Hey everyone. I’m looking at starting an Elementalist and I’m struggling to understand how people have gone about building one.
Namely, should I be prioritising Fire/Burn damage, Lightning/Electrocute damage or a mix of both (Elemental I assume?) when it comes to gear and devotions?
What devotions should I aim for? I’ve seen Spear of the Heavens mentioned, Rhowan’s Crown and Viper seem great for resist reduction I think. Behemoth for survivability, anything else?
I see Brimstone as a major suggestion and it does provide a ton of flat Fire but it seems like a heavy investment to go up to 50/50 in Demo and then put points into. What should I drop if anything for it? Thermite Mines? Should I just drop a few points from minor skills like Vindictive Flame?
Don’t discount going 2 handed for a melee build especially for Elementalist. Mine has turned out to be my fav one I have made to date and I’ve been playing GD for almost 2 years now.
Jajaja makes incredible builds and will most certainly be far more effective and stronger than mine.
It’s not that i think 2h builds are bad, my last character was a 2h Witchblade and I’de like to deviate and try something slightly different for this one.
Looks decent, but all the points in ulzuin’s wrath are a waste imo. Just 1 point it and let gear bonuses work on it or skip it entirely. This way you can get 2 points in blackwater cocktail + 1st modifier for massively reduced phys damage, cap blastshield, and get some points into thermite mines.
Sword and shield is kinda meh for elementalist, but it is doable. Shields aren’t terribly useful for blocking when you don’t have soldier skills, shield relics/items, devotions etc to back them up so it ends up being a stack stick to some extent and going heavy on shield devotions+shield items just gimps an ele build imo. There is the dawnbreaker set, but it is based around soldier/shaman retaliation/reflect build and I think the set kinda sucks even for that exact purpose it isn’t amazing. There is Skybreach Bulwark which doesn’t offer as much defense as dawnbreaker shield but does give +1 to both classes.
sure use w/e ideas u want, its not like i have a patent or anything.
would not recommend 1h savagery+shield. infact would not recommend any shield build without soldider tree. menhir bulwark/overguard/shieldtraining are what makes shields strong defensively. without these the shield is pretty useless and doens’t add much defense besides possible high phys resist stat.
also savagery is mainly strong on 2h. for 1h, id stick with firestrike without or without shield. as u can’t get the 15% overall dmg increase when using 1h savagery, but you can for firestrike as long as melee.
I’ve been looking at items and instead of a 1h + shield for savagery, how viable would it be to run a DW build with Blademaster’s Talisman in Ultimate? A bit crazy but if it isn’t likely, i’ll call it quits and settle for either another 2h build or begin building a Fire Strike on my own with TomoDaK’s suggestions.
Sorry if these questions/suggestions are dragging on.
someone made an elementalist build thats very similar to my old saboteur back in the days of stormheart.
they focused on staticstrike + stormcaller pact, dw stormhearts with direwolf crest.
static strike is obvioulsy lol now. but dw firestrike is probalby still the best way to go on an elementalist if you were to go melee firestrike. you’d basically just SP to buff crit dmg? you would be tankier with HoTW and wendigo but less dmg due to lacking more dw procs. if you DW i’d use direwolf crest since its not terrible stat wise and the relic slot is much more important to free up. both ulzuins and EoTS are super strong lvl 60 relics imo depending on choice of element.
