Guild Wars 2

GAMEPLAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxNLAautmLY

LINK TO BUILD
gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQJAWRlsnh+0YZaw­WNQtGL4GkZGCxIPLxLWRZAW9vA-TZxEwANeCA02f­AwhAQxFAIaZAA

Any info, advice, opinions would be much appreciated as I learn to git gud with my secondary class. Staff ele is tough, but I didn’t wanna go the bunker/support route since they gutted my favorite healing trait. So this time I decided to go ultra hardmode and run a DPS staff ele.

What could I be doing better? If you could point out specific timestamps in the video, I’ll add a notation in the vid with your bit of advice. Ty for your time!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAGnMICFOgNOAeOgBCAjyCHhoQUACADA5EMBGiA-TJBFABiXGom9HW4BAAwFAAA

try my dps build. You didn’t do bad. You lose alot of damage potential not running lightning rod. You can do meteor and follow it up with a lightning rod to trap enemies in the meteor and damage them more. If you are being focused on use your skills to kite away from the points. They will either give up or keep chasing you off the point.

Just focus on kiting and playing defensively while landing those key combos. I like to use air 5 and push them into it with air 3. This procs lightning rod twice.

I can’t seem to see your build, outside of utilities from the video. Personally I would run Lightning Flash or Armor of Earth over Cleansing Fire if I were you, but that’s up to you.

Gameplay-wise, the only immediate thing I would work on is spamming Lava Font more.
You have Persisting Flames, and Lava Font is why you take that. You should pretty much always use it between skills (especially before meteor shower, I noticed you miss that opportunity a few times like at 5:26ish) and before leaving fire, because it has nearly no cooldown and a low casting time (with a long easily interrupted aftercast).

Other than that, I think there were a few times where you could have gotten off an earth 4 but didn’t because you put it on top of them instead of putting it wherever you thought they were going to go.
I’m really impressed by your ability to use the default keybinds though. That 9 key in particular is something I could never hope to use as well as you do.