Guild Wars 2

Hi there!

After getting 4 characters to 80, I’ve decided that the staff ele fits my play style the best.

I am having some trouble optimizing my gear, and traits. So I am hoping for any input that anyone could offer

Also please keep in mind this is not a solo or small scale build. Usually in a group of 20.

My gear is as follows.

Armor: PVT
Runes: 2x Water, 2x Monk, 2x Hoelbrak. 30% buff duration, and 20% might duration. Not sure if it’s worth it or not, or if another rune set would be more beneficial.

Weapon: Berserker
Sigil: Superior Sigil of Fire. I really like this sigil, it adds quite a bit of dps imo

Jewerly: Full berserker

Traits & Skills:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImKbwR5wjEAkCmEeQADJIKYRRxM7A

Food & Oil: I use master maintenance oil, as my crit chance is low, and plate of truffle steak for power and even more precision.

This set up leaves me with:

3447 attack
40% crit chance(I used Sigil of Precision to get my crit chance over 50%, but I would like it even higher)
53% increase critial damage bonus(question: is there a base of 50% damage bonus? therefore my crits do 103% damage? Or am I making this up lol?)
14185 life
2074 armor

With stacks of might I can easily get up to 4k attack, and with 50% crit the damage I can put out vs zergs is pretty good, but I am not sure if it’s optimized. Would more crit chance / damage be a better investment as opposed to more power?

Any criticism or tips are more than welcome. Thanks for taking the time to read my thread. I look forward to reading any replies.

Goodluck

I wouldn’t worry about boosting might duration. I routinely have ten stacks of might and it seems to do very little for a staff user.

For more optimized setup with the same heavy punch approach. Swap around berserker rings for PVT, and PVT shoulders, gloves&boots for berserkers.
And as this is not EA spec with mass ally condition removals and more of a glassy dps, I think you are playing this very much ranged style (not always allies around you), I’m not sure if boon duration is the way to go.
Rather go for Ruby orbs. Or if you find yourself sticking to that fire more than usual, 60% might duration, you’ll have to see that yourself based on your playstyle, you need some base might for % to be worth it.

Thanks a lot for the replies guys appreciate it.

I think i’ll drop my buff duration in exchange for ruby orbs. Try out 4 rubys and 2 hoelbrak. I do like the might stacking, it’s very easy to keep my might at 12+

Sabull, thanks for the tip on exchanging some PVT and zerker items. I m gonna look into it, but figured I may as well ask, what type of stat improvement should I see from switching the items around?

Check out this site. http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ very nice theory crafting calculator, you can actually plug different items in and it does all the math for you so you can see your numbers

Thank you very much blackgoat.

right now DPS is kinda of bad, not damage wise, because i would dare to say we do one of the highest, craziest AoE damage in the game (next to mesmers and thieves) but the big problem with eles is

very unreliables way to deliver the damage, pretty much dependant on them being AFK or perma CCed

and

Unlike other professions like emsmers and thieves, once you are in the heat, you better kill them before the use #1 skill 3 times… because you might not get to the see the end of that autoattack combo