Guild Wars 2

I have a number of 80s (Engi, Ranger, Necro) and a few other alts 45+ (Thief, Mesmer, Guard) and want to try my hand at Ele.

Looking at Ele though I’m confused how you can trait into an attunement but then have to constantly attunement swap. How does that work? Do you favor 1 attunement? Do you swap amongst them evenly?

Can you give me advice about how to level? Weapons, attunements, traits, gear, utilities?
An 80 build won’t help me much, and that’s all I see posted.
Thanks!

Ele’s attunement swap is basically their weapon swap. Most of the traits in the attunement lines don’t effect that attunement specifically, but logical bonuses you’d gain from those attunements.

Like in Fire Magic there’s traits that make you do more damage to burning foes, but you don’t have to be in Fire Magic for those to take effect.

I’ve always been a fan of Scepter/Dagger or Scepter/Focus. They have great combos that let you stack lots of Might. Focus really helps with survivability if you have issues with that

As for skills, Glyph of Storms (used in Earth Magic) helps alot with surviving because it blinds alot. Lightning Hammer lets you hit like a truck and has consistent blinding. Arcane Shield is good for a few blocks. Frost Bow skill 4 can melt large groups of foes but thats about the only useful skill on it.

The best elite you have is Fiery Greatsword. Pulling foes to a wall or something you can can’t walk over, like a rock, then using skill 3 and 4 (with no target and auto-target off) will just destroy them.

For leveling I always just go full damage, to get the feel of the class in Berserker gear. But from personal experience, Elementalist and Thief were some of the harder classes for me to level so you might want to try more defense, same with traits just until you’re 80 or more familiar with the class

Hope this helps

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/leveling-guide-updated-most-recent-patch/first