E/W High DPS Melee Build.... Yes, Melee.

Before I start this off, I'm going to say I'm ready and prepared for any flames that may be directed at me, but please, until you've tried this, don't bash it

I'll start with a skillbar:

1. Conjure Flame
2. Fire Attunement
3. Sever Artery
4. Gash
5. Starburst
6. Flurry, or possibly frenzy if your packing some prot monks
7. Distracting Blow
8. Mark of Rodgort

Attribute Points:

Fire Magic~ 10+4 (headpiece and sup fire rune)
Energy Storage~ 9+1 (minor rune)
Swordsmanship~ 11

Equipment:

Firey <Insert Sword Name Here> of Enchanting
A +15% dmg while enchanted sword is nice, and ideally has a 20% longer enchant mod on it. A firey hilt is a must.

Battlemages armor seems to work nicely, when considering the innate 60 AL of an elementalist.

Usage:
Before Battle Starts, cast Conjure Flame and fire attunement to cover it (Keep these up as often as possible--they are the key to your damage output and energy management). As mentioned earlier, a fire elementalist isn't designed to be wading deep into the fray, but having a good monk helps if you intend to.. When you've found your target, cast mark of rodgort on him/her, and wade in with starburst. Begin slashing and maybe engaging flurry once in a while. Spam distracting blow when it's prompted, and apply Sever Artery and Gash as often as possible to maintain the high degen. This, coupled with high damage from relentless buffed sword attacks, works very nicely in taking out an annoying opposite party.

I've tried this build with armor buffs and snares, swapping out flurry and dist blow, but this is how I prefer running it while in a 12v12 match. The weaknesses of this build include the removal of hexes/enchants and low AL of the elementalist, which, as mentioned before can be buffed by spending points in tactics or earth magic...

As a side note, I've tried this several times in random arenas, and depending on how much defense your party is running, it can be very effective.

Post all criticsim/rants/raves/applause/flames you would like, but please, before doing so, take the time to test it out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

When I was in an Alliance Battle, I saw a W/E use this same build. I don't know if he used the same attribute points but he used the same skills. I was a "boon prot" monk and he dealt a good amount of damage. I don't know if a Elementalist can take that damage as well as a Warrior.... but as far as the build goes, its a good one :-P

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How are you going to deal with kiting? You've got absolutely no snares and absolutely no speed boost, you're going to be chasing people all the time. Sure, I guess the bad players will sit there and take it, but why are you making a build that relies on the other guy being complete ****?

Also, why not just go for, say, dual attunements, flame burst, fireball, rodgort's, etc? I have no idea why people use starburst...it's like a slower, dumbed down version of flame burst that is cheaper, which is pretty stupid since you can take an energy management elite and power the better, non-elite skills. Nobody in AB has mass enchant stripping.

All you've got there is incredibly weak sword attacks, a deep wound that's taking you 2 skill slots (hell, just go /Me for phantom pain if you're so inclined to have deep wound), incredibly slow/weak AoE, and burning. The burning will probably do more damage than you will, and that can be done just as well with a normal fire ele.

Don't take it personally, but this is a bad build. I don't know if you were trying to be different, but if you were, make sure you're looking for a good build first and creativity second, not the other way around.

In reply to red, I've tested this a bit more but i added in armor of mist, switched up the atts a bit... Worked nicer... Another thing-- as far as weak sword attacks go, I'm not going solely for deep wound, it's the degen and buffed swats. Why not go for secondary necro or mes then you ask? because in most cases neither of the two can deal out high chunks of dmg AND degen, especially in regular intervals. (this is excluding of course the several cases such as foc/defile, which even then cannot maintain a steady flow of damage) Starburst is quick recharge spammable, and this build isn't sompletely energy reliant minus the fact that rodgorts is a 25 en cast ( /cough cough energy storage anyone?). Dual attunements will allow you to cast, but can you take out a good heal/prot kiting monk with semi targeted/projectile/area attacks? (pssh @ fireball and flameburst--try catching/killing a runner with either--sidestep anyone?) Try looking at the damage dished out by conjure+11 pts of sword mastery per swing, on a modded sword. Constant** burning and bleed/deep wound combined with regular usage of a conjured sword/starbursts is enough to take down a decent monk in the time it takes to react to whatever is threatening his/her party members. As far as your slow/weak aoe and burning is concerned, this build isnt meant to take out mobs- maybe i should've mentioned that but i find it kind of obvious when your running with a sword. As far as enchantment removal goes, try running a ench heavy build in international, and watch what the enemy monks run on their mesmer halves. The point of this build is to combine degen and chunked damage in order to pressure the opposing party--don't get it confused with aoe counterparts (hence the ex-premade E/A anet build) this isn't a nuking class. If you need <insert annoying fotm here> dead, try running this... Don't forget you aren't alone in AB, teammates can snare/dish out damage in other ways.... When you refer to slow/weak aoe, I doubt fully that a regular fire ele could take down a target as quickly as this with targeted/aoe spells, when the target isn't standing in some horrendous echo nuked wasteland due to the cocaine which he/she purchased earlier and promptly smoked. Ab's are very dynamic, and change rapidly, i suggest you try running this and going after a good monk during a match... The norm for a melee ele is to be expected as repulsive, but until you start actually seeing the numbers and recording the times, you can't really judge accurately for yourself how well a build will perform.

I'd like to say thank you for your opinions so far, and as for my guildie and mark of rodgort warriors ~ let's just leave it at "He's a bit off the edge." XD

I'll definitely give it a try and tell you what I think afterwards.

I make it a habit never to bash something (too much) if I haven't tried it. Unless it involves sex, because then.... well you get the point. :P

Livingston

your build has 14 att points left over you can throw into es. Your current setup costs 186 att points, Energy storage can go to 10.

I'm inclined to test this in the isle of the nameless (as reference, a warrior can take the dummies in under 50 seconds, so your build have to be faster than that to justify the 60AL), it looks like something as rare as a fire magic build that maight manage to do pressure damage (at least in AB, where people clump enough for starburst to work).
I didn't read much of your second post since you didn't use paragraphs.

Wouldn't burning speed be better than mark of rodgort? Mark is very expensive, and you could use that speedboost.

Use flurry instead of frenzy, you don't have a cancel stance and frenzy sounds very dangerous on a 60AL.

Why all those points in energy storage? You don't use ES spells, so put your points into sword and fire instead.

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Ok, here are the skills IMO

1. Conjure Flame (Why not, take advantage of it)
2. Fire Attunement (If Starburts has a recharge of more then 10 seconds, don't take this, swap it for Burning Speed)
3. Sever Artery (Must have for any PvP sword dude)
4. Gash (Must have if you got Sever)
5. Starburst (Big damage dealer, should be constantly used)
6. Flurry, or possibly frenzy if your packing some prot monks (Some extra speed, sounds nice)
7. Distracting Blow (Something for the casters, but very optional, should be swaped for a Self Heal)
8. Mark of Rodgort (Heavy on energy, can be easily removed, not worth it, Flame Burst or Inferno)

So the build doens't have a effective self heal, takes a lot of energy management skills, can get owned easily, but has a execellent offence.

Keep it up

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