Playstyle Overview
Elarion is a ranged DPS who utilizes powerful Volleys and barrages to deal massive damage. He revolves around a builder / spender rotation with Focus as his resource. Focus is displayed as a bar below your character and you’ll use this to cast his array of abilities.
Depending on what build you’re running, your priority changes. Your goal is essentially to aim to get everything on cooldown.
Rotation
Here’s what your rotational priority should look like early on while we are using a Highwind Arrow build.
Single Target:
- Skystrider's Grace
- Event Horizon
- Lunarlight Mark
- Starfall Volley
- Highwind Arrow
- Celestial Shot
- Heartseeker Barrage
- Empowered Multishot
- Focused Shot
AoE:
- Skystrider's Grace
- Event Horizon
- Lunarlight Mark
- Starfall Volley
- Empowered Multishot
- Highwind Arrow
- Multishot
- Celestial Shot
- Heartseeker Barrage
- Focused Shot
This priority changes slightly later on once we have swapped to a Barrage focused build and away from the Highwind Arrow talents. Simply swap Highwind Arrow and Heartseeker Barrage around and that’s that.
Ultimate Ability
Elarion’s Ultimate: Event Horizon essentially allows us to Starfall Volley more often. It makes it so Highwind Arrow reduces the cooldown of Heartseeker Barrage, and every hit from barrage reduces the cd of Starfall Volley. On top of that you 30% haste, CDR equal to your haste, and all your focus costs reduced by 50% for the duration. It’s more powerful on AoE than it is single target and you’ll want to avoid missing uses of this throughout the course of a dungeon.
Utility
Outside of his damaging abilities, Elarion has Ranger’s Resilience as his personal CD, and Grappling Arrow which is a large AoE mass grip within a targeted area. It also reduces enemies movement speed by 65% for 8 seconds. It’s extremely useful for grouping stubborn mobs or simply AoE interrupting casting mobs.