World Completion
I’d probably recommend D/D as our best groundspeed with RtL, Blazing Speed, and easy permaswiftness.
Then just gear as offensively as you feel comfortable – particularly if you plan to guest a high-population server so you won’t have to deal with e.g. soloing an event chain just to open up a map area so you can get it for completion.
Traitwise, at least 10 points in water for Arcane Abatement (reduced falling damage) so you can take more shortcuts.
Your Ele has hit level 80, and you are setting out to get world completion. What build and gear do you take to make the process smooth and fun? Assume enough resources for exotic weapons and armor, ascended trinkets.
When I was doing this with my ele, I used temple armor, exotic trinkets, and mostly S/D and sometimes staff. Build didn’t seem to matter that much but your mileage may vary. Had no problems with Orr or other high level areas. But I haven’t done dungeons with ele. Ele seemed much more fragile to me than my necro, mesmer, guardian, warrior, ranger, and even thief. Fairly similar to engineer for me. But I suck at engineer and I am not much better as ele.
I seem to be one of the few fans of Diamond Skin on this forum. Its great for pve cuz you just run right past the mobs trying put cripple on you and nothing happens. Remember all the times you were trying to run past mobs and one slowed you down and the rest caught up to you and killed you? Traveling long distances with diamond skin on is so easy for me.