Guild Wars 2

Of all the ele abilities, Glyph of Elementals (and the other elites) just completely eludes me. What are the best ways to use each elemental?

Fire – Added damage.
Water – Ice field + Heal (Favorite)
Air – ?
Earth -?

I pretty much use earth exclusivly, especially in PvP. it can tank a heap of damage and you can hide behind it against non piercing effects.

Only reason to use elite elemental is fire basically. It does a LOT of damage if not killed. Water has a nice heal which is made useless by having 4-6 seconds casttime (whenever the elemental decides to actually start the cast). Air can be nice if you need ranged damage or a on-demand stun. Earth is basically useless in pvp.

Honestly, use it in fire 100% and be done with it – or switch to FGS which is our least worse elite.

Use the earth one in PvE because it sort of tanks!
Use the glyph in general in PvP because it’s the only one which objectively helps us (until rebound, but it’s bad), because tornado sucks and FGS makes you lose your real weapons!

Meh. Fire and earth. Go fire if you need more damage and earth if you need to soak up some damage.

I only take GE if there too many Rangers in the game and let the Earth Element tank their pet, I hate that constant cripple from the pets.

I wish air line didn’t suck that much for D/S so I could take the super speed with fresh air.

posthumecaver.6473:

I only take GE if there too many Rangers in the game and let the Earth Element tank their pet, I hate that constant cripple from the pets.

I wish air line didn’t suck that much for D/S so I could take the super speed with fresh air.

What do you mean by “Air line [is bad] for D/S”?

Earth is useless in PVP? I use it all the time when bunkering a point. Combat is constrained to a small point which the elemental stays on and therefore always hits with cripple and protection when he executes his stomp.

Water elemental is pretty awesome, too. In addition to heal and condition cleanse, it provides you with a second way to decap a point besides your air knockback.

If I am off point and out in the open, I will go with Air a lot for the ranged damage and the on demand stun.

Fire is for PVE.