Guild Wars 2

I’ve never played this sort of game before but am really enjoying my experience so far. I decided to try the elementalist profession but it’s hard for me, even though I love the casting of spells.

First question: How do I get the signet of air? I’m at level 10 and I want to be able to walk around faster. I see that signet of fire is available on my skill page but not signet of air. I was fighting with another elementalist and saw that she had the signet so I know it must be available. I am a complete rookie and no explanation can be too simple for me. hint hint.

Second question: Just read about traits and how I have to go to an elementalist trainer to learn them, and I know that they have a book symbol above them, but I’ve been all over the place and still can’t find one.

I’ve googled these questions but everything I’ve read is way over my head – like it assumes I already know all of these basic questions….

Answer to question 1: signet of air is a tier 2 utility skill. Meaning: you need to have at least 5 skills that kost 1 skill point to get to it.

Answer to question 2: in most starter areas they will be found close to the entrance of the big city. Else you can go to the centre of Lions Arch where it will be also

Thank you for the quick reply! I’m sure I’ll be back with more stupid questions…..

Chris.8206:

Thank you for the quick reply! I’m sure I’ll be back with more stupid questions…..

Lol, some will say that theres no such thing as stupid questions. I disagree. But I digress.
If you need info ask , people here are good people and will help, the trolls get jumped fairly quickly.
ANything you need, thats why we have these forums.

Welcome to GW2 chris, and the best class, it’s good you started as ele. Probably the hardest class for a first timer, but you’ll become more skillful in the long run

For reference what type of games do you usually play?

Welcome to the class and the game! Feel free to ask any questions/advice as people are very helpful, especially about the ele class.

You may also notice some discontent with the state of eles right now, but ignore it. They are just fine when you get good enough, and can be amazing in the right situations. You can do everything in PvE with an ele.

Also, there is a “Players helping players” subforum where many helpful souls can help you with general questions: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players

Welcome to GW2, seriously the best game ever =).

I’m not trying to patronize you with this advice, but if you’re having trouble (dying a lot, not quite getting the whole MMO system, etc.), it might not hurt to switch over to an easier to learn class like the Warrior or Guardian to kinda get a grasp of the basic concepts of GW2. Elementalists have a crazy high skill ceiling (IMO the highest of the game); they’re tough to play right (lowest armor + lowest health = ouch), and even if one plays an Ele well, the current state of the Meta (how the community views certain play styles over other ones) does not favor eles…at all. That will hopefully change soon, but for right it’s understandable if you’re having trouble; you’re playing a very hard class.

On the flip side, if you can kick butt with an Elementalist, you can kick butt with pretty much anything. So if like the challenge, go for it—sticking with Ele will only make you a better player in the long run. The official forums are a great place to get help on not only Ele stuff like skills, traits, and builds, but also anything pertaining to GW2 or MMOs in general.

There’s some really smart people here (I’m not one of them), and the advice they give is killer. Most of the topics you’ll see pertain to high level content, but there’s plenty of great leveling advice for Ele if you ask around. Good luck!

Something that should prove very useful as you learn about the game, that isn’t clearly explained by any in-game tutorial: the /wiki command.

Type /wiki <something> (for example, "/wiki Signet of Air") into your chat box, and your browser will go to that page on the official wiki (if it exists). The wiki has lots of info on skills, traits, weapons, items, events, areas, activities... pretty much everything.