Guild Wars 2

I’m posting here to ask for my wife because she is scared that “everyone will yell at me” if she posts this question.

She plays a guardian and loves the staff. (Sadly my horrible mind came up with so many lame jokes when she made that comment to me) Anyways, I’m looking around for a build that the focus is mostly on the staff and not switching weapons. I understand that she won’t be at her best by not switching weapons but this is how she wants to play.

Any suggestions for her?

Unfortunately, you can’t really do much with the staff other than support and tank

If she wants to tank 30 points in the Valor tree to get Altruistic Healing is a must. That with the staff weapon skills Symbol of Swiftness and Empower will provide exceptional self-healing, plus her utility skills and Virtues. The other 40 trait points could be spent in Honor and Virtues. I’m not sure which gear would be best for this, either Clerics or Power/toughness/vitality gear.

If she wants to support I would go something like 0-0-10-30-30 while using 2 superior runes of Water, 2 Monks, and 2 MAJOR runes of sanctuary for maximum boon duration. Cleric’s gear would be the best for this setup.

Other than that your choices are kinda limited for only wanting to use the staff.

I figured as much. She says she just gets all messed up when switching weapons around. I had her using a mace/focus and a staff. She would get mixed up as to which weapon she had out.

The Cleric’s gear set up you talk about is something like what she wants I think. I’ll have to ask her when she gets home from work, but that seems like the kind of thing she was talking about.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Maybe she could try out a water ele. As an ele should could only have one weapon equiped at a time. No possible way to she could get mixed up. Put her in full clerics gear and tell her to spam those heals. Yeah it may not be the end all of builds but who cares. If your just playing to have fun this should work.