Guild Wars 2

There is a lot of people who complain about ele is underpowered at 80th level, but I still don’t reached levelcap as ele and never tried him on s/tPvP, so I am going to complain about how difficult to grow ele.
When you are ele between 1 and 40 levels it’s abnormally difficult to pass personal story chapters or get skillpoint of your current level. Not impossible, but difficult. I played other professions that community calls “underpowered” but even with them I never had issues with beating content of my current level. All professions except ele can defeat skill challenge NPC easy. Ele was my first character in this game and before I tried other professions I though this game rather more hardcore than it exactly is.

Maybe it’s your trait setup, I had no trouble at all levelling, I barely died and I didn’t come across a skill point I couldn’t solo, in fact quite the opposite I was able to solo some group events.

Could you link your traits, and what weap are you using?

Low-level content beatable for other professions even with random set of traits. Elementalist avaible for newcomers as well as other professions. Why gamer should be already experienced to play ele?

Riiiiight……Achilles. If you had no trouble at all leveling then all setups work out for you.
So why ask him for his? Or did you spec into an armor/vitality build without ever dieing? What was the reason for doing so?

Far more likely is, that he’s full of it. And he did die just as much as all of us.

Respawns at low health will get anyone and can’t be avoided at all times. Double knockdowns kiling you before you get control back aswell. One single missed dodge of a catapult WILL kill you, if you are unlucky enough.
I got one-shot by a mob two levels higher than me at around level 50.

How likely is it, that all that never happened to demi-god Achilles here?

Anyways. Things will improve as you go up, especially from about 60 upwards. Especially storyline quests get easier, because the npc’s will actually tank for you.

The other professions might be easier but the elementalist is most versatile and fun. There are so many viable builds its insane. Right now I’m running dagger/focus and having a blast.

Ghertu.7096:

Low-level content beatable for other professions even with random set of traits. Elementalist avaible for newcomers as well as other professions. Why gamer should be already experienced to play ele?

I’m not saying it isn’t harder for an Ele, and it has been said many times that an Ele is harder to get to grips with but if you provide a little information like what Weapon you use and what traits you have picked up there might be some improvements that can be made to help make it easier.

@Frye Seriously, I didn’t realise that would come under such scrutiny, to sum it up though I had a different levelling experience to YOU and there for I am full of it.. Okay buddy.

Frye.4608:

Riiiiight……Achilles. If you had no trouble at all leveling then all setups work out for you.
So why ask him for his? Or did you spec into an armor/vitality build without ever dieing? What was the reason for doing so?

Far more likely is, that he’s full of it. And he did die just as much as all of us.

Respawns at low health will get anyone and can’t be avoided at all times. Double knockdowns kiling you before you get control back aswell. One single missed dodge of a catapult WILL kill you, if you are unlucky enough.
I got one-shot by a mob two levels higher than me at around level 50.

How likely is it, that all that never happened to demi-god Achilles here?

Anyways. Things will improve as you go up, especially from about 60 upwards. Especially storyline quests get easier, because the npc’s will actually tank for you.

Erm, what?
I hardly die in PvE content unless they’re champions that you really can’t solo for your level, or it’s a giant DE where everyone dies no matter what class/build. I’ve only ever been two shot by champion mobs, though there are the occasions where you somehow aggro the whole area and no matter how you try just die but generally I didn’t much more than my Guardian. I don’t see anything wrong with the class in PvE, I made a new Ele so I might keep a death count.

level 80, storyline almost done (like 2 quests remaining) and i never died in a storyquest so i wonder how easy it would be with other professions.

btw, staff is the way to go for pve imo :P

Not my experience, OP. Actually, I regularly solo champs with my Elementalist. But I did have similar issues with my previous attempt at playing one. That was before I figured out that I always have to move and dodge, switch attunements constantly, keep my gear (ALL of it) up to date and so on. These days I only get killed if my ego gets too big and I try soloing too many veteran mobs in one go.