hey man saw your build, I tried to keep it as close as possible, I did a few minor changes to the gear and switched a few major traits, and put in cantrips because you had speced for it in water.
I switched out the 20% cool down reduction on earth weapon skills for the 3sec of protection from casting auras because this will help your survivability (especially since frost already reduces incoming damage by 10% now). Cleansing water works great as a condition removal especially since you are running cantrips.
nothing wrong with making your own build, synergy is key and feel free to play anyway you like. A build doesn’t make a player good or bad, its his skill.
Would buffing our damage output or tweaking some skills be a good way to balance out the buff that will be coming to healing power?
To me I feel like if they are going to make it harder for us to bunker shouldn’t it make it a little easier to do sufficient damage. I’m not talking about “X” skill does “Y”% more damage, more so adjusting hit boxes, strengthening our fire and air traits and changing cool down rates. Also I am not opposed to the idea of doing what they did to magnetic grasp to other skills. I really enjoy using magnetic grasp a lot more now how it is split up into two skills. I use it much more frequently and have better success with it.
I hope the devs already have something like this happening, if not I hope they can get it into action. I love my elementalist and I will continue to play it even if the class goes to the trash can.
I actually look forward to this nerf if and only if ANet actually counters out the nerf with some buffs to the other trait lines. As someone stated above that the water and arcane trees outshine fire and air. I believe if those became stronger (or have a lot better synergy ) that more creative and unique builds will come out. I have played with other builds, some work, some do terrible. I just hope that this next patch will bring equilibrium to the ele so the community can move away from the 0/10/0/30/30 variations.
In short, wait for the feb 26 patch before looking into build diversity ( the nerf that will be coming could change the gameplay a little for the ele)
just looked over the build again and realized that the traits were not the ones that I had selected in game (I have revised it)
sorry about the confusion. It wasnt suppose to have the cool down on glyph, but bolt to the heart. Spell slinger is suppose to be Internal fire and cleansing wave in water.
@DieQuex I havent tried the 10/15/0/15/30 yet, I am about to try that now.
I have tried both builds, I actually just switched from the first one. Much appreciated reply though, I also noticed that I had the wrong trait in the build. It was suppose to be +10% dmg with fire, not the cantrips. The reason why i chose that was because of my initial rotation hits very hard with fire so its a great way to open the fight with the upper hand.
Just throwing it out there. I made it because i was getting bored of the 0/10/0/30/30 version. It doesnt have a lot of healing but it does pack a punch. I am still testing it but so far it seems to work very well in team fights.
Heal can be swapped out
I am still deciding between a valk/zerk, soldier/zerk/, or a zerk/soldier.
(You will have to copy the link and paste it in the url bar also the wrong trait was picked when making the build)
A true face palm? As in a total unbelief at what’s going on?
I’m say when i wind up chasing an elementist all around the map,just barely.
With the lightning form, regen,protection,swiftness,stability and water regen – he’d wind up with more up then what we started the fight with.
Just face palm at that design.
No lie I was in a hotjoin this afternoon and the other team had a D/D ele. I watched 6 people on my team get kited around the entire map until we lost by this one ele. At first I was trying to actually take stuff but kept wondering where everyone else was. I just happened to see them all chasing a single Ele and just had to watch. Every now and then he would stop just to troll us. They would DPS him down to like 25% just to watch him ride out, go water, and regen to full. It was just hilarious watching so many bads. If you can 6v1 someone and win just quit already.
Its almost as funny as going 30 Valor and 30 Honor on my Guardian with Mace/Focus and watching people try and kill me. But I think Eles are the ultimate sPvP trolls.
this made my day lol thank you for sharing it with us.
I’d have to say my favorite face palms when I fight another ele. When they hit me with the updraft combo (its so easy to avoid and I know all the animations yet i never remember to dodge -_-). Or when an Ele and I charge at each other with RTL and both put on shocking aura and manage to stun each other at the exact same time. An awkward silence proceeds shortly afterwards.
Not really a facepalm moment. One time I was fighting another bunker in a hot join, after a 4min duel (not even joking) we gave up and sat down on the node and talked in /m while our teams kept fighting for the rest of the match.
Are all the pvp servers segregated? I thought that the hotm was like the over flow and you got to play against people from other servers. If that is not the case then I have a serious decision I have to make.
Correct, they are all segregated. Each Home World has it’s own HotM.
It doesnt make sense to segregate them. How can there be any way to tell the best of the best if your just stuck fighting on your own server.
Are all the pvp servers segregated? I thought that the hotm was like the over flow and you got to play against people from other servers. If that is not the case then I have a serious decision I have to make.
