Switching from Mesmer to Elementalist

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Posted by: CornBread.3268

CornBread.3268

So, I’ve been maining my mesmer for a while now. I love the class, but wanted to play something with more combos, more power, and less survivability. I’ve had a lvl 80 ele chilling for a while now. I had him in soldiers gear and he hit like a wet noodle while still getting squished. I passed my Zojja’s armor on to him and just crafted my Zojja’s Staff. He’s a blast to play now and I have learned some cool combos and how to survive a bit better. I’m running Superior Runes of the Scholor on my armor and will be upgrading my Versatile Simple infusions to Precise Infusions slowly(freaking expensive!!!)
Anyways, I was wondering:
1) What kind of sigils should I throw on my staff?
Most of what I see says to use Force and Night/Slaying and I have no intention of carrying around that many Staves. I was thinking Force and Accuracy, but I saw that they are super cheap, is it no good? +7% Crit Chance sounds good to me.
2) What other weapon sets should I carry with me? Or, is this even necessary with this class considering the plethora of skills offered by just the staff.
3) Swiftness, Might, and AoE heals are awesome. Are there any other cool combos that I haven’t discovered yet?

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Posted by: Vinteros Asteano.1209

Vinteros Asteano.1209

So, I’ve been maining my mesmer for a while now. I love the class, but wanted to play something with more combos, more power, and less survivability. I’ve had a lvl 80 ele chilling for a while now. I had him in soldiers gear and he hit like a wet noodle while still getting squished. I passed my Zojja’s armor on to him and just crafted my Zojja’s Staff. He’s a blast to play now and I have learned some cool combos and how to survive a bit better. I’m running Superior Runes of the Scholor on my armor and will be upgrading my Versatile Simple infusions to Precise Infusions slowly(freaking expensive!!!)
Anyways, I was wondering:
1) What kind of sigils should I throw on my staff?
Most of what I see says to use Force and Night/Slaying and I have no intention of carrying around that many Staves. I was thinking Force and Accuracy, but I saw that they are super cheap, is it no good? +7% Crit Chance sounds good to me.
2) What other weapon sets should I carry with me? Or, is this even necessary with this class considering the plethora of skills offered by just the staff.
3) Swiftness, Might, and AoE heals are awesome. Are there any other cool combos that I haven’t discovered yet?

For what game mode? I mainly play WvW, so I use Might/Strength in my staff (I also take them into dungeons and no one seems to notice).

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Posted by: CornBread.3268

CornBread.3268

I mostly PvE. I’m thinking Bloodlust, but I’m not sure if it’s still worth it since you lose stacks on swap now.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

Force + Strength
Force + Frailty
Force + Accuracy

are all decent generic combos.

Force+ Night is still great all around in Dungeons.
Bloodlust + Speed is what I have for Silverwaste and open world farming.

I would advise you holding off on your precision infusion purchase. Firstly, they are expensive for what they’re worth and secondly, there are datamined info about +6 and higher stats infusion in the future expansion.

“Raids are like fortune cookies. You eat the cookie and then read the paper scraps.”

- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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Posted by: CornBread.3268

CornBread.3268

Ooooh! Thanks for the info on the infusions. I’ll Def be waiting on those. I’m good on might and vulnerability most of the time, so I’ll go with force/accuracy. I figured that’d be best, but I’ve been away for a while and when I saw accuracy for 50s I was thinking it got nerfed. Thanks for all the input!