Guild Wars 2

Honestly it feels to me like Staffs are seriously lacking in damage, for no solid reason. Elementalist Air 2 on staff has a 1.5 second channel time for what? Low damage and a single AoE Blind? Come on… I’d rather you double the channel time and give it a 150% damage bonus. Not to mention the other extremely weak Ele staff skills

Staff Auto attacks are slow, and not very damaging. Necrotic Grasp being the worst offender, for how slow that projectile is, you’d expect it to either do massive damage, a good condition application, or both. Instead, we get a tiny amount of damage, and nothing worth actually using a Staff autoattack for.

Necromancer Marks are extremely weak for physical damage, the highest being Putrid Mark, and it too is very weak. It makes trying to spec for AoE DPS extraordinarily difficult.

It feels lackluster and almost as though we’re being punished for using a Staff expecting AoE when the strongest AoE in the game come from Ele Daggers… how does that work?

Do please look into buffing overall Staff damage class wide, to make DPS staffs more viable.

not sure about necro marks, but agree with other… there is a reason why there are no eles using staff in SPvP… Necros use it only for marks and then switch to something else (thats what ele cant btw), mesmers staff is probably the best of them still it could use some tweak, at least removing vulnerability from #1 and replacing with something usefull for condi dmg builds as it is obviously more condition oriented weapon

One important thing you should have in mind, it’s ‘staves’ not ‘staffs’.

Staves are designed to function as support weapons in this game.

This is mainly a problem for elementalists, who can’t swap to other weapons in combat for more single-target damage and defense and such.

Chaosky.5276:

Staves are designed to function as support weapons in this game.

This is mainly a problem for elementalists, who can’t swap to other weapons in combat for more single-target damage and defense and such.

thats why eles have attunements, still staff in fire/air/earth is crap, at least water is solid in its role