Eh…
I played my ele through to 80, and I have do admit we are very squishy. The best way to play is earth of course, and to not attempt to be a glass-cannon, but regardless we are very squishy.
It will become more apparent as you level. In the low levels, it is very easy, all the classes are, but it will become increasingly more difficult to stand on par with a warrior or guardian, or even a necro in terms of survivability. One would hope that lacking survivability we would have better DPS, but this does not seem to be the case either…-.-’