Guild Wars 2

Just wondering if any had advice on builds and tips for playing an Ele in PvP (mostly sPvP atm)

For some reason I just cant quite nail down a srat as well as I could with my thief and Mesmer.

What weapon are you using? Dagger/Scepter?

Not sure, I have been testing them all out, cause like I said I cant find one that I am good at yet.

Currently I am trying out the staff with the +radius trait to kinda cover cap zones in AoE attacks

From what I can tell after a few days of doing pvp.. elementalists are just horrible.

if you use a sceptor, you don’t need to face your opponent, so you can kite, right? wrong! every class can do just as much, if not more damage than you, if they weapon switch to a ranged weapon.

so you need to use a staff, and stay as far away as possible, but if any melee class looks at you, you’re dead. you have to face them to attack with a staff, and kiting with a staff is hopeless

as long as every melee class can just weapon swap between melee and ranged, it’s hopeless. they have 3 times your life and every bit of your ranged damage

how do you kite a warrior with a bow? or a guardian with a sceptor? or a rogue with dual pistols? the answer is easy, you don’t.

I’ve enjoyed scepter/dagger for a while and dagger/dagger and it’s kinda working if u’re on the pushing side since u can easily catch up with ur opponents and slow them down for ur team to kill but otherwise they’re pretty much useless. Same goes for PvE. If u go close range vs an enemy that u can’t nuke in less than 10s u’re pretty much screwed becouse u get 5 shotted in pvp and 1 shotted in PvE. Defensive spells + staff works best for me bothwise.

I play dagger/dagger ele in sPvP and do fine, near the top in the rankings most games. So the class isn’t all that weak, its probably close to being the most complex though.

i dare u to go wvw