Guild Wars 2

So I tried Ele PVP this weekend and here’s what Ive taken out of the experience

I stacked Conditional Damage gear wh toughness.

For traits, I put most into fire and took the extra damage traits.
For the other’s I think I put 10 into air and 20 into water to get the first or second unlock and get health regen when attuned to water

I tried scepter dagger but kept dying to fast.

The range of 1,200 on the staff seems to be higher than the rest of the classes. So I tried to use that to my advantage. dont let anyone close and stay behind a wall of friendlies where possible. Didnt get a ton of kills but by using AOE Fire skills on the control point, i could take a whole enemy group health down and then let the melee finish off.

DPS just isnt nearly as high as it should be for a glass cannon spec. In other MMOs I have played a glass cannon and i could take down the med armour clasees faster than they could take me down. this game its the other way around.

Condition damage + toughness is no glass cannon build

Then how do you spec it for glass cannon? What traits, setup, runes, etc for a higher dps set up?

I tried stacking crit and air, and still wasnt enough dps.

Uhm wait, what?

Staff and DPS in the same sentence, you got me there.
Staff == AOE / Control / Support.

Well, if you want max damage: Zerker Amulett + 30/30/0/0/10 traits and d/d with arcane blast + arcane wave as utilitys… but you will die really fast with this specc.
Elementalist isn’t that good at running full glass cannon.

Gelrod.1295:

Well, if you want max damage: Zerker Amulett + 30/30/0/0/10 traits and d/d with arcane blast + arcane wave as utilitys… but you will die really fast with this specc.
Elementalist isn’t that good at running full glass cannon.

I run s/d but this is basically my build, can’t remember if the jewel is the same but I have around 14 hp and 68 crit damage + all that power. My armour runes are +crit + crit damage.

Elite elemental + Arcane blast + Arcane wave + Arcane Power and which I swap out for mist every now and then due to the high crit rate already.

All arcane moves can be done whilst channeling or doing another action, and from memory I think you can pop them whilst in mist form.

Staff has a lot of skills that COULD do damage if they scaled correctly with power – precision and crit damage, but they don’t. Locking staff to “support – control” is a lame arguement as we get 1 immobilize on a 30 second CD that misses constantly and an AoE chilled, which is pretty useful I’ll agree, and a lightning ring-stun, which is meh as good players will just stay inside it and switch to ranged weapons and skills… Not exactly very controlling. Oh, we also have a knockdown on a 30 second CD that also misses constantly.