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I’ve heard as a general statement that if your glass cannon Berserker’s set of gear you’re wearing is making you die too often, add in some Soldier’s gear.
How much is some? I’m really just talking about running around in the new zones (Auric Basin, etc). Do you replace all of the armor but leave the trinkets, or vice versa? Just a few pieces? What do you veteran Elementalists do when out soloing maps?
Disclaimer: I’m a filthy casual. I never got into the dungeons in this game, nor the WvW. I just like completing the maps and getting new skill points/vistas… doing the occasional events.
Prior to this expansion, I couldn’t get into the “proper” elementalist rotations. As soon as I saw things like “switch to [element], then do 5243, then switch to [element] and do 2354, then…”, my eyes would glaze over. I did get one to 80, but I really just wanted to weapon swap and stay in a favorite attunement. I eventually made a build around Conjurer, which basically had me stay in Air attunement 99% of the time and played my elementalist like it was an Engineer.
Fast forward to this xpac, and I figured I’d brush off my Elementalist and try out that sweet, sweet warhorn!
Yuck.
Then I thought “well, some of these shouts are bound to be pretty neat”, only to see that they competed with my precious pseudo-Engineer conjured weapon buttons.
Yuck.
I was just about to give up on this silly abuse of Elementalist until I tried the Overloads. Woooo! 4 fun, moving, channeled aoe spells that don’t interfere with conjured weapons? SO GREAT! Rushing my way into a big event with 20+ people has never been more fun, and I actually WANT to element stance dance now. So awesome.
Run into a big event in Fire stance with my ice bow. Spinny attack of doom! Switch to Air, do Icebow4 while I wait for Overload. Then summon a big electrical storm! Etc, etc. I use my mace and staff+air to keep blind people if I’m by myself, and my third utility is LF, with the elemental for my elite to tank some things.
Perhaps I’m being too much of an optimist, but they basically gave us 4 groupings of things this xpac (warhorn, shouts, new elite, overload), and even though 3 are pretty universally considered to be trash, I need to give a big +1 for the Overload spells. Lots of fun for us filthy casuals.
(Build info: I’m using Fire for Conjurer, Air for Fresh Air, and Tempest, choosing all survivability ones)
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Hi, fellow guardians! Just unlocked Longbow and am really enjoying the new change of pace.
I’m planning on building this character for fun solo/duo map completion of the new zones, and I noticed that the mobs are considerably nastier than in the original maps. I was thinking it might be wise to have a backup for my Longbow be Mace+Shield, but I haven’t really built this character for tankiness before.
Anyone of you vets have any advice for making a good PvE solo/duo gearset/build that would let me still do reasonably strong LB damage, but is tough to kill if I swap to mace+shield?
Any chance one of the specializations offered to Elementalist can provide weapon swap instead of a new weapon?
I’d like to be able to see how fast I am currently running. With the “One With Air” talent, I never know if I’ve capped out my speed yet or not (within the first minute, of course). I think just generally knowing my current run speed would be very useful, even if I had to open H to see it.
The idea would be that you’re “specializing” in Fire, or Electricity, and would prefer to swap between positions (melee vs ranged) instead of roles (healer/support vs damage). Just because it isn’t how you prefer to play Elementalist doesn’t make it “useless”.
How about making it an optional trait?
Specialist – Gain a second weapon set, and the ability to toggle weapon sets in combat. Attunements now have a 60 second CD (? and cannot be swapped in combat ?).