Guild Wars 2

I need some serious help in this department. I’m running a 80 ele in wvwvw with full green berserker set (except staff, which is pow/tuf/vit) and staff 1 in fire does around 500-600 damage at best. Might stacking I can get it to 700-800 but obviously this is not enough. Getting outhealed/regened by every class. Extremely frustrating. Would love to hear any tips on how to improve staff damage other than use a different weapon.

The frustrating part is that obviously I’m in full glass cannon gear and anytime my defensive skills are on CD (e.g. signet of earth, mist form, frozen ground, magnetic aura) anyone with a gap closer just rips me apart.

I’m gonna say it’s your gear, because I hit for 2-3k in WvW with staff.
You should be wearing exotics, not greens. Greens are terrible.

I’ve been seeing the same things with my staff build. My staff fireball crits are around 1100-1200 with a full power build / gear. I’ve got an orange staff, but only yellow armor because I don’t yet have the cash for a full set of orange. I don’t see how the extra 3 power and precision per piece (18 total?) on an orange set is going to change this.

Superior rune of divinity, no? You could also consider getting superior bloodlust or air sigils.
And cooking stuff helps alot, I’ve seen some really crazy +100 stat food.

vengeance,

I just don’t see how it’s all about the gear – even if I have full exotic I can’t imagine the % increase in power that would get me to 2-3k damage which is basically a 4x from where I am currently. Maybe it is all about the gear and I’m doing it wrong. Do you mind sharing which set/weapon you’re using? Thanks

Maybe I’m thinking about it the wrong way – I was basing the above after looking at full green berserker vs. full exotic berserker power delta (all slots), which is roughly ~23%.

I’ve got two suits for 80 wvw. Ones toughness/power/healing for roaming and another is precision/power/crit damage for keep attacking/defense. Exotic gear is not some huge jump over green gear (mines all green) and speced out for it, my aoe ticks for 1k to 3k. AOE is the only thing we are “good” at right now. It should not be hard to get to those numbers. Now actually hitting anyone with it that isn’t piled up in a zerg or beating on a door, thats a whole different trick.