Guild Wars 2

Hello, dear elementalist,

after my very rude intrusion in the ele parts of this forum, i am delighted to say i have found the best capable STAFF roaming build aslong as your not afraid to attunement switch/combo field. (in my humble opinion)

seeking out pretty high damage output with atleast some forms of survivability,

i will still get killed by anyone capable enough, and i am still sadly one of the slowest getaway-card classes. (in my opinion the only thing i could still improve upon Buff wise for a staff)

but i have found the key component to having 30 in fire whilst maintaining the required 20 in water for healing purposes
and 20 in arcana so i can still dance the attunement dance when i require to do so (wich is allot)

The build feels kind of glass cannony at first, but once you realise your utility slots and your switching to water attunement actually heals quite enough with 20 in water alone. you see potential to 1v1 as a staff user (if you are skilled enough to kite and know what to use when)

The build so far is

30 fire 20 water and 20 arcana, the standard ‘lightning flash/mist form’ with a VERY essential arcane wave. (this produces most of your healing, your dps and swiftness when needed) its like a needed extra for each attunement switch.

but im still not sure what are the best traits for a staff user in arcana. since blasting staff seems kind of useless if you know howto stun your opponent and then cast a fire field in his face. seeing i use arcana wave allot, arcane mastery comes in to mind. the 20% reduction is quite nice (nerfing the downtime of 30 to 24) or arcane retribution to put some extra damage out there.

Any tips hints ideas? will be doing allot of wvw today to test my hypothesy and maybe even make a video for you guys to show it actually can be done!

Oh and PS.
your elite must be your glyph of elemental, You cant even begin to understand HOW good lightning elemental is with its stuns and swiftness in pvp!

Also for taking out camps its required to use the earth golem to tank for you when casting healing spells on him while your in the back dpsing. in general i dont really use my water elemental or my fire elemental.

Not sure what to say after reading your QQ’s about how much you die, but now you still promote a build.

Anyways, staff is like the least viable weapon to use for roaming. It simply doesn’t work well. Anything you do is easily avoided because everything the staff does is slow. AoE’s are easy to avoid etc. You’re almost a free loot bag… Staff shines in zergs, which is the reason i use staff, but if i go roaming, i’d pick up daggers or switch to another class.

Looking forward to your video. And not just show the good moments, I hate vids like that. Show everything.

Did not even read lol. Staff ele roaming? Running a charity bag run atm?
Vid or it didnt happen

Retsuko.2035:

Not sure what to say after reading your QQ’s about how much you die, but now you still promote a build.

Anyways, staff is like the least viable weapon to use for roaming. It simply doesn’t work well. Anything you do is easily avoided because everything the staff does is slow. AoE’s are easy to avoid etc. You’re almost a free loot bag… Staff shines in zergs, which is the reason i use staff, but if i go roaming, i’d pick up daggers or switch to another class.

Looking forward to your video. And not just show the good moments, I hate vids like that. Show everything.

the fact is and remains that you need to actually know howto play staff, master all abilities.

And yes staff DOES have its weak attributes with dying pretty fast due to no survivability wich i clearly stated as one of my first things i feel why staff is underpowered.

This does NOT mean i will not roam with my staff, because easily said its the most fun weapon to use and if used correctly VERY strong in roaming with some major flaws wich is why i started the ‘qq’ in the first place.

Just because i dont meet your status quo doesnt mean i dont know howto play,
i refuse to play d/d because im an elementalist not a thief. and switching to another class only proves to me that staff ele is UNDERPOWERED in PvP. simple as that.

The only reall issue i have atm is with the mass condi spam wich makes playing an ele pretty much unviable in general pvp forcing me into support wich i started a thread about why noone wants that roll