Guild Wars 2

Hi fellow elementalist!

Try a different keybinding:

WASD movement
QER,Shift+E, Shift+R weapon skills
XCVB attunement swap
Shift+Space, Ctrl+Space, Ctrl+Shift+Space utility skills
3 Healing
5 elite
Your thumb has the strongest muscles in your hand and it’s the most agile of the fingers. Try to use it more often!

I have to try one of these builds tonight!

My commander going to kick my kitten but I don’t care…

I will take something like 20606 with Judge’s Intervention, Smite and StandYourGround… I want to take Purging Flames too but if I run without SYG my staff-ele-playing fianceé going to kick my kitten with high heel steel-toe boots… And I don want this. At all!

Why did you speed it up that much?!

I can’t see kitten all!

If guardians has access to at least one more damaging condition… Any I mean… I would give it a try. You can constantly apply burning but many prof can constantly remove a single condition. And this is my problem.

Sure it can work in PvP but I’m more of a WvW lad and this won’t really work there.

Anyway Holl: sorry for my criticism and thumbs up! Keep trying out non-meta builds and keep posting them… Possibly more player joins you (and forming a new meta)

Happy Guardin’!

Staff ele is always welcome in group content let it be spvp, dungeon, wvw or outdoor bosses. Where it doesn’t shine is the solo content. In wvw a PVT-Zerk staff ele with Lightning Rod can be one of the best offensive support. A more heal oriented build with 00266 is a dream for defences.

Everybody likes a staff elementalist in their group.

Can you imagine what 2-3 coordinated staff ele with +12 stacks of might only from a guardian can do in wvw in LRod zerker build just in a few seconds?

Offensively: Static-Gust-UnsteadyGround-LavaFont-Meteor-FrozenGround-IceSpike…

Defensively: ShockWave-WindbornSpeed-Geyzer-HealingRain-Water#1-Dodge

Long story short: staff ele is all about the guys (please note the plural…) next to you and not about yourself. If you ever find yourself alone than you are wielding a wrong weapon or your group does not support you (they should… we always have one thief-warri-gua defending our staff eles…) or you are completely lost

Guardian has no range… no CC… no mobility… stilll good…. And I just levelled up my toon…. They said it sucks…. No they are wrong…:D

No!

lets wait till somebody else speaks!
I’m not that good with ele…

Destrice: Do you want cheap runes or the best-of-all? The best is Strength. Hoelbrack, Melandru or Traveller… good for WvW.. Speed is a good replacement for Traveller. Pack is a great overall choice… 2nd tier but still good. Centaur can be good too… It is a TESCO versions but still useful… and it’s dead cheap.

Peow Peow:

I have a different balancing idea:

Mobility is bound to the weight. So if you make your character bigger at the creation it means it moves slower. The other thing:

Heavy armour profs: movement speed runes, traits, sigils DOES not work anymore…. they wear 50kg’s of steel for Tyria’s Sake.
Medium armour profs: they can use +20% movement speed buffs but not in combat. How is a guy wearing 5-10 kilos of leather able to turn faster than a lingerie-wearing girl?
Light armour prof: you can have +33% and +20% swiftness buffs… since all you can have against a sword is your sexy lingerie. And someone who only wears pieces of cloth not enough for making a good tissue for somebody like Gerard Depardieu should DEFINITELY run faster than your 200 kilos Charr in 50 kilos of steel.

oh wait… they don’t…. a Charr warri outruns a D/D ele….

So this is it… Do your math now please!

You can craft exotic celestial armour but you need 400 tailoring and 30 days.

If your friend plays PVT armour with for example Pack runes counts as a good choice imho. Ascended Celestial accessories are easier to get than ascended armour pieces. Exotic PVT armour you can get from Arah WP karma vendor. Exotic acc’s are sort of cheap on AH. I mean berserker, knight or assassin and they are craftable. Crafted celestial armour is account bound.

PVT armour + berserker acc’s= good staff DPS support.
PVT + knights: acceptable roamer
PVT + celestial: good roamer
PVT + PVT: very hard to kill tank let it be staff or D/D

tl;dr: I would go with full PVT armour as a beginner and get Guild Recommendations/Laurels/Gold/Glob to buy Ascended Celestial accessories. The upside: these items are usable on every char unlike cloth celestial armour.

Hi!

I don’t understand your question… Do you want a levelling build? Zerker gear with GS/Sw+F is a good way to go. Always carry a scepter or a staff for harder group events.

