Guild Wars 2

You make a valid point with the protection. and afterall i guess an auramancer’s job is to be grp support with added burst potential. And your right, the loss of 10 air dosent seem nearly worth it due to loosing the grp fury+swiftness. I might give it a shot again tonight without the arcane.. which IMO should just always be a 9sec cd regardless.. instead of forcing us to spec into it for shorter cd time.

To each there own tho, i love the ele.. and regardless will never quit the class. worst case ill go back to my staff bunker build b4 i give it up…

Also, i was running bloodlust mainhand (more power = high ability to apply burst with my groupmates) as well as shaman amulet with zerker jewel — the goal was to keep condi dmg acceptable, and boost power as close to 2800+ a possible. easily acheiveable if you manage not to die constantly.

So, as i am a diehard elementalist, and cant get my mind around playing anything else i went ahead and plugged your build into my toon.

I am a huge fan of focus in general, and often times used it when i would bunker (im 99% bunker for most of my ele life over 800 games played)

I did however make a slight change, and that is, i took out the 10 in earth, and moved it to 10 in arcana, the boons, + cooldown reduction are huge imo, but thats still debateable.

What i wish i could do however is replace Signet of Air with Signet of Earth, not only for the toughness, but for the ondemand root, for when you or your team is ready to burst. The combo i was running in a few spvp matches was fairly simply.. start in air, knockdown — blind/insta — switch to fire, fire shield – dragontooth, pheonix,flamewall. i was hitting people somewhere around 5-6k if DT crit. Dont get me wrong, it is nothing huge really, but considering im weilding a focus, and this is setup for a much more team oriented build, i found it really good.

Will play with it more when i get home from work. I really wish i could get rid of the aura share, and just might (my team makes me side node defend majority of the time) and put 10 more into arcana for the chance on vigor from crits, or put the 10 in earth for the 3 sec protection. I guess it heavily depends on what im trying to accomplish. I look forward to trying it out more, and seeing where i/we can take this

Looking to see if anyone has come up with any clever new focus builds since the patch. I run bunker ele 99% of my play time, and lately have been running the standard 0/0/10/30/30 bunker build, but using mist form, signet of air, and cleansing flame. curious if anyone has any other new fancy ideas since the patch?

Appriciate the reply alot Nemosis, ill give it a try, I like the original poster, namely play/played an ele bunker, and it seems lately that the people im trying to run with would prefer that i am a guardian bunker, as we almost always have at least 1 other ele, so it makes sense i play the best/better bunker. I’ll give your build a few weeks of practice on my end and see where i’m at. Anymore tips/comments about being a successful bunker, i welcome with open arms!

Also curious if anyone wouldnt mind sharing their bunker guardian build(s) and or tips for playing one.

Looking to see if anyone had any suggestions for an engineer bunker build?

I’m not sure i feel bunker is the only viable build to play an Ele as, but it seems since i only really pug due to having no friends to play with that people expect me to be a bunker constantly. I’ve been toying around with a staff build lately, and its seemingly fun and people tend to not even bother with me for some reason.

I’m a huge fan of paradigms ele, and will watch some more of his more recent streams. I do realize i guess that it all boils down to having a team, and people to work with rather than just randoms. So i guess that is my biggest issue.

Thanks to all of you for your input and insight.

I guess my biggest issue lately is trying to find where i will fit into a real spvp/tpvp guild or group. As i seem to constantly be pugging, im never sure if i should master a bunker ele, or a more roaming/dps ele. Dosent help either that regardless of my build i seem to be doing something wrong, as thieves nearly insta kill me.. Any advice? i really dont wanna try D/D at all, but am open to some sort of suggestions towards staff.

So i’ve always been a huge fan of scepter dagger combo in spvp, and for whatever reason always revert back to it.. Case and point i am curious if anyone could share their idea of a S/D Bunker build? or even a Staff Bunker build. It seems lately everytime i solo que (95% of the time, yes i have no friends) They are lacking bunkers, and i prefer to stick to my ele, and try and master it in all ways..

Any help is appriciated.