Guild Wars 2

KrazyFlyinChicken.5936:

The Pros

Under Prime Conditions this build is getting:

+10% damage from Air Training
+20% damage from Bolt to the Heart (BttH)
+10% damage for being with 600 of target.
+10% damage from having full endurance.
+10% damage from being full health
+5% damage from Sigil
+7% damage for having might stacks.

I also use tempest defense which is another 20% additional damage which comes into play when you hit your opponent with earthquake. (not sure if you forgot this or not)

I assume that the 5% from sigil is from force and 7% from strength runes? I prefer to opt for fire and air sigils for more instant damage than a flat 5% increase and scholar runes for 10% increase. I used to use air and force before the feature patch but I found that I can output more damage with fire and losing force. I say this because I find the point of this build is to do as much damage in the shortest time frame possible and by using fire, air and scholars provides this than force and strength runes. Although using these would provide more in an extended or team fight when your burst is on CD.

So all up my version has a 90% damage increase plus 2 on crit procs.

KrazyFlyinChicken.5936:

A) Your health drops below 90% (-10% damage)
B) You have to evade, so you lose stamina (-10% damage)
C) You’re a wet noodle and fall over yourself when the enemy even looks at you funny.
D) No condi cleanse (you basically have to kill them before they kill you)

A) Our heals as an ele aren’t to bad with water trident and cleansing wave along with popping our heal so if you disengage you can get back up to 90% health
B) This I agree, but it is inevitable loss
C) I find that our survivability isn’t that bad with the toughness gained from going 5 points into earth magic and 2 into water magic as well as having rock barrier up and that I can somewhat stand some pressure
D) Attune to earth half way through ether renewal and so you gain stability from Rock Solid and you can normally get the full heal off so all of the condis are cleared. Of course this doesn’t work against condi bombs but not a great deal does anyway.

I play gc ele in spvp and it’s great fun. The build I run is a bit different from the video posted above since it utilises damage modifier traits to achieve the massive damage. with the build 0/6/5/3/1 with arcane wave, lightning flash and ice bow, zerker amulet, scholar runes and fire and air sigils. The damage achievable with this build is true burst.

Also, unlike in the video where the burst were killing the medium and light golems the burst of the build I run can kill the heavy golem in a shorter time.

ok so the burst build that use in hotjoins is 0/30/25/10/5 with ether renewal, arcane wave, lightning flash and armour of earth for stomps.
the traits are:
Air – Bolt to the heart, Air training, tempest defense
Earth – Stone Splinters, Earth’s embrace
Water – Vital Striking

The build is based all around damage modifiers as follows:
Bolt to the Heart – 10% more damage when foe’s health is below 33%
Air Training – 10% more damage when attuned to air
Tempest Defense – 20% more damage to stunned or knocked down foes
Stone Splinters – 10% more damage when within 600 units of target
Enduring Damage – 10% more damage when endurance is full
Vital Striking – 10% more damage when health is above 90%
Scholar Runes – 10% more damage when health is above 90%
Sigil of Force – 5% extra damage
So all up at total of 85% extra damage
Here is the link to the build http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArYhEmKbzR4gjEAkCoMZ0RIiHW4gEVBA-ToAg0CnI4SxljLDXSuscNoYWA

The combo for the burst is

1. Hurl
2. Lighting Flash
3. Earthquake
4. Electric Discharge (from attuning to air)
5. Lighting Strike
6. Arcane Wave
7. Lighting Strike from sigil will happen somewhere in the burst
This initial burst hits for somewhere around 20K

If that doesn’t kill your oppenant follow it up with RTL > Updraft > Phoenix to down them
The next part for somewhere around 5 – 7K
have fun

I run this build for a bit of fun in hotjoins and I can tell you it is not as simple as it seems…

He zapped at me and killed me with 2 sequential hits.

In fact its not 2 hits its 7:
1. Hurl
2. Lighting Flash
3. Electric Discharge (from attuning to air)
4. Earthquake
5. Lighting Strike
6. Arcane Wave
7. Lighting Strike from sigil will happen somewhere in the burst
This initial burst hits for somewhere around 20K

Also you most likely had a squishier build to be downed from the initial burst because most of the time i need to follow the burst up with RTL > Updraft > Phoenix to down them
The next part for somewhere around 5 – 7K

This damage is only achieved due to ALL of the damage modifier being made, especially from tempest defense trait when using the knock down from earthquake .

The traits and conditions that need to be met are:
Bolt to the Heart – 10% more damage when foe’s health is below 33%
Air Training – 10% more damage when attuned to air
Tempest Defense – 20% more damage to stunned or knocked down foes
Stone Splinters – 10% more damage when within 600 units of target
Enduring Damage – 10% more damage when endurance is full
Vital Striking – 10% more damage when health is above 90%
Scholar Runes – 10% more damage when health is above 90%
Sigil of Force – 5% extra damage
So all up at total of 85% extra damage

Here is the link of the build http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArYhEmKbzR4gjEAkCoMZESHiHW4gEVBA-ToAg0CnI4SxljLDXSuscNoYWA

The downside to this build is
– If you miss your earthquake the burst wont be nearly as effective and only take around half of their health
– Lighting Flash has absolutely 0 z axis movement so if you are on a hill or below a tiny ledge and use it you will waste your whole burst
– If the opponent survives the burst for any reason you have next to no sustain to win the fight
– The burst is on a 40 second cooldown so its unlikely to be able to perform it twice in a fight.

As many of people in this thread have said; it’s a one trick pony. The reward for succeeding with the burst is a close to guaranteed kill but if you mess up the burst it’s a close to guaranteed kill for the opponent.

For me I have my attunements on the left column of the Naga (1, 4, 7, 10), heal on 2 and utilities and elite on the right column (3, 6, 8, 12) so my left hand can focus on weapon skills and moving. I’ve used this setup since launch and just comes second nature now

So I’ve recently hit 80 with my ele and am wondering what gear to get. I mainly PvE but haven’t done any dungeons or fractals (just trying to get my 100% world completion) and I’m looking to get into WvW. I’ve seen on other posts that PVT armour is the best to for eles get but its so kitten expensive, so are their any other alternatives?

So best armour for:
1.Open world PVE
2.Dungeons/ Fractals
3. WvW

thanks in advance

It’s nice to see chars get in touch with their fabulous side in pic 1 :P For me the other two pics are fairly average.
pic1: 8/10. pic 2:6/10. pic 3: 7/10.

Here’s my ele

Here’s my Elementalist Elensi with an action shot :P I’m pretty happy with her look, might try T3 cultural legs though when i get enough money.

Ok guys this is just an idea of a pvp team.

5 Mesmers, all with the same face, hair, height ect. and all have a jumble of letters (i.e yyajdg) for a name with just one letter being different per character. All have the same weapons and using a clone build.

The idea would be to always run with at least one team mate and when fighting summon all of your clones so then there will be 8 copies for your opponent to choose from.

What do you think of this idea? Post comments below