Role PVP Ele
If you don’t want to invest a lot of time learning how to play your Elementalist properly, then it is probably not the right class for you. Ele is by far the most challenging class to play properly, but once you spend a month practicing, you will find the class to be quite powerful.
Of course, you could just spend 30 minutes practicing with any OP build you find online for the other classes, and feel powerful in your first game.
I just made rank 17 on my ele and im getting a few more lights turned on with how to play it.
Playing an ele in spvp reminds of playing street fighter2. How long does it take to figure out how to make the triple dragon punch come off??? problem is that some of the ele combos are not that obvious or are obvious but the application isnt…
What kind of PvP you play makes a huge difference in what role the ele can play.
I very much enjoy experimenting with combos and I find it a bit silly to say, but before bed and when I wake up I am considering new combo’s to try when I get a chance to play. I enjoy the complexity of the class. I just want to make sure there are no gaping deficiencies in the class other than skill.
How high do ranks go? Are they attained through sPVP? or all PVP?
I enjoy all kinds of PVP.
Not silly at all. Problem is that it can take a really long time to get enough to get them to work.
For me it has taken a lot of grueling hours to start to make some headway. The word is its better to use an easier class to learn the pvp ropes and then bring out the ele.
the class learning curve is really steep. reminds me of the EVE learning curve.
if you havent seen it…
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Ele has a few “roles” but can’t be played as cookie cutter as other professions.
Staff ele has great supporting skills. If you don’t want to support, pvp ele can be…challenging. I’ve played staff as to where I don’t necessarily heal, not do dmg, but I do annoy the hell out of people with slows, stuns, pushes, chills. Kiting like a boss is important. Staff has damage, but it requires to target to not be moving, or for you to place some amazing zones while kiting (my preference).
As it sounds, you like staff. It can be fun. The issue is a lack of up front damage sources that are direct target skills. That’s something your utility skills can make up for, to a certain degree.
Good luck to your play style, but know that staff won’t be blasting smarter players away quickly.
That is good news then, I might level up my Thief to try out PVP basics and go from there. LOL at the graph. I played 6 years of WoW and only did PVP so I am hoping that maybe a few youtube videos and a few months of dieing in this game will prepare me.
I really enjoy the mobility factor of this game as well. You really have to move around for the full effect.
@Furby At first I hated the staff but after a keyboard switch (closer F1-F4 keys) and a bit of combo practice I had a lot of fun with it. My fav so far is d/d. Kinda sad that I can’t switch between the two like my rogue does with ranged and d/d. I can imagine that thiefs and warriors who know how to run circles around ele’s will greatly kill the mood of using a staff.
Thats likely not a bad approach as thieves can kill an ele in two hits… or one.
It good to know how the enemy works.