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The equipment i use:
Lich + Sanctuary runes
Helm +32power+32vitality+45condition damage
Shoulders +32power+32vitality+45condition damage
Vestments +72power+72vitality+101condition damage
Gloves +34power+24toughness+24vitality
Pants +67power+48toughness+48vitality
Boots +34power+24toughness+24vitality
Breathing Apparatus o +26precision+26toughness+37condition damage
Eye of Rodgort of Blood
Corrupted Shard of Stamina +90power+64vitality+5%critical damage
Dagger of Dragon’s Deep of Blood +90power+64precision+5%critical damage
Deathwish of Blood
Venom
Prototype Fractal Capacitor +24power+17toughness+17power+32power+18toughness+18vitality
Ancient Karka Shell of Berserker
Beryl Orichalcum Earring of the Valkyrie
Beryl Orichalcum Amulet of the Valkyrie
Lunaria and Solaria The Rings.
So now that traits are all clear lets get down to utility skills:
Healing: Ether Renewal ( Heal yourself and cure a condition with every pulse )
This removes any need of having to waste a utility slot for condition removal skill. Not only it cures almost all conditions you will ever have on you during tough fights it also heals you and recharges real quick. I saw only few eles using this skill, and believe me they are the smart ones.
7. Arcane Shield ( Block attacks with an energy shield. If it blocks three attacks it explodes. )
This is the best ele skill hands down. It helps when you are skipping mobs in dungeons, its helps when your are channeling Churning Earth around many mobs, it helps when you are about to die etc.
8. Mist Form ( Morph into an invulnerable, vaporous mist for a brief time. )
This skill helps a lot when you have to heal while receiving damage, it helps probably in every critical situation imaginable, if you manage to avoid situations like that you can simply use it to grant yourself things from Soothing Disruption trait, also take a look at Cantrip Mastery and Soothing Wave traits – Mist from is one of key parts of this build.
9. Lighting Flash ( Teleport to targeted area. )
This skill is perfect for channeling Churning Earth and porting in to finish doing that, it helps to avoid critical hits from bosses and helps you change your position and approach to things really fast, of course it also helps you to run away from zergs in wvw yo.
0. The Elite – Reaper Of Grenth ( Become a Reaper of Grenth, chilling and poisoning nearby foes. )
It goes hand in hand with this build because you are always close to action, running around, constantly moving, hitting everything that moves, if it doesnt move you move it, so chill,poison goes hand it hand with that leaving all the enemies condition heavy while you feel like a boss surrounded by black smoke. You can always change to elemental glyph if you feeling like having more dps, all tho if i do that i always summon earth or air elemental.
Why 10 in Air? Its to have the 2 most awesome traits at your disposal at any time and to compensate for low critical chance which i will talk about later on. Bolt To The Heart is great because in majority of dungeons mobs and bosses have huge hp pools so you have plenty of time to feel strong and deal some damage and finish them off when their health drops low. Zephyr’s Boon is great for wvw, pvp and anything really when you are with two daggers, since it maxes out your mobility in combat and increases your overall dps for some time, knowing that dps is low with this build and with daggers this trait is perfect to even things out.
Why 20 in Earth? Stone Splinters – this build is pure melee action packed build, its based of being active close range war mage rather than squishy cannon dude who shoots from 1,2k with auto attacks. This trait works perfectly with Bolt To The Heart completely removing any need of having trait points in Fire. Elemental Shielding is standard – if you are using two daggers this trait is a must since you have many auras at your disposal. Earth’s Embrace is why Earth trait line rocks, this trait helps so much in combat, here you almost dead, there the barrier pops giving you few seconds to run away, heal up and jump back in combat yo.
Why 30 in Water? Cleansing Wave is a standard also, it helps a lot since switching to water usually means you need some sort of support either for yourself or your friends, so removing a condition is a real cool thing. Soothing Disruption is a must with this build, you will understand why when you will see the utility skills for the build. Aquamancer’s Alacrity is only for two daggers and mostly for critical situations in pvp/wvw or really hard dungeon run where you gotta run away while leaving trace of chill ground cc while healing yourself like mad. Cantrip Mastery explains itself also with the utility skills. Soothing Wave is another critical situation helper where you gonna be even more hard to get when even your last stand skills cause enemies to get damage and conditions.
Why 10 in Arcana? Elemental Attunement is really helpful trait since every time you attune to an element you get a boost to exactly what you went for while attuning to that element, and you help your team too!
Hello,
If you are a glass cannon lover or press 123456780 guy, move on —-
The build I’m about to share with you all is for Scepter/Dagger and for Dagger/Dagger, it only requires 1-2 trait switches if you want to maximize each of the weapon sets, but you can only swap weapons, it will still work perfectly. Of course Staff is a must since there are many fights where going melee is just not advised (Lupi, Fire Shaman etc.) but staff is a ranged weapon which is a secondary option for the cases I mentioned, in no way does this build makes staff gameplay effective.
