Guild Wars 2

Hey all, I am looking for advice regarding a build that I am trying to perfect for my elementalist. My vision for my gearing is to be able to use the same set of gear for both dagger/dagger and staff. I plan to play both with my guild and currently do not have enough gold to buy multiple sets of armor since I only started the game a little more than a month ago. Through the stats, I hope to achieve a half-glass/half-bunker elementalist, where I can dish out respectable damage while being able to sustain in fights. I appreciate any and all advice that is offered.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.3|6.1g.h17|0.0.0.0.0.0|1p.br.1p.7r.1n.7r.1p.7r.1p.7x.1p.7x|411.0.211.0.311.0.211.0.311.0.1i.0|0.0.a3.u13b.u58b|40.7|1l.1u.1v.1t.0|e

Full set of exotics are ~5g + 950 badges so it shouldn’t take too long to get an extra set. Re-traiting is a negligible amount (4s?). Keep in mind that because of your starting goal you wont excel at anything.

From staff point of view that looks ok with the warning that you will probably need ~9 stacks of might to be happy with the damage. This shouldn’t be too difficult with a group though.

From dagger pov it will be quite a bit trickier and less forgiving. Go with the earth signet if too squishy. Will also need a bit of might.

Any reason you only went with 4 runes of melandru? The last two effects are actually quite good in wvw.

Personally I would just pick one weapon then go hard with it for a week or two until you have the resources for a second set of gear.

How would you suggest that I make this build optimized for staff play? We can forget about d/d for now.

As something to think about, heres a slightly modified armor/weap/runes set for your build with a bit more bite but similar survivability. Chest/weap can be swapped for incremental survivability or offense improvements, the rune is just one possibility.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.3|6.1p.h17|0.0.0.0.0.0|1n.79.1c.79.1n.79.1n.79.1n.79.1n.79|411.0.211.0.311.0.211.0.311.0.1i.0|0.0.a3.u13b.u58b|40.7|1l.1u.1v.1t.0|e

Eventually you will want to experiment with moving points from water to air when not playing support. Try out some of the other utilities, particularly arcane wave as a blast finisher.