Guild Wars 2

I have done a lot of searching and am hard pressed on finding an already existing thread.

I am looking to gear out my Ele and level him to 48 in fractals. I am fully aware that the best thing in fractals is to optimize DPS as much as possible. However, after consulting with 1 or 2 others, many do not opt in to all glass as Elementalists have such naturally low HP and toughness.

One of the gear options I’ve seen is a max if knights, berserker, and cavalier’s. The other one was all PVT armor, with berserker trinkets (excluding the back piece…PVT back piece). I also understand that gearing is a lot of personal preference. Nevertheless, I am looking to see what those who like to do hardcore PVE prefer.

If there are any other productive threads on the topic, feel free to contribute them.

Go all berserker.
Things in fotm deals 11-20K per HIT and they hit in packs.

WHen you need survivability takes a focus and another weapon with vitality with you.

to tell the truth i have a knight armor and a zerker armor.
A Whole zerker weaponset
A PVT scepter and focus.

I uses mostly zerker i switch to knight only at cliffside, volcanic fractal boss and first part of svanir.

I tried lot of builds and stuff.

Sadly one day i decided to roll another profession (mesmer) after 1200H with my ele (mostly in fractals)….never used eles since then aside for cliffside.
what i needed was Killing stuff fast enough…something that current ele can t do unless you use conjured that are not viable in fotms unless you have guardians carrying you.

The one character I have leveled up to 48 is a Mesmer. I just really like playing Ele in dungeons so I thought it might be fun to lvl it up to 48 in FOTM.

I’m still not convinced to go 95% zerker. I think maximizing crit damage is important but also surviving one-two shots is, too.

I might have to just end up going all zerker than trading trinkets out until I am comfortable. I do run pretty much 95% zerk on my mesmer but thought things might be a little different with Ele.

Before I make a decision, I would like to hear from more individuals to get an idea for the general consensus.

90% of situations you can t survive 1 shot with any build.

In the remaining 10% you have:
mistform
arcane shield
armor of earth

and for harder parts:
obsidian flesh

Remember that differently from mesmer, most ele builds can heal the damage taken more easily.
Also you have plenty of vigor.

Trinkets are not an issue since you are running fotms you will be getting any backpack/ring you want (ecto is cheap ._.) and the earring with guild missions if yu happen to have a big guild.

If you have to try stuff i suggest getting an armor that could be Worth in WWW for example a celestial or knight.

I recently read through Neko’s (sp?) guide and am becoming more and more convinced to run all ZERKER…

I do have plenty of trinkets but I never get the berserker ones /cries. But still, you are right, I have more than enough money an resources to deck my characters out in ascended gear so I need to bite the bullet and do it (I tend to be a hoarder despite my abundance of resources).

Although I think I might opt for ZERKER, I am still willing to listen to others opinions.