So lets get down to it.
Traits:
Fire: 0
Air: 10
Earth: 20
Water: 30
Arcana: 10
You are now probably wondering ‘Oh this guy i stupid he has 0 in power trait, and he doesn’t use Evasive Arcana, ohwowowwhysostupid’ Here it is, the detailed explanation of Melankoli Ele:
Fire: is overrated trait, power is overrated stat, elementalist is THE class, its unique and probably most versatile class in GW2 at the moment, and by going for builds which include only high dps and dps in general you remove the possibility of being versatile and useful while having fun and looking awesome and skilled.
Air: +10 trait points. Increases precision by 100, increases critical damage by 10%.
5 point mark – Zephyr’s Speed
10 point mark Scepter/Dagger – Bolt To The Heart
10 point mark Dagger/Dagger – Zephyr’s Boon
Earth – THE TRAIT, I love Earth Magic and I love the trait line. +20 trait points here. Increases Condition Damage By 200, Increases Toughness By 200.
5 point mark – Stone Flesh
10 point mark – Scepter/Dagger – Stone Splinters
10 point mark Dagger/Dagger – Elemental Shielding
15 point mark – Earthen Blast
20 point mark – Earth’s Embrace
Water – the most underrated trait of all traits. 30 and nothing less. HP pool has to be maxed out since mobs and bosses hit so hard and so fast that you have to have some space to think, and since this build is close combat, you have to be at 20k hp +, otherwise you will be downed all the time, making yourself useless to the group. +30 trait points. Increases Healing by 300, Increases Vitality by 300.
5 point mark – Soothing Mist ( Regenerates health while attuned to water ).
10 point mark – both for Scepter/Dagger and Dagger/Dagger – Cleansing Wave ( Remove a condition from you and your allies when attuning to water ).
15 point mark – Healing Ripple
20 point mark – Scepter/Dagger – Soothing Disruption
20 point mark Dagger/Dagger – Aquamancers Alacrity
25 point mark – Bountiful Power
30 point mark Scepter/Dagger – Cantrip Mastery
30 point mark Dagger/Dagger – Soothing Wave
Arcana – the most overrated trait because of Evasive Arcana, I’m sorry but only a person who is dumb can waste 30 points in this trait line. And even if i would to do that i would not pick Evasive Arcana, lol. 10 trait points here. Increases Boon Duration by 10%. Increases Attunement Recharge Rate by 20%.
5 point mark – Arcane Fury
10 point mark both for Scepter/Dagger and Dagger/Dagger – Elemental Attunement
(edited by Melankoli.9538)
OMG who is forcing you to grind it? Seriously I’m doing the right thing only checking forums once per week cus its same melody from the same trumpet like in every other mmo, by people who somehow feel forced to do something they dont like. Its not a job, who is preventing you from going to other areas, exploring? If you are rushing for legendary or whatever, thats your own fault, nobody is telling you to do that but you, so just deal with it without spreading your .. to public.
Oh mg…why do people always look to the game as it is some sort of thing that will end in 1 week and if you wont get something during those 7 days you will regret it for the rest of your life. The game is out for few months, it growing, grow together with it, stop rushing, stop caring about things that are not worth caring for. Like legendary weapons for example, i started playing like 1 month after the launch, since i wanted to finish up my HoM in GW1. Prices were high already, now they are sky high, but i could care less. I could care less about how much gold i have since is basically useless, unless you want to buy a precursor. Without that caring and playing daily I’m at 300+ gold + same amount spent on things, like gems, cool skins etc. I have like 40% of the mats needed for my ele’s Incinerator and i don’t care how long it will take me to get it, since this anet comes up with stuff every month, maybe it will be even easier next month, who knows. Point is – i don’t get the people who seem to hate and bash the game how they can, but still play it, there are hundreds of other mmos who offer exactly what you are looking for. Why not to try them? GW2 is specific kind of game, same like GW1 and rushers, grinders and farmers don’t last here, I play with the same people for around 6 years now, we played GW1, Lineage 2 and now GW2, and every day with loging in, at least i personally loose myself in this world, you know why ? Because i treat it as game not some duty that i must do or a job that has to pay me by the end of the week. Reinvent your approach to the game, adapt, or just move on, because believe me, even tho the forum is full of people like you, you are the 1% in this case.
Yeah bro, its you.
If you are worried about CoF, you should check out people skipping CM while running through bugged mountains, or jumping through invisible walls in CoE p2 to get to destroyer in p3, or jumping through walls in fotm, or getting pushed on to walls by engineers in fotm etc etc etc, some bosses in fotm dont even hit back if u jump on to a tree, i mean srsly? Anet needs to fix the bugs cus all the dungeons are a big joke, a group with some brains can do any path in any dungeon in under an hour (yes including p4 of arah). But instead they keep adding content which nobody cares about (snowmen building etc) . I understand the need to make money, but it should not prevent anet from doing their job.
