pve earth builds

E/A

1. Stone Daggers
2. Shockwave[E]
3. Crystal Wave/Teinai's Crystals
4. Obsidian Flame
5. Return(sin skill) / trade for armor enchant, auro of rest., or another ward
6. Ward of .....
7. Earth Attune
8. RezSig

Usage: Once someone else establishes aggro, move into melee distance of target group and use shockwave followed by crystal/teinai's then select a backline ally and use return. Once your out of melee range use obsidian and stone daggers. Drop wards as needed. Don't go nuts with obsidian and your energy should be fine.

At the moment, I'm running a dual-Earthquake build for PvE. It goes something like this -

E/Mo
16 Earth Magic (12 + 1 + 3)
13 Energy Storage (12 + 1)
3 Healing/Protection Prayers (depending on res)

--> Glyph of Energy (Elite)
--> Earthquake
--> Gyph of Lesser Energy
--> Dragon's Stomp
--> Optional Skill 1 - usually a defensive skill, Sliver Armour for melee heavy areas, Armour of Earth in others.
--> Optional Skill 2 - usually another defensive skill, seeing as Earth has so many good ones For the most part, a ward; Ward Against Melee is my favourite.
--> Optional Skill 3 - another ward or defensive skill, Aura of Restoration or (when Nightfall's out) Glyph of Restoration, hex or condition removal, or even Glyph of Sacrifice for insta-res.
--> Resurrection spell - Either Resurrection Chant or Rebirth, depending on were you are.

Of course, you can sub in more offensive spells if you wish, but I find that the 2 Earthquakes are enough.

Usage is simple, cast Glyph of Energy before every Earthquake, and Lesser Energy/Dragon's Stomp every 30 seconds to preserve energy and limit exhaustion. Use your chosen defensive skills when and where you need them. And, uh, wand or summat when you ain't castin' (assuming you ain't SS'd or Empathy'd). And for the love of all that is (un-)holy, DON'T Rebirth in the middle of battle. If there's a lull between Earthquakes, feel free to Ressurrection Chant, of course.

I have tried several Earth builds in PvE for quite a while, but my general experience is that they simply do not perform as well as builds based on Fire or Air. While I do admit this, I admit that I hate to admit this. When I made my ele, I really wanted to make him an earth based ele, but have generally settled on Fire for practical purposes in PvE. After playing a character of every profession through all of both Prophecies and Factions (well except for my 'sin that can never find a group and I generally don't like anyways), I have found that the best way for an ele to be able to do consistant reliable damage is to build as a fire ele. Admittedly an earth ele could build decently as a warder, but would still only provide limited use to the group.

The reason I see this attribute lacking is due to 2 reasons:
1) Greater reliance on enchantments compared to other professions make many builds useless in areas with enchant stripping. The best way to work past this is to cover your enchants with Aura of Restoration.

2) Most AoE spells are DoT AoEs that cause enemies to scatter and can thus often cause more problems than they fix. While the AoE scatter effect can be used to help your team at times, the DoT AoEs in the earth line are in general not the best way to use this to your advantage.

If you want to use Earth in PvE, I would suggest you do it only for fun or with henchies in environments that are forgiving enough to allow you to run such a build.

I used these builds quite alot

1. Obsidian Flesh (Elite)
2. Armor Of Earth
3. Earth Attunement
4. Aura Of Restoration
5. Ash Blast
6. Stoning
7. Obsidian Flame
8. Resurrection Signet

16 on earth magic
13 on energy storage

i used this build in alliance battle and could easily kill the npc's and won most 1on1 fights with it. Just keep earth attunement and aura of restoration up all the time and when enemy's attack u or when u gonna attack npc's put obsidian flesh and armor of earth on and spam ash blast, stoning and obsidian flame on them.