Guild Wars 2

10/10/10/20/20

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I’ve had a lot of success with this build, and have enjoyed being the only person I know of to run it, but I’m sick of people being negative about staff. You’re basically running glyphs, and you need a cantrip because lol stunbreakers. The playstyle is to summon both fire elementals and follow up with lava fonts and meteor showers. Glyph of storm can be used in fire for more damage, or in earth for aoe blind. Healing glyph is really useful when traited.

I like divinity runes because you need the defensive stats as well as crit damage. You’ll want a celestial jewel in your berserker amulet, since the crit damage is the same as the berserker jewel. The 10 points in earth can go in another tree if you like, you can try bolt to the heart or evasive arcana. I like having armor of earth auto cast, personally.

The amount of damage is basically unfair when both your elementals are up. I’ve never had a problem with a lone bunker. You also retain access to all of staff’s great utility, such as the best zoning skill in the game (static field) , a huge water field that wipes conditions, reflection bubble, lots of hard and soft cc, etc.

I use this build in tournies, and it’s a lot of fun. I encourage you to try it out.

I’m not very skilled with the staff, but I’ll try
;)

I actually made a pet build and tried it in WvW and Spvp. People usually just kited pets, or theives would just use an ability that lets them stealth as long as they hit a target, so he would hop in and out of stealth while using my pets as a method of permanent stealth.

And when my pets were on cool down, game over. I am speaking in a 1v1 fight. I have been struggling to find a staff build that does enough damage to kill someone from a distance. It seems everyone just dodges all aoes.

The problem is not the build; it’s the weapon. It has no mobility, low single target damage and stationary AoE.

I would make the staff do the following…

Fire – Ground targeted/mobile AoE damage spells.
Air – Single target damage an mobility spells (teleport).
Water – Ground targeted/mobile AoE damage/healing spells.
Earth – Single target damage and control spells (cripple, immobilize, stun, knockdown).

Bumping this because this build was buffed with the recent patch.