Guild Wars 2

THE SUPER SAIYAN BUILD. THE STRONGEST BURST BUILD IN THE GAME.

The Build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArYhEmIbzxzgjEAkCoMZESHiHW4gEVBA-TsAg0CnI4SxljLDXSuscNo4QxsAA

Video: GW2 – How to Destroy a Heavy Golum in 1 Second
(for idiots who think this is anything but a glass cannon troll build)

Hello, my name is Pintresting and im going to finally share my Super Saiyan burst ele build publicly on the forums. Normally most people assume that the 30/30/0/10/0 ele build is the strongest ele build damage-wise in the game. The truth is…this is wrong. There is another build capable of A LOT more damage. So much so that this build has the highest burst of any profession/build in the game.

I have been running (trolling) with this build for months in hopes that A-net would buff this build accidentally and make it overpowered. Seeing as ele will probably not be buffed for a few more months, im basically saying “screw it” and posting it for other people to enjoy.

That being said, the meta(what is considered to be the best) is so jacked up and so crazy that ele really hasn’t been usable in top tier pvp play for quite some time. I am not advertising this build to be some secret meta build because it is not with the current state of PvP. However, this build is fun to play and can be the ULTIMATE DAMAGE TROLL BUILD when used correctly. It is also probably the only build that if combo’ed correctly can destroy the new large golem in the HOTM in under a second. Enjoy!

THE BUILD:
0/30/25/10/5
AIR MAGIC: Bolt to the Heart (XI) / Air Training (X) / Tempest Defense (XI)
EARTH MAGIC: Earth’s Embrace (III) / Stone Splinters (VI)
WATER MAGIC: Vital Striking (VI)
Weapons : Scepter/Dagger
Amulet : PVP Berserker’s Amulet/Berserker’s Jewel
Runes : PVP Superior Rune of the Scholar (x6)
Sigil : Sigil of Superior Air (x1) / Sigil of Superior Accuracy (x1) OR Sigil of Superior Force (x1)
Utilities : Ether Renewal / Arcane Blast / Lightning Flash / Arcane Shield
Elite Utility : (Anything but fiery greatsword……)

After viewing the trait allocation, many people will ask, “how could this be the greatest burst build in the game when you have 0 in fire and 25 in earth!?!?!?!?!?!?!” Simple. This allocation uses damage modifiers in the talent tree to its fullest. For example….

Full HP : = 20% Damage
Air attunement = +10% Damage
Full Stamina = +10% Damage
Within 600 Meters of Target = +10% Damage
Target Knocked Down or Stunned = +20% Damage
Target Below 33% HP = +20% Damage
(optional) Sigil of Superior Force = +5% Damage

If each of these conditions are met (which is rare) the elementalist will gain a whopping 95% DAMAGE INCREASE against the target!!!! That’s almost double damage! However, most of these conditions are very demanding to meet, and require a very specific type of playstyle. For example, Scepter is chosen because it has the highest burst of all elementalist weapons and is useable at a range of up to 900 meters. Dagger is chosen because it combos best with scepter for maximum burst.

THE BURST COMBO : This combo brings out the maximum burst potential for this build and as such is the STRONGEST BURST COMBO IN THE GAME. If used against the right targets, you can insta kill it in under a second.

Rock Barrier (optional) (Earth 2) → Earthquake (Earth 4)→ Lightning Flash (utility) → F3 (Air Attunement → Lightning Strike (Air 2) → Arcane Blast (utility) → (optional) Ride the Lightning (Air 4)

To do this correctly you press Earthquake and lightning flash onto your target while you are in midair. As soon as your target is knocked down, you press Air attunement then arcane blast and lightning bolt at the same time. Your sigil of Superior Air should also proc during this combo if it is off internal cooldown. You may also throw your rock barrier before you open with your burst for extra damage. If your target is almost dead you may also use your ride the lightning to finish off your opponent, as this skill does a decent amount of damage in itself. If done correctly, you will have executed up to 8 DIFFERENT ATTACKS on the target in under a second, making most targets dead at this point; However, if your target survives you may updraft the target and go into your fire attunement and throw a dragons tooth and a phoenix at your target to finish him off. Remember, when you get in melee range, knock down your target, and switch to air attunement you get an extra 40% damage. You also receive 30% more damage from being full hp and endurance, which is why it’s important to not try and 1v1 or take damage in a team fight.

