Guild Wars 2

Hi, my main is a bunker engi. love its durability. i dueled an ele the other night that was just as tanky as i was and it got me wanting to play around with it. I like the looks of a lot of the ele’s abilities on paper, but really know nothing about them. could any okittenind people give me some examples of some tanky defensive ele builds? thanks in advance.

PvE or PvP? Either one check out Tanky DPS post by daphoenix

pvp thx ill check it out

I use a high bunker build for sPvP, I can take on about 3 people at once. Yes I still die, but I am tough to kill. Yesterday I had the whole enemy team of 8 on me while my teammates capped points. After about 2 – 3 minutes I was dead, but it was still 2 – 3 minutes they spent fighting me instead of capping. My build is a high healing build with lots of condition removal + 1,100 condition dmg before might stacking. I do not have the most health only 14,500 but just switching to Water heals me for about 2k, then evade is another 2k, plus cleansing water is another 1.5k which makes me a tough cookie. Best of luck to you!

Congrats! You are interested in the only viable build that Ele has! Be aware though that Anet is looking into our only viable build as “too strong” so you may not get to play it long! Have fun!

0/10/0/30/30 for d/d
10 where ever you want + 30w/30arc for staff or s/d

use clerics or shamans amulet

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-k3c;0J0B2VY0B57N-Z0;9;6TT9;417B02A4;08w;1Z;0sV2DsV2D9Fh
(Link doesn’t work due to forum bug, either copy paste it or click: http://tinyurl.com/aldyw3t)

Replace D/F with D/D if so desired, though you’ll gain a lot more survivability if you’re able to use focus well.

Healing+Armor+Defensive Abilities will make you extraordinarily difficult to take down. Your >1k condition damage will be allow you to deal some decent DPS to your enemies. Once you learn all the ins and out of the build and how to efficiently play it, you survive so easily that you may actually get bored from the lack of challenge. Works in sPvP and PvE; not so well in dungeons or WvW.

Thx everyone for all your input I def. have some things to try and learn. @ Aaron, have they really said this build was too powerful and that they are looking into it? Where is this posted at? If anything I’d say this class needs buffing in other areas to make everyone not want to go bunker.

i’m actually doing fine with a 10/0/10/20/30 build focusing on cantrips and using cleansing fire and mist form. if you do it right its real hard to kill, btw i use staff in pvp i can usually 1v1 people, cept of course the good warrior, theif, and mesmer, usually.

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Thx everyone for all your input I def. have some things to try and learn. @ Aaron, have they really said this build was too powerful and that they are looking into it? Where is this posted at? If anything I’d say this class needs buffing in other areas to make everyone not want to go bunker.

That was posted like a month ago. They were looking into all bunker builds. They never said the nerf was guaranteed just that 30/30 earth water was too survivable. If you have noticed the first round of those nerfs went out and hit guardians save yourself. Luckily the nerf applied solely to pvp. It wouldn’t shock me if a nerf went out but atm ele is one of those glasses that is missing something namely burst. Of the builds we can you they require more effort to get the same amount of work done. Many of us are fine with that but if you add in the bugs a nerf to us right now would effectively be a class killer. I don’t think the class would become unplayable but out of the sheer frustration many would likely quit.

The one thing we all know is that when an ele does the bunker thing they are working hard to do it.

I’ve suffered with playing an elementalist and tanky builds just don’t exist. Shelve the idea until ANet fixes the ele and work on other builds. I’ve got exotic tank armor for my level 80 and cannot play past a level 75 map without being KO’ed by 2v1 monsters. A 1v1 monster will take me for everything I’ve got.

I’ve been able to get my warrior to act as an elementalist with the rifle for the time being.

@LightningLockey

First off tank builds exist and are all around you just read the forums. Second, survivability on ele is pretty strong. If you cant handle 2 vs 1 with regular monsters than honestly its you, your build, or your gear.

For example today I was in WvW and took a supply point solo. That 4 vets 2 are ranged and I did it solo. I am not bragging because I saw another ele rush in and do the same thing the other day. VS regular mobs you can 4-5 if ranged is in the mix and 8-10 if its all melee (though maybe someone could do more).

Warrior can not be an ele with a rifle. Not hating on warrior but rifle is far from a good aoe weapon and just about every weapon setup we have has some sort of AoE.

The OP dueled a tanky ele so they are out there. Read this thread when you get a chance.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Tanky-DPS-Elementalist-Videos-included-updated-10-28/page/5#post594724

and this one

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/D-D-Ele-Condition-Tank-Heal-build-Vid-s-Inside/first#post602529

cleric if u go dagger and shaman if u go scepter