The dagger/dagger weapon set offers great CC and survivability as well as good damage and mobility. The main weakness of this weapon set is range and obvious skill animations which make is easier for your opponent to predict and counter what you're doing. Below is an overview of each attunement and skill.

FIRE

Fire is the attunement you will be doing most of your damage in. When swapping to fire attunement all allies within 360 range including yourself will receive 1 stack of might that lasts for 20 seconds.

Dragon's Claw: Generally you won't want to be spamming this attack but it's very good for finishing off a target when you're in close proximity.

Drake's Breath: This is a great skill against classes that have very little condi clear like shatter mesmers. It does a pretty good amount of DPS as well and can be useful for downed body cleave. It's also useful for putting burn on an opponent so you can maximize the damage of fire grab.

Burning Speed: This is one of your main damage dealers. Try to make sure you hit your opponenet(s) at the end of the of the travel distance so you hit them with the explosion. You can also use burning speed for mobility as it does have a pretty low cooldown.

Ring of Fire: This skill does pretty good damage both in the initial explosion and through burning damage. You opponents get 5 seconds of burning when they walk through the ring so try to place it where you can kite them through it. It's also a fire combo field so try to use your blast finishers in it to stack might.

Fire Grab: This skill has very high burst damage. It hits multiple foes but has a pretty small area of effect. It does considerably more damage to opponents who are burning so do your best to use it on burning foes. This skill is notoriously unreliable to use when your opponent is on a different z axis than you. Try not to use it on stairs and hills. You can however activate the skill and jump so you are on an equal plane with your opponent. This is usually the only way to hit someone on a different elevation.

WATER

Water is a mostly defensive attunement. Most of your heals come from water. When switching to your water attunement all allies within 240 range including yourself will get 6 seconds of regeneration as well as the buff "soothing mist" which will heal for 90 hp a second which in this build will remain for around 14 seconds after you switch to another attunement. Also with the water traits in this build you will remove 2 conditions every time you attune to water.

Vapor Blade: This is one of your longest range attacks but it moves very slow. It will hit any target it connects with both on the way out of your hands and when traveling back to you. It can put a decent amount of vulnerability on but it's generally not an efficient way to do damage. It's main use is to stack a bit of vulnerability while waiting for you other damage cooldowns to be reset and then burst with your fire skills before the vulnerability wears off.

Cone of Cold: This is a useful skill both for doing damage and healing yourself. Don't forget to use this as a heal when needed.

Frozen Burst: Pretty self explanatory. Generally you want to use this whenever you go into water but try to time it so your opponent can't clear the chill right away.

Frost Aura: This is an extremely useful skill for many reasons. With the trait "Zephyr's Boon" you get fury and swiftness for 6 seconds. It can be used offensively to give yourself fury and defensively to put chill on your opponent (2 seconds every time they hit you with a cooldown of 1 second per attacker). It's also very useful for mitigating burst as is does reduce incoming damage by 10%. If you are about to get bursted, activating this skill and switching to earth to get protection will give you 43% damage mitigation.

Cleansing Wave: This is one of your main sources of healing. It's an AOE heal so you'll want to use it for peels in team fights. It also cures a condition so it can be very useful to break an immobilize if your cantrips are on cooldown. Generally this is most useful against shatter mesmers when they immobilize you with their sword 3 but it's also good vs longbow/greatsword warriors to break the longbow 5 immobilize.

AIR

The air attunement is very versatile. It has most of your mobility, some CC, some damage and even some defensive abilities. When swapping to air attunement all allies within 360 range including yourself will receive 6 seconds of swiftness.

Lightning Whip: This is a great skill for putting pressure on your foe. It has a pretty large area of effect and does good damage. This skill is very useful for putting pressure on bunkers before you try to burst them down and it can do a lot of DPS vs squishies like backstab thieves and shatter mesmers.

Lightning Touch: This skill has a pretty long cast time for what it does but weakness is very good and can mitigate a lot of damage. This is great to use in team fights or if your 1v1 against a d/p thief and they go stealth to prepare a backstab. I wouldn't recommend using this skill too often mainly because of the high cast time and minimal area of effect.

Shocking Aura: As dagger/dagger ele it is vital for you to know exactly when to use this skill. It's very useful for interrupting combos by other classes such as a dagger/dagger eles burning speed combo or a warriors 100 blades combo. It only effects targets that are in melee range however. It's also important to use this skill to peel for allies when they are getting trained by activating this skill and running in between your ally and the person attacking him. You can also use this skill to give yourself fury if you need to burst a target down. Another use is to give yourself swiftness to get to a point of contention.

Ride The Lightning: Generally this skill should be used for mobility and to disengage from fights but sometimes it's a good idea to use it to burst down an opponent. A nice little trick is while sitting on point in clock tower on the Battle of Kyhlo you can jump and Ride The Lightning through a side window towards one of the side nodes. This is a great way to quickly get to a side point from mid.

Updraft: This is your most useful CC skill. It hits multiple opponents and is great for both setting up a fire combo and for disabling opponents trying to resurrect a teammate. Try to maximize the use of this skill by hitting more than 1 opponent in a team fight, interrupting and important ability (Signet of Undeath, Illusion of Life, Heal), land critical damage or to secure a ressurection or a stomp.

