Guild Wars 2

This is just a thought, and I have no tried this out in game just yet. My thinking was, why not make a staff build using pets?

Traits are:
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20
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30

I think no matter what, you need 20 in air for, inscription and quick glyph. I mean besides that, you can go full earth for protection, or kinda just mix and match according to play style.

For utility, use lesser elemental and elemental power. In the beginning of a fight, bring out 2 pets right away and than use elemental power and shoot way. Staff has great mechanics for getting away and as well, keep you pets close by for stunning, damge and interrupting.

I have not tried this yet but, I would imagine its pretty good in the thought process. I am going to respec and try this out in WvW.

If anyone has come up with this build and tried it, please let me know how it has worked out for you.

Tried several times to use elementals, using a 0/20/0/20/30 and here the results:

PvE= minor earth elemental last up to lv30 then he’ll get oneshotted by everything, earth elemental (elite) last enough secs and attract enough attention, in fractal he’ll last few secs up to lvl 10, after that..no point using it

PvP = air elemental ( elite) is the only useful one in hot join/tPvP and common 1vs1, it’ll stay at range and avoid being slaughtered by aoe dmg like the fire elemental while being able to stun enemies from range; the water elemental may save your life 2 times out of 10 when fightning on a node..other than that it’s useless.

Conclusion = Among all the professions using minions, the elementals are clearly the worst, I reluctantly use the glyph elite , because all other elites are situational and strongly require you to have a team backing you up

I run mostly staff with a 30water/30 arcane bunker build and I have 4 superior runes of the ogre, which gives a % chance to summon Rock Dog when hit.

I also like to run with Hounds of Balthazar. If you wait for the rock dog to spawn to cast hounds, you get at least 30 secs where you have 3 minions running around. It works great in PvE if i’m getting mobbed.

It also works great with staff because both Hounds have leap finishers they use pretty often.

I use both elemental summon skills when doing solo pve. If you use the earth pets (not at the same time) and then keep them healed with water skills they make pretty good tanks. I have used them to tank vets and champs.

But in any other situation besides solo pve, they are pretty kitten terrible. The only reason i use the elite one in groups and pvp is the other elites suck even worse. While the greatsword is great, it is far too situational. I mostly only use it for AC exp mode runs. The rest are complete trash that i would never use in ANY situation.

Worth noting is rune of golemancer, 6th slot has chance to summon quite powerful golem, although it states only 5%, it’s nearly guaranteed.