sPVP newbie
Personally I find Ele one of the worst classes for 1v1, just my opinion. You really have to work hard to win.
This is what im running now and getting ok results. The protection really helps from the auras.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmKbnx5gjDA0DmMZISHlHzkjNA-TsAA1CnIQShkDJDSSksINK4Uw8DA
The advantage of sPvP is you don’t have to level up to roll alts. I usually don’t give this type of advice, and tend to deter others from it as well, but try some different professions. Elementalist is kinda bottom tier in sPvP at the moment, for a variety of reasons. Eventually the balancing pendulum will swing back though and we can dust off our elementalists. For now though, our burst build isn’t bursty enough and our bunker builds can’t take the condition/CC spam.
Not sure if this is what you want to hear but…out of all of the classes, personally i found elementalist to be the hardest to learn. Why? they have a small health pool and little armor…so they are extremely glassy…unlike a thief who has an iron curtain you pretty much are always in danger.
The real issue lies in that Ele’s really lack in a constant defence and their h/p pool is small so they are forced to spam healing on themselves to survive…and when your healing your damage is low/none. I am aware you can stack toughness/vitality/healing…but i was playing an elementalist as a damage dealer not a bunker.
IMO…there are two ways they can go…either make elemenalist more ranged based…to avoid they main battle…or increase survival.
(edited by Conan.8046)