I’m sure this has been brought up countless times but i guess the more comments the better. So ive always loved playing a mage in any mmo and a staff Ele is what ive been playing because its basically the true “mage” in this game. No matter how i arrange my stats, traits, skills, buffs and armor, it never really seems to make a difference in how fast i die and how hard i get hit. I have read everything about survivabilty through using daggers, and its all cool and great and fun to play BUT…. i dont want to use daggers! i want to use staff and be able to at least take a decent amount of hits without falling on my butt in 5 seconds. To me it seems the problem is mostly an armor issue. It should make you wayyyy tougher than it does even if it is light armor, So theres my one little beef about the game. Other than that its an amazing game and love it. The game should be just as enjoyable playing a staff Ele as any other race!
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The “true mage” is mesmer tbh. Ele is not very much like the traditional mage archetype in other games.
Either way, you can use anything you want in pve and survive, just be careful not to get hit. Take anything that gives you vigor. You can blast your multiple water fields for heals too. You have easy access to protection, that’s 33% damage reduction if you insist on face tanking.
But seriously, if you’re taking the big hits, something is wrong with your playstyle, work on that, then you can build from there.
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well the info is much appreciated but im strictly talking about the staff Ele topic. i understand about the advantages of other professions. im quite good with the skills i have, its just an overall way too squishy complaint more than anything. plenty of others seem to agree browsing around the forums. i dont mind being a little squishy because its a fun challenge. i just think its a little too over the top squishy.
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well the info is much appreciated but im strictly talking about the staff Ele topic. i understand about the advantages of other professions. im quite good with the skills i have, its just an overall way too squishy complaint more than anything. plenty of others seem to agree browsing around the forums
I disagree that Mesmer is more a caster then Ele a Mesmer is totally different then anything I seen in another game and it’s staff is 100% a defensive weapon that kills only if the person decides to stay and fight you.
About Staff Ele it is more ranged nuker but you need others to set you up/preoccupy the enemy. You can setup your only damage it is possible but you aren’t 1v1ing really with it. You can kill cc’d groups of 5 if is setup right but if it was easy to kill 5 people with a staff ele everyone would run staff ele.
Range is generally weaker in this game then melee that goes for all professions. There a few exception skills that do reliable good damage at range but Melee>range in most cases and is usually better at consistent damage. I agree with that it’s probably why ranger is the 2nd most popular profession for some reason at last count like a bunch of people wanted to 1 spam and win or something.
The damage is there on staff but you need a little bit of help to kill anyone paying attention to you.
With the way the game is as a visual game based on ingame cue’s you can sit in the back and rain down good extra dps on people that can’t see you past other people.
This is from a WvW perspective. I am no expert on PvE there you can tag decent with staff provided the mobs are being bunched up to maximize dps.
Really no class in the game has a great dps staff the best burst skill on staff I can think of is a Mesmer warlock in a power build and you have 5+ conditions on you for a surprise 10k+ hit but the rest of the staff is crap for direct damage save maybe the 30 second chaos storm if something stays in it.
Nobody’s staff is awesome dps and it would be just my guess Ele is #1 for staff dps with guardian coming in second.
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The ele is more like the WoW shaman imho.
Either way, staff ele isn’t squishy in pve. Are you talking about pvp?
The ele is more like the WoW shaman imho.
One reason I love my ele so much. :p