Guild Wars 2

Hi guys , recently i just reached 80 in my elementalist , and im going in the pvp route , thats my favorite thing to do , but the thing is i am not very good at it yet , and my doubt is should i swap elements mid fight or stick with only one?

Sorry for my poor english skills!

If you’re NOT swapping attunements, then you’re NOT taking advantage of all your skills when you need them. Putting YOU, into a disadvantage in ANY content. Not just PvP.

Here are 2 short video examples of how and why it’s important to swap attunements.

Staff Combat

Dagger Combat

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Good luck! =)

In solo fights or small group fights you need to constantly swap atunements to keep your Fury buff up, which you obtain on atuning. However in PvE and WvW this might not be such a problem due to Warriors using FGJ.

Also, you should swap as often as possible to master skill chaining.

As the other two posters say, if you’re an ele and you’re not switching elements, you’re probably not reaching your full potential. While you don’t have to go fully-traited into Arcane and swap relentlessly through all four elements, chances are that if you stick to one element, you’re going to have some downtime as skills 2-5 recharge. You can always spam 1, and sometimes that’s what you want to do, but swapping elements will give you a much greater range of status conditions, healing, control effects, combo fields, and combo finishers, all with their own cooldowns.

Not swapping attunements is a bit like being another class and never swapping weapons. You don’t need to swap just because you can, but swapping opens up a lot of options that you can pick from for any given situation.

Side Note: I remember early in the game’s life that I would see more eles, myself included, who thought of themselves as being mostly “a fire ele,” or a “water ele.” It’s a natural way to think as long as you’re focusing traits in one or two elements, especially if you’re coming from other games. (Guild Wars 1 included.)