Guild Wars 2

Figured a thread about staff ele gear/traits/etc post patch could be of use. Celestial and crit dmg in general really took a beating which will likely lead to several changes in the way people build their staff eles.

Runes

Boon duration was like critdmg hit pretty badly while divinity remain strong. Rune of strength combined with sigil of battle is looking quite decent aswell.

Sigils

Fire/battle + bloodlust still seems to come out ahead.

Stats

Soldier/Zerk with a high power for a more glassy build. Celestial seems really bad but I’ll wait until the math is done properly.

Traits

Nothing new really apart from what the itemization changes might bring.

Your thoughts/ideas?

You pretty much hit my thought process on the head.

I’ve always ran Soldier/Zerk & all zerk accessories. I do run Scholar Runes still at the moment. And Sigils wise using Battle + Bloodlust and notice no difference from before the patch.

Rune of Strength sounds intriguing and I did buy up a set of them pre-patch in case I felt that Scholar runes were not as good. But at the moment it feels very much the same to me. :/

Really the only thing that has affected my build is that I can’t take a Master trait and put it in an Adept slot anymore. Making Water tier a little lackluster for my build at the moment.

Forgot to mention WvW in the title, my bad entierly. :/

My build is likely going to be soldier armor (replaces celestial), zerk trinkets (from before) and strength runes. More power, similar crit and less crit dmg sums up this entire patch for eles pretty much..

When I saw this I thought, wow, this is sweet.

Earth
•Stone Heart: You cannot be critically hit while attuned to earth.

I run a stone heart build with valk/cav mix. It allows for an interesting play style.