Need some recommendations on Earth builds

Earth is not Bleh!! Not at all

I run:

[skill]stone daggers[/skill][skill]earth attunement[/skill][skill]eruption[/skill][skill]obsidian flame[/skill][skill]sandstorm[/skill][skill]armor of earth[/skill]OPTIONAL SLOT[skill]mystic regeneration[/skill]

Bare in mind that the armor of earth icon is messed up.

With this build you can manage energy, heal yourself, protect yourself, spike foes, blind melee attacks and do big nukes. Basically the jobs of all elements rolled into one. To be honest, I find the nuke layering and damage of fire, overkill. I'd much rather have blind and save my team from a whole group of warriors. The fact that obsidian flame is armor ignoring makes it perfect for bringing down bosses/armored chars.

The only thing I'd really change is stone daggers, it does do more damage than a regular staff attack but sometimes there is a more specific skill that's useful. Say, in an area with a lot of high health mobs (like Jotun) then magnetic surge is wonderful.

Your optional slot should change with the area. If your doing a place with elemental damage then bring ward of elements, ward of melee for places with lots of melee combat obviously. Ward of stability is less useful, but is very handy in Darkrime Delves :P . Intensity is also quite a nice option there, because although it's been nerfed it's not that bad at all. It's pretty much always recharged for the start of each fight and active for the 10 seconds your sandstorm lasts, so there's no problem.

I've run this build for about a year and a half with minor changes and it's not failed me yet

Or you could go Fire doing big nukes, while splashing to Earth for Eruption.

There, you got your damage, and you have the blind you want.

By the way, what's with the tank mentality? You aren't frontline, and you got monks.

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Hm... Eruption and Obsidian Flame I can see myself using for sure... BTW, how long do mobs usually stand in the Sandstorm in normal mode and hard mode?

In NM they'll stand for almost the entirety of the duration, in HM they immediately scatter, which is one of the biggest problems with earth nukes (besides damage and recharge).

lol
I have been having problems using earth in pve I would rather use it in pvp where people are many times stupid enough to stand in a sandstorm and die

I have been using this on my ele for a while:

[skill]Sandstorm[/skill][skill]churning earth[/skill][skill]glyph of swiftness[/skill][skill]dragon's stomp[/skill][skill]glyph of lesser energy[/skill][skill]ward against foes[/skill][skill]earth attunement[/skill][skill]resurrection signet[/skill]

[skill]Earth Attunement[/skill][skill]Aura of Restoration[/skill][skill]Sandstorm[/skill][skill]Ebon Hawk[/skill][skill]Stoning[/skill][skill]Eruption[/skill][skill]Ward Against Melee[/skill][skill]Resurrection Chant[/skill]

Ebon Hawk + Stoning = knockdown every 5 seconds. Ward can be changed depending on what you face, but I tend to always use a defense skill of some form.

well, for earth eles, i tend to run more "support/effects"
for my sousuke, i use him as an aoe/supporter to my own ele (echo sh nuker)

he runs unsteady grounds, eruption and churning earth...
only major flaw is that its all aoe, but with the secondary effects to each of those, most enemies end up blind, kd and burning while under alot of fire.

but thats how i tend to see earth eles, more as supporting heavy damage dealers or tanker.

ward eles work best for me after messing with the element some more

unsteady ground is way better then sandstorm imo

My favorite eath build to run around with is :

Earth att.
Mystic regen
Armor of Earth
Flame Djinns hase
After shock
Shockwave
Obsidian Flame
Eruption

and take a melee weapon

This is my Earth Elementalist Build for General PvE with heros and Hench. I also use it in Alliance Battle (AB)
I replace Death Pack with Rush (for running around in Alliance Battle, sometime its replace with Eruption.


please ignore the water attribute at 4, lol its there because i have an extra +1 water rune.




How to use it:

Cast Aura of Restauration, and Earth Attunement, namely 6 and 7 before you go into a battle and keep it up as often as possible.
Death Pack is my preference as a res for heros, I usually have a Cap sig in that spot, as my 3 heros has the death pack, so i rarely have to use it. but its up to you.

Cast Unsteady Ground and if possible follow by ash blast, namely 1 and 2, to blind your opponent, if they are still standing, use 3 and 4, then 5

You have to Cast Ebon Hawk follow by Glowstone for the 10 Energy, the tricky part is you have to do this to warrior that are charging at you, because of Ebon Hawk requirement of only causing weakness if the foe is attacking or moving. but what foe isn't attacking, ey.

its pretty much very fun to use once you get use to it.

You can replace Unsteady Ground with Shockwave too if you like, but that means you got to charge into the mod (in pve) which I do very often. and kills mob really fast too. (only for the bold, don't charge into mob if you are playing with other players, because human monk wont heal an ele who tank, my guess only)

Hope you have a lot of fun with it as I have.

This is another build I am testing with Ebon Dust Aura, attack cause blindness while wielding an Earth Weapon.



what do you think, please discuss.

Have to keep Ebon Dust Aura, Aura of Restoration and Earth Attunement up always. (for the blindness, health and energy management)
spam stone daggers for 33x2 damage
knock down with churning earth follow with ash blast
Ebon hawk follow with glowstone for the energy.

and off course you need the Ebon Weapons.

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