Leveling in PVE
It’s pretty easy. Early on Fire will carry you through everything and once you open up Earth you can wreck everything but champions solo. If a group of mobs is stacked tight d/d fire4-earth4-sandstorm-earth5-lightning1 will take care of most of it. 1 trait point in water will make you more durable than most classes… until you get knocked down or rooted in the middle of a group. CC is the only threat when leveling.
What weapon set do you suggest for leveling?
Dagger/dagger, nothing else really compares. The amount of damage you put out is ridiculous and you still get a ton of survivability and CC while also having the best mobility.
Gets pretty rough sometimes if you run solo, you will literally die in a few seconds if you get tanked down by 3 mobs.
What lawful said, i consider myself quite a decent mmo player in general and very fast learner in games but i had 3x more deaths on my ele than i had on my guard by the time i hit 60 on both classes and guardian was my first character ever so yeah. As for damage its nothing great imo, it can be really good if you can aoe bunch of mobs and stay alive at the same time but i found ele to be very lacking in single target dps, though saying “very lacking” is prolly to harsh, maybe lacking is enough. Another issue i found with ele is that the most important traits for some weapon builds are unlocked only at level 80 and those traits change the gameplay style of the class completely which bothered me quite a lot while i was leveling since i always had this thought in the back of my head that i will basically have to relearn how to play once i get those level 80 traits. All in all once you hit 80 its a blast imo.
Also to clarify i wouldnt say it was hard leveling ele, not at all to be honest, its not facerolling on your keyboard with a guardian but its not “hard”, at least i dont consider it hard.
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I leveled with a staff and generally killed things before they could really do too much to me. Staff also has multiple CC’s to help you out and healing from Water if you need it. Yeah, Ele needs to be more aware of its surroundings when leveling since it has low base defenses, but as long as you pay attention its not kitten
ly hard part of Ele leveling is getting used to attunement swapping and remembering what all of your abilities do. Most classes can level without ever really worrying about weapon swapping too much, but Ele goes a lot better the sooner you get used to it.
What lawful said, i consider myself quite a decent mmo player in general and very fast learner in games but i had 3x more deaths on my ele than i had on my guard by the time i hit 60 on both classes and guardian was my first character ever so yeah. As for damage its nothing great imo, it can be really good if you can aoe bunch of mobs and stay alive at the same time but i found ele to be very lacking in single target dps, though saying “very lacking” is prolly to harsh, maybe lacking is enough. Another issue i found with ele is that the most important traits for some weapon builds are unlocked only at level 80 and those traits change the gameplay style of the class completely which bothered me quite a lot while i was leveling since i always had this thought in the back of my head that i will basically have to relearn how to play once i get those level 80 traits. All in all once you hit 80 its a blast imo.
Also to clarify i wouldnt say it was hard leveling ele, not at all to be honest, its not facerolling on your keyboard with a guardian but its not “hard”, at least i dont consider it hard.
Its a new system, traits used to be unlocked much earlier than 80, the final ones as far as i remember, i don’t know why they changed it so that second tier traits are lv60 now and third tier at 80, makes no sense, along with the change to how you unlock skills per level, ect.