Guild Wars 2

I’ve been thinking about how to go about building a support front line ele that still does some damage. From what I’ve seen dagger/warhorn or dagger/focus seem to be popular choices, but I’m not sure how I feel about losing statics/earth wall and 2 water fields as well as have no range pressure.

What I’ve come up with is the following http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWn0XCdOgNYCWYCcYiFRAzttGXzrDBgBQCkoDkAOAA-TlCEQBfUJ4d0BQJVLAwFAAe7PoMlGVSNFroE7BPAAgpMIAACgje0je0je0G6QH6QH6QLFgo7tA-w

as a brief summary with 25 might/blood lust stacks it sits at 2529 power, ~2k toughness/3k armor and ~18.2k HP.

Based solely on the numbers everything except maybe the vitality looks sturdy enough to be front line viable but I’d like some input from those with more front line ele experience
Edit: forgot to put utility skills in Woops.

You forgot to create the quick link. That’s just a link to the gw2skills.net editor.

Wooow, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out.

when I run my my tempest on the front line I typically have 3k armor and 19k health. No where near that amount of healing power and I have no issues staying alive. With no might or blood stacks I’m putting out about 1k more effective power than that build. Personally I think anything over 800 HP is overkill. Although if you’re going to be on the front line there really is no reason to be on staff. D/WH otherwise loose the tankiness and drop back to the backline.

The healing power is probably overkill, swapping to something like wanderers or commanders trinkets would improve effective power and tankiness a bit. Also forgive me if I’m way off base as I’ve only backline ele’d in wvw, but wouldn’t losing the hard cc’s/waterfields/soft ccs outweigh what you would gain by taking d/wh? or is the might sharing/extra 2 auras/blasts generally valued higher in the front line.

Running a staff for a frontline build?

You ought to use dagger mainhand with dagger , focus, or warhorn offhand especially since you want to fire off overloads once in a while. Worst case, scepter (I really don’t like scepter even after buffs).

Unless you want to be a terrible version of a druid, I’d advise having more power and less healing power. You’re better off with say 1900-2000 power and no precision than some precision, a terrible crit damage, and 1500 power. I’d also put in a stunbreak.

Something like http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJBIhdSfJU5AWhJ4gJwhJW2AM396f9wSsCuAVghHQA4CC-T1yGQBDUph40TQuTIQ52fQgKDwn6KA4ABARlgERJG9UpgAPAgNDCAjAS4//vJJJSBUkWL-w

(note the tooltip doesn’t count +10% heal effectiveness from sigil , can also use commander’s earrings if you PvE in raids / switch to Knight’s earrings if you do not have Strength in numbers from a guardian)