Guild Wars 2

Let me pre-phrase this by saying Elementalist was my first character. Made her during pre-release and leveled her to 80 within a day due to how much I loved the feel of it. Over 700 hours on her alone but after EA, RTL, Confusion-Bow, mist form, and a multitude of other nerfs I felt so discouraged I stopped playing my ele.

This is mostly WvWish

Well I want to get back into it but I’m not sure if it will feel as fun. /Focus is useless so I pretty much discredit it completely, S/X feels more PvE archetyped aside from the gimmick burst build, D/D no longer feels like it has a flow and staff is purely a zerg weapon.

I really want to feel the same way about this class as I used to but I don’t know if it’s possible. If anyone feels up to it throw out some theorycrafts and/or popular builds that are being used as of late. Thank you in advance, hopefully I can get back into my first obsession.

lightening hammer dps build?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Maximum-PVE-DPS-Lightning-Hammer-Build

But if you’re at the point where you need to make a forum post to be convinced to play again, i don’t know there is much we can do for ya.

Scrambles the Death Dealer is right.

You basically just took a dump on literally every single weapon combination we got and then asked to be convinced to play one. Why not list what you like to do and people will list what builds they find successful for that activity?

Kodiak.3281:

Scrambles the Death Dealer is right.

You basically just took a dump on literally every single weapon combination we got and then asked to be convinced to play one. Why not list what you like to do and people will list what builds they find successful for that activity?

Well it’s not so much I’m trying to take a dump on them but I can see your point. Comparing release ele and the current won’t help my current situation. I suppose PVE it’s all about numbers to the lightning hammer build would work.

WvW I adore roaming and X/D was the king of that. Now you can’t risk using RTL to get around due to the cooldown so I suppose a good in-and-out build for 1v1-2 would be nice.

KeyLimPi.9031:

Kodiak.3281:

Scrambles the Death Dealer is right.

You basically just took a dump on literally every single weapon combination we got and then asked to be convinced to play one. Why not list what you like to do and people will list what builds they find successful for that activity?

Well it’s not so much I’m trying to take a dump on them but I can see your point. Comparing release ele and the current won’t help my current situation. I suppose PVE it’s all about numbers to the lightning hammer build would work.

WvW I adore roaming and X/D was the king of that. Now you can’t risk using RTL to get around due to the cooldown so I suppose a good in-and-out build for 1v1-2 would be nice.

I’ve seen effective s/d roaming builds, as well. I think most of the dps came from air.

Despite the nerf, you can still use RTL. Just half as often. If you keep finding yourself in situations where you lose because you couldn’t use RTL again within a 40 sec span, then you probably didn’t deserve to win that engagement, or were simply outplayed.

Kodiak.3281:

Scrambles the Death Dealer is right.

I do love me some Metalocalypse

Scrambles.2604:

I do love me some Metalocalypse

I literally can’t read your name without adding “The Death Dealer”