Elementalist - D/D Burn Burst Bruiser

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Maybe it never coalesced into something brilliant. Maybe it never made it off the ground floor. Maybe we based our better ideas off of it. Basic builds are anywhere from downright bad to just shy of being good enough to showcase. These builds share the widest ratings and can lead to wildly differing levels of success.

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Conquest

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Overview

The DDBBB is a somewhat survivable, very damaging variation of the Elementalist. It brings linear, but abhorrent five-digit area-damage to the table while keeping a slight notion of the survival and healing the Elementalist is absolutely hated for. You start with your best, and you finish with your best, but the creamy middle is slightly trite, yet none less tasty.

Skill Bar

First Weapon Set

Dagger/Dagger Fire

Utility

Elite

½

Dragon's Claw

Fling fire in a claw-shaped spread at your foe.

Damage per Projectile: 91

Range: 400

2¼

5

Drake's Breath

Spray a cone of fire at foes while on the move.

₄Damage: 712

₄Burning (2½s): 1,048 Damage

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 400

¾

15

Burning Speed

Slide forward and blast the area, leaving behind a line of fire that burns foes.

Blast Damage: 710

Fire Wall Damage: 36

Burning (1½s): 131 Damage

Number of Targets: 5

Fire Wall Duration: 4 seconds

Blast Radius: 240

Evade: ¾ seconds

Combo Field: Fire

Range: 600

¼

15

Ring of Fire

Damage nearby foes with a ring of fire, burning foes that pass through it.

Damage: 441

₂Initial Burning (4s): 1,048 Damage

Pass-Through Burning (2s): 262 Damage

Ring of Fire Duration: 5 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Fire

¾

30

Fire Grab

Damage foes in a cone in front of you. Deal more damage to burning foes.

Damage: 426

Damage vs. Burning: 682

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 300

¾

25

Arcane Brilliance

Arcane. Blast the area, hitting foes with critical damage and healing yourself. Healing effectinevess is increased per target hit.

Damage: 122

Healing: 3,560

Healing Increase per Target: 20%

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

45

Arcane Power

Arcane. Your next five attacks do critical damage.

₅Arcane Power (30s): Attacks do critical damage.

75

Arcane Shield

Arcane. Block attacks with an energy shield. If it blocks three attacks, it explodes for critical damage.

Damage: 365

₃Arcane Shield (5s): Block attacks. Explodes after blocking three attacks.

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 360

Breaks stun

½

25

Signet of Earth

Signet Passive: Improves toughness.
Signet Active: Immobilize your foe.

Damage: 122

Signet of Earth: 180 Toughness

₅Bleeding (7s): 1,488 Damage

Immobilize (3s): Unable to move.

Range: 1,200

Dagger/Dagger Water

½

Vapor Blade

Cast a vapor blade that inflicts vulnerability and returns to you.

Damage: 80

Vulnerability (6s): 1% Incoming Damage

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 600

2¼

10

Cone of Cold

Spray an icy blast in a cone that damages foes and heals allies.

₄Damage: 488

Healing: 740

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 400

¼

12

Frozen Burst

Detonate a burst of ice that chills nearby foes.

Damage: 103

Chilled (3s): -66% Movement Speed, -66% Skill Recharge Rate

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

40

Frost Aura

Protect yourself with frost armor that reduces incoming damage by 10%. While active, it chills foes that hit you. Each attaker can be affected by this only once per second.

Frost Aura (7s): -10% Incoming Damage

Chilled (2s): -66% Movement Speed, -66% Skill Recharge Rate

¾

40

Cleansing Wave

Heal yourself and nearby allies, curing a condition.

Healing: 1,302

Conditions Removed: 1

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Dagger/Dagger Air

½

Lightning Whip

Lash your foe with lightning.

₂Damage: 344

Number of Targets: 3

Range: 300

¾

10

Lightning Touch

Shock your foe and inflict weakness.

Damage: 146

Weakness (5s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, 50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

Number of Targets: 3

Range: 300

25

Shocking Aura

Envelop yourself with electrical energy that stuns nearby foes if they attack you. Each attaker can be affected by this only once every 2 seconds.

Shocking Aura (4s): Stun nearby attacking foes with an electric shock (only once per 2 seconds for each attacker).

Stun (1s): Unable to use skills or move.

40

Ride the Lightning

Ride the lightning to your foe, then strike all nearby foes with an electrical burst. If a foe is hit by the burst, the skills's recharge is halved.

Damage: 244

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 180

Range: 1,200

40

Updraft

Gain swiftness from a gust of wind that launches nearby foes.

Swiftness (10s): 33% Movement Speed

Launch: 200

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 180

Evade: 1 second

Dagger/Dagger Earth

¾

Impale

Spear your foes on a giant stone spike.

