Guild Wars 2

Tei,

I looked at your stats, it is not that much different from mine, except for crit damage,

If I read the link correctly, you have

Power : 1793 vs my 1749
Precision: 1336 vs my 1320
Toughness: 1705 vs my 1686
Vitality: 1534 vs my 1690
Crit damage: 40% vs. my 12%
Boon duration: 30% vs my 60%
Healing power: 502 vs. my 472

Other than Crit damage, I don’t really see a huge difference. If that is a viable spec. I can definitely sacrifice my boon duration and a bit a vitality to get it close to 40% crit dmg. But honest, I don’t think the power is enough to 1 vs 1 any other prof.

Maybe it is just my skills, let me level up my warrior, then I will know if it is just me or is really because ele is not viable.

Ele can do a lot of damage, but then you will sacrifice vitality and toughness, because ele is light armour, you will be very squishy, hard to solo roam. If you like to play in a group or zerg, then ele is good.

By the way, ele is a hard class to play, if you are starting out in gw2, try to pick other prof first

Thanks for the replies

Initially, I do have about 50% crit damage with divinity runea and berserker gears, but then I don’t last more than 3 shots against a warrior. Most dd video I watched told me to go power vitality toughness with boon duration, so I have to sarcrifice my precision and crit damage to go to exotic soldier gear and use rune of traveler, monk and water to increase my boons duration

Anyway, I started a warrior now, was thinking of a mesmer, which seems more fun, but I can’t take the chance on another light armor prof again.

I leveled up to 80 a month ago and is on the verge of giving up the elementalist.
I used the most common and beginner-friendly spec, DD ele with 0/10/0/30/30 traits. While survivability is ok, damage is just insufficient to 1 vs 1 any other profession.

I had read lot’s guide and video about ele and see that my stats are not that much different from them, but the ele in the youtube video seems to do well in 1 vs 1 in WvW.

This is the spec I used based on a number of DD ele experts in youtube. I can only might stack to about 12 to 16 using ring of fire then arcane wave, earth dodge roll, earthquake and churning earth with sigil of battle

Power 1749
Precision 1320
Toughness 1686
Vitality 1690
condition damage 160
boon duration 60%
Critical damage 12%
Healing power 472.

Is this a viable ele spec for WvW roaming and occasionally 1 vs 1?