Where do you want diversity? In wvw we have a handful of builds… mostly tanks/frontliners (01661 and 00644)… And we have the meditation build (06611 and the variants). I don’t know anything about pvp or pve :d

Jayden Ennok: yes you are right… I cannot read…

I mean bot playing as skill-bot, like water and fire fields on demand… That’s a field bot (in wvw). This build is a bot in a different way: using only a handful of abilities in earth attunement…. Like a zerg staff ele does in three attunement….

Aeolus:

Can you read back 16 posts please? Yes, from the bottom…

I would have join!

I’m a very lucky person because I play GW2 with my fianceé. We levelled our characters together (me as a Guardian). She has a year experience with elementalist in wvw gold. Possibly that’s why she is nearly invincible.

She played who-kicks-bottom-harder with two level higher veterans in Frostgorge cavern (where you unlock a trait… forgot the name…). She can take on 5-6 mobs the same time and just melt them. I don’t know what she does and I don’t know how she does it but man! My zerker GS/Sw+F guardian hits like a wet noodle compared to her “butcher-style” full zerker “go-for-the-throat-and-panic-later” mesmer. Now at level80 things get closer. I have more sustain and I’m durable compared to her mesmer.
But the levelling… I had a feeling that she boosted my Guardian through 1-80.

EDIT: oh, forgot to say: she used sw+sw/sw+fo until Orr than she switched the sw+sw for GS. + + 0 0 + so she maxed out this traits. Blade training, Mental Torment and (I’m not sure Compounding Power….) She had Blink, Decoy and Defender… Full offence with defensive utilities…

Nil:

Hi there!

I run basically this build in wvw since a few days and it works. It’s not that durable as a Altruistic build nor it has the sheer burst of a true medi guard but it has potential.

My build is a bit different… Here:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVQQJARSlsApaotCxcI8DRRDRkjNYflFe9RSAA-TVCIwAAeCAdU/JoSjlKB5pMTwFAIiugCHCAW7PQKAmUGB-w

I keep changing Pure of Voice for Force of Will depending on the situation.

Thaddeus: +1

But do you agree with me that in a beginner’s topic the word “meta” shouldn’t be used out of context?

So instead of: “Just play meta and get money quickly to buy berserker gear. It’s really not that expensive.” (sorry Oxtred, no offence at all) we should say: “Build 46202 with Sc+F/GS and get zerker gear asap. This is the most effective tactic available in dungeons. The so called META”. Here, two birds with one stone…

Anyway I will stick to this “rule” from now and I hope some of the forum posters, the top contributors and “helpline players” will follow it too.

P.S.: I see a lots of newcomers and they won’t understand such terms… As we can see some of the more experienced players don’t know the exact meaning either.

OK, so from now on we should use the “viable” or “powerful” words. And I ask everybody to do the same if a beginner asks something.

And leave the “meta” word for the speedrunners and the “META” for theorycrafters

Thaddeus:

I accept that the so called meta changes at every fight and every situation… That’s why it is called meta (most effective tactic available). But since the “meta” changes at every single situation, every single boss and every single fight you have … It means “meta” builds – and I mean gear-trait-sigil choises – are not existing. We can call it meta but it does not mean they actually are META.

Sorry for trolling so far….

Here is my point:

Why do you/we/me keep repeating the META builds to someone who has no freaking idea what it means, why is it good, how to play it, how to get it?

The Game Slayer:

I agree. RtL should have 600 range and always target the nearest enemy… heck lightning always strikes the shortest way available… Also Lightning Flash should be nerfed. You should just produce some bright light blinding people for one second (does not stack).

But please also change the Warrior Charge ability too… The warrior rushes to the nearest wall and tries to find a socket to charge his/her phone. Evade all attacks.

FFS! Meta!

How can we have more meta builds for a same job?

Meta means the-MOST-effective-tactic-available…

So cannot be more than one.

So half of you are talking kitty.

(sorry for trolling but this “meta” kittenes me off)

I’m not sure but I think he meant lots of people.. a.k.a.: the mob.

OP:

armour to the teeth mate! Forget about everything else. Toughness, Vitality… everything else is secondary now….

Always get a ranged weapon with you so you can do a bit of farm. The attacking column of a hammertrain is not for an absolute beginner. Always use consumables for survivability.

Max out the Toughness and the Vitality trait lines, try to get every defensive trait.

