Guild Wars 2

If you would like to get in game and watch me do it to the running golem 100% of the time on my server let me know…I’m on “Henge of Den Ravi”. PM me on forums as I’ll be in a dota2 match but I will respond ASAP.

Surely someone else reading this can assist me in prooving this point…

The first 4 posts accurately sum up my feelings as well.

While I am here posting, might as well take this opportunity to promote my GW2 PvP video. If your bored check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR6LU_FLmFA

My experience is that Guardians are difficult for pretty much every class except necro and certain mesmer builds. Generally speaking it takes all of your cooldowns to get them low life and you will usually run out of gas before you can seal the deal.

My advice to winning ele vs guardian is to be patient and save everything for when you can drop them down to around 40% life without using your cooldowns then burn everything into them at once and hope for a fire grab crit. Unfortuneately most good guardians wont get to 40% life unless you start using cooldowns. A good tactic is to let the Guardian damage you so they have something other than tanking to think about because if they focus on nothing but survival its nearly impossible to down them.

Updraft stun doesnt end before dragontooth + pheonix hits… there is no opportunity to roll out of it and therefore there is no need to immobilize. The immobilize is only needed if you want to follow up with an earthquake or something after the DT + Pheonix. Only way to avoid an updraft combo (once the updraft hits) is with a stun break. If your unable to land this every time then your not casting DT soon enough. **Note: Even when someone stands up from the updraft knockdown they are still suffering from the stun for a short period of time.

As for killing the hammer first, killing a gaurdian with that hammer active is very difficult because it hinders your DPS (the constant stuns).

As for chasing people down, S/D eles are amazing at this but the truth is a 1v1 ele using a balanced build like one I use in the video doesn’t melt people. It usualy takes some time to wear someone down in a 1v1. On the same note its usually impossible for anyone to kill me 1v1. This build is more about teamwork (might stacking and stun combos) and mobility but as you see in the video it is still possible to win 1v1s quickly if you land things just right and get a nice critical here or there.

@ Kuthos, most of the video is me in solo ques. Both my opponents and allies are of various skill levels.

I am still seeking a serious tournament team. Please contact me if you know any teams of similar skill looking for an s/d ele. Thanks.

Aigoo – R36 – Elementalist S/D – Tournament – PvP Gameplay Video

Of course, I usually run one of these two variations:
25 Air -Quick Glyphs + Air Mastery
15 Water – Cleansing Wave
30 Arcane – Elemental Attunement, Elemental Surge, and Either Final Shielding (If I’m using Armor of Earth) OR Arcane Mastery (If I’m using Arcane Shielding)
OR
20 Air -Quick Glyphs + Air Mastery
20 Water – Cleansing Wave + Stop Drop and Roll
30 Arcane – Elemental Attunement, Elemental Surge, and Either Final Shielding (If I’m using Armor of Earth) OR Arcane Mastery (If I’m using Arcane Shielding)
Amulet: Either Soldier’s Amulet + Celestial Gem OR Valkyrie’s Amulet + Celestial Gem
Armor: 2 x HoelBrak + 2 x Strength + 2 x Fire
Weapons: Scepter (Bloodlust) Dagger (Battle)
The Concept: Since this combination of traits and items is fairly low damage I rely heavily on Might to make up the difference. This combination of traits and items will increase your might duration by 90% resulting in a 37 second might buff duration (this applies to might that you give to allies as well – making you a valued member in the big center node fights). If you watch the video closely you will notice in nearly every scene my might stacks are around 15 or greater. Secondly, since I run 30 arcane I am able to change attunements more often and each attunement change while in combat results in 3 might stacks (for 37 seconds) as a result of the “Battle” sigil on my dagger. Combine this with the natural might stacking capability of scepter/dagger (using blast finishers inside of ring of fire) and you got yourself a lot of might. Another huge bonus to this play style is the survivability making it very easy to reach max bloodlust and never lose it.
I will warn you though, even if you mirror this play style perfectly it does not melt down your opponents. To kill anyone you still have to land your combos correctly and play smart. I play tested a few hundred crazy ideas I had until I came up with this one and so far it fits my play style quite well…can’t say what I will be running in the next video though.
If you or anyone else reading this wants to theory craft with me you know how to find me in game (aigoo.8201) or you can message me on youtube and I will try to respond timely.
Please provide me feedback on the video and build and please “like” my video if infact you found it entertaining. I like to get a feel for what people want to see in these videos and the more people that watch them the more likely I am to continue to produce them.

Aigoo – R36 – Elementalist S/D – Tournament – PvP Gameplay Video

Aigoo – R36 – Elementalist S/D – Tournament – PvP Gameplay Video