Guild Wars 2

I’m traveling through the new zones as my Tempest (which I love). I am having extreme difficulty though. I’m fine when I stay at range and dodge attacks with a staff, but if I try to Overload one of my elements I generally get killed in 1-2 hits extremely quickly when I walk near things (I swear Overload Element has a built in Taunt).

Tempest has so much Protection and self heals. But all that’s useless in Berserker gear because you can’t heal when you die in one hit.

I’ve read accounts of people saying changing to tougher gear doesn’t help much and you still can’t tank things, so it’s best to just stay as berserker and dodge. But I just want to check with other peoples experience to make sure before/if I make an investment in tougher gear.

I use more tanky gear and am fine with it. But it does not replace moving. You must move and dodge or no gear will help you. Also its important when you overload so this is learning by doing (dying ^^).
I dislike ferocity and while i like healing power its a bit meh and use more toughness and vit instead and focus on condition damage or power + precision. But this is also a WvW aproach.
For elementalists you can´t realy go wrong with celestial gear it fits the class so if you are uneasy which ascended trinkets to use get cele firs and maybe add viper armor if you can get it.

I find defensive stats in pve useful only for the content I am not familiar with as it gives a little extra cushioning when I make mistakes. Some of the hits that 1 shot my zerker ele on new maps would be big enough to 1 shot ele in gear with vitality, so imo, you’d need both vit and toughness, leaving you with little dmg.

I think you need to learn better when to overload.

As long as you keep moving, and don’t overload on los health, zerker is fine really. Remember to use projectile reflection against snipers/frogs and thinks will be ok.

Esquilax.3491:

I’m traveling through the new zones as my Tempest (which I love). I am having extreme difficulty though. I’m fine when I stay at range and dodge attacks with a staff, but if I try to Overload one of my elements I generally get killed in 1-2 hits extremely quickly when I walk near things (I swear Overload Element has a built in Taunt).

Tempest has so much Protection and self heals. But all that’s useless in Berserker gear because you can’t heal when you die in one hit.

I’ve read accounts of people saying changing to tougher gear doesn’t help much and you still can’t tank things, so it’s best to just stay as berserker and dodge. But I just want to check with other peoples experience to make sure before/if I make an investment in tougher gear.

I’ve had zero issue using a tankier build/setup that other forum posters have created. You still have to dodge and move, but its waaaaay more forgiving than pure zerker. Build is Air/Earth/Tempest, Dagger (zerk)/Warhorn(knights), armor (cav), runes (I run scrapper, but you can really use whatever you want, all trinkets/back (zerker). Basically permanent protection, 1700+ toughness = you stay alive through most “oh schnap!” moments.