Guild Wars 2

Hi forumers,
Ive been going back and forth between these classes since I started the game. Before the April 15th patch, I mained thief because ele was trash tier. After April 15th, I dont know what class to play anymore. Im primarily a pvp player, I dont do pve. But recently I transferred to Maguuma because I want to do wvw. Im also getting more interested in fractals. What class overall is better for pvp, wvw, and pve. I find thief more fun in pvp, but in pve thief is HORRIBLY BORING. Ele is fun in all game modes, but in pvp its a bit lacking compared to thief IMO. Please dont say “play both”. I dont have the patience to get 2 classes to level 80.

Go elementalist

Have both at 80 I would say Ele. Thief is fun but I feel I offer more to the group as an ele and pvp/www is more rewarding as an ele in my opinion.

Ele is the only class I’ve tried and liked (though I do plan to give thief another try), so I’m pretty biased. But eles are really good for wvw (staff water fields are arguably the keystone to organized wvw groups) and dungeons/fractals. They are often a bit squishier than players are used to, but as a thief I think you should be fine.

It depends. On PvE for most of the faceroll earlier dungeons, if you want to play a ‘metabuild’, eles are mostly extremely boring to play because you either just autoattack with a hammer 90% of the time (scepter) or only use one element and cycle through 3 attacks (staff). Think magical warrior GS camping, but with even less skills to use.

In FotM, harder content, or if you want to screw the metabuild, it gets a lot more interesting as you get a lot more use out of dagger/focus, one of the more interesting setups in the time where you cycle through all your elements and use everything based on what you and your team mates need.