Guild Wars 2

Hi I am new to the game and I am wanting to make up a elementalist. Could some one tell me what they are like at leveling, wvwvw and at end game – aka dungeons and so on and what they are good at and bad at

thanks

They are squishy so they can be though early on, but once you get the hang of it and get a build going in the later levels they’re very fun and dynamic. They have the most skills (together with Engineer) and is very wanted in dungeons for their damage and utility. I’m not very knowledgeable in WvW but they’re wanted for their water fields, CC and AoE damage as far as I can tell.

I also like how you can sit back and play a traditional caster with staff or jump all over the place and go up close like a magic using thief using double daggers.

also, frost bow + fiery greatsword.

you’ll hear people yelling for those soon enough.

(make them stop)

If you are planning to roll an ele you have to learn to dodge even if you play staff. Play the build you wanna play you don’t have to be zerk to be a valuable asset to the team. If you think melee and mid range eles die all the time, you are sadly mistaken you wouldn’t belive how much survivabillity dagger scepter and focus offer.

I first started off with staff and it was the most awesome weapon. Then i discovered the beauty of scepter/focus… and fell inlove with those skills. I play zerker and the damage i do with scepter in close combat is awesone while focus offers me superb protection if i can’t dodge or forget to dodge something. Anyway, play any build that makes you comfortable, just remember to be open to new things new builds and new weapons, dont be scared to try them.

If you turn autotargetting off and don’t select a target and attack a boss against a wall with the #4 fiery great sword skill it sort of glitches and does massive damage, more than any other attack in the game. So ppl want you do to that in dungeons and frost bow is a better aoe than meteor shower so ppl want that for a lot of things.

Anyway eles can have the best healing, dps, and might stacking in the game and ppl want that in dungeons. Ppl will say they want dps more than healing but if the squad wipes they still complain that you didn’t heal enough.

Leveling with ele is easy as long as you let the earth elemental glyph tank the hard stuff for you cuz you can’t tank for crap.

In wvw you have to build for mobility and survivability to roam and pick off random targets or use a glass cannon build and kill ppl from max range with staff with a large group. Or use a boon build and support your zerg. Its actually a lot of choices I don’t see why ppl complain so much.