Elementalist is hands down my favorite profession in this game, are they viable in pve, hell yes. I loved wow, then it got old and i stopped playing it but when i did play i played a shaman and ele are a bit like them just not as forgiving. u have utility designed to be enacted in situations that, if u r playing right, u create and or have to work out of. my idea of a good time. Elementalists are hands down balls to the walls edge of your seat execute or die profession. You know what u will not see, elementalist bots, u want a 3 button class with range and mindless play roll something else. u want a 1 button roll warrior. stop trying to play elementalist. I hit 80 about a week after the game went live, and have been end game pve’ing since, before i trun my attention to wvw and spvp. initially it was hard, a hell of alot harder than every other class, is that fair no, but whocares i like blowing kitten up and if u have an inkling of skill than elementalist do it like no other class. staff for pve is fun conservative and less hardcore then scepter/dagger (focus sucks unless u spec aura or …) then there is last but sure as hell not least dagger/dagger. as soon as i got my head around the fact that the profession played like a situational execute on time playstyle it got easier, as soon as i tasted the immense damge possible with daggers there was no looking back. no other class can out damage elementalist, that i have seen except maybe a good mesmer, and even then if u bring your a game u will litterally be doing the work of the whole dynamic event zerg group before they even get close enough to hit the mobs. its dmg is nuts, and its aoe which makes it even crazier. ride the lightning to updraft to stance dance attunement swap to fire burning speed back in to ring of fire/arcane blast/fire grab/drakes breath and if placed right (this is where skill is involved) everything is dead. attacking wave of risen dead to the veteran who has 1/2 his health and by this time everyone else is arriving. dodge away to the back of the pack and let someone else actually hit the mobs. its crazy and i deffinatley would suggest trying it. the day i hit 80 if someone told me exactly what type of build to use to do that there is no way i could have executed it. so practice, skill knowledge (when to burn cd’s when not to), and an understanding that you are a melee glass cannon will get u on your way to not sucking. U will die alot, overextend, burn cd’s when u shouldn’t, have a stupid parrot pet with a death wish, or go afk for 3 secs open field and death awaits. sorry for the winded reply but i thought maybe a bit of this might inform someone who by chance read it. peace and go hard or go home, want easy roll something else.
