Guild Wars 2

I have been getting into my Ele more lately after playing mostly Ranger and Warrior. I only do WvW. Either solo roam picking off camps/Yaks, helping retake stuff or running with zerg.

I have been having a ton of fun with my condition S/D build. In 1v1 I lose more than I win, likely because of my less than average ability playing the class. So I am looking for some advice to tweak this build.

I load up with 25 perception on my weapon to get more crit chance.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArYhMmYbvR3wjEAEFoYSowBjHgoBJlC5A-jECBINBk8Gg6AMTqIas11FRjVzATliIq2foIa1SBso0I-w

1. Should I stay with Fire 3 or switch to Fire 5? …or drop the 10 points in fire altogether?
I am not sure if the math supports the burn on crit or the longer burn.

2. Should I drop some condition damage and add some power with Knight Amulets over Rapid?

3. Toughness is over 2400 with Earth 2 and in earth. Approx 2200 with Earth 2 and not in earth. Is that too much? I do like the survivability when making FGS runs.

4. Drop dagger for Focus?

Any and all advice or suggestions welcome

Thanks

I run a similar build, which is based off this video.

Like the video I run S/F. Once in awhile I will run S/D but I prefer the defensive options on the Focus over the dagger. I also go all the way up to Fire’s Embrace in Fire, but I have been recently contemplating trying something else. The 3s duration is just too short alot of times I find and make it not worth it. Other than that your build is and concept seem to be similar as what I been running on my elem. It is a very single target build which I have found to be burdensome if you find yourself ending up running in a group or the zerg.

Some good stuff. One thing I have done is switch to Runes Perplexity. It procs more often and does more damage than the Tormenting. It also allowed me to improve my HPs/Toughness since I don’t need the crit chance.

I tried the Fires Embrace but don’t like it. Like you said, it doesn’t seem worth it.

Now the tough decision is Dagger or Focus. I like that Dagger has an extra heal and RTL. I like that Focus has another 3 condition purge plus an invuln + 2 interrupts. I can’t decide which to use.

I also tried the conjure Earth Shield. It was ok, but I like the 1200 range burn every 16 seconds too much.