ELEMENTALIST PVE DPS BUILD

• Traveling Knife - Frost, Assassin's Misery, Brutality and Sorcery
• Ulfsild's Contingency - Frost, Lingering Torment, Brutality and Sorcery

• Molten Whip - a strong spammable that will deal more damage after using other Ardent Flame skills (in this skill setup it's going to be Burning Embers, Flames of Oblivion, Engulfing Flames and Standard of Might) and will also grant you 300 Weapon and Spell Damage
• Burning Embers - a single target DoT which heals you for 100% of the damage it causes
• Hurricane - a skill that deals a lot of damage per cast and triggers the Expert Mage passive, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 108
• Traveling Knife - a skill that increases enemies' chance to get affected by Status Effects by 100% which is a decent DPS boost for you and your entire group. It will also grant you Major Brutality and Sorcery, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 20%.
• Barbed Trap - a DoT that will also apply Hemorrhage status effect at the start and grant you Minor Force buff, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. It will also trigger the Slayer passive
• Power Overload - an ultimate we won't be using most of the time, but we'll keep slotted on frontbar for the passive 108 Weapon and Spell Damage from Expert Mage passive. When starting a fight with a lot of Ultimate stored up you can use Power Overload light attacks until you're at 250 Ultimate and only then cast Standard of Might
• Flames of Oblivion - an ability that deals lots of damage per cast and passively grants you crucial Major Savagery buff, which increases your Critical Chance by 12%. It will also empower your Molten Whip
• Arctic Blast - an ability with a higher chance to proc the Chilled status effect, which deals increased damage thanks to the Glacial Presence passive
• Engulfing Flames - an AoE DoT that will empower your Molten Whip and increase enemies' Flame damage taken by 6%
• Stampede - a gap closer which leaves a ground DoT under your target which will constantly proc your Weapon Damage enchantment and increase your Direct Damage done thanks to Merciless Charge set
• Winter's Revenge - a ground DoT that deals massive damage when you count in the Chilled procs, triggered thanks to this skill's increased innate chance to proc status effects
• Standard of Might - an extremely strong ultimate that will deal AoE damage, increase all of your damage done and decrease your damage taken. Try to stack up your DoTs before using it

Burning Embers is the first skill that has to go when you need to slot something situational, unless the situational skill specifically says that it's replacing something else, or unless you need the heal from Burning Embers. Winter’s Revenge is the second skill that has to go

• Elemental Susceptibility - use it as your source of Major Breach whenever you're assigned to mechanics that separate you from your group, like for example portal in the Nahviintaas fight, Reef Hearts in the Reef Guardian fight, bridge in the Taleria fight, etc.
• Resolving Vigor - a more reliable self heal for fights where you can't heal with Burning Embers (because enemies become periodically immune) or with Arctic Blast (because you're constantly surrounded by enemies)
• Critical Surge - a very strong self-heal which is also a source of Major Brutality and Sorcery
• Proximity Detonation - extremely good ability for trash packs, you can pre-cast it as you're running into them
• Ulfsild's Contingency - decent AoE spammable which will deal high damage thanks to the Piercing Cold passive
• Northern Storm - an Ultimate you should use in trash packs. It's weaker than Standard of Might when you can utilize its full duration but this will almost never happen in trash packs which usually die way faster
• Whirling Blades - a Stamina-costing AoE spammable which also executes low Health enemies. Very useful because this build struggles with Magicka sustain, especially in trash packs

Priority List

I don't use a static rotation so this is just a list of priorities. Simply recast abilities when they run out and follow this list of priorities when there are multiple things to refresh

• If you're starting the fight with a lot of Ultimate stored up, activate Power Overload and use it to empower your Light Attacks until you're at 250 Ultimate, at which point you should use Standard of Might
• Use Traveling Knife. You can refresh it a bit early because letting Major Brutality buff drop is really bad
• Use Barbed Trap
• Use Stampede
• Use Arctic Blast
• Use Winter’s Revenge
• Use Molten Whip if it's at 3 stacks
• Use Flames of Oblivion
• Use Engulfing Flames
• Use Burning Embers
• Use Standard of Might
• Use Molten Whip

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Arctic Blast
• Flames of Oblivion