Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone ,
I want to make an elemantalist which main focus will be WvW. And I wanted to know if any of the racial spells might give me an advantage over others ?

I don’t think any of the elites are going to be more useful than the Elementalist class elites (you can do some pretty fun things with Tornado close to cliffs, but I think most people run Glyph of Elementals). As for racial skills in general, I think Pain Inverter is the only racial skill that’s worth using in any scenario. It’s an Asura tier 1 that provides confusion and retaliation, which can be useful in WvWvW scenarios.

Of course, you have to weigh that against not being able to have one of the normal Elementalist utility skills…and they’re all so useful.

Just pick whatever race you like best.

Well, there’s always the “Become the Snow Leopard” Norn racial elite, which is absurdly good for moving around in WvW.

It doesn’t make much of a difference in the end, though, so go with what you want.

Pain inventer for the win, I run either stone armour or pain inverter depending on the situation, love pain inverter against rangers and theifs as soon as a thief jumps you use shocking aura, that should buy you a sec to cast pain inverter it’s still amazes me how many get excited and gib them selves and drop a ton of health before they realise (I’m only talking about WvW that’s where I spend most of my time). And if I run pain inverter I use tornado as elite as you can cancel it once active and keep the stability element of it.

i use GS for transportation in wvw.
have to check in the leopard.

tested the leopard.. GS have better transportation. lasting alot longer.

OK thanks alot =)

eldain stenlund.4306:

i use GS for transportation in wvw.
have to check in the leopard.

tested the leopard.. GS have better transportation. lasting alot longer.

I was referring more to the ability to run past zergs with stealth.

Asura also have the advantage of being pesky little things to target manually

Kryank.8069:

I use tornado as elite as you can cancel it once active and keep the stability element of it.

That was patched out months ago. No longer works that way, now you lose stability as soon as you cancel tornado form.

Dasorine.1964:

Asura also have the advantage of being pesky little things to target manually

It’s all in your head, the hitbox (aka targeting area) for all races is the same size. You can click slightly over an asura head or to the side of them and still select the target. Norn and charr need to be clicked around their torsos since the hitbox is about “human” or sylvari size, clicking their heads won’t work if they are near max racial height.

Radiation Field is one of the best racial utilities in the game. Unfortunately, it only works well for condi builds and ele doesn’t have a strong condi build.

Most other racial skills are fairly poor. Norn Snow Leopard and Bear form can be used for running away, but as an Ele that’s covered by FGS without losing your healing/utility slots.

If you were a class with a decent condi build, I’d say asura for radiation field; mesmers might be able to get some use out of pain inverter as well, but being single target doesn’t help that much in WvW.

Obviously Charr have an advantage because they’re intimidating to players, making them choke up on their keyboard.

:p