Guild Wars 2

Getting back into my Elementalist after not playing it for ages. Honestly I leveled it up to 80 months ago then parked it at a JP chest and never touched it again.

So this build seems very appealing to me:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhEmKbwR5gjDAEFvcS4BBMkQRxM7A-jQCBYjBhEJIJfFRjtqpIasqaER1qkYWdAmzJyiO1A-e

The elementalist weapons seem to be a mish-mash of everything (healing, conditions, direct damage, etc). This seemed like a “do-it-all” build that covers healing when in water, conditions from earth/fire, and raw damage, while also having survivability.

Build would be used for WvW Zerg and PvE dungeons. This is not a sPvP build, and open world PvE is face-roll easy regardless of build.

Thoughts?

I don’t know much about eles in WvW, but for dungeons, elementalists are stronger when you specialize in doing one thing. The linked build seems to spread your strengths out too much.

A couple of popular and effective builds are stickied in this thread, namely the Scepter + Lightning Hammer build (in Neko’s guide) and Dagger/Focus (in Zel’s guide). Both take some skill to play and stay alive since you’re gearing and traiting for damage and boons, but both are fun to play

DEKeyzToChaos.7381:

I don’t know much about eles in WvW, but for dungeons, elementalists are stronger when you specialize in doing one thing. The linked build seems to spread your strengths out too much.

A couple of popular and effective builds are stickied in this thread, namely the Scepter + Lightning Hammer build (in Neko’s guide) and Dagger/Focus (in Zel’s guide). Both take some skill to play and stay alive since you’re gearing and traiting for damage and boons, but both are fun to play

So no popular and effective staff builds?

juno.1840:

So no popular and effective staff builds?

Highest damage staff build is sitting in Fire atune and spamming 1, 2, and 3 – maybe also 4 if your target is backed against a wall (and your FGS is on CD) and 5 if your target has a large hitbox/there are multiple targets tightly grouped.

Here’s the staff section of the high-DPS ele builds:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/The-Ele-Meta-Dungeon-Speed-Runs/first#post3112688

Although I don’t know why you’d want to use staff anyway. Might stacking on S/D and S/F is better, and virtually everyone in this game designates that responsibility to the ele, so a lot of people get awfully mad if you don’t max out their might.

EDIT: fixed the link

Full celestial would lose you to much power if you are looking for wvw build I would suggest this. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhEmKbwR5gjDAkHvcCLiCWUeMzO2A-jgDBYfIofAkIBJ5DI9RZNBKilhFRjVVLy6aYKXAqYJ1qDwcORW0pWKgRVGB-e
this will also allow you to change to dd ele if you want to swap few traits for dungeons http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83561-hamartias-sd-elementalist-build-dps-might-stacking/

juno.1840:

DEKeyzToChaos.7381:

I don’t know much about eles in WvW, but for dungeons, elementalists are stronger when you specialize in doing one thing. The linked build seems to spread your strengths out too much.

A couple of popular and effective builds are stickied in this thread, namely the Scepter + Lightning Hammer build (in Neko’s guide) and Dagger/Focus (in Zel’s guide). Both take some skill to play and stay alive since you’re gearing and traiting for damage and boons, but both are fun to play

So no popular and effective staff builds?

There’s this, but it’s extremely boring to play:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/85568-lh-is-the-new-bearbow-the-real-staff-dps-build-for-manly-men/

I would take full boon duration runes, and take lava axe and make it a might-stacking machine. With your Pyroancer’s puissance, using the lava-axe auto while in fire gives you 2 might stacks, and using blast finishers helps even more.

It seems like you are going to fire-ranged nuker. If that is the case, frost bow has a place as well.

Overall, it is a very nice build and can certainly work in wvw. Its not optimal, but if you enjoy the play-style it provides than go for it.

for dungeons zerk gear with scholar runes would do you much better