Guild Wars 2

With the announcement of an expansion I thought it would be a great time to finally change my main to an Ele. I have played for about 1500 hrs,1100 of that has been spent on my current main the Ranger. The rest has been mixed between multiple low level alts. I hate Ranger game play, but find it very hard to leave because of all the time spent on my character and lack of experience I have playing other professions. So as a new Ele with little experience what should I pay attention to or try to focus on learning the most?

Several things coming over from Ranger.

1st. You’re a Hybrid Build class at the core, take advantage of that. From top to bottom Elementalist is at its best, when its doing as much as it can — it has the highest APM out of any class in the game for a reason.

2nd. Unless the build you’re using requires you to, never Attunement hug. With the way they work, there will always be a more important skill you can be casting than just Autoattacking (unless you’re playing the Fire-Hugger build (which is soul-crushing)).

3rd. Weapon Swap Sigils are your friend. “But Ele’s don’t have two weapon sets!” No, they have FOUR. Changing Attunement counts as a Weapon Swap.

4th. Practice Practice Practice.

5th. Staves are boss.

depends. what are you trying to play? pve? and what spec do you want to run.

if your in pve look up a fresh air build and run that, spvp fresh air is also good, scepter focus is a good one and dagger focus also, if your straight dueling run D/D, and WvW zerging run staff with whatever spec you feel is best, tips from a player with 600 hours clocked and 300 in ele, swap attunements constantly, learn your blast finishers and experiment, i didn’t do this for my first 100 or so hours in the ele but after i started doing that i got a lot better

Try out all the weapons. Theres more to an ele than just D/D. See what you like and what fits your play-style more.

CountzuCrytus.7256:

Theres more to an ele than just D/D.

There is, but the D/D Ele is easily the coolest looking one out of the bunch.

amirite or amirite?

Play around with all of the weapons available before you settle on one. They all have different things to offer. If you want to run dungeons or do other group things, I’d really recommend staff for the damage/might/healing/vulnerability/everything it offers. For everywhere solo, they all have their benefits.

So as a new Ele with little experience what should I pay attention to or try to focus on learning the most?

A general answer for a general question: Focus on learning the class mechanics.