Elementalist Guide

Basic Guide for Elementalist


Nowadays an Elementalist is used as a support char, this means that the Ele helps is team defending and attacking too.


Defensive Ele:

This kind of char has as primary purpose of defending the Monks, but he also has to defend other team mates that are near dead or in risk of being slowed enough to not acomplish his main obejective. (Ex: Flag Runner)
The main skill on a defensive Ele is Blinding Flash.And why Blinding Flash?That's because the ideal weapon to stop melee damage based chars is the Blind condition, because whem Blinded a melee damage based char misses 90% of his attacks!
A defensive Ele can also use Wards (vs melee/foes/stability etc..) to protect his position and the position of all the team mates that are inside the ward.
The defensive Ele should always back positioned on the back near the monks so that the protection wards work at 100%.
Skills that slow your opponents are also a good choice for a defensive Ele because they can be used on the opponent warriors that chase the Monks on your team.
A defensive Ele has to be very careful with the use of his skills because they spend a lot of energy (Ex: Blinding Flash costs 15 energy), so that he doesn't ran out of energy when his team is under heavy pressure.
Basically the Defensive Ele has to pay very attention on the teams defence and leave the attack for the attack chars.


Attacking Ele:

This Kind of Ele is not very used nowadays on GvG but he's a very effective weapon on Pressure builds.
The attacking Ele with a good timing on the use of his skills can send a Lightning Orb (making a massive damage), that combined with an Adrenaline discharge of a warrior can sometimes make the opponent target to die.
The most common build on the Attacking Eles is Air Elementalists with Lighnting Orb, Enervating Charge and Lightning Strike, these skills are able to make a large ammount of damage.
An attacking Ele can also use Slow Skills that combined with high damage chars can force the opponent team to go back to theyr base.
So this kind of Ele is very useful for quick attacks with massive damage.