EARTH

Earth attunement has a little bit of everything. It has cc, damage and some defensive capability. When attuning to earth all allies within 240 range including yourself will receive protection for 6 seconds. It's very important to get in the habit of switching to earth when your about to get bursted so you can proc protection to mitigate the damage.

Impale: This skill is generally not effective at dealing damage unless your opponent is on a ledge above you and your just about to finish him off. Most earth skills will hit opponents who are on a higher elevation unlike skills from other attunements.

Ring of Earth: This skill does decent damage and applies a 3 second cripple so it can be very useful for training opponents and keeping them locked within melee range.

Magnetic Grasp: This is an extremely useful CC ability. Its great for closing distances on fleeing foes as well as locking down kiters. When your trying to cap/decap a point an your opponent is just about to get on point use this skill to immobilize them so you can get the cap/decap. Conversely, if your defending a point a someone is trying to backcap you can use this to either immobilize them (if they haven't got to the point yet) and then Magnetic Leap to the point for mobility. Also, Magnetic Leap is a leap finisher so you can create a fire aura on yourself when you leap through a fire field such as Ring of Fire. This is great because when you apply an aura on yourself you will get fury and swiftness for 7 seconds because of the trait Zephyr's Boon.

Earthquake: This is a great cc ability for locking opponents down so you and your allies can train them as well as interrupting resurrections. It's also a blast finisher so it's great to stack might after you have done your fire combo. Try to maximize the use of this skill by hitting more than 1 opponent in a team fight, interrupting and important ability (Signet of Undeath, Illusion of Life, Heal), land critical damage or to secure a ressurection or stomp.

Churning Earth: This is a very high burst skill that also applies a decent amount of condition damage. This skill provides a huge chunk of damage in this build so it's important to use it effectively. One of the best uses for it is to punish opponents trying to resurrect.

UTILITIES

Signet of Restoration: Generally you will want to keep this skill off cooldown unless it's going to make a difference of you surviving or not. If you are engaging in a large team fight it's very smart to tank as much damage as you can so your squishies can do the damage they need. If it's a 5v5 team fight you'll usually want to use this heal near the end of the fight so as to maximize your effective HP and tank as much damage as possible. Usually if it's a 5v5 the skill will be off cooldown before the next engagement so it does no harm to active the signet near the end of a large engagement. Also, since you heal whenever you use a skill (as long as the signet is off cooldown) it's a good habit to continue auto attacking whenever possible (unless you have confusion on you). For instance, if you need to step away from a fight for a few seconds for some heals to come off cooldown, keep auto attacking to get some extra heals. Very few players do this but it does make a difference.

Lightning Flash: This is one of the most important skills in this build. It has a tremendous amount of synergy with other skills. It's great for mobility, disengaging from fights, avoiding burst combos as well as setting up your own combos. You can use it to extend the range of many of your skills without interrupting the channel or cast. Some useful applications of this are in the Basic Gameplay section of this guide where the rotations are listed.



Mist Form: This is a vital skill for survival as well as utility. It can help you avoid massive amounts of damage from high burst classes. Keep in mind however, if you use mist form while on a point you technically have no presence on the point so even if you are on the point while in mist form it can get decapped/capped if you have no other allies on the point. There a couple tricks with mist form that greatly add to it's utility. You can stomp and resurrect allies while in mist form so you cannot be damaged or cc'd. Just make sure you start the stomp or resurrection before mist form. Also, Mist form will allow you to pass barriers put up by guardians such as Line of Warding or Ring of Warding. It will also let you get out of Entangling Roots.

Cleansing Fire: This is a pretty good skill when fighting condition comps but not very good against all power comps. Sometimes it is worth swapping this skill out for either Armor of Earth or Arcane Wave. It is very rare to see a 100% power comp that has no condition pressure but it's something to keep in mind. Also, something that is often overlooked is the fact that this skill applies 3 seconds of AOE burning. This can be very useful for getting the maximize damage out of Fire Grab. There are some interesting combos provided in the combo section of this guide that use this skill offensively.

Glyph of Elementals: To be honest, Elementalists have some of the worst elites for pvp. This skill is not very useful for anything but small skirmishes as the pet dies too quickly in team fights. Also the skills they use activate very infrequent and unreliably. It can be a great help in 1v1's though so that's why it's the preferred choice. The fire elemental is usually the best one to use mainly because of its damage. It has a range auto attack and a melee AOE attack that do pretty good damage. I use this in most fights unless I'm trying to hold a point in an outnumbered fight in which case I'll use the water elemental which does an AOE 6k heal and it will also apply an AOE chill similar to the skill Frozen Burst. The earth elemental will apply 3 seconds of protection that is AOE while the air elemental will stun foes for 1 second and give AOE swiftness. Tornado is also another good option for this build and in some cases better. If you know you will need to 1v1 a class that doesn't run stability and either defend or neutralize a node this is probably a better option. Also if your team needs a stronger team fight I would consider either Tornado or Conjure Fiery Greatsword depending on the comp your team and the opposing team is running.