Guild Wars 2

Been wanting to make a cute lil asuran ele. Is ele fun? From what I see in youtube they have to keep swapping F1-F4. Been playing 3 months + ranger and wanting to try something new. So the question is are ele fun to play? Please help T_T

Well all Ele users have a love-hate kinda relationship with their character. It’s a very dynamic relationship that will surely take you on a rollercoster ride. Out of all professions I find it the 2nd most fun but I still love Eles the most. I think most fun would be a mesmer.

I’ve been playing since beta and never took another class above lvl 40. I suppose it’s all to preference, but seems like eles are just faster to play with having 25 skills instead of 15-20. Also, don’t call my race cute, they’re self-centered little scumbag kittens (or at least that’s what they’re supposed to be)

Let me put it this way.

I can’t play any other class.

Well not completely true, I find engi to be fun in PvP, but it is very similar to ele. Yes it is extremely fun and in PvE you will feel like a god.

Obviously you’ll get biased responses here, but for me no other class can compare. Playing any other class after playing Ele just feels so…boring. It just feels so much more rewarding killing someone as an Ele than as a heavily-armored class or as a Thief/Mesmer (especially in the current “meta.”) The flexibility you have at all times is also a huge plus.

So nice to see so many ele players reply! That time I did tried ele as human but maybe not quite used to swapping F1-F4 for skills so deleted at lvl26. Tonight am going home to create a cute asuran ele to slowly learn the playstyle of ele.

Ele is fun, but very different from ranger. It makes a good main due to the higher level of cooldowns you need to remember, which if you don’t play it often enough can make the class seem hard. The elementalist has gotten even more fluid though since the update, and I’m liking it even more than previously.

Currently:

Fire = damage
Air = cc/mobility/damage
Water = healing/cc
Earth = cc/defense

You can now more heavily focus on specific elements. So oif you want to boost earths defensive nature, you can take stone heart and be immune to crits in earth, or go in arcane and get protection in earth, or reduce the cooldowns on earth skills, which will help you stay alive. Or you can focus on fire magic, and deal even more damage in a few ways, you can even transform fire into something more defensive, by making your burning blind foes.

All in all, its a fun class with lots of potential, but a bigger learning curve. Since PvE is so easy in this game, you have plenty of time to learn the ropes. You basically swap to the attunement for the situation and use the corresponding skills and then move to another attunement for the next moment.

For pvp, I’m having lots of success with a celestial staff build. (very similar to my old build) You play as a support for your team and prevent them from dying. You have some good safe rezes with mist form/protection and stone heart in earth and stability. If you let yourself get focused without being in earth in stone heart, you can go down quick, but due to the versatility of the ele, its just a button press away from reducing incoming damage heavily, and another to heal back up. Lots of fun and very involving. Much less passive than ranger.

I hope you enjoy it, and hopefully you don’t have the same issue as me that I can only truly play human characters. I made an asuran ele which was nice for a time, but I rerolled into human shortly after hitting 80.

Good luck.

I started as a Warrior main and tried every profession except Mesmer before touching Elementalist. I was a Warrior lovers for about 2 years, and then Elementalist got me hooked. It’s the most fun I’ve ever had.

I love Elementalist cause there’s so much going on and you gotta follow your reflex and instinct, think fast, and if you’re good at such impulsive good decision making, Elementalist is it, in my opinion.

You can also play less like that, which staff helps a lot in. But I prefer daggers, scepter and focus for more fast-paced actions.

Thanks guys! Hopefully to be home in 4hrs time to start a new journey as an Ele! I think am gonna PVE for a while to get used to being an Ele. And I hope is a very rewarding journey!

Elementalist is one of the more fun classes in the game in my opinion. I don’t think its nearly as challenging as most people think it is, its very rthymic to the cooldowns of attunements and the pattern of the rotation you’re doing.

Engineer is often compared to elementalist, but its much different and harder than the elementalist in my opinion, because the kits have no cooldown, so you’re free to change weapons as you see fit. Theres no set rotation, but every skill you do needs to be done at the right moment, especially in regards to CC.

I leveled up a warrior to 80 after ele. I told myself " im going to main warrior now" 2 days later im back on my ele, and switching back and forth.

I have 8 classes and Ele is definitely the most fun to me. You’re decent in all game mode. The attack animation is beautiful, and the gameplay is active. You don’t depend on passive proc to kill. You don’t depend on AI to kill. You gotta dodge the right skill, or you will die because of the low HP/armor. However, when you do the right things, it feels so good.