Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’m currently building a character based around magical melee. She is a char in the blood legion who mainly uses fire and earth magic with dual daggers.

I’m wondering – Is a build like this viable at all in the PVE department when it comes to damage output and survivability? I wish to stick with the fire and earth for RP reasons.

Also, I’m aware that the elementalist is a squishy class. Should I invest in defensive gear (such as toughness on all my armor) or should I lean more towards increasing my damage output so I can kill enemies fast before they kill me? Remember, I will be in close range most of the time.

My build uses those as its primary source of damage but giing into water ti heal or air for its cc is a requirement for any ele

You pretty much have no choice at all if you want to do d/d. If you still want to stick with fire and earth, try a scepter instead. Otherwise, you’ll have to kite a lot in d/d and you’ll have to wait a while for your big spells to come back up. Water is extremely important for healing and air for mobility and cc.

That said, investing in survivability is okay but power is nice if you can manage dodges well and use conjures to max effect. Try the flaming axe, it’s pretty kitten.

earth stability and lightning hammer is all you need, fun times :p

Elementalists need all the elements to function properly. Each single attunement is lacking in something else, and no two attunements will make a fully viable weapon set up. You need all 4 to be effective.

(Not counting Lightning Hammer builds, which still do use most of the attunements for might stacking)