You have to learn and while you can learn from your death you learn more from staying alive.

After you are comfortable with staying alive you can build differently.

Just copy-pasted this for you:
Hello!
There are two different keybinding methods:
First one is called “reach”: you use the ESDF for moving. You can easily press YAQW and RTG and SHIFT+RTG buttons. Easy combinations: 10
Second one is called “modifier”: you use your little finger to hold down SHIFT and/or the CTRL key. You can press Q, ERF, SHIFT+ERF, CTRL+ERF buttons. Easy combinations: 10
Also never forget: the easiest keystroke is the SPACE. So now I always have the SPACE+modifiers binded.

and this is the tread from the past:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Keyboard-layout/first#post4513868

Attunement swap or if we talk about engineer the “flamethrower”… etc swap is considered as a weapon swap. Even if you equip a bundle item like a “Rock” is a weapon swap…

I would go with something like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFEQJAoYlcMowhdOwvB8rNwDgQe4rWiCUuaynA-TlyDAB7oURiTAAPKDcR9nfUSBg5PR0DMqSQd2fIhHAAZAW2CA-w

That’s a cheap alternative. Pack runes are like 2.60 on TP though. Otherwise use Citadel.

Your mate should consider to going for Powerful Auras (water 12) to support you, or get the Water 11 to clean conditions from himself. In a small scale battle someone has to have poison! So consider this too!

I have a Redragon Perdition mouse so my keybinding looks like this:

movement: WASD
jump: space
dodge: mouse extra button on the top of the left button
weapon skills: E,R,Shift+E,Shift+R,Ctrl+Shift+R
look behind: Y
weapon swap: Q
interact: F
utilities: Shift+Space, Ctrl+Space, Ctrl+Shift+Space
Attunement swap: mouse button #7, #8, #9, #12 (you can use 1234…)
Elite: mouse button #6 (you can use V)
Heal: mouse button #10 (you can use N)
TeamSpeak: í (whatever button is between the left Shift and Y)
Emergency GTFO button: Ctrl+Alt+Del

Jayden Ennok: and did anybody say that every elementalist must be an ambidexterous octopus to play ele well? I usually link this thread for a newby. Solid damage… Survability… Easy to play… Effective…

But they have to get better quick…

Hi guardians!

I was playing the build for a few days and it works for me!

Small changes: 01661 trait. Superior Aria instead of the Symbol trait. Hydromancy sigils +Purity in the Hammer and +Battle in the GS. Changed the hammer to soldier stat. I found Stability an issue so I slotted StandYourGround! instead of CoP.

I also use pure of voice in a small scale encounter and battle presence in a zerg vs zerg situation.

With this changes I can join the front line and not die instantly. Also I’m able to flash out of the line and CC someone. Unfortunately condi removal is poor. I have to rely on the Purity sigil and the Smite (and one shout every 24 sec if it’s tarited). Valor V trait: Purity isn’t going to be better since I loose the -20% recharge on Smite.

So yes you are right lads, this is not a cookie-cutter most-effective-tactic-available build but it’s fun to play and I like it!

If I may ask: give it an hour try in WvW or EotM, it won’t cost you anything and please share your experience!

Thank you and keep guarding!

Holl

I’m 100% sure that I’ve see your video before this post…

Good job man!

Do you think a similar build would be viable for wvw?

@SoLeciTO:

Do not worry! Two more weeks and everybody’s going to complain about the Ranger again… than Warrior… than Necro… than Thief… than Mesmer… than Engineer… than Elementalist… than Guardian…

We have a 20 weeks rotation… Wait 2 weeks from now and Ranger will be kitteningOP again….

Thank you for all your feedback guys! I have some constructive criticism to work with.

As I said I will run this build ONLY if I’m not needed as a Hammertrain guardian. It’s mostly theorycrafting on my side. Possibly my D/D ele could do this job more successfully. I blame myself for buying Speed Runes instead of something more useful.

