Guild Wars 2

Hey guys! I’m starting to get back into MMO’s and GW2 specifically. Have a lot of crazy stuff going on that prevented me from gaming.
I currently have a 67 elementalist that has been specialized for D/D.
I’ve been told that build isn’t as viable as it used to be. I’m curious what you guys would suggest for a 67 ele?

Also, I’m looking into simply starting over since I always find it difficult to enjoy a game when I start playing after an absence with a character heavily leveled and I just feel lost.

Any suggestions with any good class and weapon combos now?

Also final question, I’ve bee looking into the patch updates, but can anyone give me a run down for the last important updates this past year since 2013 or send me to a link with them!

Thanks again,
Johnleigh

Welcome back
D/D isn’t as viable as it used to be. It’s not impossible to play one, it’s still as fun and a lot of people still do but again it’s not AS strong as it used to be.

As far as build for you to play, it depends on what your intention is. Do you want something that you can just level with? Something to pvp or wvw with?
Also it wouldn’t hurt looking into the Elementalist subforums a bit lower for guides/tricks to playing the ele. You will find lots of helpful info there.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/ will pretty much highlight any major update/content release since they started living world.

D/D ele works ok for me in PvE, although my kills are a bit slower since I went with survivable armour. As to other classes, if the ele is your only character, use some of the slots and just play with the classes, maybe do a couple of the 1-15 zones, that should give yo an idea as to the way it plays and let you know if it is worth the time to level it far enough to unlock all the available builds.

depends, D/D is fine for lvling. I used it for my earlier lvls coz it has good burst, but in the later lvls since I was running around alot for map completion I switched to staff for the perma swiftness and better heals. For wvw D/D is totally viable, but if you are thinking pve then not so much. For dungeons, I use mainly as stacking weps since its AA is so good, but it doesn’t have much survivability. I still use it sometimes on boss fights when my other skills all on cd, and I don’t notice any difference. The thing with dungeons though is you aren’t going to really use your wep set that much (at least for dps), you will be using conjured weps like 80% of the time so its usually better to have another set like scepter or a staff instead.

D/D is still good for PvP content.

For PvE use S/F or S/D.

D/D is in a bad spot in PvP right now thats about it. Dungeon meta for ele is s/f.

I use all the weapons sets on ele at different times depending on what I need. \o/

To level d/d or staff should be fine.