Mes (Guardian)
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I make PvP & WvW videos
What Do Eles Bring
- conjure wapon
- high amount of healing
- continius super fantastic boons
- extreme super usefull aura’s
- condition removal
- decent damage
- 6 stack of might…almost continusly
- cc
- fieldcontrol/tanking
- tons of combo finisher
ok not all above is possible to give at the same time (or from same build). but I think you can combine 1/3 of them for 1 build.
and:
Tons of combo fields including the only lightning combo fields in the game, and the only ice field that doesn’t require a specific utility or elite skill.
Hats off to all the ones who stood before me, and taught a fool to ride.
Staff ele will bring 2 fire fields, 2 water fields, 1 ice field and 1 lightning field. Dagger and Focus only have fire fields, Scepter has no fields. Trident has fire, lightning and smoke fields. Conjure Lightning Hammer gives access to a lightning field.
All land weapons except mainhand dagger have at least one blast finisher; staff, dagger and scepter all have projectile finishers (staff’s got a 100% projectile finisher as an auto-attack). Dagger has a leap finisher. Every conjured weapon has at least one combo finisher, but I’m not gonna list all of those here.
Support-wise, ele bring some of the game’s best healing (numerous instant cast AoE heals with decent scaling, lots of party regen and condition removal), and plenty of boon support, especially in the form of might and again regen (but also swiftness and protection, and in an aura build fury). They also have a lot of snares to slow mobs down, access to blinding on every weapon except dagger and access to weakness and vulnerability; also every combo field and finisher already mentioned is generally useful for support. We can also build for aura sharing, which is something no other class can do, but most auras are pretty short-lived
Most elementalist utility skills are focused around self protection or damage output. The only utilities we have which help party members are arcane wave (blast finisher), conjures and a few which snare mobs. Everything else we have is selfish. Elementalist party support comes from weapon skills and traits, for the most part.