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dude this build is sick… The survivability is incredible for a burst ele spec. Warriors and rangers give me problems but kudos to you.
With Rangers all I do nowadays is burning all defenses to close the gap quickly and burst them, Signet of Stone is pretty disruptive tho. If the ranger doesn’t engages you from range its way easier tho.
Warriors shouldn’t be much of a problem if you play their game, long fights tho. Try saving lightning flash, updraft and the like for defense until you can burst the warrior. Rampage is pretty powerful but should be tankeable on earth. You can switch to water without getting more damage than you heal before switching back to earth if you have your defenses ready.
I’m glad you are enjoying the build
This may sound strange, but I have played for some time a similar build to get away from D/D Cele (and I guess now Tempest too
) … except I used Conjure Earth Shield instead of Arcane Shield. It gives you two more AE interrupts, a block, and an invulnerability. The auto attack is worthless though.
I run Earth Shield sometimes on LR builds too, its quite nice. Actually Lightning Hammer is nice too, you do Skill 5, so AOE stun field, then you push them to it with the blow skill, then you do a Dazing leap finisher with the Q. At least 3 guaranteed procs that way, probably more. Both weapons combo nicely with Staff Lightning Rod too, which is already incredibly OP (Adds respectable DPS to staff air and earth attunements). Earth wall doesn’t even have an AOE limit, the lightning bolts spam in Zerg v Zerg is beautiful…
In pvp, consider something like Staff Air 5, followed by Earth Shield aoe Pull from inside the field. 6k Big aoe guaranteed damage and great disruption.
ran it for quite some weeks too and its strong. the downside is if u get focused by more than one u either run or die, rangers/range outside of 1v1 in general, conditions despite the healchoice condi pu kills u and there r a lot of em.
still dont get the rod trait as freshair does more dmg + hits more often + u get blind on demand. i do get the air aura trait as it is a passiv defense.
LR is the core of the build, and ensures all the burst is AOE. Earthquake+Updraft add 6k AOE burst, and weakness. It’s actually good in 1v2, as good as it is 1v1 vs certain combinations, but you gotta have all your cooldowns for that. FGS is key to 1v2+
This one doesn’t really play like fresh air does, fresh air is not even close when it comes to burst, you can’t take down a medium or heavy class in just one combo. Fresh air has way more sustained DPS and possibly survivability depending on how you build it.
LR Also means you camp earth and start combos from earth, maximizing both defense through stoneheart and sheer burst damage, leaving the entire fire attunement for downed people, ressers and all that.
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Mmm i would love the idea but be realistic that’s a hell of change that also would bring more problems than solutions.
I feel the exact opposite. It’s a significant change, yes, but it could be worth it for Anet to explore and look into.
Then they can wash their hands completely when it comes to AI, players would make amazing scripts.
I liked DT on-target, even for pvp. You could just target the right people, usually someone trying to ress, and cast it without LOS while moving the other way and focusing yourself and your view somewhere else. Lands more often than not in team fights anyway. I hope they make it fall twice as fast
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Thanks for the program tip, I never could enjoy 30fps after getting used to 60.
Focus doesn’t work, I tried it extensively and it simply lacks the burst, Comet is subpar and you really benefit from all the no cast time skills, RtL+Updraft add a lot of to the burst, right on air, and earthquake is the standard opener for a lot of reasons (Earth synergy everywhere)
Focus works better in DPS builds that are not strictly based on combos, a D/F Marauder with Lightning Rod works too, but its another build with another playstyle. Water skills are way better defensively on dagger too, so its not that bad.
The only reason this build works is because it does manage to burst people extremely fast from a variety of positions and situations, you loose that on focus, you don’t even have a reliable opener.
Ive wanted to do a nice video, sadly my PC runs the game at constant 60fps but I turn FRAPS on and it downs to 30fps
Anyone knows a program that records without fps loss? is that even possible?
I want replay feature!
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Lightning Rod is one of the best and most underrated traits for ele.
A proc can deal 4k damage on a heavy golem, with a realistic setup, very glassy but realistic…. This alone would make it a good trait, however, it really shines after you consider the lack of ICD and the built-in weakness. Weakness is good.
In reality this allows for things such as:
1- Updraft and Earthquake dealing up to 4k extra damage each on a big area of effect. Updraft usually deals no damage. A s/d build can be made with Lightning Bolt, and such build is the only one I know of that can burst down the heavy golem in no time at all, and I mean no time at all (No casting times/recovery animations/whatever are involved in the burst sequence). Probably the most fun, trollish build there is for hotjoins, with latency on your side I think it can be competitive but requires an entirely different approach to play. The burst is aoe-ish.
2- Doing a d/d glass build, earthquake, updraft and lightning aura proc it. Having 4k damage+weakness proc out of a lightning aura with no cooldown could be interesting in some situations. Havent tried this one yet, so only theory.
