Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing with several builds lately and I believe I’ve found something that works for me while playing with the staff in sPVP and WvW. With this build you are able to maintain perma-swiftness, or regeneration, and lay down quite a bit of healing/AOE DPS. This is done by using the trait “Inscription” with Glyphs to stack boons using 4 Glyphs and the Staffs Skills. It is an AOE build however, so hopefully it won’t be nerf’ed anytime soon.

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I used to use a boon bomber Staff build that might be similar to yours. It’s versatile and effective in most situations.

Distribution was 0/20/0/20/30, and utilized

Air
Quick Glyphs / Inscription.

Water
Cleansing Wave / Cantrip Mastery

Cantrip Mastery may be switched for a Water trait of your choice, based on utility set.

Arcane
Arcane Mastery / Elemental Attunement / Blasting Staff

Arcane Mastery might be switched for Evasive Arcana, depending on your favored utility set.

Typical base set utilities were

Arcane Shield / Glyph of Storms / Arcane Wave if mixing arcane.
Glyph of Storms + 2 of Cleaning Fire , Mist Form, Lightning Flash if mixing Cantrips

You will frequently switch these around based on your needs, even mixing in un-traited abilities when needed, e.g. Ice Bow for structures, Signet of Earth for dredge fractal boss, etc. Don’t forget to swap the relevant traits too.

GoEH and GoE, along with GoS gives you 3 glyphs to play with.

I would never recommend forcing 5 glyphs. There is just absolutely no versatility and survivability. You cannot escape a tough situation, or have an another instant block on tap to block something major when you are low on dodges.

I eventually scrapped this build for the more popular 0/10/0/30/30 roll-out, which makes it easy to swap between Staff and D/D to boot. Still, the glyph boon bomber was a fun and still pretty effective build.

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