Guild Wars 2

I’ve just come back, gone 1yr+. So I read a lot, forums, websites, dulfy, and so on. Checked out some builds on MetaBattle. I have been experimenting with Ranger, Warrior, Necro, Theif, and …my Elly is garbage. Well, I play him that way.

Went with power stacking, staff, and things were going great, until I hit 14. Suddenly I seem to be having difficulty killing things. I admit first off, I do not have the hang of switching elements. I do sometimes drop an Ice spike first, then go back to fire. My usual rotation is 2,3,1,1.

So I read some more, and thought my next steps would be:
1. Try D/D
2. Get the Flame Axe signet, and use that.

There is tons of info about builds saying “go 6/2/2/2/2” or something like it, I like max dps, big numbers, it does not bother me so much if I die, so I am completely on board with the full berserker (when I can wear it). Just as long as I don’t kitten and get someone else, or a party killed, I am happy.

That all being said, I CAN get things done, it just seems like it requires more effort and time than all of my other characters, so I assume I must be failing. Teach me forums, help me not be a baddie.

I main an ele (Not a Pro) and will tell you its a bit of a learning curve. Depends on your play style most new ele players will start out with staff. Eles have amazing dps if not the highest. Your problem is the attunements, your gonna have to learn how to rotate. Luckily staff is easy. Also keep in mind your only level 14 your traits are locked so you dont have the modifiers that increase your damage. At these levels learn about the rotations and utilities.

I like to use glyph of storms always handy for the vulnerability. A simple rotation I used to do with staff was on earth use eruption, then switch to water use ice spike, then go to fire lava font. Heres a nice combo for speed buff cast eruption first then switch to air and place static field you will gain a speed buff stack windborne speed and you’ll be running for a long time.

Again I am no pro just giving you some simple suggestions so you dont get frustrated with the class. Good luck on your adventures

IMO you need at least 6 points in fire and power/crit gear to make staff work, staff is more of a “kill the enemy before he gets a chance to retaliates” spec.
I would suggest going 0/0/2/6/6 (start putting points from the bottom up) D/D while leveling and switch to staff at 80 if you want, you have much more mobility and survivability as D/D. Plus is way more fun, staff is boring in comparison.

Thanks for the tips.