Guild Wars 2

Hello guys I’m looking for some advice on an all purpose build.
I recently got a friend into GW2 and he plays an ele just like me.
He is just getting into builds and still learning. I adviced him to start with berserker gear right away as I don’t think ‘learning’ in knight’s gear does any good at all.
However he has now also taken an interest in wvw. I personally have different sets of gear and weapons for wvw and pve (and even for different types of pve content like a set of soldiers gear and lots of different weapons). He on the other hand does not. He has just his berserker set I told him to get. He doesn’t have a whole lot of gold so he can’t really buy multiple sets of exotic gear + runes and sigils. He asked me for a build and gearset that is efficient at both pve/wvw. I told him there is no such thing as maximizing DPS is key in pve and the average wvw build would slow most groups down in fractals and dungeons. However I figured why not ask here.

Please note my guildies and me (and now my friend too) don’t really go all the way with speedrunning as we often don’t use optimal classes composition, foods and I most certainly have not gotten my rotation down perfectly. However we do min max as much as we can and we do complete dungeons much much faster than the average pug. Is there any way to build the ele for my friend to be able to keep up with us while still enjoying wvw all with the same gear set? (My knowledge of wvw is limited so I wouldn’t know, I don’t play wvw seriously as i’m mostly a pve’r and I simply copied one of the ‘hot’ wvw builds for when I play that.) Or at the very least something that will give him a decent amount of efficiency in both pve and wvw until he has the gold to buy multiple sets.

I have no information about wvw but you will find useful PvE advice in the guide linked in my signature

Full Celestial or a mix with other pieces to round out deficiencies works well for WvW.

It really depends on what your friend’s strength/desire to play as. If he wants to D/D roam or small group havoc, then having more toughness and vitality (mixing in some Knights or Soldiers) works well. If he wants to zerg staff, then full Celestial or even Cleric or Nomad’s mixed in for helping with water fields and such works well too, as your personal DPS is not nearly as important as keeping the zerg up.

And don’t forget that having a lot of gold isn’t all that necessary, once your friend starts playing WvW, he’ll be able to pick up full exotic armor from badges of honor.

There are many paths to full exotics, such as crafting and dungeon tokens too. I’d recommend he looks at getting a full Celestial set (craft exotic via Tailoring or armor box Ascended) and then mix in the Zerk pieces he has while acquiring alternate pieces via badges and dungeon tokens.

His best bet is probably farming eotm for a few hours to get badges for another set of armor. Really doesn’t take that long if you have a good cmdr!

The best all-purpose build I can really offer would be…

D/F with Sigil of Strength/Sigil of Battle
6(V VI XI)
6(VI X XII)
2(VI)
0
0

-Either Scholar/Strength runes, preferably Scholar.
-Change VI in Fire Magic to II when making use of conj weapons.

If you use Fresh Air you do not need Internal Fire. Pick Burning Precision instead.

It really depends what he wants to do in wvw, if it’s for roaming the boon hybrid may be the best all round decision, but it wouldn’t really benefit dungeons.. If he staves away in the zerg, just go with 6/6/2/0/0, it’s either left or right, can’t really go wrong either way…

There no real reason to run an all-purpose build as you can change your build anytime.

For PvE, the build Purple Miku presented with the changes Zelyhn Lekovitch has mentioned is a very good newbie build.
For WvW, put 6 points in Fire, use a Staff and run around with a Zerg.

The only reason I suggested both internal fire and air training is because if he’s not using any conj weapons, it’s really a toss. He may as well use either that or pyromancer’s alacrity along with burning precision.

Note I put both V and VI, not just VI.

Oh yeah I did not see that you did not put alacrity. It’s pretty staple. So the build should use Alacrity and Burning precision, and that one can be switched at convenience.