Guild Wars 2

Very good for those single target bossfights in dungeons, can keep a constant high stack of bleed. Bleed is the way to go.

Its not fun playing a class that requires so much work to get so little reward. Anet says everyone can tank heal and DPS, but I seriously cant find any of the 3 in this class, well, cant find anything that makes it effective.

I’m still kinda new to Ele, but I’ve been watching vids on youtube of D/D Eles and they’ve gotta be the fastest class I’ve seen in game, zipping around the field with Ride the Lightning, and Burning Speed and unleashing a barrage of skills before racing off again.

Staff Ele has plenty of strong combo fields, and D/D Ele’s playstyle is crazy fun. Also, their spells are flashy.

It’s a strong WvW profession. But this is really the only reason to play an ele. It doesn’t excel in any other area of the game. Its lackluster single target damage doesn’t matter in WvW which is about area denial, aoe, and sieges. So you can really go to town with your arsenal of aoe spells and combo fields. Its squishiness is more than made up for by its slipperiness in open world combat. And the zerg gives you endless cannon fodder to take a bullet for you. You won’t ever die in WvW so long as you don’t get any illusions of being Rambo and rush into combat ahead of your zerg.

In solo pve, in dungeons, and in spvp…you can get better results for less effort elsewhere.

So long as you are aware of these limitations, then it’s possible to have fun with an ele. WvW is a pretty big deal at 80, and you can level other professions to do these other parts of the game.

The biggest positive is that we have 5 character slots to re-roll.