Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone,

So like the title says, I am having issues playing D/D meta ele. I don’t see how this class is so OP. For example. Playing as a LB ranger is quite easy to pick up. Or a turret engi. My favorite class, the mesmer is even easy to play, and I love the lockdown mesmer.

When I pick up a D/D Ele, I know how to do my combos, air, fire,earth then water. But for some reason I cannot hold a point from 2 players, or even some 1v1s I fail. Thieves, Guards, even mesmers are a issue. I think I need more practice. If not I feel like deleting my ele, and remaking my mesmer.

run a simple 0 0 2 6 6 with celestial + melandru, sigil of battle and sigil of doom. OR if you want to be a pure bunker use cleric.

2v1 you can flail around dont expect to get kills unless by accident. Nothing beats experience. I would reroll if you aren’t willing to put in the time to be good.

It’s experience. Seriously. Not a day goes by that I don’t get flustered with my Ele, but then I stop and take stock and realize that I am doing a little better and better each day. This is not an easy profession, and no matter how well I do I still see room for growth. It might be the same for you. I’ve played most of the other professions and the only one that comes close in my mind to the complexity, speed, and rhythm of DD Ele is Kit Engy. It’s not just knowing a rotation or combo.. it’s seeing what the other person(s) is doing and countering without even thinking about it on a conscious level.

If you are using SPVP for your benchmark of skill, that could be part of the problem. SPVP is really hit and miss, especially in the hotjoins. I’ll be in one and come out on top of the charts without a single death, then in the very next match get utterly destroyed at every turn by someone on a profession I know intuitively.

Keep practicing and don’t give up. Ele is easy enough to play to a mediocre level, and there are oodles of mediocre eles out there to prove it, but everything above that is all a matter of time and practice. The skill will come if you stick with it. You’re going to have to put a LOT of time in to really see the Ele shine. This profession is an investment.

I felt the same way when I first started. If you want to kill people efficiently, there are a few things you HAVE to be good at.
1. Knowing who to focus/who your allies are focusing.
2. Stacking might and armor.
3. Clearing condi’s
4. Using updraft/Earthquake to deny stomps or get stomps.
5. Cleaving with drake’s breath, blazing speed and lightning whip.
– Fo’real though, with 15+ stacks of might, drake’s breath can literally melt people in front of you. The cleave is real and your team will thank you for it.

A good trick to landing blazing speed is to back peddle slightly and tilt your camera down which will cause you to travel a much shorter distance, hitting everyone that’s in very close range. Pair that with a lightning flash then follow it up with drake’s breath and you have a solid burst combo.

Good luck to you! Don’t give up, Ele is pretty much the best profession.

It’s also team play you can’t blame all experience on yourself. So with the new unrank matches, fights it’s kind of wonky. You get mixed in with pve players and different level of pvp players. I could hold 1v3 in middle for 40 seconds while my team 2v1 far and 2v1 home and fail. So meh…. Or you hot join and get swapped when your team closed to winning. Best part is you join to help a 3v5 team and hell it’s not worth it even if you bridge the gap to under 50 points your teammates leaves close to the end.

The moral of the story is many factors effect ones game play and since an elementalist has less armor, hp and can’t 2-3 shot people there is a certain level of trial and error.

I suggest playing bunker first to get a feel before shed of those shackles and go for burst. I celestial is to soft for you use soldiers in spvp with str runes of melandru or hoelbrak till you feel better. Do some hot joins first you can change gears when out of combat to find your feel. Again its team play in spvp and knowing when your opponent’s spikes are all refresh and ready to hit you. Pounchin on people and disengaging is the best part of being an ele. Also in spvp when you are holding points you should never ever lose to a theif in 1v1 as a d/d even vs top 50 in North America. Your protections, stuns, chills and burns should easily force him to leave point or vise versa. But again if you get jumped in a while 1v1 and you were distracted and it happens.

Dying is ok. Defining whether you got outplayed, build vs build, zerged, or just messed up in matches is the most important.