Guild Wars 2

So here is my best attempt at plated med armor, didn’t have a lot of choices, and I def didn’t want to use radiant armor. I chose the leather hat because I felt it was a good fit for my set, but if you want a plate like helm try the skin from hotw.

Can you still choose stats when crafting this? Thanks.

Hello, I recently got my engineer to 80 and plan to mainly play him in wvw. I have him in dire/rabid gear with around a 25% to crit, I mainly run triple kits and sometimes elixir s. My question is what would be a more effective build, 30/10/0/20/10 or 30/0/0/30/10. Would I be missing out on not having sharpshooter/hair trigger? I’m also having problems deciding what alchemy traits to choose. Blood injection and automated response seem nice because I’ll be running with a lot of vit, but protection injection/ backpack regen also seem like great choices. Thanks for the help.

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People go for Celestial because of the crit dmg, and it allows you to switch between d/d, staff, s/d and s/f easily, so you won’t need multiple gear sets. That is the main reason I run it and I defiantly don’t find it worthless. In organized wvw its important to follow your commander and drop water fields, you can’t do that if your casting one meteor shower and running from the fight. Nothing is 100% safe, you could easily go down to fringe thieves in just a few shots and rally a team.

I don’t think we currently have a staff meta, eles have several builds you can be successful with. I think it depends on what role you want to be in the zerg, dps or support, because you defiantly won’t be roaming. Most organized wvw guilds seem to favor the support eles, so something like 0/0/10/30/30 or 0/0/20/30/20 (Rock solid) is what I usually run when playing staff. Imo I think your toughness is too low, you might end up being rally bait. 1700 to 1600 are good lvls to be around, also going into earth just 10 points you will get a nice return on toughness with soothing mist. Your health looks ok specially if you have guard stacks. If your worried you damage is going to suck going support you can offset it a little with a bl sigil and might stacks you get from the zerg. I personally play celestial armor and weapons, celestial neck, cavalier and valk trinkets. I change the valk to zerkers when I get my guard stacks, for some more crit. I’m not familar playing a zerker staff ele, so I can’t speak on that but some people swear by it, just takes a lot of skill and positioning.

I’m a fan of this build but not some of the traits. I would probably take rock solid to use with ether renewal, it would also free up stone splinters, specially if your already using armor of earth. But I also like geomancers, lemongrass, and melandru runes for some nasty condi reduction. Also as others have stated I would use cantrips reduction, those cds are grossly long. My only thing with this build is you don’t run traveler runes, signet of air or zephyrs speed, and being melee I always thought it be important. I have only ever run this build with traveler runes so I’d like to hear thoughts on that.

Nice video, bountiful power really shines here! We all know we can’t sit in the thick and bang it out anymore but instead of quitting the class you adapted, watching you move in and out of combat was impressive. You made an even better move when you teamed up with that guard though, your complimentary builds and communication made for a exciting video. The only low I had was when I was reminded of how the current meta requires ridiculous amounts of cleanses. I do however appreciate your rebellious spirit in playing the old d/d meta build, everyone knows how hard Anet worked this December to open up build diversity for the eles, and your all like new dog old tricks. When I finally get some free time I’d like try out the build but I have a feeling your making it look really good.

Another d/d build I was looking at is 0/0/20/20/30. Prolly not as good for your duo, but rock solid and ether renewal are a strong combo, stone splinters is more consistent then bountiful power and not to mention stone flesh gives you nice return on toughness, letting you mix in some more offensive gear . The biggest downside to this build is having to run signet of air or traveler runes for that movement speed being melee. You’d have to either choose traveler runes with a loss of 30% boon duration and an extra utility slot, or vice versa. The earth line could also potentially free up the armor of earth utility slot with Earth’s embrace and rock solid, letting you bring some more variation into the build, perhaps arcane spells or cleansing flame. kitten sorry this is so long got a mechanical keyboard for Christmas and typing has never been so much fun. Anyways, Nice Video!

So you opted for 20 in water instead of 30 in air. Do you find the added survivability better then having the added dps from fresh air?

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Thanks Loki, I’ll check it out.

Hello brothers and sisters, I need help matching my asura T3 heavy culture armor to the asura t3 weapons. I’d like to do gold for the trim, grey for the plate and purple for the glow. Colors are not my strong suit, any ideas on what dyes I’d need? Thanks!