Guild Wars 2

hi. I have a level 38 elementalist and have been trying to make a plan for when she hits 80 with gear and stuff. I’ve been using power/precision daggers, toughness/vitality armour and power/precision jewelry while leveling.

I’ve been toying around with the calculator and the problem seems to be finding a nice middle ground between toughness, damage and health. I plan to play world verses world and I do not want to be a glass cannon so I’m curious what numbers you level 80 elementalists tend to focus on more than others as well as what foods you recommend for a dagger dagger build.

this is what I came up with so please critique and/or criticize it and tell me what to fix or tweak

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhImmbkR5gjDAkHmADLiCPUeMTO2A-jUDBYLBkWGkEBIBqIasFNhtyJaVXBRpLp6FYqTCyeDAuDLq2fADA-w

thanks in advance

I guess it looks fine for a semi-durable spec, but I’d feel weird having 1700 base power. I guess I just want more oomph before might stacks. I have about 1400 toughness on my build and about 2k power with a crit chance that can get into the 40s when I have two weapons instead of staff. I’m finding your runes (though I guess they’re good for maintaining the might stacks you want with your sigil) kind of boring. The main problem I’m seeing is that you don’t have quite the toughness to really tank damage, but you don’t have enough base power to make up for not being a great damage absorber. I could be totally wrong and your results might be amazing, but I think Power/Precision scale better than Toughness/Healing Power/Etc.

I too have a mixture of Soldier/Knight/Berserker stats. Mine looks something like this at the moment:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhImcbzR5gjDAEFvYiQxDNUeMTO2A-jEyAYMhQCCA9JhZviox2IKiGr2BTVSEV7NKiWNA-w

I have more power, crit chance, and crit damage, while you have a little more toughness, vitality, healing and boon duration. I’m actually working on getting more soldier-stat weapons, but they require a bit more grind on my part so I have mostly Knight’s right now.

If I were you, I’d consider getting more items with healing and less with precision. From the 5 point trait in Arcana, eles really get all of the crit chance they need (unless going glass cannon). Additionally, while toughness/vit is the way to survive on most other classes, ele benefits best from healing/toughness as we have so much healing available.

If you’re looking to play a balanced build in WvW you’d be best off mixing a wide combination of Cavalier/Cleric/Berserker (with some soldier until you get a better grasp of the profession).

Good luck with your ele!