Best Builds For Guild Wars 2 Open World & Story - The Elementalist

[@WoodenPotatoes]

This is the first of nine! Starting here because I used to play a lot of Elemental when the game came out, and it felt natural to talk about. I'll probably show you a medium build next! As always, these are NOT the only ways to play the classes, but definitely my preferred out here. Be sure to check the description for the Playlist link, which has gear information and an introduction to the series.

[@fiddlefox]

Thief next please!!

[@harude]

Looking forward to Mesmer and Necromancer

[@TheObsidianWarlock]

Second for mesmer and necro!

[@bubruu8725]

Necro!!!!

[@GonLizio9]

I'm curious and eager about ranger.

[@agamgad]

00:00 - Introduction 00:30 - 1. Build demo 04:31 - 2. Elite spec discussion 07:10 - 3. Weapons and their skills 12:18 - 4. Traits 32:51 - 5. Utility skills 37:15 - 6. Gear 40:20 - Conclusion

[@shawnjames9498]

does he think we have hours on end to spare? His videos are so long. Thankyou stranger!

[@SheenaMalfoy]

Ok yall I figured it out by fiddling on a build editor. He's got Full Zerker armour, but Maurauder's weapons and trinkets. Privateer Runes, Sigils of Strength and Frenzy. Full power infusions (this screwed up my maths for a while!) He never mouses over his food/utility buffs, but his power and ferocity is boosted more than the build editor is saying and dropped in power (but still somewhat boosted) ~30 seconds after leaving combat so it's a Dragon's Breath Bun and either Superior or Ogre Sharpening Stone!

[@nisher3344]

Thanks!

[@miamoowj]

thanks so much for this!

[@TropicsDweller]

Thanks, this helps so much!

[@lucasfarinhabosio6306]

Here is a link for the build gw2skills.net/editor/?PGgAsilRExu6aLtsmaGZpOyKptbA-zRRYBJmoSDgPjAVAxMBs3sY1yG-e

[@mathiasrojas2712]

Thx dude

[@threadgold777]

i have never felt more validated in my love for the tempest warhorn

[@Alesthes]

Elementalist is my most played class, but I admit I have never given Scepter and Warhorn too much of a tought, because of my love for Dagger and Sword. Today I gave your build a chance and... Oh my, it just cuts like butter through stuff that previously was downing me pretty much constantly... Less aesthetics, more efficiency, I guess! Best thing is that now I want to go through all content and learn to perfect the playstyle. Best kind of video, since it adds to the enjoyment and understanding of playing the game... Looking forward to the next ones in the series!

[@JohnK26]

even though you did a whole gear vid, a little 10 second showing of the gear for each class would still be appreciated :) love the content

[@wafflingmean4477]

What video do you mean? I'm trying to recreate this build and can't even do step one lol. Do you know the gear set he's using?

[@tedjackson3025]

@@wafflingmean4477 not sure if I’m too late but berserker armour with privateer runes, trinkets and weapons are both marauder, sceptre has strength sigil and warhorn has frenzy sigil.

[@Banshee704]

@@tedjackson3025 Hey sorry if this is a bit late, but I just built it exactly like you said and I am not getting the 100% crit he is talking about in the video :( (this is without food or whatever) Are you sure thats what he's using or am I doing something wrong?

[@tedjackson3025]

@@Banshee704 in this video wp isn’t crit capped, at 37.27 he’s on 66 which is 86 with fury. I guess he’s satisfied with the number. Maybe add some marauder pieces if you want to reach 80% which is 100 with fury

[@Bariel76]

Loved the video, sadly finding being a couple of years out of date things like persistent flames, signet of agony of been reworked. Hope you can make some updated vids as I'd love to watch.

[@Moonbrony]

Recently started playing GW2 and I have learnt so much from your channel, thank you! Now I just can't wait for Necromancer and Ranger, the two classes I've maxed so far.

