Help choosing a cloth class
Ele you can roll switch quickly to adapt to the situation the easiest .
I have a 80 D/D Ele and a 60 Scepter/focus/GS Mezmer both specced for DD not condition damage. Granted they are geared a bit different my ele is Berserker geared (pow, pricision, crit) and my Mezmer is Valkyre (Pow, precision, vitality). While my Mezmer has a number of good AOE options (mainly with GS) it doesn’t hold a candle to the dps output and AOE of my Ele. On the flip side, my Ele cannot last nearly as long as my mezmer.
They both obviously play much differently, my Mezmer during a fight my goal is generally to get up three phantasms as soon as possible and pull as many as I can while maintaining the three phantasms and grouping up as many as I can to AOE them down with GS. Whereas my Ele pulls smaller groups but burns them down twice as fast. Larger groups require more attunement swapping and far more footwork to stay alive.
Obviously a lot changes when you use different weapon combos and gear.