Guild Wars 2

Hi all, I’m a mesmer main looking to branch out into the wonderful world of ele in PvP, but only staff at this point (I realize the meta is d/d).

I’d like to find a workable build for staff. I found Azilyi’s guide as well as the metabattle build (which seems akin to the d/d build). Azilyi’s build seems more enticing but honestly I really want to run zerker. I’m sure this subject has probably been broached many times and I seem to recall a staff ele (on Apex?) who I think ran zerker before the bird on the pirate rune was nerfed.

Is that the closest we got to a viable zerker staff build? Have any of you experimented or found anything to be viable in the months since then? I’ve been looking around for awhile now but haven’t been able to fully commit to something because I haven’t found a build I’m totally sold on. I could still be swayed to play celestial if I can’t find a good zerker build. So with that said, zerker staff eles, show me your stuff! Thanks in advance …

Don’t know, from what i’ve seen, staff is very lackluster in PvP.
I would have imagined it would be the bursty weapon but not really, the damage you get out of it, isn’t very impressive.

Personally staff is my favorite weapon type for Elementalist, but it just isn’t that good aside for group PvP and support.

This is the build I use for PvP on staff if you like the style, a celestial staff variant, very viable in my opinion.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWhcMacW4wyBd0AGAC5oDbGMRgir3C-TJRGwAAeAAJuAAt2fYZZAA

Supreme.3164:

This is the build I use for PvP on staff if you like the style, a celestial staff variant, very viable in my opinion.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWhcMacW4wyBd0AGAC5oDbGMRgir3C-TJRGwAAeAAJuAAt2fYZZAA

Thanks for sharing the build – so basically a cantrip cele build. Looks good on paper. I’m wondering how much damage it puts out though. You have might from the cantrips, but how much do you typically maintain in fights? I also like the sustain from the high healing power/regen, though I wonder how much better the build could be by taking 2 from water and taking EA. You then rely primarily on cleansing fire and water attunement for condition management. I presume you’ve probably tried this; what is the reasoning?

Don’t see too many zerker off point nuker eles. The tradeoff seems too low, even using defence utilities you will melt.

Have ran a celestial on point staff with more offence utilities. Currently using the same build but cleric with aura share just for the earth reflect.
Both have worked well, leaning to prefer the support version due to longer life and holding/contesting points longer.

Regardless, dropping a meteor shower on a decap engy’s turret spam is glorious.

Hmmm i play an arcana yolo staff build with cele amulet, may not be meta, but i have lots of fun
Zerker jihad build is fine but in my opinion you can’t use all of staff potential.

If you hate your team and want to make sure the enemy wins, go zerker staff.

If you don’t like getting killed by everything that moves and actually want to climb the ladder, go cele.

I really like my staff ele build but if too many use it the effectiveness is reduced so I can’t share it with you :/ sorry

skcamow.3527:

Supreme.3164:

This is the build I use for PvP on staff if you like the style, a celestial staff variant, very viable in my opinion.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWhcMacW4wyBd0AGAC5oDbGMRgir3C-TJRGwAAeAAJuAAt2fYZZAA

Thanks for sharing the build – so basically a cantrip cele build. Looks good on paper. I’m wondering how much damage it puts out though. You have might from the cantrips, but how much do you typically maintain in fights? I also like the sustain from the high healing power/regen, though I wonder how much better the build could be by taking 2 from water and taking EA. You then rely primarily on cleansing fire and water attunement for condition management. I presume you’ve probably tried this; what is the reasoning?

A single lava font will trigger sigil of strength at least 3 times, meaning that on average you will have 9 stacks of might without attunement swap or using any cantrip, compared to d/d you have less access to vigor, this means less dodges and less EA triggering on demand. On top of this in my opinion if you have staff , a trait like cleansing water is mandatory; the current meta is 70% condi dmg, you can never have enough condi clear these days ^^; cleansing water is too good of a trait for me to pass.