Condiments
Educated
How the fuck does one get one-shot in the starter zone? The mind boggles.
That's quite easy. He's whining about a giant zerg train. That's the "boss event" in the tutorial zone for level 1 characters you have to complete to enter the starting zone. For the first few days the tutorial areas were overflowing with new people, hence the event turns into a zerg. They all have a large AoE instakill attack you have to dodge out of if you're standing in the red circle. And most new players are too dumb to do that. That'll down them.
Nope. It was simply my lvl 5 ele running out of quests to do and being forced to take on lvl 8-10 mobs. Dodge them constantly and manage to kill one after several minutes of fighting. While fighting 2nd, first one respawns behind me. Instant death, fail game. Wouldn't be a problem if they gave you enough XP to fucking level in this game, but they don't.
If you get use to attunement swapping elementalist can fairly easily take out multiple mobs a couple levels higher than him, doubly so if you're dealing with melee attackers. Its a really fun class once you get use to it, its just a bit squishy.