Guild Wars 2

I keep seeing everyone talking about D/D Ele’s. What is a D/D Ele and how do you go about building a D/D Ele. I just got the game and am leaning towards an Ele.

A D/D Ele is someone that runs with Dual Daggers as their weapon set…it’s generally considered one of the beter sets an Ele has, other than maybe Scepter/Dagger

D/D is a dual dagger cloth melee class. It’s not the normal “Mage” type of play in the sense. You play up in the enemies face, using alot of movement and abilities including atunement swapping. It’s a very fun build to play but does have a pretty steep learning curve. Below is a link to my ele vidoes if ya want to get an idea of what it looks like in use.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Needeles

and a link to the build I use. Its useable in Pve, PvP and Wv3…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuqSGxLsTts

Mikittenif.9517:

D/D is a dual dagger cloth melee class. It’s not the normal “Mage” type of play in the sense. You play up in the enemies face, using alot of movement and abilities including atunement swapping. It’s a very fun build to play but does have a pretty steep learning curve. Below is a link to my ele vidoes if ya want to get an idea of what it looks like in use.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Needeles

and a link to the build I use. Its useable in Pve, PvP and Wv3…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuqSGxLsTts

Oh my god please link some bitcloud some daphoenix its better!

you playing very slow and static for an elementalist. Thats not very effectiv what you do. Keep pushing your enemys harder.

TimeBomb.3427:

Cookie Cutter utility & trait setup (copy and paste the link):
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-k33;0J0R0-V0y47N-Z0;9;59-TT;10;328A45AG

You can modify numerous things to your preference:
- Change the heal
- Change Armor of Earth to Cleansing Fire
- Change the elite (not recommended)
- Remove 10 points from water or arcana and put into earth to get Earth’s Embrace (not really worth it IMO)
- Change Cantrip Mastery to Cleansing Wave
- Change Renewing Stamina to Final Shielding

For gear, you want to have good toughness and vitality. Aside from that, it’s your preference. I personally run cleric armor w/ PTV everything else. (I’m still working towards getting all the PTV though.) You want one dagger to have superior sigil of battle. (If you don’t have the gold for it, major sigil of battle is decent and a lot cheaper.)

Your rotation is as follows:
Fire #3 -> [Optional] Fire #2 -> Fire #5 -> Fire #4 -> [Optional] Earth #3 -> Earth #4 -> Earth #5 -> [Optional; Good idea, though] Air #3
You shouldn’t need to worry about using your full rotation against small amounts of normal mobs, but large groups of mobs or very strong mobs, i.e. bosses, you’ll want to use it.

Works well in PvE and WvW, though I haven’t played much SPvP.

TimeBomb.3427:

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You don’t need pvt/clerics armour, you play offensive build not bunker. Your boons, mobility and good dodging keep you up.

Secondly, if you play pvp, you should know that posting “rotations” isn’t good idea. Players (at least good ones) aren’t AI. You need to adapt. Posting combos, instead of rotations, is better idea. If all you do is using those rotations, you’re free kill for good players (which most aspiring d/d ele actually do, which in turn makes them very easy to dodge). Try to thinking outside the box. A simple lightning flash + updraft might surprise a lot of folks giving you a needed edge.