PLAYSTYLE :

HOW TO OPEN ON TARGETS : This build is not meant for 1v1’s!!! If you fail your burst in a 1v1 you are a target until your burst comes off cool down. This build must be utilized at a RANGE with your team until the burst combo is ready to be used. This is to ensure you stay above 90% HP and at 100% endurance for the extra damage. When you roam, wander around in your earth attunement keeping your rock barrier up just in case of possible ganks. When you enter a team fight you have two options.

1) Watch for an opening to use your full burst combo against the target.
2) Do enter target melee range if you cannot escape alive, instead, just attack using your air attunement auto attack, arcane blast, and lightning blast until a target drops. It still does A LOT of damage until you can make an opening.

AFTER YOU FULL BURST COMBO A TARGET : After you insta burst a target, any smart team will immediately focus you. If you have saved ride the lightning you can use this to exit combat quickly back towards your team so they can peel for you. Remember, you can switch to water attunement and use frost aura for 10% less damage and the ability to chill targets attacking you. If that still isn’t enough, you will gain Earth Shield at 50% HP giving you protection and stability. This is the perfect time to use ether renewal while you run back to your team, healing and removing conditions and the chance you will be immobilized. If you still have arcane shield you may also use this to peel for yourself. After you are back with your team, if the situation allows you may exit combat to get back to full hp. If your team still needs additional damage, stay in the fight and use ether renewal until you are back to full hp and continue to dps targets.

HOW TO STOMP A TARGET : When a target drops to downed state, you want to let your bunker go for the stomp considering you are very squishy. After you down the target, switch to fire attunement (if possible) and drop a dragons tooth and throw a phoenix on him for insane aoe damage on the downed target and his team. If you HAVE to stomp the target, pop your arcane shield or blind him with your air attunement 3 when you stomp. Remember, when a target drops there is an instant where the enemy team forgets about you to focus on how they will revive their teammate, be sure to punish them as such.

WHEN DO I FULL COMBO BURST A TARGET : Here are some tips of when to burst and when not to burst your target.
Burst your target when…

1) Enemy does not have protection
2) Enemy does not have stability
3) Enemy is not in Death Shroud
4) Enemy is out of position (easier escapes)
5) Enemy is known to be squishy
6) Enemy does not have traits that grant auto sun break or stability when knocked down
7) Enemy isn’t standing in wells
8) Enemy doesn’t have Aegis
9) Enemy isn’t surrounded by his team
10) Enemy is trying to stomp or gank your teammate
11) You do not have weakness on you

The more you play this build the more you will get a feel for who and when you can burst in a fight. This build CANNOT BE USED PROPERLY by those who click their skills or who use the standard keyboard layout of skills with a regular mouse. If the burst is not INSTANT the target will your knockdown and you will be crushed. I recommend using a mouse with buttons located next to the thumb and assigning your utilities to the thumb buttons, making it so you can do the burst combo with both hands, rather than trying to pressing 5 to 6 buttons at once with one hand. Remember, although this combo can be macro’d, if caught you risk the chance of having your account banned, so I advise against it.

BUILD ALTERNATIVES :

1) Outside of arcane blast, the last two utilites are useable at your discretion. I would advise 1 stun break though considering the rise of warriors.
2) Using a staff instead of scepter/dagger can do massive amounts of aoe damage (just don’t do it in a tourney….)
3) Using Fresh Air instead of Tempest Defense in your AIR MAGIC may reduce the damage of your ultimate burst combo, but it provides unmatched sustain damage and burst that is still very high. Plus you don’t have to enter melee range of combat! This works out excellent with a focus offhand weapon.
4) Frost Bow 4 hits VERY FREAKING HARD with this build when it hits.
5) If you feel you cannot avoid taking damage in a match, you can change your runes from Scholar to Divinity.
6) You can do a slightly different burst combo by starting it with Churning Earth instead of Earth Quake. This is more aoe damage oriented, and can do MAAAAAASSIVE aoe damage if used correctly when you lightning flash on a target and change to air attunement mid cast.

ENJOY THE TROLLING!!!!!!

-Pintresting (ps…keep this build alive! bump!)

Reveaux.5720:

It is also probably the only build that if combo’ed correctly can destroy the new large golem in the HOTM in under a second.

you’re kidding right?

