Guild Wars 2

Ohhhh….i just play pve contents and wvw. I am not a great warrior just a average joe playing use to be able to dish out big dmg but now i find that the dmg is slightly off and i am not doing as much dmg

Hi there i just return to my warrior and heard alot of bad things about warrior. When i left warrior was still ok so what i want to ask is are they still doing ok in pve and wvw? I dont do pvp yah just want to understand more

Lostwingman.5034:

LivingLegend.6528:

Thaddeus.4891:

Fresh air is a popular build, but its a not good pve build. Its a sPvP build.

Now, i don’t play my ele in sPvp so i can’t say if it a good sPvP build or not. But anyway, since you are talking about your levl 70 Ele, that probably mean you are playing in PvE.

Scepter/Dagger have a terrible DPS, and should not use as your main weapon in PvE. Right now there is 3 family of build for the Ele PvE.

Staff : Highest personally DPS, easiest to play. You stay in fire and spam laval front. The trait are 30/20/10/10/0 or 30/10/10/10/10.

S/F or S/D : High DPS, harder to play, stack might like crazy for your party. You gonna have to switch between pretty much all attunements to stack might, then DPS in water with your Light Hammer. Trait vary a lot for that one : 25/10/10/25/0 or 30/10/10/20/0 or 10/25/10/25/0 and a lot more depending on what you want to focus (DPS, Fury, Vulnerability, etc).

D/F : A good all around build. Its nice for solo, fractals and give access to survivability skills since the first two build are really squishy. The Trait : 30/30/10/0/0.

Of course your gear will affect a lot your DPS. But for PvE the Elementalist have the highest potentiel DPS of the game and by far. The problem is that reach the highest DPS is almost impossible. Too many requirements to get all the damage modifier. The enemy need to burn, have vulnerability, be at 33% HP, without a range of 600, you need to be at 90% HP and be in water attunement. This is achievable, but is hard as hell to keep for a long time.

What about D/D and just curious how do you guys cope with short range to long range and vice verse do you guys just change to staff? Since ele can only equip 1 wpn set

I mostly ran D/D when I did Fractals and Dungeons, I’d just swap to staff when I knew I’d have issues with close range.

Nowadays I go full “don’t wanna open my inventory” and run staff with Lightning Hammers for pug runs.

hmmm…all the other profession can switch 2 sets of wpn but only the ele just wondering though because when we are in combat we cant switch anything and sometimes we need to kite which i am not sure if just the ice bow is enough O_o(btw pardon my noobness i am still learning how to play a ele

Thaddeus.4891:

Fresh air is a popular build, but its a not good pve build. Its a sPvP build.

Now, i don’t play my ele in sPvp so i can’t say if it a good sPvP build or not. But anyway, since you are talking about your levl 70 Ele, that probably mean you are playing in PvE.

Scepter/Dagger have a terrible DPS, and should not use as your main weapon in PvE. Right now there is 3 family of build for the Ele PvE.

Staff : Highest personally DPS, easiest to play. You stay in fire and spam laval front. The trait are 30/20/10/10/0 or 30/10/10/10/10.

S/F or S/D : High DPS, harder to play, stack might like crazy for your party. You gonna have to switch between pretty much all attunements to stack might, then DPS in water with your Light Hammer. Trait vary a lot for that one : 25/10/10/25/0 or 30/10/10/20/0 or 10/25/10/25/0 and a lot more depending on what you want to focus (DPS, Fury, Vulnerability, etc).

D/F : A good all around build. Its nice for solo, fractals and give access to survivability skills since the first two build are really squishy. The Trait : 30/30/10/0/0.

Of course your gear will affect a lot your DPS. But for PvE the Elementalist have the highest potentiel DPS of the game and by far. The problem is that reach the highest DPS is almost impossible. Too many requirements to get all the damage modifier. The enemy need to burn, have vulnerability, be at 33% HP, without a range of 600, you need to be at 90% HP and be in water attunement. This is achievable, but is hard as hell to keep for a long time.

