Guild Wars 2

Hey guys. I don’t have many classes up to 80, because I ’m spvp.. However one idea did intrigue me.

Has anyone tried out a 0/0/30/20/20 shamans (condition/healing) staff ele with the new WvW/pvE only runes of perplexity?

I’d imagine as static field will interrupt any movement skill in an aoe, the confusion from this could be quite nasty.. Has anyone tried it out?

Where’s the reply from kodiak on this, come on buddy this is your area of expertise.

I don’t get where the confusion is coming from? Confusion makes you do damage to yourself. Static field is a stun which emulates a daze.

katniss.6735:

I don’t get where the confusion is coming from? Confusion makes you do damage to yourself. Static field is a stun which emulates a daze.

The runes do.. (5?) stacks of confusion on interrupt, for 10+ seconds, something staff eles can do aoe.

In my opinion at least, and with the other buffs the rune gives, it’s really not worth it. Sure you will get confusion on a few people in a large fight, but they will likely clense it off right away if they are a decent player or with a decent group. Other runes would give far more effective buffs that work with better builds the ele runs. If you look at it in terms of a roaming staff ele build, well… It doesn’t really matter what runes you use, you’re suicidal :P

OliT.7945:

In my opinion at least, and with the other buffs the rune gives, it’s really not worth it. Sure you will get confusion on a few people in a large fight, but they will likely clense it off right away if they are a decent player or with a decent group. Other runes would give far more effective buffs that work with better builds the ele runs. If you look at it in terms of a roaming staff ele build, well… It doesn’t really matter what runes you use, you’re suicidal :P

Erm not sure about other runes giving better buffs, was more about if these runes could bring up that specific spec to be viable in WvW.

I’m no WvW expert, but in spvp this would be a huge boost to condition eles.. Would be a shame if it wasn’t useable due to condi cleanse spamming.

I can’t read, obviously.
Confusion is one of those debuffs I’ve always wished I had.
I am intrigued!

Would “shocking aura” in dagger proc it, too? Or focus’s “comet”?

I have a celestial set that I’d like to try these runes out on. I just fitted them with boon duration/melandru yesterday. I’d hate to waste gold swapping them all for something that doesn’t really do anything.

I’ve been using the celestial in d/d and staff so far. It’s quite fun. It’s slightly less in vit and toughness, but higher in damage when you add extra condition damage to the mix that was never there in the past. Watered down zerkers, with a side order of clerics. It was this gear that I used alongside a 10/20/10/20/10 triple threat vs subject 7, and demolished him in under a minute (d/d).

I would imagine there’s some kind of cooldown somewhere that would screw up this idea.

Bluefox.9580:

I would imagine there’s some kind of cooldown somewhere that would screw up this idea.

as far as I’m aware there isn’t one.. has anyone tested it yet?

I took the plunge. It does work on shocking aura, and it seems to proc almost every fight from regular hits.

katniss.6735:

I took the plunge. It does work on shocking aura, and it seems to proc almost every fight from regular hits.

condi ele new meta..? Shame we can’t get it in spvp

I posted a build yesterday with the runes. Shocking aura has the potential to proc 10 confusion on baddies. Not to mention the chance to interrupt from earth 4 skill.

that being said it will most likely work with the staff, but the cooldown is like 45 seconds. might be worth it in zergs for dps.

Shocking aura, earthquake, updraft, tornado 2 skill all proc it. I’m in love with these runes.

Anyone tried it with a staff condi Ele yet!!??

Phaeton.9582:

katniss.6735:

I took the plunge. It does work on shocking aura, and it seems to proc almost every fight from regular hits.

condi ele new meta..? Shame we can’t get it in spvp

Heh. Wait until you run into other condi classes running them before you say you wish they were in spvp.

dreztina.4820:

Phaeton.9582:

katniss.6735:

I took the plunge. It does work on shocking aura, and it seems to proc almost every fight from regular hits.

condi ele new meta..? Shame we can’t get it in spvp

Heh. Wait until you run into other condi classes running them before you say you wish they were in spvp.

Haha well aware of how broken they would be. Heard powerr say though the main reason they’re not in spvp is because the spvp team don’t develop new runes (ie have little control over them).

No. It will not do anything significant on a staff ele.

Staff ele is mainly, as everyone knows a large scale weapon. Melee train always has extreme amount of condition removal, best raids are basicly immune to conditions. In combination of -40% food and melandru runes aswell.
There are so few conditions elementalist can apply that you can’t provide any shadowing stacks of other conditions, and you cannot reapply constant stream of conditions. If you have played engineer or necro the difference should be quite obvious.
And staff ele has way too few interupts anyway.

Using Shamans is close to the worst thing you could do for large scale staff.

Sabull.5670:

No. It will not do anything significant on a staff ele.

Staff ele is mainly, as everyone knows a large scale weapon. Melee train always has extreme amount of condition removal, best raids are basicly immune to conditions. In combination of -40% food and melandru runes aswell.
There are so few conditions elementalist can apply that you can’t provide any shadowing stacks of other conditions, and you cannot reapply constant stream of conditions. If you have played engineer or necro the difference should be quite obvious.
And staff ele has way too few interupts anyway.

Using Shamans is close to the worst thing you could do for large scale staff.

Don’t think you quite get the nature if this thread.

Cheers for info though bro

I’m curious if a shared shocking aura (from powerful aura) will carry with it the confusion proc. Has anyone looked into this?