In your last Staff video, you suggested assassin's armor and assassin's trinkets wherever you can. What has changed to suggest full berserker in this video?
+Diruuo It's hard to define what's best for a raiding Druid. An amazing speed clear group can get by with just the heals from a fully offensive Druid or two plus other trace healing, but when pugging and encountering people who eat almost every attack, the healing demand is much higher and so a zealot hybrid or even full magi/cleric Druid may be necessary to keep everyone halfway up - and even then there are some levels of bad play that no amount of healing will be able to carry :/ I do intend to do an overview of Druid builds but I may have to cut down on long winded trait and rotation explanations a bit for it >.>
Would have been interesting to actually see the dps you make on the golem. For example i am not sure i would go with the frostbow (unless i have a break bar to break) but i have nothing to compare with when i try on the golem since your numbers are not showing :)
If a fight lasts long enough for glyph of storms to get off cooldown again; is it then worth to swap out to air and cast it along with something like air overload or icebow 4+3?
Noticed in your rotation that you Ice Storm right after Overload, you end up losing seaweed for meteor + overload then. Isn't it better to do it 2 Lava Fonts later?
Pyromancer's Training (10% damage while in fire, 20% fire recharge) You said I'll have 4 seconds instead of 6 seconds. I still have a 6 second CD on lava font. Why?
I took a long break but last I remember FGS got nerfed and people didn't run it anymore. Did FGS get buffed for you to recommend it for dungeons? Or am I just remembering things wrong?
In short fights, what is the better opening for a fight: Earth 2 and Fire 2 with blast utilities or just starting in air for glyph in air and air overload? How does this change with other fury/might/blast providers in the group?
+Smeagol Gollum Earth 2 is a very weak opening. Stack some fury before engaging, save your blasts to put in a LF or other fire field, or don't even worry about it if you have a rev or ranger because they can provide easy fury.
Have you tested About Face+Burning Retreat since the patch, weaving it in to replace a Fireball? On the large golem I've seen appreciably higher DPS, quickness/alacrity or not. It may be a bug though, with multiple fire fields affecting the hitbox.
+AnacondaHL I wouldn't necessarily rely on it during a fight as a DPS increase because your movement could mess up boss positioning. If you can use it into a wall such that you don't screw up the pull for everyone else, it may be reasonable - but I don't think there are a lot of bosses that people typically corner stack to fight these days. For it to be a DPS increase over a fireball it would have to strike a target about 7 times without quickness or 10.5 times with - super trivial on the stationary large golem - and be used in place of a flame burst so that you don't delay a lava font.
I don't really understand why Air has such a weak auto attack. It's pretty lame that the balance between attunements makes it rarely worth using anything other than Fire with the staff.
Is sigil of accuracy actually better than sigil of air? If so, how much better and what makes it better? I'm guessing it might be because it allows you to cap out on critchance whilst having more power, thanks to not having to use any assassin's gear? Also, how about using sigil of air and truffle steak for food, for that precision. I imagine the 10% damage increase on seaweed salad is too powerful to pass out on, despite staff ele being rooted during some casts, so the sigil of accuracy allows you to have high enough crit chance whilst running full berserker's gear and seaweed salad, whereas sigil of air you can only do one or the other, not both? I feel like the difference in damage between these scenarios is very small, but I'm quite interested in the reasonings behind the final result :) Thanks for all your fantastic work!
+hoga70 the difference between the two setups is pretty small - well under 1% in theory when just considering perma quickness and normal raid buffs. Air is ahead under low buff scenarios, then accuracy pulls ahead as you approach perma quickness and then is a clear winner with perma alacrity. Basically, accuracy scales with quickness and alacrity while air does not. Additionally, accuracy helps fight the vicious precision downscaling in low level dungeons. I also tested both setups on the large DPS golem and accuracy was consistently ahead (by a little) under normal raid buffs, indicating that air proc RNG is slightly more unreliable than my spreadsheet predicts because the spreadsheet approximation assumes a relatively constant proc rate. Truffle steak, etc, are roughly a 3-4% DPS increase in general so even 75% uptime on an 8% modifier food outdoes it.
+DEKeyz2Chaos Oh right, accuracy scales with quickness/alacrity, did not think of that! What do you mean with the vicious precision downscaling? Does the downscaling make it so you need a lot more precision to hit the same critchance as before downscaling? How come you've recommended truffle steak and the sort in the past, if the difference between those and the 8/10% damage food is so big? Was it just lack of better knowledge/wrong assumptions or was there a reason behind it (that may or may not be relevant today)?
+hoga70 it's more that the precision you get from your gear is down scaled to a number lower than what corresponds to your crit chance at level 80... So yes The food change is more just changing tactics and fight lengths becoming shorter in dungeons ("wait we killed a boss?") and longer in fractals and raids. Plus my calculator now has some basic functionality to turn off that modifier while rooted during a cast and we have the DPS golem as well, helping with quantification.
