Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I played the game for a few months after launch, and I’m trying it out again to see how fun it is. I really like the elementalist gameplay and feel, although I felt they were incredibly weak when I used to play about ~2 years ago. How are they currently in PVP? What spec should I be levelling as? What spec should I be pvping with?

In PvE while you are leveling, any build is fine, altho i did prefer using staff because it just had more hard CC and aoe than anything else.

As for PvP, there are some builds.
The most popular would be the Celestial Amulet D/D Build, if you google it, you’ll find the exact build, with a few variations in water traits, but it is almost the same everywhere.

Second most popular are Fresh air builds, those tend to vary with multiple types of weapons, which involve mostly running zerker, or sometimes even celestial.

And third, there is the signet build that focuses on having 6 earth, atleast 2 in water, then 4 in fire and the rest of the points is optional, the build focuses on Celestial Amulet aswell and runs Scepter/Focus, there are two guides at the moment on the forums, one is the Ember Elementalist guid and the other is Zergeist’s build.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Burn-The-Zeitgeist-S-F-Signet-Guide-Video/first#post4851242

Personally i prefer running the Signet build, with a slight variation in traits to fit my play-style.

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot to add, there is also the support 00266 Staff builds, that are focused mostly on group support, which can do fine, if you are experienced enough with the Elementalist class, but i wouldn’t suggest staff in PvP for beginners.