Ele liv 80 D/D,Staff need advices

Ele liv 80 D/D,Staff need advices

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Posted by: LordByron.8369

LordByron.8369

I finally reached 80 >.>

So i need to polish my build and prepare appropriate equip….

I’d like a build able to play in D/D and switch to staff if needed (for example for dungeons).
Also i play mostly PvE and i ‘d like to play dungeons also…..but sometimes i go to wvwvw also i mostly avoid spvp for now but i’d like to not be completely unviable for that

Actualy i use 10fire/10wind/10earth/20water/20arcana

i like 10 earth because if i am distracted, auto armor of earth and final shielding are lifesavers ._. also i like at least 20 points in arcana because its boring to wait XD

Should i rearrange my traits?

But Most important:
Now for the equipment…i really have no idea on how to get exotics and wich to get >.<
I have tailoring almost at 400 and some yellow weapons to salvage….

Could you tell me wich daggers/armor to get and wich is the easier mode to get them (crafting should be the easiest they told me).
And maybe point me to the recipe or guide for obtaining it ._.

Thank you a lot

GW2 balance:
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.

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Posted by: Mytheos.7205

Mytheos.7205

If you want the truth…start with a set of rares to save some cash.

Full Power, Prec, Crit Jewelry with same slots.

Then get a full set of Berzerker’s armor, slot with Divinity.

Yes you are going to be squishy, but test it out for a couple days, then start replacing the armor with Tough/Vit armor as needed (If you HAVE to use 100 toughness/70Vit food).
14k HP should get you by if you have a high skill level, but you can sacrifice more damage for more defense if you have too much trouble.

30/20/10/10/0

Mist Form, Cleansing Fire, Arcane Wave. Tailor to the occasion but thats your default.

You gain a max from 15 to 10 sec change with 30 arcane. You dont need to switch attunments every 3 seconds, switching and dropping everything then switching again doesnt maximize your dps.

Fire is your DPS
Lightning is your travel or combo starter (RTL/Updraft)
Earth is your Root someone running away/fire is down and there is a large group of whatever.
Water is your max range/Healing/Chilling.

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Posted by: LordByron.8369

LordByron.8369

well but switching gives you auras >.> also i want to use staff also and staff without 20 arcana is bad :|

not to mention that with staff you need to switch a lot in pve to control enemies (earth 4, water 4, air 5 if i remember correctly)….

GW2 balance:
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.

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Posted by: Mytheos.7205

Mytheos.7205

Again the 20 arcana isnt critical. And as for switching for CC, check the cooldowns on those. Are they greater than 15 seconds? Yes. Therefore 10 or 15 second switch is irrelevant.

You can kite anything without CC, this isnt much of a root n nuke kind of game as it is a circle strafe, run n gun.

But honestly staff is for when you cant use your D/D so normally is some situations in Dungeons. But if you are doing solo PvE D/D is better faster.