Guild Wars 2

Hey, so, first time posting on the forums. Hopefully I can at least provide some decent fuel for discussion.

Story time: I’ve got a set of Berserker’s ascended armor that I originally made for my Elementalist, running Scholar runes and D/W Fresh Air and being all meta and everything, with the plan being to run T3/T4 fractals and eventually break into raiding once I could talk the rest of my tiny guild into coming with me. I ended up taking a break from the class, though, because I’ve sunk like 800 hours into it and I needed something else to run obsessively.

That ended up being a Mesmer, and since then I’ve taken that ascended armor and slotted Superior Runes of Leadership from Dragon’s Stand into it so I can do the perma-quickness Chronomancer meta thing.

Now I’m thinking of dusting off my Elementalist and getting back into endgame content with him, but I’m kinda stuck with this set of armor set up for a Mesmer, since I can’t really salvage the runes or the armor without losing one or the other. I’m working on a second set of ascended armor specifically for my Elementalist, but until then I want to try and make what I’ve got work. Keyword being “try”.

So my question: Can I take a set of Berserker’s armor slotted with Leadership runes, throw it on an Elementalist, and parlay that into a build that would work in fractals and raids? I’m not really looking for anything specific, I’m open to filling different roles. I’m just curious about what kinds of options I have in general.

(It’s also entirely possible that I’m overthinking this.)

Edit: Here’s what I’m working with on my Elementalist right now, for context. I can still swap the weapons and trinkets around as needed.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJBIhdSfJ0fJW2AY9AwhJWEAM3W7st2KcJvA1wgAQB4AA-TBCBAB5pnoS1fg4EA0/+DYp87MlgAcABC4BBEAAB438NQjbMn38m38m38cdf7bf7bfDA-e

Well, I’m no expert, but two things immediately stand out to me:
1) You’re already a little bit “off-meta” by using a dagger instead of a sceptre, so it doesn’t sound like meeting qtfy’s damage numbers is your top priority. Those are fairly lofty goals to reach anyway.
2) This is already 90%+ the right setup. Lacking Runes of the Scholar will affect your damage, sure, but I don’t think it’ll stop you from completing the content you want to do.

To fit into these runes, I’d suggest two things (one of which you’re already doing).
1) Use “Rebound!”. Of course, you’re already doing this, but I was going to suggest it based off of its shorter cooldown enabling better use of the 6-piece bonus on the Runes of Leadership.
2) If you haven’t been doing so already, use Heat Sync sometimes. This depends on your party and how well they’re generating might, of course, but that’d be some way to actually get a bit of mileage out of the boon duration.

It will obviously work in fractals. Raids people tend to be pickier but just be upfront about it, your reason for running the runes is reasonable so probably many groups will still let you join.

if you are not running fractals just get exotic zerk from wvw you will loose less then giving up the schoolar runes this way