So I have played my ele for over 300+hr to get to a level of skill that I am comfortable with. The elementalist is a class that you just dont walk into and are magically good. The thief was like that for me. I have taken so many beatings and had to do lots of reading to understand this class through and through. I also have used and memorized almost every skill in the weapon set along with the utilities. I dont tend to loose 1v1 fights because I know how to stack boons, know when to be in their face or keep them at a distance. A d/d ele gets his face melted very easily. Saying that they are god mode and OP is insulting because I know a D/D ele has to be extremely careful. You cant bull rush into a fight and pop off all this insane damage. You have to boon stack for it which takes time. The high damage you are talking about with burst is coming from the minor 25 trait in water which gives 2% more damage per unique boon. So when you use a aura (if traited right) will give you 4% more damage.
You know how to counter a D/D ele. conditions and boon corrupt. Necros are one of the worst classes to fight against for me. Also when someone is stealths I loose target. That means RTL is no longer effective to close a gap unless manually aimed. Magnetic grasp has to have the target selected to actually work or does jack kitten. Most skilled players dodge churning earth and fire grab has a tiny hit box.
Saying the elementalist is op is like going to school and getting a masters degree then not being able to apply to anything you learned in the real world.
Fought you today in tpvp, you were a d/d ele. I was going against you with my own d/d ele. Just wanted to say I was impressed with your build and play and would love to see videos of your game play.
I see them under the tab where you can get sigils and starter weapons for spvp. I dont ever use them and I am not really sure what they are for. Can someone tell me what they do so I might be able to find a use for them?
@Dreztina: I let out a heartfelt lol when i read that.
@Second Note: I went with PVT for my armor, but after doing lots of Spvp and Wv3 I feel like going pvt for your armor is a safe route. For trinkets I am making Zerkers, and use that while i get PVT Trinkets. So use what you like for trinkets and use PVT for armor.
I would like to see server specific forums. Borlis Pass, Jade Quary, Ehmry Bay. I feel like it would be easier for the alliances to communicate and help build a stronger foundation of community.
So I am an 80 D/D ele with full exo pvt gear, I am trying to decide if I should go for exotic trinkets with pvt or something else stats wise. I am a 400 jewelcrafter so I have a wide variety to choose from without having budget be a problem.
edit: I plan on doing some kind of pvp with this character in Wv3
I love fighting fellow D/D elementalists. In spvp or wvw if its a pure 1v1 fight it will go on for a very long time. Its almost like a game of chest playing against another D/D because to be decent you have to know all the moves, combination of skills to get boons, the type of build your opponent is playing with. While you are looking for an opening they are also doing the same.
One question I have for you is that would you classify this character under the adventure type or the solider type. There are already 2 solider types and 3 adventures. If the type of armor you wear (i.e. heavy, medium, light) defines if your a solider, scholar, or adventurer, wouldn’t create an unbalance to the other classes if you put the brawler into any other classification besides solider?
I do feel like a brawler class with medium armor is a fantastic idea, but i also think it should be more like a thief mixed with a guardian. That way if it came to ranged they could use a staff for the range aspect, while the close quarters would use the physical hand to hand weapons but all attacks deal magical damage instead of physical. When I think of a monk I think of a Buddhist monk who doesn’t deal with strength but pressure points and disrupting the flow of energy through the body by using their own energy and could be done from a distance.
Funny that you mention that. I feel that would break the game and class for me. That being said, I have thought of something similar. Instead of lasting 5min id like to see maybe 10sec. I would like to see an ele elite where we can cover ourselves in the element that we are attuned to and gain an advantage and a fall back depending on the attunment.
If you are in the fire attunment your character would cloak itself in fire and do more damage to burning foes, all your skills cause 40% chance to burn foes, takes double damage (work like fury for warrior).
For water, the ele becomes like an ice elemental and chills foes with attack and has a higher passive regen like if the ele is in water attunment, draw back would be a damage reduction.
If in air, the ele would have perma swiftness and have 50% crit chance bonus to the base crit chance. In this stance the ele would take more damage, but not as much as the ele would be taking if in fire.
If in earth, the ele cannot attack or move, but becomes invulnrable and sends out a knockdown wave every second for the duration of the state. When the ele leaves the state after the time is expired they would be crippled for 3 seconds.
Tl;DR
state lasts 10sec with a 180sec cooldown
fire state grants best damage boost and high chance to burn foes while taking double damage.
water state grants better regen and chills foes, damage reduction
air state grants speed and deadly accuracy for slightly higher damage intake
earth state grants invincibility along with pulsing knock downs, cannot move or attack
Before I begin I havent been using this in tPvP. I have only used this in hot joins.
Lately I have been using a 20/10/0/30/10 build with 3 might for use of cantrips, 30% burn chance on crits for fire major traits, the rest are pretty common to the typical d/d major triats. I have 17+ hp, 3k raw attack, and 39% crit with 2k armor. I have have been doing decently with this build. (btw I use full dolyak and zerkers ammy, on the double dagger i have been using might on weapon swap and gain power on kill). I would like to hear what others think about in ways to improve it, or if they had success with something more gc for spvp instead of bunker.
