Guild Wars 2

Hi. I play an berserker elementalist with exalted armor and scolar runes(I think) . I play with dual dagger. The problem is that my ele deals a little damage, and dies a lot. Playing ls becomes really hard. I couldn’t beat the final boss in the last episode with the cave. What are your tips to play better ? The ele seems to me the most nerfed class…still I want to play it properly…

Well, for sheer damage, staff would probably lend itself better to soloing IMO. Large AoEs, high damage, easy access to might without using a lot of skills, hard and soft CC, and you get water fields to blast if you’re ever in need of emergency heals. That’s not to say D/D is bad, I just always preferred staff for PvE since enemies rarely walk out of AoEs. There is a really good guide for eles Here

It offers in-depth analysis of all weapon skills and useful utilities as well as explaining what traits you might take for certain situations. There are even example builds that you can use and play around with. Eles are a very strong class once you get familiar enough with them, not to mention they bring a lot of good things to a party. Hope that helped.

Well Elementalist are squishy by nature. They have the lowest amount of HP and Armor and since you play zerker gear with scholar rune, that’s make matters even worst in term of survivability.

1) Your weapon set isn’t that great. D/D is more of a mobility set, which make it really good in PvP, but the worst set in PvE. You have several option. Staff is the highest dps, especially good in group, less practical when you solo. S/D or S/F is best at stacking might for the group, again better for goup content. D/F on the other end is especially good for solo or for hard content.

2) gear is important, but not as much as your trait. For a long time, ppl used to think that Ele didn’t have that much dmg, but they figure out that dmg modifier are powerful and that the Elementalist can have a lot of it. Make sure you have the right trait for your build.

3) Make sure you have the right rotation. LW is the biggest dps skill for a Dagger main hand build, but you also need a rotation to give yourself some might. Make sure you have the proper rotation.

The last boss doesn’t attack you directly. Its Cc is the only annoying thing that can be totally avoidable. Now answer this question: what did you die off? Do you have a combat log of your DPS? What is your trait setup? Zerker and scholar isn’t the whole part of the build.

So for leveling D/F is the way to go ?

Prevas.9305:

So for leveling D/F is the way to go ?

Its one way to go. Its a versatile setup with a good survivability. But a lot of ppl like to level up with D/D for the mobility around the open world. Using a staff with your Earth Elemental getting the aggro is another option. D/F was a nice option for him in particular because he was complaining about dying. It doesn’t mean that its the best way.

D/D with water/arcana traits + zephyrs boon is the most efficient and fun setup to level if you do it by running around in the open world. It has good mobility, can handle a lot of mobs with aoe and rarely ever dies.

Thanks both of you .

Yea I agree with the responses here, D/D isn’t really built for PvE, I tend to use Zerk gear setup and staff for PvE. Ele’s are very squishy and dodging and counters is what we rely on and known the battle field. Remember our armor is weak,