Guild Wars 2

With the new patch I fabled up a new build, works wonders in 1v1, incredibly tanky for being an ele. One big issue; most defense are active defense, require understanding on both the enemy and your CDs.

basically goes like this:

30/0/30/0/10

On fire traits that apply burn on crit, cleansing fire on 3 condi, and the new trait blinds on burn

On earth bleed duration, toughness to condi and the new trait that gives crit immunity

On arcane 50% more endurance regen scepter.

Rune of krait if you use elite a lot, or runes of forgot the name, but bleed duration plus death nova when going down. Gem: Condi damage main, toughness, precision. Sigil of extended bleed and extended burn (20% each)

Spells signet of fire, fire hatchet if you want, signet of air instead for speed and stun breaker and choice of armor of earth or cleansing fire. My choice was cleansing fire/Signet of fire/signet of air. Ether Renewal for a heal.

Gameplay; sit on earth vs power based caster, mostly the melee ones. Focus earth 4 has 3 cond cleanse, gives cripple to nearby enemies, 3 sec reflection and also act as a blast, ver important spell. Your form of defense is blinds, on eearth you got one, autoattacks will crit and apply burn, that is also a burn, signet of fire is another blind, cleansing fire is another blind, but you gotta time them right, 5 seconds apart. Fire #4 is an AoE line of blind for incoming foes, fire aura is your “everyone gets blinded” spell, scepter fire #1 also is a blind on demand (ish), the only instant blind is signet of air, which is also the stunbreaker. Basically, sitting on earth you have access to 3 blinds without internal CD (air, fire proc and earth #3)

Condis do a LOT of damage, and sitting on earth stack them nicely, you have good cleansing with earth #4, ether renewal, cleansing fire, and you cannot be critted, so basically you just gotta outlast them. Between burn, blind, bleed and crippled they will have a hard time keeping up with cleansing. If you are too pressured earth#5 can be used to get a breathing, can use healing while invulnerable, can finish off people, can re position.

Effective vs other condition stackers such as necros and warriors.
Decent vs power based speccs
Hard time vs bunkers.
Impossible time vs thieves.

Good for keeping points like home, great dueling capabilities, limited teamfight potential other than the blind AOE with fire 2 and 4. Keep in mind fire 3 cleanses conditions too and give endurance for you to keep up with the fight.

Lastly, vs ranged foes, fire is more effective than earth, so cycling between both works better, although in fire you dont have bleeds, the constant blind does nicely.

I’m playing 6/0/6/0/2 and I love it.

For fire, I run VI (deal more damage when attuned to fire), VII (use cleansing fire), and XIII (Blinding Ashes, yea it can be useful).

Earth, VI (more damage within 600yds), VII (cond DMG from toughness), XII (written in stone).

Arcane, III (saved my kitten more than once).

Toolbar skills: ether renewal, signet of fire + air, Glyph of Storms and Glyph of Greater Elemental.

Honestly, one of the best things about S/F with this build is that we have access to SO. MANY. BLINDS. Yes, blinding ashes is kinda bad because of the ICD, but we have an AoE blind (GoS), Earth 3, Air 3, blind on burn procs, and signet of air. You use those right, apply your burns and bleeds, and mitigate damage.

I’m by no means an expert (been playing my ele main since launch, on and off), but this is the most comfortable build I’ve used so far. In the past few days, I’ve solo’d a d/p thief, spirit ranger (even 2v1d this combo, though that win might have been more due to their lack of skill rather than my abilities), a hambow or two, and a bunker guardian. Those matches were much more balanced than I remember with other builds (I only consistently lost to the hambow and thief).

Just my $0.02.

Edit: Now I know why I see the word “kitten” so often!

You should take a look at

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/My-Celestial-Elementalist-build-for-Spvp/first#post3919257

it’s a hybrid condi/power build for sPvP that is a lot more fun than sitting in earth spamming AA.