Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

I am really struggling with the gear choices for my elementalist.I currently use PVT armor with exotic clerics. I am reasonably happy with the setup but the time has FINALLY come to upgrade my elementalist to T3 armor and ascended trinkets. I have read a few posts in these forums concerning this topic with some great feedback but wanted to post my gear setup for expert evaluation. I realize gear choice is basically a matter of play style but therein lies my problem. I enjoy running a myriad of build types, Staff, D/D, S/D, S/F, and even D/F. For that reason I want to make gear choices that will support a wide variety of builds.

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Reasoning behind choices
All but the coat will be T3. This is why I used berserker coat paired with other knights pieces. This allows me to switch out the coat as needed with other stats. Same with the weapons. I currently have PVT AC daggers, best looking daggers in game, and plan on augmenting stat changes with weapons swaps too.
Where I’m struggling is the choices of ascended gear. I wanted a touch of all stats except condition damage. This is where I’m looking for advice. Are there better combination that will provide decent power/crit burst damage while maintaining survivability.

I only plan on doing this once so it has to be done the best way possible.

Thanks for your time and advice!

These choices look fine to me. The only thing problem though is that the sigils of battle and energy cannot be used together in a weapon set. I believe they share a cool-down timer with each other. So when you swap attunements to proc them, only the main hand sigil of battle will proc and not the off-hand one.

For what format are you playing? WvW or PvE?

And yes, sigil of battle and sigil of energy share a cooldown.

Schmidt.7018:

These choices look fine to me. The only thing problem though is that the sigils of battle and energy cannot be used together in a weapon set. I believe they share a cool-down timer with each other. So when you swap attunements to proc them, only the main hand sigil of battle will proc and not the off-hand one.

I was not aware of this. My decision to use both sigils was based on a D/D build guide that claimed this was possible. Thanks for the information!!

Neko.9021:

For what format are you playing? WvW or PvE?

And yes, sigil of battle and sigil of energy share a cooldown.

PvE, Dungeons, and WvW. The idea is that I can change weapons/armor to fit the situation. I had initially looked at more celestial pieces but never like how the numbers worked out.

A good WvW and PvE build are different from each other.

The best I could suggest is full Berserker gear and going double dagger in dungeons and staff in WvW.

Here’s my guide to the Ele in Dungeons and Fractals: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Neko-s-Guide-to-the-D-D-Ele-in-Dungeons-1

Equip a Berserker staff for WvW and stick with a zerg to transfer this build to that format.