I also made an Asura Elementalist. Can't stop chugging altohol. Now I have three characters, The Soothslayer (Ranger), The Traumaturge (Elementalist), and The Charms Dealer (Mesmer). Fuck yeah. I would have a necromancer but The Hexecutioner is taken >:C
I like ele a lot. Compared to ranger it's pretty tough but hella fun. D/D has ridiculous mobility and it's fun to bust out crazy combos. Air, 3, 2, 5, 4, Fire, 4, 3, 5, Earth, 4, 5 is one of my favorites against enemies tough enough to actually survive the whole thing. If they're still alive I summon my axe and 54321. In English that would be summon a lightning shield, zap the enemy, blow him back, fly to him on a lightning bolt, summon a ring of fire, dodge away leaving a fire trail, turn around and blast him with a cone of fire, knock him down with an earthquake that interacts with the fire I laid down to grant me bonus damage on the coup de grace, an Earth version of Nunu's ult in league of legends. Slow everyone in a huge radius and then blow them all up with huge damage.
Asura are cool, mine's a panda-looking Lady Asura. Also the Asura quests and zones also have a lot of Skritt and I love Skritt. If you could give coins to Skritt and make them happy I would be perpetually out of money.
Speaking of money, I'm taking no crafting skills and selling all of my mats, planning to save up the money and craft 50-80 because Elementalists don't have the best time leveling. If you ignore crafting but still gather and just sell everything you make so much fucking money, it's ridiculous. I had 40s by level 10.
EDIT: I just found out that Asura can't do the Skritt racial sympathy quest. My life is basically over right now.