Guild Wars 2

I’ve been really enjoying Elementalist lately after I recently changed mains from Mesmer but I’m having a hard time surviving as I go higher in fractals (currently around 50-60).

I currently run mostly Fresh Air D/W build in full zerker and occasionally switch out for staff depending on the encounter and I find the rotation really simple but without all the evades and blocks that I’m used to on mesmer I find myself getting downed too often.

So I was hoping to get some advice from other more experienced elementalist on some changes to build/weapon/gear setups or just any general tips on how you survive when things can basically 1 shot you sometimes.

Any tips are appreciated!

I have just returned to Guild Wars 2 after being interested by the new expansion announcement and after being kind of underwhelmed with what mmo gaming has to offer right now for quite a while and have decided to give it another go since Gw1 was undoubtedly my favorite game of all time. However, the PvE in this game doesn’t interest me at all I am only interested in the PvP aspects. So I was wondering how leveling a character purely through PvP works and how I go about gearing up my character and staying competitive as I level. Will I be at a disadvantage at first? Will I be able to get runes? What’s the best PvP mode to start out in? I have a couple of characters I made when I bought the game that got birthday presents so I can boost my characters up to 20 if that will help me start, and I have a bit of gold saved up as well for gearing if I need to do that.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!