Guild Wars 2

I’ve been talking with a friend about it and it seems like you want to be as tanky/selfish as possible as a commander, because he said if you die, zerg tends to go to kitten. We were discussing stuff like full soldier/sentinel, 3 stance 00644, sword-horn/axe-shield, melandru runes, etc.

Was just wondering if anyone had an optimal build for this.

so you think a commander ele is more effective as a frontline d/d aurashare than more of a supportish staff ele?

okay so that’s what i figured, and taking 10 in earth for auto earth armor. i was just looking for something more in-depth maybe with explanation for whatever is most efficient

I’m basically looking for a build for staff in WvW that’s tanky/support-y instead of full zerker deeps, maybe some combo of clerics/soldiers with 30 in water and that new trait for outgoing healing.

I was always very fond of healway guardian and wanted to know if it’s still viable or needs changes now based on the new 4/15 patch.

Yeah I agree with making T3 Cultural available to every race now, and no level requirement, or RACE requirement, which kind of defeats the purpose. Plus it’s cheaper and with arguably cooler particle effects. Really now, the only reason to get the ACTUAL cultural is for the achievements. I feel like this was a poor choice on Anet’s part and feel bad for the people who actually spend money and crystals on REAL Cultural.

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I play primarily Ele, have a Thief and Ranger but I don’t really pay attention to them, so I’m not gonna bother with them…
Please keep Diamond Skin, while it seems like a lot of people are saying it’s going to be OP against condition damage builds, I don’t see how it can really hurt that much. Yes if you run 100% condition damage then you just won’t do any damage, but very few builds can run entirely 100% condition damage.
My greatest fear as an ele who focuses primarily on condition damage will be running in to another ele, specced just like me! However even we will have the option to swap into lightning and pound each other down to 90%. I don’t know much about other classes, but I know warriors have plenty of non-condition burst, Necro’s have shadow form (or whatever the class skill is called), Guardians have heavy hitting skills, thieves have backstab, Mesmers have shatters, and I don’t know that ranger’s have much in the way of condition damage (I could be mistaken, and sorry for leaving engi’s I know absolutely nothing about them) so while it could force someone to adapt their playstyle for part of the fight, isn’t that the same thing we do everytime we fight a Mesmer? Instead of just pick and shoot, we have to pick the right thing to shoot.

Let me spell this out to you. if you are a full condition thief trying to kill this elementalist how do you expect to kill them with your d/d 3 spam build? you cant. Simply because you have absolutely 0 physical dmg. condition immunity is going to make every condition heavy build completely broken against this trait

Not to mention that in terms of spvp you only have a limited choice of amulets, and the amulets more focused on condition damage tend to have either power or precision, not both. In addition to that elementalists have quite a few ways of staying topped off in fights so staying +90% against a condi build wouldn’t be too hard of a feat to accomplish.

whenever i hit “Join Friend in PvP,” it will put me in a random server. i’ve tried restarting but that didn’t help.