I have recently started playing a Staff Build Ele (0/10/0/30/30) and while I’m currently only Level 31, I’m planning out my end game and was curious if what I’m planning is viable.
As a general rule, I’m not a ‘Glass Cannon’ type of guy. It’s good for some people, and I totally respect that, but it’s not my style. My goal is to gear my Ele to be balanced and do respectable damage while maintaining survivability. After all, your DPS is always Zero when you’re dead right? Right now I’m planning to spec around Power/Precision/Vitality and I’m curious if you guys think I’ll be viable with little to no toughness. I have some Tokens saved up from COF and was going to get a couple pieces of that set and mix with Valkyrie pieces. Right now I’m looking at going with 4 Zerker and 2 Valkyrie pieces with 5 Warrior Runes (Vitality/Power.) For the sixth rune, I was just going to use 1 that gives Precision like a Rune of the Ranger.
For trinkets, I was going to add a bit more precision or power and socket some +Healing for helping groups in Dungeons/PVE. The only big drawback I see with this going forward is I’ll have pretty much no Toughness since I’m going zero in Earth and not planning any Toughness Gear. My plan is to try and avoid close combat as much as possible and use my high Vitality and Water skills to outlast/cure conditions. This would let me sacrifice toughness in exchange for the ability to hit a little harder in combat. I realize I won’t ever match ‘Glass Cannon’ damage but hopefully I will be more well rounded.
Do you guys think this can work? Can a Staff Elementalist be fairly durable with a high Vitality and no Toughness? Thank in advance for any advice.
There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand Binary, and those who don’t.
If you plan on doing PvE with 0/10/0/30/30 Go full berserk. The survivability you get from that trait build is enough to do about anything in PvE
The highlighted accessory is the only thing that is not berserk on me, and necklace is Syzygy. The rest is berserk. Traits are 10/10/0/30/20. For my personal playstyle it’s perfect balance between not being utterly useless by dealing no damage and not dying on every trash pack. 30 in water also bring high support capabilities for your group.
If you plan on doing PvE with 0/10/0/30/30 Go full berserk. The survivability you get from that trait build is enough to do about anything in PvE
The highlighted accessory is the only thing that is not berserk on me, and necklace is Syzygy. The rest is berserk. Traits are 10/10/0/30/20. For my personal playstyle it’s perfect balance between not being utterly useless by dealing no damage and not dying on every trash pack. 30 in water also bring high support capabilities for your group.
Are you able to survive well in Dungeons as well?
What do you do for Runes on your Zerker Gear? You go full Zerker there too (Ruby Orbs?)
There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand Binary, and those who don’t.
Dungeons is what i do the most with this build. Currently at fractals 40+ and a dungeon master aswell. It feels perfectly balanced and i rarely die at all.
Runes is really a personal choice, you can go divinity, you can go scholar, or even eagle. It’s up to you and wont make significant difference. I like divinity the most
Dungeons is what i do the most with this build. Currently at fractals 40+ and a dungeon master aswell. It feels perfectly balanced and i rarely die at all.
Runes is really a personal choice, you can go divinity, you can go scholar, or even eagle. It’s up to you and wont make significant difference. I like divinity the most
Good to know, thanks for the advice. I was considering going divinity on my Runes, maybe I’ll revisit that idea. The nice thing about going all Zerker is I can get a full set from COF which is fairly easy so that makes it an attractive option. Thanks again, sounds like your idea might work well for me.
There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand Binary, and those who don’t.
Do you guys think this can work? Can a Staff Elementalist be fairly durable with a high Vitality and no Toughness? Thank in advance for any advice.
I would suggest you try Renewing Stamina the Arcana trait if you are going low in toughness. That should give you plenty of dodges to evade damage with your high crit chance build. A high vitality is necessary to take the big hits which you have, decent condtion removal for the dots (damage over time), and the traits and/or techniques to self heal. You should do fine in dungeons. Just how well you do depends on your ability to evade damage, that will be a big one. I run 1200’s in toughness and do just fine, but that is far from none which is 900 or so base I think.
