Guild Wars 2

Way back when, a friend talked me into playing a D/D Ele and for awhile, it was my favorite class in the game. After time though, it began to feel that my Ele really wasn’t all that effective in most situations and so, I hate to admit it, but I deleted her and then quit playing GW2. I should probably say that I almost never do PvE so my questions are strictly based upon WvW and PvP.

After recently coming back to the game, I have quickly grown bored of how simple my Warrior is and so I was wondering, is the D/D Ele worth playing again? I’m looking to play a class that is VERY quick paced, mobile and can dish out some nice AoE. I remember way back when that I used to rush into a zerg, drop a crap-ton of AoE and then run out again while laughing. Yeah, I would die about half the time but it was so much fun to troll those zergs.

The other goal I have is that I love solo roaming and being able to 1v1 or 1vX w/o getting completely destroyed. With that goal, being able to escape a bad situation is also really handy.

Thanks!

Hmm, ele isn’t what it used to be in terms of survival and zerg-trolling. RTL-nerf (increased CD) took most of the fun from D/D ele in WvW so I stopped solo-roaming (and WvW in general).
In PvP however it has always been my favorite class, because of the things you already mentioned.
D/D even recieved some buffs in the last patch – or let’s say reverted nerfs – that made it playable again in PvP. Though the last few months where quite hard for eles in PvP I never stopped playing it because it’s the only class I’m having fun with – regardless of success or effectivity.
So if you enjoyed playing ele, I think you’ll still have fun with it, even though you’ll maybe get steamrolled by certain cheese-builds cough warrior cough