Guild Wars 2

I have been roaming the silverwastes/dry top on my Ele. In group events, Staff is an obvious choice. When I am just running around and soloing against 1 enemy at a time, I find that I am not getting much DPS out of my staff. Am I really just supposed to stay in fire and use 2 when off cooldown and 1? What are some other tips to maximize DPS against a single target when using staff?

Thanks!

For running around in PVE, you can take Arcane Wave to really speed up kills. Start fights with Eruption, switch to fire and lay down a Lava Font, use Arcane Wave and auto-attack until the enemy is dead. If you really want to blow things up, also take Ice Bow and Glyph of Elemental Storms.

Don’t forget your traits either! Persisting Flames (grandmaster trait in Fire Magic) gives a huge DPS increase. Other traits like Bolt to the Heart (adept trait in Air Magic) are nice too.

And always remember, an ele can take down five enemies just as quickly as one.

Nope, go zerker glass staff. Spam Fire 1,2,3, and sometimes 5 if needed

Here is how to squeeze out the absolute most dps possible from staff. You will want to sit in fire and use fireball and lava font and flame burst and meteor shower once you blow all your long cooldowns, though in a boss fight this won’t happen until 15-20 seconds into the fight.

Sunshine.5014:

Nope, go zerker glass staff. Spam Fire 1,2,3, and sometimes 5 if needed

Pretty much this, no joke.

Probably best to do 3 first that way you’ve got burning on the target for extra damage on other abilities.

I use WP’s build and tips and pretty much works all around, just need to learn how to dodge a lot and stay alive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOBkq9SEwfE

This is what I run with in SW and melting pretty much any enemy:
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When out of combat (running from place to place) stay out of fire. When you engage a mob or a group of mobs, spam a bunch of CC-s (e.g. static, frozen ground), then switch to fire and spam 1-2-3-5 until mobs are dead. In longer fights try to stay in fire for as long as possible, because the other attunements have much worse dps.

With the new update changes and persisting flames being merged with lava tomb, I think the new optimal dps rotation will actually involve going down every 10 seconds or so for the free extra lava font. Not sure if any groups will actively use that.

ArthurDent.9538:

With the new update changes and persisting flames being merged with lava tomb, I think the new optimal dps rotation will actually involve going down every 10 seconds or so for the free extra lava font. Not sure if any groups will actively use that.

I am pretty sure every group will actively not use that

Fire attunment with arcane skills.

If you use 6 in fire and 6 in air (Lighting Rod) you can do ton of dmg in pve. There is currently a bug in game that makes the lighting rod trait proc from any skill. Check out yourself.

ArthurDent.9538:

With the new update changes and persisting flames being merged with lava tomb, I think the new optimal dps rotation will actually involve going down every 10 seconds or so for the free extra lava font. Not sure if any groups will actively use that.

It won’t be a part of the rotation because first of all you can’t reliably control whether or not you go down and get rallied, but also you’ll be losing your scholar bonus, and also if you go down you can’t cast your normal skills like meteor showers glyph of storms etc.

Purple Miku.7032:

ArthurDent.9538:

With the new update changes and persisting flames being merged with lava tomb, I think the new optimal dps rotation will actually involve going down every 10 seconds or so for the free extra lava font. Not sure if any groups will actively use that.

It won’t be a part of the rotation because first of all you can’t reliably control whether or not you go down and get rallied, but also you’ll be losing your scholar bonus, and also if you go down you can’t cast your normal skills like meteor showers glyph of storms etc.

It is obvious that this won’t be in the normal rotation because it is so situational and getting back up nearly instantly will either take a trash rally or full team support then more selfish team support to get scholar runes back (arcane blast with enough targets will also be sufficient), but for theoretical optimal personal dps a quick down and instant rally followed by a full heal should give a personal substantial increase in damage.

Obviously this is unrealistic in practice and most likely hurts group dps but interesting for pure absolute min maxing. Also kind of worth noting that lava tomb lava font is base 8 second duration 10 seconds with persisting flames, compared to the normal 4 seconds base, 6 seconds boosted duration of persisting flames lava fonts, so a bit stronger than normal. Though that duration may change.

Atoss.1056:

If you use 6 in fire and 6 in air (Lighting Rod) you can do ton of dmg in pve. There is currently a bug in game that makes the lighting rod trait proc from any skill. Check out yourself.

The “bug” you are talking about is most likely not a bug. There are certain creatures (Mordrem Menders, several types of spiders, etc.) that get interrupted by critical hits. Interrupt makes Lightning Rod proc. I guess that’s what you are experiencing.

Quin Marino.6384:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DE8It42yQI

Here is how to squeeze out the absolute most dps possible from staff. You will want to sit in fire and use fireball and lava font and flame burst and meteor shower once you blow all your long cooldowns, though in a boss fight this won’t happen until 15-20 seconds into the fight.

How is pre stacking with s/f/d for a boss fight relevant to

I have been roaming the silverwastes/dry top on my Ele. In group events, Staff is an obvious choice. When I am just running around and soloing against 1 enemy at a time, I find that I am not getting much DPS out of my staff

aka killing some random mob here and there. I totally see him pre stack 25 to bust a lone mordrem wolf.

Rayti.6531:

Atoss.1056:

If you use 6 in fire and 6 in air (Lighting Rod) you can do ton of dmg in pve. There is currently a bug in game that makes the lighting rod trait proc from any skill. Check out yourself.

The “bug” you are talking about is most likely not a bug. There are certain creatures (Mordrem Menders, several types of spiders, etc.) that get interrupted by critical hits. Interrupt makes Lightning Rod proc. I guess that’s what you are experiencing.

But Lava Font or Fireball is not an interrupt skill ^^

These are the “young, cub, hatchling, juvenile, etc…” creatures. They are interrupted by any hit. I don’t think this is a bug.

Atoss.1056:

Rayti.6531:

Atoss.1056:

If you use 6 in fire and 6 in air (Lighting Rod) you can do ton of dmg in pve. There is currently a bug in game that makes the lighting rod trait proc from any skill. Check out yourself.

The “bug” you are talking about is most likely not a bug. There are certain creatures (Mordrem Menders, several types of spiders, etc.) that get interrupted by critical hits. Interrupt makes Lightning Rod proc. I guess that’s what you are experiencing.

But Lava Font or Fireball is not an interrupt skill ^^

That’s why I said in my post, that some creatures get interrupted by critical hits. I never mentioned anywhere that auto-hit or Lava Font are interrupt skills… The interrupt simply procs on crit, therefore the “on interrupt” traits proc too.

Aggrostemma.1703:

These are the “young, cub, hatchling, juvenile, etc…” creatures. They are interrupted by any hit. I don’t think this is a bug.

^this

Alright, didn’t know about that, not doing much pve :P