Elementalist - Core Power

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and Open World Core

This build was last updated on February 12, 2023 and is up to date for the February 14, 2023 game patch.

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Overview

This is a good starting place for those seeking to learn the Elementalist class. While complex, Elementalist offers a variety of useful tools in its kit and can engage foes from various ranges with different playstyles. This version of Elementalist focuses on dealing high power damage.

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Skill Bar

Dagger/Dagger

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Staff - ranged area damage, groups only

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

• - provides a blast finisher
• - burst heal.

Utility Skills

• - a high damage, long-cooldown glyph; use in for lots of Vulnerability
• - more area damage
• - for mobility.
• - very high DPS option for when big skills are on cooldown.

Elite Skills

• - for mobility.

Specializations

• - provides alternate rotation

Arcane

Arcane can replace Fire or Water for a boost to defense and utility

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats. This set uses similar gear to Build:Tempest_-_Power_DPS, making it a good option for general PVE

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• use a few Knight trinkets if extra defense is needed
• - more active defense
• / - budget DPS
• / - budget DPS

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• , - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps

Usage

Fresh Air Notes

allows for a must faster paced playstyle. 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

Fire

• Auto-attacks

Air

• Auto-attacks

Earth

• Avoid auto-attacking in Earth

Defense

• The best defense is always to dodge or sidestep attacks.
• continuously blinds enemies for 10 seconds when used in .
• CC enemies with: , , and ⇒
• can be used to mitigate pressure.
• , used in , creates a tanky elemental that can help relieve pressure

Sustain

• - high passive sustain
• 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)