I pray that no one else follows this build and guide.

The Elementalists are already a joke in PvP, we don’t need to be running around with super glassy builds pretending that we’re thieves and trying to burst and run.

You can’t team fight with this, you can’t roam with this and you can’t 1v1 with this, so why do you run it? To blow up stupid people? I can tell you it won’t work against decent players.

Don’t even get me started on how bad this would be in WvW…

ARM.3912:

Nova Stiker.8396:

I pray that no one else follows this build and guide.

The Elementalists are already a joke in PvP, we don’t need to be running around with super glassy builds pretending that we’re thieves and trying to burst and run.

You can’t team fight with this, you can’t roam with this and you can’t 1v1 with this, so why do you run it? To blow up stupid people? I can tell you it won’t work against decent players.

Don’t even get me started on how bad this would be in WvW…

It isn’t the build that is bad in WvW, it is the class.

Thanks for nothing anet.

Elementalists are not underpowered, we’re balanced compared to Mesmers, Mesmers are on the same level as us. They nerfed Mesmers and Elementalists then buffed everything else because…
…
?

Nova Stiker.8396:

ARM.3912:

Nova Stiker.8396:

I pray that no one else follows this build and guide.

The Elementalists are already a joke in PvP, we don’t need to be running around with super glassy builds pretending that we’re thieves and trying to burst and run.

You can’t team fight with this, you can’t roam with this and you can’t 1v1 with this, so why do you run it? To blow up stupid people? I can tell you it won’t work against decent players.

Don’t even get me started on how bad this would be in WvW…

It isn’t the build that is bad in WvW, it is the class.

Thanks for nothing anet.

Elementalists are not underpowered, we’re balanced compared to Mesmers, Mesmers are on the same level as us. They nerfed Mesmers and Elementalists then buffed everything else because…
…
?

No way, if you think mes is on the same level as ele. Ele is still a viable class if played correctly… But it takes us 10x the work the achieve our objective.

Granted finding a good mes is tough, but that aside, mes is one of the strongest classes in the game. Period. If you think I’m wrong the you’ve never played against a good mes.

They need to just bring ele back to its launch form. Vs the current meta, it would put up some amazing fights and be up there with the best classes.

Treborlavok.3504:

Nova Stiker.8396:

ARM.3912:

Nova Stiker.8396:

I pray that no one else follows this build and guide.

The Elementalists are already a joke in PvP, we don’t need to be running around with super glassy builds pretending that we’re thieves and trying to burst and run.

You can’t team fight with this, you can’t roam with this and you can’t 1v1 with this, so why do you run it? To blow up stupid people? I can tell you it won’t work against decent players.

Don’t even get me started on how bad this would be in WvW…

It isn’t the build that is bad in WvW, it is the class.

Thanks for nothing anet.

Elementalists are not underpowered, we’re balanced compared to Mesmers, Mesmers are on the same level as us. They nerfed Mesmers and Elementalists then buffed everything else because…
…
?

No way, if you think mes is on the same level as ele. Ele is still a viable class if played correctly… But it takes us 10x the work the achieve our objective.

Granted finding a good mes is tough, but that aside, mes is one of the strongest classes in the game. Period. If you think I’m wrong the you’ve never played against a good mes.

They need to just bring ele back to its launch form. Vs the current meta, it would put up some amazing fights and be up there with the best classes.

Really? Do show us a video of how viable you are while playing “correctly”. This I have to see!

ARM.3912:

Treborlavok.3504:

Nova Stiker.8396:

ARM.3912:

Nova Stiker.8396:

I pray that no one else follows this build and guide.

The Elementalists are already a joke in PvP, we don’t need to be running around with super glassy builds pretending that we’re thieves and trying to burst and run.

You can’t team fight with this, you can’t roam with this and you can’t 1v1 with this, so why do you run it? To blow up stupid people? I can tell you it won’t work against decent players.

Don’t even get me started on how bad this would be in WvW…

It isn’t the build that is bad in WvW, it is the class.

Thanks for nothing anet.

Elementalists are not underpowered, we’re balanced compared to Mesmers, Mesmers are on the same level as us. They nerfed Mesmers and Elementalists then buffed everything else because…
…
?

No way, if you think mes is on the same level as ele. Ele is still a viable class if played correctly… But it takes us 10x the work the achieve our objective.

