Elementalist - Basic Staff Ele
Note: Please note that builds will default to plain icons, these may not be as accurate. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Contents
Welcome to the Builds Archive. See the ones that gathered dust, were orphaned by their original writers, or became obsolete by balance patches. We keep the orphan builds together and salute the veteran builds that held a position in the good, great, or meta categories. Click here to view current builds.
.
archived on 3/15/21, see Elementalist - Basic Elementalist
Overview
An excellent Core Elementalist build meant for roaming and zerging.
Playstyle
This bulid revolves around using your many area of effects, such as to deal large splash damage to groups of mobs very quickly. This build offers a relatively relaxed playstyle, even in fast-paced groups, though in very fast zergs such as the Mad King's Labyrinth it can fall behind other builds. In cases where your tagging speed matters more than your raw DPS, the scepter tagging tempest build is recommended.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
- Healing Skills
- - if conditions are a problem. Synergizes with covering its long channel time.
- - allows you to make good use of combo fields.
- Utility Skills
- - excellent for when you're left without a group
- - for defense
- - strong area damage or an area blind
- - more mobility.
- Elite Skills
- - high damage and mobility.
Specializations
Build Code
- Variants
- provides good defensive abilities on dodging while in or
Equipment
- Ascended gear is not required. You can run Exotic with the same stats instead.
Standard Equipment
Variant Equipment
The gear with this build is relatively flexible.
Gear
Berserker's , 
Assassin's - slightly higher dps, much lower defense
Knight's - can be mixed into a set to provide higher defense at the cost of DPS. Berserker's armor and weapons with Knight's trinkets is a common replacement for Marauder .
Runes
- Zerging
- - provides extreme sustain when running in a zerg, best defensive rune when zerging
- , , - higher burst, lower DPS rune alternatives
- - DPS/Defense hybrid rune
- , , - Defensive rune alternatives
- - Defensive + Utility option, combine with
- Solo
- - higher burst than but lower DPS
- - DPS/Defense hybrid rune
Sigils
- Zerging
- , , - defensive
- - makes permanent and reduces 's CD drastically.
- , - useful on-kill sigils
- - combine with for extreme mobility
- Solo
- It is strongly recommended to stick with + when solo.
Consumables
Farming
- 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
- , - Defense/Damage
- , - Damage
- Utility
- - Damage
Usage
Damage
Abuse your skills. Your goal is to tag large groups of mobs quickly. , , and are your bread and butter.
- Against static groups, is an incredible damage tool. It also works very well against bosses, especially those with a large hit box.
- You can use during your channel to prevent being interrupted. You can also abuse before you cast to blind groups of mobs.
- Against static groups, is an incredible damage tool. It also works very well against bosses, especially those with a large hit box.
- and allow you to trap enemies for your AOEs.
Defense & Support
- provides significant condition removal to both yourself and allies.
- is a decent area heal.
- is a large area blind.
Crowd Control
- and (in Lightning Hammer)
- (from Ice Elemental)
- (from Air Elemental)
Comments