Guild Wars 2

After watching the latest video on twitch for the upcoming balance patch concerning Mesmers (approximately 25 mins. into video – https://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/59358678), I feel like it’s time to switch professions for sPvP. Always liked staff elementalist (run it in wvw), but I am not seeing any viable builds anywhere for staff. Anyone experimenting or have any thoughts perhaps on a possible or viable staff build? Is the current meta just to good to pass up rather than take staff? Thoughts/comments needed – thx!

Its possible to play the meta build with staff. You lose out on auras for your team and yourself but gain some cc. Its probably not as good as d/f but its decent if played correctly

I played this staff ele build up to late-Diamond this season.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWnMIC9XiVOAeOA8RgFBALIAUAOACXyQQKwN1ObztA-TJRBwAAeAAkLDM5CAQd/BA

It might look very squishy, but in lower divisions people often don’t understand its a good idea to focus a staff ele first, and will often just end up dancing in your AoEs and focusing the necro that’s on the point with you, allowing you to win hugely outnumbered fights and carry your team even if they are awful.

Basically you just want to never engage a 1v1 unless its a (bad) thief or dragonhunter, and look for teamfights to support.
Against really bad teams you can usually just freecast from a distance, but if they actually attack you, you can just cast all your AoEs and mistform to sustain for a bit and hopefully they will just down during that period.

This is in no way a super amazing build, rather just something I use because its super fun to play, but I find that it works better than the usual d/f auramancer in soloQ, since you can heal your team as much as you want, but if they are just drooling over their keyboard at beast with 3 people you are going to be useless, opposed to this build where you can easily win outnumbered fights.

Thx for the input! Really appreciate anything else you have! Again, much thx