Guild Wars 2

First off, I just wanna say that Ele really frustrates me when I play her in sPvP. I haven’t played Ele that much in pvp since summer probably. I find that every other class has something more to bring in a match than my Ele.. However, since she’s still my favorite class and once used to be in a very good place, I thought I’d give it a try. I thought that I just needed to adapt to all the new changes that’s been…

Basically I tried 2 different builds, with few variations. A bursty S/D build and the old D/D build. Currently I’m running the 2nd. link: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vEAQJAoYhcM6ZW4wzBd0AARhLmIU8gFlH5MjNA-ToAA0CnI8S1lrLjXygsBNEZSA

Either way, it’s just not working. The bursty DPS build is just a no-no for me. It’s either kill or be killed and it’s pretty much the 2nd everytime. And I don’t like the playstyle itself. S/X thieves are just impossible to burst duo to 2nd sword skill.. So I went back to the old, more safe D/D build. It works a lot better, but I feel it’s still lacking. 1v1 is usually not a problem unless it’s against heavy condition classes like necro och engineers. I also once got basically 1-shot when a mesmer was targeting a player right next to me with her shatter burst.. lol? So yeah.. It just frustrates me..

I also know that eles aren’t that popular in arenas anymore.. But I do hope to find a build that at least works in solo arenas.. The few changes I thought could help would be taking ER instead of heal signet, though I like the signet more.. Other than that, I’m not sure what else I could do other than go some bunker build with 0 damage. Advice?

D/d getting a slight buff and the condi meta turned down. Expect to see more interrupt mesmers and spambow rangers. 20 in earth might do some good post patch.

I think the signet heal is really weak now but it’s getting unnerfed on the 15th. Still ER condition removal is hard to beat.

There is a pretty good build on near the top of this forum for WvW that adapts nicely to sPvP as well but I always end up going back to 10 30 0 10 20 either fresh air or tempest defence.

I don’t find I can survive at all without the soldiers amulet. Put a 5% crit damage gem on it.

I really don’t think there is a viable ele build at the moment. You can have some fun killing newbs really fast or bursting people already in combat but once you run in to a skilled player in any other class you’re going to get trashed.

@Frowny: I’m positive towards the upcoming dagger changes, but I don’t think it’s gonna make us on pair with the other classes in pvp. I’m unaware of the condition nerf, could you elaborate more on that?

Anyway, I’ve played around with different builds and taking some advice from the forums into consideration, in the end I ended up with this build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vEAQJArYhMM6ZW4wxBd0AyQRGMCiHWgDwhFF5wMA-ToAgzCsICSFkLITQygsBNEZSA
It’s not a D/D build which I was originally looking for and I also tried it with D/D at first, but I realized that it worked a lot more better with Scepter after tweaking a few traits, obviously. I’m currently loving this build in Solo arenas <3 It works really well for me.

paleeshi.1924:

@Frowny: I’m positive towards the upcoming dagger changes, but I don’t think it’s gonna make us on pair with the other classes in pvp. I’m unaware of the condition nerf, could you elaborate more on that?

Anyway, I’ve played around with different builds and taking some advice from the forums into consideration, in the end I ended up with this build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vEAQJArYhMM6ZW4wxBd0AyQRGMCiHWgDwhFF5wMA-ToAgzCsICSFkLITQygsBNEZSA
It’s not a D/D build which I was originally looking for and I also tried it with D/D at first, but I realized that it worked a lot more better with Scepter after tweaking a few traits, obviously. I’m currently loving this build in Solo arenas <3 It works really well for me.

I don’t think anybody is expecting us to be on par with any of the classes. The changes just makes us less out of place, it wont suddenly makes us the IT class.

Necro gets no more burn. Engi no longer immune to conditions. I’d need to read up on it more