Guild Wars 2

I haven’t played in almost 7 months roughly, last I played Eles sucked really bad in pvp basically. I wanna do some PvE + PvP mostly, was curious what changes have occured. I didnt really get far in the game to begin with other then lvl 40 thief n doing arenas on my thief. Though I love “mages”. Was just curious if Eles got any kind of buffs or became viable/strong in pvp at all? If so what builds (not that I fully understand builds etc but Ill look into it) + weps etc Any insight is greatly appreciated

In reference to your first question I’ll just quote a post from Otaking.4675 from the spvp forum. I share the same opinion as an experienced ele player.

“Ele and war are the core of the current meta for the reasons you listed. Every ToL team recently has had a d/d ele and a hambow at the core.

That said, Ele are not first on the target list but necros , rangers, and engies are due to lack of stability and less ranged defenses. They’re just far easier to lock down and kill than ele. (Depending on whether you’re d/d or s/f but that’s besides the point)

As you said, you can hold 1v2, some eles can hold 1v3. Albeit they are using lightning to take off heal and return but no other class has as much recovery, mobility, cc and defense in one package. Saying you have no abilities that will save you no matter what is false when you have lightning flash and a natural mist form.

Hambows are similar or you can make a sword warrior and kill people with torment, or axe/warhorn shoutheal and never die to anything. Hambow has the most tournament value though.

I believe Ele, while you say it is a Jack of all trades, the thing is in GW2 this translates into unlimited skill cap because you have a response to anything a class can throw while retaining high damage, tankiness, cc and mobility. Counterplay is way more important than 100 extra points on your pure damage build, or 100 extra points on your pure bunker build.

It’s more like master of all trades than jack, so if you like ele already you are on the #1 class in PVP right now for most modes. I personally can’t stand ele style and playstyle.

Warrior by contrast has some weaknesses, putting them at #2."

The ele is so great right now within spvp that any build works for them. Bunker, burst, condition, support, hybird etc. Personally i love playing burst and conditions specs. I switch around these build in spvp depending on what type of opponents i get.

Awesome, so glad to hear this. I loved everything about this profession I just couldnt get into a weak class before, it just seemed so fun but not viable. This is great news thanks for the reply.

I play ele, necro, and ranger in pvp right now (and formerly mesmer, may play it again after the patch) And I can honestly say that ele is a top notch class for pvp right now. D/D to me is a tad too easy and faceroll, but very effective. If played right you’ll rarely die. I like Zoose’s S/F build a lot. Its a fun burst build that carries in team fights.

The other night I was playing carrion terrormancer with a team on my guild and while I did fine with it, I couldn’t have any chance to get away if I got focused. I switched to my ele, and all those problems disapeared since with S/F, you can kill most classes before they can kill you. I even FGSed a thief in one shot when using the 4 skill on the treb in khylo, which was a funny moment that will never happen again for that skills nerf :/

I play condition ranger a lot too, and its a bit more forgiving than necro due to perma protect and evadespam, but the teamfight pressure isn’t there as much.

The above posters are correct. Ele is very good in sPvP. Tier 1. S Class. Probably overpowered.