3- Having obscene damage potential on earth and lightning attunements while wielding a staff. Usually, those attunements do not offer damage potential, with LR, Lightning Field, Gust and Unsteady Ground. Due to the nature of these skills, they can proc on the same foe more than once, and offer massive aoe damage potential. Laying down the earth wall in WvW and seeing a clusterkitten of lightning bolts dealing 4k damage each to a zerg is priceless, the versatility offered by being able to dish damage on air and earth is priceless. The most interesting aspect of the staff LR build, however, are the combo possibilities. Gust someone through a a static field that has an Unsteady Ground in the middle, deal 12k damage. There are ways to proc it four times at once too, but I’ll let you figure that one out yourselves. Staff build with LR is challenging tho, requires you to play decently with the ground wich is something not everyone is used to. Very fun build in pvp, be on earth, get focused by ranger, activate reflect aura, switch to air thus procing air minor trait, then do gust. If the ranger is glassy, it will die even if it dodged its reflected arrows. The build is great on 1v1s against classes that usually prevail against staff ele, like thieves. So fun against thieves <3
Sorry for the bad english if any.
Ele master race
EDIT: Now that I think of it, this trait is similar to terror, but better I think. Like terror, its countered by stability. Hard.
EDIT2: Tornado procs it twice on each hit, assuming stone tornado. Damage is really great, I never managed to use it effectively for aoe burst/kamikaze tho, but its really nice once you learn to quickly cancel it after you interrupt/deal 10~12k damage once, and use it to prevent/secure stomps and generally troll the kitten out of people. Cancel cast mid cast for kitten spining animation, looks like dancing, ele master race indeed.
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I have been runing a similar build as well, for less competitive play anyway but here it is:
I like torch instead of dagger, long lasting burn at 1200 range and a fire field that works great on downed people / after an entangle. Burst and more aoe pressure.
I switch Healing spring for unguent and empathic bond for something else (Bark skin and poison master are great) depending on enemy team composition. I have also toyed with quickening zephyr, its quite fun
Sigil of Strength can be used on axe, and shortbow to a lesser degree, quick and easy 20 might stacks on axe. Rampager sounds interesting in paper but has not worked so well for me.
I really, really like sharpening stone, both SB and axe have 5 projectile skills, alongside torch it really makes the build burst capable.
Playing it safer probably makes it better in a competitive setting, but I wouldnt known.
I will, and I will change sigil of generosity for sigil of strength. It gives might for 13sec on critical hit with a 1s cooldown, I tested it with shortbow on the golems and it procs every second with fury on, and almost every second with no fury. Certainly way better than battle sigil, wich is already kinda op. Pew pew pew might might might bleed bleed bleed <3
This feels promising.
EDIT: Tried it on the golems, might upkeep with the sigil is significantly lower on celestial compared to rabids, thou its only a 10% crit chance decrease. I guess a breaking point must be achieved for the sigil to begin proccing reliably every second and stacking might like crazy.
Perception sigil on the axe set, that should take care of it.
Also replaced evasive purity with strength of spirit for the celestial build.
EDIT2: I tried Rampager’s amulet on the golem, maintains 10 stacks of might from the sigil alone with no fury. Might be on to something. Axe gets 25.
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I think celestial would be way better with a/d + s/t, wich sounds an interesting build.
I actually really like the SB, for starters, it maintains 5-8 stacks of bleed with this build when hitting someone from the front. I found its pretty easy to position yourself properly in pvp to take advantage of this weapon, it has a very fast cripple and an evade that gives swiftness, the interrupt is great and fast too, and poison volley is great, it can burst that sharpening stone without axe, also procing multiple bleeds on crit per trait, it has sick attack speed and when hitting someone from the “sides” it can stack 20+ bleeds very very fast. Also quickness with shortbow
As a matter of fact, I stay in sb most of the time, switching to axe mostly to burst. I dont axe AA unless on downed people/turrets etc for the might.
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I changed keen edge for a grandmaster wilderness survival trait. Keen edge is just a gimmick that gets cleansed and has a long cooldown. Empathic bond on top of SotF truly makes it a counter to condi builds, bark skin and poison master are good on their own ways too. I like how having 30 WS allows me to cherry pick between those 3 great traits.
Stability and lack of vigor are its weak points so far (That half vigor trait is nice I guess)
Thank you for your imput
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3085 Armor (Signet of stone)
18,182 Health
1407 Condi damage
40% Crit Chance (60% with fury)
Survival of the fittest provides “perma” fury and cleanses, survival skills are on a short cooldown, entangle is quite good with survival of the fittest, cooldown trait and krait runes. Cleanses from SotF combined with healing spring are enough to cleanse a burst of condies, sigil of generosity is extremely good and works both as defense and offense.
+45% Bleed duration, and on the best possible scenario, shortbow is stacking 4 bleeds per hit.
The build stacks bleeds really fast, and has the potential for bursting more than once. I like torch so far, 5 works great on points, against downed/immobilized, as a defense against melee, etc, also fire field and you have a lot of projectile finishers. Dagger might be better for defense, but I found the build survivable enough (coming from burst ele here)
I have been playing ranger for a couple of days, so please critique this build and help me make it better
EDIT: Build must be played with slingshot, dont try it without and complain.
EDIT2: After some testing, I find the build to be pretty solid. Lack of stability looks to be a problem sometimes, securing stomps is tough and heavy cc scenarios can kitten me. I´m still playing pretty bad tho, overdoing the survival skills offense when I dont need it to end dying to condies I couldve cleansed. I wonder if getting a blinding bird would be worth it to secure stomps, instead of spider wich might kitten your poison damage… I would probably swap signet of stone for the stability signet even tho its a condi build if I get good enough to not need stone.
EDIT3: I found that replacing keen edge with empathic bond makes the build better and allows you to practically hardcounter condi specs, while also helping against power classes and in team fights.
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