[@alexbusch7174]

The highlight reel at the beginning was very cool. Fun to see the build in action right off the bat

[@b390n3]

I love how your channel is kind of a library on everything you need to know about or you can do in the game, really structurized. Also I love to come in from time to time and be immediately motivated to play Gw2 again. Thanks for this build, I will be trying it out as soon as possible.

[@marinhrabric6162]

Wooden Potatoes is unarguably the best gw2 channel. He does all kinds of videos so there's tons of veriety, but most of all he covers all the lore and the little details and conspiracies, theory crafting. That makes it the most interesting gw2 channel out there. I started playing gw2 knowing nothing of gw1. But because the game was so interesting to me i started watching his videos. By doing that i learned everything about gw1 lore, which is by itself very interesting, and that made me love and appreciate gw2 even more. Most other gw2 channels are either braggatory pvp kills, endless builds for everything, guides, guides and more guides, new player this, new player that or it's "is gw2 still worth playing in 20XX?" all of these are most of the time really boring to me. Wooden Potatoes gives me all the content that i need and it's actually presented in an engaging way. I've learned more about synergy among runes, sigils, weapon and armor attributes, traits, weapons skills and utility skills from one of his videos than any other channel or website. Thank you WP❤️🥔

[@sarielheavensborne9921]

Yeahh, Tempest! As much as I love Weaver's thematic ideas (dual wielding ice and fire is sweet), Tempest just has amazingly sweet AoE and is easier to play.

[@reptiliancow]

i just like the sword skills so much!

[@Vallun]

should put the build link in the description too, its a bit piecey for people trying to recreate the build themselves

[@AmeiLotus]

I went ahead and found one in the comments so I'll leave it visible here. [&DQYfGSkpMDfHEnQAywAAAMMSAAB0EgAAJgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=]

[@revani4234]

Its not the point for ppl to just copy the build they have to understand what does what and when they make a build themselves if they read a tiny bit they will understand the point of these videos is to teach ppl how to do it not just give them a finished build to go and spam around skills yeah they will be able to do 70 percent of stuff in game just spaming but when u know how to do it it just gives u that extra quality of life that we are searching for with these builds

[@MsMoonDragoon]

@@revani4234 shut the fuck up

[@DigiCube4]

@@revani4234 copied and pasted the link several times faster than it took you to write that..quality of life

[@wafflingmean4477]

All I get is the video when I use that link. Was he using berserker stats for all the armour and different stats for the weapons?

[@mattopenshaw5919]

Thanks so much for these videos. I have just been face rolling as a weaver and doing terribly. Watched this playlist, put together what i could just on what was in my bank. Build isn't even complete (heck, i haven't even fully unlocked all the tempest specialization!) Even with only half of this build setup, I am much more capable at soloing PoF veterans and elites. Looking forward to completing this build and to the rest of the builds to come!

[@oussamalamhamdialaoui178]

40 min build videos! Love it. Dude I'd love to see another playlist after Open World, maybe for raids of fractals.

[@MsSilentH]

LOVE the footage of it in practice, just hearing about what something can do isn't enough for me to get a picture, and this is also very exciting for me because I was so surprised with how much I loved tempest, as ele has always been a hard class for me to learn.

[@nisher3344]

I know you did a whole gear vid, a little 10 second showing of the gear for each class would be very appreciated! love the content

[@SilverSinai]

Build Link (close as I could copy based on the video): gw2skills.net/editor/?PGgEsEWGBrhdxWYk4Irk2uB-zRRYBhJGN4zIQFQMTA7tKRE-e Utility Buff: Skale Venom: wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skale_Venom_(consumable) General gear video for this series: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHrQiXuZZ7B_mKc

[@Sovann_the_Mighty]

thanks for putting in actual gear. I never know what to put in, and it usually doesn't work for me with all berserker...

[@MichaelBuckley284]

Welp... from the build notes today (July 7th, 2020): "Persisting Flames: This trait no longer grants fury when using a blast finisher with a fire combo field. Instead, this trait will now grant the Elementalist an additional 1% damage for 15 seconds for each target struck with a fire field. This effect stacks up to 10 times." Also no mention of the fact that they removed the lava fount.. That was a hard nerf to take...

