Guild Wars 2

Recently I’ve been learning staff ele and “trying” to roam with it occasionally using a straight up zerg build. Been in T2 for a few days now and I decided to make a video of some cool things that have happened so far. Let me know what you think.

Since you’ ve entered the kitten train with staff and try to do some actual mobile dps, you might want to get informed about a few bugs.

Lightning Rod damage is not increased by Tempest Defense’s damage increase for instance.

You can jump over Gust without a dodge roll to dodge it…

You might want to consider adding Earth Shield instead of Mist Form if you use Lightning Rod and your plan is only to roam.

And, you ought to practice your Static Fields and Earth Lines, especially against thieves. There is too much time between casting it and being safe inside or out of it (5 min in the video).

Alekt.5803:

Since you’ ve entered the kitten train with staff

Lightning Rod damage is not increased by Tempest Defense’s damage increase for instance.

You can jump over Gust without a dodge roll to dodge it…

You might want to consider adding Earth Shield instead of Mist Form if you use Lightning Rod and your plan is only to roam.

And, you ought to practice your Static Fields and Earth Lines, especially against thieves. There is too much time between casting it and being safe inside or out of it (5 min in the video).

Pretty fun to watch, staff eles can hyet even vs the most mobile class.

What does that even mean? About jumping the bang wagon using staff?

I also run tempest defence with lighting rod, not for the extra dmg but it’s also good for defence as lighting procs weakness.

Didn’t know about gust, thanks

Not actually tried the shield out but I normally use arcane shield as a stun breaker mainly as my third utility.

Yes, Staffele is the new Meta… thats the Reason why you see so many Players using Staff in Smallscale. Made my Day. Dont know what Train you are speaking of.

Not easy to Hit decent Players with Staff, so try always to lay some Fields after you used a cc Skill. But comes with more Practice.
I Prefer Signet of Earth for another Immobilize, or a Conjure Weapon (underestimated by many..). Lightning Hammer gives you good Dmg after another Static Field in Meleerange. Flame Axe has another Evade, if you have to buy a bit Time. And the Dmg is not Bad.

Keep it up.

Fat Disgrace.4275:

Alekt.5803:

Since you’ ve entered the kitten train with staff

Lightning Rod damage is not increased by Tempest Defense’s damage increase for instance.

You can jump over Gust without a dodge roll to dodge it…

You might want to consider adding Earth Shield instead of Mist Form if you use Lightning Rod and your plan is only to roam.

And, you ought to practice your Static Fields and Earth Lines, especially against thieves. There is too much time between casting it and being safe inside or out of it (5 min in the video).

Pretty fun to watch, staff eles can hyet even vs the most mobile class.

What does that even mean? About jumping the bang wagon using staff?

I also run tempest defence with lighting rod, not for the extra dmg but it’s also good for defence as lighting procs weakness.

Didn’t know about gust, thanks

Not actually tried the shield out but I normally use arcane shield as a stun breaker mainly as my third utility.

I did not mean band wagon. I mainly meant the “club”, dps staff against other player is problematic by itself. Staff, one will notice has some major flaws when it comes to that. Must mostly, this fact is overshadowed by another use. In WvW; it’s used for fire fields, static fields and water field, in PvE for the damage on -immobile target-, and for sPvP for the support and CC mainly.

When you are doing staff ele 24/7, you notice those issues and a large numbers of glitch and bugs limiting your capacity. It’s an uncharted territoty; no wonder why I spot and report a bug nearly every week. That’s what I meant about the S*** Train.

My Mistake, sorry. And yes, there are issues. But its still enjoyable. Dont think Anet will change something soon.

Relying on meteor to rally, that’s staff ele’s life :P

Even with bugs, LR and tempest defense are great, the aura saved me countless times, LR is just priceless vs squishies, especially thieves.

OP, you can try setting up big dmg and then cc people into it, ie meteor then air 3. People generally don’t expect that and if you air 3 actually connects, the burst is awesome (with LR) and they must be super lucky not to get hit by meteors.

Dps staff ele is awesome and since I do the pve side of wvw as well, I always complain about lack of dps when I go back to thief. Nothing can flip upgraded camp with vets faster than staff ele.