Guild Wars 2

Hey,

What is the most burst damaging spell for the elementalist?
Like Grenade Barrage for the engineer.
The most I’ve noticed is Churning Earth from Off Hand Dagger.

The Elementalist is not a burst damage profession so don’t expect much.
Phoenix (if you hit three times), Churning Earth and Fire Grab are afaik the most damaging skills of an Ele.

You can do some pretty insane burst if you time it right, but it requires timing several skills. For example Dragon’s Tooth + Phoenix + Fire Grab can deal ridiculous amounts of damage, but it requires your target to be stationary. Or casting Churning Earth and using Lightning Flash to teleport into the middle of the enemy when it’s almost done and swapping to fire and using Fire Grab is also great burst.

Thanks for the suggestions. I don’t mind using some elaborate series of skills to do some serious burst damage.

However, I just feel like the elementalist is lacking a lot in damage in general, at least compared to engineer, almost to the point of my mesmer.

Compared to my grenade kit, elementalist just can’t seem to compete…

they can… check out the arcane lightning topic lol (its a rather specific build that is probally useless for all but benchtesting)

that said, most damaging spell.

i would say a toss up between fiery greatsword (i can hit 2k with some of its swings) and arcane “something” i forget if it was blast or wave… i think blast, but brain not working at the moment…

with churning earth coming in under that and firegrab under that.

vs a large, Boss type mob, Firestorm is a handy winner. When the target is physically big enough to take most of the hits, instead of them being spread out, it’s simply devastating.

Elementalist does not need the burst of other classes tbh. We have permenant regen, vigor, and swiftness, and we’re also the only class that can stack 25 stacks of might easymode. Why do we need the best burst damage in the game?

I’m not saying they need the BEST burst in the game, I’ve asking WHAT is the best burst spell (or combination of spells) for elementalist.

And I’m comparing the numbers to engineer’s grenade kit.

PS: I’m liking all these suggestions, however the lightning build required all 3 utility slot, else the damage is crap.
I like the fire combo: dragon’s tooth → phoenix → fire grab
and fiery greatsword 1 and 3

you can add an extra step to the fire combo with the #4 skill to try and line up a firefield to blast combo, increases the damage for the firegrab due to might stacks.

arcane wave is also very good to have as a utility for that purpose (plus it deals roughly 1k PB AoE itself-ish)

I’ve not really a big fan of fire field + burst finish.
The might boon isn’t very noticeable (maybe I’m not looking hard enough)

Also, I find it weird that dragon’s tooth’s blast finisher applies at the beginning of the cast, and not when the tooth falls. You can’t pre-cast it and apply fire field…

Selix.5670:

Elementalist does not need the burst of other classes tbh. We have permenant regen, vigor, and swiftness, and we’re also the only class that can stack 25 stacks of might easymode. Why do we need the best burst damage in the game?

I’d love to know what trait and realistic rotation you’re using to achieve all that, because that doesn’t sound terribly realistic.

staff with air traits

focusing crit gets pretty close to that.

air #4 and glyph heal give very very close to perma swiftness

water fields + blast finishers can get what feels like perma regen (plus the various water passives a tick heals too that arn’t strictly regen but act like it) also maybe traited heavy water for regen on cantrips?

and vigor on crit with a decent crit chance is easy perma vigor (or at least functionally)