Guild Wars 2

Keep in mind I’ve only been playing ele in pvp for a little over a week now, have been trying several builds including the meta D/D, a crit sceptor/focus build but I was never hitting hard enough or had much surviviability.

So I finally got to staff, spliced together traits and utilities I likes from different builds I just hit tremendously harder with some decent survivability and good healing. I mostly specced him to be a full zerker ele, the icebow especially hirts way harder than I thought. The AOE attack just does insane damage in most cases compared to what I had.

Anyone else use staff in tpvp?

Staff is very viable in tpvp given the right spec and team setup. I’ve run it many times instead of d/d and s/f depending on what team we are facing and what my team is lacking.

Staff all the way:) D/D survivability is like non existing, if you don’t play full defensive build, Scepter is very strange, so, yeah, Staff is my favourite weapon: great survivability, dmg is not bad either + 1200 range. Attacks are a bit slow but that’s the only minus here.

Chaotic.9742:

Staff is very viable in tpvp given the right spec and team setup. I’ve run it many times instead of d/d and s/f depending on what team we are facing and what my team is lacking.

For the longest time most people have stressed it with me that D/D is the meta so I never tried staff until just recently. I kinda stitched together a build using traits and utilities from past builds and the staff and icebow damage is absolutely insane.The icebow AOE absolutely devastates light armor classes especially.

Sifu.9745:

Staff all the way:) D/D survivability is like non existing, if you don’t play full defensive build, Scepter is very strange, so, yeah, Staff is my favourite weapon: great survivability, dmg is not bad either + 1200 range. Attacks are a bit slow but that’s the only minus here.

I tried the meta D/D build since it was “user friendly” to new ele players, I’m sure it works very well for some people, it just didn’t click for me like staff did. I died almost immediately from any heavy hitter and had an even harder time dishing out decent damage at best haha.

just keep practicing, Staff can actually beat D/D but you’ll need crazy luck and skill to pull it off (luck as in bad opponent).

I’ve been running staff in pvp, pve, and wvw for about 8 months now, and I’ve always preferred it over d/d, d/f, s/f, or s/d. I run more of a bunkerish build instead of a berserker meteor shower/ice bow build though. Still, staff is a lot of fun, and a lot of people tend to tunnel vision to focus me thinking I’ll be an easy kill, so I get a lot of player kill points.

(especially thieves and warriors. I can always count on them to ride on my coat tail to their downed states because they’re way too aggressive for their own good.)

I haven’t seen as many staff eles in tpvp ever since they announced the nerf to meteornado though. For a while, it seemed almost meta to have a meteornado bomber ele on a lot of the teams.

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

just keep practicing, Staff can actually beat D/D but you’ll need crazy luck and skill to pull it off (luck as in bad opponent).

well, in pvp i consider an opponent beaten, when he gives up or takes too long to cap the node. on some nodes, it’s fairly easy to outplay a d/d ele, since his damage is not the highest and your survivability with staff is nearly similar. plus, you have the same cantrips. that only applies to staff support though. surviving an equally skilled d/d with a zerker staff build is much much much harder. close to impossible, i would say.

Kako.1930:

I haven’t seen as many staff eles in tpvp ever since they announced the nerf to meteornado though. For a while, it seemed almost meta to have a meteornado bomber ele on a lot of the teams.

i haven’t seen anything else than support staff eles in eu pvp since i myself tried out the meteornado on an offensive staff spec a long time ago. i guess the meta in EU’s very different from NA

tanztante.6532:

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

just keep practicing, Staff can actually beat D/D but you’ll need crazy luck and skill to pull it off (luck as in bad opponent).

well, in pvp i consider an opponent beaten, when he gives up or takes too long to cap the node. on some nodes, it’s fairly easy to outplay a d/d ele, since his damage is not the highest and your survivability with staff is nearly similar. plus, you have the same cantrips. that only applies to staff support though. surviving an equally skilled d/d with a zerker staff build is much much much harder. close to impossible, i would say.

Kako.1930:

I haven’t seen as many staff eles in tpvp ever since they announced the nerf to meteornado though. For a while, it seemed almost meta to have a meteornado bomber ele on a lot of the teams.

i haven’t seen anything else than support staff eles in eu pvp since i myself tried out the meteornado on an offensive staff spec a long time ago. i guess the meta in EU’s very different from NA

I basically only run zerker spec with elementalist nowadays.
Zerker staff, Zerker D/D, Zerker D/F just don’t like the high apm requirement for S/F and S/D fresh air builds. I prefer my combat fluid, consistent and with high dmg.