Just going to put my two cents in here. I have no problem in underwater combat. If anything i gain the upper hand. If you watch videos of ele gameplay and also find the build that works for you, i dont think you will have the feeling of being under powered. I do tournaments with my guild, and we dont win everytime but I do hold my own fairly well against all the classes.
ps. I am far from being a “pro player” if anything I am average at best.
I usually take cantrip mastery. I use the removal of condition when attuning to water in pve. in pvp i use the cantrips to build up might or give me regen (which in returns allows me to use armor of earth or lightning flash to remove a condition off me). Also branching off, first tier of fire allows 3 stacks of might per cantrip you trigger. So having that 20% cool down reduction really is a blessing.
In my eyes, ele’s are the most powerful class in the game. It just takes a high level of skill and knowledge to excel with it. I just got mine to 80 and i do ok in pvp and dominate in pve. I’ve seen my guild mates run train on kids and its insane. If you ever have played EVE online its a learning curve similar to that.
I realized that the other day that I have a hard time playing my characters because I enjoy the elementalist that much. The other classes feel so slow and stale after I have invested some time into the character. Also to the players who say they are under powered, over the past month i went from feeling under powered to some what balanced to the other classes.
TL:DR Elementalist is best class i have ever played.
I don’t find hundred blades op. I play a d/d Ele and when i learned how to counter that button the bull rush HB attack is a joke to me now. I have only seen one warrior counter my counter and it i accepted my death with honor. Ele’s 3 skill in the lightning attunment stops that attack in one fell swoop.
I would love to be apart of this. Also have you considered making a guild for it so that way when players come online we can see other duelists who would like to have a go at each other? I get on at random times depending on my week (between work and school) so I think having a guild could be helpful to talk to fellow duelists and help build a community around the 1v1 duelists.
I heard about these builds recently that are used in pve, I have lightning hammer and I am interested in hearing more about it.
(Edit: I will be using this build only to do hearts and to dork around with. not dungons or spvp i have builds for those)
I also found that playing in spvp really teaches you how all the skills very quickly. You have to think on the fly and learn to change your game play with the tide of battle. That being said, it isnt going to be that fun at first but once you start to master the attunement dance you will start to see improvement in your game play. Then when you switch to pve solo isnt that bad and running with a group becomes cake walk.
To me the Ele is what the Mesmer was in Guildwars 1. Its an elite class for the players who are in for the challenge. It has high reward and will help improve your gameplay across the board. It has a steep learning curve but I am happy that I rolled one. I have a thief, engi, guardian, and a necro, and my ele is my favorite. Also when you get a pvp kill it means more to you lol
OP sounds like a troll to me, spend some time playing an ele and then come talk to us about how OP bunker builds are. If that person could 2v1 you then he/she has been playing longer and has more experience with the class.
the reason i choose the 500 badge is because as far as items in the game go the gift of battle is the most expensive. I would honestly be happier if it was around 1.5 to 2k. 5k would take an obsessive amount of time.
I think that having the only way to get the commander title is to pay 100g is a little boring. It opens up the door for those with the bigger guilds who tax their members or gold farm all day to get this title with ease. I would love to see players who can earn that title using badges of honor (like 500 or something like that) so that way the players who do Wv3 and lead fights and really earn their stars and stripes on the battlefield could be justly rewarded without having to save up the money 100g.
Sorry i should have been more clear. You can aim the ele’s staff first skill by adjusting the center of your camera towards the sky or ground or in any direction. With the FT i can select an enemy and have it locked on. I just keep my camera a little closer so i can have better range of directing the blast. its like playing a fps. the aimer is at the center of your screen. If need be I will put up a video if my explanation is poor.
I noticed that while using the number 2 skill if I aim it like my fire staff it never glitches into the ground if i am paying attention to what I am doing. I kind of like it the way it is. i can hit flying monsters very easily with it. correct me if this is old info.
Well I have been spending a lot of time watching videos and learning how to play the ele. From the best players I have seen that they do the elemental jive (attunements dance) beautifully so focusing on one or two elements will get you killed. I found that my survivability shot way up when i put my trait points into at least 20 water 20 earth. I’m a tank like build, but if your dead you cant deal any damage. Basically to sum it up put some in water and learn to air and water because those will save your bacon.
I’m debating on two different traits and I am having a hard time deciding on which one to choose. I was hoping to hear from other ele’s what they prefer out of the two (double dagger weapons).
-Fire’s Embrace: When you activate a signet, you gain a fire shield for 3 seconds.
-Pyromancer’s Alacrity All your fire weapon skills recharge 20% faster.
I am starting an alliance for the Borlis Pass server. It does not require for anyone to leave their guilds . I am looking to create a great WvW community where everyone can become even better organized and have open communication with other guilds on the server. If the server can come together we can flourish and dominate. Mail me in game to cero.1209 if you want to join or have questions about the alliance.
