Guild Wars 2

To say I’m frustrated is an understatement. Never before have I died nearly as much in an MMO. A perfect example is in the one map there is an event to help clean up a mess from a nuclear explosion that the robot turns into a huge fire elemental. The “Embers” which are fire monsters with wings will 1-hit me. Often I’m totally dead without a chance to turn into mist or attack back.

Here is my character build. I have 5 trait points left. Lightning magic seems to be the most reliable.
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.1.2.0.13.0.0.0.0.0.2.15.16.21.24.6.0.0.0.0.0.19.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.10.0.5.5

I’d greatly appreciate any help as my current plan is to shelf my elemental this weekend and use it just for crafting.

Try the staff. Stay far.

to be fair that boss is incredibly hard, and can only be beaten by death zerging him. Its impossible to stand in that room for more then a couple minutes without dying. I went there on my lv 80 thief and still died several times, the second i ran outta dodges (and initiative in this case for disabling shot) i’d almost fall instantly to a KD/burn. So i’d blame it a lot more on the boss then your elementalist.

go full fire and earth for sustainability. imps and embers do sick damage for some reason
elementalist is not easy, one of the “difficult” classes.

however it seems, that every other class can do everything better than the elementalist. with more dps and more survivability.

ele is kind a bit of broken.

I solo some champions with my elementalist. This is the most polished profession of the game. Not broken at all. But it’s definitely the hardest profession to master.

Yeh, it is pretty much fact that the Elementalist is broken from all the other people here complaining about it. At least I know that I’m not totally messing it up.

As for not putting things into Air, one of the main reasons why I got the game is to play casting lighting spells. I’ve always been fascinated with lighting IRL so plan on using lightning spells a lot unless I know fire can easily take out monsters like the inquest for example.

LightningLockey.5938:

To say I’m frustrated is an understatement. Never before have I died nearly as much in an MMO. A perfect example is in the one map there is an event to help clean up a mess from a nuclear explosion that the robot turns into a huge fire elemental. The “Embers” which are fire monsters with wings will 1-hit me. Often I’m totally dead without a chance to turn into mist or attack back.

Here is my character build. I have 5 trait points left. Lightning magic seems to be the most reliable.
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.1.2.0.13.0.0.0.0.0.2.15.16.21.24.6.0.0.0.0.0.19.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.10.0.5.5

I’d greatly appreciate any help as my current plan is to shelf my elemental this weekend and use it just for crafting.

That sounds suspiciously like the northern end of Metrica Province, but you can’t seriously mean that and be level 80…

What other zone are we talking about?

Also, this skills tool is significantly more accurate and robust:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/

Click “En” for English.

DrakeWurrum.6049:

LightningLockey.5938:

To say I’m frustrated is an understatement. Never before have I died nearly as much in an MMO. A perfect example is in the one map there is an event to help clean up a mess from a nuclear explosion that the robot turns into a huge fire elemental. The “Embers” which are fire monsters with wings will 1-hit me. Often I’m totally dead without a chance to turn into mist or attack back.

Here is my character build. I have 5 trait points left. Lightning magic seems to be the most reliable.
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.1.2.0.13.0.0.0.0.0.2.15.16.21.24.6.0.0.0.0.0.19.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.10.0.5.5

I’d greatly appreciate any help as my current plan is to shelf my elemental this weekend and use it just for crafting.

That sounds suspiciously like the northern end of Metrica Province, but you can’t seriously mean that and be level 80…

What other zone are we talking about?

You realize high levels get scaled down right? So while he’s more powerful then everyone else around him, he’s certainly not a lvl 80 god, nor even a lvl 20 god.

One thing I noticed with those is that you can get “runes” and “sigils” that can be added to weapons, where do I obtain those? The wiki is pretty useless when it comes to those.

Also what kind of armor goes in the “back” slot? It is the only area that is empty as of now.

LightningLockey.5938:

One thing I noticed with those is that you can get “runes” and “sigils” that can be added to weapons, where do I obtain those? The wiki is pretty useless when it comes to those.

Also what kind of armor goes in the “back” slot? It is the only area that is empty as of now.

drops drops drops…oh and story rewards, and salvage

To OP, it´s not just elementalists going down there, not even guardians can do anything but dodge as best they can…and then die horribly in flames

stevekharon.7129:

I solo some champions with my elementalist. This is the most polished profession of the game. Not broken at all. But it’s definitely the hardest profession to master.

I guess I must suck then. I’m not great at attunement swapping but competent I guess. I am pretty good at positioning (running like a gazelle, usng los, timing evades) but its pretty much impossible to avoid everything, and there is stuff that just one shots an elementalist. Obviously you can take 2 or even 3 hits more commonly but that seldom ends well. Meanwhile my son is face tanking on his Guardian whilst doing more damage (whilst laughing at me on skype of course).

Any hints or tips?