Hi Ominous Anonymous, my suggestion for you is to get in to a helpful guild which you could rely on in situations like the one you are in now. Or just create/join a so called constant group for every day dungeon runs.
Wow. Where do these people even come from. Even the class name tells us that its a versatile profession. These braindead people are what is ruining the whole dungeon running experience for me when i run pugs. Eles not switching attunements, glass cannon people, people not using food and potions … and especially people who at scale 30 of fractals still cant dodge agony attacks after running those dungeons for hundreds of times.
Do your thing and ignore everyone who tells you what to do, thats the best way to achieve something that you can actually be proud of.
I only read the first post. Anyway, it is possible. I’ve done both pre and post wintersday patch. Before the patch it was easy, because you could lure her out outside, bring 100 tears there and just dps her nonstop while 1 person took care of sparks. How we did it after patch – we pulled her to the corner so the dpsers wouldnt agro the sparks and me (ele) and a mesmer both took care of sparks – me the upper part, mes the lower. Dwayna dead in 5minutes, of course it took us some time to figure out the way, but its more than possible, and rather easy when you know what to do, because Dwayna does basically no damage to warriors.
To sum it up:
1. Bring good dps.
2.Have voice communication within the team.
3.Have people who actually play the game and are not being carried by the team.
Peace.
Any advice on dwayna ? Cant seem to do it, trying for 1h+ already ,sparks are constantly bugging out and stuff. Maybe someone knows a new way to do it right?
Hello,
I’m playing GW2 for about a month now, I was still playing GW1 when second one got released, because the feedback i got from my friends was only negative (bugs, lags, dcs, crashes). Anyway, i went and installed the game to try it for myself and to move on from rather completely ‘dead’ community of GW1, ‘It can’t be worse’ I thought to myself while creating my femme fatale elementalist. AND IT ISN’T. This game is awesome. At first I was playing a lot, like 8 hours + per day, just to catch up with my friends without rushing and leveling up by crafting or something like that now I’m down to like 3-5 hours every other day. I did not skip one cut scene, was reading everything and enjoying my experience inside the game.
When i reached max level and became familiar with the character I started doing dungeons, all that stuff, Lost Shores update came out, which was really awesome experience (except of some dc’s during the event) , because I wasn’t there for the Halloween event. Since I did not read any reviews or insights on the game I found out about these legendary weapons myself. And here where it gets funny – personally for me. Since I’m playing with d/d ele I thought, oh well it would be nice to see how that legendary dagger looks. I went and googled it, oh well – its pretty cool. Then I scrolled down the page and I was struck by the magic – a list of materials so long that I even laughed a bit. And I didn’t laugh because I thought its stupid and requires grind or whatever, I laughed when I saw Ectos and Obsidian Shards. For those GW1 people who played for years – you know what I’m talking about. I went and closed the page, and simply started saving all the ectos I salvage in my bank, when I will have 400+ I will go and check what else i have collected during my gameplay, and buy whatever I’m missing. I don’t even know what legendary i will go for, maybe it won’t even be this character, or maybe they will add something more cool looking later on, I simply don’t care.
Here is my point for those who are still reading – people cry and throw stones towards Arena for making legendary weapons impossible for casual players. They are possible, everything is possible in this game for everyone – that’s the best part. You can play for 1 week without sleeping and then quit for 2 weeks, come back, and you will still be equal to everybody. These are the same things i loved about GW1, that and the dark atmosphere ofc. Point is – there were grinders and rushers and criers in the first game also, who rushed for everything which made them nervous, anxious and sad and all that. They got their Chaos Gloves, Obsidian Sets and whatever else they wanted, I also got them, only difference was, i got them 6 or more months later than they did, but items in the game did not cost me any real life money, they did not cost me any health or uncomfortability. Same thing will happen in this game, while i farm around the map, or pvp, or run some dungeons or do a jumping puzzle gathering materials all around me, selling items that are worth selling – i experience the game without any madness inside me, i go off when i want to, i come back online when i want as well. That is casual – that is how this game works and how all games work generally.
So bois and girlz if you are crying about not getting item in few weeks, which requires a long period of time to get, I suggest you stop caring about pixels and play the game for relaxation and fun, with your friends, or alone – it does not matter. Just please oh please stop pretending to be casual if you spam walls of text every gd day about how hard the game is how bugged it is and how normal of a player you are – please, if you do these things you clearly have some issues. You are the one playing the game, you are the one in control of yourself – its a game, quit it if you don’t like it. Normal people have bigger issues than getting a weapon skin with glow – and if its the problem that you are so focused on and can’t let go, maybe its time you took your time and went to see somebody.
Play the game, don’t get played by it. Then the all the related issues will disappear without any effort.
I hope to have opened eyes at least for one person.
Peace,
D.