Hello there, I watched your videos in UA-cam and I hope you would help me because I want to play an Ele but I have no build for doing HoT Open world, your builds are mostly used on dungeons/raids/fractals. I find it that traversing the jungle is a bit hard due to the lack of survivability of the ele. Can you please teach me
She gives alternative traitlines and armor sets for mor survivability. For example for Fresh/Air using Water instead of fire and changing a few traits to give regeneration on auras increases your survivability by quite a bit. Also using Marauder instead of Berzerker armor helps allot to.
I dont get one thing in the video you say that you primarily stay in fire and yet as you do your rotations you switch in between elements like theres no tomorrow + weapon swapping via inventory, looks like elemental is simply unplayable... too much of a headache to do this then that than switch then switch back then that this and the other...
Sadly I agree with ya ,..and then people wander why are there soo many Mesmers or Necros, running around in PVP,..you hardly see Elementalists lvl 50 or lower at all, that is if you ever see one....
Well she is playing the game for allot of time now and also has allot of Legendaries. So it is kinda to be expected. ^^ Making gold isn't actually as hard as you would think. 2g per day from the daily, plus a handfull of gold from either dungeons or fractal rewards. I would say on average you can get like 7g-10+g per day relativly easy depending on how much you play.
![[GW2] PvE Fresh Air Elementalist Build Guide, April 19 2016](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GxPcea5Uz1k/mqdefault.jpg)
In your last Staff video, you suggested assassin's armor and assassin's trinkets wherever you can. What has changed to suggest full berserker in this video?
Thanks for the update!
Great vid there keep up the great work
Please, with what can I replace the tempest specialization if I don't have the expansion!
+Leon Engelmann I kinda quit the game sometime ago but thanks for the reply anyway
A new Dekeyz build! I still dream that we get Druid builds of this same quality and detail.
+Diruuo It's hard to define what's best for a raiding Druid. An amazing speed clear group can get by with just the heals from a fully offensive Druid or two plus other trace healing, but when pugging and encountering people who eat almost every attack, the healing demand is much higher and so a zealot hybrid or even full magi/cleric Druid may be necessary to keep everyone halfway up - and even then there are some levels of bad play that no amount of healing will be able to carry :/
I do intend to do an overview of Druid builds but I may have to cut down on long winded trait and rotation explanations a bit for it >.>
Would have been interesting to actually see the dps you make on the golem. For example i am not sure i would go with the frostbow (unless i have a break bar to break) but i have nothing to compare with when i try on the golem since your numbers are not showing :)
If a fight lasts long enough for glyph of storms to get off cooldown again; is it then worth to swap out to air and cast it along with something like air overload or icebow 4+3?
what about a condi tempest?? dual daggers focus on fire and earth (burn and bleed) what do you think?
what if you are level 80 but do not have tempest yet? which shall replace tempest?
the animation it does for meteor storm what is that? haven't seen it like that before ^^
Noticed in your rotation that you Ice Storm right after Overload, you end up losing seaweed for meteor + overload then. Isn't it better to do it 2 Lava Fonts later?
+Derpy Moa in long fights, yes, delay the IB. For short fights you want to get the IB AoE down before the boss dies.
Hi There... how can i get fire of storm. i could not find.
Pyromancer's Training (10% damage while in fire, 20% fire recharge)
You said I'll have 4 seconds instead of 6 seconds.
I still have a 6 second CD on lava font. Why?
I took a long break but last I remember FGS got nerfed and people didn't run it anymore. Did FGS get buffed for you to recommend it for dungeons? Or am I just remembering things wrong?
In short fights, what is the better opening for a fight:
Earth 2 and Fire 2 with blast utilities
or just starting in air for glyph in air and air overload?
How does this change with other fury/might/blast providers in the group?
+Smeagol Gollum Earth 2 is a very weak opening. Stack some fury before engaging, save your blasts to put in a LF or other fire field, or don't even worry about it if you have a rev or ranger because they can provide easy fury.
Have you tested About Face+Burning Retreat since the patch, weaving it in to replace a Fireball? On the large golem I've seen appreciably higher DPS, quickness/alacrity or not. It may be a bug though, with multiple fire fields affecting the hitbox.
+AnacondaHL I wouldn't necessarily rely on it during a fight as a DPS increase because your movement could mess up boss positioning. If you can use it into a wall such that you don't screw up the pull for everyone else, it may be reasonable - but I don't think there are a lot of bosses that people typically corner stack to fight these days.
For it to be a DPS increase over a fireball it would have to strike a target about 7 times without quickness or 10.5 times with - super trivial on the stationary large golem - and be used in place of a flame burst so that you don't delay a lava font.
Nice guide, thanks. Btw, was scepter givin a buff of sorts this patch?
