Guild Wars 2

Currently in the lower fotm levels with my d/d ele, I really don’t see how my auramancer build will work in higher levels. Any suggestions or do most people use staff/scepter when they need to stay at range?

I use staff most of the time since it tends to benefit groups more than the spike in dps.

Places where I do change to D/D is Mossman boss since he’s stupidly easy and no one really dies there.

I actually don’t suggest using it for Giant because the chance of death from falling off tends to counter any DPS gain… plus it’s kind of useless during the chest seal. I’ve tried it at boss and it does work decently though so that’s a pro.

Same with Asura one, D/D isn’t all too useful during the jumping parts. Useful for everything else, I wouldn’t place it any higher or lower than Staff for boss. Perhaps lower if you’re asked to man a fan for Tom.

Never tried for Grawl but I doubt it’d be all too useful for either the run or the boss.

For Ascalon I would say that Staff wins hands down. No one cares about the pre-boss part since NPCs can solo it all, but for the boss you can solo it quite easily using staff due to the 1200 range. In fact, I did solo it the other day since other 4 died halfway in.

Maw I wouldn’t suggest it since there’s no real pro to using D/D other than more skills that don’t get reflected. You lose the safety from tentacles which is more important in my opinion.

Can’t remember if there were other fractals but that’s all I remember.

i just use D/D and switch to staff almost only on few bosses

But for example i am at 20 and use D/D on all cliffside.

It works just fine at 10+, been farming it for ages. Time your dodges and damage application, be smart about how you play.

I only swap to Staff for Jade Maw because the big heal field is useful for when you get the guaranteed Agony.

D/D is fine, I use it on pretty much every fight. The only one I sometimes switch to staff is Maw.

I’m only lvl 6 fractiles, but for the once I’ve done as well as dungeons I used d/d with aura sharing. I feel like perma swift/fury/protection is very helpful for a party and the dps and survivability is still good, so I don’t see why it would have problems later on.