Guild Wars 2

I have toyed around with Staff but I feel like it just isn’t my playstyle. I enjoy playing mages but the combat in GW2 just feels weird to me when you’re wielding a staff. I carry one around anyways for WvW or zergs but I don’t think I would be interested in full-timing a staff ele!

Thanks for the pointers everyone. I’m trying LH for soloing right now and I feel pretty safe, I don’t have a focus to try a D/F build but I may check it out in the future. The main reason I didn’t go with a build like that is because I wanted to be the best possible build for group content first, soloing second. But obviously grouping all the time isn’t very reasonable. Going a different build is definitely a possibility, but I still don’t want to be kitten in dungeons. I will play with the idea though for sure!

Sorry, I do use Lightning hammer but typically only in dungeons. I guess it never really occurred to me that I could use it when soloing/farming t5/t6 mats. Is that what people do?

And I suppose I could practice might stacking before a boss. I’ve heard of people doing it but I’ve never tried practicing it. Looks like I should get on that! Thanks for the tip.

Okay, so I play S/D standard 30/10/10/20/0 build and I’m having a really hard time staying alive. It’s mostly solo survivability that I’m concerned about – farming level 80 areas is so dangerous/I feel so squishy. My other character is a Mesmer. I would rather play my Ele but the squishiness is really killing the fun for me. Is there a secret to staying alive on ele? Being mid range (900 range vs 1200-1300 for staff/gs/etc users) I have to be somewhat in the face of the enemy, especially when my core spell (Dragon’s Tooth) requires the enemy is stationary (aka me tanking it).

But dungeons are a similar story. As a Mesmer I can freely melee whatever I want really and I have enough condition removal and Blurred Frenzy that even if I fail and stand in a bad spot, I will still live. As an Ele I spend more than half the fight dead because having to be up close to perform my might stacking combo puts me in danger with no tools to keep myself alive during it.

Are there any general tips that might not be so obvious to help me stay alive?

Confirming this works. Guardian guildy walked up, tossed a wall, unbugged it in one try. Just find a guardian to help out for world completion.

Thanks OP! <3

Edit: Spelling derp