Guild Wars 2

Hi, I’ve been leveling an elementalist recently (I leveled one a long time ago, when ride the lightning has a 15 second flat cooldown , but things are different now), and I was hoping for some advice.

I’ve been running with a staff, camping in fire, and basically not having too much trouble (I’m level 57 now). At most, I drop lightning hammer and just clean up. Which is fine, but it doesn’t feel very dynamic.

Looking at the guides, it seems like other weapon sets (S/?, D/?) are dependent on high level traits that can’t be accessed until level 80.

Is this generally true? How would you recommend someone learn ele as they level?

You can learn how to play in spvp at any lvl

LOL. Only if I want to get crushed, stomped, and hated by whoever is unlucky enough to be on a map with me.

Edit: Plus, if I’m doing spvp I’m not leveling. The idea, for me, was to learn the basics rotations and skills in the relatively safer PvE environment while I’m leveling the character.

unfortunately this is the case with the ele yea….
Staff still offers a fairly decent playstile because you don’t need traits to have a working build and alot of the important traits are adept or master.
D/D is quite versatile, however the surviveability is pretty low because the D/D build relies on alot of points in water+arcana to get more surviveability.
Scepter is in my opinion the worst lvlup weapon because a key component of this build is fresh air, a grandmastertrait which you unlock @ lvl 80

D/F is the way to level if you want to learn what to do as you level and get better once you get to high level…

Fire > Burning Speed > Flame Wall > Earth > Magnetic Wave > Arcane Brilliance > Obsidian Flesh(if needed) > Air > LW until Flame off cooldown

If you have to go a second set go to Water after burning speed and use burst and comet.

Once you get the traits you can change things around, however by then you have got the attuenment swapping down pretty good.

I have been D/F since level 7 and I am now 52.

Kinda new to gw2 myself (2 characters lvl 50 one of them being ele) leveled ele with d/d from the start and had no problems, i die every now and then but i definitely have no problems with it, however i constantly swap between attunements to stack might and just to use the whole skill set sometimes too, i didnt go with “go with staff and sit in one attunement and spam 2 skills” path because i wanna learn at least some basic rotations and such of d/d for pvp while leveling, get used to the skills and all that and also its way more fun, i tried playing s/d, s/f and staff but they were all so boring compared to d/d while leveling, with sigil of air + all the mobility skills d/d provides its extremely fun to just run around the world, exploring map etc.