Guild Wars 2

I’m a D/D Ele (suprise), and I mostly only play Dungeons with a little PvE. I was running full PVT gear until recently, and while I was having a lot of fun with the class and my survivability, my DPS was dismal, so I decided to work some Precision and Crit% into my build.

At first I totally dropped all my PVT gear for Knights and a little Valkyrie mixed in, but I was dying all over the place. I started working some PVT back in, and I’ve found a medium where I never die and I’m doing at least 50% more damage than my original PVT build. While I really like it, I am constantly second guessing myself as to whether I can dial back the PVT more in favor of more Precision and Crit%.

So, here’s my current build:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.3|8.1c.0.8.1c.0|0.0.0.0.0.0|1n.7x.1n.9c.1n.7x.1n.7x.1n.7x.1n.7x|4u.d1f.1p.61.1p.61.1n.64.1n.64.3v.0|0.a1.a3.k35.u56b|0.0|1n.1t.1v.1y.28|e

I liked the idea of going 6x Divinity, but it’ll cost me a fair chunk of HP. I see a lot of people going for Boon duration, but I feel like I’m pretty good at keeping Fury up a good half the time, and my sigils allow me to keep a good 15+ stacks of might on most of the time.

What do the pros think?

Ruby orbs. Beryl if you end up needing a bit more defense.

Yeah divinity really aren’t worth it. Definitely not the whole set; I could see using 2 along with Superior Monk and Water for some crit damage after boon duration, but i would never use more than that. Ruby orbs are great, especially the embellished ones if you feel like spending a couple ecto: they have one of the cheapest trade-offs of stats for crit damage. If you’d rather go with runes, than Eagle and Scholar are good offensively oriented choices

Where do you get Embellished orbs? I can’t find anything in the Wiki about them.

Ogre forever and never look back son :p

You are welcome

One thing you could consider is how much stats the critical damage costs per item, and only use the gear the sacrifices relatively little stats per % critical damage.

As for the runes, the boon duration runes are useful for more than fury and might. Longer protections and regeneration could allow you to deal more damage because you don’t have to pull out of danger as often.

Ivano.2604:

Ogre forever and never look back son :p

You are welcome

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Ruby and Beryl are the best price to performance ratio.

120 Power
84 Precision or Vitality
12% crit damage

Getting 12% crit damage usually comes at a heavy cost of another stat. The only way to get crit damage at a very attractive budget is by using orbs, rings, accessories, amulets and capes. Crit damage on weapons and armor is too costly.

Dresden.1736:

Where do you get Embellished orbs? I can’t find anything in the Wiki about them.

So i forgot when I originally responded but you cannot socket embellished orbs into armor, they’re used solely for jewelcrafting, so ignore that part, but orbs are still one of the cheapest stat-wise ways to get crit dmg

Calae.1738:

Ruby and Beryl are the best price to performance ratio.

120 Power
84 Precision or Vitality
12% crit damage

Getting 12% crit damage usually comes at a heavy cost of another stat. The only way to get crit damage at a very attractive budget is by using orbs, rings, accessories, amulets and capes. Crit damage on weapons and armor is too costly.

This isn’t accurate. Capes have the worst crit%/stat ratio alongside Head and Leg pieces. Rings only have good ratio when they are Ascended, weapons have decent ratio. Shoulders, Hands and Shoes have amongst the best crit%/stat ratio and the best by far are exotic jewels:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Berserker#Triple_attribute (gotta scroll down a bit)

@OP: Personally I use Divinity runes, because they have the most stats and Ele actually makes use of all of them frequently, AND they add very high crit%. Ruby Orbs and such are nice if you aren’t in danger of taking damage, but where is that place?

I tried out a combo of two monk and water runes and two beryl orbs. Strangely enough, I seem to be surviving better than having 5 Soldier runes and a Soldier crest. Probably has a lot to do with the increased protection and regeneration duration, as I swap attunement like crazy.

I definitely like this setup more than the Soldier setup, but I still feel a little lacking in DPS. I spend another week running dungeons to see if I can’t dial back getting downed a little more, and if I can, I think I swap the Beryls for Rubies.