Guild Wars 2

I leveled with glass cannon scepter/dagger all the way to 80, using staff for events.

It was very much a “kill or be killed” spec like the others mention. You basically relied on the mobs dying in your knockdown + combo fields to ramp up damage.

I forget some of the skill names but for the most part, circle strafing mobs until they are together, then doing a Ride The Lightning, Updraft →FIRE ATTUNEMENT→ Ring of Fire, Dragon’s Tooth, Phoenix combo destroys most mobs if you have equivalent level gear.

If they don’t die from that, swap to EARTH and throw up another ground stomp + earth AOE. Taking advantage of the earth protection while finishing them off.

At 80 I changed my playstyle to staff with full healing / toughness / power / vitality type gear. I have a mix of the healing gear from karma vendors + the crafted healing set. I’ll have to check the exact spec… I’m fairly certain it is 10 Air, 30 Arcana 30 Water. Basically I am able to tank about 6-8 of the Cursed Shore and Malchor’s Leap mobs by simply element swapping and keeping boons + heals rolling. I also have full dwayna rune set which helps.

This spec is also great for support in groups whether it’s pvp, wvwvw or pve… Lots of fun. Might take you a little longer to kill things, but you will feel unstoppable.

And the best part is farming orichalcum nodes, tossing heals and letting 8 mobs beat on you while you farm the node and move on with full health.

I have an 80 Elementalist and an 80 Thief…

Sure, thief does some great burst damage, but they truly are a glass cannon.

My elementalist can tank better than most melee classes using staff. I’ve duo’d the majority of champion events in Cursed Shores / Malchor’s Leap with an 80 Warrior just rolling with 80 exotic healing gear (Cleric’s Exalted & Karma Gear mixed).

Overall, I have more fun with my elementalist because she seems unstoppable. I love farming with her because I am never afraid of dying, and the only annoying thing is I have no stealth to escape worst-case-scenarios. Other than that, it’s a great class.

Thief was my first 80, and I do enjoy thief gameplay typically, I just feel I’m forced to play a ranged thief which is annoying to me. I’d rather play elementalist if I’m going ranged.

Just my 2c.

My quest line for level 62 is currently bugged, and won’t let me continue story mode into the higher level zones…

I was down to needing only the southern most POI in Fort Trinity to complete the map, and decided I would try running in the tiny crevice’s around the enclosed POI area in hopes I could trigger the POI anyway.

Well, after hitting each groove and spamming infiltrator’s arrow just to see if it would get me a tiny bit closer, it got me a lotta bit closer..

http://youtu.be/SoVtjVKCIdc

I’m not sure if this happens in other situations, but I got to imagine it could.