My D/D WvW Build, Critique?

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Posted by: Natsu Dragneel.1625

Natsu Dragneel.1625

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Alrighty, it has been a while since I last played on my ele, and this is what my current gear/setup looks like, and I was just wondering, is it still viable for roaming/WvW, or would I be better off to replace armour/weapons/trinkets/runes/sigils/traits?

Thanks for any advice!

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Posted by: oZii.2864

oZii.2864

You get no help since you created PU Blackwater

First thought is squish!!! Try to get to 2.5-2.6k armor

You can drop that critical chance down to about 30% since you have fury. Move some of those precision points into HP, Power, and toughness.

Here is a template

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|8.5n.h2.8.5c.0.d13.0.d14|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|5n.71j.5j.71j.5j.71j.5c.71j.5n.71j.5n.71j.d1c.d16.d17.0.d17.d17|3t.d17.2v.d14.3v.d17.2v.d13.2t.d1d.2v.d13|0.a0.0.u150.u56b|2e.1|1n.1u.1v.1s.28|e

More power, hp, toughness and 2 less critical damage. This has divinity runes but you can change to boon duration if you like. This is what I run but I changed the runes to traveler for the time being. I think divinity runes will be bad when they change crit damage formula. I will probably move to runes of strength.

[Good Fights]Sinndicate{Ele}Sinactic{Engineer}
Sinnastor{Warrior}Sinnacle{Mesmer}Sintacs
{Thief}

(edited by oZii.2864)

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Posted by: Colt.9051

Colt.9051

Sitting at about 2k armor, you’re going to be one very squishy ele despite the trait setup for survival. As oZii pointed out, you can opt to balance your stats to stay around 2.6kish armor and get off about 1300-1400ish vit. It’ll come at a bit of a price for power/precision and crit damage, but the current setup you have doesn’t synergise well between your glassy gear and defensive trait setup. Either you can use a trait/utility setup that will help take advantage of your burst damage (Wouldn’t really recommend it for WvW roaming tho) or complement your gear with more survivability options. Knights/Cavaliers/Soldiers/Valkyrie/Cleric with some Zerker’s sprinkled are always a nice combination, just experiement and set goals on where you want a certain stat to be :P I’d share my gearset which I feel is well balanced but I don’t really disclose builds I make publicly >.<

(Also the above link uses all ascended gears, so figuratively, it’ll be HELLA costly if u go exactly with that haha…)

Edit: If you’re looking for a boon duration setup, 2 Travelers/Monk/Water runes are usually best to use for up to 75% boon duration. Personally I settle with a full set of Traveler’s runes for the extra stats and movespeed without Signet of Air taking up space. 45% boon duration is pretty sufficient enough for me :P

Daeaera ~ Leader of Grape Justice! [FGJ]

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Posted by: LordByron.8369

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I use this
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQJAoYhImObzR5wjDAEFuYiQxDWUekzM2A-jkCBYfBkEBkIAIRtIaslhBp6KslXRTVTqWXDT9KISBwkwI-w

I started more defensive but while playing i started to switch to more offensive slowly (mind that meta is switching).

This is quite strong in 1VS1
Can t kill ANY PU mesmer, but is effective against any other profession…expecially thieves and warriors.

Also can easily be effective switching to staff with 5-6000 (most frequent on zergs so no upleveled) critical meteors with the tornado trick

It will probably be nerfed with the celestial crit nerf
:( so it will require different equip unles anet notices the mistake before march….

P.S: DO NOT buy traveler….they are nerfing bonus for different runes so for now opt for cheap runes if you can.

GW2 balance:
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.

(edited by LordByron.8369)

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Posted by: ArmageddonAsh.6430

ArmageddonAsh.6430

P.S: DO NOT buy traveler….they are nerfing bonus for different runes so for now opt for cheap runes if you can.

I pretty much use them for The speed buff so i dont mind. I ran a 0/10/0/30/30 build though mine was more survival, 15k health you will be dead in seconds against any thief. I have actually switched to 0/200/20/30 taking Inscription so i get double the effect and seeing as i mostly heal in Water that means nearly 30seconds of regen combined with the heal for going into water and the regen i get as well its quite good.

Stats wise i have gone with P/T/V armor with Travelers runes, i sit at 45% Boon Duration as well which isnt the best you can get but its solid. Accessories wise its a mix:

Back: Vit/Healing/Condition damage with Condi/Power/Vit gem
Earrings: Power/Toughness/Vit with Healing/Power/Toughness gems
Amulet: Power/Vit/Crit Damage with Power/Crit Damage Vit Gem
Rings: Power/Vit/Condition Damage with Condition Damage/Power/Vit Gem
Weapons: Precision/Vit/Healing Power with Sigil of Blood and Leeching

I havent played my Ele in a while so its just about getting back into using it really, though its clear that Ele needs some buffs to counter all the nerfs they were given. I stopped playing just before D/D was nerfed into the ground about 5-6months ago and switched to other classes.