Played GW2 a while back in 2012/13 as a cleric ele with a staff and it seemed to work alright in my group. Thinking of starting to play GW2 again casually and wondering if cleric ele is still a viable way to roll for pve, or do I have to respec?
If it’s for dungeons, then it’s pretty bad ( yeah ok you get a kitten if you write bad followed by as ) as support comes from other things than healing ( offensive support via might, fury and vuln stacking and defensive support via projectile reflection, for instance). For solo pve, you can go whatever, but you’d still have better results with another gear set.
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You won’t wanna use anything that isn’t power-based in PvE. That’s the most important attribute. The least important attributes for an elementalist in PvE would be healing power and condition damage.
Toughness and vitality are useful against world bosses since you can’t crit those (the ones that count as structures, i.e. golem mark II and tequatl etc), but the thing is having gearsets just for world bosses… is quite wasteful since it’s always just zerging anyways.
For things like dungeons and fractals you never wanna take something besides berserker on an ele. Everything else is extremely wasteful by comparison.
If it’s for dungeons, then it’s pretty bad ( yeah ok you get a kitten if you write bad followed by as ) as support comes from other things than healing ( offensive support via might, fury and vuln stacking and defensive support via projectile reflection, for instance). For solo pve, you can go whatever, but you’d still have better results with another gear set.
Cheers for the reply, whats a good ele build for dungeons then? That’s probably what I’m most interested in atm.
There’s a lot of small variations, but the core go-to build is 6/6/2/0/0 or 6/6/0/0/2, berserker armour, trinkets and weapons. For staff, take Internal fire, Pyromancer’s alacricity, Persisting flames, Bolt to the heart, Arcane lightning and Tempest defense, and then Blasting staff in the arcana line. If scepter/ focus, take Burning precision and Conjurer, and swap the last air trait for Air training. Then take Stone splinters in earth. The staff build is higher dps and easier rotations, the scepter build is more might for your party and more utilities.
That’s a quick overview, but if you have any questions I’ll answer them.
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As another staff elementalist who came back after a looong hiatus (used to roll pvt 6/6 monk in wvw and event zergs in 2012/2013), I can confirm that it’s berserker or bust. Even when soloing or doing the living story chapters, my success rate and killing speed with my pvt monk’s set was terrible compared to a zerk set I tossed together in 30 mins or so (thanks Purple Miku for the tips, btw!). I use 6/6 Flame Legion runes for now, they’re cheap and seem to be not that much worse than scholar’s.
Survivability isn’t really any worse either. Low toughness means you get less aggro (I think?) and geyser + healing rain blast combos can get me from 0 to full in a few seconds with zero +healing. Sure, I have less hp, but in my experience if something is hitting me in pve, I’m either dodging it, kiting it, using some sort of block/invuln skill, or dying. Not to mention, the faster the enemies die, the less chances they get to land hits…
As others have said, you don’t NEED it in the slightest. That said, it IS rather fun to play a “Healer” Ele in guild dungeon runs where you can drop Water fields and blast them and see everybody’s health go from almost empty to like 75% in under a second. XD
So, go ahead and make a set if you like for those fun runs. (I have one! Clerics plus Sup Runes of the Monk + Aquatic Benevolence.) But yeah, I wouldn’t recommend going pure healer for your typical PUG groups.
I, personally, love Cleric’s gear. I use it in every game type along with my Soldier’s and Berserker’s gear.
Cleric’s does lack a little on the damage side, however. So if you’re going to use it, you need to be decent at might stacking and you can also supplement your trinkets, amulet, and accessories with Berserker’s attributes to give you that extra push in damage.
It works extremely well when I’m roaming around in WvW.
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That is usually not true. Aggro in gw2 works differently, mostly it’s the closest dealing damage targed, toughness plays either no role or has a smaller importance.
Celestial everything is the easiest way to not go wrong. However half celestial and half knights/cav makes it more exciting.
How does reducing your output make it more exciting?
oxtred’s post above me is the truth – celestial is terrible for PvE, but good in PvP and WvW.
It’s actually pretty crap in WwW as well since the power cap is much, much higher and pure power/ condi specs are far more viable than jack of all trades master of none kind of things. Having a bit of celestial can be beneficial, but full cele specs are less useful than their raw power counterparts.
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Best option to PvE with is zerker sure, but you need quite some practice and/or a good group to surive with a zerker ele.
If you’re having troubles try getting some valkyrie armor, it’s sub-optimal yes, but it’s better than being dead and it’s close to zerker power levels (just the armor, not the whole gear)
