Guild Wars 2

I main a guard and thief but my goal is to have one of each class to lvl 80, or as close to it as I can! Next up on my agenda, the ele.

Despite the hordes of nerfs to the d/d ele, the daphoenix build is mostly what I see from people playing eles. I’ll defn mess around with d/d eles but in my brief experience this requires a ton of attunement swapping over and over, and that’s a little annoying.

With that being said, how viable is staff ele on a PvE/dungeon setup? I don’t really care for WvW or PvP much (although every now and again I’ll wvw to get some quick exp). Does it require as much attunement swapping or can I more or less stay with a few attunements and swap only when needed?

Staff is good in PVE/Duns Runs. I run mostly Staff for that. The same Build 0/10/0/30/30. I am using Pure Berserker Gear and my Auto Crit for 2k. Not high but decent. Same as witth D/D, u need to switch to attument depend on the situation, but for Staff, it is easierr and not as regular as D/D.

Very viable. The staff is actually quite a decent weapon. The only thing it seems to be poor at is 1v1 PvP duels. In all other areas of the game, it does well.

If you want to be a great pve ele, have all the weapon sets the ele can hold and learn to use each one at the best scenario. Depending on the dungeon or pve situation one wep set is better than the others. Master that and you will be a whole lot better than most elementalist that only stay with one weapon set in pve.

sometimes I use staff but I prefer scepter/focus or scepter/dagger in dungeons. D/D still works in dungeons but in some battles its just better to stay away from the enemies. Just do trial and error and see what works where and what doesn’t.

Thanks guys, I just started to level my ele and through the grind it is quite evident that the staff seems to be very versatile. The fire seems to be a decent damage dealer, the water has 2 very nice built in AoE heals, the F3 has the best autoattack and the swiftness to run around and kite, the F4 is still being unlocked.

Out of curiosity, disregarding gear and traits does the staff overall do the most damage or is it the d/d, or sceptor/x?

Not at all.D/D deal more dams to single target in the short time but staff deal more dams to a group of enemy over the time. If u are in Na server, pm me,Kaane Moka, I would be more gladly to help u out.