Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I’m trying to figure out how to achieve the optimal balanced set of stats for my d/d elementalist, aside from going full Celestial (that’ll take me ~50 days to create given the time-gating). So far I’ve got zerker body armor + carrion trinkets, but I was wondering if there’s a better way to do this. For example I was considering zerker body armor + carrion rings/amulet + apothecary earrings, but I wanted to see if this forum could provide me with any insight before I sink the remainders of my gold into crafting more jewelry.

Thanks you in advance

EDIT: in WvW I mainly small group roam with 1-3 friends on Skype. I’m satisfied with just zerker staff if I ever join in as a militia for a zerg

I tend to use something like this.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJAoYhcMKc25wnBf0APAC5fx2JKQ5qJfC-TVTBAB0s/QYKFySZAf6AGVVFB1CQpaEmpEsLlEdcCAKTJGmqEAwDAIAACwNbzAYoDdoDdoDt28m38m3sUAPtMC-w

It’s fairly tanky but you should have no problem killing one or multiple people as long as you stack might and land your high-damage skills.

i used it like this, before i got my cele armor: knights armor, zerker weapons, the karka shell earring and a cleric one, assassins amulet and all stats rings ( i got those early on)

it’s basically the same as celestial, with less of everything, but it’s not that bad. bufffffffood, bloodlust and stacks will even it out

no need to put a lot of money into it, you can actually get the most stat combos at orr, from the karma guys

Kalen.1423:

I tend to use something like this.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJAoYhcMKc25wnBf0APAC5fx2JKQ5qJfC-TVTBAB0s/QYKFySZAf6AGVVFB1CQpaEmpEsLlEdcCAKTJGmqEAwDAIAACwNbzAYoDdoDdoDt28m38m3sUAPtMC-w

It’s fairly tanky but you should have no problem killing one or multiple people as long as you stack might and land your high-damage skills.

That looks good, but unfortunately I don’t have access to celestial yet; I’m shoring up the Charged Quartz still. Recommendations otherwise?

well, do you want to roam or are you running in an organized group?

I have been playing with many build types in the last 3 months just for giggles and fun for the DnD ele after 2 years of boredom

• Builds

DnD
02246 , 00266, 02066,02444

So for Builds the most efficient cantrip based build is 02066.

The “Lets have some fun” is 02246 with the incredible auras all day long and Signet of water and earth with LF just for LOLs.

The 00266 build is going to rob you of perma fury but give u almost perma protection with cantrips and is a build that is used also as much.

Other builds will apply but these are the tested and most used among dnd eles in wvw.

• Gearing

When you first start you will be having a mix of clerics,soldiers and valks.

Now as you progress , you first get rid of all your trinkets. Replace the entire set with celestial that you can get from laurels or PvE.

Once all your trinkets are celestial head on over to get your ascended back piece. Go Berserker on that.

Now after this is where u must do your own homework on what you want with your playstyle because trust me, its a pain to redo the rest.

Following that , get your ascended armour i.e. if unsure go all celestial though i like them to be 3 cav and 3 knights

Weapons should be celestial or if you feel like a risk taker , 1 celes or 1 berserker or both berserkers.

Please note, take very good care before making the armour and weapons. Hard to redo them.

• Stats

This is an area that cannot be agreed by there is an average consensus on the issue

1. Healing Power – ~500

Healing power doesnt scale that well for eles. Is there a difference between 1000 and 500 healing power, yes, but not as great as you think.

400(Lowest)
500(Average)
700(Great)
1000(significant diminishing returns)
2000(Really?)

1. Power

You want to aim for 3000 with stacks

With Stacks and buffs—>

2500(Lowest)
2700(Average)
3300(Great)

1. Crit% and Crit Damage

Crit% should be ~30%(50% when you count in fury)
Crit Damage ~ 180%

20%crit/170 crit damage(Lowest)
28%crit/177 crit damage(Average)
30%crit/190 crit damage(Great)
80%crit/220 crit damage(Things go Boom but you may also die in a boom)

1. Armour

This includes toughness

Average is 2.5k for a DnD

2.4k(Lowest)
2.6k(Average)
2.8k(Great)
3k(Wait, whos the tank in your group?)
3.3k(Really?)

^Thank you for that, that is very insightful. I personally like to hit hard and get hit hard, so probably I’ll lean towards zerker on some slots.

ALSO: to clarify, I prefer to roam in small groups. In zergs, I just bust out a staff and Lava Font all day every day.

D/D ele
Cheapest formula….. 02066 Knight Accessories, PVT armor with Rune of the Pack.
In wvw Knight accessories seems decent, and just coordinate you armor sets.

Sets if you have time.
Celestial chest/pants while the rest is PVT you can use Travelers or Rune of speed. call this a utility set since you can equip 2 cantrips and use earth sig as the extra utility or swap out of combat a frost bow to spazz on zerg or siege from a tower or so forth.

PVT Chest and Pants with the rest of the armor being zerker or valk. Use runes of Rune of Hoelbrak or Str runes if you really want to. Honestly the power diff isn’t too much. High risk and damage best for 1v1 or small battles between 20. IF you get focussed by 10+ you’ll go poof in seconds if there is no safe point for you to retreat to.

Or just go pure PVT armor it’s safer you can make a zerker armor but unless you zerging with superior numbers or a very strong front line you won’t be able to use it as well. For example if you team is 10 and you’re fighting 40 stay pvt and keep your tough around 1.7k above, eat mango pie, stack blood lust, guard stacks def and offense before you go. Most battles are won with a clear mind and being atleast 10 -30 seconds ahead of your opponent. If you get jumped by another opponent in mid fight reassess quickly weather to run or fight and watch out for the third. Sometimes it’s quicker to change targets and kill the person that had jumped in (who was expecting an easy kill.. lol).

I personally love Cleric’s gear for roaming in WvW. What? You think I’m about to die?
Wait for it…
HEAL!

Forgot one more stat Fuzzion. Condi dmg.

Lettuce.2945:

Forgot one more stat Fuzzion. Condi dmg.

What do you reckon would be the acceptable range? (With an average of 15 might stacks)