Guild Wars 2

For staff to be a little less AoE-ish and a little more selfish and reliable in all scenarios?

I LOVE, absolutely love the elementalist profession, the whole concept behind it, and mostly I cant help but want to be able to play a element-bender wizard (Oppa Gandalf style) who is really, REALLY scary to face, but drops just as fast as he could potentially down you.

I understand that staff is supposed to be all about standing on the back of the zerg throwing some AoEs and afk’ing until the CDs are back on, but I would like to be able to also be able to hold my ground in all kind of scenarios, including 5v5 tPvP where for the most part you spend your time alone or in pairs.

Im willing to sacrifice (yes, at this point I will let go of my pride and let them eat some underserved nerfs) some AoE and support for a little more selfish gameplay involving being able to kill something besides standing golems on the mist.

Please Anet, just that one favor, even though you owe me nothing, but please dont let my epic vision of an emblematic weapon on a wizard/mage/sage/element bender die.

Pretty much 17/20 skills are AoE, air #3 is near impossible (impossible) to land on anything remotely moving and the root one is the only one that can save your rear in a bad situation, for some time. I feel like we have so much wasted potential, perhapns moving some of that mostly situational and hidden power towards more aggressive purposes will prevent staff from being pidgeonholed into support, I mean, I thought that we didnt want any trinity, and unfortunately we cant change our “role” mid fight.

Oppan*

I dont think that they will do this. I am sorry.
But if they will give staff more selfish abilities then it will be the air attunement