Guild Wars 2

Ele isn’t nearly as bad as people are making them out to be.

One common mistake I see is building compeltely glass cannon. You have some of the best healing in the game, but it’s completely wasted if you get instagibbed By everything.

I can’t speak for D/D, but support/bunker Staff is very good, and S/D works really well for me. Elementalists need to be very picky with builds though, since a lot of out traits are weak.

What I’m currently running is 0/20/0/20/30, Valkyrie’s Amulet with Berserker’s Jewel. Runes of Divinity/Ogre… not decided on sigils though – I like crit + fire, but %dmg and might when I switch attunements is really strong as well.

You really don’t need to run glass cannon in order to do good dmg, people will stop laughing at you when they realized you just built 15 might stacks yourself.

Not saying Ele is in a perfect spot though, but fix some traits, improve some skills (main hand dagger, fix some buggs) and buff our downed mode, and we’re pretty much fine.

Tbh, DPS-Staff isn’t very good. Go bunker or go Scepter+Dagger/Focus.

@Arheundel If you litterally mean dodgerolling the guardian’s bubble, then no, you won’t kill him b4 he gets ressed – provided his teammates actually have decent reflexes and don’t start the ress half an hour after he’s downed.

As for my opinion about ele? Not nearly as bad as people are making them out to be, but they seriously need to fix their downed state. That and a few trait tweaks and they are pretty much fine.

Change the immobilize to a knockdown or whatever, problem solved. It even looks like it could knock people down.