Full zerk pve cookie cutter dungeon builds?

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Posted by: silklash.6154

silklash.6154

Hey guys,

I’m looking for some suggestions for some dungeon builds specifically tailored for a full zerk ele (zerk armor/weps, rubies, blah blah).

I’m trying to get back in gw2 after a 4month hiatus and well, with the new changes I am literally a complete noob with a lvl 80 ele in this game :/. I only have full zerk and I am wondering if anyone can be kind enough to provide some easy, generic, cookie-cutter full zerk pve builds that can help re-ease me back into the game.

Thanks in advance

silklash [HOPE]

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Posted by: Puandro.3245

Puandro.3245

I wont tell you what spec to run or what gear but the top DPS spec for eles is staying in fire with 30 fire trait to gain might on cast and 30 air with 10 earth. I wouldnt run that in PvE groups but its the top damage spec.

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Posted by: benda.4893

benda.4893

Damage traits are worthless on elem, 0/10/0/30/20 (other 10 is up to you) is most effective build for dungeons/fractals 40+ regardless of whatever you’ll read anywhere. Building pure glass cannon elem with traits is such a waste i cant even describe it with words.

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Posted by: haviz.1340

haviz.1340

0/25/0/25/20 with zerker and s/d or d/d works good for dungeons like arah.

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Posted by: Anadur.4832

Anadur.4832

You could try my build, I havent had any problems whit doing damage/ or surviving/ or supporting.

I´m runing a 10/30/0/15/15 build at the moment, you can switch around a point here or there, but the important bit is to have high crit.
In Fire I picked VI
In Air I picked VI, X, and V ( or XII in pvp)
In Water I picked VI
In Arcane I picked V
I´m using Superior Runed of the Oger and Berserkers on jewlery whit PPC.

Utilitys: Ether Renewal / Arcane Wave/ Arcane Shield/ Mist Form / Glyph of Elementals.

This Settup gives me good Damage around 2000-3000 damage on Fire Auto attack, and I can crit up to 5-6000 on Air #2. I also have Nice survivability thanks to my Utilitys and the extra healing from 15 in water+ from Air Trait V.

A good rotation I use is starting in Fire I do the folowing:
F#2 – F#3 – F#5 – F#2 Switch Waterer
W#2 – W#4 Switch Air
A#2 – A#5 Switch Earth
E#1 -E#1 – E#1 – E#5 – E#2 Switch Fire Start over rotation. This will ofc change during fight but this is a guidline to keep coming back to. I´m guessing I will get a ton of post saying how bad this is but its working great for me, Dungeons feels almost to easy.

Hell I use my utilitys mostly for ressing others then protecting myself :P

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Posted by: madatom.5218

madatom.5218

Ugh what is up with this forum that everyone just wants to go Bunker build and anything else is worthless. Sure it might be good but go play the game the way you want and let others play the way they want. OP clearly asked for a full zerker build here.

if you want to deal maximum damage as a power precision build you need to be able to switch between attunements quickly, you will find that while you get bigger numbers going full 30 into fire the dps increase is only marginal

most people run water/arcana because it provides so much extra utility and survivability without sacrificing too much damage, infact you actually gain dps because of the attunement recharge and boon duration

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Posted by: benda.4893

benda.4893

Damage traits are worthless on elem, 0/10/0/30/20 (other 10 is up to you) is most effective build for dungeons/fractals 40+ regardless of whatever you’ll read anywhere. Building pure glass cannon elem with traits is such a waste i cant even describe it with words.

Ugh what is up with this forum that everyone just wants to go Bunker build and anything else is worthless. Sure it might be good but go play the game the way you want and let others play the way they want. OP clearly asked for a full zerker build here.

You do realise you actually gain damage by speccing bunker and gearing full zerk rather than getting damage traits and getting bunker items, right? Also you loose on so much utility compared to water/arcana spec your usefulness drops twice as much from properly specced elems

Long story short. Sure, play whatever you want. Just don’t go on forums and tell people that it’s actually a good build, because it’s not. There’s enough bad elems out there without your help

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Posted by: silklash.6154

silklash.6154

Much thanks for the suggestions everyone.

I’ve decided to run 0/10/0/30/30 with full zerk. Thanks everyone for their help

silklash [HOPE]