Guild Wars 2

So I finally made an Ele and so far its really fun. Feels a little weak while leveling but every class did other than Warrior/Guardian who flat out cant be killed in PvE. I went into some WvW as a lowbie just to get a feel for the class. I know I dont have the gear or traits to do anything but I just wanted to practice going through the attunements and learning when to use what. I watched some streams and videos of large scale battles and they attunement dance like crazy. It seems like as soon as something comes off cooldown they switch over to to it and I cant figure out why. I assume that all comes with lots and lots of experience?

Also Im kinda scared to be a caster when Im used to pushing through the other raid as a Guardian or Warrior. Is it pretty hard to stay alive if you aren’t in the main group and hanging around at the back? Seems like you are an easy target standing there alone and helpless without the HP and Armor of a Warrior or Guardian. Or will the other zerg mostly be focused on taking the heavies down and you go mostly unnoticed?

It takes time to get through the rotations but take a good long look at all of your skills and look at how they can work with each other.

Eventually you’ll get used to your rotation and attunement dancing comes second nature to you!

The fact that you’ve mained a frontliner will help you to figure out movements since you’re already familiar with how the melee train works, now you just need to learn to apply that mentality in reverse or learn a few tricks that will allow you push through when a situation calls for it.

You will however need to learn to react incredibly quickly to a situation as the margin for error is significantly lower on your Ele.

Back in the bunker days I played frontline D/D with my guild, usually one of the first into the enemy zerg, but instead of playing tag with your and the enemies melee train you focus more on harassment of the backline and then look for a way to regroup. Now days it’s a little harder to do that and survive but not impossible.

The best analogy I can use is the following: playing a warrior or guardian is like being a rock in a river, your purpose is to smash and divide. Playing an elementalist you are the water flowing in the river and need to learn how to smoothly flow around the rock without being turned into a dam.

I’m not going to get into rotations and why we attunement swap so frequently, you’ll figure that out on your own I’m sure

Been watching http://www.twitch.tv/chemsorly and I just cant do that lol.