Guild Wars 2

Im planning on creating a new elementalist to play through with my friend who just got the game. Im looking into playing and ele that just seems like it would be fun without being totally optimal. If i decided to do a D/D ele with a focus on earth magic what traits/stats/utilities would benefit me the most? It doesn’t have to be the best.

I will read through everything in a little while and will take all of your input into account.

Razgriz.9831:

Im planning on creating a new elementalist to play through with my friend who just got the game. Im looking into playing and ele that just seems like it would be fun without being totally optimal. If i decided to do a D/D ele with a focus on earth magic what traits/stats/utilities would benefit me the most? It doesn’t have to be the best.

I will read through everything in a little while and will take all of your input into account.

If I’m not mistaken, the current update doesn’t let you use Earth until level 24.

As for what stats, Earth is mostly a condition attunement but d/d has a powerful attack in Earthquake. Since it relies on conditions though, it’s wise to pair it with Fire and pick traits that buff the burning condition alongside traits that make your Earth’s bleeds more effective. Earth for bleeds, Fire for burning. Condition damage, Power, and Precision should be your focus.

Utilities, well, whatever you need really. If you have trouble surviving then use more Cantrips. I would definitely take Glyph of Storms now that Fire applies burning and Earth applies bleeds and blinds though.

You don’t really focus any attunement. You should forget that kind of thinking.

Junkpile.7439:

You don’t really focus any attunement. You should forget that kind of thinking.

100% true – You have 20 weapons skills – deal with it ;p.