How do you build your Eles?

[Davi]

Hello fellow Elementalists!

What's your preferred way to build your ele?

I'm a big fan of the aura support build - requires mace/focus or dual dagger (magnetic aura vs frost & shocking aura).

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With a full 30 into water, one can make one's personal auras (listed above) apply to all nearby allies. With DD, you'll be mid-range/melee so you should be able to apply frost or shocking to your whole group. That's pretty powerful, even if it only lasts for a few seconds. You can always stance dance between air/water and fire to maximize the uptime of your auras and get a bit of damage/heals out as well. =)

Let's discuss your builds! Feel free to link your specific build with a trait calculator =)

[Eltann]

That's a really good offensive support build, I've been using a similar one for quite a while.
Did you know you can apply that to signets as well? With 20 points in fire you have the trait Fire's Embrace which gives a fire aura for every signet you use, i.e. signets also grant fury/protection/swiftness to the whole group. Pretty awesome as well.



Here's the one I use atm :
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It's basically a glass cannon build that makes the most use out of cantrips to remain viable. With those water traits, each time you use a cantrip (and my 3 utilities are cantrips) you gain vigor, regeneration, and you remove a condition. So whenever I'm in trouble I can pop a cantrip or switch to water, which also heals me and removes a condition. Just the switch + Cleansing wave gives around 5k.
Other than that, 10 points in earth to proc Armor of earth at half hp, which is also a cantrip and works with all I said above...
And 20 points in air just to add a lot more pressure on the enemy, you could choose fire instead of that for Spell slinger (3 stacks of might when you use a cantrip), or anything else...
So there it is... I added armor as well, that's the exact build I use in pvp, and I try to emulate it in pve as well even though my gear still sucks :/

Some other cool stuff (sorry for the long post but ele is too awesome for me to shut up ><)
- Mist form is a guaranteed stomp or revive in pvp, that's why I use it. In pve I tend to use Armor of earth instead.
- You can start casting Churning earth and use Lightning flash mid-cast to get right next to your target if they tried to avoid it. It won't interrupt the cast and they'll be all like wtf how did I get hit?! It's one of my favorite things to do in pvp ;D