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As far as organized WvW goes, out of these 3 classes Ele is generally the most useful one in a zerg. Not as a damage dealer (because most of the damage will come from the melee train anyway), but as a support. As an Ele you have two water fields, fire field on short cooldown, excellent AoE condition removal (when specced for), AoE stun, AoE snare, wall-off skill and an excellent survivability on top of that.
On the other hand playing support is not for everyone, so if you are looking for classical “nuker” mage this will definitely not be a good pick. I mean, theoretically you could spec for full zerk and deal pretty decent damage, but you would also die on pretty much every occasion.
So while I generally play as healer/support classes in most MMOs, support Ele was an easy pick for me and I’m having a great time in WvW with it. That does require a competent commander and most of the zerg on TeamSpeak, but that’s never a problem on SR.
I don’t play Necro or Mesmer on WvW but they do have their uses, though in a far more limited scope, eg. you generally want 2 Mesmers in your zerg to portal Golems back and forth etc. Minions and conditional damage is pretty much useless in a zerg so that kinda limits the potential of Necros.