If you are interested I would like to share the logic with you: how I got to this decisions:
1, Meditation: our group lacks initiators. Someone who gets in does some chaos then GTFO
2, Searing Flames: with Judge’s Intervention and Nullification Sigil I can remove 2 buffs. Hopefully either Stability or Swiftness. Both means we can catch the runner. You are right that these are useless in a team vs team or ZvZ fight.
3, GS+Sw-F was my first choice too but Sw-F lacks any CC.
4, Glacial Hearth could be awesome with Hydro sigil and some chill duration runes. But I want to use this gear for the frontline too… And I need some replacement for the AH heal. And chill duration runes in a frontline build are also a big no-no I guess (after second thought: I’m not sure it’s crap, hm…)….
5, In other MMO’s I always had at least one warrior-type character. In GW2 I don’t like Warrior at all. I gave it a ride…. Twice… Both were deleted around 20ish levels. Now I have my 8th character slot unlocked I might give it a 3th look
6, I slot Merciful Intervention in a Zerg fight. In a 10v10… I never did… But now I see that I should!
7, I was thinking on using Bane Sigil as a utility. That’s an 3000 range knockdown (gs leap+JI+Bane Sigil… target lies on the ground… get closer, swap to hammer, immob in close range than ward…)

Tl;dr: Thank you again! Now I have some food for thought…

I wont get near to any dungeons… WoW MMO just did a good job to learn how I hate the dungeons…

Please, do not forget the Hammer 3 and the Hammer 5….

But anyways… I’m a new guardian… I will try this …. there’s nothing to loose…

If this build isn’t work I can get in the lane as a Gua a be good… hopefully

I just got to 80 two days ago but I never used the staff… GS/Sword-Focus for me…
You can target a critter/mob away and teleport towards with Sword plus you have the GS leap plus you can slot Retreat. This is what I did…

Thank you for your feedback! It seems I have to farm those Traveller Runes… It’s not like I did more than 5 dungeons in the last half year But it can be done…

What do you thing about the overall concept? A CC guardian with meditation skills… Like a fight-opener. But still a frontline survivor…

Thank you!

EDIT: Seems just the right way I’m gonna heading… I gonna get some gems instead:D

But seriously… why are traveler runes so much better than swiftness? swiftness is the defensive version of the traveller if I’m not wrong… Traveller is the “Celestial” version of the movement speed runes…

Hi girls and guys!

On the day I levelled this lovely Asura to level 80 I got my 1st year birthday gift too so this must be a special character for me!

I usually play in a 10-15 large group but I’m the 5th guardian there.

We always struggling to separate enemies or catch runners. My D/D ele could handle this fairly well but now I play a gua and we don’t have any other DD ele to RtL,knock, lauch ppl. Our staff LightningRod ele would be good but apart of ONE teleport she cannot really close gap.

So I have to play a bit differently. My idea is the following:

I’ll do a meditation build (02660) with two-handed mastery. Equip GS and Hammer. So I can leap/teleport/run around and knockdown/ward the runners/enemies till my group catches up. Against Stability buff I would like to use 2 boonstripping/10 sec (Nullification sigil and Searing Flames trait). Otherwise Hydromancer Sigils and…. I don’t know Maybe Energy/Purity/Strength.

And if this doesn’t work I can still change some traits AH, EM, or Battle Presence or whatever and be a frontline…ish guardian in a traditional zerg fight.

My build:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fVQQJARSlsApaodDxcI8DNhARYVA2xvzX39dB-TlRMgArKzA0Fwo+DsSjt9H0VCSKAmUGB-w

What do you think?

(note: Unfortunately most of the gear pieces are not a subject for change… Just spend half of my money on them… I wish I could afford Travelers or Melandru but since I’m too lazy to farm…

I’m all open for sigil/gear/accessories suugestions too….

Oh, and yes, I’m the one who opened the Entertaining Guardian topic a few weeks ago… I got the hang of it lads!!!! )

Guys! For Tyria’s sake!

Broski is a sometimes irritating lad but I don’t really get what is your problem… He dropped Perplexity rune set to prove the point that not every condi spec is carried by those runes… Dire/rampager stats are a must have in a condi build tho. What did you expect? Magi? Soldier?

If you do wvw you don’t really need any celestial armour…

Soldier/Knights armour and celestial accessories…. berserker or knights weapons ( I use knights)

+1

Oh, please Broski, can you just stop with these OP perplexity condiele videos….

It’s so 2014 mate…

Oh, wait… kitten

Archangel.5942:

BlackBeard.2873:

Its a pvp thing, where the defense is critical. In PvE, you don’t need to go full-defense, so the cantrips aren’t really necessary.

Lightning flash is amazing, regardless though. I never take it off my bar.

Would it be viable to run a non-cantrip build/setup for PvE and then switch them out when I PvP/WvW?

