Guild Wars 2

Forsaker.9213:

Gj with Vods , i always wanted to try staff ele and i made one yeastarday with your build and i am having so much fun in soloq , i realy enjoy playing it even i am getteing kitten by thiefs or condi necros.

Condi necros will be a problem always. Even if you change your spec to be anti-condi they can be a nuissance.

But keep practicing. Thieves are manageable with enough patience!

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it

cheese.4739:

I notice that a few people mention auramancy being terrible on Staff – this isn’t true, and we actually have two auras available (and can trigger one multiple times):

- Magnetic Aura, skill 3 in Earth Attunement. Of course.
- Frost Aura, by blasting in or leaping through that lovely ice field.

If you blast a few times in the ice field, you’ll get several applications of the auramancy boons, and (possibly more importantly) you’ll give them to allies nearby. If you build for combo finishers (bring Brilliance, Wave, Evasive Arcana, Conjured Flame Axe for reliable ones, or the Lightning Hammer for a “do I feel lucky” blast in the AA chain) you can get pretty high protection uptime and maintain swiftness and fury just from doing this.

I’m considering going 20 water again (not done it for a while) and traiting the cooldown of those fields to see how it works – but that can come when I’m done messing about as a full zerk (and surviving without any cantrips, by the way).

I think I replied to you about this one on the previous thread so I won’t bore you again with my opinion

I do love frost armor. Blasting ice is amazing.