Am I The Only One? [Class Difficulty]
Ele is so easy to play at higher levels, it will make you lazy.
At high levels of play how to do you consistently beat Necro’s, Thieves and DPS Guardians? Especially Necros?
Only necro could be a problem 1v1 (it’s not very one sided either) but there’s tonnes of ways your teammates can counter a necro for you as you faceroll everything else.. thief mesmer being the most obvious choice.
Phaatonn, London UK
(edited by Phaeton.9582)
No, I find ele a little challenging to say the least, but my sister who has champ magus and who played ele since beta – suggested to me PvE on my ele first learn the combo’s and what weapons I’d prefer and THEN go into PvP and test my skillz.
She also said that on ele you have to learn your rotation and might stacking in and out of battle, and once you learn that you learn how to stack might fast- pay attention to attunements, but you dont want to hurry and switch attunes and then be on a CD trying to get back to fire for ex.
Am I the only one who has a hard time playing Elementalist?
I multiclass… and to me, Elementalist is the hardest class to play. Hands down… followed by Thief. But Ele is way harder.
D/D… I can’t kill anything.
Staff… It’s waaaaay easier bunkering on my Guardian so I don’t see the point. Staff Ele is also hard for me to play. I can’t get the whole combo thing.
S/F Fresh air FEELS a lot better because my attacks in Air attunement feel like they are actually doing damage but I melt whenever someone looks at me funny.
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I am slowly coming to grips with the fact that Ele and Thief might not be the classes for me, but I was wondering if there was anyone else out there who find Ele really difficult to play well?
The elementalist is really unforgiving because (1) it is the squishiest class and (2) the skills are complicated to rotate and must not be wasted, make 1 mistake and you’re done. On staff the hardest thing if you play other classes is to queue all your skills right while changing attunements, because of the slow cast time.
However it can be rewarding if you can avoid the damage and land your combos. The only viable build for new players is celestial/bunker, unlike other classes like Warrior, where you can go rampage with marauder and get 2 downs on your first match. However give it some time and great things can happen.