What about D/D and just curious how do you guys cope with short range to long range and vice verse do you guys just change to staff? Since ele can only equip 1 wpn set

Actually sort of know what you mean, i too keep dying when i play my ele for some reason once i hit lvl 80 i could survive better but until then we would be really squishy. I use the 0/10/0/30/30 if you are a noob like me i would suggest pvt armor i know alot of ppl out there does full zerker but until you are good with your ele we need more health and toughness to not get kill by mutiple mobs

Maybe i should play more light armor class before i try my hands on ele, i have been playing my warrior and i might not get use to all these dodging and etc

Funkybacon.2635:

I cant say I agree with a portion of class feedback provided here.

• Mesmer levelling was a joy to me, but that’s obviously just personal opinion.

• Ele low tier in pvp? What? That’s an opinion, not a fact.
  Ele’s are quite scary if handled properly and can be a down right kitten to kill.
  Key to playing mesmer well is learning your skill combo’s and getting familiar with your attunement CD’s and swapping to the right one at the right time.
  nail that and you’ll be incredibly hard to kill while being a serious threat to whomever faces you.

• Necro’s in WvW, I love it. Quite tanky if setup decently and make no mistake: 1v1 and 1v2 they are more than capable to hold their own. Again, depends on how you play.

All three classes are interesting, fun and engaging in their own way. i wouldn’t necessarily rate one above the other in wvw, i’d call them different at best.

Hey there thanks for the feedback i guess my problem with using ele is staying alive maybe i need to learn dodging good enough :p

That would be a big help thanks for the guide just hope i can figure out how to not die using a ele un wvw and pve since they are squishy

hmmm…i am starting to think that i might roll a ele since my purpose might be for wvw but would need all the advice i can get

i tried leveling a ele at level 10 and went up against 3 level 8 mobs they just destroy me hands down while i did not even manage to even attack them so i am thinking i must be doing something wrong with it

DayLight.9603:

To me one of the biggest differences between a low level elementalist and a low level necromancer is that the necromancer feels a bit more forgiving. I mean, it is no problem missing a dodge or three on necromancer since you have some innate tankiness that will save you. Levelling the elementalist on the other hand is way more painful. Mistakes lead to your death way easily. Or at least that was my experience with it.

I’m pretty sure that there are some nice guides on different builds and strategies in this forum that could help you out. Just have a look at the stickied posts and good luck!

And don’t let people fool you, the necromancer isn’t a warrior. There is actually a lot of thought that needs to go into the way that you enter any situation. Do you have enough LF? How do you burst? What rotation to follow? Any escape plan ready?

Necromancer is a really fun class. We do pretty well in PVP, excel in WVW and in PVE such as high level fractals, we might not be the best, but neither are we the worst.

how about end game content between the necro and ele?

I did try eles but i just kept dying sometimes even before i engage in battle my help would go down to near death

tbh i am actually a noob i tried playing a mesmer before but the speed that they run are really slow i know ppl do not usually use signet even for necromancer but the mesmer running speed is just terrible for me

hmm..i already have a warrior and ranger and i am looking for a light armor class i chose necro because it seems that the game mechanics isn’t too confusing, what would you advise me to play out of all the 3 light armor class for pve and wvw?

I just make a necro a week ago and have since level it up to level 35, so what i want to ask is that is a necro good in pve and wvw as i am play more towards them rather then pvp? to me ele and mesmer seems confusing with those rotations especially eles. Need advise before i continue playing and invest my time on this class

I have send them bug report via in game and forum a few weeks ago but no reply from in game at all..as for forum support they just asked us to look out for updates

Still no news? wonder if anyone even notice

I have sent it to them via in game about a week ago but still no reply please update us if there is any thanks hope they fix this quick…

I have had the same problem and yes it has been like this since 5 to 6 months ago i have send a report for bug but there was no reply from them, i have also send another one from the support site they have reply but all they have answered me was to ask me to look out for patches and link me to this forum