Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

Are there any viable condi builds out there for Eles? The context here is SPvP, specifically hotjoin, because I’m too inexperienced to play soloqueue or TPvP.

My only experience has been playing:
-bunker/support with staff
-“just for fun” staff build with +damage traits/Scholar runes
-“bunker” D/D (0/10/0/30/30)
- S/D FA burst
-riskier D/D burst build with less Water investment

…but I’ve mostly focused on either support or Power.

From what I can tell, condi builds are limited to us due to only being able to inflict Burning and Bleeding, and due to losing out on reliable application of these conditions by switching out of Fire or Earth. I’d personally love to see us getting Torment or, even better, Poison, outside of sigils/runes, but for the moment we have to work with what we have.

Has anyone found a reliable and viable condition build? Lemme know

No.

Not for SPvP, anyway. WvW is better due to Perplexity runes, food buffs, etc.

Welp, that’s disappointing

Any thoughts on if the Dec 10 patch (especially changes to Earth) will improve our condi outlook?

Dual daggers around launch time was great with Rabid/Carrion/WvW gear. Part of the era known as The Great Ele Nerf got rid of conditions as a real options. Don’t worry, we’re versatile. You can find something else to do.

permanent burning is usually better than permanent poison, so missing out on poison isn’t so bad, but ele’s problem is that it isn’t good at applying bleeds. No attunements apply bleeding except earth, and the only skills that apply more than one stack of bleeding are impossible to actually hit anyone with. To reliably do any heavy bleeding, you have to spam earth 1 for a long time.

perma burning will be easier to achieve with the changes to the Burning Fire trait, but I don’t see anything beneficial to anything else condition related

I run conditions. Search my name on youtube. Video quality is low though

You can just use Superior Sigil of Earth – it does apply really nice bleed stacks and we are switching weapons all the time anyway.

There are a few builds that would work in hotjoin.

I use S/F 0/0/30/10/30 with some poison options. Works alright, but you have around 100 healing only and few healing skills. Still fun to play if you need an alternative WITH poison.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArdhEmmbsR3gjDAkCmMeAyIkUeMTO2A-ToAgyCqIGTNmbMzYyisFN6YWB

A more solid option with better survivability is staff 0/0/10/30/30. While you have to time skills in order to make Eruption hit, you can apply burning rather often using EA and dodging in fire. Burning Retreat followed by swapping to air attunement (Burning Retreat with swiftness) will distance yourself to opponents rather effectively.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhEmmbwx4gjDAkHn4CLjChUeMzO2A-TkAgyCrIaS1krJTTymsNN+A

Thank you all for your input! FrownyClown and Malacastus, I’ll be sure to check those builds out!

Dec 10 will be the birth of the 0/0/30/20/20 shaman/apothecary signet condition d/d ele… though I m not sure what the sPvP equivalent would be.