Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone, new to GW2.

Atm I’m lvling my ele, probably will focus more on PvE in end-game, so I’ve been doing a lot of readings on builds for PvE and dungeons, and found a lot about D/D or S/D builds, but nothing on staff.

How does staff builds supposed to work for maximum dps?
Is it even a viable option comparing to D/D or S/D?

Thanks

I have played exclusively staff ele on this game, from lvl 2 to now, and I can tell you, even without the buffs we had, staff is actually quite good for PvE.

When you are low lvl you cant really pick your gear as eas as you would do with high lvl stuff, so i was focusing on power and precision, with some vit if needed.

For staff all you need in PvE is to kill, and do it fast. You have plenty of defensive skills, so dont worry about that part, once you get the hang of the skills you will find that all you need is killing potencial. Im currently a full zerker gear with MF runes. With 30% MF food i sit at around 112% MF and 7x% crit increase, my crit chance is 6x% with fury (easily obtainable through element switching) and no monster in PvE can last more than 5-6 seconds vs me, and I can take 3-4 at a time. You have to watchout for ranged ones thugh, thats our bane, thats why we have magnetic shield on earth, use it wisely.

As for dungeons, they are mostly designed so that you dont need to much defense, so given our range just go damage, learn to dodge and when to pop arcane blast in close combat for combo fields like healing and might

thanks you

Would suggest to the OP that you learn all the weapon sets. They all have their strenghts and weaknesses and tend to compenstate for the other’s weakness. For me it just gets boring anyway to play the same weapons. They each require much different playstyles.

So yes, you can use staff for leveling/pve/dungeons but you won’t always be as effective as when using other weapons.

Yes, you can build for a specific weapon, but there are also good builds that can be used which favor all weapons equally.

Fortus.6175:

I have played exclusively staff ele on this game, from lvl 2 to now, and I can tell you, even without the buffs we had, staff is actually quite good for PvE.

When you are low lvl you cant really pick your gear as eas as you would do with high lvl stuff, so i was focusing on power and precision, with some vit if needed.

For staff all you need in PvE is to kill, and do it fast. You have plenty of defensive skills, so dont worry about that part, once you get the hang of the skills you will find that all you need is killing potencial. Im currently a full zerker gear with MF runes. With 30% MF food i sit at around 112% MF and 7x% crit increase, my crit chance is 6x% with fury (easily obtainable through element switching) and no monster in PvE can last more than 5-6 seconds vs me, and I can take 3-4 at a time. You have to watchout for ranged ones thugh, thats our bane, thats why we have magnetic shield on earth, use it wisely.

As for dungeons, they are mostly designed so that you dont need to much defense, so given our range just go damage, learn to dodge and when to pop arcane blast in close combat for combo fields like healing and might

I hope you meant arcane wave since arcane blast does burning through fire fields.

Staff is truly very good for PvE, but in the lower lvls I’ve been running S/D, quite
effective to use, I’d say most easy and handy weapon set of ele. With staff you
need to get hang of it’s skills, some are really tricky to use, and to maximize
effectiveness you need gear with specific stats.