[@TheNewNinja159]

Is this build trash now because of the nerf because I really wanted to try it out, I just started playing Ele and this looked suuuppppeeerr fun

[@nguyenhoangtananh]

The_SaxMan not necessarily, but you can modify it a bit. With the downstate lava font removed, which is the main appeal for fire trait in open world, you might want to consider using the water trait (2-3-3) or arcane trait. Hope this helps :)

[@BlackKnight-qe5ls]

HOLY MOLY, i just tried this out and omg this is way better than my last build I can actually do some serious damage and survive!

[@madmagus7693]

Thought you might be exaggerating a bit on the Yar Parrot with Privateer Rune, but running in HOT areas, the parrot is nearly as good as a Ranger pet for pulling aggro. Very helpful, especially on adds. I run high crit on Zerk gear, so it's up all the time. I'm glad I gave them a go. Thanks.

[@robertwagner9003]

Thanks for this video. It will help out a lot with understanding Elementalist, which has been the class I have the most hours on. I kind of just load up a build and play without really understanding or reading the synergies or skill descriptions. This helps a lot.

[@brego129]

*Patiently awaits the Guardian video*

[@sindri1447]

*Impatiently awaits the warrior video*

[@itzumaki3296]

I wonder what build he will use for Guardian. I wouldn't be surprised if its DH, however, I feel DH doesn't chain well at all and is not versatile in terms of what kind of damage it does. It's also hard for DH to get a good amount of might for long durations.

[@angels2online]

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[@Aztec2250]

Hey WP. Putting your philosophy of reading comments in old videos to the test :) I'm a returning player and trying to get a deeper understanding of my Ele builds. I notice a few differences with some traits now (Oct 2020) compared with when the video was made. example, Persisting flames no longer gives the lava font. Does the trait balance of today greatly affect this build, or is it largely still applicable :) Thanks for the content!

[@michaelcoffey1991]

Have never WILL never play and a elementalist and I am here to tell you Wooden Potatoes this was a fun watch and listen for the wife and I. As we know you spent years playing this class :) not to mention get your explanation as to WHY you select and choose what you select and choose :). Look very forward to you tackling them all and getting to the classes we play and

[@erikkelsch7906]

Thanks WP great vid! I had an elementalist I created for PoF and never played because I couldnt figure out a fun PvE build. I took your suggestions, changed my build, and this build is alot of FUN! Running around Crystal Desert having a blast!

[@MiriamBoon]

Dear @WoodenPotatoes, I've really enjoyed playing this build. Thank you for sharing it. But, with lesser lava font removed, I have concerns about survivability and therefore viability. It would be amazing if you could update the video, or the accompanying text, to comment on this and recommend any changes to make the build viable moving forward.

[@TheNewNinja159]

Is this build completely unviable due to the recent nerf to persistent flames?

[@cyberhawk94]

For EVERYONE asking what to change after the Fire and Tempest changes 9 months ago: Basically, in Tempest change the GM to Transcendent Tempest for faster Overloads, and Swap Fire out for Water 2/3/3. While playing, instead of swapping to Fire out of Air, swap to Water, Cast Shatterstone, and then go back to Air. This triggers 2,900 in heals for yourself each time, and gives you a constant +25% damage which is much more than Fire gives you. gw2skills.net/editor/?PGAFsE2aUZERsru2SLrpmRGql0kfbD-zRRYBJmoSMoBfIRJCCUKEzCweziVLbA-e

[@mannymoonstone8486]

Frenzy was the missing piece I never thought about. Continuous thunderstorms for the win!

[@umberbeast8345]

Great video, thank you so much for taking the time to make it. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!

[@Kal_El_Dorado]

Bought another character slot and spent the afternoon getting leveled and partially geared, already having a blast. This is going to be a good series.

