Came back to GW2 after a year-long hiatus and de-mothballed my level 25 Ele. Safe to say I don’t remember jack about the game, so the first couple hours were rough go, ehehe
Anyway. After some trying I found that I’m doing the best with the staff, at least for the purposes of leveling and running about. I seem to be doing OK killing things at all distances, and surviving all right unless I do something stupid.
But, I know that Staff is regarded as not the greatest Ele weapon. I’m not planning to PvP beyond maybe an occasional WvW zerg, my main interest is PvE and exploration. Any reason why I shouldn’t stick to Staff?
EDIT: Take that, autocensor. Seriously, the kitten intercept is getting a little overzealous.
Generally speaking when using staff in PvE you’ll want to camp fire with the exception of the very start of the encounter where you should begin with eruption (earth #2).
You sound to be kind of early into the class so this might go over your head, but staff is a good ele weapon for PvE if you know what you’re supposed to do and what traits to use etc.
Generally speaking when using staff in PvE you’ll want to camp fire with the exception of the very start of the encounter where you should begin with eruption (earth #2).
You sound to be kind of early into the class so this might go over your head, but staff is a good ele weapon for PvE if you know what you’re supposed to do and what traits to use etc.
Curious, do you go Earth →Erupt → Air → Glyph → Fire? I’ve been messing with my staff ele more
Purple – you are correct of course, I’m very new to Ele (I have a 80 mesmer, but Ele is a whole different kettle of fish). That is a great video, one of my end goals is to be able to solo hard targets (always found it rewarding).
Can you share your build and your gear? And thanks for the positive reinforcement.
Yeah Jerus I do that because I want to start doing the hard hitting spells ASAP once glyph starts, because it’s a pretty short duration. Gotta take advantage of that vuln!
And Xdmatt, I will make a build editor link for you. This is what I used in the video.
Because this build editor won’t let me put the actual sigil/utility nourishment, I had to put Sigil of the Night and leave the nourishment empty. I was using Sigil of Undead Slaying for +10% damage against the undead, and Powerful Potion of Undead Slaying for +10% damage against the undead and -10% damage received from the undead.
But I want to be clear that this isn’t the best trait setup for general staff ele in dungeons/fractals/solos. The only reason I was using this is because I was experimenting with how well it’d perform if I was able to burst my way to phase 3.
Generally speaking it’s better to use one of these variants for staff: Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
Also note that it’s sometimes good to swap out Signet of Fire for Glyph of Storms in dungeons and fractals.
