Guild Wars 2

I main mesmer and love it to bits, can never, ever get bored of it. I play around with all classes to hopefully find something else, an alt I find fun and exciting to play. For a while it was thief, then DPS guard, then necro ect but every one of them got boring somewhat quick, even d/d ele.
Lately I started trying out shoutbow warrior and I realized I love supporting and tanking, but shoutbow didn’t feel as supportive as I’d like, it was more of a rez bot and tank (nothing wrong with that but it wasn’t my cup of tea).
I decided to look for a build that would play more the support role and I stumbled upon staff cele ele. I love the CC that it brings (also something I love doing) as well as general support/tankyness. D/D is similar in my opinion but I prefer not being melee range, everything is clumbsy to me there, also staff has more healing potential ect. I’ve been playing around with it for the past few weeks and it’s still very interesting to play which is something nothing but mesmer managed to pull off for me.
Here are my questions:

What build should I exactly run?
I know the standard cele staff build but I saw a lot of variants out there ankitten ot sure what to really go for. I’d love it if I could get every variant written down in a nutshell, pros, cons, the build itself ect.

Utilities (presuming I go cele), what would you recommend? I found myself using the arcane AOE blast skill so I can blast my fields more and have AoE as well as Lightning Flash.

Which healing skill? I feel like the newer heal one would be the best due to it also being a blast finisher which I feel like I don’t have enough to make use of all the fields I can put out.

I know there are many offensive and defensive rotations while playing staff ele, could you guys give me some?

All of these are for soloq atm (when I get good enough I may bring it into organized teams) PvP for sure.
I’ve seen the guide on youtube some guy did for staff ele but it only includes 2 or 3 rotations and the build he is using is different to the current build, I also have no clue if it is outdated or not.
I’d love it if someone could actually help me in game and show me some stuff in a private server, but I realize it’s a bit too much to ask.

Hey,

If you play staff for its safety, tankiness and CC goodness, you should go for the standard bunker spec: 00266 with Earth’s Embrace and Blasting Staff. For healing, you should get Ether Renewal. Utilities wise, I usually take Lightning Flash, Armor of Earth (against heavy CC comp) or Arcane Shield (against burst comp) and one variable. I’m not a good staff player myself. From what I observe, the cele staff ele usually goes very defensive during team fight and only switch to offensive when their team has an advantage.

You would try to dish out CC as frequently as possible, while not waste all of them at the same time. Generally, you want to swap in and out water frequently as well, trying to trap people in your Frozen Ground field and Lava Font on them. Try to stack might in between whenever you’re in either fire or earth attunement and make sure to land it near or on enemies for damage as well. Most of the part, you need to react to the circumstance while not blowing out all your cd at once.