I’ve been using staff and although I use all attunements, I’m finding myself usually in Fire and Earth, regardless, I was thinking about different weapons? maybe I’d go dual dagger? My other option is Scepter but I’m not a huge fan of the playstyle :/ I’m open to any other suggestions with other weapons. What are you using for PvE and what’s your opinion on Staff and D/D?
Also, I’m not sure how i should spend my traits, I’m seeing a lot of people with 0 in Fire?
I mainly PvE.. but i don’t want to be a support/healer.
Also, stat wise.. I would like to be a pure damage class so I’m assuming i should focus on Power/Precision/Condition, in that order? correct me if I’m wrong please.
I want to start gearing up properly.. I have lots of tokens from dungeons but which is better? crafted exotics or the dungeon sets?
I have barely touched Scepter in PvE (only used it for a short periode in sPvP). I really prefer the other two weapon sets, D/D and Staff since they got more AoE’s than scepter. I also find that d/d specs also goes well with staff (might change out one trait or so).
The reason why few puts into fire because many people go 20-30 points in and water and Arcana. So that leaves you with few trait points left. Although I usually run with the regular cookie cutter 0/10/0/30/30 d/d build, I recently changed to 30/15/0/15/10 for map exploration using staff. I’m using PVT gear and cleric trinkets so survivabilty is pretty good and allows me do some more damage while doing solo PvE (haven’t tried dungeons yet). Though I find the 0/10/0/30/30 overall better for more “serious WvW and PvE”.
I also think that condition builds only goes well with scepter and some D/D builds, but power is overall better for Eles imho. Also the problem with eles is that we have low defense compared to other classes, hence many go 20-30 into water trait and use PVT gear or a mix of it. So going pure glass cannon wouldn’t be much advised from those who play elementalist.
Dungeon and crafted gear is equally good, but not all stat combos can be crafted. So it really depends on what stats you are planing to use.
I’m going with the HoTW PVT gear and im going to try your build. Thanks 