[@Fennec]

Im surprised you didnt mention the Golden Dumplings, since they pretty much cap you at 25 Might permanently and the Boon duration is nice as well. That way you can also take the Stab on Overload+Modifier. Either way, awesome vid and pretty much the best build for ele open world for sure

[@regendo]

"This actually is a really dangerous fight for our build here because he gives himself Retaliation" laughs in live updates

[@ethanpenn5]

This seems pretty fun! I rarely have a reason to use scepter, even though the skills look super sweet on it!

[@c490cuK]

Wow I enjoyed that now I know where my build went wrong, but now am trying to fix it I will be watching my Elementalist performance from now on, I had it all wrong.

[@frigginmanatees8616]

Water traitline over fire is so great for damage and sustain. Also, water ele does knock back break bar damage and is pretty tanky. Also I'm a big fan of lightning hammer for the quickness on the 2 on short cd for each air overload

[@rowby8962]

Absolutely loving these videos, WP! Also loving you bashing out all this content the last month, keep kicking goals mate

[@Darkyll]

Wow i Love this build, but i play without zepter, i played with a dagger in the main hand, because the skills, i love the dagger skills, much AOE and the Dash spells from main hand dagger is very love. Movement is my secret love xD But in my Secondary set i have the zepter. For boss fights c: thanks for this good videos. And yes i learned better English because you speaking is very good to understand. I am from Germany c: and yes my English is not perfect but your videos help my something to better understand English c: my grammar is sure trash haha but i lerned this step-by-step :). Thanks for your content

[@robinwesterbeeke1498]

Hi WP, with the rework of some of the traits + buffs (lower OLA cooldown meaning you don't really need Frenzy anymore to have it around more or less permanently (as you'll be casting stuff like Lightning Orb as you come back to air to get the OL + Ferocity damage boost to work for Orb) do you feel Fire is still worth it on Tempest? The only value it still has imo is the Lava Font downstate (which is big, but arguably Agony will have plenty of Rally potential) because Ele has so much easy to get condi cleanse and damage modifiers to get elsewhere. I'd say for a more defensive build, going more Aura Support and slotting Earth seems pretty good. If you're comfortable enough with playing Ele, then perhaps slotting Water is best to get those two 10% modifiers + vuln duration + heal + cleanse options. Even Arcane has merit for heal on swap, might on swap, another boon on swap, Arcane Shield on swap and either EA or BP. Personally, I've been running Air/Water/Weaver with Ascended Lifesteal food and Signet of Restoration to help keep up Scholar and Water Trait.

[@chriscorona1813]

about sigil of frenzy + overload, if your enemy is low on hp and you will miss the recharge on air try getting it for another element so it recgarges that overload

[@IArkeyI]

I'm already seeing a lifesteal reaper coming up

[@Le_beaubrun]

Earth elemental is great to tank. Love to use it in some fractals where there is tons of projectile and just stand behind him, also grants protection.

[@kadachi16]

My favorite elementalist weapon set and my spec was pretty close to your own. Really nice to see, and might try your changes compared to mine

[@flowersunshine325]

Aria (Tempestuous Aria) is pronounced like Ah-ria, not like 'area'. Think of the line in Fear not this Night: 'Pleading sighing arias, gently grieving in captive misery". Aria means song, and so references music like some other tempest traits. Maybe that's why I love tempest so much, I love singing. This build is definitely gonna make my time playing ele in stories and openworld even better. :D

[@the_purple_mage]

Now that Ele's have Weapon Swap, what would you recommend for the second weapon set?

[@The_Blog]

Been playing Warhorn Tempest Fresh Air ever since the release of HoT and never looked back. I just love the flow of the rotation! I prefere Dagger though compared to Scepter. However I am also taking the build into fractals.

[@urfaes6878]

I've been playing dagger/dagger so long, I'll be happy to try scepter/warhorn. I've been wanting to get my Norn "shaman" ready for the Icebrood Saga and learn about the animal spirits.

