Guild Wars 2

What condition build are you guys running and how much condition effects can you stack? How long it takes to reach the average sustainable stacks? Are you running burning, bleeding, or both? I’m curious since the PvE condition elementalist is a bit unstable with several builds but seem to work well.

Protip : don’t run condi ele in PvE.
But if you really want, this is a decent build I guess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH-aB4mwAOk

Been playing ele for a while now and created this condi build last week for a change of pace. It is perfect for open world PvE and can do pretty good in many dungeon situations as well depending on group composition and party skill (pugging with this might not be wise! lol)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYhcMouh9NwsB8RMIAYRAIUeAmYwOoIUbymYaA-e (I actually switched to Runes of Balthazar yesterday and love it.)

I use Sinister gear for everything. Sigils is up to you but I run corruption and smoldering but if you use condi food to lengthen your fire/bleeds than smoldering is not needed for a sigil.

I love this build because it plays different to my other builds and I can spam those Signets with no down side. Sig of Air is your stun breaker and Sig of Earth for pinning your foe.

You pretty much camp fire and most things will die so quickly you don’t need to swap attunements. For longer fights I start going through a more normal might stacking D/D rotation but instead of camping Air I stay in Earth longer until my Fire CD’s are ready. Remember this has Evasive Arcana so while in fire/combat I like to roll towards the enemy for more fire stacks:-)

I haven’t tried it yet but I use the Aristocracy runes from CM on my condi engi and love them. So if you like to use a more traditional D/D might stacking rotation then these runes would be great for that.

For larger meta events or group play you can change out a signet for Ice Bow (which is good to have in any situation anyways), put in a defensive utility if needed and use the Elite Elemental if you need the Earth or Water elemental. Glyph of Storms can work well too with Firestorm. For dungeons you might want to use focus for it’s defense.

I took this out into the Silverwastes and melting everything so quickly was very rewarding! Even soloing those pesky veterans;-)