Damage: 122

Bleeding (8s): 340 Damage

Range: 300

¾

6

Ring of Earth

Bleed foes with a ring of rocky spikes.

Damage: 306

Bleeding (12s): 510 Damage

Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Block Missiles

½

12

Magnetic Grasp

Immobilize your foe, making them vulnerable to a Magnetic Leap attack.

Damage: 24

Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

Unblockable

¾

45

Earthquake

Trigger a quake at your location, knocking down foes and dealing massive damage.

Damage: 244

Knockdown: 2 seconds

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

3¼

30

Churning Earth

Make the earth churn, crippling nearby foes before unleashing a seismic wave that damages and bleeds them.

Damage: 792

₈Bleeding (8s): 2,720 Damage

₄Cripple (1s): -50% Movement Speed

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 360

Combo Finisher: Blast

Slot Changes

Skill variants go here.

• Arcane Brilliance

  ¾

  25

  Arcane Brilliance

  Arcane. Blast the area, hitting foes with critical damage and healing yourself. Healing effectinevess is increased per target hit.

  Damage: 122

  Healing: 3,560

  Healing Increase per Target: 20%

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 240

  Combo Finisher: Blast
  ⇒
  Ether Renewal

  3½

  18

  Ether Renewal

  Cantrip. Heal yourself and cure a condition with every pulse.

  Healing: 625

  Conditions Removed: 1

  Pulses: 8
  if you don't have the Skill Points for Arcane Brilliance yet, or you want some massive Condition cleansing in place of yet another Arcane skill.
• Signet of Earth

  ½

  25

  Signet of Earth

  Signet Passive: Improves toughness.
  Signet Active: Immobilize your foe.

  Damage: 122

  Signet of Earth: 180 Toughness

  ₅Bleeding (7s): 1,488 Damage

  Immobilize (3s): Unable to move.

  Range: 1,200
  ⇒
  Arcane Blast

  20

  Arcane Blast

  Arcane. Blast your foe with energy for critical damage.

  Damage: 341

  Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

  Range: 1,500
  or
  Arcane Wave

  30

  Arcane Wave

  Arcane. Blast foes in the target area with an energy wave for critical damage.

  Damage: 341

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 360

  Combo Finisher: Blast

  Range: 900
  if you want to be all-out damage, but the Signet of Earth is to make sure the opponent doesn't out-kite you and your massive-but-linear burst damage.

Specializations

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Weapons

First Weapon Set Main Hand Dagger Superior Sigil of Torment 5 Superior Sigil of Torment 50% Chance on critical: Apply AoE torment (5 seconds, 180 radius). (Cooldown: 5s) Off Hand Dagger Superior Sigil of Strength 1 Superior Sigil of Strength 60% Chance on Critical: Gain Might (10 seconds). (Cooldown: 1s)

Equipment

Rune:

Superior Rune of the Wurm

Superior Rune of the Wurm

(1): +25 Vitality (2): +35 Ferocity (3): +50 Vitality (4): +65 Ferocity (5): +100 Vitality (6): +7% Ferocity; 7% of vitality is converted to ferocity.

Amulet:

Berserker Amulet

Berserker Amulet

+1200 Power +900 Precision +900 Ferocity

Equipment Variants

• PvP Valkyrie's Amulet
• Superior Rune of Altruism

  Superior Rune of Altruism

  (1): +25 Healing Power (2): When using a heal skill, grant 3 stacks of might to nearby allies for 8 seconds. (Cooldown: 10s) (3): +50 Healing Power (4): +10% Boon Duration (5): +100 Healing Power (6): When you use a heal skill, grant fury to nearby allies for 8 seconds. (Cooldown: 10s)

Usage

The idea of the build is to initially nuke your opponent down, then to outlast them until you are ready to nuke again. The typical, core rotation is to use the Signet of Earth to keep the opponent from moving, then to use Arcane Power right before running right into them with Burning Speed, then crit-nuking them with Fire Grab. Since they'll be Burning, they'll have 22+ stacks of Vulnerability on them, and they'll be frozen in place, they usually end up losing a large bit of their health, if they don't outright die from it in the first place. Or, if you choose to take Arcane Wave or Arcane Blast over Signet of Earth, you can attune to Earth, use Magnetic Grasp, leap to them, knock them down, then attune to Fire and then start on your one-shot rotation.

You may not be as tank-like as a Guardian, but you won't need it. They'll be too focused on cleansing the Burning to make sure they don't die, or healing up all of the damage you just dealt to them. Even if they do Leeroy Jenkins you, you have the Health, Healing, and CC to take care of them until your nuke-em combo is ready to use once again.

Counters

Counters? Generally a Guardian with Radiance's Trait line, or a person with good Reflexes that can cleanse the Immobilize before you have the time to land the 3-hitter combo. If you play smart, it's generally not a problem, as you catch them with the Immobilize when they least expect it.