[@anonmouse956]

Tempest is great to play on a laptop with a small screen. You can just move around with the movable AOEs and don't have to see every tell and action of the opponent. Just keep a little distance and keep moving and try to be behind them. A lot easier than trying to dodge a nuke skill you can't even see coming on your tiny screen.

[@gamithemighty5932]

@wooden Potatoes with the influx of new players to the game can you make any suggestions in builds for players that DO NOT have their hero points unlocked and thus do not have the secondary professions from the different expansions such as tempest or weaver or so on?

[@ltmuffler3482]

I ran the balthazar boss fight on my support quickbrand with a friend. I didn't do the kind of damage he did (he was a power reaper) but he went down a decent amount because he didn't know the telegraphs, and I realized early in that I could almost passively heal through all the adds and even some of the telegraphs so I would just rez him when he went down and do my dps pretty much whenever book 1 was off cooldown XD

[@MrAcuta73]

Can't wait for Ranger! My go-to open world toon...though I did recently roll an Ely I haven't played it yet.

[@mnestiinternational]

tx alot for the video. helped me alot to start off with my newly boostet ele.

[@yamidondi2395]

Dude appreciate this much. Hope you include rotation on your next video. =)

[@redyuri5477]

Hey @WoodenPotatoes, is this build still applicable now?

[@TheBomb571]

I love playing tempest, but condi elementalist has always been my preferred play. I believe condi tempest was a thing back in the day, but condi Weaver is so much fun currently. Not the point of this series, but you can beat it for fun :P

[@Vidiri]

I can see why Overload air is so powerful, since in squishy open world where you're gonna be outnumbered no matter what if you're soloing, it has insane cleave potential.

[@TheBulletproofMullet]

This looks like so much fun to play, can't wait to get it all set up on my ele. Would it be possible for you to sreenshot or something all your ruins and trinkets etc so I can do the build. Thanks :D

[@pkidawmbt]

I used to love this kind of tempest st up until I started playing a modified version of cellofrag's weaver. Both are great for PvE stuff though. Good times.

[@nateking510]

Rip weaver. Spamming air overload is so much easier to beat story content, hps, etc. Playing through hot with tempest was way more fun than weaver in pof.

[@lexy1210]

If you're really planning on posting Necro last can I put in a request for an early appearance of the Warrior build? I have a Charr necro and a Norn warriror I'm setting up to play through Icebrood, it would be nice to be able to have a run through the prologue with one of your PvE builds. Love the Ele/Tempest build - I've always preferred Tempest play style to Weaver in PvE, looking forward to this series.

[@SahanMendis]

a link to the build specifically? please?

[@AlexiusYindor]

wow that frenzy sigil is something, I'll definitely try this out OwO

[@revanik0426]

Never clicked on a video so fast in my life

[@Grockalot1]

Hey WP do you plan to put the build templates in the description of videos released pre-build templates update? Many thanks

[@ItsASleepySheepy]

Is it bad that I'm really excited for the Rev one even though I know the answer's going to be Sword+Sword/Staff?

[@MauroAgnoli]

Loving this build, this is what I'm looking for! Tnx

[@MiseryMemory]

I would definitely say the necro has the strongest Downstate, just by virtue of the double lifesteal making it mostly unkillable xD

[@AshlynnMods]

Necro with spite and the lifesteal from the mastery signet is ACTUALLY broken. Not only does it do good condi because of the 3 skill (extremely heavy poison damage), the 1 skill is bonkers on power damage with spite, AND every single source of damage is a lifesteal due to the mastery signet. Granted as a necro main, my necro naturally has more deaths total than any other character I have, but in any given period of time my necro dies less than any other class Ive played by far

[@yavantii3615]

ranger downstate is kinda strong aswell. Pet rezz outheals any damage in normal open world. .

