Guild Wars 2

Hey there, I’ve just finished lvling my Ele to 80
I’m mainly a large scale WvW player and I need some help with my build, since I’m not very familiar with Ele
Here it is:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=Vq;4BJVU015kM;9;702G;0236236156;46J;1R;0F18ZF18Zm-k51;2Fb;0meo9ret9weye6Z-870HV8aNX8aC
What do you think?
What I’m trying to do is have dishing out as much AoE damage as possible while still being able to survive.

Elite skill: I really couldn’t decide. honestly they all look a bit useless, but you tell me…
As for Arcane Wave, I know most people take Frost bow, but I just can’t pass the on demand blast …

Just tell me what do you guys think, I’d love some criticism and advice.

stop droll&roll would be nice in MT, but as a backliner, its kinda useless, i suggest auto frost armor, you’ll be able to frost ones who attack you and reducing damage by 10% is lifesaver.
I’m not fan of soothing dirustion, i rather cleanwing wave, but it’s just a personnal choice, both are good.
I don’t like final shielding too, cause often, as a full zerker, youll go from higher than 25% to 0% instant. At least EleCont allow you to retal, and ele knows better than anyone how retal is op ^^

The only 3 real thing you HAVE TO whange:
earth armor to flash.
accuracy sigil to strengh or fire (rather strengh on my mind)
rune to strengh

And i tend to say that now that IB got upped you have to take it, i was a great fan of arcane wave but i droppe dit :’(

Without doing any kind of modification on gear (yet) I was rolling around with this build (link) last night and wrecking faces.

With Guard Stacks + 25 stacks of Bloodlust (never died over 4+ hours) I was just blapping people with 7k Ice Spikes and 6k Meteors. Best of all I still maintained 2500+ armor and nearly 17k HP while doing it (will be over 17k when Robust kicks in a few days with 5/5 Guard Stacks). It was like having all the burst of old glass cannon Ele with strong defensive stats.

Granted last night seemed like an adjustment period and a lot of people weren’t geared properly as well as we seemed to largely be against JQ and TC’s scrub teams but it seemed ridiculously powerful. That mostly, I think, just meant I wasn’t riding my Cantrips as hard.

Thinking I may eventually adjust to something like Saphir (Assassins) armor with a Gobrech (Valkyrie) chest which would keep my crit about the same (39%) while trading a bit of Power for that additional Vitality. I’ve heard conflicting reports about them removing Guard Stacks in WvW (some say entirely, some say they’ll be made passive, etc) so I’ll likely decide then.

It looks more then a backlin support blaster :-).
So go that route: Take arcane precision and bountiful power.
Use glyph of elemental power instead of arcane blast. And i woud prefer lighning flash instad of mistform buts its a matter of taste.
I would even consider using air instad of arcan for that build.
With air you move faster and can switch to superspeed for escape. You will proc vulnerabilits and do more damage wirth bolt to the heart.
add the glyp trait for the healing and power glyph.
Also consider burnign precision for blasting from the back.

You camp fire and if needed water for healing support. If you need to flee go air.
Firy greatsword is mobility, but with glyphs you also can run the elemental.

And my personal favorit is cleansing flame. But thats better when runing around like a crazy chicken ^^.

And of course you can go for more ferocity in air like the build from Kodiak.
This and i would use the glyph variant and ad burn proc. But also a matter of tase.

Well that’s what builds largely are now, taste. You could debate forever whether or not Burning Precision and Blinding Ashes (damage and blind) is better than Burning Fire and Pyromancer’s Puissance (Condi Cleanse and Might) but at the end of the day the only thing that really matters now is gear and coming up with a decent mix of gear that provides you with solid defense and offense.

Thank you all for your answers
After reading everything and balancing my build in light of what you guys said, this is what I ended up with:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=Vq;4BJVU0-57NkY0;9;4023;0236036246;46J;1R;0F18ZF18Zm-k51;2Fb;0meo9ret9weye6Z-870HV8aNX8au

Took it for a raid today, and I had a blast
With the Applied Fortitude stacks, I had over 20k HP, I managed to survive really well, while also killing a ton xP
This is pretty much what I was looking for,
If there’s still something wrong I’m doing here, please let me know, I’m open for criticism

Thanks a lot

Well if you’re killing a ton and surviving that’s the most important thing

I think you’ll find however as you get into Ascended gear it’s usually better to swap the two and use Soldier Accessories and Berserker Armor instead. You’ll find a better mix of stats that way instead of doing Soldier Armor with Berserker Jewelry. Play around with it a bit as it’s generally easier to swap in Jewelry than it is to replace Ascended armor.