Guild Wars 2

couple of question: is viable but hard to play? or is just trash?

i was comple of games with the started pvp gear im new so i have no idea of what runes should i use or stats.

well the point is i feel that my dmgs is just too low and my survavility is decent as long as i do the right kiting but i really feel that im lacking on dmgs pretty hard, im not sure is staff pvp is like that or im have the wrong gear

I feel the same way you do, staff ele is not so great in sPvP, but in WvW it is pretty good. I wish that their single target spells projectile speed or the cast time would be faster.

staff elementalist excel in open spaces but when it comes to close-quarter fighting, they get dropped pretty fast against a competent melee player.

When it comes to PvPing with the staff, unless it’s in larger groups, you will need player skill to compensate for some of the things daggers have that staves lack.

OrangeMint.7980:

I feel the same way you do, staff ele is not so great in sPvP, but in WvW it is pretty good. I wish that their single target spells projectile speed or the cast time would be faster.

staff elementalist excel in open spaces but when it comes to close-quarter fighting, they get dropped pretty fast against a competent melee player.

The staff’s casting animation (1.2 seconds), is imposed on the autoattack skills, causing their differing activation speeds to be ignored and resulting in Fire (1 sec activation) being slightly weaker than is supposed to be and Air, Earth, and Water (3/4 sec activation) being substantially weaker than they’re supposed to be.

Why in the world people aren’t screaming about this rather obvious problem is beyond me, because it’s affecting lots of professions and several weapons.