+Jeremy Wright Yep, it's now pretty close to dagger in terms of single target DPS in a fresh air build. More on that soon :)
I don't really understand why Air has such a weak auto attack. It's pretty lame that the balance between attunements makes it rarely worth using anything other than Fire with the staff.
is the difference between assassin setup and berserker's setup considerable? (i have assassin armor+ staff and berserker's trinkets )
+Marto gw No, it's within 0.5%.
+DEKeyz2Chaos thanks (L)
Is sigil of accuracy actually better than sigil of air? If so, how much better and what makes it better?
I'm guessing it might be because it allows you to cap out on critchance whilst having more power, thanks to not having to use any assassin's gear?
Also, how about using sigil of air and truffle steak for food, for that precision. I imagine the 10% damage increase on seaweed salad is too powerful to pass out on, despite staff ele being rooted during some casts, so the sigil of accuracy allows you to have high enough crit chance whilst running full berserker's gear and seaweed salad, whereas sigil of air you can only do one or the other, not both?
I feel like the difference in damage between these scenarios is very small, but I'm quite interested in the reasonings behind the final result :)
Thanks for all your fantastic work!
+hoga70 the difference between the two setups is pretty small - well under 1% in theory when just considering perma quickness and normal raid buffs. Air is ahead under low buff scenarios, then accuracy pulls ahead as you approach perma quickness and then is a clear winner with perma alacrity. Basically, accuracy scales with quickness and alacrity while air does not. Additionally, accuracy helps fight the vicious precision downscaling in low level dungeons.
I also tested both setups on the large DPS golem and accuracy was consistently ahead (by a little) under normal raid buffs, indicating that air proc RNG is slightly more unreliable than my spreadsheet predicts because the spreadsheet approximation assumes a relatively constant proc rate.
Truffle steak, etc, are roughly a 3-4% DPS increase in general so even 75% uptime on an 8% modifier food outdoes it.
+DEKeyz2Chaos Oh right, accuracy scales with quickness/alacrity, did not think of that!
What do you mean with the vicious precision downscaling? Does the downscaling make it so you need a lot more precision to hit the same critchance as before downscaling?
How come you've recommended truffle steak and the sort in the past, if the difference between those and the 8/10% damage food is so big? Was it just lack of better knowledge/wrong assumptions or was there a reason behind it (that may or may not be relevant today)?
+hoga70 it's more that the precision you get from your gear is down scaled to a number lower than what corresponds to your crit chance at level 80... So yes
The food change is more just changing tactics and fight lengths becoming shorter in dungeons ("wait we killed a boss?") and longer in fractals and raids. Plus my calculator now has some basic functionality to turn off that modifier while rooted during a cast and we have the DPS golem as well, helping with quantification.
+DEKeyz2Chaos So truffle steak is better in shorter fights? Just that dungeon fights are so short it doesn't really matter?
what music is that on the background? it sounds nice
+Danny Timmerhuis it's listed in the video description. I don't remember the title off the top of my head but it's by PC-ONE.
Hello there, I watched your videos in UA-cam and I hope you would help me because I want to play an Ele but I have no build for doing HoT Open world, your builds are mostly used on dungeons/raids/fractals.
I find it that traversing the jungle is a bit hard due to the lack of survivability of the ele.
Can you please teach me
She gives alternative traitlines and armor sets for mor survivability. For example for Fresh/Air using Water instead of fire and changing a few traits to give regeneration on auras increases your survivability by quite a bit. Also using Marauder instead of Berzerker armor helps allot to.
noob question, how do you start the fight with 25 stacks of might???
+Dr_Shredded The might stacking is explained pretty much at the end of the video (just before the outro).
I dont get one thing in the video you say that you primarily stay in fire and yet as you do your rotations you switch in between elements like theres no tomorrow + weapon swapping via inventory, looks like elemental is simply unplayable... too much of a headache to do this then that than switch then switch back then that this and the other...
thats just might stacking...
Sadly I agree with ya ,..and then people wander why are there soo many Mesmers or Necros, running around in PVP,..you hardly see Elementalists lvl 50 or lower at all, that is if you ever see one....
Is it still good??
Time to change my build again! XD
i came only to hear that voice :D
are you kidding she sounds like a robot in literally every video...
The first thing that hit me was her sexy unique voice
Hi There... Thank you so much for the guide. Im new and noob player.
Yiur guides are very nice but do not use robot like voice, you have a nice "timbro".Be less robotic and give your voice some colour. :)
2k gold....sigh
Well she is playing the game for allot of time now and also has allot of Legendaries. So it is kinda to be expected. ^^
Making gold isn't actually as hard as you would think. 2g per day from the daily, plus a handfull of gold from either dungeons or fractal rewards. I would say on average you can get like 7g-10+g per day relativly easy depending on how much you play.
Though I am playing basicly every day I am normally only playing 1-2 hours.