Guild Wars 2

Thrashbarg.9820:

It’s a perfect time to learn a new weapon set. D/D is less than ideal against ranged mobs.

Also, upgrade your gear. Don’t bother with rares, the cost difference is better saved for endgame gear unless you are rich. Just upgrading to at level masterwork quality gear looks like it would give you about a 15%ish increase in base defense. Get some defensive stats on your trinkets if you can, that’s a good place to stack some extra vit and toughness.

You didn’t mention your traits. If you aren’t already, run at least 15 in water for the self-heal on water swap, and 10 in arcane for the boon on attunement trait (protection and regeneration being keys to survival).

Don’t bother with condition damage gear, it comes at the cost of direct damage or survival stats and doesn’t synergize well with elementalists (it can work, but it’s not good against ranged groups of mobs, which you will encounter a lot from now on). That could be much of the problem, the level 47 rare set is condition/precision, which has terrible synergy for elementalists, takes a long time to kill as your damage is largely back-end and your crits may be more frequent but with no power it’s basically like multiplying nothing.

Learn cooking or buy some cheap foods to buff your vit/toughness or give you regeneration.

D/D is a good roaming set in WvW, and that’s where the common build really shines and the source of much of it’s popularity. In PvE, other sets are better or almost required for some things, the developers intended every class to use different weapons for different things.

Thank you so much for detailed info.
I’ll definitely check it out. Thank you again

Kirbyprime.2645:

What’s your set?

D/D – Rush into them and kill
D/F – Earth reflect, run into them, Air 4 and kill
S/F – Earth reflect, nuke them, Air 4, nuke some more
S/D – Run in, nuke nuke nuke nuke nuke nuke nuke
S – Nuke, Earth reflect, nuke more

D/D is what I’m using right now

Hey, level 56 ele here.
I know there has been a lot of posts saying ele is weak and I did agree when I was a low level and didn’t know how to play but only attacked them with fire attunement.

I came here to complain and saw ppl saying change ur element don’t use only one element and that solved the problem until now.

Now, I’m dying constantly from ranged attack. 3 ranged monsters attack me and I die less than 20 sec. My armors are all level 47 rare. I don’t get a huge bump from buying a new armor set.

Is there anything I could do to survive little bit longer from ranged attack?