Guild Wars 2

I have 27 points saved up (level 45) to dump on either the Bot or the Tornado. I notice that my Elite Elementals pretty much get one shot by bosses, and if they get focused they are two shot in fights. (hell so do I)

My question is do the 30 Skill point Drones get one shot just as easy? Should I just go tornado and hope I don’t get focus? What are you guys using?

Winds.3087:

I recall something around 2000-3000 damage from each hound of balthazar.

No clue what you smoke that night.

Elem summon is the only viable elite for elementalist.
Tornado damage won’t even be enough to down 20% of regular mobs health on the duration…
Earth elem will easily take agro as well as take lots of hits before going down. Making it the best choice. In PvP water elem will give a free AoE 5-6k heal to you and allies every so often.
And they provide a good amount of damage with it.
Racials and the mist wolf are all useless because they arn’t meant to be good. Like someone already said it’s to keep balance between races.

Would be helpful if you provided a bit more information, such as your race, and whether you’re asking about strictly Elementalist elites.

Currently I have no idea what you mean.

I didn’t know that race made a difference. I am Asura, I get a drone…I figured we all got the same 30 point elite skills.

I asked because the only 30-point elementalist elite is Tornado. The 30-point Golem you’re talking about is an asuran racial skill.

The other two elementalist elites are Conjure Fiery Greatsword and Glyph of Elementals.

I can’t tell you anything about the asuran Golems as I don’t have an asura of that level.

As for Tornado, I feel it’s kind of lackluster for dungeons. Might be ok for regular mobs but bosses frequently have at least some mitigation towards crowd control which makes the launching ability of the Tornado not as effective. Tornado does give you stability (immunity against crowd-control) though, which is always nice.

Usually the best thing to do as an ele is just stick with the elemental summon. Nothing else compares. The racial skills are all purposefully made weak or less impressive so that no race has any advantage over the others for certain classes.

DaedalusDragon.3754:

Usually the best thing to do as an ele is just stick with the elemental summon. Nothing else compares.

I recall something around 2000-3000 damage from each hound of balthazar.

glyph of elementals ALL DAY AND NIGHT long.

seriously.. im not kidding, sure I toy around with the tornado from time to time, but it just makes you a bigger target. When i pvp on my lil bitty asura ele, the last thing i want to do is become a bigger target… besides, the fire elemental is prettykittenpowerful, so long as people ignore him..lol

Tornado has one particular use in dungeons: it is a whirl finisher that lasts a really long time. If you have a team that can place lots of combo fields you can put out some ridiculous combos with it.

Yukishiro.8792:

Tornado has one particular use in dungeons: it is a whirl finisher that lasts a really long time. If you have a team that can place lots of combo fields you can put out some ridiculous combos with it.

That is a good point and I hadn’t thought of that. I think I still prefer the elemental for when I need one more damage absorber but that is certainly a good idea.

As others have said, glyph of elementals is the only elite worth using.

Greatsword is less damage than you do with your skills, and removes your utility

Tornado does terrible damage and tosses mobs around, which is the last thing you want in a dungeon(thanks for the adds, tornado!). Also again, removes your utility.

I really want to like them, they look awesome and are great ideas.. but in a lot of cases using them is worse than having no skill slotted at all