Elementalist - Basic Fresh Air

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Focused on: Direct damage, Mobility, Dps, Survival, Roaming.

Designed for:

build archived 3/15/21, see Elementalist - Basic Elementalist

Overview

This is a good starting place for any elementalist that wants to learn the Fresh Air playstyle, which is a core component of the elementalist class. While it doesn't have the same upfront power as its Tempest or Weaver cousins, Core Ele is still a potent class that can complete most open world content without issue.

Skill Bar

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Weapon Variants

You can run Focus for more defensive skills such as and .
You can use Scepter for ranged damage, but note that this is a significant damage loss.
You can carry a Staff for tagging mobs in open world farming.

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

- burst heal.
- if conditions are a problem.

Utility Skills

or - more damage.
- heavy defiance bar damage via .
- for mobility.

Elite Skills

- for mobility.

Specializations

Build Code

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Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

Standard Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Strength

Variants

Berserker's , Assassin's - higher dps, much less survivability
Knight's - lower dps, more survivability
Celestial - fun and effective option that can change your playstyle up a lot
, - good defenseive runes
- strong burst option

Consumables

Food

Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions.
- Use for general farming.
- Use for when you need to max out magic find.
- more sustain
Anything - Any food is better than none, but you should prioritize the food above before using any other food.

Utility

, , - general farming
- good damage option with +karma

Solo

This food assists with more difficult content, such as bosses or bounties.

Food

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, - Damage

Utility

- Damage

Usage

This build relies on the trait . You can swap from Air to any attunement and use the skills you need, then reset the cooldown on with any critical hit and immediately attune back to Air. This lets you spam and for DPS while still getting the utility of your other attunements.

The attunement you swap to depends on the situation:

has powerful burst damage skills in and .
grants and for sustain.
grants for mobility and for crowd control.

After using the skills you need, you should swap back to and autoattack while waiting for your attunements to recharge.

Damage

DPS is mostly passive with this build; just make sure you're hitting things with your .
You can use to help maintain Fury.
Weave in and when you can for more damage.
in Fire or Air can be used as a high-damage opener.
- deals more damage, but has a much shorter cooldown allowing you to throw it out liberally.

Defense

The best defense is always to dodge or sidestep attacks. Use the high Vigor uptime of this build to your advantage.
continuously blinds enemies for 10 seconds when used in .
You can use , , and ⇒ to interrupt enemies.
- In desperate circumstances, can also be used as a dodge.
can be used to mitigate pressure.
and have no cast time; use them if you need them.
, used in , creates a tanky elemental that can help take pressure off you.

Sustain

Always be spamming or other skills to maximize the healing from .
is a good source of healing and condition cleanse. If running Arcane, you can dodge in to get a second from , which only has a 10-second cooldown.
You can run or to better deal with condition pressure.
, used in , creates an elemental with strong healing and condition cleanse on a short cooldown.

Crowd Control

⇒
(from Ice Elemental)
(from Air Elemental)