How to Gear and Trait for WvW?

How to Gear and Trait for WvW?

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Posted by: Raggy.4602

Raggy.4602

Until recently I’ve been farming Flame Citadel Carving for Berzerker gear because I had no idea what gear to get and someone said to get full on grrrr damage gear!
But I’m so bored of dungeons and dying so quickly as Elementalist I want to gear for WvW because Its way more fun.

But how do I do this? What gear do I get and what traits do I take? Till now I’ve just taken random traits for whatever I’m digging at that time. With all berzerker gear I took 5 fire/5air/2 arcane …I think. I also use whatever weapon I’m into at the time. (Right now it’s Septer/Dagger)

Pls gief yer advice!!!! ~( ^ o ^ )~ ty ty

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Posted by: Prevas.9305

Prevas.9305

If you wanna run scepter full zerk is really the best choice, look up s/f fresh air build on metabattle for traits

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Posted by: Lawful.5314

Lawful.5314

Some people run Zerker for WvW, others run celestial, others have a mix of either, or soldier gear.

To each his own choice, some like being a bit more durable, while others rely entirely on their damage and awareness.

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Posted by: Hamster.4861

Hamster.4861

This is the build I GvG and zergbust with. Outnumbered fighting, mostly multiple separate groups, or something like 15-25 vs 35+.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWhMM6cW4wyBf0AWAC5YjaJKQ5l7CC-TViFABWpEUS1KGUVFAuAAGp8gKlYrs/QCPAA00BEA4AY4hDAL/8yPv8z97y/+7v/WKgIWGB-w

This is a fairly standard WvW Elementalist build, You trait into support – the water tree is incredibly valuable for your allies, and your ability to sustain in an AoE heavy environment. Your armor build, goes into damage. Your skills will hit very hard, with food and stacks, you will edge up to 2400 power, more if you’re running a Superior Sigil of bloodlust. Your benchmarks should be 2k+ power, 30% critical chance.

The last 4 traits in arcana are swap-able. If you dont like those traits, in favor of something else you could do well to move them.

If Hoelbrak runes are too expensive, try Pack Runes.

Here’s a video of me playing an earlier variation of the build. This video is almost a year old now… rofl:
http://www.tinyurl.com/SMCfight

Here’s a video of this build in a group setting. It’s not my own PoV (It’s the commander’s), but, i’m the max size norn with the spinal blades backpiece in a zerg of ascalonian tonics… I’m Water and Static 1 in these GvGs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOZiHR2ibwU

And here’s an ele who is way better than me for funzies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz9iqSywHjI

edit:
I should add – none of that gear needs to be ascended for the build to work. It will work just fine with exotics.

(edited by Hamster.4861)