[@crash320]

Wow you have great graphics lol! I think you have sold me on Elemental 🖒

[@rDommHD]

Has the traits changed at all? Some look different than the ones I’m seeing right now (2021, Sep 5th)? Air seems to be the same which is good cuz it’s the main trait line for tempest but water traits seem to be quite different now… can we get an update on the traits? Thanks!

[@Leodorant]

I would like to see your gear stats. There are many options, right. But for lazy ppl like me it would be convinient to just copy yours or change it slightly after using yours as a baseline =)

[@mokahtgs]

Um...did I miss it or did he not say what stat set his gear was? I saw the runes and sigils, but what was the gear set? Also, it there a link to the full build somewhere?

[@mikedsps]

Just wondering if you covered boon strip for this (or other open world) builds and I missed it? It's not usually a big deal in the open world but there are some cases like that Chak hero point where it is useful and I'm wondering if there's a trick I'm missing on ele.

[@Drakaniel]

I thank Dwayna for your channel, WP! Time to respec and dust off the ele

[@som_nus]

11:30 that tip plucked me up. :(

[@lMrJackl]

A question does the increased stun from the stormsoul trait stack with the increase stun from sigil of savagery?

[@KianAmyas]

The only problem with this build for me personally is you have no stunbreak. Overloads have the mini stability, but meh. There are enemies in HoT and PoF that can stun you for ridiculous long periods of time. I like having the option to get away. For open world, story, metas, etc, I always go for 2 things I see as vital for a fun chillaxed experience: One is a stunbreak. For ele (and I use fresh air tempest for this as well) I like the Armor of Earth for its massive stability stack and protection (which is 40% less dmg because of Hardy Conduit). The second is a condi cleanse. Fire covers this good but I prefer the water. Personally I ended up with Water 211, Air 312 and Tempest 331. For skills I use the Fire Signet, Armor of Earth and usually Lightning Flash ( a teleport is always fun). For heal and elite the glyphs since they are traited. With the recent changes water is actually a good trait for dmg, the condi cleanse from the regen is really nice and it adds quite a bit of extra healing just in case it's needed. Everything else is what I do as well. The summon is indeed amazing for tanking stuff and the earth ele is, like probably everyone already knows, incredibly durable and will easily face tank most champions for its entire life duration so I prefer it over the air ele since it's cc skill seems buggy to me. There are exceptions of course, a few core champions and quite a lot from HoT and PoF are capable of obliterating it really fast. But even then it's great to have it if only to give you a little bit of breathing room. Overall, tempest fresh air is indeed a great way of playing ele for solo open world, story and metas. It's even a decent farmer if you don't have access to the more efficient farming classes. Edit: Oh and gear is full zerk of course. Scepter + Warhorn. Gear like assassins or even gear for condi builds (I only use viper atm) is good, but old story content raises one major issue for them. OBJECTS! Bloody objects immune to crits and condi. It's not fun to spend minutes pew pew-ing an object just because Anet is silly and they couldn't be bothered to update all the objects in the game to the new standards. I know it's a very very isolated problem, but eh, it was annoying enough for me to go full zerk on all power builds I use in open world or story content.

[@livemic0779]

I am curious what is the main bar key map you use to control your skills? Do you just click them all I see is 3 dots on each of the 5 skills?

[@tanrrivtko1249]

Did I miss the gear stat? Is it all berserker armor and trinkets with marauder weapons?

[@Benjen97]

probably maurader weapons + trinkets and zerker armor. If you look at his stats he had an extra 500 ish vitality which is too much for it to be from the weapons alone

[@H0wl1ngR4v3n]

So is there like a core build equivalent to this? seems like yeah its all good having tempest fully unlocked, but here I am chain deing over and over as i struggle to get hero points from the first Heart of Thorns area @.@

[@gailbrookhart1777]

That's a hole in the available videos across this entire game. "What build to use to acquire the hero points that allows you to exploit these preferred elite specs?" The gap between hitting 80 and hitting a fully realized spec can be a very painful time.

[@Francoisno]

hi what weapon would you suggest using while still leveling instead of the warhorn as it only becomes available at level 80 after learning the tempest specialization?

