Post by Mera on Sept 10, 2015 12:18:47 GMT 1
Let's post exotic ele builds that you meet in WvW. Under exotic I mean unusual build or maybe some interesting strategy. Of course most of the builds will be roaming ones, but it would be interesting to read about eles in zergs as well.
1. Staff ele
Why staff build is an exotic? Because you don't often meet single roaming ele with a staff. I met this guy on the Underworld server and the idea of the build is super-mega-ultra huge burst. This ele just ran in circle and took all camps in border and the strategy is simple. He gathered all guards in 1 place and did self-bomb with 2nd and 5th fire skills. This insta killed all guards. Melee attacks on such build is useless, especially when he uses stability, because self-bomb makes players insta down as well. The 2nd strategy for 1v1 is to catch player with 5th ice bow skill and put aoe with the 4th skill. Additionally, fire burst.
This guy sometimes ran with a fow zerker party, where all were fully zerkers with huge burst damage. And they always stacked under wall or hills or any closed space and did self-bomb. This worked perfectly!
2. Confusion ele
Don't remember all details of the build and if it was d/d or staff build. But this ele had runes of perplexity and ice bow. The idea is to make as much interrupts as possible (so, logically, it should be d/d ele). But from other side it could be not condi ele and staff would make more burst damage for disabled players.
3. Burning running d/d ele
This is VS roamer and his main stats are healing power, condi, toughness (but I may be wrong). Main source of damage is burning, but he tries to apply some bleeding with earth. He has traits similar to my d/d build that means he is invulnerable to condi most of time. High toughness and good healing make this build super tanky.
In addition this guy is perfect runner (like other FR
). For running he uses all weapon skills, fire greatsword and knows spots where he can teleport up to a hill. So only ele, bow thief and mesmer can follow him.
To deal with him you need at least 2 ppl and heavy CC pressure to prevent him from healing and runnig. In 1v1 you either loose or fight him forever. After ~10-20min fighting with him I was tired and we just stuck at north camp: he was killing npc and I ressing them until he ran from backup.
4. Scepter eles
So why these eles are so special? I would say they are "endangered species" now rather then unusual or interesting
. When I transfered to gandara I met only 1 d/d ele during weeks of playing, but I saw tons of s/f fresh air builds. Now, I haven't seen any scepter ele for months. I think the reason is in situation with condi and s/f build is too vulnerable to condi.
1. Staff ele
Why staff build is an exotic? Because you don't often meet single roaming ele with a staff. I met this guy on the Underworld server and the idea of the build is super-mega-ultra huge burst. This ele just ran in circle and took all camps in border and the strategy is simple. He gathered all guards in 1 place and did self-bomb with 2nd and 5th fire skills. This insta killed all guards. Melee attacks on such build is useless, especially when he uses stability, because self-bomb makes players insta down as well. The 2nd strategy for 1v1 is to catch player with 5th ice bow skill and put aoe with the 4th skill. Additionally, fire burst.
This guy sometimes ran with a fow zerker party, where all were fully zerkers with huge burst damage. And they always stacked under wall or hills or any closed space and did self-bomb. This worked perfectly!
2. Confusion ele
Don't remember all details of the build and if it was d/d or staff build. But this ele had runes of perplexity and ice bow. The idea is to make as much interrupts as possible (so, logically, it should be d/d ele). But from other side it could be not condi ele and staff would make more burst damage for disabled players.
3. Burning running d/d ele
This is VS roamer and his main stats are healing power, condi, toughness (but I may be wrong). Main source of damage is burning, but he tries to apply some bleeding with earth. He has traits similar to my d/d build that means he is invulnerable to condi most of time. High toughness and good healing make this build super tanky.
In addition this guy is perfect runner (like other FR
). For running he uses all weapon skills, fire greatsword and knows spots where he can teleport up to a hill. So only ele, bow thief and mesmer can follow him.To deal with him you need at least 2 ppl and heavy CC pressure to prevent him from healing and runnig. In 1v1 you either loose or fight him forever. After ~10-20min fighting with him I was tired and we just stuck at north camp: he was killing npc and I ressing them until he ran from backup.
4. Scepter eles
So why these eles are so special? I would say they are "endangered species" now rather then unusual or interesting
. When I transfered to gandara I met only 1 d/d ele during weeks of playing, but I saw tons of s/f fresh air builds. Now, I haven't seen any scepter ele for months. I think the reason is in situation with condi and s/f build is too vulnerable to condi.