Guild Wars 2

Posted a settler-based video+build a week or so ago and received some constructive comments from Frowny, ArmaggedonAsh and others (thanks). I decided to keep the build the same, but swapped armor to Dire and runes to Perplexity and give it a go.

This build is still unkillable against condispammers 1v1, and is now more survivable versus burst. It’s very fun to stand in wells, walk on marks, stand in blinding powder, ignore engi turrets, etc., and you have enough toughness/mobility/cc resist to give any power build a run for their money. You will win some lose some against thieves, warriors, and mesmers. You will not die to anyone in Dire gear. Never ever.

With nerf to crit dmg maybe we’ll see a few more D/D condi eles out there. This is all exotics so still a ways to go to see max potential.

Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vEAQJAoYhMM6cW4wxBf0ACRhLYCjHhwI0hFF0wMA-z0CBodJE1BgWAk6IIZSFRjtsuIasaZwadCp6GYKWQeFERrECQxaA-w

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz6IcCogwSc

Cheers.

Good gameplay. I enjoy condition builds as well. I find the earth shield to be really fun and effective for the ele with perpl runes. You may want to try it instead of armor of earth for a bit.

LightningBlaze.4913:

Good gameplay. I enjoy condition builds as well. I find the earth shield to be really fun and effective for the ele with perpl runes. You may want to try it instead of armor of earth for a bit.

Thanks, I’ll try it. I have no idea how to use it but what’s the worst that can happen lol

Cant watch it from my phone. I used signet of air because the build lacked swiftness which is more important when enemies can kite you. Was a good stun breaker and churn saver. Try that out too

FrownyClown.8402:

Cant watch it from my phone. I used signet of air because the build lacked swiftness which is more important when enemies can kite you. Was a good stun breaker and churn saver. Try that out too

I do use windborne dagger, and find that between lightning flash, RTL, cripple, immob and chill I don’t have trouble keeping up with kiters, for the most part. I should try running that signet so I can go back to vigor on crit though. Hard to drop a cantrip. Would love the option of using a regular utility in the elite slot…

I feel the need to comment about your use of Lightning Flash. :P

It almost seems like you’re using it because it’s off cooldown. I’m not sure if it’s because you’re not used to having it on your bar or w/e but try using Earthquake then Flash to them. Count the dodges then Churn and Flash on them. Flash + Updraft. I personally wouldn’t be using it to land Drake’s Breath. :P

Just my opinion.

SonOfKrypton.4357:

I feel the need to comment about your use of Lightning Flash. :P

It almost seems like you’re using it because it’s off cooldown. I’m not sure if it’s because you’re not used to having it on your bar or w/e but try using Earthquake then Flash to them. Count the dodges then Churn and Flash on them. Flash + Updraft. I personally wouldn’t be using it to land Drake’s Breath. :P

Just my opinion.

A friend told me that lightning flash has a very very short evade in it that could be used to avoid knockback on stomp if timing is perfect. I’m not sure I believe him, but I tried it a few times anyway (and a couple were in this video), and I’m sure you were wondering wtf. As far as I can tell he’s full of kitten, but then I should have known that.

Otherwise yeah I use flash+updraft a lot as opener. Churn + flash really only in groups or when it’s a surprise, and absolutely sometimes flash to close for Drake’s Breath, which is an 8k burn in this build and a primary damage source.

Sometimes after blinking around as thief or mesmer when you play ele you forget you only have one, and on a bit of a cooldown, so your point is well made.

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I would keep the trait line, but use apothecary gear instead… but then again i like the extra 500 healing power rather than the crit chance and 2k more hp… but that’s just me, it’s all about personal play-style baby

PrZone.4753:

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I would keep the trait line, but use apothecary gear instead… but then again i like the extra 500 healing power rather than the crit chance and 2k more hp… but that’s just me, it’s all about personal play-style baby

I was running settler’s, and had healing power of about 850, but haven’t noticed a big drop now that it’s down to 540 or so, and 2k+ more HP is nice. Like you said though, whatever works for you. I found that the healing power didn’t help much versus burst and that I’d rather have the extra HP cushion.

Very interesting. After playing some other classes, I came to a realization that elementalist is the best one. One that I have the most fun with.

Will try a condi build myself. Maybe not the same exact one, but something I’ll thinker. Maybe I’ll drop back and share if it goes well.

Punch.4231:

PrZone.4753:

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I would keep the trait line, but use apothecary gear instead… but then again i like the extra 500 healing power rather than the crit chance and 2k more hp… but that’s just me, it’s all about personal play-style baby

I was running settler’s, and had healing power of about 850, but haven’t noticed a big drop now that it’s down to 540 or so, and 2k+ more HP is nice. Like you said though, whatever works for you. I found that the healing power didn’t help much versus burst and that I’d rather have the extra HP cushion.

very valid point, I personally don’t play a condi ele so you have more experience than i do with it, that 2k hp is nice though when going against a zerk rifle warrior… you never really see them coming

I just watched it. Pm me in game. You can do much better than that with the build.

I’m confused, how’s a condi ele played? like most of the time in earth? >.>

Sunshine.4680:

I’m confused, how’s a condi ele played? like most of the time in earth? >.>

actually its more like land your drakes breath and cover the burn with other conditions.

Sunshine.4680:

I’m confused, how’s a condi ele played? like most of the time in earth? >.>

No. You spend as little time as possible in Earth at least for D/D. You would spend most of your time in Fire and Air. Going Water for healing and such as you normally would. Burning is such a key condition for us that we would want to have it on as much as possible.

Combine that with the right gear and such you would be getting 800+ Burning Tick damage. Add into that Torment, Perplexity, Doom (Torment, Confusion, Poison) via runes and sigils and you still have some pretty decent condition numbers.

You are going to be tanky and when combined with Healing Power it can be very hard. Of course all other Condition builds are “stronger” but they rely on condition spamming. On ele as with any ele build when playing condi you want to use specific skills at the right time. Of course a few are pretty much use as often as possible – Drakes Breath being right at the top. Burning Speed and Ring of Fire are pretty key as well.

You also have Air and its skills that can be VERY useful. Shocking Aura is great against Melee though useless against range so no point using against them unless you have it traited for Protection and/or Fury/swiftness Ride The Lightening and Updraft can be very helpful as well.

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This is currently my build. It works well. If i am lucky enough to know that i will be fighting a Condi build i normally swap to Ether Renewal. Most helpful against Necro and Engineer i find. Mesmer you can use it but SoR works as well depending on the skill level as they can’t really spam you full of conditions from the get go.

I have been thinking about a possible change to 0/0/30/20/20 build that would increase my condition damage (currently around 2k when fully buffed) and increase my toughness to around 2100-2200 but also trying to see if i can cut down on the condition damage a little to grab some more healing power.

Took a long time to kill some terrible players and up levels. Ya ele is in an awful spot right now.

Chuck Zitto.2367:

Took a long time to kill some terrible players and up levels. Ya ele is in an awful spot right now.

Well, he is a Condi build. Don’t be expecting to melt classes in seconds. Seeing as Ele is the second weakest condi build in the game (ahead of Guardian as all they have is burning) Condition builds on other classes kill fast for the simple fact that they can just easily spam conditions and conditions and even more conditions without even having to be in close range.