Guild Wars 2

Hey all!

I’m currently level 75, but with how much PvP I do, I’ll quickly have enough tomes to be 80 in the next couple days. I was wondering what gear I should shoot for if I like doing WvW/PvE content, and how to get this gear as well.

I know I’ll be using staff as it’s great in dungeons and WvW zergs.

Does anyone have a good WvW or dungeon build?

Well I would stay away from zerkers in WvW. Any thief will 1 shot you. Soldiers, celestial, or some mix with Valk or something is a good choice I think.

For PvE you can get away with full zerk if you are good, or mix a few defensive stat trinkets in to help survive if you have trouble. Fire staff 6/2/2/2/2 is pretty sweet with lots of % dmg increase and is perfect for stacking tactics. Any D/D build should work too.

Xenon.4537:

Well I would stay away from zerkers in WvW. Any thief will 1 shot you. Soldiers, celestial, or some mix with Valk or something is a good choice I think.

For PvE you can get away with full zerk if you are good, or mix a few defensive stat trinkets in to help survive if you have trouble. Fire staff 6/2/2/2/2 is pretty sweet with lots of % dmg increase and is perfect for stacking tactics. Any D/D build should work too.

Thanks! That’s a big help.

I think that you would do well to try out a blend of Valk and Cavalier armors – they’ll give you a nice level of damage and the vitality and toughness that you’ll want to be more survivable.

If you’re going to lean one way or another, go more heavily into valk gear, because your utility nourishment like sharpening stones, maintenance oils and such will all scale with the vitality stats in the valk gear.

The various PvE guides stickied here should be good for PvE builds.

Ele is cool in that it actually has a bit of diversity in the kinds of PvE builds it can bring to instanced content.

A quick and dirty guide would be:

Fire Staff – Max DPS, Permanent Fire Fields
Scepter + Lightning Hammer – High DPS, Constant Blinds and Blast Finishers
Dagger + Focus – Good DPS, Lots of defensive cooldowns, Good for PUGing

6 in Fire for Fury-on-Blast
6 in Air for Vuln stacking and Fresh Air (the latter is more for Dagger)
2 in Earth for more damage or 2 in Arcana for more dodges or bigger AoEs on staff

If you find this hard to survive in, start with whatever bunkery build you probably run in PvP but with Zerker gear, and slowly trait more offensively over time.