Guild Wars 2

Out of all the new traits for my Elementalist, Aquatic Benevolence interested me the most. While I was running a very bursty Fresh Air build (aren’t they all? :P ), I wanted to try and incorporate my love of the Scepter/Dagger gameplay into a more supportive style while running with small groups. (I generally do Havoc Squads in WvW, so I still needed to keep my damage potential, while incorporating this trait into my build.)

After some work, I came to this:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJArYhMMKc25w6Bd0ANAG5jQNoGK+CEA+glyCA-T1SBwABVrgxJE4xDAIh5vIKBvpqys9HwrDAlWijK/AcgACAgAszAAkCgVhRA-w

The only addition I want to add is that Frost Bow is not always on the bar. I find it decent while taking towers and the people on the rams are taking some fire. It allows me to use the #1 skill to just target the door, and apply some assistance to them, while also providing pressure to the walls with the AoE skill, and using Chill on Enemy Defenders who may be making a mad dash to the tower, giving the others a chance to pick said Defender off before they get through the door. Also, I change my elite to fit my need, so I just added the Glyph of Elementals as a stand in, as I tend to spend the most amount of time with it.

While roaming, I switch it to Cleansing Fire or Mist Form, depending on how I feel. Cleansing Fire is usually where I go to help deal with Rampant Conditions.

Feel free to pick this apart as mush as you like, or make suggestions. I’ve only started playing with this build, so I am sure there may be kinks that need worked out.

Thanks for reading!

Haha!

This is almost exactly the same build i came up with.

It works great…. but my goodness does it have an impossible time with conditions. Even with Cleansing fire, you can only clear 3…. and only every 40 seconds.

That’s just not enough in today’s current Condi-Meta.

But the healing is incredible. If you use this build and just follow a warrior around, you can really clean up the place.

Yeah, AB is such an amazing trait IMO, but I sometimes still cringe when I take off Cleansing Water. It’s a shame that trait isn’t lower in the Water line.

And yes, I have a warrior and a guard that I run with normally, and this has been an incredible help. The balance between attack and heals just feels right to me. Water Trident and Cleansing Wave are superstars with AB. Frost Bow is something I have never used in WvW before this week, but I’m loving the results.

Im a noob period. Any chance of a video of your build in wvw? Pleaseeeeeer

Loco.2830:

Im a noob period. Any chance of a video of your build in wvw? Pleaseeeeeer

I have never tried that, but I’ll give it a go.

Ok so there is no way my computer can record anything, it’s old and hates me.

What I can say is that this build works very well for me. The thing I love most about it is that by switching out Aquatic Ben. with Cleansing Water I can go from zerg support to roamer. And by dropping the 10 points in the Arcane Line into Fire (take summon trait), I can easily become a very good dungeon runner using Lightning Hammer.

The greatest strength of this build is the versatility while still being able to maintain damage via Fresh Air. Still testing some runes (considering Strength Runes but they are incredibly expensive atm, and having just crafted Meteorlogicus, my coffers are a bit empty), but Eagle still seems to be the best for this.