Guild Wars 2

Leveling in WvW as ele seems like the most frustraiting thing you can do. Basicaly everything one shots you and you deal zero damage.

I know that you have no chance against lvl80 when you level in WvW but I leveled a mesmer, warrior and necro in WvW and all of them can actually do something beside using siege gear. Elementalist just feels like a joke, zero durability, zero damage.

Use a staff and run with a zerg group spamming meteor shower and glyph of storms? I can’t really see how any class is that effective if they come up against a properly equipped and traited level 80. The advantage with the classes you listed are that they either have distractions like clones or minions to distract. Ele’s unfortunately are an easy target

I just leveled an ele to 80 in less than a week, mostly playing in WvW. Yes, I died frequently at the beginning, but it gave me a crash course in using the attunements (and staff of course). Just try to stay on the periphery in fights, avoid roaming in small groups and run like mad to get the cap points in time. Now I’m in the midst of upgrading my gear, and I’m much more of an asset to the team. I have to say that the ele is the most complicated profession I’ve played — so many skill options.

Eripetra.6791:

I just leveled an ele to 80 in less than a week, mostly playing in WvW.

Im leveling my ele right now and yes I enjoy it but when I see for example warriors having everything from damage over roaming to defense I really cant see the point in having 20 skills and atunment dancing if a warrior can do it better with 3 buttons. :/

The ele learning curve involves many deaths. Being an upscale in WvW makes you look like free loot. When you become better, you will be a valuable support mechanism to the zerg or a roaming group. Eventually, you will be able to outplay those predictable 3-button warriors, and you can even catch the runners with your FGS if you want to. It definitely gets better, but you will die many, many times in the learning process, especially when leveling. With some patience, you will learn the class and possibly enjoy it more than anything else.