Saw this and I had to share

[brodie]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh5zjK7ITpQ

I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did.

[kassats]

Yea saw that also
Makes me feel better that I got a 53 ELE as my main right now and
Im getting destroyed in my personal story instance.
Thank god for my earth elementals to tank for me but wish i could actually
use other utilities once in awhile

[theactualkarly]

Current Level 60 elementalist asking, is it really that bad of a class?

[brodie]

Sept 19, 2012 15:02:19 GMT -6 theactualkarly said:

is it really that bad of a class?

By all means no. Granted it just needs some love in future patches to be on par with the simplicity of the other classes. I have thoroughly enjoyed playing my Ele.

What this post was getting at is that the things we have to do to be successful as an Ele (attunement swapping, skill shot placement, etc) requires a lot of work and focus, and it easily falls apart. Whereas other classes (like the thief mentioned in the video, or warriors) can achieve and most often surpass our capabilities with the push of a couple buttons.

Most people that complain about the Ele class are the ones that don't want to put forth the effort to help them perform, but instead will flame on message forums until the devs feed them what they want.

I hope this doesn't scare away future prospects to the class. It was just meant to be a comical video for those that understand where our class stands.

[theactualkarly]

I've seen a lot of people complaining about the elementalist not being able to do much but it's my favorite class since I played it five years ago in the original. While I was playing a mesmer today, I really missed the AoE, healing, speed boosts and stability.

[kassats]

Def a challenge, but didn't want to spam to level 80 and beyond.
Just for ref when I hit 60 and can respec my traits again, what have u guys been successful using.
I started fire air. Then at 40 i went for a little more defense with fire/earth. Also do u guys use the original heal or the regenerate upon skill one?
All in all I have a lot of fun with it and find I'm playing it more than all my other 4 guys that are in the 15-20 level

[brodie]

For me, I've been using the survival build I use in PvP (though sometimes I fiddle with the trait bonuses and utilities depending on what I need at the time).

gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fEUQFAWhImmbyR4gjDAkHvcCLjChUeMzO2A

stack that regen and dodge to win.