Guild Wars 2

Decided that I wanted to try out scepter ele in WvW. No I am not the most skilled player and this build is one of the harder builds to use but man it is pretty rough.

I’ve tried out many builds Air/Water/Earth, Air/Water/Arcane, Air/Water/Tempest, Air/Earth/Arcane, etc.

I’ve come to the conclusion that Air/Water is pretty much a must, the cantrip CD, sustain and condi removal is just too much to give up. I think Air/Water/Arcane is probably the best out of all options.

Earth IMO just isn’t very versatile, it can give you a lot of toughness but that is pretty much it. Diamond Skin doesn’t seem to help much, probably the reduction on CC trait is the best trait in there.

Tempest is really meh and doesn’t offer much to help the kit of an ele. On paper you can recharge your air overload every 5-10 seconds but it is counter-intuitive to the playstyle which involves frequent use of the air burst combo.

I found that you are very reliant on crit chance (at least 50% baseline with no buffs) and that you have to play it almost glassy. I have 2400-2500 armor and around 15-16K HP which honestly isn’t that much compared to how hard elite specs hit nowadays.

It’s a great build for bursting squishies like thieves as they usually don’t see the burst coming. However I feel like it does no damage to some of the sustain/bruiser types.

I have a difficult time versus some DH’s’/Berserkers, one mistake can really lose it for you because of the burst. Literally impossible to kill a Scrapper/Druid. Really difficult time versus Herald/Chrono. Reapers aren’t too difficult cuz you can just kite, Daredevils haven’t fought too many of.

I just feel like against the tanky/sustain/high-dmg type I just can’t win. What are anybody’s thoughts on scepter ele? I’m talking mostly wvw haven’t really done PvP with it, I’m pretty sure the state of it is probably better in that game mode but with all the foods and stuff along with gear in WvW IMO you have to seriously outplay some of the stronger builds to win fights.

I will add that overload breaksstun, and with stability on overloads, water can heal quit nice Also you gain +7% more dmg reduction using tempest (not 10 like Earth).
I found running troopers/soldiers runes with shut i also a good combo.

I most say I usually run dagger, since it feels more fluid than scepter. And ofc staff in zergs.

But yeah mostly it comes down to skills. Some profession might be abit more forgiving, but I feel like it is kinda balanced. Yeah a few professions are hard to catch, but if they kitten up, they are dead.. and if you are fleeing, you ain’t killing or capping.

You could try this goof-ball build:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJArdn0XC9XiVYC2NAcYiFBAzt1GbztDxgZQSMIAEKLiA-TFSAABRqEMNlfAcCAm4BAknWgTV/hRdAYt/AZA8HDA-w

Earth camping with bleed/burn/blind.

eh thats one of my build versions but i use only cele trinkets rest viper/rabid.
Calling it goof-ball tztz … It´s very efficient and helpful for less trainded players but not the best version. You waste cele and eles power by camping earth … If you camp earth use rabid and a spash carrion picking precision oil.

Here we go with a real condi goof ball ele. It actually does preasure in earth.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJArdnUMA9XiVYCOOA8RgFBAzN1+aztDBhZQSMIAEKLiA-T1xMABAoHYq9Hc6EAAh6Pxo8bHlgr+AACAgAw115O35O3ZhAWsAA-w

Condi mesmer beats you and sustain ele or warrior is unkillable but it´s a nemesis for thiefs :-).

I meant goof-ball with the kindest of regards

No problem. It´s realy a build to train ele an definitly works. But cele is very inefficient for it. I used giver weapons not carrion but both is OK. The better you are with ele the more you move away from rabid which is not good on ele if overused. After learing to utilize 4 elements you swap out fire for arcane, then go more cele and feel like a real ele ^^