Guild Wars 2

I am relatively new to the game. I have red the D/D elementalist guide and really like some of the ideas. Most of them work well for me (use pbAOE los, environment, combo rotation etc.), but today I tried out the method of weaving, and the result is not as good as I expected. If I understand correctly, weaving is about disable the melee combat assist option so we can run through the enemy to its back and use pbAOE to attack from the back without turning. The idea is to constantly use this method to confuse the enemy who has to constantly turn around. It may work well in pvp but in pve it seems this method does not work too well for me. I have tried it on many types of ranged enemies (centaur archer, rifle, bandit archer rifle) using only earth 1 and 2 for experimental reason. This method seems to only work against rifle enemies because they are very slow. Against poisonous archer and longbow, I will lose about half of my health. The problem is even if the archer shoots in the opposite direction, it sometimes still hit me.

What is more frustrating is that I tried to attack a centaur archer without moving at all, and the resulting health is about the same. This is because my autoattack (earth 1) seems to interupt centaur archer’s attack and therefore reduce about two third of its attacking frequency.

I am curious to know how well this method works for other ele players. Maybe, I just need more practice to make it works. Thanks.

In pve, it’s best to gap-close to ranged in a pack, lure them all in, and start locking them down using the aoe cc’s D/D provides.

once you’re in melee range of all of them, you have access to the full arsenal.

They become chilled so attack more slowly, the’re periodically launched, knocked down, or stunned by your shocking aura.

TLDR version:

the cc’s and auras you have available to you should be leveraged to maximum effect, and ranged should be priority-kills because you can’t kite them forever like you can melee foes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq10myisSU4

This is an example how to use pbaoe and disable the Opponent with enviromental use.

Weaving is mostly a pvp technique,you cant use it in pve because the the mobs auto-face
you.