Guild Wars 2

What are weaknesses everyone has noticed when it comes to ele effectiveness?

I’ve noticed that the low health pool is a problem vs berserker builds and condition builds.

Also attunement cool down is problematic vs berserker builds too, because you get locked out of defensive abilities while you’re trying to down them or vise-versa.

A lack of pressuring attacks is someting I’ve noticed as well, most other professions can pressure with their auto attack.

Easily avoidable telegraphed attacks is another problem I’m seeing, this in combation with a lack of timable immobilize/stuns. We do have signet of earth, but it’s cast/aftercast make it somewhat weak vs skilled play.

For me I see a weakness in range and melee in the profession. Where as the other classes have good range and melee capabilities through weapon swap, the Elementalist doesn’t.

Some say S/D is equivalent to the other professions range and melee capabilities but I disagree.

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For me I see a weakness in range and melee in the profession. Where as the other classes have good range and melee capabilities through weapon swap, the Elementalist doesn’t.

Some say S/D is equivalent to the other professions range and melee capabilities but I disagree.

Scepter is bad at melee range due to long cds and bad auto attacks

• Base Survival.

Elementalists do have good survival with the right trait investment, due to having strong defense traits and because many of their defensive skills scale very well with defensive stats. In turn, non-defensive eles have abysmal defense.

• Auto-attacks.

Many of our auto-attacks are underwhelming, which takes away from our natural advantage of having 20 skills.

• Several weak skills and minor traits.

Even as we get better major traits for our more underwhelming lines, it’s always sad to have to sacrifice excellent minors for something like fire #5 and air #5, which effectively do nothing. Likewise, because we have so many skills, some of them are usually weak and under-used. But it’s worth noting that we have some stronger-than-normal skills that compensate for the others.