Guild Wars 2

Really am liking this game. But this whole scale lvl down thing is really killing me, literally. Or at least I think it is. I have a human elementalist lvl 16 and I have on the best armor I can have right now. So im trying to figure out what is it that’s making me so fragile.

Well you are playing elementalist, they have the lowest HP pool and the lowest armor class. Downscaling shouldn’t affect you at all right now.
Playing Ele might be frustrating for the first levels but once you got the hang of it (i.e attunment swapping, dodging, different weapon sets) you’ll have a lot of fun.

You have to think that every zone you go will always be a challenge, and being lv80 will not make you a god against the mobs because you will be their level anyway. So In any case you need to fight and play with purpouse.

kokiman.2364:

Well you are playing elementalist, they have the lowest HP pool and the lowest armor class. Downscaling shouldn’t affect you at all right now.
Playing Ele might be frustrating for the first levels but once you got the hang of it (i.e attunment swapping, dodging, different weapon sets) you’ll have a lot of fun.

Ohh ok! Thanks I did not know that. I am currently playing with 2xdaggers! So I guess I need to really make the traits play in my favor.

Syrpharon.7491:

You have to think that every zone you go will always be a challenge, and being lv80 will not make you a god against the mobs because you will be their level anyway. So In any case you need to fight and play with purpouse.

Oh…Ok! Huh? I play for fun?!

Cathellos.4835:

kokiman.2364:

Well you are playing elementalist, they have the lowest HP pool and the lowest armor class. Downscaling shouldn’t affect you at all right now.
Playing Ele might be frustrating for the first levels but once you got the hang of it (i.e attunment swapping, dodging, different weapon sets) you’ll have a lot of fun.

Ohh ok! Thanks I did not know that. I am currently playing with 2xdaggers! So I guess I need to really make the traits play in my favor.

AND try out different weapon sets, scepter/dagger for example gives you an extra heal, a knockdown a huge AoE attack with bleed, a fire field, … Every set gives you other opportunities.

Double dagger elementalist is fun to play. It does require lots of dodging and an active playstyle.

Yeah. Im trying to learn and use different things BUT I only like the 2xdaggers. Trying the dagger and focus now.

Cathellos.4835:

Yeah. Im trying to learn and use different things BUT I only like the 2xdaggers. Trying the dagger and focus now.

I had the most fun with scepter/dagger. It teaches you dodging, attunment swapping (especially when you get some traits that have effects on attunment swap ) and combofields

kokiman.2364:

Cathellos.4835:

Yeah. Im trying to learn and use different things BUT I only like the 2xdaggers. Trying the dagger and focus now.

I had the most fun with scepter/dagger. It teaches you dodging, attunment swapping (especially when you get some traits that have effects on attunment swap ) and combofields

Oh so those 2 can be equipped at the same time. kitten! Gotta seriously try that!

LMAO! It changed my word!

Ele is all about attunement swapping. Each one has relatively long cooldowns which severely restrict your DPS if you sit and wait them out.

Try starting in Air, hit with everything you have then swap to fire. After that it’s probably a good idea to go to water because that’s where all your heals come from. Earth tends not to be so useful so you might skip that and go back to air.
That’s just a general rotation that you can adapt during the fight. (Air is also a good ‘travelling’ mode)

Here’s a guide I found useful:-
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Guide-Mastering-the-D-D-ele-7-15-13/first

Elementalist defenses are all active. Dodges, [Arcane Shield], [Obsidian Skin], [Swirling Winds] etc. If you do not time them properly you will inevitably die over and over again, it’s part of how the class plays. In time you’ll get better at not dying.

Contiguous.1345:

Ele is all about attunement swapping. Each one has relatively long cooldowns which severely restrict your DPS if you sit and wait them out.

Try starting in Air, hit with everything you have then swap to fire. After that it’s probably a good idea to go to water because that’s where all your heals come from. Earth tends not to be so useful so you might skip that and go back to air.
That’s just a general rotation that you can adapt during the fight. (Air is also a good ‘travelling’ mode)

Here’s a guide I found useful:-
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Guide-Mastering-the-D-D-ele-7-15-13/first

It doesn’t hurt to jump into earth for the blind on scepter, or earth #2 blast finisher on staff. Though I suspect you’re talking strictly about dual dagger there.

rhapsody.3615:

Contiguous.1345:

Ele is all about attunement swapping. Each one has relatively long cooldowns which severely restrict your DPS if you sit and wait them out.

Try starting in Air, hit with everything you have then swap to fire. After that it’s probably a good idea to go to water because that’s where all your heals come from. Earth tends not to be so useful so you might skip that and go back to air.
That’s just a general rotation that you can adapt during the fight. (Air is also a good ‘travelling’ mode)

Here’s a guide I found useful:-
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Guide-Mastering-the-D-D-ele-7-15-13/first

It doesn’t hurt to jump into earth for the blind on scepter, or earth #2 blast finisher on staff. Though I suspect you’re talking strictly about dual dagger there.

In both cases I would start with earth, skill #2 on scepter is pretty handy for the complete fight and in the middle of the fight I find it annoying to cast it because of the casttime, skill #2 on staff + skill #5 in earth can be a nice setup for a firefield explosion.

Op mentioned dual dagger so my remarks were specific to that ofc.