How is S/F?
I realy like S/F. But i play it very exotic as earth based condition ele.
I did´t sPvP with it. I play WvW roaming.
The gear is a mix of rabid/dire/rampager + undead rune.
F/A/E (jeha very non meta).
Don´t underestimate the fire auras (swap+focus) i traited zephys boon.
It has a very hard time against good condition removal/bunker. But its totally great against zerker setups.
It’s pretty bad. Crappier healing, no mobility, poor damage. Some utility, but not enough to justify losing out in so many other areas (I’ll use it in Fractals sometimes for the projectile destroy, but that’s about it). The CC isn’t even all that much better than what you get from the offhand Dagger, though even then, most mobs worth CCing have Deviant anyway. Maybe it’d be better if the Scepter’s autoattacks weren’t so bad, but even then you’d probably be better off with an offhand Dagger.
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Everything I say is only in reference to PvE and WvW.
Agree. It lacks damage to be a stable threat. Eles wait for auto improvemet on scepter for a long time :-). But single target blindspam when you combo it with blinding ashes is anoying :-).
Lol, that just reminded me of ele blind spam in GW1.
worst spec for pvp right now in the dps departement, most likely bottom tier together with marauder engi.
S/F works much better in roaming wvw
S = Good single target damage
F = Good Def
D(main hand) = Good Cone/aoe/Single close range damage with CC/Retal
D(Offhand) = Massive aoe burn/dps/single target damage + knockbacks +gap closer