Guild Wars 2

I’m just returning for a bit of a break. It looks like a lot has changed. How is d/f Fresh air?

d/f fresh air doesn’t appear to work well in a pvp setting.

It’s meh. Fire traits are favored.

It’s meh.

/15 chars

Aside from it still being bugged, the fact ele have the worst armor/hp and built in defenses in the game, It’s not even close to as viable as war/thief/Mesmer running a zerk build in sPvP (if were not discussing spvp then ignore this)

Your only true defense is focus Obsidian Flesh (50s), mist form(75s), arcane shield[if you can even count that](75s) comet (25s) if you count daze, shocking aura if you don’t just die from the 3 autos they can still hit through it… you then have only 1 wep condi clear unless you bring cleansing fire locking up your heal and/or 3rd utility, but then you don’t have lightning flash, your only positioning and escape tool, so you have to sacrifice:
A. condi clear
B. mist/arcane
C. no escape/gap closer

you don’t get evades, stealth, refraction, multiple teleports, heavy blinds, blocking, illusions, stuns and dazes on demand. you get 2-3 Long as kitten CD oh kitten cards and thats it, and when the fight doesnt go your way you offhand focus has no mobility, the only thing you can run with is burrning speed and lightning flash asuming you didnt already put it on CD.

Why would you do that when you can roll any other class do more damage and not die to a bunker guardian sneezing on you?

Or just pick up celestial and might stack and still do great damage and not die to sneezing… Welcome back to arcane/water/celestial and here you thought you had variety playing ele!

Until they buff ele baseline defense (which they cant do without making cele godmode) or give us a better mele weapon that brings previously mentioned offensive defenses (you know like a tempest sword), zerker ele will never be viable in spvp