Guild Wars 2

What builds are eles running that support and dps (mainly to support other zerkers)? Any links to builds or guides would be wonderful, thank you.

I generally run scepter dagger with 30 in fire for the fury on fire field blast finisher. Sigil of battle. Arcane wave. rest is up to you. You should be able to maintain 20-ish stacks of might and permafury on your whole party if no one messes up your combo field (I’m looking at you, guardians :P )

Right now, the meta build is probably at least 30 in Fire for Persisting Flames, Conjurer, and something else (not sure with the new patch), as well as at least 10 points in Water for Piercing Shards.

You generally stack might with Scepter and Fire Fields, then throw down Lightning Hammer and just spam its autoattack.

For some strange reason, people have been lately running this build without the Lightning Hammer, which is just bad. Scepter’s sustained damage is pretty bad (though its burst damage is good, so in a lot of cases like open-world leveling, you can probably kill most mobs with a well-placed Phoenix). The “meta” for Eles, really, is to stack might with Persisting Flames to keep up lots of Fury, and then use Lightning Hammer + Water Attunement + Piercing Shards for massive DPS (since you’ll gain 20% more damage, while attuned to water, as long as the enemy has Vulnerability on them).

There’s also putting 30 in Fire and just mashing 1 and 2 off cooldown in Fire Attunement. If your target sits in every tick of your Lava Fonts, you’re apparently doing massive DPS (in reality this can get messed up easily, not to mention if you have very little in the way of active defenses).

If you don’t mind playing a build that’s near-meta, 30 in Air with Fresh Air and Dagger/Focus is pretty sweet. If you pump 30 in Fire like for the other builds, you can still provide good Fury uptime and do really nice damage.

If you’re struggling with these builds, you can put more in Water and Arcana, though your DPS will take a huge hit, so that’s a tradeoff you’ll have to think about.

My guide goes over most of this, and will be updated once the new patch settles in.

Thanks for your input guys, I’ll try these!

What Neko said (the first 4 paragraphs at least; not the bit about d/f. LH is higher damage and keeps up higher might and fury for the group, which is all that matters when you’re running with 4 other zerkers, as you said you are).

Read the LH meta here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/The-Ele-Meta-Dungeon-Speed-Runs/first#post3112677

After the update hits today, I’ll be updating the guide with the s/f LH build (which is what I’m currently using) and vids of might-stacking rotations for both s/d and s/f. As soon as I can get some stats on ascended armor, I’ll redo the zerk/assassins gear mix and stacking sigil/food mix for each build as well. Thank god this update is happening – I finally have something interesting to do in-game. I was getting pretty bored of Tera. lol