Guild Wars 2

Staff ele pvp.

Paladin amulet.
Mercenary amulet.
Sage amulet.
Mender amulet.

Which would work most effectively in pvp?
Which do you think and why?
Or doesnt it matter much?

Build would be earth, water, tempest.
With stone heart and rune of the soldier.

I feel like the 2 condi power dmg amus don’t work too well on staff, for two main reasons:

- Staff doesn’t have too much condi-dmg.
- other than in 1v1’s, you can’t really use sigils (geomancy+doom) as effective to boost your condi-dps, since geomancy requires you to be melee, which is sth. you probably rather want to avoid in teamfights.

Now for menders or paladin:

- I feel like menders can work with stoneheart and soldier runes, but I kinda prefer it with melandru runes, for the following reasons:

- Reapers won’t be able to set up Shroud 5 with the fear (even with nightmares runes, which is way many reapers run it); if you spam dodge, you’ll be able to dodge before Shroud kittens.
- Chill-duration gets reduced quite a bit with melandru+geomancer’s training.
- The added toughness helps against power-dmg, which is definitely the biggest weakness of the build.

Overall, I still prefer pala amu + monk runes though; you’ll still have amazing teamsupport and good teams won’t be able to train you down with 1-2 good rev’s/engi’s/thief’s in a teamfights.

Be careful playing staff in pvp… had issues in a guild run for having a staff equipped. That aside I haven’t had nearly as much fun in the game with any other ele build as I have been having with this.. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWn0XCdOg9XCOYC0RglHAb4EkBehuT2L7nVIAcAahA-TZwCBAw+DAA

I am using paladin amulet right now and its pretty nasty the pain you can still lay down.

Grouped with a buddy who is also running staff his build is more http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWn0XC9XiNYCWYCcYilNAj4DcBqADPgAQB0dvGYPsA-TpwZABGu/AAlBAA

Very centered around removing conditions and healing and just all in all loading up on support.

Reapers eat us both up and with the boons that we hand out its hard to clear condi’s quick enough against corruption reapers but everything should have some weakness I guess.

I just tested out a staff burn build and i melted people

Staff pala+monk sounds pretty solid I’ll have to try that.

Aeon.6397:

I just tested out a staff burn build and i melted people

I did the same thing 2 nights ago and got the same result. I don’t know how well it would do in any seriously organized pvp where people actually try to coordinate, but it was so much freaking fun.