Guild Wars 2

would a d/f ele be viable for WVWVW

Anything is viable. Few are optimal.

could this be optimal?

Depends on the situation. If it’s a monster zerg vs zerg, then no; staff is better (unless you’re coordinating Swirling Winds use with other Ele’s). If it’s roaming, than no; OH dagger is better, mainly due to increased mobility via RtL, but also for a bunch of other reasons, one of which is Churning Earth + LF. Same goes for PvP. If it’s PvE, then no, since you want scepter for higher might-stacking or staff for higher dmg, So where would d/f be optimal? …. maybe fracs above 40. Nothing else comes to mind.

im new to ele could u tell me what a optimal build for WVWVW roaming like 1v1 and 1v2 would be

D/F is a great build which has potential for WvW roaming.

In fact I beat a D/F ele today who ran condition perplexity, he was epic, and he gave me a hard time. He beat a lot of other people, though. And I have a friend who ties me with D/F all the time.

The invulnerable skill really gives you some opportunities.

D/F is great for 1v1 but due high cooldowns i would not recommend.

D/F is very strong in duels, but not good at roaming since it offers no mobility nor aoe crowd control (no comet is not an aoe for all real purposes).

D/F is nice for some of the world bosses.

Nothing is viable or optimal in WvW/spvp if you don’t have the player skills. It is as simple and straight forward as that. I roam now with s/f and I ’m performing better now than I ever did with d/d or s/d. Fgs, lightning flash and my permanent 25% speed is all I need for mobility.

LightningBlaze.4913:

Nothing is viable or optimal in WvW/spvp if you don’t have the player skills. It is as simple and straight forward as that. I roam now with s/f and I ’m performing better now than I ever did with d/d or s/d. Fgs, lightning flash and my permanent 25% speed is all I need for mobility.

I had it first, Poliswag 2014!

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Poliswag.8240:

LightningBlaze.4913:

Nothing is viable or optimal in WvW/spvp if you don’t have the player skills. It is as simple and straight forward as that. I roam now with s/f and I ’m performing better now than I ever did with d/d or s/d. Fgs, lightning flash and my permanent 25% speed is all I need for mobility.

I had it first, Poliswag 2014!

Nanananananananananana

Well I have anomaly first and the legendary you are working on now so take that poli :P

LightningBlaze.4913:

Nothing is viable or optimal in WvW/spvp if you don’t have the player skills. It is as simple and straight forward as that. I roam now with s/f and I ’m performing better now than I ever did with d/d or s/d. Fgs, lightning flash and my permanent 25% speed is all I need for mobility.

The ele (PvP) community stopped looking for new builds after they had their 0/10/0/30/30 D/D build. Anything else is just not “viable”…

This is one of the major reasons eles are currently leading the whining ladder.

Sure eles ain’t on the top but it’s far away from being as worse as some people make it up.

silvershadez.8421:

LightningBlaze.4913:

Nothing is viable or optimal in WvW/spvp if you don’t have the player skills. It is as simple and straight forward as that. I roam now with s/f and I ’m performing better now than I ever did with d/d or s/d. Fgs, lightning flash and my permanent 25% speed is all I need for mobility.

The ele (PvP) community stopped looking for new builds after they had their 0/10/0/30/30 D/D build. Anything else is just not “viable”…

This is one of the major reasons eles are currently leading the whining ladder.

Sure eles ain’t on the top but it’s far away from being as worse as some people make it up.

While I agree most of these Eles whine too much, I’d kill to see changes to the class in a positive direction.

I disagree though. I don’t run that build, and I know many people who don’t run that build. I think there are some people out there running epic things and not sharing them, and I don’t blame them. Look at what happened thanks to dapheonix’s videos.

The vast majority is sheer blind for anything else that is not D/D.