Picked up my friend's lightning hammer today
Go ahead buddy. Try it. Go on.
Last thing you want to do is re roll from Ranger to Ele, you will spend more time screaming at your screen and wanting to punch the crap out of it than enjoying the game.
I started out as Ele, then got more and more frustrated as I got higher level, thought I was rolling a glass canon, turned out I rolled a toilet paper water gun.
Now I’m a Ranger, 2nd fav class, well, use to be. Lost all interest in playing after the hidden Nerf in an animation fix.
Well, I was asking more about pve, but I tested it on spvp. I actually did good unless I ran into a glass cannon thief (almost half the players). Playing a greatsword ranger, I’m already used to hitting like a wet noodle, and traps don’t transfer to pvp either. Elementalist has a huge upper hand on mobility and condition removal that I would be willing to trade my beloved kitten bear for as well.
I think I’ll just stick to casually bumbling through pve on my ranger though and hope for a weaponset / utility buff; spvp is a joke and my system can’t take much wvw anyway.