Guild Wars 2

I’ve been working on my elementalist for a while now, and was wondering, How good are Elementalists in PvP? Can they survive, kill, or help my team win a lot?
If no, I may change my questions later.

Staff Ele with clerics can provide amazing team support, Beserker staff ele can provide great on point dps with fire but its more or less a one trick pony. D/D celestial is very flavour of the month at the moment and has great survivability, and with might stacking good damage too!

can you link this D/D celestial build please?

Too lazy to link but Ill just tell u the build:
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Celestial Amulet
D/D
Strength Runes
Battle and Doom sigil

4/0/2/4/4 celestial, strength runes, sigil of battle, sigil of smoldering, glyph of elemental power is a must. Works for D/D and D/F. I prefer D/F.

4/0/2/2/6 celestial, strength runes, sigil of battle, sigil of doom, glyph of elemental power is a must, works best for D/F but D/D can work as well. This is the standard celestial might stacking build this is done through the trait spell-slinger.

0/2/0/6/6 D/D celestial, strength runes, sigil of battle, sigil of doom, 3 cantrip D/D is and has long been the standard pvp build for elementalist.

0/6/0/4/4 Fresh Air S/D or S/F build works pretty nicely as well.

0/6/2/4/2 Tempest Defense D/F frost bow, arcane power + cleansing fire is deadly.
Once you get the basic frostbow burst rotation down you can beat anything that stays within the frostbow AoE and if you freeze your main target with Frostbow 5 and set it up with Frostbow 2 you can prevent their escape + do extra damage.

0/0/6/4/4 D/F cleric, runes of the grove, sigil of renewal, sigil of water.
Armor of Earth, Cleansing Fire, Glyph of Elemental power (must use in air).
This is the tankiest build I’ve ever had the pleasure of running.

These are all of the builds I’ve been able to use in tpvp. I don’t run Staff and barely ever run scepter. Except for the frostbow build and the fresh air build all of ’m are built for sustain. Fresh Air burst is considered one of the best that the ele has to offer. The Frost Bow build gives the highest damage you can do. (around 2.7k dmg per icicle on the heavy golem or any other heavy armored player).

Good luck.

you “can” be good in pvp as an ele,
but you need to put alot more skill and practice into it to get the same results as a class like engi or warrior.

if you’re serious about sticking with ele then you can be great with practice,
but there are far easier classes that can get the job done just as well.

Liewec.2896:

you “can” be good in pvp as an ele,
but you need to put alot more skill and practice into it to get the same results as a class like engi or warrior.

if you’re serious about sticking with ele then you can be great with practice,
but there are far easier classes that can get the job done just as well.

Depends on the engi build running a multiple kit build can be strong but also challenging.

I know this will sound shocking in this no skill/mindless spam/carried by class game but its actually about player.
Some classes are better than other of course but when you are looking for people to play with good player on average class will benefit you more than average player on good class.
You want people to be at right time in right place doing right thing not just randomly die all over the map on some OP build.
And even “skill” requirement of classes are BS, its about your dodge/cooldown management/game knowledge/positioning/situational awareness and not about how many fancy tricks your class have, once you master one class you can be decent on any class and great once you get used to that new class.

Leeto.1570:

I know this will sound shocking in this no skill/mindless spam/carried by class game but its actually about player.
Some classes are better than other of course but when you are looking for people to play with good player on average class will benefit you more than average player on good class.
You want people to be at right time in right place doing right thing not just randomly die all over the map on some OP build.
And even “skill” requirement of classes are BS, its about your dodge/cooldown management/game knowledge/positioning/situational awareness and not about how many fancy tricks your class have, once you master one class you can be decent on any class and great once you get used to that new class.

+1 for this. 15/chars

Leeto.1570:

I know this will sound shocking in this no skill/mindless spam/carried by class game but its actually about player.
Some classes are better than other of course but when you are looking for people to play with good player on average class will benefit you more than average player on good class.
You want people to be at right time in right place doing right thing not just randomly die all over the map on some OP build.
And even “skill” requirement of classes are BS, its about your dodge/cooldown management/game knowledge/positioning/situational awareness and not about how many fancy tricks your class have, once you master one class you can be decent on any class and great once you get used to that new class.

Agreed, I’d say I’ve mastered the elementalist class ankitten ow trying out every single other profession, just need one more character slot for a mesmer. But really I still have NO idea how ranger could ever work in spvp…. probably because I have yet to learn how to play it.

Leeto.1570:

I know this will sound shocking in this no skill/mindless spam/carried by class game but its actually about player.
Some classes are better than other of course but when you are looking for people to play with good player on average class will benefit you more than average player on good class.
You want people to be at right time in right place doing right thing not just randomly die all over the map on some OP build.
And even “skill” requirement of classes are BS, its about your dodge/cooldown management/game knowledge/positioning/situational awareness and not about how many fancy tricks your class have, once you master one class you can be decent on any class and great once you get used to that new class.

I never said any of this…I just asked what they were good at. Don’t put words in my mouth/message.