[@themoose89tujtuytu]

did he say what armor stats he was using and I just missed it?

[@GonLizio9]

He is using a combination of Berserker and Marauder's stats. Also he has another video about runes, stats and food.

[@SilverSinai]

This is his video for stats/gear in general that he is following for this solo/open world series: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHrQiXuZZ7B_mKc

[@arkanaloth2617]

hmm.. I'm a big fan of overloads on ele, but I never tried warhorn.. I'm going to have to check this out.

[@hexen2801]

"People underestimate how strong weakness is..." I wanna know how that works ^^;

[@WoodenPotatoes]

@@TiroDvD Also glances can never crit, so it's actually more than half damage because it removes the 150% boost + whatever ferocity would also be there

[@elosyyy]

The doubt i have with the "50% of attacks" is that, is it a 50% proc chance? or is it 1 normal attack and 1 weak then repeat?

[@aginjai]

I don't know what is funnier now. Your joke, or that whooshing noise I heard as it flew over some peoples heads in here ;)

[@jihui97]

When I started as a thief main, I thought how simple the kit was, how much your few skill mattered in combat and how wasteful it was to spam initative; Seeing how ele is feelsgood at spamming skill in sequence, kinda wanna give it a try!

[@driny07]

I know you jave a vid on gears and other stuff, but I think it's better if you include the build on each class vid and people can just glance the other vid for altering the build to their own taste. Still, great vid!

[@sprites75]

i really wanna try this now , it'll be a change of weaver

[@Norcobikezz]

what do you think about the tempest traits changes? Harmonious Conduit and transcendent tempest?

[@Bimuhnng]

How do you get that Aura/Infusion that adds the lightning cloud effect around your character?

[@ticktock1963]

It's from the Legendary sceptor

[@isabelryborg9907]

Cant wait to try this out 😁

[@westcoastwarriorsarchive7929]

So a year later there is no imbued melodies. Instead its trancendent tempest. Is that on better than elemental bastion?

[@Auriorium]

Is there a sword waver build you can do? Please. I will change my Charr -Shaman- Elementalist will use this build I like it. Can not wait for the Ranger one since that is my "main".

[@WalterLiddy]

I'll give this a try on my tempest. However, enemies just melt in front of my weaver and I'm not seeing anything here that looks comparable, so I suspect that's still the way to go.

[@keinlanz]

With the (idiotic) removal of Lesser Lava Font, does it maybe make more sense to use Water than Fire?

[@aviatejazii1738]

are u using gw2hook? or why does your game looks so clean? :D

[@noofdavy]

Hell ya I'm gonna give this a try!

[@stahmedpendragonguinevere2711]

As a newbie, is there an updated version to this build? Just got tempest but I'm squishy AF

[@Omikron1112]

How come no one ever goes into ele gear? Its alaways stats and combo's :

[@Aba19xx]

Two questions a/ what is the best healing combo with this build ?? b/ best way to upgrade my survability ??

[@painbow7142]

a) I don't know exactly what you mean by "healing combo", but you can attune to water, use 45 and maybe 3 then, then attune to earth and use 4 for the blast finisher. b) throw on marauder pieces to upgrade your survivability. Another option is traiting Earth over Fire for diamond skin (condi cleanse) and protection on your auras

[@masoncunningham6518]

What would you recommend for off hand?? :)

[@MatthewWimer]

Out of curiosity, what is that aura you have that's leaving little lightning bolts as you run?

[@theundeadgentleman4998]

That's the visual effect of Meteorlogicus, which is the sceptre he's using. All legendary weapons leave a special footfall effect behind, Meteorlogicus causes storm clouds and lightning

[@MatthewWimer]

@@theundeadgentleman4998 oh nice! Thanks. I just looked it up and it's insanely expensive and/or time consuming to make. Might save that one for another day...

[@tmacfree2203]

Haven't played for a few years. What is 'break bar' on a mob?