Guild Wars 2

Coming off a 4 year sabbatical and looking to get back in to guild wars. I run a level 80 ele but dont have enough traits to fully finish the tempest tree. So i am looking for a good weapon/build to run PVE quests in heart of thorns.

Any ideas?

you will be far better to just activate the tempest line even if its not fully finished just to take advantage of overload air/fresh air spam.

core ele is like, the worst core profession, especially since staff pretty much got kitten to oblivion…

Just make sure to get fresh air and you’re golden. Dagger/warhorn or Scepter/Warhorn are the best right now, again, don’t even touch staff

Sceptre/focus gives a good mix of ranged attack (range is good for HOT) and defense. re skills, agree get tempest, it gives you good options including regular heals from aura. Theres an absolute ton of ways to get skill points, including buying with wvw tokens (i think the latter is still a thing). until you get tempest, s/f earth/water/fire works (stack condition/heal/toughness/expertise)