Guild Wars 2

Hi guys!

I just started into HoT with my full Exotic Zerk Elementalist. I really want to unlock the Tempest Treeline. The mobs kill me and i can’t get around cause i dont have any masteries in HoT …

Has anyone a viable non Tempest Heart of Thorns Elementalist build for me? With which I can play the entire Storyline and Hero challenges?

Thanks!

Dagger focus fresh air builds work well with some combination of water arcana and fire as the other 2 trait lines. One general piece of advice I can give is instead of heading south from the initial way point in verdant brink try going north instead. While going south is layed out as the more intuitive way to go, it is full of pocket raptors and veteran stone heads which are relatively dangerous. If you go north instead, the mobs are generally more tame, and you can do the itzel questline for some experience for mastery points.

iirc I used air/arcane/water fresh air. Air and arcane are mandatory for the build. Air is obviously needed for fresh air, and arcane is free permafury and tons of boons, including 50-70% protection uptime. For the last slot, water is cool for the massive sustain, but fire will get you a bit more dps.

I also used a condition build too, but that of course requires different gear. was very surivable though. made everything faceroll

Very few of the hero challenges in HoT can be solo’d. And yes, nearly everyone that isn’t on the developer team thinks that was an incredibly stupid decision, but unfortunately that doesn’t mean they are going to change it.

I used a dire elementalist, open world PvE still difficult in a few places (and horribly designed and annoying in far more) but the story was easy enough.

If you wvw you can use proof of heroics to get mastery points. Maxed out 2 of my alts using them. Its cost I think 30 for a random HoT mastery point. If you want to just explore and get them you can do that too. Arcane/Water tend to be mandatory for any none tempest build.

Conncept.7638:

Very few of the hero challenges in HoT can be solo’d.

Nah, you can solo them. I was able to solo every hero point with my tanky sustain burning build, except for pre-nerf Coztic Itzel Belongings. Including Balthazar’s Statue. Oh, also excluding the mushroom queen, because I never wanted to fight that thing ever again.

gl soloing them in zerker, though. That’ll take some serious skill. Though some of them are easier than others