Guild Wars 2

Sorry, but is there an easy way into the attuments? Like if you see an enemy use water skill 3 than 5 to protect yourself, than earth 2 and 4 to slow him down and than fire 4-5-2 and so on? Healing is Air 3

Some easy steps that you can write down and than memorize to get more effective as an Elementalist?

What’s your preferred weapon set, and what level are you? What attunements to use and how are kinda specific.

There’s no easy way. It’s more that you can combine them in different ways and what you want to achieve greatly dictates what choices you make.

And that’s not even considering your weapon, skill choice and trait setup.

On this topic, I don’t really think there is any substitute for practice.

My advice would be to try to perform the best that you possibly can in every fight, and use all the tools in your toolbox. Don’t try to just stay in one or two attunements, even if that works fine for fights.

After a while, you will start to learn how to best use all the attunements, and get down a good rhythm.

But is there any preferred weapon set that would make the start easier? I’ll hit 80 shortly with my Elementalist and could choose any weapon I like.

Perhaps you should try Scepter/Dagger, because the differences in what the attunements do is really strong in that weapon set, and you want to use all 4.

Air — great to open fights with

Fire — strong AoE DPS, and you stack Might (even with the Dragon’s Tooth bug you stack some, with Phoenix and hopefully Arcane Wave)

Earth — also some AoE DPS and blast finishers for Might, but most notable for its defense. Also the best spammable #1 skill in the set.

Water — heal and condition clear, especially if you have the Cleansing Wave trait.

Using Glyphs underscores that Water is for healing (especially Elemental Harmony, Elementals) and Earth is for defense (those 2 and also Storms, Lesser Elementals).

The one thing you don’t learn about the attunements in that skillbar is crowd control — it’s the most immobile playstyle we have, RtL gap closing aside — but otherwise most stuff is covered.

The best advice I can give you is to get very defensive gear (something like Power/Toughness/Vitality) and learn how to play with that. It’ll give you some breathing room, will allow you to make a mistake without dying instantly. Then, when you’ve got the general feel for things, you can swap in some more offensive gear.

go to the mists and practice on the NPC’s and dummies. it takes a lot of time to get the muscle memory in the fingers worked out. you need to do it without looking or thinking about what you need.
least i do.