Build:E/any Lightning Blinder

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Contents 1 Attributes and Skills 2 Equipment 3 Usage 4 Counters 5 Variants

This build uses Blinding Surge as a staple ability to spam cheap non-projectile air magic spells and keep opponents constantly blinded. It is designed for the Random Arenas, with simple variants for Competitive Missions and Alliance Battles.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Elementalist / Any	Attribute Rank
Air Magic	12 + 1 + 3
Energy Storage	12 + 1

Blinding Surge

Lightning Strike

Arc Lightning

Lightning Orb

Gale

Glyph of Restoration

Air Attunement

Resurrection Signet

[edit] Equipment

A wand and offhand with 20/20 HCT/HSR are strongly recommended. No special armor is needed.

[edit] Usage

Cast Air Attunement before entering combat. Pick a target, spam Blinding Surge, Lightning Strike, and Arc Lightning as they become available. Use Lightning Orb on unsuspecting targets or as a finisher. Use Gale to interrupt or prevent key actions such as self-heals and knock down fleeing foes. Use Glyph of Restoration to recover health. Ps: Blind the Assassins

[edit] Counters

• Any anti-spam abilities such as Diversion or Distracting Shot.
• Removing Air Attunement can cause energy problems in protracted fights.
• Protection from casters is relatively light, so high-damage caster builds and degen can often overwhelm the light healing provided by Glyph of Restoration.
• Protection spells such as Protective Spirit and Spirit Bond can severely reduce the amount of damage dealt by this build.
• Dazed combined with any non-blinded attacker will completely shut this down.
• Anti- spell caster hexes such as Backfire, Soul Leech, Spiteful Spirit, Migraine, and Arcane Conundrum.
• Avatar of Melandru will prevent the blindness effect entirely.

[edit] Variants

• If playing Luxons on Fort Aspenwood, pick Necromancer as your secondary and replace Resurrection Signet with Gaze of Contempt or drop one point in Energy Storage for 5 Death Magic to get Well of the Profane.
• For Alliance Battles, Jade Quarry, or Kurzicks on Fort Aspenwood, replace Resurrection Signet with Windborne Speed.
• Lightning Orb can be replaced with Glyph of Elemental Power for more reliable damage frontloading, but less spiking power.
• Glyph of Restoration can be replaced with Aura of Restoration to cover Air Attunement, while providing heal-over-time.
• Glyph of Lesser Energy can be used over Gale to help with energy management.
• Some skills that can replace Arc Lightning are Enervating Charge, and Lightning Bolt. Also Chain Lightning is good but it causes Exhaustion.