

Hey guys!

Since I have been playing ele I love to fight with a shield! It seems really cool to me, but I havent found any good use of conjure earth shield. Any1 suggestions? The game mode doesnt matter, it feels for me like it doesnt have a place anywhere.

At Mai Trin. Before her shield is taken off. You can use earth shield as a defensive skill to kite her around.

I use it for a couple things.

Combo it with the blinding ashes trait, glyph of storms, and glyph of elemental power. Activate the GoEP in fire for an absolutely permanent blind and burning damage, drop the glyph of storms on a mob, magnetic surge in to it, then magnetic shield every nearby mob in to the storm. You have 5 mobs blinded for a full ten seconds and taking a ton of condition damage. Works great in dungeons, I have also used it in WvW, but with a team of DPS backing me up. You can also use the GoEP in earth to keep people in the storm longer with the permacripple instead of blind, better for WvW. Never used it in PvP but feel free to try it.

Second use, the Antithief. Use GoEP in earth with the Earth Shield auto-attack to stick to thieves even through stealth. The auto-attack is a gapcloser and provides cripple by itself, with GoEP you can keep them permanently crippled. Nothing but Roll for Initiative or Withdraw are going to get them far enough away from you to escape the gapcloser. It also has two interrupts, if you keep the thief from stealthing with them use GoEP in air to completely destroy their damage with permanent weakness.

Third use, earth shield+earth focus 5+mist form= the largest amount of invulnerability available in the game. Me and a guardian took down Mai Trin and Horrik by ourselves when the rest of the team wiped, just by cycling through our respective blocks/invulnerabilites/interrupts and tanking the whole fight. I have also used this with some success distracting zergs away from more important targets in WvW.

Terrible damage, terrible defence and terrible synergy with traits.

Please don’t nerf it Anet D;

It’s a little buggy
but as noted above, it’s amazing for chasing, and for turning into a tank