Guild Wars 2

So I have been following various staff builds on the forums and metabattle and haven’t really seen this one up there yet. This is my personal build. It’s based on the old WvW backline staff support build, but I pretty much use it everywhere: WvW, Silverwastes, World Bosses, Dungeons, etc.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWnMICtMgFOAWOA0RgBCAjaCHhoQUACALgaNkELDA-T1hFABAcBAG4BCYkyPGOQAEq+zZ6IqSJIpAiYBA-w

General idea is Water for the exceptional healing and condition removal, Arcane for variety of boons and Fire for heavy dmg from might stacking with 2 blast finishers in slot skills to use as needed and 2 cantrips for defense.

The uses of the attunements breakdown as…

Fire – Camp fire to stack might and do damage.
Water – Swap into water for condition removal and to use blast finishers on water combo fields for heavy aoe healing.
Lightning – Blast finishers on static field for perma swiftness.
Earth – Mostly for the protection boon and the blast finisher which you can prime for fields in other attunements.

My general rotation for taking down a large group is Earth Attunement for Protection -> Earth 2 for blast finisher -> Fire Attunement -> Fire 2 on Earth 2 -> Fire 5 -> Fire 3 -> Fire 2 -> Fire 1 anyone left.

I change it up some.

Sometimes Ice Bow for one of my cantrips. In this case, I drop soothing disruption for cleansing wave.

Sometimes Lightning Flash for one of my cantrips if I need more mobility.

If in a group in dungeons with a might stacker, Persisting Flames -> Pyromancer’s Puissance.

All in all, I love and haven’t switched to anything else yet. Plenty of defensive ability, healing, group boon support, crowd control and with Fire Specialization, your damage is pretty strong compared to old staff support builds.

How exactly you are stacking so much might with staff on fire? I can manage maximum of 9 stacks, and in open pve, where im in a random group most of the time i just get the bulk of my might from other guardians or warriors in my party…

Duration increase from Runes of Strength, extra might from Sigil of Might and Runes of Strength, might from cantrips, might from aoe blasting fire field with Arcane Brilliance -> Arcane Wave -> Earth 2, accumulated might stacks from attacking in fire from trait.

I usually maintain like 15-20 avg solo in the course of a battle.

Runes didnt show up in last link

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