Really it can be a language-barrier but…

Is there a gear/weapon setup what with the changing of the utilities to Cantrips becomes viable in PvP/SPvP… This is how I translate the question…

Would it be viable to run a non-cantrip build/setup for PvE and then switch them out when I PvP/WvW?[/quote]

Guys!

The OP never stated he wants to run a DD…

He is asking for a build what is viable for PvE and with a single utility change to cantrips it suddenly becomes viable in PvP/WvW…

Like staff, D/D and scepter/focus builds are…

But yeah, in dungeons D/D sucks… world bosses: same… solo: everything works

Possibly my english is poor…

I cannot quote.. sorry

I only play wvw…

In a zerg fight I play staff 00266.
But in a havock situation I play D/D because I always play together with another ele who likes to play staff. So our group composition is like 2 guardians, 2 elementalist, 1 thief and 1-2 random (ranger-mesmer-necro… depends…)

The traditional D/D is boring for me, heck I played it for a while. It is fun but I want to try something else. Auramancer was the first choice with boon duration runes and food, but it’s still not “fun enough”.

That’s why I ask you for a Lightning Rod D/D build… Sometimes I have too many condi clean with purity sigil and Cleansing Fire and evasive arcana… simetimes I got condibursted down in seconds…. I just cannot find the good balance between cleanse and the others…. The standard 02066 build was so much easier to learn…

So that’s why I seek advice here…

Archangel:

I think it IS viable…. Possibly I got you wrong but:

You want a build for PvE what does not run cantrips but with a simple modification (traits and utilities) becomes viable in PvP/WvW?

Hi guys!

I try to run something like this in wvw:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFEQJAoYlcMowhNOwzB8rNQDgRaIIuAEAihlzCNhpAA-TVSAABYcCA4R9HwUSMxDAAATQppcDG9AxqEEp9HIDAzYA-w
(soldier/celestial D/D with Pack runes, 06026 LR build)
Possibly I change too many things at the same time but I cannot really find the right balance between burst, survival and sustain. I know I wont be the best duellist with this build ever but I usually play in a 5-10 large team. I got killed by condies sometimes… sometimes by sheer burst….

I was thinking on using Conjure Earth Shield too. Sometimes I run Tornado and other utilities instead of Cleansing Fire.

Note: My accessories, runes and the armour pieces are basically set. I can change a few but not all of them. I’m poor.

Thank you for any advice!

EDIT: I have guard stacks…

OK, number#3 should do fine!

See you on the Battlefields!

I wrote my long comment but this kitten forum ate it alive…

Earth-camping scepter/focus build here:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJArdhcMKb23wuBd0ACAW4AQDoIOOIsDSii2AA-T1hOABpo8bi9Hw8BA8g6PAong0TAANKBJFAMTjA-w

from Diva… She did a good explanation in a topic. Here it is:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Diva-s-Condi-Signet-Build-Video-Added-1/first

Thaddeus.4891:

Aggrostemma.1703:

Whatever build you play you are a force-multiplier not a “force-adder”.

Ya a Clerics Staff guardian is more of a force-subtracter than anything else

It IS a force-multiplier… for the enemy… but still…

The good thing about the Gua is that if you join to some random folks they don’t get +1 in number… They get A Guardian. Whatever build you play you are a force-multiplier not a “force-adder”. The playstyle is a bit slow-paced. Definitely not a lets-roll-our-face-on-the-keyboard type. You need cold blood and good timing. Thinking-positioning-decision-making-repeat. You can be the anchor of any group in general.

PvE: guardians can facetank some of the hardest enemies, properly timing blinds-dodges-aegis-reflect and get out without a scratch on their armour. Decent damage and survivability. Often both.
WvW: must-have profession in the zerg battles, excellent in havoc-teams and small scale roaming, lack of mobility for solo WvW. And thats what I hate here… you need some sort of swiftness runes/staff/GS/Sword. In a party this is a non-issue.
PvP: I don’t PvP so ask somebody else please!

My 2 cents/coppers

I enjoy these fights! You are pushed to work together even with random people which is good…

I have to work my kitty off to survive and kill those kittens but I can solo defence/escort. But it’s much-much easier to fight in party (and so it should be…).

FYI: D/D ele knight/soldier/celestial 06206 with Lightning Rod.

You have 65% crit chance… Why do you use Intelligence sigils? Use Strength and -idontknow- Energy. Neither the longbow nor the Axe has a true single hit burst skill worth for a 100% proc sigil.