Guild Wars 2

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Writ of Exaltation

Chancer.3716:

Update

Been trying out a seperate build from the 0/0/10/30/30 displayed on this guide changing out evasive arcana for different traits (Such as bolt to the heart and various others) Will display my thoughts once I am out of work onto the reserved posts below the main build guide.

Cheers guys, stay classy!

Yeah, I am having the same doubts about Evasive Arcana, don’t use it much. Maybe Arcane Mastery (I) instead, for some more Arcane Wave?

I use 4 superior runes of altruism, and 2 of water, which gives me 40 % boon duration.
Update: All in all, I got 60% boon duration.

I am actually growing rather fond of it, when using the cantrips style and starting swapping a lot! I tried berserkers, and mixing the gear, but somehow I really like this way of doing things. I can imagine it’s great in WvW, I just normally wait until I am lvl 80.

Kodiak.3281:

davidcrickett.8536:

*Kodiak, you link to an empty skill calculator. Nice discusssion.
“…maintaining Gale, Static Field + Arcane Wave and Glyph of Elemental Harmony”… Gale? Elemental harmony? Please elaborate.
Is there a place you can get an overview over elementalist staff+field combos?

Builder isn’t blank when I click on it…hrm.

I’m on a Mac, Safari—when they don’t do the html properly/only for IE, then this happens.

Yea I did mean Windborne Speed. Static Field is an Air field which when a blast finisher is done it gives you Area Swiftness which is basically identical to Windborne Speed. Glyph of Elemental Harmony in Air also gives you Swiftness. All 3 of these give 10s (base) of Swiftness but because of the 30 points in Arcane it’ll be 39s of Swiftness total (before any Runes and Food). However the skills themselves reset in 25s (Glyph), 30s (Windborne) and 40s (Static) meaning you can keep up Swiftness like this forever and 26s of it is AOE for your allies as well (who are also throwing out Swiftness as well meaning you can sometimes not use your heal). If you just sat there and rotated all 3 sources you’ll actually get ahead of it and generate minutes of swiftness.

This part of the reason why a lot of people consider Arcane Wave to be so mandatory. We can drop:

Fire Field (Lava Font, Burning Retreat ) which is Area Might
Water Field (Geyser, Healing Rain) which is Area Heal
Ice Field (Frozen Ground) which is Area Frost Armor
Air FIeld (Static Field) which is Area Swiftness

That’s a lot of advantages for a group that we can self combo with on demand. The fact it’s instant and can be done on demand (so even if you’re casting something else you can do Arcane Wave) is pretty spectacular.

Thanks!

The real discussion to be had is runes.

Please discuss. I’m getting very interested in your Old Cantrips style . Tried with Overlords’ build, but went (bananas) all Clerics, took me only three hours to kill a certain spider at Rata Pten at lvl 60, but it didn’t kill me. (All my other professions got killed by it).

Edit: Unable to link a different editor. Not sure what to say there.

Is this your build?

Ah, yes, thank you! And thanks for a nice build thread.

*Kodiak, you link to an empty skill calculator. Nice discusssion.
“…maintaining Gale, Static Field + Arcane Wave and Glyph of Elemental Harmony”… Gale? Elemental harmony? Please elaborate.
Is there a place you can get an overview over elementalist staff+field combos?

Very nice and to the point!

Ea Greenwood in cultural armor

btw I remember vaguely hearing about a karma merchant in Lions Arch, where you could buy a portal to Hall of Monuments?

My mesmer has the achievement ‘been there, done that’ and a star next to her name. Now, my other characters, for example my guardian, can have the title ‘been there, done that’—but not the star.
So I have to get 100% map completion for my guardian as well, though she can bear the title ‘been there, done that’ and the achievement is account wide?

What says Brutaly about the AH nerf?

I also haven’t finished the last quest of the personal story qua the above reasons. I couldn’t agree more with the posts.

This build rules. Thanks for the info.

The MTD3D=4 now! I experienced serious lag from the environment, which I had not previously. There is a config.old and a config file. I changed the config to config.new and the config.old to config. Back to MTD3D=0, which is much better for my iMac 27 (2009-10, Radeon). Maybe other things changed with the patch yesterday in this file, but only for the worse. Made the game nearly unplayable.
I think it’s the same issue as Korval’s “jerkily moving behavior”.

Glass cannon shatterer, she loves it, mostly doing WvW

Shatter is fun, and shattering mesmers are strong.

Same here. Very annoying.

The Golem is worth it