Elementalist - S/F Fresh Air Roamer

• Weaver - Fresh Air Roamer - WvW Weaver elite spec version.

• Catalyst - Fresh Air Roamer - WvW Catalyst elite spec version.

• Elementalist - S/F Fresh Air- Conquest sPvP version of the same core build.

Skill Variants

Heal

• 幻光恢复 - better condition cleansing, but the long cast time makes it easy to interrupt. This could however allow you to run 超级空气法印 instead of 超级洁净法印 for more damage.

Elite

• 炽焰巨剑 - has a longer CD and no CC, but provides better mobility and AoE damage.

Second set: you may have noticed a Focus on the second set, this one's for the tryhards. While Elementalists can't swap weapons in combat, they can still stack Bloodlust on random PvE mobs before fights using the second set then switch back to the first set once they're ready to PvP. The Bloodlust stacks will remain active without the need to sacrifice a sigil slot on the PvP set. It's enough to put 1 weapon into the second set as they'll inherit the missing one from the main set. If you have no intention to stack Bloodlust before fights then you don't need the 2nd set! It's not mandatory.

Equipment Variants

Runes

• 超级破法者符文 - relatively cheap option with better survivability and slightly higher consistency thanks to the higher crit chance, but less burst potential than Scholar.

• 超级神枪手符文 - higher consistency, lower burst potential.

• 超级兽群符文 - good budget option.

Sigils

• 超级空气法印 over Cleansing - better damage if you can affor to give up some condition cleansing.

• Replacing Energy with Air (while keeping Cleansing) could also be considered when playing with 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲.

Consumables

Food

There are plenty of viable choices, including:

• 芫荽柠檬真空烹调肉排 - highest possible damage option, great stats plus armor ignoring damage/healing procs.

• 黑胡椒粉真空烹调肉排 - slightly more defensive version of the Cilantro Lime feast, offering damage reduction instead of the lifesteal procs.

• 碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤 - non-Ascended version of the above mentioned feasts with the same stats minus the damage reduction and the procs.

• - very similar to the Cilantro Lime feast except it offers Precision and not Ferocity.

• or - armor ignoring damage and a bit of extra healing on top of increased crit chance, a suitable budget option.

• - defensive option with more evasion and a bit of stacking.

  • Budget version:

Utility

• or , whichever is cheaper (note that the sharpening stone lasts twice as long).

General

• The build's all about swapping in and out of 空气协调 every few seconds, made possible by 清新气流 which recharges Air whenever you land a critical strike.

• Swapping to Air triggers 电力激发 which you should immediately follow up with a 闪电打击 for instant burst damage. Entering this attunement also grants you Ferocity from 清新气流 for a few seconds, which is why most of your heavy hitting skills should land in this small time frame. More on that later.

• Recharging Air: to recharge Air you need to score a critical hit. The fastest way to do it on attunements with slower skills is to start channeling the air autoattack 弧光闪电 just before leaving 空气协调. Swapping attunements doesn't break the channeling and Arc Lightning is almost guaranteed to critically hit at least once.

• This build can self-stack 威能 by blasting the fire field created by 烈焰之墙. Do not prioritize Might stacking, but do take advantage of the incidental opportunities which arise. Your blast finishers are:

• 巨龙之牙
• 浴火凤凰
• 寒冰彗星
• 磁力脉动

• 飓风形态 is mainly about 尘埃冲锋. This skill can be used to run away from fights, chase after enemies, set up burst with CC or deny damage through CC. It's not uncommon to only use Tornado for this skill alone before dropping out of the form.

• Try to aim 浴火凤凰 slightly behind your target whenever you can. This skill passes through targets while doing damage, explodes on the ground, then returns to you once again damaging targets it passes through. The goal here is to hit the target with all 3 parts of the skill, not just the explosion damage.

  • Because of the slow travel time it's best used in melee.

Notable burst combos

These are some of the most common burst combos used by FA players. The quicker you pull these chains off, the better.

If you're playing the default version of the build and not the Arcane variant then skip the s, everything else is the same.

From Fire:

2. ⇒ - both the transmute and Dragon's Tooth have a delay, your goal is to get into Air by the time these go off
3. - optional: right at your target before you finish casting Phoenix to cut down on the projectile's travel time.
4. - swap to this while casting Phoenix. Note: swapping out of fire triggers an explosion from , dealing considerable damage in melee (after a short delay). Swapping to Air while in melee range of the target therefore adds more damage to your combo.

Note: if Air isn't ready by the time you get to step 3, you need to recharge it somehow with a proc. This is greedy but you could sacrifice an instant utility skill like or and hope for a crit. That's the most seamless way because it doesn't risk messing up your timing, but a cast or two could also get the job done. With the Arcane variant this is much easier as you can just use an to recharge Air.

From Earth:

3. Optional: if you're in melee range of an enemy you may throw in a which can proc if it hits something.
4. + then swap to during the channeling to make all the projectiles land in the right attunement.
5. +
6. to avoid taking damage, but it's not required.

From Water:

2. - the trident does more damage to Chilled enemies which is important. Shatterstone should secure that but could also do it.
3. as soon as you start casting Water Trident. If you're quick enough with the sequencing it's possible to make the 2nd strike of Shatterstone go off in Air atunement for a bit of extra damage, but it's not a big deal if it doesn't.

Survival

• Swapping to Air is just as important for defense as it is for offense. Even when you're running away you should try to get some Fresh Air procs just so you can abuse blinds and superspeed.

• makes it easy to kite most specs via . Avoid melee range whenever possible! Don't stay in melee unless the target is blinded, CC'd or you're about to burst them.

• is great at avoiding crucial skills by blinding enemies, and it also shuts down Power-based specs in general with the Weakness. Being an instant cast skill this can also be used while CC'd. fills a similar purpose, so does although that one has a cast time.

• is a source of spammable which you can even place behind your back while running away. Chill is great at building distance and the damage could recharge Air.

• Needless to say other CCs can also be used for creating some breathing room or making sure that your burst won't be disrupted.

• and provide excellent protection against enemies who use projectiles. These however do not work against unblockable projectiles, and some ranged builds - such as this one - are mostly unaffected by projectile reflects and blocks.

• is the build's best condition cleanse which can also be used while stunned.

• offers protection against all kinds of pressure.

• Swapping to Fire procs a Fire Aura from and gaining an aura removes 1 condition via . In the 5th slot on Fire you'll find a skill which grants the same aura, but if you already have the aura it flips over to its chain skill . Smothering Auras removes 2 conditions when you transmute an aura.

• Do the following chain if you need to cleanse a lot of conditions quickly:

1. - cleanses 1 condition as you gain an aura.
2. - cleanses 2 conditions.
3. Use Focus #5 , removing yet another condition.
4. Transmute again for another 2 cleanses.
5. at your feet for another cleanse, if necessary. Swapping to Water and performing a dodge roll or swapping to Earth for Magnetic Wave could add even more cleansing to the chain.