Guild Wars 2

I love my Ele. It’s been my main ever since December last year. I’ve played various builds and I remember how well the famous daphoenix build worked in sPvP. In PvE you can pretty much play any build you like. In WvW you also have a strong roll and you can allow yourself to play different types of builds. I personally love my WvW offensive staff build that I also use in PvE, sometimes using daggers with the same build. But in PvP I’m struggling to find my role…

I play 6 other classes in sPvP depending on my mood and guardian is being my current favourite for pvp games. Maybe it’s because I haven’t played Ele much in pvp lately, but I find it lacking compared to other classes. I know Anet brought Eles down a little bit with the nerfs to some traits and skills, but I don’t feel like they gave us many other options either. While some other classes became stronger in spvp, I don’t see where Eles fit into the “new meta” (in lack of better words).

I’m trying a condition build now and it’s boring as hell. I’ve also tried fresh air scepter build, but I didn’t like it (or scepter in general) much either. So it just me or do you guys feel that Eles are back at the bottom again in pvp?

S/D would be fine if thieves didn’t exist.

Condition builds don’t work that well in spvp.

Staff can’t kill anyone.

The elementalist doesn’t fit well with the capture and hold game mode. If they added a deathmatch you would see a shift in what type of builds are used. Aura share would provide excellent support in those settings.

I don’t do PvP. I just WvW and PvE. Like you said, staff is amazing in WvW. You get a few eles in staff mode and you can effectively take 3/4 of the HP off a zerg in a couple seconds.

But from what I’ve heard, in PvP, you will need to be the best player in the world to be effective at all :P Groups are too small for you to hide in a pack of players and cast to your whim, which means you will die. Quickly. Unless you gear/spec your ele in a survivability manner, but there goes all your DPS and you become a difficult class with moderate survivability and no real damage.

Mukk.3402:

. Unless you gear/spec your ele in a survivability manner, but there goes all your DPS and you become a difficult class with moderate survivability and no real damage.

This is pretty much how I feel and it’s an old story everyone already knows, but unfortunately nothing has been done to change this.

I feel that it’s unfair that for example I as I guardian can spec into pretty high survivability with 3000+ Armor and still dish our pretty good damage. But I’m not gonna get into the whole class balance thing here..

So I wonder if there is any competitive build for eles right now in pvp? I was gone for about 3 months and I noticed that some classes seem to have gotten much stronger in pvp (daze/stun warriors being one of them). I adjusted the old daphoenix build a bit, playing 0/20/0/30/20 with aura share D/D spec. But I see that Scepter seems more popular nowadays.