Guild Wars 2

Hey guys I have been levelling my ele for a bit and 1-30 has been pretty easy but all of a sudden I have been experiencing quite alot of diffculty surviving against most of the pve content which involves handling more than 2 npc at a time, I have been using vit toughness gear and power vit weapons and trinkets but I still have some problems staying alive, Im rocking D/D as it seems the most solo friendly but getting in those npcs faces has been proving a little tricky as of late, my traits are 0/0/3/10/10 if that helps. I dont know if this is usual as eles are a high practice squishy class or a serious l2p on my part.
And dont get me started on underwater combat
Thanks in advance!

Well, I levelled my Ele with a staff, of course I tried the other weapon sets, but the staff great AOE ability and decent control skills helped me better than D/D for example.
What you can try is to take Scepter/dagger and try bursting your opponents down faster than they can (fire #2, #4 under the tooth, #3 so the phoenix pass through the opponent twice and hit him with the explosion inside the ring of fire, switch to earth, #4, #5; this should destroy any opponent and even most of the veterans you can encounter while leveling up and stack 15 might on you as well)

Underwater combat is quite easy, as soon as you discover the power of water attunement in there, #5 is a total destruction if you hit with it correctly, while #2 is solid damage (hit the enemy and detonate the ball fast so it does the damage twice), #3 blocks and chills enemies and can be detonated too, for extra damage an chill.

Try it, you’ll see

Edit: Forgot the arcane wave in the scepter rotation, feel free to use it anytime during the fire ring duration

Earth and Water have an AoE slow, so if you switch from Earth/Water to Fire/Air and back you should be able to keep melee foes out of range most of the time. Air has also a stun for melee foes getting too close.
Water #2 heals yourself.
Ever since I knew these two things I had hardly problems with D/D while leveling.

Not sure how my build was back then but Fire and Air for more damage and Arcane Power for faster recharging attunements are properly the best idea.

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I have been using vit toughness gear and power vit weapons and trinkets but I still have some problems staying alive

You should try a more aggressive approach, perhaps power/prec and power/vit blend of gear. If things don’t die after Burning Speed → Ring of Fire and a few lightning whips then you definitely have a DPS issue. When I levelled, I prioritised Renewing Stamina as the sole defense so I can dodge more and pumped damage everywhere else.

Always have power everywhere. Going ‘tanky’ makes your levelling process alot slower since you take longer killing mobs and fill hearts and maybe even kill so slowly that other mobs respawn on top of you.

You can pick a lot of cantrips and/or traits that help you cure conditions, so I’d suggest dropping the vitality and putting those points into more power or toughness.

Ok thanks the for the responses, I have tried D/F and S/F and they are both pretty good as well and have included another cantrip to my skills (mist form, lightning flash and arcane blast). I have also got power presicion arnour and some toughness/vit power trinkets and weapons, see how that helps.
I am wondering though is it worth using sigil of restoration at low levels or is the other healing spells much better? (glyph/ether)

I prefer using the sigil, but it’s more a playstyle thing than a statistically proven better option. I have plenty of condition removal in my build, so Ether Renewal doesn’t bring a lot to the table. The signet and the glyph have the same cooldown, but I like the glyph’s slightly shorter cast time and its passive ability for when I’ve taken some damage, but not enough to warrant a full heal. That’s what works for my playstyle.

With D/D learn to do what I call melee kiting. That is moving and dodging to stay just out of melee range 80% of the time. Most of your skills are slightly longer than most mobs melee and/or are faster activating.

Each attunement gives you an ability or two to do this, fire and lightning give you speed, water and earth give you slows and a stun.

Don’t be afraid to interrupt a skill if you’re going to take damage by standing still. Use auto attack only as a quick follow up from your other skills.

Once you get this down you can easily solo huge groups, so long as they don’t have too much range dmg.

The entire point to levelling is simply to get to 80. You don’t need to be rocking the most elite killing weapons at 30, you need to manage surviving with killing. I levelled with Staff, then did some d/d, then scepter/focus and back to staff near end for event levelling with masses. This is all old, things have changed so much, now unless you are doing a champ farm zerg there isn’t much for event farming.

Personally I found staff the safest even if not the OMGdamage.