Guild Wars 2

Obviously, Rune of the Soldier.

It does work with Powerful Auras. Recently crafted them to satisfy my own curiosity.

default cooldown is 6 secs, it’s only 4 seconds with Pyromancer’s Training. That delay after you cast Lava Font is an after-cast, or an animation following the cast. The casting animation is ~.2 seconds, and the after-cast animation is ~.2 seconds. So approximately .4 second delay between two consecutive fonts with Pyromancer’s Training and no Persisting Flames. If you add Persisting Flames than the first font will disappear as soon as you finish casting the second font. As far as I can tell it’s working as intended.

Just wanted to get the theorycrafting started on celestial staff ele in PvP.

I’m confident enough that we should be Water/Arcana/X w/ cantrips as before, but the third specialization plus the choices of some individual traits could make an interesting discussion.

So let’s assume we’re taking Water/Arcana w/ Soothing Disruption, Cleansing Water, Renewing Stamina, and both EAs. Let us also assume Lightning Flash and Armor of Earth as utilities.

I’m curious about the following:

Stop, Drop, and Roll or Soothing Ice?
Elemental Contingency or Final Shielding?
Third Specialization?
Ether Renewal or Signet of Restoration?
Cleansing Fire or Mist Form?
Elite?
Runes?
Sigils?

My current build:

S,D, and R — Soothing Disruption ICD feels too long and apparently the regen isn’t proccing Cleansing Water at the moment. I also think S,D, and R has the highest ceiling.

Elemental Contingency

Earth Specialization w/
Earth’s Embrace
Rock Solid — a slight preference over Geomancer’s Training, but I like the extra stability for channeling both Meteor Shower and Ether Renewal (and stomps and etc)
Diamond Skin -- I may be alone, but I haven’t been that impressed with Stone Heart. One can only camp Earth attunement for so long. To be fair, Diamond Skin isn’t that impressive either, but I do enjoy running through wells at full health.

Ether Renewal

Mist Form — It’s been a while since I’ve used this utility, but with the extra condi removal from S,D, and R along with Diamond Skin ignoring some initial condis I feel like it’s a good choice.

Fiery Greatsword

Traveler’s — I wanted to try more boon duration since we now have extra boons from both Elemental Contingency and Rock Solid.

Energy/Doom

I can attest to the ineffectiveness of using these weapons.

I’m not going to advocate it, but you could try Settler’s Amulet, Rune of the Undead, and Signets. Of course this doesn’t really allow you to abuse the condi’s on crit traits, but they’re sort of poop anyway.

Another attempt would be a ‘normal’ cantrip ele with Settler’s Amulet. Dunno, just trying to be helpful.