Guild Wars 2

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You’ll get more mileage going DPS/Support. Tank/Support works so-so, but nothing really works well 1v1 with Staff.

Tank/Support

i prefer only to play one role

Big Tower.5423:

i prefer only to play one role

You picked the wrong class.

Elementalist is designed to be mediocre at filling multiple roles at the same time. You can pick the roles, but if you want to specialize then you’d be better picking any other profession.

This is doubly true for Staff, as it’s our All-Rounder weapon with the best CC/Support/AoE and pretty bad damage.

Well, staff is actually the best dps and healing in tha game.

Big Tower.5423:

Well, staff is actually the best dps and healing in tha game.

No it isn’t.

The best damage for elementalists in the game would be a S/D burst build or a D/D build. Staff has terrible damage due to it all being ground targeted, takes time for its damage to go off and easily avoidable for almost all of it (Ice Spike, Lava Font, Eruption, Meteor Shower). Lets not forget how you might be able to sidestep its auto attacks if your good enough.

The staff is an area denial, cc, support weapon. That’s what it excels at. If you want to go staff, go tank/damage with the gear and spec for support in the Water/Arcana line. Use Cavaliers/Soldier/Berserker mix and you can do decent damage and be able to take a hit and with the spec you can give your group good aoe heals and cleanses and lots of good boons.

You want to do damage? Go S/D or D/D. Staff is not the place for it.

Best staff is support&damage. Important CC skills for WvW, and healing skills from traits (Healing Ripple, EA) and water blasts already have high value without gearing for HP, and very good conditional removal – againg doesn’t need gear. So support staff is free to gear for Damage!

I ment Large large radius AOE

Staff is primary a support/cc weapon. I use it in PvE for heavy condition removal or if I’m forced to go max range. Staff is also a good weapon for WvW zerging. A well placed static field or frozen ground can decide a ZvZ encounter. But honestly I wouldn’t use a staff primary for damage or “tanking”.