Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

I am trying to come up with what kind of item combo I want for my staff ele in WvW.
I put a premium on power, and crit damage, but also want to add some survivability.

Here’s a few specs I’ve come up with

1. Cavalier, zerker, valk
   http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImKbzR5gjEAkCoEeQgBMIKYRRxOzA-jUCBYfAYLI0HIZmI5mTjNHFoMsIasKkYaXER1yAYukitten

1. nights,valk,zerk

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImkbwx5QlEAkCoEeQgBMIKYRRxOzA-jECBYfAYLI0HI5mQZnEZslhFRjVhET7iIqWGAztA-w

1. Celestial/zerker

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImKbzR5gjEAkCoEeQgBMIKYRRxOzA-j0BBYfAYLI0HIJqFRjtMsIasKkYaXER1yAYuFA-w

I am just having trouble knowing what items give me the best value. Like if I want to add some toughness / health what items are most effective ?

Any comments or opinions would be greatly appreciated

ps: Why is it if you switch any staff for the PVT the attack power goes up?
For example, with the first link, attack power is 3578 with zerker staff, but goes up to 3588 with PVT staff?

probably because you are adding food, or the weapons you are putting arent all of the same rarity.

As for WvW, I run with a complete zerker gear in zergs and barely ever get downed, so it is possible. If want you want is to optimize damage then full zerker is your best bet. You will most likely die in smaller encounter, that is on 5 or less, but you can still pull it off if somehow they dont look at you funny.

I run 30/20/0/0/20 for the most part, with focus on fire field giving fury, elemental attunement, staff blast, 20% more damage on >33% hp, 10% more damage on fire, 10% crit damage on arcane (usually equip one or two with the recently added healing skill arcane blast finisher for water/fire field).

Basically your job is to stay in the back, kill enemies, and give might/fury/reg/heals/CC.

My friend has a great build that is half valk half zerk. He sits at fifty percent crit chance with like 17k vitality. Its funny when our guild (VR from mag) runs all dps eles

Ya I really do like zerk. It’s a lot of fun If im zerging or playing in towers / keeps, then I am full zerker for sure. No reason not to be. When I run with my guild though, and it’s 20 of us vs double or triple our numbers, I find I could use a bit of survivability. If we do things like push through a zerg, I find that things can get hairy if my cantrips are down.

Anything else people are running that is successful?