GUILD WARS 2: The Elementalist - Leveling Build Guide [Weapons / Armor / Skills / Traits] 

Really appreciate this video, thank you very much! I'm a brand new GW2 player and was really struggling to find a comprehensive guide online for a levelling build for my elementalist as almost every build video talks about the elite specialisations. This is a fantastic guide & great video idea! Yes I know ele is not beginner friendly at all but I just didn't gel with the necromancer/guardian/ranger so wish me luck trying out one of the more complicated classes first thing 😅 If I could give any feedback I would just ask to clarify (so sorry if you've included this information!) that in guild wars 2 you can freely swap weapons, you won't be able to use certain types of weapons until level 80, and you won't need to reset hero points to pick different training - coming from other MMOs this was something I didn't get about the game until I read through the comments and was throwing me off every time I tried to understand how the game works based on people's build videos - e.g. how you do your levelling build has no effect on your late game build because you can swap over to something else. Sorry for the long comment!

Me as an Elementalist main with thousands of hours on the class: Interesting. Awesome guide! It's well organized and easy to understand. Hopefully more new guys playing GW2 find this. Cheers!

Crazy to see your guides are still so good. You deserve so much more man. Keep it up! Im a veteran and still enjoys it!

Thank you so much for this leveling build guide! I'm new to GW2 and everything I kept seeing was for a max level end game build which I'm not ready for yet. This was exactly what I needed.

Man, your battle sequence near the end felt like an actual war. All that mayhem was intense!

Thanks for the tutorial! Just started out playing the game.and my first class is the elementalist! Ive been having a lot of fun with the different abilities!

This class is what brought me back to GW2. No other magician class in any MMO comes close to as much fun .

Me with 22 max level characters and hundreds of tomes of knowledge: RU-vid recommendations: I think you need some levelling guides

Truly an amazing guide. Thank you so much

Simple & comprehensive guide, it's awesome cheers mate ! 🙏

Great video! Nice work. This is the leveling build I'm using as well and I can guarantee it works wonders. Only difference is I use a staff instead - it's slower, but the range lets your army of elementals do the work while you coordinate from the backline.

Really excited to see this one for the engineer. :)

Amazing work! would be really great to do a detailed guide like this on Weaver and Tempest (tow most complicated spec to learn, and I know it is gonna take up a lot of time) but you just can't find any videos on covering these two haha

Just what I was looking for. Everything I found was based on end game and not leveling. Now off to play with my Elementalist!

great guide, subbed.

Thanks for this guide! Super good.

Thanks. I'm using your build to level my future weaver :D

already reset my mesmer and set it to your playstyle now gonna do it for elementalist too....you are simply amazing, thanks a lot..!

Rlly nice idea make more of these please! Also I would like to have some guides for specific nice items one could get after getting 80 like wings cool weapons because I am 80 and have no clue where to get those really fancy stuff or which one to get first or which one I could get the fastest if you understand what I mean.

very nice guide, thank you

Omg thanks this is sooo helpful!!! Would you be able to let me know (if you have the time) how to prioratize staff skills? :) very curious. Again thanks for the awesome video!

Great tutorial.

I boosted my Ele to get the raptor mount but I've worked through the story and now going for world map completion. I've preferred sceptre over dagger myself. I think it's the extra range it gives.

I did not know that elementalist could have a army of pets. I wish you could have a second autoattack on the pet ability. So you always have one out or don't forget to press the key while in combat doing complex stuff.

your videos are great

New player to GW2 (farewell WoW). These guides have been excellent! Many thanks. Hope to see a Thief one soon :)

I remember when lightning hammer was the go-to weapon / skill for open world elementalist, but that was so many years ago. I'm guessing it's not as good as it used to be, or other options got better.

thnx just in time!!

Hi! I used this video to level an ele. Do you have a recommended Relic?

Yeah, I iniitally made a thief, then an alt revenant cuz I bought the Expansion collection, for the alt Crafting and another dump of daily EXP, and then an Elementalist for another Alt Crafter, and all the various quirks were way more complex than Thief or Revenant. That's why I'm here.

Only negative comment I have is that you need to explain hp so the new player knows how to earn them for their skills and specializations. Otherwise, this was very helpful for setting up my new boosted toon for SoTo expansion coming out this summer! Hugs 🤗

Okay dumb question but how can you get that golem pet? That's not a summon is it?

Just from an RP perspective, a mage using melee/short range weapons just does not feel right to me. Staff or scepter seem more in character

you should get more visibility / liked for your.excellent videos

Your voice reminds me of the guy from the Bedtime Stories channel 😅

Is this build still useable? And would I just use this until I get my desired profession

I have a few questions, 1- is there a way to reset the specialisation and hero points spent? 2- how does the stats calculation work for dual weapons? For example, a 2 handed staff always seems to have more damage then any one handed weapon of a similar level, does that means that stats from both dual hand weapons are counted? Or just the main hand one? Is it worth it going back to lower level zones in order to farm missions? I know that our power is fixed to be impair with the area, but is there a XP difference? I am currently around level 23, so I am constantly going for quests lvl 25, is there a advantage to that?

Hi, would you say that this build is still viable?

I'm sorry but saying "just wack it out" sounds wrong.

I hope the next video is: The thief guide

You really should have made the Weapon Choice Staff Because while levelling and doing main story we get offered maybe 12 staff, but we rarely get offered Daggers, Doci or Scepters, and no one ever sells gear

This game is better than wow in my opinion

ele is not beginner friendly class not only because of its complexity but it has no weapon swap option in combat. in open world pve sometimes you want to go melee and turn into ranged in order to be safe. that is not option in ele. even if one person go ranged with scepter, its mainly focus on single target damage, beside fire attunement but u have to swap attunements. and staff is too slow and lack damage. i would not suggest ele for fresh comers.

Lol level 80 with 630hp *whistles* one hit you're dead unless you're in a level clamp area.

Music is too loud.

"Meta" is an affix, not a noun! So please don't use it as one.

Don't The Elementalist have hands? They do, they have two hands! Then why don't they can wield swords and greatswords again? Uhh! Class system. The most stupid system ever in gaming world.

No please if you are new please use necromancer. Elementalis is hard to use. Don't use elementalis if you new. Necromancer please.

Ok, yet again you're in a low lvl area, but you have an 80 lvl character. This does not help a newbee just starting out on a build. Show what you tout.

These weapons are not available to a low lvl character. This is unrealistic !!!!