Guild Wars 2

Well Since traits are changing I’ll share a build I’ve been running lately, It’s quite enjoyable and a extremely hybrid defensive burst and condi build. Enjoy:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJArdhMMKiW2wvBf0ACAW4AQDoIO+GEESii2AA-TJBFwACOBA12fAaZAAPAAA

Keeps the prot swiftness and fury that meta brings

Loses condi clear hence ether renewal (if you arent up against condi swap it)
Loses regen access

Very high burst (not as high as pure fresh air but up there with the air/fire combo)
Very high condi pressure

Anti Power builds (sit in earth avoid crits, pop protection)

Great finish potential (interrupts in air/water plus bursting after condi pressure)

Its no top meta build, but people often don’t know what to do about it and being able to switch between Condi and power build is very useful if you understand whom your up against. Most players dont expect your conds to hurt if you start with burst or vise versa.

Swap out Earth shield for fire axe(my fave) or lighting hammer (use while in earth and after burst combos to wait out CDS and add burst) I swap depending on the lineup I’m against

Air-fire-earth(fireaxe leap/blast) is a MASSIVE burst and will 100% the heavy golem (usually before you actually finish the combo depending on crits). Then just relize how much your condi signets do, along with the burns from the combo and bleeds in earth.

Learn to cover your condis with blinds imbi chill etc, learn to wait for condi clears etc and you’ll be able to beat most opponents fairly easily.

Learn to cast your signets when you have a damage boosting conjur equiped (flame axe/fire swd)

Enjoy while you can. Some traits can be swapped depending on playstyle. You can opt for more damage modifiers (bolt to the heart/ serrated splinters) over boons on aura. you’ll be amazed how dumb you burst damage can get with all the modifiers on (burning, range, endurance). Especially when you realize you aren’t made of glass.

Same concept, but more effective than your build imo…I will miss this so much.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Elementalist_-_Ember_Hybrid_Signet_D/F

I would say they are two different styles, Yours loses a lot of burst/crit/power and only gains a little bit more condi pressure from it. You also lose the use of active play with blinds and active crit blocking by going into earth. You also lose kite potential running main hand dagger. I increase my burst potential with runes and sigils where as you only increase your condi damage. You bring sig of water witch is good for condi coverage as well as the one clense every 10 but gaining fire shield again become redundent with the short cooldown sigils providing basically permanent boon gain already. from your build but I incorporated the conjuer to not only increase some enjoyment but to allow me to go more defenseive, or burst with another action bar. Now you passive heal is better although you are far more vulnerable to condi play (which is already our biggest weakness due to low HP pool)

I’d say I have a much more active build that actually achieves a title of hybrid, where as yours is still a very bunker condi build. So like I said they are different, as far as better or worse with the current meta being much more burst id say mine is actually more effective.

See that always been the problem with FE to make it work well you have to give up all boon duration that is kind of needed for aura protection to have a real impact in a fight.

You will be hard to kill but for the most part you truly cant kill any thing unless your up vs ppl who are not made for 1v1 builds.

Good bye super hybrid builds. Till we meet again after we figure out the next meta

Jski.6180:

See that always been the problem with FE to make it work well you have to give up all boon duration that is kind of needed for aura protection to have a real impact in a fight.

You will be hard to kill but for the most part you truly cant kill any thing unless your up vs ppl who are not made for 1v1 builds.

You should seriously try the build(s)…I disagree with the comment completely

apoidea.7095:

Jski.6180:

See that always been the problem with FE to make it work well you have to give up all boon duration that is kind of needed for aura protection to have a real impact in a fight.

You will be hard to kill but for the most part you truly cant kill any thing unless your up vs ppl who are not made for 1v1 builds.

You should seriously try the build(s)…I disagree with the comment completely

I was thinking more wvw aimed i did not see it was an spvp build. To me FE is not good due to its lacking in wvw spvp you can make a lot of odd builds work due to your team comp.

apoidea.7095:

Same concept, but more effective than your build imo…I will miss this so much.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Elementalist_-_Ember_Hybrid_Signet_D/F

Ember Signet is going down next patch. Traded off by the awful Conjurer Trait. It means that I will have to specify every game with strangers that “they must not loot the Conjure Earth Shield”. They will do it, because they want to help, but in fact, I want to use my second Earth Shield.

Conjurer is such a thrash design, and it’s so wrong to use a conjured weapon for its full 15 charges…

Though, I fail to see why you would want to bring scepter in that build. Static Aura is so kitten good…