Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

I’m a casual player, not a hardcore player at all.
I do play alot, but i’m not aiming to be perfect with my gear and controlling the class very well.

Now i’m almost level 80 (currently 75), and i have the level 70 Acolyte Berserker’s gear.
I only have ~15,000 HP and everything is pumped with power, and my traits are a mess.

Can anyone give me an up to date guide (with the current nerf) build?

I like to support and attack at the same time, 50/50.
I love to play with DD and Staff, so i’ll be switching and it will depend on the situation.

Which weapon+armour should i aim for? How should i spend my traits? And which utility’s should i use?
Would like to have a build for : Pve + PvP + WvWvW

Thanks in advance!

Would be nice if someone tells me which armour i should buy, if he could mention where and how i could get it Example : Tier 1/2/3 or something says nothing to me.

I got 120,000 karma

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|b.1p.h2.8.1p.h1h|0.0.0.0.0.0|1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7|1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.1c.67|0.u69a.0.u34b.a5|39.7|1l.1s.1u.1v.0|e

This is the build I usually run (experimenting with others at the moment, but this is my old favorite all-arounder) and it still works fine after the nerf, just less mobility and I use cleansing fire instead of mist form in WvW now. It’s good with any weapon set, just swap the major traits where necessary, the only thing it misses is blasting staff, if you need that for some reason just drop 10 points from air back into arcane.

All the jewelry is crafted, the gems have been replaced as well, so you won’t find those exact stats for sale, gotta get the exquisite gems and replace them manually. You can craft the armor as well, or buy it for badges + gold in WvW (around 150ish badges and 1 gold per piece). The back piece comes from the temple of Grenth in cursed shore, that npc also sells jewelry with power/toughness/vitality (soldier’s) stats which work well for a tankier build.

The weapons are crafted. There is currently no in game source for those stats besides crafting (or buying crafted off the TP). Other stat sets are fine too, the main things are to make sure they are exotic quality and don’t bother with anything with condition damage (this build is about crit/crit-damage).

As for order of upgrading (assuming you don’t have the funds to go full exotic the minute you hit 80). Get exotic (gold/orange/whatevercolorthatis) weapons and trinkets as soon as possible.

Your base damage is directly related to weapon quality, and trinkets give slightly more total stats than armor (as well as rares being proportionately more expensive, 1 gold or more as opposed to 20ish silver for amors and exotics of both are about the same cost). Rare quality (yellow) armors or even masterwork (green) are decent for general PvE, you can survive with them while you farm for better stuff.

Last thing should be minor adjustments like runes/sigils and the gems in your trinkets. Using “major” instead of superior sigils at first can save a good bit of gold, and get almost the same effect.

That build I linked uses food buffs too, don’t expect quite those stats without them. The lower level foods are pretty cheap and give a decent buff if you can afford them, but it’s not hard to go foodless too.