Guild Wars 2

What are the meta elementalist build atm and what is the traits armour trinkets weapons sigils runes etc for it?

Thanks in advance! ^^

There are three stickies at the top of the page that have all the info you need for PvE.

Your choices are scepter/x + Lightning Hammer (might stacking build), fire staff spam (highest dps build), or dagger/focus fresh air (most survivable). All of these do great damage and provide excellent party support.

Yep these are the three more popular build right now.

S/D or S/F with trait : 25/10/10/25/0 or 30/10/10/20/0. You use your weapons for might stack only and do you DPS from Light Hammer. You have some rotation to learn, you will move a lot between attunement, you are really squishy and fight in melee so its hard but rewarding. I love this build. The force of this build is might stacking, since you can stack 18 might at the start of the fight and each between 12 and 18 other stack during the first. With all the damage multiplier it and the LH auto-attack it also have a lot of dps.

Staff with trait : 30/20/10/10/0 or 30/10/10/10/10. Basically you stay in fire and spam lava Front whatever you can. You need to stay near your group for boons and support but you don’t need to be directly in melee. That give you a little bit room, easier to survive without sacrificing any DPS. At 600 range and less you don’t lose any DPS, at 300 range you don’t lose any boons from your party. The force of this build is the constant Laval front that have good dps but also give a constant fire field. You have give fury each time you blast a fire field. You can easily give 30sec of fury, add that with 2-3 Warrior that spam For Great Justice and you have constant Fury for your team.

Dagger/Focus i don’t really know that build well. But you have more survivability with that one, with still a good DPS. The two first build are better for speed run and organized group, you can still do great things in pug group, but if your pug group have bad dps and the fight last longer you will have some difficulties. This build is more pug friendly if you want.

These are meta so of course all will take Berserker gear. You can take some knight piece at the beginning to get use to it and then replace those piece gradually when you get more comfortable.

“Meta” PvE or Meta PvP?

PvE, there’s already a ton of guides already stickied at the top of this subforum talking about what is the “meta” for PvE. Look at Dkeys’ guide if you want a nice overview.

For PvP, the Meta is Fresh Air scepter with 30 in Air and 20 in Arcana for Elemental Attunement and Renewing Stamina. The Offhand and heal are up to personal preference, and the utilities are your choice of Cantrips and Arcane skills.

You have 20 more points to spend, which can go into:
-the Earth tree for Stone Splinters and Rock Solid
-the Water tree for Vital Striking, Cantrip Mastery, and Cleansing Wave
-Arcane tree for Evasive Arcana

It’s up to you where to put them.

I meant for wvw dueling. Thanks for your input!

WvW dueling/roaming I would probably run S/D fresh air, lots of guides out there. A close runner up is still D/D but it’s not quite as powerfull as it was (still a great spec though)

S/D is great 1v1 but plan on running from most 1vx fights, I run with a buddy or 2 so S/D works great. D/D bunkers are good in 1vx battles and for trolling groups, IMO easyer to play and more forgiving but slightly less rewarding. All just personal opinion though.

Neko.9021:

For PvP, the Meta is Fresh Air scepter with 30 in Air and 20 in Arcana for Elemental Attunement and Renewing Stamina. The Offhand and heal are up to personal preference, and the utilities are your choice of Cantrips and Arcane skills. rolling a Warrior or Necro.

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Flissy.4093:

Neko.9021:

For PvP, the Meta is Fresh Air scepter with 30 in Air and 20 in Arcana for Elemental Attunement and Renewing Stamina. The Offhand and heal are up to personal preference, and the utilities are your choice of Cantrips and Arcane skills. rolling a Warrior or Necro.

Fixed that for you.

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