Guild Wars 2

Thanks a bunch for the reply Arheundel, thats some really good advise there.

Firstly, let me say that I havent had GW2 all that long (2 weeks or so) Iv not played Gw1, so I am still inexperienced that is for sure.

Now thats out the way, I wanna say I really do like the principles of the elementalist and Iv been reading a fair bit on suggested builds/play styles for sPvP but so far I have to admit, Im struggling in PvP and a bit confused.

Im currently favouring S/D but do sometimes use D/D.

Im running a 20/0/30/20/0 with cleansing fire, armor of earth and lightning flash (Toughness/Condition with precision).

However I have to say Im really struggling against some other professions in particular, Theifs, warriors, mesmers to a lesser extent and necromancers just seem to out live me. I think mesmers and warriors is a bit of a learn to play issue, but for theifs I get removed in a matter of second and I just have zero idea how to play against them. Any advise against the above mentioned proffs would be great.

Also about traits, runes and sigils. Im currently using Rune of the undead, sigil of earth and 5% crit sigil. Do the runes/sigils seem ok?

For a S/D and D/D could any one please provide some alternative builds I could try around with (Iv looked at a signet based spec which seems quite cool), however most other specs Iv tried that take a bit more damage with less survivability just seem to leave me dead to anything that even tickles me, so Iv been going back to the build I listed above.

Any advise for someone a bit lost would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks