Guild Wars 2

first of all sorry for my english, im spanish so i cant speak it very well.
i cant understand the balance on this game.
Yes if u specced full dps on everyclass they can do rougly the same dmg but elementalists have the lowest defensse and vit among all classes, if u specced full dps u will go around with 1900 defense and 11k hp,
per example a warr with 2 hand sword or riflle full pow-crit would have 2200 defense and 20khp.
and a ranguer would have 2050defense and 13000 hp.

So wich is the tradeoff for far less survivality??? in every other game u would be the glass canon etc and would have higer dps. but here we have the same or less dps than the other class and we die faster so i cant understand the balance here.

And yes, i have a elem 80 as main, and a warr 70 and ranger 65, and 100+matches on closedpvp so i have a bit of experience, im not whinning, but where is the balance here? when u have less on something(defense and hp) we should have more in other things,

there is none. the ele simply just sucks… play something else untill its fixed.. i would suggest mesm or necro if you like magic ^^

Erebus doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Health pools don’t really mean that much in this game, to be honest. I have 11.8k hp on my Ele, enough toughness to choke a horse, and I do enough damage to pretty quickly win a 1v1 against just about anyone I’ve come up against.
If you spec for full damage (i.e. a glass cannon build) you shouldn’t be trying to 1v1 anything. You should be coming out of nowhere to very quickly turn the tide of close battles. You can make all kinds of builds that will be useful and have great applications, but they won’t all be able to go toe to toe with everyone in 1v1 situation. This is a different kind of PvP and Arenanet likes it that way. I do, too. There’s more to strategy than “run at enemy, mash buttons, repeat”