Guild Wars 2

Time to go Kholer.

It looks like a good day to be a staff elementalist.

Or rather, it will be in 5 days.

I never said dagger/focus does more damage than dagger/dagger.I just said both weapons have SIMILAR damage( as in dagger/focus dps = dagger/dagger dps)

I’ve been trying to show you and everyone else that the dagger off hand fire/earth skills do not give dagger/dagger a dps advantage over dagger/focus.

The real value in focus is the ability to only go into water attunment when you need to heal, and not for putting up an aura for zephyrs boon. Focus is good because you can use earth attunment to safely rez team members, and prevent yourself from being spiked down.The only thing dagger off hand really offers on boss fights is a 1.5k heal and cleanse on a 40 second cool down.But even the cleanse in focus is better it removes 3 debuffs on a 25 second cool down.Finally that you get access to swirling winds which works on a majority of projectile attacks.

If you need cc on trash then take dagger offhand or knockdowns.

I’m pretty sure swirling winds works on all the stuff you listed except the robot fist attack.But that’s only on one person and you can just dodge it anyway.I know for sure it works on the rapid fire attacks golems do because.I’ll solo cm at some point this weekend to be sure.

Here is proof of how little difference there is between bursting with dagger off hand and just dpsing with dagger/focus.I hit the mob with both weapon sets for 13 seconds, and I made sure all of the dagger offhand skills crit.

There’s basicly no differnece in damage between the weapons sets like I said in my previous posts.

Youtube is taking it’s sweat time but the video should be avalible soon.

Try out 0/30/0/20/20 or 10/30/0/20/10 dagger/focus.Pick up offensive traits like vital striking,air training etc.

For runes and gear go all berserker with scholar runes.If you’re worried about dying use valkrie armor and weapons(but keep berserker trinkets) with divinity or some other defensive rune set up.Like Byron said if you get hit your dead anyway so you might as well maximize the damage you do.

I use sigil of energy for extra endurance regen, but if you feel like you can stay alive without it use something else.

I honestly think 0/10/0/30/30 d/d is overrated in pve.Dagger offhand does not offer much on boss fights except extra healing.Churning earth and fire grab are on too long of a cool-down to make a difference and bosses are immune to knock downs.

I don’t think aura sharing is worth it, because auras are pretty worthless in pve except magnetic Aura.Evasive arcane is pretty much overkill for self healing.If you need that much healing you’re making too many mistakes.

This is a bit off topic, butI don’t think ele dps is as bad as you make it out to be.I was messing around soloing Lupicus as glass cannon ele, and my kill time was not that far off from my warrior’s (which is 7ish min).It’s a nightmare to stay alive in phase 3 so I’m still working on a kill, but I’m on pace for like 10-11 min kill.It’s only slower than a warrior because I’m forced to sit in water and earth attunment for extended periods of time in phase 3 so I don’t put sigil of energy on cool-down.