Guild Wars 2

I’m debating on two different traits and I am having a hard time deciding on which one to choose. I was hoping to hear from other ele’s what they prefer out of the two (double dagger weapons).
-Fire’s Embrace: When you activate a signet, you gain a fire shield for 3 seconds.
-Pyromancer’s Alacrity All your fire weapon skills recharge 20% faster.

tbh, I would not spend any points in fire mate.. All goes to Arcana and Water I’m afraid..

Fire’s Embrace is good in a signet-aura build, but the fire shield it gives is useless beyond that. Pyromancer’s Alacrity is your best bet, but it’s only worthwhile for Fire Grab – I personally feel all other D/D fire skills recharge fast enough.

Generally, fire’s traits are lacking, which makes it hard to specc into fire.

fires embrace looks real nice on paper except that the ele can not fully spec for aura’s.
need 25 water to get the +2% damage for each boon to fully utilize fires embrace in my humble opinion but i cant do that AND get written in stone so that the signets can make up for the loss of the other useful utilities that are given up for them.

thats my humble opinion. after much internal debating i came up with a conjure build utilizing this… but its still lack luster without the extra 10-14% damage from water 25.
Conjures reduce the need to swap and I like them best used from water.

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/elementalist#3|3|1119|628|2815|630|1027|20|1661|918|0|0|0|0|0|30|1649|2255|1891|20|1673|2260|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|49960|49960|49960|49960|49960|21025|0|0|0|0|0|

but i think i like this one better…
http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/elementalist#3|3|1119|628|2815|630|1027|25|1664|918|0|10|1887|0|0|10|2255|0|0|25|2260|1673|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|49960|49960|49960|49960|49960|21025|0|0|0|0|0|