Elementalist - Core Power

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open WorldOpen World General and Open World Core

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on April 14, 2022 and is up to date for the November 28, 2023 patch.

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 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 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 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)


Ratings

This build has a rating of 4 stars based on 1 votes.
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4 stars
Warming Hearth gave this build 4 stars • April 2023
Nothing too remarkable about core elementalist. It has enough burst damage to delete normal open world enemies, especially with Arcane skills. The build can be used while levelling or learning elementalist before transitioning into its elite specializations. If you need to fight a tough enemy, it's a good idea to use Glyph of Lesser Elementals and summon one or two before starting the fight, plus the extra elemental from the elite skill Glyph of Elementals

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