Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to make a good staff build for PvE, using the AC gear that has power as main stat, and toughness and vitality as the two minor stats

Really you can make Staff work with a variety of builds. For example I often times use staff for WvW on my 0/30/0/20/20 spec with PVT gear (same as from AC) with Divinity Runes and Emerald Jewelry with Charged Quartz Gems slotted. Works just as well using D/D or S/D as well. For PvE I tend to use the same armor, but then swap in Berserker (Ascended) Accessories instead on the same build.

I mean really if you look at a lot of people’s builds most of the stats they run are about the same. If Divinity runes are too expensive then Rubies might be a good fit and give you (more or less) similar results.

If you’re more interested in super support time, Evasive Arcana (30 Arcane) is always solid if you use it for Water/Earth. Unfortunately I was not a fan of it for PvE as many encounters it forces you to dodge roll which could end up wasting the cool down on the ability. These days I’d probably go more 0/20/0/30/20 for support staff in dungeons.

Kodiak.3281:

Really you can make Staff work with a variety of builds. For example I often times use staff for WvW on my 0/30/0/20/20 spec with PVT gear (same as from AC) with Divinity Runes and Emerald Jewelry with Charged Quartz Gems slotted. Works just as well using D/D or S/D as well. For PvE I tend to use the same armor, but then swap in Berserker (Ascended) Accessories instead on the same build.

I mean really if you look at a lot of people’s builds most of the stats they run are about the same. If Divinity runes are too expensive then Rubies might be a good fit and give you (more or less) similar results.

If you’re more interested in super support time, Evasive Arcana (30 Arcane) is always solid if you use it for Water/Earth. Unfortunately I was not a fan of it for PvE as many encounters it forces you to dodge roll which could end up wasting the cool down on the ability. These days I’d probably go more 0/20/0/30/20 for support staff in dungeons.

I’m really looking for something that I can support myself with, something that will make me hard to kill.

Then you should be fine with all the standard templates built around 0/10/0/20/20 (add in the other 20 points where you want: Usually 30 Air or 30 Water and Arcane) and build your gear around the same PVT gear (Divnity, Scholar or Rubies depending on your cash) and Emerald (slotted with Charged Quartz) or Berserker jewelry depending if you need more or less defense/offense.

Should be good to go. Again I run like this and it’s extremely defensive and still offers me good offense since I can swap in more defense or offense as needed.