I could make some footage, though the very reason I started this topic was to see what people think and if it’s mainly (!) viable. I’ve never played an Elementalist before, so I studied it a bit through Abilities/Traits, devised a build that gave me great survivability to survive through many circumstances in WwW, but when fully testing it in miniature fights (from 1on1 to 3 on 3), aside from presence that has others lock on you and waste time/effort, the damage output to the enemy was less than optimal in comparison to f.e. my Thief’s DPS on Shortbow. I tried looking up various D/D builds on internet, but they all went around Celestial gear + critical focus in Traits, which as you can imagine do noticeably lack sustain. Going for sustain on Elementalist would negate critical focus absurd, so the only option out of it seemed to be Condition Damage, which you can boost through Trait/Rune based on your Toughness.
As a point of this topic I’d like to discuss with you just how viable do you believe my experimental build is and perhaps how it could be improved. I have it on my elementalist already and it’s been test-proved in WwW conditions, but first the link to the build -
As far as I’m concerned, my Attack is modestly fine for any additional damage I need to get done to my Conditions (Which goes as far as 1.4k in stats). The main output of this build are Conditions and they can tick well; in 1on1 situations they give me pretty much a 50/50 chance against any profession I’ve met so far, in group fights I manage to grab enough attention to let my server-mates do their job, manage to survive through it and eventually kill off a few. In zerg fights there was no problem whatsoever – with 3.1k armor and 21k HP + all the healing from Water & Traits, I run through enemy zerg back and forth with relative ease, hitting whoever I can for a lootbag later.
Respecting the stats focus of this build, I’d call it a “Bulldozer”, for it persists a lot and it does hurt with quite an overwhelming force (Heck, everybody in WwW, who got hit by my condition combinations, started panicking and running away / trying to buy time for condition debuffs).
That’s as far as it goes from my side in general for now. What is your opinion?
I swear you ER guys are crazy with the siege, this week for Desolation won’t be about the points with all you throw even at T1 towers. Let’s play for good fights and lootbags, I guess
Last night time once again Deso fought for hours near SM door in a complete adverse situation, and you complain about outmanned. Didn’t you feel the damage from our siege? How can you come here crying about numbers, go to EB and see your numbers there. You don’t have numbers in BL’s because all the people are in EB doing stupid fights.
You’ve finally noticed we’re lacking people to be on more maps than one for big fights,
as about the ‘stupidity’ part, why aren’t you in fact happy for the loot bags? VZ made most of WwW guilds leave Desolation, taking along many good commanders, and they aren’t coming back, so the ones stepping up these days are new people, you expect them to be rather experienced?
I feel like SFR players here doesn’t want to see anything besides QQ. We are lacking WwW people, 24/7 coverage, organization at that moment doesn’t matter, we don’t have the amount of people to fight until prime-time and that’s just one short period of the day on two maps maximum. This lack of organization? It just so happens that Desolation population is in majority PvE and sPvP, but that’s our problem, so let’s see it as another QQ, shall we.
Blob or not a blob, the matter lies in the fact that SFR has many times more WwW oriented population than we do on Desolation, the lack of people to match SFR is what lets SFR do whatever they want like today in EB; 70ish vs 10-20 (at times 40ish) people, the 40ish being when no other map had players. We can whine all we want, but it won’t help it, SFR has the people, we don’t, thus we’re a lower tier material. In that regard, I wish Anet’s match-ups had worked already.
^^ I’d like you to point out where exactly I “cried”, as far as I see I mentioned that it was fun and that I was thankful to our people fighting on, if it’s a trash talk to you, I’m sorry, I can’t help it that you see it otherwise.
Have to give regards to our people on EB yesterday too, despite the 1vs2 situation, greatly outnumbered and under immense pressure, we still kept respawning, going back into the fight, have to give respect to the people who didn’t surrender, many thanks, also thanks to our commanders, who despite being there, let me to continue commanding until the situation got solved = SFR&Kodash stopped 2vs1 and we reclaimed our land.
You guys really gave us some fun yesterday, Kodash + SFR vs Deso genuinely, not a single attack among each other. Our Keep = new SM, the three-way fight was probably the most epic fight in the last 2 weeks we have you against us, didn’t even have to go far to get loot bags =D
Have fun in your WwW hunting no matter the changes they’re going to roll on us soon!