Guild Wars 2

Aloha!

I’ve got some questions regarding leveling an ele, which I’ve outlined (and gave prelim info for) below:

1) I have a lvl 14 ele that I’m working on. I have a level 67 warrior, and played a WoW Warlock to 65. I’m pretty good at evading, getting the combat mechanics and gaming in general (I’m reading forums, studying strategies) but I’m no expert GW2’er.
2) I’ll be soloing, and sometimes running with a small group of friends (none of them very experienced with MMOs). If they join, it’ll be my gf’s lvl 67 ranger, and/or several friends who have level 14 ranger, ranger and warrior
3) I know that for leveling I need to try it all. I will. I know I need to be swapping attunements and not sitting in one. I’m still unlocking weapon skills, so I’m trying out everything. I was using S/D for a bit, now I’m staff.
4) What I need to know is, what should I be traiting towards while leveling, and why. I’ve read the 2 pinned guides plus Neko’s, and he sent me an adjusted Auromancer build that he thinks is good for leveling and learning ele. This is his suggested build He suggested while leveling to trait 20 points in Arcana for Renewing Stamina and Elemental Attunement, the next 15 for Water so you can get heal-on-attune-to-Water. After that, no suggestions.
5) If people think that Neko’s “modified Auramancer” is a good way to go, I have more questions, but I’ll wait to see what people say so I don’t derail the conversation.

So, what do you all think? Go with the Auramancer? Some other build? Why does Auramancer or another build work? I see some synergies, but others are eluding me.

Thanks all!

I’ve been leveling as D/D which is pretty fun imo. For this you definitely want to be working towards 0/10/0/15/20 going for the water and arcana first as eke has crappy base defense. The 10 in air is for the swiftness/fury on aura (air 3 and water 4) which helps pump out damage.

Make sure that you stack might regularly as well. The last skill you should be using in Fire is 4 as it puts up a fire field, shift immediately into earth, 4 for quick cc →(arcane brilliance if you choose to pick it up)→ Earth 5 (pop arcane wave on yourself if you use it). This will net you a lot of might stacks while killing many of the mobs. If any are still alive and you have decent health then pop into air and lightning whip the rest down. If your health is low pop into water, W2→W3→W5→W4(for more chilling and getting fury up some more)

Might stacking is one of the most important things to learn as an ele on any of the weapon sets so make sure to experiment with all the weapon sets and learn how to use the blast finishers. Good luck and have fun :-)

For solo leveling, try 10 in fire for the conjurer trait and then running Lightning Hammers. The auto-attack has three parts, the third being an AoE Blind/Blast Finisher. Pretty good for taking care of trash mobs because you’ll have just about full blind on your targets.

I’m currently in my 20s on my first playthrough as an Ele, and I’ve gotta say D/D or S/D definitely feel the best. Ride the Lightning and other mobility spells just feel great for dashing between mobs, and particularly with DD I’ve had no issues soloing, even a couple of champions.

Went into water first for the health and survivability, now going into Arcane.

Eh, you’ll never really have enough health to matter on ele. If you want survivability you want renewing vigor. Go into water for the healing traits like Cleansing Wave, but that’s a Master level skill.

Renewing Vigor is awesome, but as you’re leveling, how often are you going to be criting? I guess if you take the arcane util skills you can. Or maybe it’s all about stacking might?

I can’t seem to find how to edit posts, but in the post above i meant stacking fury, not might

You should be stacking both shakes fist. Also, signet of fire increases your crit by like 20% while leveling so if you can spare a utility slot use that.

I would put 10 points into arcane so you can grab the larger staff radius trait, then put everything else in fire taking all the simple dps increasing traits (VI, VII, XI or XII) and just kill everything with staff fire 1 and 2.

If you somehow manage to die before killing you can always take the lava tomb trait so you can finish off the mob even if you get downed. Put any surplus points into air for the stats or wherever else you want to. Try to get as much power, crit% and precision on your leveling greens as possible, avoid everything else.

Fast, easy and efficient, no risk. Just don’t pretend you are a warrior and pull 5+ mobs at a time.

Here is my suggestion for the smooth and fast leveling experience, its all about damage:

Your weapon choice: Scepter/Dagger

Start by dropping a dragon tooth on all your enemies, this skill has a very low cooldown timer and hits very hard, you can follow up with Phoenix and/or Firegrab. This will pretty much kill any mobs you’re dealing with while leveling.

Your gear: (Power, precision, crit dmg stats)

Your Abilities (slots 7, 8 and 9) : Arcane blast, lightning flash, Arcane shield.

Your main traits:

Fire – Internal fire, Pyromancer’s Alacrity.

Air: Bolt to the heart.

Earth: Stone splinters.

Good luck!