Silimaur/corecondiele

Core Condition Elementalist for New Players

Introduction

Please note this guide is a work in progress that I will be adding to as and when I have time. If you have any specific questions or suggestions please get in touch!

The below builds assume you have reached level 80 as an elementalist and therefore you have all traits and utility skills unlocked. These builds are designed to work both in the open world and in instanced content such as fractals, raids and strikes.

Skill Bar

Scepter/Focus

Utility

Optional skills for your third utility:

Glyph of Elemental Power Note: always cast in fire attunement

• Pros:
  • Decent DPS
  • Acts as a stun break
  • Simple to use in all content
• Cons:
  • Higher damage options available

Glyph of Elementals Note: always cast in fire attunement

• Pros:
  • High DPS
  • Can be pre-cast multiple times to stack your elementals (cast before a fight starts)
• Cons:
  • Can be clunky in the open world as elementals will die when you mount up
  • If you are not able to pre-cast this skill stacking your elementals prior to starting an instanced encounter you will not be able to get the most out of this skill
  • Encounters such as the Kaineng Overlook strike will also kill all your elementals making this skill sub-optimal
  • Damage can be RNG based

Lightning Flash

• Provides additional mobility in the open world
• Situationally useful in encounters requiring a lot of movement

Arcane Shield

• Useful if you require additional defence
• Situationally useful in certain encounters requiring blocks

Specializations

Variants

• Pyromancer's Puissance can be used to generate consistent 25 might in the open world.

Variants

• Arcane Resurrection can be very helpful group support if your group is struggling with a lot of downstates.

Equipment & Consumables

For your equipment you will want to choose from the following:

• Free to play condi elementalist (22k DPS)
• Budget 8 gold condi elementalist (27k DPS)
• Optimal build for core condi ele (not worthwhile unless you have legendary gear) (32k DPS)

You could additionally use a vipers set up but I would not generally recommend wasting your time and gold on this - TBC convert to page

Playstyle

TBC