Guild Wars 2

Iris Ng.9845:

Xae Isareth.1364:

Iris Ng.9845:

Sauzo.6821:

Iris Ng.9845:

Look at it this way. If you play staff when solo AC or low-manning Arah, it is pretty challenging.

I agree that in a full 5 man team, playing staff ele is a bit monotonous and boring. However, many great eles I know swap weapons in between fights to fix the shortcomings of their group comp, and staff have the most useful utilities for group skipping.

The most boring playstyle for ele, imo, is scepter/dagger ele trying to burst the boss down with scepter air attack and churning earth. Bonus with ‘rolling in Earth for damage’. Pretty facepalm worthy.

If you actually are using churning earth for anything other than prestacking might, then you need to just reroll. And scepter air attacks are meh too. That is why you got 2 LHs and 2 FGS. Try dropping DT while running in and drop rof, phoenix, arcane brilliance, earthquake, arcane blast, summon LH and go crazy on the boss. I guarantee you will be the one the boss will turn to instantly.

And to me s/d or pretty much anything with LH is more fun since you will be in there meleeing. Boring to me is standing 600 yards away and spamming 251112115 through the dungeon. But then again, I prefer melee.

I would be surprised if one just camps one attunement during the whole dungeon.

Again, my point is staff is pretty interesting to play when you do man-mode in dungeons and high level fractals. Cued from the cool kids such as Dub and Emanuel.

In a normal dungeon run, you do just camp one atonement on staff though :L

Don’t you stack might or swiftness? Or use cleanse once in a while? Or killing the Orrian Turrets with your reflect? :s

If you’re a staff ele, you’ll have the highest DPS in the party, so a meagre 3 stacks of might isn’t worth switching to earth mid-fight and losing that much DPS.

Out of combat, I guess you could go air and stack swiftness, but thats a boon which people can throw around like candy, especially warriors with their warhorns now that GS camping is the new meta.

Again, unless its absolute necessary, switching to water for a cleanse is just not worth it due to the DPS loss.

You got me with the orrian turret part though. That and mobskipping you would switch attunements for.

The problem with staff is that it can be great at everything, but it can only be used for one thing at a time. Water has amazing healing, fire has the highest DPS in the game, and air and earth are loaded with control effects, but they do what they do, and that one thing only.

Which means as the way PvE and gearing works out now, you just stay in fire in combat.

Camp fire on staff when fighting. Use all other attunements when not fighting.

As far as dungeons, I’m talking about the common/cash run ones like AC1/3, SE1/3, CM1/3, CoF1/2, HotW1, TA1/2. Those ones if you run a staff, you will pretty much camp in fire. I mean here and there you will hop to another attunement for something but during the cooldown for fire, you will do crap dps. Stuff like Arah are a different animal and I personally quit doing Arah about 6 months after the game came out once I finished my dungeon master title. Think actually I quit after they fixed the teleport gun tricks to other paths off the wall in Lupis room.

And lets not even get started on how unrewarding fractals are to begin with….

@Iris ng
Ok guess I did miss what you meant. I assumed you meant that you are trying to dps in air with the scepter skills which in that case, it would be boring and crappy dps since scepter itself is not a good dps weapon but for stacking might. Conjured weapons are for the dps with that weapon.

Recently I’ve been using 6/6/0/2/0 (Take Tempest Defense and Piercing Shard) when 5 to 7-manning ‘Sparcus’ in Boss Blitz. Besides Lava Font, use Static Field + Glyph of Storm for a quick trash clearing and Ice Bow in water attunement in between Meteor Shower when the boss puts up his reflection. I guess it isn’t just camp fire on staff when fighting?

Edit for clarification.