I suppose if any place was the right place to do this it would be here. Hey guys I was hoping some of you could judge my ele build, recently I’ve been working to respec him and this is sort of what I’ve come up with.
Its more of an all around and luckily I can change out certain traits to be good in both WvW and anywhere else. Yes it is a d/d and although I like all the occurrences of new s/d builds the play style for s/d the weapon still makes my brain melt (no offense but my preference is more towards the dagger’s close range quick movement style).
This of course was inspired by the last part of dapheonix build (still usable after patch btw) but I wanted to try to move to a slightly more dps area rather than the just the flow of ele tanks.
Some reasons – Consider these premptive answers to questions I felt I might get asked -
- You still use 10 air? : Honestly ive gotten a bit too adapted to this to let it slip away and although anet seems to be bent on instead of making this class arguably one of the fastest to arguably average or one of the slowest (at this point warrior, thief, ranger (can), and engi (that knows how) can move faster than us if we do not have this trait) and I don’t feel like taking 5th for fastest class. It was a judge up between geomancers freedom and zephyrs so I sided a bit more towards the DPS
- Why still using lightning flash?: This was also a huge conflict now that lightning flash is no longer a stun breaker. Cantrips are now only 2 stun breakers with lengthy cool downs but because of this change it looks as though lightning flash is almost perfectly fitted with churning earth and the deadly d/d combo
-Some conflicts-
- I had a hard time thinking about what to put for 20 water, although elemental abatement is a great skill it doesn’t hold a lot of combat potential (unless somehow your jumping off a keep to annoy the crap out of the zerg below) its great for PvE and exploration but overall its lacking in offense. While on the other hand soothing disruption is not entirely worth it if your not willing to go 30 for cleansing water so for the most part i was a bit directionless here (although since this is still a 3 cantrip build and now that I only have 2 stun breakers it might be a good idea to try and maximize these as much as a i can with cantrip mastery but its still a quandary) .
- Stone splinters seems to have some issues, as ive seen through some reports the damage only seems to be 5% not 10% so 1 of 3 things will happen either Anet will correct this at some point and give us the 10% (my optimistic point of veiw). Anet will instead fix the tool-tip and keep at 5% (still in my opinioin more reliable now than bountiful power) or…simply forget to fix and we join the necros and engis in the broken traits club.
Try to be nice I keep razors close by in case I get too sad (sarcasm). Although I tried searching around the forums a bit (back like 5 pages) I do feel as though this build might already be around if that’s the case you can just inform and refer me to that as further comment.
(edited by Slayrix.5789)
