Guild Wars 2

So today i was in fractals with a party when another elementalist start yellin at me to use only the fire attunment, others dont worth the time.

Actually i use fire the most cause it does more damage (staff) but he way i see it and with my build i believe other attunements have their own advantages:
When i change to water i heal right away 2k, besides the heal skills that can be used with combo the the frozen ground skill slows down the foes is very useful, about air attunement i use mostly the static field t stun/trap foes but gust isnt so bad either.
About earth this one i use alot beacuse of the cripple+bleed chances i can apply and for last magnetic aura reflects projectiles, this one is a life saver.

Later im gonna post my current build, need to figure out how first, but any feedback would be great.

Cheers.

Dude’s an idiot. Any ele who doesn’t do the Attunement Shuffle (it’s a dance that’s sort of like Gangnam style, but with elements) is a kitten Don’t listen to him, he’s just making our class look bad.

the other attunement isnt worth the time if ur just doing pure dps. but otherwise just ignore the other guy.

the other atunements are worth your time because there are no fights in this game where you don’t get hit. Not to mention you can combo-field off yourself using earth and fire to grant yourself might to give yourself more damage + if you’re running staff you’re most likely running a glyph of battle which gives you more might which does more damage.

Even if you just want full DPS, switching to ground is a good idea, since 2 and 5 both apply very powerful bleeds, 2 being the highlight here, since you can cast it 2-3 times before fire goes back off CD. Air 5 also makes any projectiles directed to the target apply vulnerability, making everyone else deal much more damage. So doing fire>ground until fire comes off CD>air (just for air 5)>fire is really good for DPS.

Also… Some people suck. Stop switching atunments… Maybe…There was a reason for it. maybe everyone had might and the combo fields were all awesome already.
Remember its not all about you.

If you guys were getting your butts kicked in the dungeon it almost certainly is not due to low DPS but just simply bad play on a large part of the party.
Especially when people start yelling about stuff.

But… if when in a pug… Haters gonna hate. Nothing else turns me off of a game faster than kitten holes. I dont care who its addressed to. Save that sometimes its fun to play along with confuse a kitten hole politics…
If you were not getting your butts kicked… Then you are not doing anything terribly wrong IMHO.

As a staff Ele, I say dance puppet dance! The more combo fields you lay out for your team the more beneficial I find Ele to be…

If we’re talking for straight DPS I would still do

Air 5 —> 10+ vuln. stacks ( with a good party )
Earth 2, 5 —> Bleed stacks

Only reason I would stay in fire is if… umm… … … if all of my fire skills were at 100% perma. uptime?

actually in dungeon i mostly use fire when i use staff.

Because i need other attunements at 0 cd as i need them…

For example the legendary elemental…
I just autoattack him in fire because i have to unleash everything as the shield goes up.
The shield in earth attu is soo useful at higher levels…also air 5 against lava elementals, water 4 etc etc etc.

Or the tree in swamp (higher levels) if i change i don t have fast attack to kill the minions.

Its not like other dungeons when u need to dps, mostly in fractal you need to survive and having cooldown on the skill u need could kill you

also fire does 90% of the damage dealt with rotation.

Against trash mobs etc, you should rotate instead.

Even something like Ice Spike deals more damage than the Fire auto attack anyway…so swap attunement, cast the biggest damage skill, and move on…by the time you did all that, you’re back to fire again.

but you just put your water 3-4-5 on 9sec CD and that may cost you……

Against fractal bosses you don t have to rush.

Wow. Where do these people even come from. Even the class name tells us that its a versatile profession. These braindead people are what is ruining the whole dungeon running experience for me when i run pugs. Eles not switching attunements, glass cannon people, people not using food and potions … and especially people who at scale 30 of fractals still cant dodge agony attacks after running those dungeons for hundreds of times.

Do your thing and ignore everyone who tells you what to do, thats the best way to achieve something that you can actually be proud of.

Sitting in fire with 30 fire with Internal Fire, Pyromancer’s Aclarity and Pyromancer’s Pussaince is really strong but telling you not to switch attunes at all is just terrible.

I agree with LordByron that you need to swap attunements accordingly as needed rather than just spamming away since that would get you killed in Fractals.