Granted finding a good mes is tough, but that aside, mes is one of the strongest classes in the game. Period. If you think I’m wrong the you’ve never played against a good mes.

They need to just bring ele back to its launch form. Vs the current meta, it would put up some amazing fights and be up there with the best classes.

Really? Do show us a video of how viable you are while playing “correctly”. This I have to see!

I would never run this build. This isn’t my thread. I was merely commenting and correcting you on your Mesmer comment.

This is a build for pve guys. At least appreciate the work he put in to share it with you all. Stop all your QQ about elementalist ARM.3912 its really annoying.

Treborlavok.3504:

No way, if you think mes is on the same level as ele. Ele is still a viable class if played correctly… But it takes us 10x the work the achieve our objective.

Granted finding a good mes is tough, but that aside, mes is one of the strongest classes in the game. Period. If you think I’m wrong the you’ve never played against a good mes.

They need to just bring ele back to its launch form. Vs the current meta, it would put up some amazing fights and be up there with the best classes.

You kidding? Please tell me you’re kidding.
Mesmers no longer have a place in PvP, in fact, they are easily the most useless class in tPvP right now thanks to the unneeded buff to immobilize.
Pin Down, Throw Balas. 10 seconds of immobilize GG.

They even lost their strong point of being powerful with 1v1 as they get wrecked by condition engineers and warriors. Elementalists are the masters of nothing, Mesmers, the ‘dueling’ class is the losing class.

Mesmers are now the weakest class in PvP. Period.

FrownyClown.8402:

This is a build for pve guys. At least appreciate the work he put in to share it with you all. Stop all your QQ about elementalist ARM.3912 its really annoying.

100% agree. This build would work great for pve and the OP did do an amazing job with it.

ARM just wants to be a negative nancy about the ele. We have it tough, but it’s still a fun class to play and I enjoy. Do I wish we could be at our former glory, hell yes. But well see what happens in time. There’s still viable builds that can compete with the current meta in wvw atleast. Pvp… We’re pretty much sol.

30 FPS is more than enough for most recording and playing.

The real issue is that even if you do make a video people will analyze you second by second, frame by frame and basically it’ll become pointless because even the best players in the game can’t hold up under that kinda Monday-Morning Quarterbacking. Anything that can be used against you, even if it has nothing to do with the point you’re trying to make, will be held against you.

pretty extreme as dueling build, I see it working better in defensive scenarios with staff protecting the gate or choke point. Painful… xD

I’ll try this out. Looks fun.

I thought people were already doing this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdBJw9cBuEo

Reveaux.5720:

THE SUPER SAIYAN BUILD. THE STRONGEST BURST BUILD IN THE GAME.

Thank you for your effort making the build, going to try it on dummies on pvp and maybe in PvE. Love these kinds of guides :p

However your super saiyan reference made me think about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH_CcJ-uBWI

Reveaux.5720:

I have been running (trolling) with this build for months in hopes that A-net would buff this build accidentally and make it overpowered. Seeing as ele will probably not be buffed for a few more months, im basically saying “screw it” and posting it for other people to enjoy.

That being said, the meta(what is considered to be the best) is so jacked up and so crazy that ele really hasn’t been usable in top tier pvp play for quite some time. I am not advertising this build to be some secret meta build because it is not with the current state of PvP. However, this build is fun to play

I bolded all the points people made as counter arguments to his build that he already addressed. Lmao the OP wasn’t even long and some of you guys jumped all over it when he already stated it is for FUN. lmao

Oh yah sorry for having fun. Nice one!

reikken.4961:

I thought people were already doing this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdBJw9cBuEo

Except that’s the proper build, 25/30/10/0/5. Traits III, VI | VI X XII | VI. Not being bound to Vital Striking and Enduring Damage is great since you can KO people mid-fight as well rather than all devoted to one opening bang that fails 90% of the time now that everyone has seen it and expects it coming.

Also, Sigil of Geomancer/Hydromancer also does higher damage, can crit and ALWAYS occurs at the right time upon Air Attunement while they are knocked down for up to 4k. Sigil of Air/Fire procs before the earthquake for only 1k or 2k if it procs after.

sorrychief.2563:

Oh yah sorry for having fun. Nice one!

Fun is not allowed.

You’re only allowed to be optimal.