Guild Wars 2

This guy makes me embarrassed to be a Ranger…

Odeken Ravenswood
Dragonbrand
PvE/WvW

Human or Asura.
Char are ok too with the right armor.
Sylvari are decent.
Norn… lol people like Norns?

It’s interesting, just need to get used to it.

stevelim.1649:

Odeken.8421:

Asura elementalist all the way. Male human elementalists can never get their armor looking good, and you feel so fast and maneuverable as an asura. Plus, our racial armor combined with other armor looks awesome:

Odeken, I only recognize the Tier 3 headgear. Any idea what the rest is? Looks awesome!

Yep that’s a picture of my ele lol.
T3 headgear, arah shoulders/body, cof gloves, hotw legs, and shoes don’t matter cause you can’t really see them on asura anyway lol.

Fraps is probably the best you are going to get.

Asura elementalist all the way. Male human elementalists can never get their armor looking good, and you feel so fast and maneuverable as an asura. Plus, our racial armor combined with other armor looks awesome:

I’m both an 80 necro and 80 ele, and consider necro my main. Both bring a lot to the table and both classes are fun to play. That’s a tough call, as I couldn’t see myself being restricted to only one of those. I’d try to level them both up.

I started leveling ele with d/d and it “clicked” at around level 8. Just felt confident in my approach to fights and I have been fighting pretty much the same since then.

My Necromancer mwahaha

Adapt and overcome, or play a different class. I have no issues with the ele’s HP.

Keep in mind a basic guideline (you can change this in whatever way depending on the situation, but I have found it to be somewhat constant): Start in air, then go fire, then go earth, then go water if you need to.

It’s not always about being in a certain attunement, it’s about finding a comfortable flow. I like speeding up to my target with Ride the Lightning (air 4), knocking them back (air 5), swap to fire, (fire 3) to get on top of them. Then proceed as I see fit and swapping to earth.

You can see that the above is a comfortable way to start an engagement on your terms. You decide when to approach the target, then you RTL to him, and immediately updraft which knocks them down, but also pushes you back. This new distance is perfect for the Fire 3 skill to close the gap and finish him off.

Just keep playing, elementalist didn’t really click for me till around level 8, and some people say it took them till around level 30 for it to click. Keep swapping attunements during fights and looking at which skills do what. Keep combos in mind as well when you get more comfortable.

I love my Asuran Ele. Wouldn’t play any other race as an ele.

I’m rather proud of how I got my ele to look so far!

I saw an improvement in my elementalist around level 7-8 because the d/d mentality just “clicked” on.
That’s because I was playing a d/d ele though…
I enjoy staff and scepter too and use both in dungeons. There is nothing in this game that is too difficult, especially leveling a character. If it is hard, you are doing some things wrong. You should really see improvements by level 35 as you will have a few traits. Level 7 is way too early to judge a class. To really get a feel for the class you should level it to at least 20-30 before judging it.

It’s doable at level 35 with sub-par gear. When the game first came out and there were no level 80s, we were still doing AC story/exp. It was challenging but not horrible.

Also my armor was mostly blue, not green then. But then again… I took the time to learn to play my class as best I could.

There is no build you NEED to work on. My advice is start your ele, then walk outside and mess with different weapons and see what fits with you best. If you like PvE damage/survivability, then scepter/dagger, scepter/focus, staff, dagger/dagger would all work!
The worst thing you can do as an elementalist is to copy someone else and get in a mindset like “I must do air 4+5 and then fire 3+4”. It’s about adapting to your situation, which you can ONLY learn from experience. Play with the atunements, play with the different weapons, and find something that is fun!

My first 80 was a necro, ele next. They are both equally fun IMO.

So I make sure I complete the jumping puzzle once every day, and have gotten pretty good at it. But… 30-50% of the time, I get teleported back to the spawn when I don’t miss a jump. The last time I did the puzzle, I got all the way to the final present before you jump into the big gift and got teleported back to spawn. This makes it so I have to spend almost a half hour each day doing this puzzle instead of one easy go at it. Is there some reason this is happening?

gamefreak.5673:

FF11 – Puppetmaster and beastmaster pets really hurt the group and were useless in ballista.

Not true at all, have you even played FF11? I was a beastmaster main in it since 2004 to this day, and I promise that pets were amazing in parties ever since the 2006 patch.
Also, this is Guild Wars 2, why are you comparing it to other games like that. It doesn’t need to follow their guidelines lol.

Surinen.9684:

GW2 Necromancer has a little to do with demons directly – all summons are flesh oriented which are constructs that serve him and other abilities, well, fit Necromancer very well. Somebody mentioned DII, well necromancer in DII had iron golems, fire golems and clay golems and many other summons that were not skeletons exactly or other walking human corpses. Necromancer is good as it is.

All summons are flesh oriented, but as I explained above they are demons who take a flesh like form. I am sure of this because the in game necromancer frequently says “Your power flows through me” meaning that the spell worked and the demon, through the necromancer, is now in the flesh form.

I normally don’t talk on the forums, but I thought I should in this case. The term Necromancer is used appropriately in this game. Just because a lot of video games use it as some kind of corpse animator doesn’t mean that is what a necromancer actually is. A necromancer can, as it does in GW2, use his own body as a conduit for other-dimensional spirits to manifest in our visible dimension. This could either be like the GW1 ritualist with the spirits everywhere, OR the spirit can take it’s form in a corpse OR materialize into some other form (such as the GW2 necromancer summons). Guild Wars 2, while being a game and not bound to accuracy, actually is right in calling the Necromancer a necromancer. The necromancer in game can be heard saying “Your power flows through me”, another reference to what a necromancer is. The true definition of necromancer is not show in video games today, so that is not a very reliable source to get your information from. Just remember that it is a game, and the developers can choose to portray it however they please; just in this case they portrayed it in an acceptable way.